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VOLUME 13 ISSUE 3 HETTINGER, NORTH DAKOTA OCTOBER 2015

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PiCtUre DAYVB BeACH @ Scranton 4:30elem GB lemmON 5:00

FAVorite JerSeYB: Breakfast BurritoL: Chickenbowl

PiCtUre DAYASVAB interp w/ nat. guard

rAinBow/ColorSB: Biscuits / GravyL: Au gratin Potato / Ham

VB glen Ulllin HeBron ABC 4:00elem GB Mott Regent 4:30

CAPS / SHADeSB: OmeletL: Biscuits / Gravy

FB HoMeCoMingnew SAleM AlMont @ Scranton 6:00Little Learners PK 8:00-10:00

niGhthawk DReSSB: Breakfast PizzaL: Sack Lunch

B: Breakfast SandwichL: Breaded Chicken

VB new englAnD @ Scr. ABC 4:30Free & reduced Applica-tions Due

B: CerealL: Baked Potato Bar

VB Hazen ABC 3:30elem GB BowMAn Co. @ Scranton 4:00

B: Biscuit / GravyL: Burrito

eCo eD DAY 5th/6th 9-2:30FB Mott regent 7:00Little Learners PK 8:00-10:00

B: PancakesL: Beef Stroganoff

CC Region 7 @ Standing RockVB Hazen JV Trny 7:00AM

robotics @ Dickinson

VB JH reeDer triAngU-lAr 3:00CC Lemmon 4:00

B: Scrambled EggsL: French Toast / Ham

elem BB mOtt ReGeNt 4:30

Dakota Concert Series 7:30B: Hashbrowns / GravyL: Chicken Rice Hotdish

CC Killdeer 4:00FB JH BowMAn Co @ Scranton 4:00VB trinitY ABC 4:30VB JH Lemmon 5:00SCHool BoArD Mtg 6:00PM

B: Scrambled EggsL: Spaghetti

B: Breakfast SandwichL: Taco in a Bag

VB leMMon ABC 5:00

B: French ToastL: Meat Loaf

University of Jamestown visitsLittle Learners PK 8:00-10:00

B: PancakesL: Chickenburger

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B: Breakfast BurritoL: Corn Dog

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robotics DSUSchool resumes January

FB 2nd Round Playoff TBA CC State @ grand Forks TBArobotics DSU

VB Richardton-Taylor ABC 4:30

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B: Breakfast PizzaL: Rib Patty

PArent teACHer ConFerenCeS 3:30-8:30VB Faith ABC 5:00

B: French ToastL: Sloppy Joe

Little Learners PK 8:00-10:00

B: Happy Halloween???L: Halloween Surprise . . .

HALLOwEEN FB Quarter Finals TBAFBlA Halloween Carnival 4:00

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FBlA Fall Leadership Con-ference @ BismarckFB JH, JV Mott regent 4:30VB JH HeArt riVer @ reeDer 4:30CAMoUFlAge DAYB: WafflesL: Pizza Sandwich

Pay Dirt 2015Mrs. L. Kristy, Student Council Advisor – The Student Council is preparing for our homecoming festivities the week of October 5-9. There will be contests for dress up days, door decorations, posters for the gym as well as pep assembly games on Friday, October 9. The pep assembly is slated to begin around 1:20 p.m. or so and community members are invited to attend. At press-time the final schedule for the parade and other activities is not set. Check with your children and listen to the radio for more information.Dress up for high school: Monday: Twin Day; Tuesday: Class Pick; Wednesday:Celebrity, Character, or Jersey; Thursday: Salad Dressing (ranch, Italian etc); Friday: nightHawks Dress

Dress up for elementary: Monday: Camouflage Day; Tuesday: Favorite Jersey; Wednesday: rainbow/Colors; Thursday: Caps and Shades; Friday: nightHawks Dress

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C B t S S C i e n C e t e S t i n g • G R a D e S 4 , 8 a N D 11 – O c t O B e R 1 9 - O c t O B e R 3 0 Ms. S. Heid, Title i – who wants to do s’more reading? well about 61 students and their parents came back to school on Thursday night, September 17, to do just that. Students and families sat on the school’s front lawn, ate some s’mores they had made over a fake fire and read some fun books. At the end of the evening each child was able to take home 2 books to read at home. This event was sponsored by Title 1 as part of their parent involvement activities.

