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Volume: 28 Number 8 April 2017 Thursday, April 20 – Pig Raffle Drawing & MIDDLE Friday, May 12 – PreSchool thru 5th Grade Students SCHOOL CHORUS musical "Princess Whatsername." will go to the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo – they will Our public performance will be April 20 at 7:00 at the leave around 8:30 a.m. and return around 3:30. Busses Colonial Theater. Admission is $5.00. will run at 3:30 when students return from the Zoo. Students in Grades 6th thru 8th will have their usual Friday, April 21 – All Partytime Fundraiser Orders and 1:30 Early Out. Money are due into the office!! No late orders will be accepted! MidTerms will be sent home with 3rd thru Thursday, May 18, 3:30 – 4:30 – Fundraiser pickup in 8th Grade Students today. 7th & 8th grade students will the school lunchroom – all Items must be picked up by participate in the Community Clean-up day from 9:00 4:30 today – we do NOT have freezer space to keep until 1:00. anything cold. 7:00 p.m. Middle School Spring Concert in the gym. Saturday, April 22 – Farm School Workday from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 23, Kindergarten Graduation at 5:00 p.m. in the gym Tuesday, April 25, JH Track at HAMBURG 4:00 Friday, May 5, JH Track at Corning 4:00 Reminder: We have a 1:30 p.m. Early Out every Friday Tuesday, May 9, JH Track at Essex 4:00 during the school year for Professional Development Friday, May 12, C.C. Track at F.M. 4:00 for Teachers.

If your student is home sick or going to be gone for an Thursday, May 4 – 6:00 p.m. – 7th & 8th Grade appointment, please remember to call the school Students & Parents meet in the lunchroom for before 8:30. – Thanks! Washington D.C. trip info - 7:00 p.m. Elementary Spring Concert & BOGO Book Fair Free & Reduced Meal Applications are available throughout the school year. If you need an application, Kindergarten RoundUp is scheduled for Friday, May please contact Mrs. Sebek and one will be sent home 5th from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. at the Elementary School. with your student. Thanks! If you have a child who will turn 5 before Sept 15, 2017, please call to sign them up for RoundUp before SCHOOL WEBSITE ADDRESS: www.hamburgcsd.org Monday, April 24th!! If your student is enrolled in PreSchool or Headstart, they are already signed up Colonial Theatre - Showtimes are Fridays and Saturdays and you do NOT need to call. This year’s Kindergarten at 7:30 PM and Sundays at 6:30 PM. Doors open one Students will not have school on Friday, May 5th. half hour before showtime. All tickets $2.00. Trailers may be seen at IMDb - Movies, TV and Celebrities . All Monday, May 8th – PreSchool Screening – Infant to 5 movies listed are subject to change. Phone 712-382- years of age is invited to attend. If you are interested 1524. call Roxanne at 382-2017 to set up an appointment – April 21-22-23; "Beauty and the Beast", PG times available from 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. April 28-29-30; "The Boss Baby", PG

From Dr. Wells children’s attention to the fascinating learning Field Trips - Not everything that students learn takes experiences in the world around us. Then our children place in the classroom. Most parents have signed will not only succeed in putting all the pieces together, permission slips to allow their children to go on special they will also be inquisitive learners throughout their trips such as the zoo, fire station, or to visit local lives. And no one can be considered truly educated businesses. When carefully planned, these trips until reaching that stage. I close with the words of provide important and necessary experiences to help Perry Tanksley, “There are two classes of travel-First children understand the world, learn facts, practice class . . . and with children”. If you have any questions skills, and gain information about vocations and or concerns about our educational programs please careers. contact me at [email protected] Thank you for Naturally, the school is limited in the number of such your unwavering support! trips it can permit because of time and cost. Herein lies a great opportunities for parents. One of the most Please continue saving and sending your Boxtops for common questions that a teacher receives is “What Education. Shop Online and Earn “Boxtops” for our can I do to help my child learn?” While there are as school - go to: http://www.boxtops4education.com. many teacher responses as there are parents who Follow the simple directions for signing up to shop inquire, educators agree that field trips are excellent online and earn bonus eBoxtops!!! Tell your friends learning experiences. With little thought and planning, and family!! children from preschool through high school can gain much from a family field trip, whether it’s an everyday Stop Bullying Now outing or a major vacation. After all, that which seems The “School Rules Against Bullying”: commonplace to us as adults is new and almost 1. We will not bully others; mystical to children. 