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Weather may cause some challenges at school dismissal time today. SFSD will make plans with your child's safety as our highest priority. If there are changes, parents/guardians will be contacted immediately. We ask that you please monitor your phone and email closely.
Football & Star Wars Fans Unite! Fri, May 3-7:05pm Sioux Falls STORM take on the Green Bay Blizzard to support Operation Hope & Caring, a fundraiser for SFSD elementary schools without PTAs. Wear Star Wars gear, grab a light saber, and get in on the fun! www.hopeandcaring.org
In the Challenge Center at Robert Frost, learning happens at an accelerated pace, in new & innovative ways, with hands-on experiences, & in a community of collaboration. Students, staff and parents take you on a tour you won't want to miss. https://youtu.be/0TaE59abqZ8
This week's SFSD✨All-Star🌟is Jenny Boyle at Harvey Dunn Elementary! Jenny is a prominent member of the PTA, the PBIS team, and manages huge annual traditions that get students excited about reading, like Book Battles, Book Bingo, and 1 Book 1 School to name a few. Her ideas are multi-tiered and incorporate student leadership into fundraising and educational endeavors. The library at Harvey Dunn is a hub of learning, reading, STEM discovery, endless resources, adventure and fun! Jenny is the reason why. https://youtu.be/rZROnLfTtjM
The Roosevelt High School JAG (Jobs for America's Graduates) team has returned from the National Career Development Conference in St. Louis where they made some big moves! The girls PBL (Project Based Learning) team got 6th in the nation (!) for a project on Feeding South Dakota and another student placed 7th in financial literacy. Additionally, Morgan Putzier was able receive a scholarship through the opportunity. Congratulations on the wins!
A little "birdie" sent a few pictures of the new after-school Whittier Golf "Club" at their first "tee-time" at Kuehn Golf Course. It's no "bogey" that our Attendance Liaison, some teachers and volunteers are "putting" time into teaching 8th graders this game "fore" fun and exercise! Danny "Sink"sen of First Tee is assisting with the "Par-Tee." This promises to be a w"hole" lot of fun for Whittier students! Thanks to all who are making it possible!
Our female athletes continue to inspire! Taking advantage of everything high school athletics have to offer leads to leadership ability, incomparable teamwork skills, & networking expertise. Chloe can explain it better than we can: https://youtu.be/NcS1MpG4PG0
Thank you to Sioux Falls Fire Rescue for this amazing partnership! SFFR recently approached SFSD to ask how they might be able to partner with schools. A program was started with attendance liaisons at some schools to reward the classrooms with the best attendance with a special recess with firefighters! Students LOVE seeing SFFR pull up in the firetruck, and getting to play soccer and tag with them is an added bonus for great attendance!
Yesterday we shared a video with information about the One-Way Spanish Immersion Program at Sonia Sotomayor Elementary. Please enjoy this video with information on the Two-Way Spanish Immersion Programs offered at Rosa Parks and Hayward Elementary Schools. In brief: Two-Way Spanish Immersion has a 50-50 split of native English and Spanish speaking students. Instruction throughout the day is delivered in equal parts English and Spanish. Learn more here!
https://youtu.be/zO3fSxA0mo0
The Sioux Falls School District Spanish Immersion Program has options for students to become more fluent speakers in both English and Spanish. Multiple programs, one goal: fully bilingual students! Learn more about One-Way Spanish Immersion at Sonia Sotomayor Elementary in this video, and stay tuned for an upcoming video on Two-Way Immersion at Hayward and Rosa Parks Elementary. https://youtu.be/7DANjp3gCo0
Here's our end of week update for the 'Barbie Blog!' The baby piglets have been getting along so well! In fact, both piglets and mama (Barbie) are doing just fine. Students have been making sure that Barbie is stocked up with food and water, and making sure all the piglets get a spot with mama to get their fill of food. Earlier in the week veterinarians stopped by to assist with the normal piglet care, and the students and staff have been carrying things on from there. More from Barbie and her babies next week!
It was a big morning at CTE Academy as Dakota State University held their 'signing day'! Seniors graduating this spring sat down to formally commit to attending DSU to study cyber security and other computer science majors there next year. Good luck future Trojans! More photos here: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBmVei
Time for a 🐽 Barbie Blog 🐖 update! There is now a livestream camera set up at CTE Academy where Barbie and her piglets are living. As you can see, momma and the babies are doing well. Barbie has more babies than she has spots at the dinner table to feed all her babies. Some of them that get enough food are put in a small basket to nap while the other smaller ones have a chance to eat. This is to make sure everyone's belly is full!! Make sure to turn the sound up to hear the occasional cute squeals! 🐷 https://www.youtube.com/live/rdyexhITAzc?feature=shared
Jefferson High School is still very new, and therefore, so is its band program. However, JHS has been able to accomplish some impressive firsts already: they have the only HS steel drum group in the region and they currently are the only school with a competitive winter indoor drumline. That drumline has already seen tremendous success in the first year, which bodes well for the future of this growing program overall. Learn more. https://youtu.be/8EvQZUsWQtM
April 15-19 is National Public School Volunteer Week! 🌟 Big THANK YOU to all the incredible community volunteers making a difference in Sioux Falls schools every single day! 🌟 The presence of school volunteers positively impacts the learning environment and builds a strong connection with our community. There are lots of ways to get involved with your local schools! Find more information here: https://www.sf.k12.sd.us/page/volunteering-mentoring
In case you missed it, or would like to experience it again, here is a video recap of the 2024 Recognition Banquet. Tune in as we celebrate 25-year employees and 2024 retirees at the highly anticipated annual event! https://youtu.be/2DZevTCbabc
Congratulations to our newest🌟 SFSD All-Star 🤩, Becky Whitlock! One of only two instructional coaches who support RISE programming across Sioux Falls, Becky goes above and beyond each and every day. Not only is she supporting the teachers who support our students, she is working behind the scenes to help choose curriculum, supports and interventions for students of all abilities. Find out why her coworkers feel lucky to have her. https://youtu.be/MYQjupFmBOg
She works around 20 hours per week at her job, somehow manages a full load of classes, is in color guard for marching band and winter guard, she's in Roosevelt's top concert choir and show choir, and is the Cadet Commander for the relatively new Air Force JROTC program. Emma Day came to Roosevelt High School right when they needed her, and she instantly fit in to various programs she was already familiar with. Learn how she does it and where she's headed next. https://youtu.be/HHkK26H_AgE
We can officially 'close the book' on our third annual Everybody Reads community reading initiative! With our partners at Siouxland Libraries we met our goal of collectively reading over 300,000 books, and that means we were able to make a donation of $1,500 to REACH Literacy! Supporting reading and literacy in the community BY reading and practicing literacy in the community - it doesn't get much better than that! Thank you to our sponsors at Sora, Follet Learning and Bound To Stay Bound Books for helping to make this donation possible!
Welcome to a special feature we will be following over the next two weeks that we are affectionately referring to as "The Barbie Blog"! The ag program at CTE Academy recently received a sow from Pipestone to learn all about the farrowing process. Yesterday, Barbie gave birth to a batch of babies! Students got to be there for the birthing process and helped things along the way. It doesn't get much more hands on than that! This is the perfect example of how special and exciting our programing at CTE is and how important it is for students. Stay tuned to SFSD social media to follow along with The Barbie Blog!