Pawnee School District RE-12

THIS THURSDAY!! December 11th from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm is Pawnee High School's Christmas Extravaganza event, supporting all four high school classes! This is our only all-high school fundraiser for this school year, so we would love to see all of our family and friends here to support these awesome students! The details are all listed here, but please reach out to the school with any questions! Remember this event is CASH or CHECK only! Thank you all so much and we will see you soon!

Want to help a local child have a great Christmas? The Pawnee High School
FBLA Chapter, in cooperation with Friendship Alliance Church, is sponsoring a
gift giving tree to benefit local children. Here is how it works. Take an ornament off the tree located in the school lobby and buy a gift for the age and sex of the child as indicated on the ornament. Then wrap the gift, attach the ornament to the gift and put it under the tree by Monday, December 15th. FAChurch and FBLA thanks you for your support.

Pawnee sends warmth and hope to the kids at Children's Hospital! Students and staff made tie blankets today, which will be donated to Children's Hospital in Denver. Thank you to Ms. Camille and the Student Council Officers who organized this project: Bailey, Aubrie, Jadyn, Emma, Jayleen.

Students in third and fourth grade are practicing making tally marks using an eight-sided dice. Once they have all the tally marks, the students will take these data and create a bar graph to share their findings. Reading graphs and charts is a standard in both maths and sciences in the state of Colorado. Dice rolling is a simple way of showing the data and creating an easy way to present said data.

A HUGE thank you to our awesome decorating team!! These people all came in for several hours on Sunday to turn the school into a winter wonderland! They worked very hard, and the result is truly magical!

Here are more photos for the STEAM activities. We had a lot of fun doing all sorts of Thanksgiving activities.

Today the elementary school worked on some STEAM activities revolving around Thanksgiving. Here is the first group of pictures.

Heavy lifting with the best crew: High school students move our school's new flagpole into position.

Take Notice: A highly visible addition to our school lobby this year is the big screen TV, which keeps students, staff, families, and visitors informed of today’s happenings at Pawnee School including the lunch menu, birthdays, weekly schedule of meetings and events, important announcements and honor roll. Our yearbook editorial staff, Jordan Garcia and Bailey Loyd, are responsible for designing and producing the TV announcements. Every week, they produce an original and creative video that catches everyone’s eye and entertains as well as informs. Excellent job, Bailey & Jordan!

The results of the recent election have left the school district with one board member vacancy for a term of two years. If you meet the qualifications, and are interested in serving in this capacity, please let the district know by contacting the superintendent before December 11th.

Qualifications include being an eligible elector, having been a resident of the Pawnee School District for at least twelve (12) consecutive months prior to the election, and must not be term limited from prior board service.

Eligible Elector: An eligible elector is a person who on or before the date of election shall be 18 years of age or older, is a United States citizen, and is a resident of the State of Colorado and has resided in the school election precinct for at least 25 days prior to the election date and has registered to vote in the Office of the Clerk and Recorder of Weld County at least 29 days before the election. A person is ineligible to run for a school director position if he or she has been convicted of committing a sexual offense against a child.

Grover FFA members spent the day at the Rural Colorado Career Expo, joining schools from across northeastern Colorado for a full schedule of career exploration. The event featured nearly seventy employers, colleges, and organizations for students to visit. There were also opportunities connected to more than fifty internships and close to sixty employers who are currently hiring, making this one of the most comprehensive career events available to our region. The day began with a welcome session in the ES French Theatre before students moved to the Event Center. This large space included businesses, colleges, workforce partners, and details about a two thousand dollar NJC scholarship that awards one thousand dollars per semester for one year. Students then headed to the ES French Atrium where many booths focused on healthcare careers. They met with representatives from nursing homes, Banner Health, local hospitals, and private medical organizations. This rotation highlighted nursing and allied health pathways. After lunch in the cafeteria, students continued to the Ballroom in the Hays Student Center. This area focused on service and community based fields including law enforcement, banking, social services, early childhood development, and several state agencies. Morgan Community College and CSU were present along with the Marines, the Army, Northeast Colorado BOCES, Weld County Probation, and a therapy dog who quickly decided that Camille was its favorite person of the day. The afternoon wrapped up with a career coaching and interview etiquette session. Our students sat in the front row, asked questions, participated appropriately, and represented Pawnee with maturity. Several presenters and staff members went out of their way to praise how respectful, attentive, and responsible all of our students were compared to many of the other groups. We were excited to learn that Pawnee students earned the “session hire” in three of the four rotations, standing out among more than seven hundred participants. Isiah earned one, Sering earned one, and Aubrie earned two. Our students made a strong impression everywhere they went and represented Pawnee with pride today.

