Jr. Sr. High School – Page 44 – Fairbury Public Schools

Fairbury Band Has Successful Marching Season

The Fairbury High School Band has had a busy and successful marching season. The band performed at four halftime performances for home football games, played the National Anthem and fight song for the home Cross Country meet, participated in the Homecoming Parade, traveled to the Heritage Care Center, and marched in the Harvest of Harmony Parade on Saturday, October 3.

While the band performed their final marching show of the season on Friday, October 16, students are eagerly looking forward to the transition into concert band. The band invites you to their Winter Concert on Sunday, December 13 at 2p.m. in the Burkley Fine Arts Center. The concert will also feature the choir and show choir.

Cross Country Runners Are Headed To State!

Seven cross country runners qualified for the state cross country meet! The girls team qualified for the third year in a row by placing third at the district meet last Thursday in Hastings. Emily Burkley led the Jeffs by placing 8th. Other medalists for the girls were Lilibeth Estrada – 9th and Shaye Stall – 11th. Halle Knigge was 21st, Anna Schouboe was 24th and Autumn Branson was 25th. Garret Ragland earned his first trip to the state meet by placing 11th. Other members of the girls team are MaKayla Fletcher and Josey Zabokrtsky. Congratulations to all runners!

Local FFA Members Umland and Black Selected as Members of National FFA Chorus

Ryan Umland and Madison Black, members of the Fairbury FFA chapter in Fairbury,NE, will be on stage and in the spotlight Oct. 28-31 during the 2014 National FFA Convention & Expo in Louisville, Ky.

Umland, a senior and the son of Matt and Deb Umland, and Black, a junior and the daughter of Allan and Terri Black have been selected for the National FFA Chorus.

The National FFA Chorus will perform several times during the 2015 National FFA Convention & Expo, adding excitement and motivation to the sessions through their music.

Umland and Black will join fellow chorus members in Louisville three days before convention begins for rehearsals.

The National FFA Organization provides leadership, personal growth and career success training through agricultural education to 610,240 student members in grades seven through 12 who belong to one of 7,665 local FFA chapters
throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

THE LADY JEFFS SOFTBALL TEAM IS DISTRICT RUNNER-UP

The 4th seeded Lady Jeffs Softball Team came away as district runner-up Friday at the Fillmore Central Softball Complex. The Jeffs began district play on Thursday vs. Fillmore Central winning 8-7 in the 8th inning. Executing hits were: Marah Shumard-single, Regan Schmidt-single & triple, Macy Ohlde-2 singles, Destini Warnke-triple, Sarah McCown-single & double, and Sydney Miller-triple. Delaney Miller was the winning pitcher giving up 8 hits, 7 strikeouts, and 6 walks. In the second game against top seeded Milford, the Jeffs prevailed again with a 3-2 victory after a huge 2 run homerun by Destini Warnke. Collecting hits for the Jeffs were: Shumard-single & double, Schmidt-double, Ohlde-single, Warnke-double & homerun, Sydney Miller-single, and Tara Schroeder-single. Delaney Miller was the winning pitcher giving up 4 hits, 4 strikeouts, and 2 walks. First round Friday morning the Jeffs played Wilber and once again prevailed 7-1. Collecting hits for the Jeffs were: Shumard-triple, Warnke-single, McCown-2 singles, Sydney Miller-single, and Caitlin Nimmich-2 singles. Winning pitcher was Delaney Miller giving up 3 hits, 7 strikeouts, and 1 walk. Going into the championship unbeaten, the Jeffs would have to be beaten twice. In the first championship game vs. Milford, the Jeffs were very sluggish and lost 11-1. Collecting hits for the Jeffs were: Ohlde-double and Sydney Miller-single. Delaney Miller gave up 11 hits, 1 strikeout, and 2 walks. In the if necessary game, it was a nail biter until the very end, but unfortunately the Jeffs came up short losing 6-8 and their hopes of a state birth. Collecting hits were: Shumard-double, Schmidt-single, Ohlde-double, Warnke-single, McCown-single, Sydney Miller-single, Rielee Achtemeier-single and Schroeder-single. Delaney Miller gave up 7 hits, 2 strikeouts, and 4 walks. The Jeffs had an outstanding season and showed so much improvement over last year and even from the beginning of the season. “To triple a teams wins from a year ago is an outstanding accomplishment and I am so proud of this team.” “This group as well as their parents truly enjoyed and loved each other and that is huge in girls athletics.” “It was definitely a family feel and I hope it only continues to grow.” “I am excited to have everyone back from this years team and to even add a few out of the 8th grade class!” The future of Fairbury Brand Softball is very bright!

FHS Cheer Clinic

On Friday, October 2nd, the FHS Cheerleaders held a cheer clinic for younger students at Central and Jefferson. They had 54 future FHS Cheerleaders participate. The girls spent the afternoon learning cheers, playing games and eating snacks! To end the clinic, the girls put on a performance for friends and family, where they did a wonderful job. For the girls that wanted to participate, they were able to go to the Varsity Football game vs. Lincoln Lutheran and perform with the HS Cheerleaders until halftime. All girls involved did a fantastic job!! As a sponsor, I am very proud of the hard work they put into this!!

The Interesting World of Monogastrics

Students in the Agricultural Science and Technology class examined many characteristics of the monogastric digestive system of a fetal pig. Unlike polygastric (ruminant) animals that have multiple compartments to their stomach, monogastric animals have a simple digestive system. This system contains one stomach that uses acids to breakdown food. This dissection also helped students get a 3-dimensional picture of how all the systems fit together in an entire organism. They had seen separate diagrams of many of the major systems previously, but they got to see how they are all arranged spatially through the dissection lab.

Integer Tournament

Ready, set, ROLL!

Students in Mrs. Petersen’s General Math 8 class spent Friday morning rolling dice with enthusiasm! Each student held a red and green dice; red = positive numbers and green = negative numbers. With two dice bouncing on the table, students race to find a sum first. Gathering up to fifteen points, students worked their way through a double elimination tournament.

Do they know they solved up to 105 math problems today? Positive energy was evident in the numerous smiles, unseen during a traditional math worksheet. Whether you add and subtract integers with a number line, colored coins, algorithms (step by step rules) or a pair of dice, students are mastering Nebraska Math Standard 8.1.2a.

Learning can be loud. The sound of dice landing in the table and students shouting answers filled the classroom.

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Junior High Students of the Month – September

September students of the month are: Samuel, Kennedy, Brynn and Josh. Students of the month are nominated by their teachers based on friendliness towards other students & staff, respectfulness, extra efforts displayed in the classroom, being helpful towards others, and working hard in the classroom.

Thinking Caps ~ When will I use this in life?

When will I ever have to solve a proportion in life? That’s a great question! Students in Mrs. Julie Petersen’s 8th grade math class selected a fun hat – Thinking Cap – to wear during class. While wearing that hat they wrote short stories about how that particular hat-wearing-person would use a proportion in life.

Joel stated, “Bonnie the bunny is looking for three carrots to eat for the next five days. If she looks for 15 days, how many carrots does she need?”

Bri may find a future in the royal family. “The princess had 100 pieces of jewelry and the prince had 50. They both went to the store and the princess came back with 500 pieces of jewelry. How many did her prince bring home?”

Other students were talking about bananas, fish, books, horses and even tigers jumping through flaming hoops! They didn’t even pause to ask why they were writing complete sentences in math!

The smiles continued as Trent asked, “If I told 12 jokes and my sister told 7 jokes, then next day I told 24 jokes, how many did my sister tell?”

Life application of math lessons add value to long term memories.

Hat donations are accepted. 🙂