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Cody Elementary “Where Everyone is a Winner!”

F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 1 I S S U E # 6

EVERY

WEDNESDAY IS

1:30

DISMISSAL.

Candy Sales:

Feb. 4th: Gummy

Worms

Feb. 11th: Air-

heads

Feb. 18th: Bubble

Gum

Feb. 25: Noon Dismissal—No

Candy Sales.

February Calendar of Events for February:

Feb. 11th: 2nd Annual Talent—7:00 p.m.

Feb. 14th: Valentine Parties 2:45 p.m.

Feb. 17th: Jump Rope for Heart in PE.

Feb. 18th: 4th & 5th Grade Music

Program. 2:30 p.m.

Feb. 24th: PACT Meeting—7:00 p.m.

Feb. 25th: Noon Dismissal.

Feb. 28th - March 4th: Kindergarten Registration. Please bring Birth Certificate, Social Security and immunizations.

Congratulations

Mrs. Jill Walters

For receiving the

2011 Teacher of the Year Award.

This award is presented to teachers that go above and beyond in sharing with their students in

Agriculture. Mrs. Walters is a 4th Grade Teacher here at Cody.

The Presentation of Achievement will be here at Cody School

in April or May.

Great Job Mrs. Walter’s we are so

proud of you!!!!

NEW IMMUNIZATION LAW EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011 --ALL CHILDREN IN SCHOOL MUST HAVE A SECOND VARICELLA (CHICKENPOX) SHOT UNLESS THEY HAVE HAD THE DISEASE. IF YOUR CHILD HAS NOT HAD A SECOND SHOT--PLEASE TAKE CARE OF THIS AND BRING THE RECORD TO THE SCHOOL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. WE NEED ALL RECORDS BEFORE SCHOOL IS OUT ON MAY 19TH TO ENSURE THAT THERE WILL BE NO PROBLEMS WHEN SCHOOL STARTS AGAIN IN AUGUST.

THANK YOU.

2nd Quarter Perfect Attendance

Miss Hellbusch

Kindergarten:

Dominique Estrada

Jonathon Gilbert

Nelia Rivas

Mrs. Michaels

Kindergarten:

Trevor Cohn

Kadence Dowhower

Casey Jones

Trinity Luhring

Logan Streeter

Dillon Woods

Joclynn Werkmeister-

Mackley

Mrs. Condon 1st Grade:

Elizabeth Hatch

Casidee Miller

Emily Winkler

Mrs. Thompson‘s 1st

Grade:

Isabella Bravo

Braden Clark

Hannah Parrett

Destiny Peck

Kendal Roberson

Mrs. Lehmkuhler 2nd Grade:

Theoodore Gilbert

Edmund Hatch

Elijah McIntosh

Elizabeth Winkler

Mrs. Johnson 2nd Grade:

Colton Anderson

John Gustafson

Emily Johnson

Adam Luhring

Justin Reed

Zachary Silos

Mrs. Folchert 3rd

Grade:

Jade Bethke

Shaelen Bokoskie

Rylee Kurth

Bailee Miller

Timothy Shannon

Kaylen Streeter

Mrs. Flanders 3rd Grade:

Sade Bethke

Colin Green

Jaylee Ross

Mrs. Walters 4th Grade:

Carter Davidson

Cory Dodge

Nathan Dowhower

Danielle Estrada

Hannah Most

Rudi Silos– Schulte

Mr. Collins 4th Grade:

Brandan Freeman

Elizabeth Goentzel

Trevor Johnston

Jenny Lim

Jakob Reed

Elizabeth Goentzel

Mr.Andre-Henn 5th Grade:

Hayden Arpan

Samantha Bucholz

Amberlynn Reed

Mrs Carstens 5th Grade:

Jareb Huerta

Madelyn Neyhart

Great job to all the kids who had perfect attendance for 2nd Quarter. We are very proud of you!!!!!

Rock N Roll Forever

Presented by:

4th and 5th Grade

February 18th @ 2:30

Kindergarten and 1st Grade Present:

3 Billy Goats Gruff Musical Program

April 8th, 2011 @ 2:30 p.m.

PACT Candy Sales

February 4th: Gummy Worms

February 11th: Air Heads

February 18th: Bubble Gum

February 25th: Noon

Dismissal

March 4th: Peach Rings

March 11th: No School

March 18th: Popcorn

March 25th: Misc. Candy Sales.

Kindergarten

Registration

Feb. 28th—March 4th,

2011

9:00 –4:00

Please bring Birth Certifi-

cate, Social Security card, and Immunization records.

Hope to see you then.

