Dates to Remember!

N E W S L E T T E R

October 2015

Volume 3 Issue 3

Halliday Happenings A Note From Mr. Schweitzer

Hello, the school year is continuing to move at a fast pace. It is hard to be-lieve we finished September and are already into October. A big thank you to the parents who came to the parent-teacher conferences on September 24th. Hopefully it provided you with additional information about what is expected of your son/daughter and how to help them succeed in the class-room. Now that summer is officially over, one must start to plan for colder weather. For those who are new to North Dakota, October will bring on colder temperatures and a good chance of our first snowfall. Students must be prepared to go outside for Phy. Ed and for recess even in the cold-er weather. Make sure to take the time to get warm clothing ready so you do have to rush to get these items ready. Winter caps, gloves, a warm win-ter jacket, and snow boots will all be needed to keep your child warm. Stu-dents riding the busses will need to be prepared as well. Just a quick note on the head lice problem, it appears to be taken care of. Just a reminder that the Halliday Public School has a no nit policy which means that even though you may have treated your son/daughter with the proper shampoo, no nits can be present before your son/daughter is allow to return to school. The school board will be looking at updating the policy at the October meeting which will consider to follow the state recommendation that allow students to return to school after treatment has been made if no viable nits are present. Please take extra precautions with Halloween and cold weather to remind your son/daughter not to share caps, clothing, or Halloween costumes with other students to help prevent any future outbreaks. The fall season is upon us so enjoy the last of the warmth while you can. For those that enjoy the outdoors and the various hunting seasons, please practice gun safety. Have a safe and happy Halloween!

Help Wanted

The Halliday Public School District is now

hiring for a full time Business Manager.

Tiffany will be leaving us due to a family relo-

cation. We would like to thank Tiffany for her

hard work and effort that she has put in over

the last 2 and a half years and wish her luck

in her future endeavors.

The Business manager position will be full

time, pay is DOE. Please see the school

website for more information.

Please fill out an application and either email

it to myron.schweitzer@gmail.com or bring it

into the front office.

If you have any questions, please call the

school at (701) 938-4391.

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Note From Mr. Uttech

Happy Halloween to all staff, students, parents, administration, and school board mem-bers. Have a safe and enjoyable time representing all those fun, imaginary characters.

In our Title 1 program we are concentrating on a reading program called VoWac which is a vowel-oriented word attack course from Faulkton, SD. We are also concentrating on developing good writing skills with correct penmanship and punctuation. In Math we are pre-teaching and re-teaching the lessons. WE are learning how to read grid charts, sub-tracting by counting back, and adding three numbers in a row or column using double numbers or those that add up to a value of 10.

Our physical education classes are going great. Everyone is getting in shape and show-ing improvement in their strength, speed, agility, coordination, stamina, and being more competitive. The areas all students are graded on everyday are: attitude, cooperation, listening, participation, respect, and sportsmanship. The students are improving in the area of sportsmanship but still have about 32 percent of our elementary students still needing to work on this area. We try to play games, team or individual, having to do with the season of the year. Our team games are soccer, field hockey, lacrosse, and base-ball. We play many games with our foam noodles, flags, tug-o-war power pulls, scoot-ers, chasing games, cage balls, relays, parachute, military obstacle course or like the students say Ninja Warrior, and many individual physical lifelong skills.

Our kindergarten students are learning many basic skills individually or with a partner, like catching throwing (different shaped objects), tossing, running, balancing, bouncing a ball, rolling a ball at a stationary target, tagging and handling a baton in a relay race, kicking a ball from different positions, jumping while standing or running, and running bases.

The other classes usually have some activity that is different most of the time. The stu-dents in grades 1-2 enjoyed using the flags, cage ball, scooters, and relays. Grades 3-4 enjoy playing any activity involving flags, dodge ball, all team sports especially field hockey and soccer. Capture the castle in three different ways.

