Please join us Tuesday, April 16 at 6pm at the Burkley Fine Arts Center in the Fairbury High School (1501 9th St) for Autism/Disability Resource Night. See the attached flyer for more information.
Autism/Disability Resource Night
National Library Week
Join the celebration! National Library Week is April 7 – 13, 2019.
This year’s theme, Libraries = Strong Communities, illustrates how today’s libraries are at the heart of our cities, towns and schools.Students at Central Elementary and Jefferson Intermediate enjoyed working together to learn, build, and create through a variety of makerspace activities. Students also voted for their favorite book in the Nebraska Golden Sower Program.
Central students enjoying makerspace activities during National Library Week.
Jefferson Division One Reading Classics Team Announced as Champions
On Saturday, March 30th, Jefferson Intermediate Division One team traveled to Tri County to compete in the State Reading Classics Competition .In the first round Fairbury competed against 9 other nearby counties. After 30 questions, the top two teams were announced and Jefferson was one of the two!! The students were so excited to make it to the final round, also known as the buzzer round! In the Final competition, fifteen oral questions are asked. Jefferson students were amazing and surpassed Seward with a score of 8-4! Congratulations to some excellent readers and competitors! We had 75 books to read for this competition!
Fairbury Division II Reading Classics Team Headed to State
On March 25th the Division II team from Fairbury competed at the Jefferson County Reading Classics Competition. This competition was the culmination of six months of extensive reading of 74 books for the six sixth graders on the team. Heidi Ramos,Natalie Heidemann, Adeline Blatny, Addison Marschman, and Mailee Garner, put in a good effort outscoring two Tri-County teams 32 to 20 to 12 out of 50 questions. They will head to Tri-County School March 30th to compete in the State Reading Classics Competition. Good Luck and Well Done Team!
Fairbury Farm to School
Fairbury has been fortunate to have several donations of pork and beef throughout the last two years. The DeBoer families donated two beef to kick off our Farm to School Program in the spring of 2018. Since that time, we have had more beef and pork donated by several generous families. We have also had many monetary donations. Monetary donations are used to help defray the cost of processing the beef and pork. In addition to pork and beef, in the fall we have had donations of fresh garden produce.
The Farm to School Program is great for our school. It gives our students pride in where there food is produced. They get fresh from the farm foods. The cafeteria staff does a great job in serving the foods in creative and tasty dishes. Some of the beef dishes served have been, fresh 100% ¼ lb. hamburgers, roast beef, beef and noodles and beef enchiladas. The variety of pork dishes include: Pork Tetrazinni, Pulled Pork Sandwich, Southwest BBQ Pork Pizza, Roast Pork Loin and Pork Tacos. Fresh salsa was prepared with some of the locally produced and donated tomatoes and peppers. Fresh cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes have enhanced flavor and color of the fruit/vegetable bars. Nothing is better than a home-grown tomato. Yum…
Donations are accepted throughout the school year. Please contact Mr. Grizzle at the district office (402-729-6104) for more information on donating beef or pork. For donations of fresh produce, please call Jane Rhine at the high school cafeteria, (402-300-3094)
A big thank you goes out to everyone for all generous donations. Our students really appreciate all the fresh local food.
Elementary Family Night 2019
Central & Jefferson Family Night, Give the Gift of Reading was held Thursday, February, 28th. Families gathered at the Fairbury Jr/Sr High School to enjoy a pancake supper sponsored by the Fairbury Kiwanis. Teachers, staff and volunteers operated many Dr. Seuss-based activities. Students and families enjoyed playing games, making arts & crafts, taking silly Seuss pictures and listening to guest readers. Each PreK-6 student received a free book from the Kiwanis pancake feed. It was a SEUSS-tastic night!
Jefferson Students Take 1st Place
The Jefferson Intermediate Quiz Bowl Club participated in the ESU 5 Quiz Bowl hosted by Thayer Central. The 6th grade team took 1st place.
Students Celebrate the Love of Reading
Sixth graders from Jefferson Intermediate traveled to CentralElementary to “share the love of reading” with Kindergarten students. Reading aloud improves listening and vocabulary skills. It’s a fun, easy way to connect with people of all ages.
Students With Mustaches?
Mrs. Shinn’s 3rd 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.
