Students in 7th grade used Doodle Notes to keep track of events that impacted each of the 3 characters in the Global Read Aloud novel "Refugee". Global Read Aloud is when schools across North America and internationally read the same novel and connect in various ways to discuss.
Central Trauma Sensitive Team putting in overtime planning upcoming professional development! #CentralPride #TSS
On Monday and Tuesday Ms. Gritzner's Environmental Project Monitoring class teamed up with Turkey River Farms to collect over 300 Halloween Pumpkins during their Pumpkin Round up. The goal was to divert organic waste from the landfill and feed it to livestock instead.
Central's Veterans Day Program will be on November 12th at 2:00 PM. This years guest speaker is Steve Gray. All are welcome!
Babysitting Class at Central
-Wash Hands-Wash hands with warm, soapy water especially every time you use the restroom and before a meal. Make sure you and your child are washing for at least 20 seconds; encourage them to say the ABC’s one time or the Happy Birthday song twice. Encourage your family to cover their mouth when coughing or sneezing with a tissue or the crook of their arm (if tissue not available).
-Eat Well-The best way to stay healthy is to eat at least three balanced meals per day including at least 3 servings of vegetables, 2 servings of fruit and at least 2 servings of milk or yogurt.
-Get Plenty of Fluids-Water also plays an important role in keeping your immune system active. It is recommended to get at least 6-8 glasses (8 ounce) per day. If it is tough to get your child to drink water, offer juices or colorful cups.
-Stay Warm-Prepare your child for cold weather appropriately. The most important places to keep warm are the wrists, ankles, ears, nose and especially the back of the neck. Sunscreen is also necessary for outside play in the wintertime because of the sun’s rays reflecting off of the snow.
-Exercise-Make sure your child is staying active during the winter months, whether this means dressing them in warm clothing and going sledding or staying inside and coming up with creative games.
-Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth-Touching these areas cause germs to spread.
-Use Disinfectant-Cleaning and disinfecting surfaces and objects helps kill illness-causing germs.
-See a Doctor-Respiratory illnesses, especially viruses like the flu, are particularly common during this time of the year. It is important to take your child to the doctor if they are not acting their normal self or if they have a temperature higher than 102 F.
-Flu Vaccine-Ask your medical provider about the flu vaccine. Getting an annual flu vaccine is the first and best way to protect yourself and your family from the flu.
The illness is probably not serious if your child:
-Is still interested in playing
-Is eating and drinking well
-Is alert and smiling at you
-Has normal skin color
-Looks well when his/her fever goes down
Your child should be kept home from school if they have the following symptoms:
-Vomiting, diarrhea or fever or 100.0 F
*Children may return to school when they are
free of these symptoms for 24 hours without
fever-reducing medication (Tylenol or Ibuprofen).
Central receives STEM Best Program.
The Iowa STEM Council Executive Committee voted unanimously to award 13 of 23 proposed new or expanded STEM BEST® (Businesses Engaging Students and Teachers) Program partnerships. These newly added partners bring the total to 50 partnerships in Iowa since 2014.
The STEM BEST® Program fosters a learning environment where students are able to participate in real workplace projects designed by business professionals and teachers and apply K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics to skills, knowledge and behaviors needed for STEM careers.
Awards are used for equipping collaborative work spaces, educator training and development in workplace-classroom integration and curriculum development and coordination.
Thank you to Kurt Dennler from Elkader Tax and Bookkeeping on speaking to Mr. Wilwert's Personal Finance class about taxes.
Central District Leadership Team mappings all the things we have going on. Working on narrowing our focus!
Biology student are making good use of the new white board tables in Ms. Gritzner’s classroom as they review cell division.
Food Science 1 students enjoyed having guests come to the classroom to judge their fruit and vegetable monster creations. The judges chose the Monster Mash family as the most creative. Thank you judges for coming!
Halloween Monsters in the Food Science 1 class. The students created fruit and vegetable monsters for a nutrition lab.
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In celebration of Arthur Geisert's Book release of Pumpkin Island last weekend, our K/1 kids created pumpkins paintings in art class demonstrating exploration of various paint tools. These pumpkins were hung up in store fronts of our local business'. It is exciting to have an artist/writer right here in our Elkader, and equally as exciting to have so many local businesses supporting the art.
Awesome crowd at our Halloween CCS assembly!
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the CCS assembly and Holiday Parade, 2:30 in the high school gym. Come celebrate our amazing students with us!
Ms. Gritzner's class wants your Halloween Pumpkins!
We are attempting to divert this organic waste from going into the landfill. Read the details below if you would like to donate your pumpkin or other decorative gourds to a worthy cause.
Fifth graders participated in the Iowa Youth Straw Poll today. In a close vote, they chose Gary Siegwarth for governor. For District 1 U.S. House of Representatives, Rod Blum and Abby Finkenauer ended in a tie!
Deer mount made in Mr. O'Brien's Woods Class
Shout out to Central Government students and Mr. Wiley for hosting a well organized political forum!