2. We will try to help students who are bullied; A simple trip to shop or visit friends can provide all 3. We will include students who are easily left out; kinds of surprises and interesting and worthwhile 4. When we know somebody is being bullied, we will events especially if the parent takes a little time to tell an adult at school and an adult at home. consider the neighborhoods, buildings, parks, and We have discussed with the students the need to construction activities along the way. Another great report bullying behaviors so that they can be trip is to the Hamburg library. We are blessed with a addressed. To help students understand what needs to great library which provides a world of learning, can be be reported we are using these definitions: repeated, and is FREE! Tattling is telling just to get someone in trouble. Longer trips to new places may be planned for the Reporting is telling to keep someone out of trouble or purpose of seeing and doing educational things. This from getting hurt. doesn’t mean that the parents need to prepare lectures on geology for the next trip. However, School Counselor – J.H. Wolf studying a guidebook, chamber of commerce From the April 24th Issue of Time Magazine: publications, or the history of the area can make any What is the single most important thing we can do for trip more advantageous for parents and children alike. our kids? Research shows that the presence of stable, On long drives, drawing attention to the dashboard of trusting adult relationships in the lives of young people the car can teach a child about distance and time. The is a key factor – perhaps the key factor – in keeping fuel gauge can teach children fractions. them in school. Children need to get a high-quality In May, our middle school students will travel cross education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice country to Washington D.C. The trip will emphasize system and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We American History and cultural events that are unique want them to learn not only reading and math but to the east coast. Students have been raising funds for fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment and two year to make this trip possible and we are looking civic duty. forward to a fun, educational venture. When families and school are able to offer such PreSchool – Ms. Croll educational opportunities away from televisions and This month has flown by we have finished our pipes computers a new world is opened up to children. A study. We are working on reconizing our letters in world where students take ownership for their own lower case. We are also counting to 60 everyday. As learning and new interests are often developed. The the year end of the year is coming we are looking richer we make such trips, the more we call our forward to getting outside more and doing activities Please continue to stress to your child how important outside. school is and to do their personal best. We have a few more assessments to finish out our year. Kindergarten – Mrs. Brandt It is hard to believe that April is almost over. The In Reading, we have been looking at inflectional students are doing an awesome job with their reading. endings (ed, ing, er, & est). We are looking for the They are doing a wonderful job of sounding out words, author’s purpose in his writing. Is it to gain reading sentences and even reading books. We are information, humor, adventure or maybe mystery? reviewing rhyming words by writing a pair of rhymes Our class has a couple of students who have reached and then making a complete sentence with them. the 50 point club! Keep up the reading! Please remember to read with your child daily and also listen as they read to you. The books that you and your During Math, we have been focusing our time on child read together will count toward their book counting by 10’s to 150. We have been grouping items reports at the end of the year. Everyone is doing a into 10’s and asking ourselves several questions. If great job at checking out new books. there are 9 towers of 10 how many cubes do you have? Or if I have 70 cubes how many groups of 10 can I In Math, we finished up a unit on graph. The students make? We continue to do our daily word problems that were given a math problem to solve by making a graph. we like to share on Seesaw. They learned that it is very important to start coloring at the bottom when making a graph. Every student We have spent a lot of time in Science. Mystery can count to 50 and almost everyone counts past 100. Science is a new online curriculum for grades K thru 5. The students also count by 10’s and 5’s to 100. They Currently, I have subscribed for a free subscription until are working very hard on addition and subtraction June. The kids have been so engaged in their learning. problems. Each unit is matched to the standards from the NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards) to each grade Everyone of the student’s handwriting skills have level. Students learn through various explorations and improved a great deal. They started writing sentences experiments. Each lesson presents a video that makes everyday and working really hard at staying in the the student feel as if they are there. Our current unit correct lines. Be sure and check out the writing papers helps students to see that water is a very strong force coming home. Pretty impressive! that changes the earth’s surface. I love seeing their wheels turn and the excitement in their eyes as they In Science and Social Studies we have been discuss with their friends the possibilities. learning about plants and seeds. Each student planted some seeds in potting soil We are looking forward to our Spring concert. And our and in a plastic bag. It is interesting to see which seeds field trip to the zoo in May. Stay tuned for more will sprout first. The students are learning the parts of information about our field trip. the plants. Here are some books we are reading: The Tiny Seed, Tops and Bottoms, and Digging in Dirt. Second Grade – Mrs. Williams Hopefully, the plants will make it home safely. It is hard to believe the school year is almost over! April has been a