Valentine Parties

Will be Monday

February 14th at 2:45

Room Parents will be sending home reminder sheets

for students who are to bring items for the Party.

Thanks to all the parents for their help and support

for all the class parties this year.

This will be our last class party for the year, so come

and enjoy with the kids.

CODY SCHOOL FEBRUARY PHYSICAL EDUCATION NEWS

The snow has kept the PANTHERS indoors for Physical Education

classes the past month or more. We are all getting a little tired of the

confines of the gym for PE and indoor recesses. Hopefully our

upcoming curriculum will keep us happy until warmer weather

arrives!

The big event for February is always the district wide JUMP ROPE for HEART events in the grade and middle schools. February is National

Heart month and CODY SCHOOL will have our JUMP ROPE for HEART on Thursday, February 17th during your child’s regular PE

time. Last year Cody School raised $407 towards this worthy cause, with 19 students raising money. Ruthie Hopkins (4th) raised the

most last year with $58. If our school raises $1000, we get a $100 gift certificate from US Games for new physical education equipment.

In addition, if 30 or more students raise money online through the JUMP ROPE for HEART website, we get another $100 gift certificate.

This method is much easier than going door-to-door (not encouraged) or hitting up friends, relatives and/or neighbors for donations. It’s

easy-I will send a packet home with your child next week explaining

JUMP ROPE for HEART!!

Cody School will get the district’s Tumbling Mats in February. We do

so many different things with the mats-tumbling, animal movements, pyramids, locomotor activities and Hide and Seek. I have noticed

many students wearing their snow boots to gym. Although they are safer than stockings or barefoot, I am sure they are uncomfortable

and not as safe or good as tennis shoes. Moreover, they leave black marks all over our gym floor. So if you could please send some

tennies with your student it will be much appreciated! Until next time-remember-you’re not fully educated until you’re

physically educated!

Mr. Allberry

Greetings from the ―Library Lady‖

The Cody School Library has received some great new books this winter. They are listed below! In addition, as I teach library skills, I add a variety of educational websites to our Destiny Homepage. If your students are asking to use this site at home just follow the simple directions and they will be busy and learning for hours.

Mrs. Hirschfeld, Cody School Librarian (margohir@nppsd.org)

Directions for accessing Destiny from home

1.Open you Internet browser

2.Type in this address http://www.nppsd.org/ 3.Scroll down almost to the bottom of the page 4.On the right side of the page you will see a Destiny Icon

5.Click on the icon

Select your school and click on it

From this point you are able to use the ―home page‖ to access educational web sites we

have used in Library skills or in the classroom.

You are also able to access the school’s ―card catalog‖ to locate books we have in our

collection.

Enjoy!

Cody‗s New Books

Dinosaurs divorce: a guide for changing families

Erased by a tornado!

Ultimate guide to football

Miranda Cosgrove

Shaun White

Odd birds

Pumpkin Jack

Beatrice’s Goat

Scardey-cat Splat!

The Substitute Teacher From the Black Lagoon

Odd Velvet

Star Wars, Journey Through Space

The Burglar Who Bit the Big Apple

On the Bus, On the Case

The Painting That Wasn’t There

The Village That Almost Vanished

Sabotaged

Star Wars, The Clone Wars: Jedi Heros

Fire in the Sky

Long Shadows

Raymond & Graham Rule the School

Arthur and the Goalie Ghost

Baseball Saved Us

The Red Pyramid

Syren

School: That’s Gross!

Sharks: Extreme Predators

Warty Toads

Big Cats: Extreme Predators

Koko-love!: Conversations with a Sign-

ing Gorilla

Pro Football’s Most Spectacular Quar-

terbacks

Stegosaurus

It’s a Baby Tasmanian Devil!

It’s a Baby Skunk!

Cody‗s New Books cont.

It’s a Baby Black Bear

Bounce

NASCAR Heroes: From Zero to Hero

NASCAR Heroes: NASCAR Villains!

Monster Boy at the Library

Monster Boy’s Valentine

The Teacher Who Forgot too Much

Don’t Read This!

Draw!

I Dare You!

I’m Gonna Get You!

It Creeps!

Tell No One!

Snowboard Duel

Soccer Spirit

Stolen Bases

Takedown

Werewolves

Vampires

Backyard: That’s Gross!

The Body: That’s Gross!

I Have Diabetes

I Have Asthma

On the Sea

In the Air

Flight School Level 1

On the Race Track

Pluto: The Dwarf Planet

Comets and Asteroids: Space Rocks

Oviraptor

Tarantulas

Trapdoor Spiders

Wolf Spiders

Sharks

Miss Brooks Loves Books! (and I don’t)

I.Q. Goes to the Library

Library Lil

Haunted

Raymond & Graham Bases Loaded

Fablehaven

What Are You So Grumpy About?

