Karen Dux

Oct 29, 2015

Jefferson Students Attend Leadership Conference

On October 20, 2015, fifth and sixth grade students from Jefferson Intermediate attended the Student Leadership Conference at Doane College, Crete, Nebraska.

Alex Buxton, Gavin Schramm, Karly McCord, Braden Suey, Alissa York were the 6th graders attending. The fifth grade students included Jax Biehl, Trayce Blas, Alexz Hunt, Brittany Kroeker, Jackson Martin, Moirah Neal, Hannah Robertson and Cora Tatro.

The morning started with an entertaining presentation from Men With Dreams, The philosophy of Men With Dreams centers around “Do Your Best”; “You are Important”, “One Step Forward”, and “Never Be Average”.

Next, the Jefferson group attended several break-out sessions including Barn Yards and Beach Island Burgers; Investing in our Youth, Games That Teach Leadership Qualities and Helping the Homeless Head to Toe. Students spent time on goal setting, working as a team, qualities of a leader; and selecting a project to help a certain community group.

The keynote speaker, Haeven Pederson, Holmes Elementary School gave an excellent presentation. His speech was about challenges you may face in life and his message was “NEVER GIVE UP!”

Oct 27, 2015Oct 27, 2015

Happy Halloween!

Mrs. Christiansen’s class tried their hands at using watercolors to paint their Halloween creature drawings. We wish everyone a happy and safe Halloween! Enjoy our artwork!

Oct 27, 2015Oct 27, 2015

4th Graders-Long Distance Learning-Bird’s Nest

All of the 4th Grade Classes had the opportunity to get into groups and make a bird’s nest. The students had only twigs, leaves, grass, and three pipe cleaners for materials to make their bird’s nest. The students were also given hershey kisses as eggs and I had to shake the bird’s nest to determine if they could withstand Nebraska’s wind . If the eggs did not fall out, the students got to eat the eggs. It was a fun experiment for the kids. It was fascinating to see how creative the kids were in designing their bird’s nest.

Oct 26, 2015Oct 30, 2015

Energizers Poster Contest Winner

In coordination with Red Ribbon Week, Energizers club sponsored a drug-free poster contest for local elementary students. Energizers members voted on a winning design and through grant-funding had the design made into t-shirts for the entire class of the winning student. On Thursday Oct. 22nd,
Energizers members presented the winning class of with their t-shirts, the yellow Minion shirts, designed by Lauren Wanamaker, say “Drugs are Despicable”. We received many amazing designs, and used the poster submissions to decorate the high school halls for Red Ribbon Week. Thanks to all who submitted their own depiction of a drug free message and hope we can keep inspire students to stay active in their school and community activities.

Oct 24, 2015

Future Veterinarians?

Agriculture Science and Technology students were introduced on how to properly administer vaccinations during their animal health unit. Oranges were used as the test subject.

Are we all professionals now? Is everyone ready to be veterinarian for a day and give some injections? Maybe we’re not quite professionals, but we have to start somewhere!

Oct 23, 2015Oct 27, 2015

Students Move to Learn Coordinates

Students in Mr. Lenhart’s Mathematics class are learning to become fluent with plotting points on the coordinate plane. A large grid was created on the ground. Each student was given an ordered pair and they had to stand at “their point.”

Their learning objectives were to:

understand the concept of a grid
know that the first number in an ordered pair tells how many units to go to the right or left and the second number tells how many units to go up or down
name the ordered pair for a point.
plot positions named by ordered pairs.

Oct 23, 2015Oct 27, 2015

Pioneer Day

On October 8th, 2015, Fourth Graders were able to experience the daily chores and lives of pioneers in Nebraska. It was a beautiful fall day as we traveled to Filley Stone Barn and Homestead National Park.

Students enjoyed activities such as corn shucking, corn shelling, digging fence post holes, sawing wood, sewing quilt blocks, candle making, and pioneer toys. They also watched demonstrations of blacksmithing and marble making.

Students learned an appreciation of the pioneers and what they accomplished to make our lives much easier today.

Oct 22, 2015

2015 Girls Golf

The 2015 girls golf season was full of adjustments that led to big improvements.

The girls team was made up of a junior, four sophomores, and a freshman. They are very young but are building a foundation for future years.

“This year the team bonded, and really got to know each other,” Evie Schwab ‘19 said.

The first invite of the year was held in Beatrice where the team finished sixth. The Seward invite was the largest and toughest meet of the year, and the girls finished ninth. At our home Fairbury invite the girls finished fifth.

“I took a lot of steps forward this year. At our home Invite I was 15 strokes better than what I had been doing, and our team made a lot of improvements by conference,” Madi Black ‘17 said.

The Crete Invite was another tough meet, and the team came in eighth place. After Crete, the Jeff traveled to the Pius Invite, Conference and Districts wound up their season, where they came in seventh place as a team.

Freshman, Sara Mitchel was close to medalling at the Seward invite, and also improved through the season. “I think the team’s technique made a lot of changes that were for the better and that will hopefully carry into next year’s season.”

Oct 22, 2015

The “Real” Game

Students in 6th grade Guidance are learning about the world of work by participating in a life/work exploration program called The Real Game. Students take on a randomly assigned “occupation”, and role-play situations and issues that apply to working adults. Students are learning concepts related to their future career choices and quality of life, such as major purchases, monthly budgets, time management, and leisure time choices and expenses.