busy month Here are some upcoming events: in Second Grade. We only have 3 stories left in our May 4th – Elementary Music Concert at 7:00 p.m. Reading Book! The students are working hard earning May 5th – Kindergarten Round – Up (no school for AR points as the year comes to a close. A few students current Kindergarteners) already have 50 AR Points and many others are getting May 12th - Kindergarten Field Trip close. Keep reading! May 23rd – Kindergarten Graduation 5:00 p.m. We are enjoying our current Math unit about First Grade - Mrs. Hendrickson measurement. We have been measuring many items Our school year is winding down quickly. I in the classroom using inches and centimeters. It has am so proud of all my students! They have been fun working with partners to measure things. come so far since the first day of school. In Science, we have been learning about how water Ava: When we went to my Aunt Stephanie’s and had changes land. We have been doing many fun an Easter egg hunt. Then we jumped on the experiments to go along with our studies! We are trampoline. also growing beans in the classroom and learning Kristin: When we went skating with Kyleigh, then about how seeds travel. painted Easter pictures and cards, egg hunting, after that we dyed Easter eggs, and got a lot of candy. The students have been working hard in Music Seth: When I went on a Gubser Easter egg hunt in preparing for the Spring concert which will be coming Tarkio. I also went mushroom hunting and found 1 up soon. We are looking forward to many other mushroom. exciting activities as the year winds down! Gabe: When I went Easter egg hunting with my Third Grade – Mrs. Welch grandma and my baby cousin. All the members of the Accelerated Reader 50 Point Charlee: When I went Easter egg hunting in my back Club are Lincoln Dow, Blaine Leyden, Sophie Durr, yard and ate a bunch of chocolate. I also saw a baby Nathan Stenzel, Jenna Hall, Camren Riggs, and bunny. Michel. Those third graders identifying all fifty Whytt: When I went to my grandma’s and ate with my states and becoming members of the “Nifty Fifty” Club family. are Lincoln Dow, Sophie Durr, Camdyn Hayes, Blaine Xavier: When I went to the baseball field for an Easter Leyden, Dane Lyons, Mary Misner, Camren Riggs, and egg hunt. Keith Thompson. Identifying all the states’ capitals are Blaine Leyden and Keith Thompson. Some students are Fifth Grade – Ms.Tomlinson very close to becoming members of each of these Times have been wild in fifth grade during the past clubs, so keep working hard. month. Fifth grade has welcomed a new guest, Mrs. Agnew! She volunteers 30 minutes each day during The third graders had a wonderful class reading! Fifth grade is tremendously blessed to have play call “Three Ships” under the her expertise! direction of Mrs. Emberton. The performance was on Thursday, March Students have been busy working at their 30th at the Colonial Theater. We would thank Mrs. Operation: Animal Happiness Maker Emberton for all her hard work with the production! Movement project. They divided into four An upcoming event for the third grade class will be groups and are tackling some real-school- going on a field trip to the Omaha Henry Doorley Zoo in problems in the farm. Quakers are solving the hygiene May. problem. Mascara is solving some maintenance issues. Piggy Pals are solving the feeding problems. Clucking Fourth Grade – Mrs. Duncan Cluckers are handling the escaping animal problem. The 4th graders had a wonderful Easter Each group has declared different formats to organize break. They all came back with wonderful their research and conduct their meetings. It is stories of what they got for Easter or time inspiring to see the students use their class learnings in spent with family. I asked them what their an authentic experience. Groups are using their favorite part of Easter break was. This is what they fraction knowledge when using tape measures, reading said. skills when reading research and other people’s Addy: When Kyle, Emma, Maddy, and I went solutions or findings, Leader in Me habits to prevent mushroom hunting. and solve disagreements that arise, etc. Ellie: Spending time with all my family. Marley: When my family went to the zoo. On April 6th, the class traveled to Des Moines to Logan: I got a new bicycle and helmet. I also enjoyed sightsee at the capitol building, which enhances their going mushroom hunting. Iowa history studies. Students were amazed with all Ian: When we all went Easter egg hunting because I the architecture and art inside the building. Students got $4 in my eggs! also visited Science Center of Iowa to explore a wide- Hayden: When Grandma Cheryl put out eggs and range of science topics. They even had a private Cooper found the golden egg which had $20 in it! showing of Black Holes. Sierra: When we went swimming in the lake and dying eggs. April 12th was the Spanish field trip in Omaha. Students visited the International Bakery and had the opportunity to taste some treats. They went on a to and Germany with other West Central hypothetical grocery run at Jacobo’s to practice, European countries. enjoyed lunch at Taqueria Tijuana, and toured El Museo Latino. Students showcased their Spanish skills My seventh grade friends continue learning about at each place and gained confidence in their abilities. world history. Egypt has many secrets and interests Students earned high praises at three out of the four for this group. We have spent a few days with the locations for their Spanish language, cultural Great Pyramids. No one has volunteered to help knowledge, and behavior! prepare a mummy after the last lesson.

