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!
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:
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.
Geometry students built their vocabulary words today. Polyhedrons are constructed with faces, edges and vertices. Our clay and toothpicks were a little messy, but a lot creative. In the pictures you can see tetrahedrons, pentahedrons, hexahedrons, heptahedrons and octahedrons. Most examples include two models of each polyhedron.
Inductive reasoning allows us to look at the data, find a pattern and make a generalization about that pattern. Students put their heads together to discover Euler’s Formula: V + F – E = 2. That is read “vertices plus faces minus edges equals 2”.
Once again, learning can get loud!
By the way, here is our riddle for the day: What did the bird do when he got scared? Poly he’d run! (Get it? Polyhedron!)
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.”
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.
Geometry students calculated the height of the giant light pole on the east side of the football field. Cooperative groups of four students each fulfilled their responsibility to measure three segments and solve for a missing value. Using similar triangles theorems, Angle-Angle-Similarity allowed students to set up a proportion. The result was 83 feet.
On October 20th, Fairbury Jr-Sr High School juniors and seniors attended a college fair at SCC-Beatrice. Colleges from around the region had tables set up where students could briefly talk with each admissions representative as well as gather materials from those respective colleges. This information will provide an opportunity for students to make an informed decision about which college is best for them.
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.