Fancy Nancy: ooh la la! Its Beauty Day

How to Ride a Dragon’s Storm: The Heroic

Misadventures of Hiccup the Viking

Camp Ghost-Away

Dark Life

Rising Storm

Good Morning Gorillas

Leprechaun in Late Winter

Big Nate: IN a Class by Himself

Big Nate Strikes Again

The Last Olympian

Thank you Mrs. Hirschfeld for all your hard work in

keeping our kids and families informed. You’re the BEST!!!

Kindergarten and 5th Grade Book Buddies Miss Hellbusch’s class and Mrs. Carsten’s class

Miss Hellbusch’s Kindergarten Celebrates the

100th day of school.

We are 100 days smarter!!!

Kindergarten and 5th Grade Book Buddies Miss Hellbusch’s class and Mrs. Carsten’s class

Ice Cream Party

During bingo night, Bennett Magnuson earned

Miss Hellbusch’s class an ice cream party by getting a

Blackout. We thoroughly enjoyed it!

Bennett

Third graders are headed into another month of learning . . . we have covered many concepts so far this

year with many more things to learn.

Our focus for reading in January and February is

working on our thinking strategy of inferring. We are realizing we do a lot of inferring on our own and we are

now pinpointed why we think the way we do. We are practicing our reading by tying in all our strategies to

become better readers.

We have learned the processes of multiplication and

division and have begun working on the memorization of multiplication facts as we move on to new concepts. We will be learning about whole and parts of fractions,

equivalent fractions, and comparing/ordering fractions. We will also continue to work on telling time to the

minute.

In Science, we will be starting our rocks and minerals

unit. We will practice using some of the field tests that

real geologists use to identify

minerals.

We are encouraging all of our students to spend time

at home nightly reading, writing, or working on their math

facts. With continued practice, their skills will only

improve!

During the fourth week in January students in grades 4, 8, and 11, across the state of Ne-braska, participated in the Nebraska Statewide Writing Assessment. 4th graders here at Cody School were among the students who wrote using a narrative prompt. The students seemed very confident and ready since they had completed many practice runs for this with many different writing prompts during their regular Language Arts classes. After the two day test of planning, writing a rough draft, revising, editing, and writing a final copy students were relieved to know it was over even though they felt as if it were "a walk in the park", "easy", and "no biggie". Now the students are anxiously awaiting the results. Since we have spent so much time on writing in English and many of the other subjects, we are expecting to score very well! The tests are sent away to be scored by professional evaluators. We hope to have the final scores back in early May.

4th Grade News

Taking a Bite Out of Nebraska

Students are literally "eating up" what they are learning in Social Studies. After studying about the regions, rivers, and important cities of Nebraska the students decorated a cookie to show what they had learned. They used various toppings to represent the different features of our state. Green coconut for the Grasslands, chocolate chips for the Badlands, and licorice strips for the rivers were just a few of the yummy toppings that covered the cookies.

What better way to recycle our Christmas trash, than to use it for a school project? The stu-dents in Mrs. Walters' 4th grade class brought in fifteen 60 gallon trash bags full of Christmas boxes, styrofoam, plastic, wire ties, screws, bags, and more. They were paired together to de-vise a useful creation from the materials. And oh, what creations we had! From a robot named Sally that could do your chores and schoolwork to a catapult that shoots snow. We had a wait-ress ordering and serving tray to a carry-out dinner. The students had fun sorting, planning, constructing, and presenting their inventions, and working as a team.

Who would have thought that learning about color could be so delicious. Mrs. Walters 4th graders took a bite out of Art as they learned more about the color wheel and how colors are created. The students used their primary colors of red, blue, and yellow to make the secondary and tertiary colors from frosting. Smothered on vanilla wafers, the colors added a rainbow of possibilities to our art.

Watch out Walmart...Here we come.

Students in the 4th grade have been learning about the steps in Agriculture during Social Stud-ies. They have recently studied the Marketing step, where they completed a project of creating a new food product. The students packaged and advertised their new concoction and presented it to the class. Some of them brought their new product in to share. A few of the new products that the students invented were: Chocolate Coconut Jello, Chocolate Covered Gum, Pickled Cook-ies, Sandwiches on a Stick, Bacon Ice cream, and so many more. Look for our new products at a store near you!

The 4th grade is finishing their Motion and Design unit with making hovercrafts. The CDs were donated by the North Platte Schools Tech Department, ThankYou!

4th Grade News

Hannah Jessica

Haliey Brandan

Great Job, they look great. Looks like you had a lot of fun creating these!!