Today the third and fourth grade started the research part of the "How Many Licks Does it Take to Get to the Tootsie Roll Center of a Tootsie Pop" science lab to introduce the scientific process. We had an outlier today; for the first time in doing this activity, one of the Tootsie Pops didn't have any Tootsie Roll! Talk about a fun way to learn some excitement with a lab!

The District Leadership Conference was held in Briggsdale on November 17 from 8:30 to 2:30, and our Grover FFA members had a full and productive day. Aya and Jadyn represented our chapter in Creed Speaking, with Aya earning a Silver rating after delivering a 100 percent accurate FFA Creed, and Jadyn earning Bronze. A big thank you goes to Mayson Cacciola for supporting our district by serving as a judge for the Creed Speaking competition. Our members played an important role throughout the day as they helped facilitate the community service project. Students from across District 17 worked together to make tie blankets for Saint Jude’s Children’s Hospital, and Grover students also helped run the college carousel workshops. Throughout the conference, members had the chance to explore a wide range of hands-on career, leadership, and CDE workshop sessions. Standout favorites included the agricultural drone demonstration, where a drone the size of an ATV flew a precise spraying pattern over the area, the farrier workshop led by Dean Geesen, and the animal science workshop with an inside look at the process of Artificial Insemination taught by Dr. Brenda Haun and Bridget Rose. Students also enjoyed workshops with Travis of Hamblen Hats, Titan Machinery’s mini excavator challenge, Parliamentary Procedure basics, a Past State Officer workshop with Aiden Datteri, and an Auctioneering CDE session with Jess Nighswonger. Several members won prizes in the drawing. The entire event was organized by the District 17. Our students walked away with new skills, new experiences, and a strong sense of connection with members from across the district.

We will be having Class/Club Pictures and Retakes tomorrow, November 13.

On Monday the 10th, the third and fourth grade took a trip to the turbines east of Grover. We learned how the turbines work, why they are important, and how they function. During the trip we also went to the point where Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska meet and to the highest point in Nebraska. Students studied some science and social studies while on this trip and gained some good knowledge, us adults learned things we never knew before, too!

Basketball Mini Skills Camp will be on THURSDAY this week instead of Tuesday.

Come join the Juniors for an afternoon of fun painting! This Saturday (11/15) at 1pm. $40 per person. We have a few spots left.

Proud moment: SawyerMalcom-Dunfee takes on a leadership role for FBLA District 1. Way to go, Sawyer! She was selected as the District 1 VP of Public Relations. This week, she officially met with the rest of the officer team from other schools including Eaton, Valley, Platte Valley, Roosevelt, Greeley Central, as they begin planning the District Conference in Greeley.

Turning ideas into reality: Our student entrepreneurs toured Laramie County Community College yesterday to see where their dreams can take them! Jordan Garcia and Isaiah Trujillo are pictured with the director of the Business Studio @ LCCC, a resource center for business owners and entrepreneurs. Jordan and Isaiah pitched their business ideas to LCCC personnel and received excellent feedback.

How can you tell reading is important? When the members of this motley crew are able to take a break in their shenanigans to read a book for Dr. Smith! Little late, but Happy Hallowe'en!