The New Hampton Preschoolers have been doing a gingerbread study. We have read many variations of the story, and have even created their own! Here is Mrs. Knutson's version of The Gingerbread Man.
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Mrs. K's preschoolers made gingerbread cookies Monday, but they got loose in the school! Today we followed their clues and finally found them in our classroom! They were delicious!
Stem day fun with the 5th grade teachers. Students built and experimented to fine tune their cars for maximum distance. Congratulations to all on completing the task and to our winning squad.
Congratulations to Gretta for winning the So You Think You Can Code- Hour of Code contest by Unruly Splats! She won “Best Overall Code” using 2 computers and 12 splats to code Mary Had a Little Goat so it said the lyrics, lit up and played the music as she danced on the splats.
Last week students took part of the Unruly Splats "Stompetiton". In 2 days, students in the elementary, middle and high school recorded over 468,000 steps towards the company's goal of 2 million and helped earn $6,000 for the Next Step Foundation to combat food insecurity.
4th graders celebrated their 2nd quarter TRIBE celebration at Crystal Ball Roller Rink! Thank you Dixie for letting us skate today!
Congratulations to our December TRIBE Students of the Month. From left to right: Grayson Bernard (K), Zachary Kennedy (2nd), Lexus Wiemann (1st ), Charly Xajpot (3rd), and Kipp Sheets (4th). Missing from the photo is our Preschool TRIBE student of the month-Pedro Vega.
Baking I Class did a final baking challenge: Gingerbread Houses out of graham crackers. Please vote for your favorite (only choose one) by liking the picture you think did the best job. Please vote by the end of Tuesday, in case our last class period is Wednesday. Thanks!
The students were working on their PBL projects for Algebra 1. Students wrote a system of equations to represent two different vacations that they solved graphically using Desmos as well as algebraically.
Good luck to the coed bowling team. They are going to travel to Lilac Lanes for the bowling meet vs. North Fayette Valley. The meet will start at 4 pm today. Go Chickasaws!!
Good luck to the girls basketball team! The varsity Girls basketball game will start at 6 pm tonight vs. Charles City at Charles City High School. Go Chickasaws!!
Good luck to the boys basketball teams! The JV boys basketball game will start at 4:30pm tonight vs. Charles City at Charles City High School. The varsity will play at 7:30pm. Go Chickasaws!!
Great way to kick off the Holiday season with our high school band and choirs! Thanks to everyone that came out to support our music programs! Happy Holidays!
Mrs. Martinek's 2nd grade class enjoyed a presentation and dairy bingo with New Hampton Senior Emily Manweiler, the 69th Iowa Dairy Princess alternate.
Kindergarten-4th grade students enjoyed pajama day and watched The Polar Express!
After watching The Polar Express today, 4th graders read the book and did a compare and contrast between the two!
Christmas has come early to the FCS room! National Agriculture in the Classroom awarded Mrs. Schmitt's FCS classes $500.00. We will have baking equipment to make angel food cakes, crepes, pies, and ebelskivers and much more!
2nd grade students working on learning parts of a book!
High School Finals will be moved to begin tomorrow on December 20th. We want to make sure students have the opportunity to have everything complete before we enter Christmas Break. On December 22nd, students will follow the 2 hr early out schedule. Should weather get in the way, any finals missed will need to be moved to January.
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The high school is going to have a Winter Music Festival on Monday, December 19 at 7 pm in the high school gym. The admission to get in is $5 for adults and $3 for students K-12