Students Selected to NMEA All State Children’s Choir

Congratulations to Alecia Bedlan, Bridget Heidemann, Reid Novotny, and Liam Young who were selected to be part of the 350-member NMEA All State Children’s Choir. The event will take place on the UNL campus on Thursday, November 21, culminating in a final concert at 4:00pm in the Lied Center. Tickets can be purchased for $15 by calling the Lied Center Box Office (402-472-4747). The All State Children’s Choir happens in conjunction with the Nebraska Music Educators Association annual conference. The All State Jazz Band, Chorus, Band, and Orchestra will perform in the Lied Center on Saturday the 23rd.

September Students of the Month

Congratulations to Taylor Runge and Josephine Blatny on being selected September High School students of the month! #jeffpride

Also, a special shout out to our September Jr. High students of the month. Kerelin Deras, Landon McBride, Madison Ohlde and Riley Arner. Way to set the tone for the school year! #jeffpride

Student’s Attend Sportsmanship Summit

Nine sophomores & juniors represented FHS at the Southern Nebraska Conference Sportsmanship Summit on Wednesday, September 25.  The event occurred at Stone Creek Lodge in McCool Junction.  All eleven conference schools were represented.  Students broke into groups where they discussed ideas to promote sportsmanship at their schools.  Then each group shared with everyone else their ideas.  Students also enjoyed listening to the guest speaker, Matt Martin who is a track coach at UNL.  Our students enjoyed meeting students from other schools and gaining positive ideas.  Stay tuned for what our students are planning to do at FHS to promote sportsmanship!

Core Knowledge – The Body

The First Graders at Central School got the opportunity to have Dr. Emily Winters, Jr. High science teacher, complete the CKLA (Core Knowledge Language Arts) unit they had been studying on the human body.   For the past couple of weeks, first grades have been learning about the skeletal, muscular, digestive, circulatory and nervous systems.   Dr. Winters brought in many animal organs for the First Graders to look at and touch.  HOW COOL!  She brought in a set of healthy lungs and showed how they expand with air and a set of unhealthy lungs from smoking and how they do not expand as much. She even brought a sheep’s heart, several sheep brains and bones from different animals.   They even got to listen to their hearts through a stethoscope that Mrs. Winters provided.     After all these funs activates, the students went back to their classrooms and each were able to create vertebras using licorice and cheerios.   It was an amazing experience!  

Preschool is Special

Preschool fun

We are on week 4 of preschool.  Learning to be super friends by asking first, listening and telling our friends yes or not right now. Lots of laughter and fun which is what makes preschool so special.

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Grandparents’ Day

Grandparents’ Day was a huge success with many grandparents coming to see their grandchildren at school. The preschool invited their grandparents on Thursday, September 12th and the Kindergarten through 2nd grade had their grandparents on Friday, September 13th.  They decorated cookies, took pictures and spent some time doing activities together. There were lots of smiles both days.


Students Celebrate Constitution Day

The third grade students at Jefferson Intermediate were asked by Fairbury’s Ouivera Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to ring bells that they made on September 17th in honor of Constitution Day.  They wanted the students to know about this great document and the freedoms it gives. They also believe that it is important that the students learn to cherish and appreciate these freedoms. The administration, teachers, and students put together a short program to recognize and honor the signing of the Constitution 232 years ago. 

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Human Graphs on the Football Field

Students in some of Mrs. Kristi Peterson’s math classes made some human graphs using a large coordinate plane on the practice football field.  They learned how to substitute numbers in place of variables and move to the appropriate coordinates.  Depending on the equation, they learned how to form a line or a parabola.  

Painting Magic

Kindergarten students in Mrs. Schmidt’s class showed off their “magical powers” by painting disappearing pictures. We read the book, “I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!” to learn what NOT to do with paint. Then we practiced painting with water. Students were amazed when their “magic” pictures disappeared from their construction paper! 

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