Grade 5 has only 4 students so we have to do individual skills. We also have enjoyed the new game of Lacrosse. They still like to play team sports even without the exact re-quired number of players. We have practiced the skills in baseball, tennis/handball, field hockey, soccer, and the military obstacle course.

There are many students developing into great little athletes that will someday benefit another school’s athletic/sports department and programs.

Halloween Classroom Parties

If you have the

courage to begin, you have the

courage to succeed.

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My name is Ms. Klug and I am the Science teacher for grades 7-12 in Halliday. I have one older brother who is currently serving in the Army and lives at Fort Hood, TX with his wife and 3 wonderful children. In my spare time I very much enjoy the outdoors. My parents reside in New Town and I spend much of my summer months with them on the lake fishing. I attended various different schools throughout elemen-tary and middle school, but eventually settled in Wash-burn, ND. Throughout high school I was always very ac-tive in sports such as volleyball, basketball, track and softball. In 2008 I graduated with honors from Wash-burn High School and would attend my first 4 years of college at University of North Dakota majoring in Pre-Med. With a change of heart, I switched to secondary teaching and transferred to Minot State University. I recently student taught in the fall of 2014 and gradu-ated from Minot State University in December of 2014. I signed my first contract with Halliday and began teaching in January. I have enjoyed teaching my wonder-ful students in Halliday and I look forward to a year full of more learning and excitement!

OCTOBER Teacher Spotlight

My name is Brandon Zahn and I am the Social

Studies teacher in Halliday. I grew up in Wis-

consin in a town called Waukesha and moved to

Mayville, ND for college. In college I earned a

Social Science Composite Degree as well as a

Special Needs Minor. This is my second year at

Halliday as well as second full year of teach-

ing. I am getting married next June to Emma

Grant who is the 4th grade teacher in New Sa-

lem, ND. When I am not at school I enjoy read-

ing, watching sports (Go Packers!!!), and visit-

ing with friends. If you ever need to get a hold

of me my email is Brandon.Zahn1@k12.nd.us. I

can also be contacted through the school

phone number during school hours. I am look-

ing forward to another successful year!

Hello everyone! My name is Cheyanne Olson and I am your Preschool teacher! This is my second year teaching in Halli-day, but last year everyone called me Miss Cheyanne. I re-cently got married and moved to the Killdeer area with my husband Tanner and our pup Oley. I have 2 finished associ-ates degrees and am currently finishing my bachelors in Early Childhood Education online. I could not imagine doing anything else, and enjoy coming to work everyday! I have worked in the childcare or educational field for 4 years now, and am so blessed with the opportunities I have been given in working in this field. I feel that every year I learn so much more than the last.

Marian Bosch. Marian attended elementary and secondary school at Dodge Public School. She attended Dickinson State College and earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education and has majors in physical education and English. Since this endeavor, she has taken 52 college classes which comprise 101 semester hours. She also is pursuing a Master in Education through the University of Mary in Bismarck. She taught girls’ physical education and coached track in Montana for 2 years. She also coached AAU girls’ basketball.

She married John Bosch and moved to Halliday. Marian and John had one daughter Ann. She began teaching part-time as a girls’ physical education instructor, head basketball coach and track coach. She began teaching full-time when Ann started kindergarten.

Currently Marian is employed by the Halliday Public School district to teach physical education, health, and English. She has been very involved in school activities: girls’ basketball coach (A & B), girls’ track coach, cheerleader advisor, Letterman’s Club advisor, Pep Club advisor, Elks Hoop Shoot coordinator, Yearbook advisor, Senior Class advisor, Junior Class advisor, Spelling Bee coordination, Senior High Acalympics and Junior High Acalympics coach, and Co-coordinator of Patriotism Day. Marian also was Title IX coordinator, Drug & Alcohol coordinator, Wellness coordinator, ESL coordinator, a member of School Improvemnet, HEA president, NDEA member, Stu-dent Teacher Supervisor, Teacher Mentor, and an officer and member of PTSO.

