Karen Dux

Feb 18, 2019Mar 4, 2019

Students With Mustaches?

Mrs. Shinn’s 3^rd grade class finished reading the book Mustaches For Maddie by Shelly Brown and Chad Morris. The students strongly recommend this book for others to read. This book is based on a true story about a girl named Maddie, who loves fake mustaches and finds out she has a brain tumor. Maddie has to have brain surgery. At school she also deals with a bully. With the love of her family and some really good friends she is strong and makes it through both problems. The book deals with handling hard problems and having compassion for others and what they are going through. The students enjoyed the book and it made an impact of them that was visible in the classroom and around school. The students also learned that Maddie now 15 in real life just learned she won’t be able to ever get a driver’s license. The students wanted to let Maddie and her parents know how much they loved the book and wanted to wish her the best. The students decided to have their teacher help them make a video of themselves and their families wearing fake mustaches. Because everything feels better when you are wearing a fake mustache.

Jan 28, 2019Feb 21, 2019

Parent Climate Survey

In an effort to continuously improve your student’s education, Fairbury Public Schools are conducting Parent Climate Surveys. We value your opinion and ask that you take the time to complete this survey. Please click on a link below to take the survey.

Please be assured that your responses to this survey will be anonymous. Your honest opinion is appreciated. Thank you for your time and attention to this matter.

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Jan 23, 2019Feb 5, 2019

Fairbury FFA Competes at District 5 Leadership Development Events

by Kennedy DeBoer

On January 16th, the Fairbury FFA had 23 members attend and compete at the District 5 Leadership Development Event (LDE) in York at the Holthus Center. The members included Michaela Buchli, Taylor Runge, Sara Huss, Delaney Miller, Colton Starck, Jared Engelman, Harlie Blas, Taylor Gustafson, Christina Hickey, Sarah Engelman, Riley Wood, Brooklen Bear, Toby Julin-McCleary, Makena Lantz, Malayne DeBoer, Jordan Hauschel, Jason Marschman, Alexis Mau, Ava Kroll, Autumn Branson, Jillian Caroon, Kennedy DeBoer, and Kaylee Sipek.

This year Fairbury had Two Senior Parliamentary Procedure teams that both received a blue ribbon. Senior Parliamentary Procedure Team #1 was made up of the Fairbury FFA Officers including Michaela Buchli, Taylor Runge, Sara Huss, Delaney Miller, Colton Starck, and Jared Engelman. The Senior Parliamentary Procedure Team #2 was made up of Harlie Blas, Taylor Gustafson, Christina Hickey, Sarah Engelman, Riley Wood, and Brooklen Bear. In Junior Public Speaking, Sophomore Harlie Blas received a blue ribbon. In Senior Public Speaking, senior Michaela Buchli received second purple and is qualified for the Nebraska FFA State Convention in April! Senior, Autumn Branson received a Blue ribbon in her event Natural Resources. Junior Sara Huss received a purple in Employment Skills and was only a few points off from qualifying to state! Junior Jillian Caroon received a blue ribbon in the Employment Skills Contest. The Conduct of Chapter Meetings team consisting of Toby Julin-McCleary, Makena Lantz, Malayne DeBoer, Jordan Hauschel, Jason Marschman, Alexis Mau, and Ava Kroll (who are all 7th graders) received a blue ribbon. Jordan Hauschel also competed in the Discovery Speaking Contest and received a red ribbon. There was a lot of young talent that competed for the Fairbury FFA Chapter this year and the future is looking very bright for all of these FFA members. It was a GREAT day to be a Jeff

Jan 16, 2019Feb 18, 2019

A Window Into History

5th-grade students in Mrs.Wright’s reading class are acting out the play A Window Into History – The Mystery Of The Cellar-Window. It is a drama based on the Underground Railroad. The play teaches students about dialogue, scenes, setting descriptions, stage directions and creating visual depictions for readers.

Jan 16, 2019Feb 27, 2019

Anatomy and Physiology Searches for Evidence in Mock Crime Scene

by Nichole Harris (Originally Published on the FHSX-Ray).

On Monday January 7, Mrs. Kari Fisher’s Anatomy and Physiology class participated in a mock crime scene experiment. Students in the class used what they had learned about forensics and fingerprinting to dust for fingerprints and identify the “criminal” in the class.

“I liked how she had people in the class act as the “criminals” so we knew it was someone among us and we had to figure out who it was,” RJ Suey ’19 said.

Participating in the mock crime scene helped students to fully understand what they’d been taught and gave them an outlet to apply what that hey learned in real life.

“I enjoyed the crime scene lab because it took what we learned about fingerprints and applied it to real life,” Senior Isaac Robertson said. “I think by trying to catch a “criminal,” it made it more fun and exciting for us while also learning how finding fingerprints work.”

Jan 3, 2019Jan 18, 2019

Book Club at Jefferson Intermediate

27 students from grades 3-6 participated in the first Jefferson School Book Club where they read the book Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo. Along with reading the book, the students got to create items discussed in the book including a baton and a lantern. Thanks to Randi Zimmerman for teaching the students about the baton and sharing her talent!

Mrs. Shinn is starting another afterschool book club. The after school Book Club at will be held in her classroom at Jefferson Elementary School. The purpose of the book club is to: share a love of reading, engage students in different styles of reading, enhance critical thinking skills, and to promote literacy through new approaches.

If you would like your child to participate in the January Book Club, please fill out the attached form. https://goo.gl/y23AuV

Dec 19, 2018Jan 16, 2019

Sharing the Love of Reading

Ms. Davidson’s Language Arts 12 students have been busy the past several weeks studying Children’s Literature authors. Tuesday presented an opportunity to visit Ms. Schroeder’s 2nd grade class at Central Elementary and Mrs. Kriesel’s 3/4 class at Jefferson Intermediate to share their findings!

Seniors were assigned a three-part project: write a persuasive research paper, create an engaging online book geared toward 2nd-4th graders, and present an informative final product to class peers. Author selections included Ian Falconer (Olivia), Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalk Ends), Eric Carle (The Hungry Caterpillar), Laura Numeroff (If You Give a Mouse a Cookie), David Shannon (No, David!), Roald Dahl (The BFG), Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are), Dr. Seuss (The Cat in the Hat), HA Rey (Curious George), and Margaret Wise Brown (Goodnight Moon).

Dec 17, 2018

Mrs. Shinn’s Third Grade Students Read The Night Before Christmas

Settle in to a comfy chair and enjoy this timeless tale. As Mrs. Shinn’s students read this time-honored poem about the arrival of St. Nick. You’ll love hearing each voice read aloud. Feel free to join in and call out each reindeer names.

Dec 16, 2018Jan 4, 2019

3rd Graders Stuck in a Snow Globe!

Mrs. Shinn’s third grade students were really excited about our November snowfall with a snow day. The students love the thought of snow! They also bundled up in all their cold weather gear in the classroom to take a few pictures in front of the green screen in their classroom. Mrs. Shinn and the students used an app to add the background snow and snowman and then another one to put the students in the snow globe. With a great snow globe song and the iMovie app Mrs. Shinn made this video and the students look adorable in the snow and were not really cold at all!