St. James Lutheran School
The PK3 students are taking show and tell to a whole new level. IsaBella Kuhn and her parents brought her horse. On Thursday, Collin Olson’s grandpa brought a garbage truck and a plow truck. Wow! What a great experience for our young students.
All Shawano schools will recognize National Walk to School Day on Wednesday. The day helps to emphasize health, wellness and physical activity. Let’s get those feet moving! Every child who walks to school will be given a chain with a “foot” on it that they can attach to their shoe. They will be eligible for drawings for Subway cards and Walk to School T-shirts. Students who are bused or driven to school will also have the opportunity to participate. During recess students can do laps around the playground to qualify for the drawing. The drawing will take place right before dismissal at the end of the day. Let’s get moving!
St. James is sponsoring the Community Dinner at First Presbyterian Church in Shawano on Oct. 28. Help is needed from 1-8 p.m. Dan Braun is in charge of cooking, and it sounds like he really needs help at 1 p.m. with getting the food going. If you are able to help at all, please give back to our community by volunteering your time. If you can help, please contact April Black or Jennifer Halstead in the office.
Bonduel Elementary
On Sept. 29, the students at Bonduel Elementary School were visited by actor-educators from CLIMB Theatre. The actor-educators visited each classroom to teach 40-minute classes on the topic of responsibility.
The 4K students learned important information about taking turns and sharing. In this program, students were introduced to a young prince who had to learn how to share and take turns before being doomed to play alone forever.
Grade K-2 students learned how to be Peace Rangers while defining their own personal responsibilities, learning how to make responsible choices and showing the consequences of failing to show responsibility.
Grade 3-5 students brainstormed their responsibilities at school and at home, demonstrated what it means to be responsible and role-played a personal responsibility example.
The funding for the presentation was provided by the Bonduel Elementary PTO.
Gresham School
Gresham School had its homecoming last week. On Wednesday, the dress-up day theme was Blast to the Past. There was everything from Jesus, hippies, ’80s boys and girls, ’50s people, disco dancers. Parents’ letterman jackets were out that day. On Thursday, the theme was School Spirit Day. There were very few people in the school not wearing red. Friday’s theme was Color Wars. Freshman wore pink, sophomores wore green, juniors wore orange and seniors wore purple. The whole school looked good and colorful.
Friday afternoon, after the high school students participated in games, students listened to Ben Smith give a speech about his brother, Cody Pluger, who had passed away with cystic fibrosis. There were many tears shed during the speech. After the speech, Gresham hosted its seventh annual Cystic Fibrosis Walk in honor of Pluger and all people with this terrible disease. Elementary through high school staff and students participated in the walk around Gresham. The band led the walk, followed by school members and finally the community members.
Sacred Heart Catholic School
Sacred Heart Catholic School sent seven representatives to the Diocese of Green Bay Bishop’s Mass in Neenah at St. Gabriel’s Parish on Oct. 1. The students were chosen by their classroom teachers. Bishop David Ricken gave the students three simple ideas to follow: be friends with Jesus, make friends and then introduce these friends to Jesus. Our school sent a scroll with the names of all the students in our school family to the Mass. When they returned they brought back a scroll from Lourdes High School in Oshkosh. It is our mission to pray for their students as another school prays for us.
Monday was School Spirit Day! All of our staff and students enjoy the day to wear their new logo gear or wear our school colors of red, black and white. Spirit Day is the first Monday of every month.
Students in grades 3K-8 are busy learning about art concepts and creating projects inspired by their faith and love of God. Teacher Sue Simoens is looking ahead to upcoming projects and could use some of the following materials if you have them: wallpaper books, bottle caps, sawdust, plastic straws, tissue paper, old digital cameras and water colors. Items can be dropped off at the school office. Thank you.
Our students and families had a great time (despite the weather) at the homecoming parade. Superhero FL saved the children and the day. We are excited to be part of the Shawano community and we will continue to train the superheroes of tomorrow.
Our fourth- and fifth-graders enjoyed a visit from Lloyd Koeller, an Army veteran, and John Fuerst, a Navy veteran. The two men showed how to fold the flag and what each of the folds represents. They also explained how and when to hang the flag outside. The fourth- and fifth-grade students take care of the school’s flag each day.
Olga Brener Intermediate School
Elaine Buerman’s third-grade class had a special guest visit their class recently: Jenny Ballwahn, owner of Full House Realty. She brought a box of PVC piping cut in half and a few marbles to lead a community building activity. She then divided the students into three groups, handed out the piping and marbles, and then gave them instructions. The instructions were to take the pieces, totaling about 5 feet in length, and find a way to get the marble from one side of the room to the other side of the room without letting the marble hit the ground. The students worked on communication skills, critical thinking skills and teamwork while doing this. A great time was had by all. Thank you, Mrs. Ballwahn!
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