She is very active in her church parish. She is president of St. Paul’s Catholic Altar Society/Christian Mothers; a member of St. Paul’s Church Council, treasurer of St. Paul’s Cemetery Committee. She also does the bookkeeping for parishioner offer-ings. She is active in her community as a member of the America Legion Auxiliary and Lions Organization.

Hi. My name is Ellen Swenson, and I am a Para-Professional Educator for all grades in Halliday School. My daily and yearly challenges are quite varied, but the students and I strive to improve skills and become more independent thinkers and workers.

I was raised, along with my eight brothers, in Wiggins, Colorado. I earned my Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Northern Colorado (Greeley) a long time ago.

My husband, David, and I live 8 miles south of Halliday on the farm and ranch. Our 3 children, Kelly, Doug, and Allison are Halliday High School graduates. We trav-eled many hundreds of miles to their basketball games, track meets, and academic functions to savor all of the memories.

Our family also includes: daughter-in-law Carissa Swenson, son-in-law Scott Arntzen; granddaughter Sydney Arntzen; grandsons Dylan Arntzen, Dalton Swenson and Patton Swenson.

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“Education is not the

learning of facts, but the

training of the mind.” -Albert Einstein

Dunn County Food Pantry

Dunn County Food Pantry available to all Dunn County residents and lo-cated in the basement at 125 Central Ave in Killdeer, ND is open the 1

st,

3rd

, and 5th Wednesday every month from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. The food pan-

try offers a variety of frozen meats, fresh produce, pastries, toiletries, and much more! Please stop by or give the NDSU Extension Office a call at 764-5593 if you need to pick up at different hours or would like to volun-teer goods or your time to help out the local food pantry. The food pantry has expanded into receiving fresh food donated every Wednesday from Cash Wise Grocery Store, so please call every Wednesday and see about picking up the fresh foods even if it is not during the regular scheduled food pantry days. Also for the winter season, the pantry is seeking dona-tions of hats, gloves, and winter gear so feel free to drop off your donated items at the food pantry.

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Preschool Dates to Remember

October 8 Papa’s Pumpkin Patch (Afternoon PreK) October 8 No Morning PREK October 22 & 23 No School

October 29 PREK Halloween Party

Hello from the Preschool! This is going to be an exciting month for us! On October 8th the after-

noon group will be attending Papa's Pumpkin Patch in Bismarck, this trip will be with the Kinder-garten, First and Second grade. I will be giving a handout to parents and guardians as we get clos-

er to the trip, then we will know more about the time frames. On October 8th due to the field trip for the afternoon group there will be no Preschool for the morning group. We also have

Teachers Convention this month on the 22nd and 23rd, so we will not have school on those days. We will be having our Halloween party on the 29th, and students will be allowed to wear their

costumes that day! I will provide snacks and a fun filled day for them! As we continue through the year I am continually impressed with each and every student! In face this last week we have

not had any numbers move on our Monster Manner chart! Our curriculum has inched into our

handwriting and we are learning our crayon grip, a tripod grip and working on being soft, but not too soft with the crayon. There are many songs that go along with our curriculum and the CD's

are all listed on the Hand Writing Without Tears website, feel free to check it out if it is something you would like to work on at home with them. If there are any questions or concerns feel free to

ask me!

From the Preschool!!!

Buzzing Around Third and Fourth Grade Hi my name is Honeycomb and I am the class mascot. Mrs. Resler

is very busy keeping up with her class of third and fourth graders

so she asked me to take care of the monthly article for the Halli-

day Happenings and let you know what they’ve been up to. A lot

of fun is buzzing around the classroom. They are busy studying

the human body, insects (like me), how to write that perfectly

correct sentence, and getting to know each other. In fact in the

next few issues I am going to share student profiles from our hive.

