{"id":89,"date":"2015-12-15T11:57:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T17:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teacher.sheboyganfalls.k12.wi.us\/sfes-communicator\/?p=89"},"modified":"2015-12-17T09:21:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T15:21:25","slug":"sfes-communicator-december-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/teacher.sheboyganfalls.k12.wi.us\/sfes-communicator\/2015\/12\/15\/sfes-communicator-december-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"SFES Communicator – December 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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December 17th<\/b><\/div>\n
Holiday Family Sing-A-Long\u00a0 – 6:00 PM – ES Gym<\/div>\n
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The School District of Sheboygan Falls is seeking district residents to volunteer\u00a0for a Facilities Advisory Committee (FAC). The role of the committee is to provide meaningful input to the Sheboygan Falls Board of Education as the Board analyzes \u00a0potential solutions for the Sheboygan Falls Middle School. The committee will also provide specific input on the district-wide, long-range capital replacement priorities. It is anticipated that the committee will meet no more than six (6) times between January and April 2016. \u00a0Read more.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Innovation at the Elementary School<\/b><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Programming in the Third Grade<\/b><\/p>\n
Students in Mrs. Kluth’s class worked in small groups to learn how to write code using an online program for elementary students.\u00a0 Coding helps build logical thinking, problem solving, persistence, communication, and team work.<\/div>\n
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Parent Steve Ogreenc helped students in Mrs. Gustin’s class learn about programming and algorithms by navigating Sphero through a homemade maze that he built specifically for the class to use with Sphero!<\/div>\n
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Second Grade uses the Engineering Design Process<\/b><\/p>\n
\"\" Students have been learning about the Engineering Design Process and states of matter.\u00a0 We mixed together several solids and liquids until we found the perfect mortar mixture\u00a0to hold up the walls to our houses for the\u00a0Three Little Pigs, which we also read two versions of in reading and compared. None of the houses failed the test!<\/div>\n
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A Heartwarming Performance for our Veterans<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
The a.m. 4K students helped celebrate Veterans Day by being a part of the program at the middle school on November 10. They did a very beautiful\u00a0rendition\u00a0of “This Land is Your Land This Land in My Land” that they learned from Mrs. Haines.<\/div>\n
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Mr. Oetjen’s 3rd grade class is working on a community service project to help the Sheboygan County Humane Society. A volunteer from the Humane Society came to speak to the class and brought some goodies along, too!<\/div>\n
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\"\" Strengthening Families<\/strong>–for parents and youth ages 10-14.\u00a0This\u00a0proven program<\/a>\u00a0brings parents and their youth ages 10-14 together in highly interactive sessions that improve parenting skills, build life skills in youth, and strengthen family bonds. Over the course of 7 weekly 2-hour classes that begin with a shared meal, parents and youth enjoy\u00a0individual\u00a0and shared activities including:<\/p>\n