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1 School Counselor News: What does your child want to be when he/she grows up? What do YOU want to be when you grow up? Careers will change within one s lifetime as will the duties and tasks assigned to certain careers. With the knowledge careers will change, the demands of the professional will change, and requirements will change for certain careers, one must arm themselves with knowledge about one s most important resource-themselves. Career development begins before a child even attends school. Helping a child find interests, empowering them to think critically and problem solve, and put forth effort to solve the mysteries of their world at each level will begin to lead an individual toward personal interests. Imaginative play, interviews with professionals, problem solving activities, interest surveys, job shadows, etc. all promote career education. While the type of career education may change with age, the process will allow the individual to discern the same thing: how well do I know myself in order to make appropriate decisions concerning my future which will fulfill me as a person? On Tuesday, March 24 th all sophomores visited Northwest Missouri State University for a career fair to aid in the career education process-a process which is never ending! Providing students the opportunity to explore careers helps students meet Career Development Standard A of the American School Counselor National Model: Students will acquire the skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions. The schedule for the day was as follows: Keynote speaker Division into interest groups: human services, arts & communication, business and technology, agriculture, & industrial & engineering. Four Individual career sessions with professionals in each cluster When students arrive on campus they will listen to a keynote speaker and then be divided into four groups in which to attend career presentations. Lunch on campus Our students represented Fremont-Mills High School with integrity and I was proud to be their chaperone on such a day!

2 Apr 3 Good Friday (No School) Apr 5 Easter Sunday Apr 6-7 Spring/Easter Break (No School) K-5 April Menu 6-12 April Menu

3 Nine new members were inducted into the National Honor Society. These students were: (Seniors) Jake Jamison, Jessica Jamison, Spencer Phillips, Taryn Williams, (Juniors) Haylee Chambers, Colton Dodson, Jennifer Lupercio, (Sophomores) Beth Fichter and Kaley Severn. These students join eight already existing members and have worked very hard to join this society! Congrats

4 In the upper elementary P.E. we are starting our version of March Madness. We are playing a version of badminton called speed minton. It is the same game only played without the net. Students use a racket ball racket instead of the traditional badminton racket. Every class 3rd, through 6 th grade,will play in a double elimination tournament. The boys will play the boys,while the girls will play the girls. Once we have the girls and boys winner,they will play each other; until we have the top four from each class. At that point, we will have the top girl and boy play the top boy and girl from the other class. Example: Mrs. Ewalt s top girl will play the top girl from Mrs. Doscher s class. The bracket for each class is posted on the wall in the gym. The students have spent the past week playing practice games and individual practices. The students are excited for the tournament to begin. We always talk in class about being a good winner and gracious loser. Being able to handle itwhen things go your way and don t go your way is a big part of sports. I believe this is a great thing to learn at a young age. Good luck to all students in the tournament. In the lower elementary we are using the rackets, as well. Instead of using a small birdie, we are using something a little more friendly. Balloons. They are easier to hit and don t move as fast. We are working on using an instrument of some kind to move an object. Last month we used a hockey stick.

5 Strength and Conditioning As we enter the last quarter of the school year we are looking to finish strong and lay the foundation for our off season summer workouts. At the conclusion of every quarter we max out on all of our lifts including incline bench press, bench press, squat, and hang cleans. The class is set around those four lifts. We max out five times through out of the year. Once at the beginning of the school year to see where we should start. After that we max out after every quarter. Our program is based off a percentage of our maxes. This way the students know what weight they should be putting on the bar. When we max out we are always looking to improve by five to ten pounds from our last max out. We had some students put up really great numbers on max outs three weeks ago. Senior Bret Blackburn squatted 400 coming off of state wrestling. Sophomore Nate Hardisty hang cleaned 255. Sophomore Logan Gaylord squatted 340 lbs. Freshman Blake Hurley and Andrew Hontz each squatted 300lbs. eighth grader Jaeger Powers squatted 275lbs. Seventh grader Lexi e Howard squatted 190lbs. This is just a few of many students that saw huge improvements on maxes. We have three strength and conditioning classes this year with a total of 62 students participating in the class with the smallest class only having 19 and the biggest class having 22. We have all levels of students participating from freshman who have never seen a weight room before. To seniors who probably call the weight room their second home. This past quarter we had the entire junior high in the weight room. It was a struggle to find room for everyone but we made it work. I spent a lot of time working with the girls, while Mr. Thompson worked with the boys. We worked a lot on form rather than strength. We are trying to lay a foundation down for these boys and girls to follow to be successful. The girls loved working hard after seeing the varsity girls basketball team make it to state. We always say success breeds success. We are continuing to try to improve the weight room and the equipment on a yearly basis. We try putting the most up to date equipment to use at our disposal to help our students become fit and more athletic. This should be a fun and interesting quarter for our students with track and golf in full swing students have to find that happy medium of working hard and not going to hard to affect their performance. As I tell every student and in general anybody lifting if you get in the habit of lifting weights you should never be sore enough to affect your performance. As the journey of the school year comes to an end I hope all the students can leave the weight room having a basic understanding of basic weight training and safety in the weight room. I tell students in class that it doesn t matter how strong you are now, it s about where you finish. It s all about the journey. So hopefully we have grown strong over our journey and continue that success into the summer and fall.

6 Mrs. Doscher s Fifth Grade class just recently had a science unit on our planet Earth. We talked about Constructive and Destructive forces that can change our planet. The class was amazed to learn how old our planet really is and how much it has changed. We did many different experiments. In the pictures below students are studying different landforms and how they came to be. Some are also doing an experiment with our continents. The class learned about how our continents were once one large mass called Pangea. Students experimented with how the contents once fit together and how they drifted apart. Fifth grade also learned a catchy rap song about the layers of the Earth. We had fun with this science unit and learned a lot about how the Earth was formed and is constantly changing

7 Mrs. Ewalt s 5 th graders have been doing Go Noodle. It is entertaining and gets your brain working! Go Noodle is funny to watch, and makes us exercise. Go noodle get you motivated. One lesson is with a monkey named Mr. Miagi that makes you do yoga! There s this coach you can call coach Terry. He does climbing touch the stairs, running in place, high five your friends, and squats. Mr. Miagi does yoga and you touch your feet, stretch out! Go Noodle is a good way to start out the day. We love Go Noodle! By- Kaelynn, Tru, and Chloe

8 How are rocks formed you asked? Take a look outside Mr. Gaver s 3 rd grade classroom and you might just find the answer! Over the last few weeks we have been exploring the different types of rocks and how they are formed in our science unit covering earth materials and how they change. After completing research and gathering information, students created their own interpretations of the Rock Cycle and created posters. We will be focusing our learning on the changing of earth materials next. So, if you see one of the 3 rd grade students in the hallway, ask them to explain the different types of rocks and how they are formed. They are a volcano full of information!