Please read the information provided about the summer food program being offered.
Our Ag in the Classroom friend, Jessica Rochford, came to kindergarten today to review the needs of plants and lead us in making a “Life Bracelet”. Our bracelets have colored beads to represent plant needs. The brown bead represents soil, the blue bead represents water, the yellow bead represents sunlight, and the clear bead represents oxygen.
The 5th-8th grade students had Ward and Jacky Budweg present to them today about their 33,523 mile bicycle trip around the world. Thank you Ward and Jacky!
The 5th-8th grade students had Jim Woodford talk to them about his encounter with Heaven today. Thank you so much Hugeback Johnson Funeral Home for bringing Jim to New Hampton.
We had a great time with Coach Sloth today! He did an amazing job interacting and speaking with our students. If you would still like to purchase a book, there is a form in your child's bag. Please fill this out and send it back tomorrow.
Our middle school students are fortunate to have 2 different presentations coming their way on Friday and Monday. This Friday Jim Woodford will be coming to speak to them about his heavenly encounter. Then on Monday, Ward and Jacky Budweg will be speaking to them about their 33,523 mile bicycling adventures. All of these presenters have written books about their experiences.
What do you do on a rainy day? Play board games and practice Social Skills.
Dairy Preparation is underway. We are learning about milk cows and production. Students even enjoyed homemade butter!
The 4th grade students participated in track and field day at the CWC today. This day is all about sportsmanship and physical fitness. Thank you to the Tribe Track and Field Committee for putting this day on for all 4th grade students.
The Soil and Water Conservation donated white spruce trees to all the 4th graders. Thank you to Matt Crayne for delivering these today and talking about trees.
The countdown is on! One week from today, Author Coach Sloth will be at our school. We are excited for him to visit. Please remember to get your order forms in by next Thursday so that he can sign the books purchased with your child(ren).
The kids had a great time at the ISTEP summit. A huge thank you goes out to Brian McGee, Iowa State University and the parents that made the trip possible. Great memories were made together!
Seventh and Eighth grade science students are learning about the structure of DNA. They are learning to identify the four bases and which bases pair together.
The students spent Tuesday afternoon working as team members designing a project using cardboard boxes and tape. The 7th and 8th Graders created box robots. They shared their creations with the preschoolers.
3rd and 4th Grade Breakfast and Bots challenge was to build a hockey game and program it to make a goal.
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This morning, students at Breakfast and Bots had the challenge to build a bowling carnival game.
The 5th and 6th grade students worked on a new concept called For Loops in computer science today. For Loops are "a control flow statment for specifying iterations, which allows code to be executed repeatedly." We learned how this is used by meteorologists and helps wind farms figure out what their output of energy will be each day based on the predicted forcast. They then were able to play a dice game with For Loops involved. During our next lesson we will take what we have learned today and apply it to programming on the computer.
April 4-8 was Healthy Kids Week here at St. Joseph School. The Wellness Team planned fun activities each day for the students to enjoy. The week began with Mindful Monday and yoga in the classrooms. On Tuesday, the focus was “Rethink Your Drink.” Wellness students created a display to inform others of the amount of sugar that is in common popular drinks. Unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate for Walking Wednesday. However, Thoughtful Thursday was a huge success with the Penny Wars. In one day students raised $835!!! The money will be donated to the Iowa Organ Donor Organization and Their Fight Is Our Fight 5K. Friday ended with a Stars Wars themed circuit of exercises in the gym. May the Fitness be with you all!!
The Purple Cord Service Project was created to encourage and recognize students their 8th grade year for service to our church, community, and school throughout their time at St. Joseph School. Students that choose to participate can begin their 80 hours of service at the end of their 4th grade year until April of their 8th grade year. Those students that accomplish the service hours will be awarded purple recognition cords at 8th grade graduation as well as a monetary scholarship upon high school graduation.
How much of your donation goes to the students?
100% of every dollar raised will be invested into a Scholarship Fund to provide EVERY student who completes their service hours a monetary scholarship at their high school graduation.
