Been a Loooooooong time coming, but Fairbury High School FINALLY has an NSAA Play Production (One Act)! Saturday, November 12th featured the inaugural performance! FHS also hosted the very first Invite as well. Thank you to Aaron Liebel, Ryan Dusso Dawn Jobman and David Davis for making it happen! Good luck cast and crew!!
One Act will present their Play for the Community ( And Parents) on Dec 2nd at 6:30
The Jeffs’ Best Award was created by the Fairbury Public Schools Board of Education to highlight and celebrate the great work of our staff. On behalf of the Board of Education, I would like to congratulate Renee Kettelhut, Chance School Special Education Teacher, as the recipient of the November Jeffs’ Best Award!
These are her nomination statements:
Renee is technically a first year teacher, but walking through her classroom you would never guess that. She is extremely effective at building relationships with students, communicating with parents, and doing everything possible to help students be successful. Starting her teaching career in a behavior program during a pandemic, is hands down the most challenging way to start a teaching career. Her classroom is very student centered. She is persistent in doing what is best for students in an extremely challenging school year. When students or staff encounter problems or barriers, she problem solves quickly, efficiently, and with a professional demeanor. We are extremely lucky to have such a naturally talented educator join our team. She deserves to be recognized for her resiliency and dedication to our students.
She has been one of the most patient people I have ever met especially with working in the chance building where anything can happen at any moment. I appreciate her for always having a positive attitude and always seeing the upside of everything.
Renee is a dedicated and very hard working SPED Teacher. She always gives the kids everything she’s got even when the students are testing her patience to the extreme. She is working hard to complete all of the special education paperwork and requirements, and at times, this can be overwhelming for a first year teacher. She always comes in with a smile and positive attitude which is felt by both the students and other staff. Working at Chance has it’s challenges but Renee is committed to giving these students the best possible chance to succeed. FPS and the students are lucky to have her working at Chance.
Renee is someone who goes above and beyond for her students. She is constantly trying to think of new ways to get students to engage in their learning. Even as a first year teacher she has taken the lead on several projects to promote student success. She is constantly working towards the best solution for any issue that arises and is an amazing asset to our team. We are very fortunate to have such a caring, hard-working person as part of our team and district
Congratulations Renee!
Learning about the advantages/disadvantages of Proprietorships, Partnerships, and Corporations through a tower building challenge. The partnership won this time! (Mrs. Dux)
Thank you to the Class of 1965 and George Acker for letting the Fairbury Ag Education students help plant memorial trees and teaching us about the ins and outs of planting trees. (Mr. Thomas Dux)
4/5 Graders practiced their volleyball skills this week in Ms. Faltin’s PE class! The future looks good! (Ms Ashley Faltin)
Celebrating and practicing our alphabet while playing “Go Fish” (Mrs. Jodi Veldt)
Rigoberto, our new student, gifted us his countryś flag to enjoy! (Mrs. Jodi Veldt)
7-12 Band (Mr. Dusso)
Wow what a great start to the year so far! High school band camp was a huge success with the final performance at the Wilber Czech Days Parade. The 7-12 bands have been hard at work getting ready for Pep Band and Marching season. The HS Band looks to premiere Part one of our World of Warcraft Halftime show at our first home football game Friday September 3rd!!! JH Band has been hard at work learning marching commands and mastering out school song “Colors” to march in the homecoming parade in September!
7th Grade STEM students kicked off their first week of STEM challenges with a partner, team building activity called the “Solo Cup Stack Challenge”. They were given limited time, specific materials, and the requirement of not being able to touch the cups with anything but the string/rubber bands. They had to work together with their partner(s) to figure out the best strategy to engineer their cup tower the fastest!(Mrs. Carly Winter)
In Miss Lassek’s 2nd grade classroom, the students heard a new story during the first week of school. Miss Lassek read the story “Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun.” This story outlines the importance of having courage, the importance of embracing our differences and the importance of never giving up. After hearing the story, the students took on a new challenge. The students were required to build the tallest tower in the classroom with only a few supplies. The students were given 20 mini marshmallows, 1 large marshmallow, 20 dry spaghetti noodles, a piece of paper and 5 inches of tape. The important details of the task was that the tower must stand on its own and hold the large marshmallow on the top. The students felt the challenge and difficulty of the task but never gave up! Congratulations to our winner, Carter Petersen for building the tallest tower to support the large marshmallow! (Mrs. Lassek)
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Students in Mrs. Veldt’s Spanish 2 Class commemorate the contributions of famous Hispanoamericanos.
The theme this year is “Let’s get in GEAR!”
Mrs. Moody’s Kindergarten class has been learning about plants in their knowledge unit. They have learned about plant parts, photosynthesis, and about the process of pollination. Mrs. Engelmann made a special appearance to show about her bee keeping and how bees are great pollinators!
~by Gavin Shramm
We had a lot of donors and even some double donations! The McCown twins Ashton and Ethan gave double which is taking the blood out of the body, taking the red cells, and giving back the fluids, plasma, and platelets. “I never did it before and said sure, might as well try it,” Ashton McCown said. Along with the twins was Ericka Kroeker and Drake Richtarik who also gave double. Thank you to everyone who donated blood today and thank you Nebraska Community Blood Bank for working all day and collecting the blood.
Melissa Dux, Fairbury High School business teacher, was given an award for Outstanding Contributions to Business Education by a Secondary Business Teacher during the Fall Nebraska State Business Education Association conference. Congratulations Melissa!
The National Honor Society officers this year are President Cody Petersen, President-Elect Ellie Livingston (she is also secretary), Point-Chart Recorder Alex Buxton, and Reporter Gavin Schramm.
Members of The National Honor Society include Marlaney Deras, Zane Grizzle, Adaline Linscott, Jami Mans, Jacob Martin, Karly McCord, Mariel Ramos, Ethan Smith, Braden Suey, Alissa York, Anna York, Trayce Blas, Emily Huss, Alyse Petersen, Hannah Robertson, and Trenton Ruhnke.
The NHS advisor is Mrs. Julie Petersen.
*Students in 10th, 11th, and 12th grade with a GPA of 3.3+ can petition for membership second semester.
