Jan.2012. pub - Springville Community Schools

Springville
Community School District
400 Academy Street
Springville, IA 52336
Superintendent: Terry Rhinehart
400 Academy Street
Springville, IA 52336
854-6197
Springville Secondary School
400 Academy Street
Springville, IA 52336
Principal, Shauna Dennison
854-6196
Springville Elementary School
602 Mill Avenue
Springville, IA 52336
Principal, Kyle Koeppen
854-6195
http://www.springville.k12.ia.us
January
2012
From the Principal’s Desk
Happy New Year. The Secondary has been filled with learning and projects. Our Manufacturing
Enterprise students spent the first semester designing birdhouses and marketing them. Mr. James Nelson and Mr. Nic Thorp did a wonderful job getting the students in the building mode and helping
them be successful in marketing their product.
During our building-wide silent sustained reading, our students and staff raised over $1,000 for the
Salvation Army and SANSI. We are extremely proud of all the students and staff for raising so much
money. We celebrated by having a school-wide sundae party on December 16th. Our students are
great!
As part of School Cents, our students took a trip to the Mall to turn in report cards and dine in the
food court during the last part of November. Thank you to the community for all your support.
There is also a video that Nate Sanderson, Head Girl’s Basketball coach made. I have attached a link
for you to view it. Nice job, Coach. http://youtu.be/N9cXk3H0Sxc
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the
Springville Community
Schools is to instill a
lifelong love of learning,
while promoting the
achievement of the
individual student within
a positive learning
climate where high
expectations
are cooperatively set by
school personnel,
students, parents and the
community.
The music department held both of their Winter Concerts. We have wonderfully talented students.
Mrs. Chrisman and Miss Fisher did an outstanding job preparing all our students and Mrs. Wright,
who narrated Twas the Night Before Christmas.
Please attend the school-sponsored events held at Springville Schools. We have several events and
activities that can fill some of those long winter nights, check the school calendar.
I wish everyone the best in 2012. It does seem as we get older time does start to fly a little faster. I
feel privileged to be part of such a wonderful school and community.
Respectfully submitted,
Ms. Shauna Dennison
Manufacturing Enterprise
Written by Spencer Glackin
Over the previous semester we
have constructed two styles of bird
feeders. Both of the feeders express Springville school spirit with
bright, uplifting colors. The total
profit of our project was $425. The
class was a great success! A special thanks to the class for donating
$225 to the Nietert family. Also,
thank you to everyone who purchased a feeder!
THANK YOU SPRINGVILLE COMMUNITY
I would like to thank this amazing community once
again for the support you have shown through the
“Nietert Ninja” volleyball t-shirt and birdfeeder
fundraisers! The way this community pulls together
in times of need is simply amazing! It makes me
very proud to work in a community such as this one!
When life throws you challenges, it’s nice to know
so many people care and can help you through!
With MUCH gratitude again and always,
Amber, Joe, Payson, and Brekin Nietert
Lighting the Way
Fourth Grade students spent the last few weeks
learning about electricity. They started by lighting a
light bulb with a D cell battery, a bulb, and one wire.
Through the course of the students’ exploration they
made many types of circuits and answered numerous
questions they had about electricity. Did you know
that you can light a household light bulb with 10-13
D cell batteries? Students learned how a light bulb
works and constructed their own. To end the unit,
the students took their knowledge of electricity and
constructed a flashlight. They had the following
requirements: 1. Only Use One Hand 2. Turn On
and Off on Command 3. No Wires Showing. Checkout the final projects:
Don’t Forget to Check-Out our Blog at
http://4thgradereflections.blogspot.com/
to See More Fourth Grade Projects!
December in Second Grade
By:
Mrs. Wittenburg and Mrs. Sanders
Our busy December schedule.
First: We decorated a small tree to donate to SANSI to
help raise money for all the services they provide to the
community.
Second: Our Winter Music Program was held in the new
Fine Arts Center. We sang three songs with the kindergarteners and first graders and three songs with just the
second graders.
Third: We walked downtown to view the tree in the
Christmas Tree Walk. We spotted the tree we decorated
in the front window. Then we sang carols to the following
businesses: Springville Memorial Library, Exchange
State Bank and Springville Telephone Company.
Fourth: We spent time making Christmas gifts for our
parents.
Fifth: Many students have already read their 100 minutes
for the Pizza Hut Book-It Reward. A big thank you to
parents who are helping their child become a better
reader.
Sixth: Students have listened to and discussed many
Christmas stories.
Seventh: During some of our work times we listened to
Christmas music.
Eighth: Students have continued to do Rocket Math, with
one child passing all 26-addition tests. Keep up the hard
work.
All of us wish you a Happy 2012!!
Live Concert
By Mr. Porter
The 4th and 5th grade students boarded a school bus
November 3, 2011, at 10:15 AM to travel to the First Assembly Auditorium. Upon their arrival they experienced
and enjoyed a live symphony orchestra concert by Orchestra Iowa (Cedar Rapids Symphony).