Ms. A. Block, robotics Advisor – Seven teams will compete in this year’s challenge, “Pay Dirt”. Using a predetermined list of materials, students have six weeks to build and test their robot before the two-day competition held Friday and Saturday, October 23 and 24. The game this year replicates a mining operation. Teams have three minutes to use their robot to collect simulated minerals and/or make repairs to the game field “mine shaft”. The highest ranking teams will then travel to the northern Plains regional Competition in Fargo. Hettinger students will also be preparing a marketing presentation and exhibit booth to sell their robot to panel of judges. The team is already busy designing their robot, creating a team t-shirt and visiting local businesses about team sponsorship. The BeST robotics season kicked off September 12 at DSU. To follow our progress be sure to like our Facebook Page “Hettinger High Best robotics”.

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Mr. D. Seamands, K-12 Counselor ~ As September quickly goes by and the 1st nine weeks midterm approaches we are beginning to receive the results of last year’s testing. The district’s summary of the 2014-2015 ACT testing has arrived and with it much valuable data is at our disposal. The ACT test has continued to grow in importance over the years not only to measure our graduate’s college readiness in the core subject areas, but it has recently become a key qualifier for scholarships. The Hettinger School District compares quite well with the north Dakota state averages in many areas of the ACT. In english our students averaged a 19.7 compared to the state average of 19.6. In Mathematics our students averaged 17.9 to the state’s 20.6. In reading our students averaged 20.3 compared to the state average of 20.7. And in Science our students average 18.7 compared to the state

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we are in full swing with our sports schedule. The Fall sports are having great success. Our high school football team sports 34 boys. The high school volleyball team has a roster of 29 and cross country has 15 runners on their roster. we are very pleased with these numbers and all the kids and coaches are working hard and enjoying early season successes. In September we had the “Meet the nighthawks” event at the football field. It was a great success and I would like to thank all the supporters who came out to the event to meet all the kids and coaches representing our great communities of Hettinger and Scranton. As you all know, this was a free will event meant to help fund the Hettinger Black Devil Hall of Fame. I am excited to report because of the generosity of our community members we raised $700.00 to help the Hall of Fame. Thank you all for those generous donations! Please stay tuned for our winter session of “Meet the nighthawks”. Also, as we all know we rekindled the football rivalry with Lemmon. It has been at least five years since these two old rivals have played. In recognition of this new “Battle of the Border” Mr. Lueck has made a great traveling trophy which the winning team gets to display in their trophy case until the next year. Un-fortunately, the trophy now resides in Lemmon, but our boys will do their best to bring it back home next year. Lastly, as a note to all patrons who have key fobs

to our school. As you know, the key fobs you have will only open the doors by the pool area. we are more than willing and happy to provide these key fobs to our community members and to let them take advantage of our weight room and small gym. we just ask you to follow some rules while you use our facility. First, the rest of the school is

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Hettinger High School Future Business Leaders of America, a ND Gold Chapter, hosted their first Professional Division Breakfast of the year on Wednesday, September 16. If you are interested in being a professional member, please contact a member or their adviser, Mrs. Kari Mayer at HHS.

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off limits, including the Big gym. Second, the wrestling room is off limits as well. Please do not go in the wrestling room. Finally, we ask all patrons who use the small gym/weight room area to not block the doors open. Please make sure all the doors are closed and locked behind you and all lights are turned off. Thank you so much for your support and cooperation. Hettinger Public School values our community members!

JuNIor CLASS: As a reminder parents are asked to help with concessions on the dates juniors have concessions. If you would like to help please contact Mrs. Kristy ASAP. The junior class would like to thank all parents who have already helped with concessions. The junior class is selling homecoming t-shirts again this year look for information coming home in the backpacks.

BooK FAIr: Book Fair is scheduled for October 26 through november 9 during regular school hours and until 8:00 pm on October 29. Hettinger has always supported the library by attending the book fair and I am sure this year will be no exception. Profits from the book fair are either taken in books from the fair or as cash to be used for extras like book bags, posters and book markers. Thank you all so much for your continued support of the school library.