This month’s highlighted bees are Adyson, Colby, and Arianna.

One more thing Mrs. Resler wanted me to do is to extend an ex-

tra honey sweet thank you to all of the parents and guardians

who were able to make it to the open house conferences that

were held last Thursday. She really enjoyed meeting everyone

and looks forward to an awesome working relationship between

home and school. If you are ever in the neighborhood fly on by

and see what all of the buzz is about!

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Educating the mind without

educating the heart is

no education at all.

-Aristotle

My name is Arianna. I am nine years old. I am in the fourth grade. I am very good at soccer. I am not very good at running. I am happiest when I am at my best. I am

not happy when I’m not on my best. I am a good student because I follow directions. I am looking forward to this year in school because this year in school will be good. I am a good citizen because I am part of this school.

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My name is Adyson. I am 8 years old. I am very good at reading chapter books. I’m not very good at soccer. I am happiest when I am with my friends. I am not very happy when I am around people I do not like. I am looking forward to this year in school be-cause I listen very well. I am a good citizen because I am happy and kind.

My name is Colby. I am ten years old. I am in the fourth grade. I am very good at riding my bike. I am not very good at catching lizards and snakes. I am happiest when I play with my friends. I am not very happy when someone teas-es me. I am a good student because I listen and obey. I am looking forward to this year in school because I want to be smart. I am a good citizen because I am part of this class.

How Much Sleep is Your Student Getting?

A very important thing to keep in mind with back to school is the

amount of sleep your child is getting. According to the Nationwide Chil-

dren’s Hospital, students who are not getting adequate sleep will be

more likely to have troubles with mood, behavior, and cognitive ability.

Some signs of sleep deprivation are the following: moodiness, irritable,

easily upset, and increased likelihood to act out with hyperactivity or

noncompliance, and most importantly may cause problems with atten-

tion, memory, reaction time and creativity, which are all things very im-

portant in school. Below is a table based on age and the time your stu-

dent needs to get up, what time should your student go to bed in order

to get sufficient sleep.

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“Knowledge is the

food of the soul.”

-Plato

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Halliday Wildfire Mustangs Halliday 4-H Club

October Meeting: October 22, 2015

Meeting at the Halliday City Park

@ 2:00 PM

(They will also be doing another fundraiser in Nov. More info to come later!!!)

Note From Mrs. Karlin

Decoding in reading. Everyone has a unique way of learning. Some of us can’t read easily, some people learn better by hearing a story read to them, some may learn best by work-ing with their hands while hearing a story. Problems with reading can start at any age. We often see if first in kindergarten as chil-dren learning their alphabet, sounds and writing their letters. Children may mix up the d and b, the h and the n and the b and the p. The earlier reading problems are spotted, the sooner they can be taught coping strategies to learn how to read, making that process easier. Since all our years in school will be spent reading letters, words and numbers, it can help to make their lives easier. Not only does difficulty reading hamper them in school, it also is challenging at home and in society in general. Reading a recipe, mixing up a cake, buying a car, renting an apart-ment: all activities where our children will need to read. We will begin with the smallest sounds or phonemes of words. The word bat is “b”, “a”, “t”: three sounds. If I have a hard time decoding a b and a d, that word is very challenging. Phonemes are building blocks of language. Represented by letters of the alphabet, they are the component sounds of spoken words. Most people automatically hear, for example, that the word “goat” is made up of three sounds: “guh,” “oh,” and “tuh.” Reading requires the ability to map the phonemes we hear to letters on a page, and vice versa. But what happens when this basic skill, called decoding, doesn’t come automatically? Imagine struggling to sound out every word because you can’t distinguish among phonemes. Sometimes our teachers may refer students to work with the teacher in special ed., try-ing to find the best way each student can learn. Working one on one is the best way to figure out this child’s style of learning. It is not a bad thing but a help to the child that is struggling with one vital part of his learning. Many people who were very bright had some difficulties reading. It is best for the child to learn coping strategies early. Their en-tire life will be easier from then on. Did you know? Many famous people have had trouble learning? Some have had ADHD or LD (learning disabilities) or both. They have beaten the odds and been very successful. Some have used their disabilities to their advantage. The celebrated artists, Chuck Close and Robert Rauschenberg both had ADHD. Famous NFL quarterback, Terry Bradshaw did too. Olympic swimmer Greg Louganis also had learning disabilities. Founder and CEO of the brokerage firm, Charles Swab had trouble learning. Many people in the entertainment field also have had many of the same issues. Some of them are Cher, Whoopie Goldberg, Jay Leno, Tony Bennet, Harry Belafonte and Steve McQueen. If you or your child, have trouble learning, you are in good company!