Coming up, fifth grade will have the adolescence Eighth graders are hitting American History with their discussion on Friday, April 21st. If you do not wish for new series. We are currently studying the battles that your student to participate, please contact Mrs. Sebek colonist had with our “Mother Country”. or Nurse Haning at 382-2017. Thursday, May 11th, fifth grade will go on their annual Conservation Day field Worm Writing in English class! By: Mrs. Madison trip at Waubonsie. One of the most exciting writing activities in middle school language arts entails In between Paw Prints issues and for photos of our using two dozen worms. Yes, worms! events, stay tuned with what is happening in fifth Students love this activity. Each student grade by visiting the blog at picks a worm. The worms are placed at the http://www.hamburgcsd.org/vnews/display.v/TBLOG/ start line and wiggle and squirm across designated lines ~BLOG~%7CTomlinson%2C%20Lindsey_u%3Altomlinso on a slick, square slate. First worm to reach finish line is n. (Found on the district website, under the teacher the WORM WINNER! Here are the objectives. pages in the elementary bucket, under Miss 1. Use 1st person voice – Write from the worm’s Tomlinson’s teacher page. Fifth graders were shown perspective using 1st person pronouns. (I am at the how to access the blog.) starting line. I know I can win; slow and steady wins the race.) Once the 1st person draft is constructed, change it to 2nd person voice using 2nd person pronouns. (You Iron Chef and Social Studies – Mr. Peters may think your long body can out do mine, but you will The latest “Iron Chef Challenge” included a never beat me!) Write as though the worm is speaking pantry of chocolate, strawberries, kiwi, to the students. Finally, write in 3rd person voice using grams, and a few other ingredients. Chef 3rd person pronouns. The students will write about the Kyle and Chef Kaitlynn scored a perfect 5 worms. (The worms scattered all over. They were slow, out of 5 on originality, appearance, and long, short, squirmy, and lazy. It was a chore to prompt taste to take the crown. We will have a few more some of them to move.) challenges before the end of the year. 2. Identify 1st person pronouns: I, me, my, mine. Plural pronouns are we, us, our, and ours. In social studies the fourth graders will be having a 3. Identify 3rd person pronouns: he, she, it, his, hers, State Fair assignment. We no longer create a display him, and her. Plural pronouns are they, them and their. on a big board. Fourth graders will create an electronic 4. REVIEW – Recently a few college students came presentation for your viewing pleasure. They will also back and asked me to review the rules of second be dressing like someone from that state. We will have person point of view. more details soon. Second person pronouns are often trouble for writers of all ages. There are specific rules for 2nd person Fifth graders are back in their social studies book after voice. Here are a few to remember. Second person our very successful Des Moines trip. “The Fight for point of view is saved for when the writer is addressing North America” is our next chapter. When we are a subject in technical writing and speeches. It is also done, any fifth grader should be able to tell you why used in text messages, personal messages and snail we speak English in the , Spanish in mail when the writer is speaking directly to someone. Mexico and French in Canada. Never refer to “you” as yourself. Here is what I mean. INCORRECT- I hate cleaning and doing laundry all day Sixth Graders are busy with World Geography. We are because it makes you feel so tired. CORRECT - I hate finishing up Southern Europe including Greece, Italy, cleaning and doing laundry all day because it makes ME Spain and Portugal. Our next adventure has us going feel so tired. INCORRECT - The teachers require so much homework and it makes you tired. CORRECT – and with absolute age dating which is a more accurate The teachers require so much homework and it makes determination of age by looking at the amount of time ME tired. These are simple examples but ones to keep the radioactive isotopes take to decay. We also in mind so as not to use a 2nd person pronoun when learned about the theory of evolution with natural referring to yourself. selection or selective breeding and how adaptations 5. Replace weak verbs such as get, got, had, and was such as behavioral, structural, or functional help with more vivid verbs: inched, wriggled, squirmed, etc. species to survive. 