STuDeNT CouNCIL: Student Council held a “Hats for Backpacks” day. For a dollar students were allowed to wear a hat in school. The money collected was donated

The traveling trophy for football with Lemmon

Mrs. K. Mayer, FBLA Advisor – Hettinger High School senior, Michael Shirek, recently attended a nD FBLA State Officer meeting in Bismarck, Sep-tember 13-14. Michael serves as the region III Vice President. The agenda for the two-day meeting was to set the program schedule for the nD FBLA Fall Leadership Conference (FLC) which will be held in Bismarck, October 4-5. In addition, the officer team continued planning for the Spring Leadership Con-ference (SLC) to be held in April 2016. Mrs. Kari Mayer serves as his local chapter adviser. http://www.nd-fbla.org/

Region veepofficers mtg. Mrs. K. Mayer, FBLA Advisor – The redwheel

Fund-raiser begins Tuesday, October 20, with delivery scheduled for november 19, 2015. SAT., oCToBer 31 is our HALLoWeeN CArNIvAL from 4-6 pm in the Big gym. The months of October and november will have members soliciting advertising for the 2016 FBLA/Li-ons Calendar. As you are contacted also have a list of birthdays you would like to have published in the calen-dars. Anyone, not just advertisers, can submit a birthday listing. There is no charge for the listing of birthdays. Looking ahead into Spring, the annual FBLA Bingo will be Sunday, May 1, 2016, 1 - 4 pm and on wednesday, May 11, 2016, at 6:00 pm, the FBLA Awards Banquet will be held.

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SCHooL PICTureS: School pictures will be Tuesday, October 13, and wednesday, October 14, for students in grades PK-11. everyone will have their picture taken on one of those days depending upon when they are in school. Picture envelopes will be coming home that need to be completed and returned by the day of pictures with payment included.

LITTLe GreeN BooK CALeNDAr error: Anyone who has been looking at the little green calendar to plan their Christmas Vacation should know that the last day of school before break is Friday, December 18. The green calendar has the wrong last day before break.

LAST CALL For Free and reDuCeD APPLICATIoNS: Anyone who was on free and reduced last year and has not submitted a new application for the 2015-2016 school year will be moved back to full charge, so please get those applications in before then. Thanks.

No SCHooL For NDeA: we will not have school on Thursday, October 22 and Friday, October 23 for the nDeA conference. School will resume on Monday, October 26, at the regular time.

SCHooL MALL KICKoFF: Our School Mall Kickoff will be Friday, november 6, 2015. Students will receive a packet to fill out with addresses and return to school. reminder that you can shop at SchoolMall.com by simply logging into Hettinger Public School, then pull down the merchant you want, place your order, and we’ll receive the percentage shown from the company you order on-line from. It’s quite simple and helps our school, so consider shopping there. Thanks.

DrIve For KIDS, CHILI SuPPer, and

PAreNT NIGHT: Thanks to everyone who drove on September 9, we had 160 drivers that we will receive $10 for each so that is $1,600 and then since we made 150 drivers we got the $500 bonus so we made $2,100 that night on the drive alone. Thanks to each and every driver and rZ Motors, Inc. for providing the vehicles and salespeople for this fundraiser. we did well with our chili supper also, as we took in $515 with that. Thanks to everyone who ate chili and put in a nice free will donation. The funds go to support our Math Team, our Art projects like Missoula Children’s Theatre, Cultural Kaleidoscopes, and helps families that struggle to pay their milk and snack funds. Thanks to all the teachers, para professionals, parents, and grandparents that worked, supervised, drove, or ate chili to make this a successful fund raiser. Last but certainly not least, thanks to all the parents who attended parent night so they know what the classroom expectations are for their child(ren).

GrADeS 4, 8 & 11 CTB SCIeNCe TeST: The students in grades 4, 8 & 11 will be taking the State Science Test during the testing window of October 19-november 6, 2015. This is a paper and pencil test given by the homeroom teacher or Science teacher.