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“A person who never made a mistake

never tried anything new.”

-Albert Einstein

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Riding the School Bus

Riding the school bus to and from school is a PRIVILEGE. Transportation by the school dis-trict is not mandatory. NO student is required to ride the school bus.

Students that ride the bus to school will be ex-pected to be on their best behavior at all times or lose the privilege of riding.

We thank our parents for getting your child to the bus stop on time. Our bus travel time is on a tight schedule so having your child ready as scheduled is very important.

If your bus riding student is going to get off at a different location, please send a not to give the bus driver. Or call the front office as soon as you can.

Parents of School Bus Riders

We would ask parents of students who ride the school bus to make sure that someone meets the bus to assure the bus driver that someone is at home when your child is dropped off. When it is cold outside, we want to make sure that a parent/guardian is waiting so a child does not have to stand out in the cold or wonder where to go.

Things to Remember!!!

PLEASE CALL!!!!

If your child is going to be absent or is absent for any reason, please call the Halliday School (701) 938-4391 by 9AM to tell us. If your child is absent for medical reasons, please bring a

note back from the Doctor’s office.

In accordance with Federal Law and U.S.Department of Agriculture policy, this institution is prohibited fro discriminating

on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Direc-

tor, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410 or call toll free (866) 632-9992

(Voice). Individuals who are hearing impaired or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay

Service at (800) 877-8339; or (800) 845-6136 (Spanish). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

FREE & REDUCED

MEAL APPLICATION

FORMS

If you have not filled out

our application for free

& reduced—priced

meals, please take time

to do so. Our school

receives some funds

based on the number of

free and reduced chil-

dren in our school. Ap-

plication forms are in

the school office.

Chain of Command

Halliday School does have a procedure when a parent/guardian has a question or concern. We ask all people to follow the “chain of command.” First, you talk to your classroom teacher or coach. If you are not satisfied with his/her response to your con-cern, talk to the principal or superintendent. If the su-perintendent does not an-swer or address your prob-lem, the final process would be to file a written complaint. This will be tak-en to the School Board to listen to the concern and try to reach a settlement. We sincerely hope that everyone uses the chain of command. Looking for a Place to

Walk?

Are you looking for a place to walk when the weather is cold and the streets have snow or ice on them? Halliday School gym could be the place for you. We ask that you stop at the main office and sign a “Hold Harmless” Form before you walk the first time. Please do not wear wet or dirty shoes on the gym floor. Please walk be-tween the hours of 8 and 10 am.

Parents and Visitors to School

Parents and visitors are welcome to visit our school. For the safety of those within the school, all visitors are asked to use the front school doors as all school doors are locked except for the front doors during school hours. If you would like to visit your child’s classroom, we ask that you call in advance. We ask that you contact the school at least 24 hours in advance. This gives the office time to contact the teacher and for the teacher to know you will be visiting their classroom.

Vegetables

If you have some extra

cucumbers, tomatoes,

carrots, etc., our school

lunch program could use

them. We provide a sal-

ad every day for all our

students and staff. Just

stop at the school kitchen

and give your donation to

Brian Larson, our schools

head cook.