Green Connection KEEPING FAMILIES CON NECTED EDUCATIONALLY Schwamman’s Snippets By now many of you have and then multiply it by Little Cedar, Meroa on Sun- heard that well over 400 0.00182. We are happy to day, April 2nd. Community citizens signed a petition help you with any questions Meetings will take place at that was brought to the you may have as we want Osage MS/HS on Monday, school board and that the you to know what it would March 20 at 6:30 pm and Osage School Board has cost you and your Tuesday, March 28th 6:30 decided to move forward family to make these im- pm. Daycare will be provid- with the school improve- provements. ed so that parents with ment projects and has set You will have many oppor- young children can attend the bond election vote for tunities to learn more about and learn as well. We will April 4, 2017. The bond the proposed remodeling give tours of the facilities is for $9.9 million and and construction that the and representatives from would raise taxes at a $20 million project entails Piper Jaffray and WWA Ar- maximum of a $1.82 per (9.9 million from property chitects will be on hand to $1000 of net taxable eval- taxes, and 10.1 million by answer questions. uations to make school in- borrowing against future Members of the Build Our frastructure improvements SAVE and PPEL accounts). Future Committee are also across the district. Polls House meetings are hap- available to come speak to will be open from 7 AM- 8 pening across the district in your civil or social group. PM with the voting to oc- many neighborhoods this Please contact the school cur at City Hall and Our month. Town hall meetings to set up a tour, a speaker, Saviors Lutheran Church. will happen in all our com- or to have your questions Eligible voters must be at munities (Osage, Mitchell, answered. least 18 years old and Orchard, New Haven, must be a resident of the Osage Community School District. You may request an absentee ballot or you may go and vote at the auditor’s office in the courthouse, at your convenience as the bal- lots are printed and ready! It is important to use the right figures when calculat- ing what your tax increase would be. You need to use the NET Taxable Value, (not the assessed value) Green Connection KEEPING FAMILIES CON NECTED EDUCATIONALLY The PTO Carnival is coming meetings to learn gies and the possibility of L scheduled for February 24 about the projects and fi- ST Math for more grade at the CRC. Kindergarten nancing. We continue to look levels. This would include I Roundup is set for March forward, designing a new necessary professional de- 22 & 23. We are also playground around potential velopment for some current N planning an open house in building additions. Academi- teachers and those that will March, so more infor- cally, we are reviewing our be joining us in the fall. C N mation on that will be schedule to make efficient, Please enjoy the learning coming soon. The Build effective use of our time. We activities that are shown for Our Future is scheduled will explore the different grade levels at O E for April 4. I encourage Daily 5/CAFE reading strate- Lincoln Elementary. L W everyone to attend up- N S . MAP testing on the iPads in Mrs. Janet Larrison’s The afternoon class enjoying classroom. their "Bring a Bear and Book Mrs. Sarah Camp- bell’s class beats to School" day the winter blues with a beach party Face Timing Abbie Wiebbecke Johnson today on the farm!! We got see how they shear Learning through play is what we a sheep! . Math fun... we are getting real- do in preschool ! Love capturing ly good at adding groups to- these moments throughout our gether, and even subtracting!!! days!-Mrs. Jackie Muller -Mrs. Brandi Malmin We were working on area (figuring out how to cover an entire white board), weight (using a pan balance), and large numbers (counting every single unifex cube). It was a lot of fun! -Mrs. Sarah Klapperich We are coding with BluBots to practice our spelling words. - Mrs. Sheila Moritz Green Connection KEEPING FAMILIES CON NECTED EDUCATIONALLY I’d like to share a few things that have taken place also worked on converting units and solving pro- recently at Osage Middle School along with some portions. Students also learned how to set up upcoming plans. and solve proportions to solve word problems and find missing lengths in similar figures. Math Our 3rd quarter midterm was on February 8th with 8 students took it further and used proportions to parent-teacher conferences from 4-8 pm on Thurs- solve problems involving percents, learn about day, February 9th and Tuesday, February 14th. simple interest loans, and learn about commis- Something new for us this year is that our 5th grad- sion. ers held their project fair during the February 9th parent-teacher conferences. In Pre-Algebra, students have been learning a bit about geometry and three-dimensional fig- On February 14th, our 5th grade classes attended a ures. Students have been finding surface areas Valentine dinner party that was held at the Legion of various types of prisms and will be learning and was prepared and hosted by their parents. about surface areas of cylinders, pyramid, cones, Our 5th grade art students are learning about John and spheres. They then will be finding the vol- James Audubon. He was an amazing American art- umes of all of the above three-dimensional ist. His life was full of exciting adventures and his shapes. Students will be applying these skills to dream of creating a book with all the birds in real world problems at the end of the unit. America took him 25 years to complete. In fifth grade, we not only learned how he used art and The Reading and English departments are once science to create such a book, we also tried our again teaming up to implement a PBL unit with hand at drawing with pen and ink. our 8th graders. The unit is titled "The Power of Our 6th grade art students have been learning Literature, the Power of You" and challenges stu- about the effects of color. dents to identify a problematic area, or an area they would like to see change occur, that corre- In art class, students have been mixing various lates with a passion or interest they have. From colors with only the primary. Often they ask “why this, they conduct research on their topic, read do I need to know how to make the color green fiction and non-fiction literature, assemble a etc.”? Color influences our lives daily. From the presentation educating their audience, and im- clothes we wear, the wallpaper we put on phones, plement a call to action that demonstrates the to how we choose what we want to eat. Color has a change they wish to see. huge impact on our economy. Businesses really do understand the value of color and our pocket On Saturday, February 11th, our 5-8 band stu- books. Here is a great site to watch: https:// dents performed a solo in front of judges. We www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX0DHd5QNS8. Stu- earned 86 superior ratings, 27 excellent ratings, dents also are taking a look how they can take 2 good ratings, and 13 students were honored as something that is real and transform it into some- outstanding performers. It was a good day and thing abstract, both in design and color. all of our students should be commended. The 6th graders are practicing for the math bee Our Middle School Staff is in the beginning stag- contest held in April at the AEA. Thank you to Mrs. es of planning a May Term activity. Students will Mayer who volunteers her time to help with this get to choose one project base activity and two and has done this for many years. mini courses during the last 4-5 days of school. Our 7th and 8th grade middle school students have Jay Marley, Midd;e School been working hard in math, either learning new skills or reviewing old skills that will be helpful in future math and science classes. In Algebra, eighth graders have been solving, writing equa- tions for, and graphing linear equations and ine- qualities. These skills will be very useful in Geom- etry, Algebra II, and other high school math cours- es. In Math 7 and Math 8, students have just finished a unit involving ratio and proportions. Students re- viewed how to write ratios and find rates, but they Green Connection KEEPING FAMILIES CON NECTED EDUCATIONALLY 5th grade students/staff were treated to a Valentine Luncheon on February 14th at the American Legion in Osage. Parents of students provided, set up, decorated, and served a wonderful lunch to all. Students came dressed up for the event in dress clothes. Many a tie was seen on the boys. Ses- sions were held with class- room teachers prior to the event. Topics were: tying a tie, manners, place settings, history of Valentine's Day and the making of old fash- ioned valentines. Thank you to everyone who helped in any way to pro- vide this fun opportunity for kids. 5th Grade Project Fair On Thursday, February 9, the Osage Middle School Cafeteria was “buzzing” with excitement as 5th graders had a chance to show off their research projects.