PAreNT rePorTS HoMe: elementary parent reports will go home on Tuesday, October 28, 2015. Please take the time to look over the reports and bring any questions to conferences the next day.

PAreNT/TeACHer/STuDeNT CoNFereNCeS: Our first conference is Thursday, October 29, 2015 from 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. Students in grades K-3 will have a scheduled time for conferences. Students in grades 4-6 will have open conferences that you drop in when they have an opening. Students should attend conferences with their parents as the conference is about them and their progress so they should have input into how they can improve their performance and progress. Thanks to Dacotah Bank for providing Taco in a Bags for staff, parents, and students during parent-teacher-student conferences. They will be served out of the lunchroom. what a nice treat for everyone. Thanks.

PAreNTING THe Love and LoGIC WAy: Debra Theurer from the nDSU extension Service will present a Parenting the Love and Logic way at the Hettinger Lutheran Church on October 5, 12, 19, 26, november 2, & 9 from 6:30-8:00 p.m. Childcare will be provided during the class times so parents can attend. Call 701-567-0007 or Toll Free 1-877-264-1142 or e-mail debra.theurer@ndsu.edu to register for the class by October 1, 2015. The class is free and childcare is provided so why not take advantage of learning a few more parenting skills-they always come in handy.

to the Hettinger Backpack program. we were able to collect enough money for 6 backpacks. I am very proud of the genrosity of Hettinger High Students. Student Council will be conducting this event on a regular basis.

advancEd: Hettinger Public School has received Ac-credited Status as a result of the work the district has done towards completion of the required actions as out-lined by the external review that was conducted April of 2013. Hettinger Public School has maintained accred-ited status since 1920.

CALeNDAr: we have encountered some discrepancies in various calendars that have been distributed. The last day of school before Holiday break is December 18; school will resume on January 4. Also the last day of school is scheduled for May 25.

CoNTACT INForMATIoN: we are updating our records to ensure that our contact information is accurate. You received our current information with grade reports; please check that information and return to the school with any changes that are necessary. we would prefer that you send in the changes on the sheet instead of calling the school to make the changes.

PAreNT-TeACHerS: Parent-Teachers conference is scheduled for October 29 from 3:30 – 5:00 and 5:30 – 8:30. This is a time to discuss your student’s courses and celebrate their achievements with our staff; your attendance is a vital part of your student’s education. Dinner will be provided by Dakota Bank for those who attend.

HOMeCOMIng: Homecoming week is set for October 5th through the 9th. Many home events are planned and I encourage you to attend and support our students. FBLA Leadership will be in Bismarck on Monday along with junior high volleyball in Scranton and junior high football in Hettinger, on Tuesday volleyball in Scranton and on the Thursday in Hettinger and cross country will finish the week in Standing rock. Coronation will be on Monday October 5 at 8:00 pm.

average of 20.8. The composite (average of all four of the tests on the ACT) scores were very comparable with our students’ scoring 19.3 and the state averaging 20.6. As far as the benchmark scores that the ACT sets as markers to gauge if students are ready for college, we have some disparity. In english the benchmark indicates that 48% of our students that tested are college ready, in Mathematics 29% are college ready, in reading 35% are college ready, and in Science 26% are college ready. These numbers are lower than we would like to see, but there is more explanation that needs to be given. what ACT bases their college ready benchmarks on correlates with scores required for students to have a high probability of success in credit-bearing college courses at a four year university. These requirements tend to be set higher than a two year or certificate program school. In addition, north Dakota is one of only thirteen states that test 100% of their graduates via the ACT. Out of those thirteen north Dakota’s average composite score ranks it as the third highest. In comparison with the entire country north Dakota sits around the thirty-third highest with Massachusetts with the highest composite score at 24.4, but only testing 28% of its graduates. we in north Dakota test all of our students no matter what their future plans entail after graduation with many other states only testing their four year university bound students. This data is helpful for our district as we plan our high school curriculum and programs, but often the numbers from the ACT and other assessments can be overwhelming to process and at times frustrating for a school staff who puts forth large amounts of effort, time, and caring for our students. we will continue to strive for higher levels of academic success for our students and the Hettinger School District.

Mr. R. MoserJr High & Sr High Principal _____ ACT & readiness

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