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“Life in a Snowglobe” from the perspective of a fifth grader.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a Snow globe? Mrs. Ruhnke’s 5th grade language class imagined just that. They began this activity by creating a Google Presentation showing what they would see, touch, hear, taste and smell in their snow globes as well as how it would make them feel. They then wrote a “sloppy copy,” peer edited, typed their final copy and finally shared both their slideshow and essay with their classmates. All in all, most agreed that a snow globe might be a fun place to visit, but they wouldn’t want to live there!

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8th Graders Design their Dream Home

In Ms. Engle’s 8th Grade Exploratory Careers class, the students are learning about the 16 Career Clusters and possible careers they may be interested in the future. This week they worked on the Architecture and Construction Cluster. Each student was required to work on a floor plan of their dream house. Many of the students chose to use the Planner 5D app on their Chromebooks to design their plans. They added everything from the basic furniture to pools, pianos and weight rooms to just list a few. They even had the ability to work on interior design playing with paint color, rugs, art and other extras. The students enjoyed some hands on work with technology and the chance to let their creativity shine!

Congratulations Nick!

Congrats to Nick Christiansen! Nick signed Wednesday, January 13th, with Doane College to play golf next season!

Lyrics 2 Learn

Students in Mrs. Shinn’s Academic Enrichment classes are trying out Lyrics2learn for the next two weeks. Lyrics2learn is a brain-based, on-line reading program. It uses music to engage students with text and help them memorize information quickly as kids retain more and more information with the repetition, rhythm and rhyme used in the program.

Each day the question levels increase. Each mini-lesson begins with literal comprehension on day 1, and ends with an open ended constructed response. The program uses this methodology with every story. The more kids know, the more they’ll show. The program hopes to help the students using the program retain a higher percentage of the information they read. The program is designed to help students learn to connect on high levels so they can then relate the text to themselves and the world. During this

period the third grade students will have access to this program at home too.

One to One Rollout A Success!

The students and staff at Fairbury Jr/Sr High School have spent the last day and a half before Christmas break learning about their new Chromebooks and all the awesome features they will be able to use for their classes next semester! We had a great turnout for the parent meetings and cannot thank our parents enough for their great support of this amazing opportunity for Fairbury Public Schools. It truly is a great day to be a Jeff! #JeffPride

December Junior High Students of the Month

December Junior High Students of the month are 7th Graders Taylor Gustafson and Konnor Hasselbring; 8th Graders Bryanne Vculek and Jacob Ward. Students are nominated by their teachers based on work ethic and behaviors in the classroom.

New Equipment Brings New Opportunities

BEATRICE, NE –Fairbury FFA received a $2,000 Working Here Fund grant for a plasma cutter to use in the ag classroom at Fairbury High School. The grant is provided through Farm Credit Services of America’s (FCSAmerica) Working Here Fund.

Fairbury FFA will purchase a plasma cutter to be used to teach students important skills related to future careers in welding or metal fabrication. The students will learn how to properly use the plasma cutter, gain skills through practice and training, and will be introduced to careers in welding and metal fabrication, a growing career opportunity for students.

“Our goal in the Fairbury Agricultural Education Department is to help students find a career that interests them,” said Thomas Dux, Fairbury FFA. “Welding is a great career to get students plugged into.”

“As members of the communities we serve, we’re actively demonstrating our commitment with contributions that serve the rural agriculture life we value so highly,” said Amy Blomenberg, vice president of retail operations at FCSAmerica’s Beatrice office.

Fairbury FFA is one of 68 organizations to receive a Working Here Fund grant in the third quarter of 2015. FCSAmerica awarded $120,870 during the latest grant cycle ending September 30, 2015.

About Fairbury FFA

Fairbury FFA is an agricultural science program located in Fairbury, NE. The chapter has 49 active AET student accounts and 1 teacher. The students are developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.

Farm Credit Services of America is a customer-owned financial cooperative proud to finance the growth of rural America, including the special needs of young and beginning producers. With $24 billion in assets and $4.3 billion in members’ equity, FCSAmerica is one of the region’s leading providers of credit and insurance services to farmers, ranchers, agribusiness and rural residents in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming. Learn more at www.fcsamerica.com.

Agronomy Grant

(Dorchester, Neb.) – Farmers Cooperative, has donated $3000 to the Nebraska FFA Foundation to directly support local FFA programming needs. Fairbury was one of seven FFA Chapters selected to earn a grant. The Fairbury Chapter has received $500 to be used for their student development.

The Fairbury FFA Chapter is looking to improve their plant science class with this grant. In their plant science class the students identify crop plants and seeds, weed plants and seeds, and discuss soil management that affects the growth of agronomic crops. The plant science class falls in the winter and spring months, therefore; the FFA Advisor is not able to collect all of the specimens necessary to show the class. With this grant the Fairbury FFA Chapter will purchase the specimens they are unable to collect from the Purdue Agronomy Club. This will help students prepare for the FFA Agronomy contest. This will also introduce students to a possible career in agronomy.

“We are happy to donate to these programs. The Farmers Cooperative knows that these young people represent our future customers, and employees, as well as our future community leaders. For these reasons, we believe that it important to support our local FFA Chapters and the work that they do.” Our slogan is “Investing in Our Owners’ Success! And the Farmers Cooperative believes that Investing in our Agricultural Youth today will insure our future success tomorrow. We are proud and happy to donate to the Nebraska FFA Foundation and support local FFA” says Ron Velder, Farmers Cooperative General Manager.

The mission of the Nebraska FFA Foundation is to enhance quality education/FFA programs in order to achieve excellence in leadership development, curriculum innovation and scholastic advancement of students.

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