Shawano Community High School
The next SCHS Student Council’s American Red Cross blood drive will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 30. Appointments can be made by visiting redcrossblood.org and entering the sponsor code “shawanohs” or by calling 715-526-2175, ext. 2111.
Thank you to all Shawano students, teachers, staff and community members for your incredible support, participation and spirit during homecoming week, and a special thank you to all of those who organized the week’s activities. Thank you to the Shawano Country Chamber of Commerce and all of the area businesses and organizations that supported the Shawano Hawks in Friday’s homecoming parade. Check out photos from the week on the Shawano School District Facebook page or in the October newsletter, which will be released this week at www.shawanoschools.com on the Families tab under Announcements. Call 715-526-3194 to have a copy of the newsletter mailed to you.
Shawano Community Middle School
Public informational meetings for the middle school referendum are scheduled from 5-7 p.m. Oct. 13 and 6-8 p.m. Oct. 29 at the middle school. Community members will have the opportunity to tour the school, ask questions, and learn more about the project concepts and costs. The referendum vote will be held Nov. 3. A Flipbook of the referendum is available on the district website, http://www.shawanoschools.com/district/referendum.cfm.
Hillcrest Primary School
Hillcrest PTA’s first annual Fall Festival, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 17, will feature games, crafts, raffles and food. The Hillcrest PTA needs your help in creating unique, fun-filled family baskets for the raffle. The themes are Family Fun, Winter, Summer, Baking, Love for Learning and Back in School. Basket items or candy donations for game prizes can be dropped off at the Hillcrest office.
Parents and students, there is still time to make a senior meeting appointment with a SCHS school counselor. Call student services at 715-526-2175, ext. 8120, to schedule.
Shawano School District
Upcoming: Oct. 23, no school.
Bonduel Elementary School
The school year is off to a great start at Bonduel Elementary. The teachers and students are excited to be back!
We will host a special day for our Hispanic families from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Oct. 13. We host this important day every year to make everyone feel welcome and answer any questions or concerns the families or students may have. We have an interpreter at the event to help us. We also enjoy pizza, and the students go home with a book of their choice. We are looking forward to this wonderful night.
For the last two weeks, the third-graders at Bonduel Elementary School have been organizing a pet food drive for the Shawano County Humane Society. They have been learning about volunteering and will be learning about service dogs in reading and social studies. The students decided they wanted to help local animals, too, by collecting food, kitty litter and pet supplies.
Now that school is back in session, it’s time to get back to practicing those good articulation and speech skills. Going for a ride in the car? Or just driving in to school? Try some “driving” games to practice those sounds. The license plate game is always fun — have your child find his or her speech sound on a license plate, then say a word that has that sound in it. Or play the billboard game — have your child find his or her speech sound on a billboard and then say the word or phrase from the sign. By practicing your child’s speech sounds in environments other than in the school setting, you are helping foster “carryover.” Carryover is when your child begins using good speech sounds more naturally, in all types of settings, not just in school. Remember, speech therapy is very similar to sports, where practice makes perfect. The more times your child practices his or her speech sound, the easier it will become.
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