GREYWOLF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
School psychologist/counselor Cheryl McAliley would like to thank the 2014-2015 student peer mediators. Fifty-seven fourth- and fifth-graders completed training in peer mediation and are now working once a week during recess to help other students solve conflicts. The peer mediators have exhibited responsibility, dependability and leadership.
HELEN HALLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Hear ye, hear ye, the book fair is coming! Students will be able to purchase books on Oct. 29 during school hours. On Oct. 30-31, the book fair will be open during parent/teacher conferences from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Teachers will give each student an entry slip during their conference to enter a drawing for a free book. Bring the slip to the book fair in the library to enter the drawing. Winners will be announced at school on Monday morning, Nov. 3.
See more information and shop the expanded selection online at http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/helenhaller. Orders may be shipped to the school free of shipping charges. Share this link with friends and family. All sales benefit our school library programs. Cash is acceptable, but checks, credit cards and debit cards are accepted from adults only. Teacher wish lists will be available, so consider purchasing a book for your child’s classroom. For more information, e-mail librarian Sheri Kruckeberg at skruckeberg@sequim.k12.wa.us or call 582-3204.
SEQUIM MIDDLE SCHOOL
Seventh-graders Grace Bennett and Nathan Barnes from Debra Beckett’s Science and Engineering Teams Investigations class designed a solar car. First, they built a model from their original solar car design and completed all the timed test trials. Then they decided to go back to the drawing board. They redesigned and finished all the trials for the new model. After analyzing and reporting their results to their classmates, they found that the new design was slightly faster than the original model. Grace and Nathan worked together as a cooperative and productive engineering team!
As a prize for our magazine fundraiser, the top seller of each grade earned the right to put a pie in the face of assistant principal Scott Harker, principal Vince Riccobene and counselor Cathy Shea. The top winners were sixth-grader Coral Disinski, seventh-grader Erin Dwyer and eighth-grader Allison VanDeWege. ASB secretary Melody Schneider reported the school raised a little less than $6,000 and the money will help fund school activities such as Harvest Fest, Winter Fest and Spring Fling, as well as athletics and clubs. We wish to thank all those who participated in this major fundraiser!
Teacher Steve Koehler invited retired engineer Robert Lynette to speak to his sixth-grade science class on Oct. 14 about climate changes on the Olympic Peninsula. Topics included warmer temperatures, decreased glaciers, extreme weather events, increased threat of forest fires, oceans rising and ocean acidification. Lynette, a wind power pioneer and renewable energy consultant, told students how he was involved with installing wind machines in India and China, among other places, to generate electricity.
Come to the Scholastic Book Fair and stock up early on Christmas presents. The book fair will be open 7:45 a.m.-3:15 p.m. Oct. 27-31. Librarian Elizabeth Lawson is still in need of helpers. Parents, if you would like to volunteer, call 582-3515.
Fine Arts Night is Thursday, Oct. 23, from 6:30-8 p.m. and is open to the public at no charge. Students from choir and band will sing and play. Drama students will perform scenes from “A Comedy of Errors” by William Shakespeare. Art students will demonstrate the art of Japanese paper marbling. There will also be exhibitions by game design students, and yearbook students also will present skills they have learned. There will be signage to direct you when you walk in to the middle school building.
SEQUIM HIGH SCHOOL
Carol Wagner’s advanced cooking class took on the assignment of creating an assortment of cookies for the Oct. 14 Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce luncheon drawing. Lucky recipients were Janet Gray of the Sequim Boys & Girls Club and Janae Birkland of Sequim Health and Rehab.
The cooking class students also prepared dinner for the Career/Technology Education (CTE) department’s advisory board meeting held Oct. 14. About 40 business, community members and CTE teachers attended the dinner at Sequim High School in the cooking classroom. The students prepared split pea soup, potato soup and cheesy broccoli soup with salad, rolls and assorted cookies.
For families seeking some Halloween fun, Haunted Hallways is from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, at the “H” building. Parents, bring the kids dressed in their costumes to a fun-filled day. No admission is charged, but canned food donations will be accepted.
On Oct. 31, high school students will conduct their annual “Boo Hunger” food drive. Every school day during the week of Oct. 27-31, students will compile collected food donations during first period class to be delivered to the Sequim Food Bank. The last opportunity to donate food will be during the Oct. 31 varsity football game.
Senior yearbook photos should be e-mailed as a jpeg file to photography teacher Jim Heintz at jheintz@sequim.k12.wa.us no later than Oct. 31. There is no specified head size, but it should be in a vertical format (not horizontal). Since the purpose of the yearbook photo is to remind others who you are, the photograph should primarily feature your face. We do reserve the right to crop and make adjustments to the photo to make the yearbook the best it can be. The photo needs to be at least 1 MB (1,000 KB) file size so that you don’t look “pixelated.”
On Oct. 25, the ACT test will be administered at 7:45 a.m. in the cafeteria.
The public is invited to attend a choir concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, in the auditorium. The choir is under the direction of teacher John Lorentzen.