6. Use plenty of adjectives – long body, elongated, slender, soft body, slimy, gross, and gooey The 6th graders are learning about the classification of 7. Review a few science basics about the earthworm - living things. Some ways classifications are made are An earthworm is a tube shaped, segmented worm. by looking at characteristics of living things, the These slimy critters are found in the phylum Annelida. macromolecules (proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and They can be found living in soil and surface after hard nucleic acids) that essential for an organism to survive, rains. Worms eat both live and dead organic matter. and the different levels of development (cells, tissues, English and science, woohoo! organs, and organ systems) found in organisms. We also have been studying the different types of cells *TURNITIN.COM –This is a side note for parents who (prokaryotic and eukaryotic) and the organelles that have students entering college or taking upper-level are found in animal and plant cells and the function of high school English classes. TURNITIN is a website or each organelle. licensed software program. It requires a student login. The main function is that it is an internet plagiarism Algebra – Mrs. Hall detecting tool. It will compare student work for It’s hard to believe that this school year is almost over! authenticity, it checks cited work with documented The Algebra I class has now started a unit on graphing. sources and provides feedback and rubrics. The main After plotting points on the coordinate system, goal is to eliminate plagiarism and to force good students are now graphing equations of lines. To do educational ethics since the vast amount of research this, they are using two methods - making tables of now comes from electronic sources. ordered pairs and the slope-intercept method. In addition to graphing equations of lines, students will be Middle School Science – Mrs. Wynia graphing parabolas and identifying the vertex and line The 8th graders have been learning about of symmetry. Finally, Algebra I students will be writing the different parts of the atom, which equations of lines, using either a point on the line and a scientists developed the discovery of the slope, or by using two points on the line. atom and eventually what is known today as the modern atomic model, and how atoms differ from each other. Some scientists included in the Middle School: Math, Reading & Computers – Mrs. development of the modern atomic model include Wright Democritus and Dalton who came up with the early We are finally here towards the end of the year! As we ideas of matter, Thomson who discovered the different reach these last few weeks of school, the math classes parts of the atom, specifically electrons with the use of will be finishing up the last couple chapters in the book cathode rays, Rutherford who performed the Gold Foil and then we will review what we have learned this Experiment to determine the path that alpha particles year. and also the discovery of the nucleus, and Bohr who discovered neutrons and how electrons move in The reading class is halfway through their book club circular orbits around the atom, leading to the modern books. The students are in three groups, reading The atomic model which refers to how electrons are in Maze Runner by Jame Dashner, Among the Hidden by constant motion and found in electron clouds. Margaret Peterson Haddix and Bar Code Tattoo by Suzanne Weyn. Each book follows the dystopian The 7th graders have been learning about the theme, which means they are futuristic in some way environment and the changes that have occurred over and are related to an imagined place or state in which time. Through the studying of fossil records, and the everything is unpleasant or bad, typically relating to dating methods used to determine the age of fossils— government control or changes in the environment. relative age dating in which the age of the fossil is determined by looking at the different layers of rocks The computers class is finishing their slideshow movies. bounding with color and creativity. The Kindergarten They learned to how add pictures and music to a just finished a unit on Andy Warhol and pop art. They powerpoint and make it run like a movie. They will created their own Easter version of Warhol’s famous soon be using computer design tools to make posters soup cans but used Easter bunnies instead! Bright to represent the 7 habits from Leader in Me. colors were the rage with these little ones. First and second grade have been learning about op art. They just finished up a basic optical illusion project again Resource – Mrs. Owen themed with Easter! Once they moved on from that Scholastic Book Fair they are starting a James Rizzi unit that will prove to be Our Scholastic Book Fair will be arriving next month! really interesting and fun to learn. Rizzi is an amazing This Book Fair is always a popular one, because this is American artist that may easily be mistaken for the the Buy One-Get One-Free Book Fair. The Book Fair early artistic efforts of a young child, and this is will be open on Thursday, May 4th before the Spring because that Rizzi wants to incorporate the freshness Music Concert from 4:00pm-7:00pm and again after and vitality of children's art in his work. The kids love the concert. (We will be open for all to come and look the shapes, colors and of course the cartoon like look and buy books from 3pm to 7pm, all are welcome to that they are creating. In third and fourth grade we are come, both kids and adults). We will also be open on finishing up an optical illusion unit that builds on what Friday, Morning from 7:30-8:30am for our students. simple designs they learned in