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Weekly Update: December 6, 2019

Dear Grinnell Newburg Board of Education, Staff Families and Friends:

Happy December! It is my best hope that all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Break and had an opportunity to enjoy time with family and friends. This week we will highlight amazing student activities led by staff. I want to thank our staff for your energy, commitment and service to our students and families in which you are teaching valuable lessons on serving our community. We have amazing students and each day I have the opportunity to watch how the #WeAreGrinnell awesome Tiger Staff open the doors to students to explore our world!

High School Highlights!

Congrats to our 2019 of NHS Inductees:

Tanner Alger, Yonatan Ambrosio, Mary Blanchard, Lauren Bolte, Nola Conner, Alana Ferguson, Jenae Kastendick, Kaitlyn Kriegel, Max Levandoski, Cole McGriff, Payal Patel, Malynn Pavey, Lydia Roudabush, Shivani Subramaniam, Rebekah Veldboom, Kara West, AJ Wilkins, & Katie Witt

NHS 2019 Inductions

High School Pride Assembly:

Congrats Fall Debate Award Winners:

Case Fenner (Varsity all-conference); Timo Mobley-Benoist (JV all-conference)

Congrats to our Model UN Award Winner:

Miles Latham (Outstanding Delegate at the Iowa Youth Symposium)

Congrats to our Senior Girls Swimmers:

Shivani Subramaniam & Emily Small

Swimmers

Congrats to our VAR Football Team

All District: Dodge Sauser, Wyatt Hunter, Dallas Sauser, Eli Rose, Matayas Durr, Logan Astelle, Cole McGriff, Parker Johnson, Preston Dodd, AJ Wilkins, Owen Coffman, Kam Steveson, & Trey Gohlmann

All Academic: Kyle Dillon, Preston Dodd, Will Doty, Matayas Durr, Trey Gohlmann, Stone Jepson, Parker Johnson, Ian Kephart, Landon Kirby, Jacob Lowe, Cole McGriff, Rhett Nagel, Jared Nickel, Michael Norenburg, Josh Osbourne, Eli Rose, Dodge Sauser, Alex Smith, Richard Toe, AJ Wilkins, Chase Williams, & Blake Wilson

All State: Dodge Sauser & Wyatt Hunter

All State Football

Congrats to our VAR Volleyball Team:

All-Conference: Daysi Harris, Abby Furness, & Addy Petig

All-Academic: Lauren Bolte, Natalie Brown, Kylie Cline, Abby Furness, Daysi Harris, Kate Kriegel, Addy Petig, Alexis Shaffer, Makenna Smith, & Katie Witt

Academic All-State: Abby Furness, Addy Petig, & Katie Witt

Congrats to our VAR Cross Country Team:

All Conference: Mary Blanchard, Anjali Jones, & Isaac Bryant

All District/Regional: Mary Blanchard, Anjali Jones, Isaac Bryant, & Robert Groves

All State: Mary Blanchard

Congrats to our Lageveen Character Award Winners:

- Recent Award Winners: (front row) Max Maltas, Olivia Montgomery, Ashton Hale, Emma Dewey, Maddison Schrack, & Kaitlyn Kriegel; (back row) Emma Ware, Anna Ellis, Tara Kastendick, Jenae Kastendick, Alana Ferguson, & Brock Beck

Lageveen Award Winners 2019

Middle School Highlights!

Students and staff worked on reading blankets for Read 2 Lead Wednesday after school. Mrs. Cirks coordinated this service learning project .

Read 2 Lead Making Blankets Read to Lead Blankets Read to Lead help

K-2 Highlights!

Teachers shared a passion they have with students before break on Tuesday. Then students got to do an activity related to the passion. Ex. Scrap booking, basket weaving, crafting, baseball, playing the violin, spreading kindness, sharing about natural resources, and being with family.

Passion Projects Crafting passion Violin passion Passion Project pumpkins

Kids of Character:

Kids of Character FV

Davis Highlights:

We are excited at Davis to get our Sensory Path hallway set up!!!! Sensory paths are creative pathways designed to help children build connections in their brains responsible for sight, touch, sound, etc. We are excited to be able to have children start using this at our building and we are excited to add to this hallway in the future with more sensory paths!

Sensory Path Kids using sensory path at Davis

More GHS Highlights:

US History students building an AIDS Quilt for our Civil Rights Unit. Each chose a person to remember and present.

AIDS Quilt AIDS Quilt HS

Upcoming Board Agenda:

The Board of Education will host their reorganization meeting on Wednesday. Following the reorganizational meeting, the principals and I will share our State of the District, staffing recommendations for next year, seek our at Risk Grant approval, take a look at the first draft of the calendar. More items for approval can be found on the Board Agenda that is posted on our website.

This is the time of year when I begin to reflect upon our progress and share our story about Grinnell and how special it is to be a part of an amazing school district and community. I know at times we have our challenges, but in the end, we roll up our sleeves and find ways to navigate toward positive outcomes. I am grateful for our dedicated staff, Board, parents, partnerships, and students.