January 25, 2011 Dear Parents, Your child will begin a study of Family Life in the health class beginning on Monday, February 7, 2011. You are the first educators of your children. You provide them with their primary under-standing of gender roles, relationships, and beliefs. The family sets the framework for all other sexuality education efforts. It is the goal of educators in the North Platte Public School to provide current, accurate information to students in the area of health educa-tion. The objectives of the Family Life unit are: *To understand that every family member and individual have worth and value. *To understand that we need to accept and value people as they are. *To develop and understand that every person is unique and parents make a genetic contribution. *To know the correct terms for the male and female reproductive systems. *To understand how a woman and man create a baby. The students will view a film, ―EVERTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT PUBERTY: BOYS‖ (only boys will view this video with Mr. Collins and Principal Mike McPherron) and ―EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT PUBERTY: GIRLS‖ (only girls will view this video with Mrs. Walters and School Nurse Cheryl Jewel). These videos will be shown to the students during the above mentioned week. A question and answer time will follow each video. The book ―HOW YOU WERE BORN‖ by Margaret Miller will be read and discussed. This book focuses on sperm and egg uniting to form a baby, development of the baby, and how a baby is born. As a parent, you may wish to clarify or elaborate on questions that your child may ask at home. This would be an appropriate time to discuss and reinforce your personal and family beliefs associated with the Family Life unit. If you would like to preview the video and/or book, please contact me before February 7, 2011. Please call me at school if you have any concerns or questions. Sincerely,____________________________________Health and Science Teacher

We will now begin the Health unit. You are the first educators of your children. You provide them with their primary understanding of gender roles, relationships, and beliefs. The family sets the framework for all other sexuality education efforts. It is the goal of educators in the North Platte Public School to provide current, accurate information to students in the area of health education. A letter has been enclosed that tells a little about what is going to be discussed in class. If you would like to preview the video and/or book, please contact me before February 10, 2011. Please call Mr. Collins at school if you have any concerns or questions.

4th Grade News

5th grade news from Mr. Andre-Henn

I will be sending home mid-term grade reports on

Monday, February 7th. The quarter ends March 4th. Please be looking for these reports and

return the signed half page by February 11th. As a reminder, students may correct any errors on their work (except for quizzes and tests) for an average of their two grades. A few students take advantage of this, but not many, even though I

continually remind them of this option.

In social studies, we have finished the Regions book and the first unit of the United States book on colonial life. We will be starting a unit leading up to the Revolutionary War. In math, we have finished graphing and are getting ready for fractions. In reading, we have been reading the book Hatchet, and for a treat will be watching the movie after we finish. In English we are writing tall tales and will then start a unit on adjectives.

We just finished our standardized tests, MAPS, in reading, language arts, and math. In next next couple of months, students will be taking their second year of the NESA Reading test and then the first year of the NESA math test.

Hopefully, next month will be warmer.

Cody's fifth graders participated in a grade level spelling bee last week. The 8 contestants were Amberlynn Reed, Tenesha Lee, Teagan Lovelace, Jensen Crow, Jason Ezell, Emilio Ramos, Maddie Neyhart, and Shalee Taylor. After several rounds, the runner up is Jensen Crow, with the winner being Jason Ezell! Congratulations to all of these students for participating in this exciting event. Jason and Jensen will move on to our district spelling bee, which will be held on February 11. Good luck gentlemen!

Congratulations!!!!

2nd Annual Talent Show

Friday, February 11th, 2011

7:00 p.m.

Come and see the many talented students we have at Cody

School.

Thank you to everyone who came out and made Bingo Night a huge success. We had over 150 people come out and enjoy the night. Plenty of desserts and prizes made the evening a great time.

The last game of the night was Blackout and the student that won would receive an Ice Cream Party

for their classroom. Bennett Magnuson in Miss Hellbusch’s class was the winner. Great job Bennett.

Thanks again to all our teachers who came and helped with checking cards.

Thanks to Wal-Mart for the ―Cuties‖ donated that we were able to give away to those who came.

We appreciate all the support of our Cody Families and the great kids we have here. Thanks again!!!!!

Mini Classes have returned!

Every 4th and 5th Grade student will spending their

Thursday afternoons in February learning new, fun and

exciting things.

Mini Classes this year include Hunter’s Safety, Hairstyling at Joseph’s, Flag Twirling, Sewing, Lego Robotics, Reading at DaBuzz and Bowling. These classes

give students a chance to try something new they might not otherwise do.

Thank you to all volunteers and teachers of these classes for making this opportunity

available to our students.

Thank you PACT for paying for the expenses of these classes.

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