the past. Now it is more Please look for more information to come home. We complicated with narrowing it down to two colors and will be in the Board Room, see you there!!! lots of shapes! The fifth grade has been working very hard on Native American basket weaving. We will be Music - Mrs. Emberton entering some of their amazing baskets in the Corner Elementary music and 5th grade band Conference Art Show this weekend. All classes have been busy preparing for the spring concert on May 4th. The title of the program is “Kidz Now for the big news of the year, Corner Conference Sing” and features all those great songs from recent Art Show is being held this weekend in Stanton. Our kids’ movies like “Moana,” “Spiderman,” “The Peanuts students will be taking art work up on Friday to hang Movie,” “Zootopia,” “Beauty and the Beast,” and of and work on the show itself. The judging will take course, “Sing!” place on Saturday and then the show is open to the public Sunday and Monday we will be traveling back The band and recorders will be performing children’s there to pick up our awards! The kids are so excited songs from your past! The concert will start at 7:00 in we have over 100 entries going in various categories. It the elementary gym. will be exciting to see just how well our students do at the show. No matter what we have some very Middle School Chorus and Band talented young individuals and we should all be very The Middle School chorus has been working all proud of them. The winners will be displayed outside semester on their musical play “Princes of the art room after the show so that they may be Whatsername.” We will be presenting it April 20 at the viewed after the upcoming concerts and track meets! theater. Junior High Track - Coach Peters and Coach Wilson After Thursday, we’ll have to jump right in and start The Junior High Track Team is small but mighty for working on music for the spring concert. Please note girls, with talent in both the boys and girls teams. the date change—Thursday, May 18 is the new date for Girls Team has all seventh graders including Alyson the MS spring concert. Barker, Roxanna Snyder, Matty Christensen, Emma Misner, and Kaitlynn Simpson. The Middle School band will be performing “Ultimatum” and “Battle Hymn of the Republic” from Boys Team includes both seventh and eighth graders Honor Band earlier in the year. We hope to add two including (8th) Dylan Moore, Steven Oakes, Jordan more selections for the concert. Ortiz, Donavon Racine, Diego Rodriguez, RJ Rost, and Brody Thompson, (7th) Dylan Barrett, Kyle Beam, Art – Mrs. Ward Hayden Schalk, and Derrick West. Easter has come and gone. Where has the school year flown to? The last month the art room has been Meets include Sidney-March 31, Stanton-April 11, Spanish about the weather in different countries from Fremont-Mills-April 13, HAMBURG-April 25, Corning- all around the world. While they did this, we had the May 5, Essex-May 9, and CC F.M.-May12. green screen set up behind them with images of the Hopefully we will have nice weather for track meets. country they were representing pulled up on it. It was a Look forward to seeing a cheering section in the stands super interesting project, and the kids had a lot of fun for all participants. Thanks for your support!! with it while learning many weather terms and practicing their fluency. 5-8th Physical Education - Ms. Wilson Spring is here and so is the rain so we have not been The highlight of our Spanish program this semester, able to get outside much yet. We hope to use the track though, was Marnie Simons Elementary’s first ever and field as much as possible, weather permitting. Spanish field trip. 16 fifth graders and one sixth grader Classes will start their last teaching for the year. They went with myself and Miss Tomlinson to a will create an exercise routine including 5 exercises predominately Spanish-speaking area in South Omaha repeatedly in a pattern like a dance routine with a for a day of linguistic and cultural immersion. Our stops warm up and cool down. They may or may not use included a bakery where the kids were able to try some music. I am sure this will be as interesting and creative traditional baked goods ask a few questions to the as their other games. people working there (in Spanish, of course). We then went to Jacobo’s, a Latino grocery store, where pairs of Fitness scores continue to be charted. Five laps in the students were given a list of 20 food items that they gym closely equal one lap of the track. We compared had to find. They were not allowed to speak English to times for classes. It was surprising how some improved anyone there, and I asked the staff if they would time on track just because they were enjoying the refrain from speaking English to the kids. They happily outdoors. They said it was easier because of less turns obliged and it was amazing to see the kids not only also so that improved their time, so they are thinking. asking questions, but listening for answers and Keep to improve for yourself. following the directions they received. This was a huge confidence booster for them as we moved to our next