This year’s youth concert was titled “All In The
Family.” The first four songs on the program spotlighted
one of the four families of instruments in the orchestra:
percussion, brass, woodwinds, and string. The full orchestra was then assisted by the Discovery Chorus. This group
is auditioned 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students. They sang
Meridith Wilson’s “76 Trombones as the orchestra
played. The concert ended with Peter and The Wolf by
Prokofiev and included the narration of the star with the
orchestra.
Students returned to school to eat their sack lunches.
Thank you to CAST for making the attendance at this
concert possible.
Looking For Kindergartners
Please help us compile our list of incoming Kindergartners for the fall, 2012-2013
school year. Your child must be five years old on or before September 15, 2012, in
order to be eligible to attend kindergarten or junior kindergarten next fall. Please list
your own youngster and/or those of any of your friends or neighbors you believe may
not have received this form. Please drop the completed form off or mail it to the
Springville Elementary School office. Thank you!
Child’s Name___________________________________________
Date of Birth___________________________________________
Parents________________________________________________
Phone_________________________________________________
Address_______________________________________________
Springville Elementary School
602 Mill Avenue
Springville, Iowa 52336 854-6195
_____I would like more information about the Junior Kindergarten program.
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We would like to give a special thanks to all who helped support school cents this year.
We participated in several fundraisers this year, which helped earn points for Springville. On October 30th the
National Honor Society helped by passing out candy for the Special Needs Trick-or-Treat, which earned Springville 50
points We also earned 50 points by participating in a costume contest. We earned an extra 50 points for coming in second in the costume contest. Thanks Megan Hall for playing Clifford! With your help we also donated hats, scarves, and
mittens to the Four Oaks. This earned 300 points for Springville. Our last fundraiser to earn points was to donate
canned goods. To accomplish this we had a penny war at the middle and high school. This proved to be very successful
as we collected $1024.50! The students competed for an ice cream party and it was so successful that everyone received ice cream! The winning class received a pizza party. We then earned points by purchasing the can goods at
Lindale Hy-Vee and earned 500 points for donating them to the Salvation Army. A big thank you to Nate Sanderson for
coming up with an advertisement that is on You Tube at the following link http://youtu.be/N9cXk3H0Sxc. It is awesome!
Whether you donated hats, scarves, mittens, can goods or shopped Lindale Mall and surrounding areas. This
year we had a large number of people who shopped Lindale Hy-Vee. Thank you so much! We appreciate all the effort
Springville community does to support Springville Orioles!
The final awards ceremony is at Lindale Mall on January 7, 2011 at 11:30. We are currently in 1st place, so come see if
we end up in 1st place. Lindale Mall is opened from 10 am-5 pm on Dec. 31. If you received gift cards for Lindale Mall
please be sure to use them by the end of this year to earn more points!
All receipts have to be turned in by 5:00, Dec. 31st.
School Cents is sponsored by: Lindale Mall, Mix 96.5 and The Gazette
Lego League
For the first time since 2006, Springville competed in the
First Lego League(FLL) regional competition. This year
the competition was held in Solon on Saturday, December
10. The LegO’s teammates include eighth graders Brady
Barner, Carter Gillmore, Andy Hagensick, Vanessa Harding, Chrissy Hoogland, Emily Horak, Nicole Miller,
Megan Wagaman, and Sydney Williams. They continue
to thrive under the support of mentor Sean Willams.
The regional competition proved to be a success, with the
LegO’s winning top prize (and a handsome trophy) in the
Core Values category. Their achievement came by way of
knowing each other, working together cooperatively, and
living the meaning of “Gracious Professionalism”. The
teammates also faired well in their project and robot categories. Just as important, the LegO’s invigorated the
crowd with their cheers for their robot Filipe: “Go Filipe!
Go, Go, Filipe!” Some well-placed paper mustaches didn’t hurt either.
The victorious LegO’s will be moving on to the State
Competition- an all-day event at Iowa State in Ames,
Iowa, on Saturday, January 14, 2011. Your support and
attendance are appreciated and encouraged!
School Board Meeting
will be
Wednesday, January 18th
at 7:00PM
Physical Education
Wow, here we are getting ready to go on break and
with no snow on the ground. Perhaps we will be able to
get outside for class sooner than thought. I know wishful
thinking. As we wind down the second quarter and first
semester, I would like to share with you what has been
going on in physical education at the middle school and
high school level as well as high school health.
Since ending first quarter the middle school and high
school students have been faced with the fact that it is too
cold to go outside for class, which means staying in the
gym all week long. The middle school students have done
a couple of units that are "made" to be inside. Two of
these units were basketball and floor hockey. These are
usually two of the favorite units in middle school and
hopefully you have heard some of the stories kids have, as
long as they were not of the injury kind. Some units the
students will be doing after break will be handball, volleyball, and hopefully archery (depending on where our grant
is at).
The high school students have also been busy in the
weight room, if they chose that as a their class for physical education. We were able, with the donation from
Sports Boosters, to buy a Ground Base Jammer. This machine allows athletes to build the lower body muscles
along with getting great strength in the hip movements.