Weight room continues with lifts changed for the last destination at Taquerìa Tijuana. There they ordered few weeks. Lifts combine multiple lifts together and there lunches entirely in Spanish, and had to respond increasing range of motion; like the bicep curl, to any questions they were asked by their server. They overhead extension, and tricep extension. Flexibility is did a phenomenal job of this! They also behaved added with the dead lift. They continue to find which excellently at our last stop at El Museo Latino. We lifts they like, what bones and muscles are used, and received many compliments throughout the day both how it relates to activities they are involved in. on the Spanish abilities of our students as well as their Thank you to the parents that encourage their kids to overall behavior and manners. If you have a student in eat a balanced meal and exercise at home. Their fitness fifth grade who went on this trip, you should be very shows in class and in sports. I encourage you to walk, proud of them! play, and do a variety of physical activity(s) for at least 20-30 minutes a day. Be creative with meals by adding Library-Mrs. Thompson fruits to salads and vegetables to pasta or meats. Let I believe Spring has finally arrived, such great the youth pick the activity or food for the day and help weather and many outdoor activities to you in cooking or planning. Have fun! Being active is enjoy!!! important for a healthy future life. National Library Week was April 9th-15th this year. Spanish Señor Baldwin There were 107 books checked out during this week!!! These last few weeks have been pretty exciting for our Great readers!! Students enjoyed the Easter books this Spanish classes. Kindergarten and First grade are doing month also. a great job learning their shapes. If you would like to test that theory just ask them “¿Què forma es?” and The State of Iowa winner of the 2016-17 Iowa point to some shape. Children’s Choice Award was: “I Survived The Great Chicago Fire, 1871”, by Lauren Tarshis. This title The second graders have finally finished a project that received 2143 votes from the 218 Iowa schools that we have spent a lot of time and effort working on. For voted. It is our 3rd place winner at Marnie Simons this this project we made videos of the students talking in year. This book was a great read for several 3rd and Non-discrimination Policy 6th graders, with an AR reading level of 4.8. It is the policy of the Hamburg Community School District not to illegally discriminate on the basis of The State of Iowa Goldfinch winner for 2016-17 is: “The race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, Book With No Pictures”, by BJ Novak , with an AR creed, age (for employment), marital status (for reading level of 1.6 It was a favorite of many K-3rd programs), sexual orientation, gender identity and grade students this year. This title received 6,243 votes socioeconomic status (for programs) in its educational from the 152 Iowa schools who voted. programs and its employment practices. There is a grievance procedure for processing complaints of The State of Iowa Iowa Teen Award winner for 2016-17 discrimination. If you have questions or a grievance is: "Backlash", by Sarah Darer Littman. This title related to this policy please contact the district’s received a total of 440 votes from the 58 Iowa schools Equity Coordinator, Dr. Mike Wells, 309 “S “Street, who voted. This title was also the winner at Hamburg Hamburg, IA, 712-382-2703, [email protected]. Middle School this year with a AR level of 4.8.

Once again, thank you to the students who took the time to read the Goldfinch, Children's Choice and Teen Statement of Assurance Related to Highly Qualified Award nominee books this year so you were eligible to Teacher Assignments vote. If, due to circumstances out of the districts control, a substitute or replacement teacher will be assigned to We have received the 2017-18 Children's Choice, your students classroom or class for a period of time Goldfinch Award and Iowa Teen Award nominee books of four or more consecutive weeks and that teacher is for the coming school year this fall - Great selections to not highly qualified in accordance with federal and choose from!! state laws then the district will notify you of the situation. It is the intention of the Hamburg All library books are due back to the library May 5th. I Community School District to provide ‘highly will be starting inventory in early May. Please remind qualified’ teachers in all areas to the best of the your child any library books they have checked out district's ability throughout the school year. need to be returned to the library before May 5th. If they are lost or damaged they are responsible for Hamburg: Parents or guardians may request this replacing the book. Letters will be mailed to parents if information from the Office of the Superintendent by necessary. Your help with getting books returned calling 382-2017 or sending a letter of request to would be very much appreciated. This reminder is for Office of the Superintendent, 309 “S” Street, K- 8th grade students. Hamburg, Iowa 51640.