We are in the process of getting new mirrors and "Record
Boards" up, too. The "Record Boards" will be used for
seeing what a student can lift in their core lifts (squat,
bench, and clean). There will be multiple weights that will
allow almost all students to achieve one of their goals.
Also ask your student about the possibility of "Early Bird"
again in February. However, this will most likely be without a physical education credit.
In health, the students have dove into the "meats
and potatoes" of health. Units such as the systems in our
bodies and diseases made the students think about their
own bodies and what is healthy to them. We then went
into a couple more serious units on the uses and consequences of drugs and alcohol where we spent time on
tobacco, underage drinking, and other illegal drugs. We
finished the semester with our “Making Proud Choices”
curriculum that deals with sex education. This unit differs
from several years ago, where it was all abstinence-based.
This curriculum talks about if you decided to be sexually
active, what the consequences are and possible results of
this. It also talks about how to prevent and protect individuals against STIs (formally known as STDs), HIV/
AIDS, and pregnancy.
I hope that all of you have enjoyed the first semester
and look forward to the second semester and the arrival of
2012. Have a safe and happy holidays!!
SPRINGVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 2011-2012 YEARBOOK ORDER FORM
Dear Parent or Guardian of Springville Elementary Students:
The Springville Elementary Memory Book committee is
pleased to announce this year's memory book. It will be
bursting with student portraits, photos of school activities,
highlights, and of course, space for special autographs. The
smiles and memories of your student's year at Springville will
be remembered forever in our memory book!
Make sure your student doesn't miss out on this opportunity!
To order a memory book for your student, please complete
and return the bottom portion of this form with your payment.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Student Name: _______________________
Teacher/Grade: ______________________
Payment enclosed : __________ ($15.50 per book)
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Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Springville Schools is in its third year of implementing
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS).
Students are taught directly the behavior expectations in
the classrooms and common areas of the school and earn
o-tickets for meeting the expectations. Students turn in otickets in the office, where each week, names of winning
students are drawn randomly and students receive a small
reward. The most popular rewards include leaving class a
few minutes early for lunch and reserved parking near the
main entrance for students who drive. The week of the big
rival game with Central City, students got free tickets to
attend the game. There is also a competition among the
classes to see which grade can earn the most o-tickets.
Later this winter, the class with the most o-tickets will
earn a bowling or sledding trip.
Congratulations and thank you to all secondary students
who follow the Oriole promise to
“Be Respectful, Be Responsible and Be Kind.”
This month’s “O” ticket winners are:
Samantha Smith, Tyler Stewart, Destiny Hard. Haley
Kirchman, McKaylah Schmelzer, Henry Hoogland, Riley
Menster, Lucas Pilipovic, Blake Jordan, Brandi Warren,
Nicholas Yousse, Andrew Blakely, Noah Lamb, Sam
Lorimer, Nicholas Stuppi, Tanner Morrissey, Jacob
Loehr, Drew Hoskins, Jesse Robertson, Breeanna
Garman, Sidney Hopkins, D.J. Hotz, Austin Howe, Cody
Blake, Chris Hart, Alex Emig, Holly Mikita, Megan Hall,
C.J. Fitzgerald, Bayli Chapman, Brandon Mysak, Ty Nelson, Tucker Nelson, Tyler McDowell, and Evan Kaczinski.
Week 10 School Cents Results
1. Springville
2. Alburnett
3. Central City
4. Cedar Valley Christian
5. Olin
6. North Linn
7. East Buchanan
8. Center Point-Urbana
9. Kennedy
10. Xavier
11. CR Washington
12. North Cedar
13. Metro
14. Marion
15. Solon
11864
11641
4998
4532
4007
2834
2384
2175
1929
1802
1692
1158
903
411
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SPRINGVILLE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
Springville, Iowa
BOARD MINUTES – December 7, 2011
NOTE: These minutes are unofficial until approved by
the board at the next regular meeting.
SPECIAL BOARD MEETING
President Lee Ann Grimley called the special meeting of
the Springville Community School District Board of Directors to order on December 7, 2011 at 7:30 pm. Other
members present were Todd Nulle, Dennis Thies and
Judy Studt. Also present were Superintendent Terry Rhinehart and Board Secretary/Business Manager Stacey
Matus. Tami Gillmore was absent.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA
Todd Nulle made a motion to approve the agenda as presented. All ayes, motion carried.
NEW BUSINESS
APPROVE AT-RISK/DROP OUT APPLICATION FOR
2012-2013
Judy Studt made a motion to accept the recommendation
to approve the At-Risk/Drop Out Prevention Application
for 2012-2013 for the amount of $17,164.00. All ayes,
motion carried.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business President Lee Ann Grimley declared the special board meeting adjourned at 7:34
pm.
Following adjournment the board met as provided in Iowa
Code 20.17(3) for collective bargaining strategy session.
Respectfully Submitted,
_________________________________________
Stacey Matus, Board Secretary
_________________________________________
Lee Ann Grimley, Board President