Board Of Education

John Adam

Phil Aumick

Rick Bremerman

Matt Ehrhart

Robert Miller

Bernie Regnier

Mark Whitesell

Superintendent

Richard Harlan

rharlan@twinvalley.net

District Office

(785) 488-3325

Principals

Bennington Schools

Grade School

Craig Gantenbein

(785) 488-3323

High School

Bill Edwards

(785) 488-3321

Tescott Schools

Dr. Becky Cheney

Brent Mumford

(785) 283-4774

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If you were at the Tescott Fall Program on Tuesday, Oc-

tober 27th, you might have thought you were at a Battle

of the Bands; or swimming with the fish off the shores of

Hawaii; or maybe at a jazz concert. There was some-

thing for everybody at our latest concert! The 5th and

6th grade bands got things off to a great start! Even

though they’ve only been playing for a few months, the

5th graders’ “Old MacDonald Had a Band” and “Hard

Rock Blues”. “Five Black and Hairy Bats” was a reminder from Pre-

School , Kindergarten and 1st grade that Halloween is just around the

corner. Kindergarten and 1st grade danced to “Old Brass Wagon” be-

fore being joined by 2nd grade for our journey to Hawaii:

“Humuhumunukunukuapua’a” transported the audience to the beach

of Waikiki for a swim with this fish with the very long name! 3rd and

4th grades took us to the set of “Glee” with their version of “Lean on

Me/Don’t Stop Believing.” Carrie Underwood would have

been proud of their singing on “Play On”, and the audience

LOVED their singing and dancing to “I gotta Feelin” by

Black-Eyed Peas. 5th and 6th graders got a taste of compos-

ing. They wrote and performed category raps about sports,

roller coasters, soda pop, states and amusement parks. Add-

ing movement to their songs added the finishing touch!

Guitar skills took center stage when the 7th grades per-

formed on this classic instrument. “Ode to Joy”, “Au

Claire de la Lune”, and “Rock Around the Clock”

showed off their chord and melody playing. Kara and

Kaitlynn shared a duet on “Yankee Doodle” with our

audience. The evening came to a wonderful end with the

premier performance of the high school Jazz Band. “Say

What?” and “Tickle Ya”, featuring Wade Stimatze on alto sax, sent the audience on their

way with some “rhythm in their step.” Thanks to everyone involved for a great program!

We look forward to seeing everybody again in December!

The Bulldogs celebrated homecoming

on October 15th. This years home-

coming queen candidates were Kaci

Copas, Sadie Gantvoort and Shelby

Modin. The King candidates were

Zach Burrow, Shawn Sandlin and Dy-

lan Swanson. The 1st grade attendants

were Benjamin Stanley and Lauryn

Betts.

King Zach Burrow and

Queen Sadie Gantvoort

Board Meeting Minutes for October 2010:

Approved bills for payment in the amount of $301,062.07

Approved the development of a TV channel for Twin Valley Schools through Twin Valley

Communications.

Approved the purchase of “My Learning Plan” software for use in professional development record keeping.

Approved the purchase of “Mimio” technology system for classroom use.

Appointed John Adam as delegate to the KASB convention in December 2010 with the remaining board mem-

bers designated as alternates.

Approved to hire Jane Small as Tescott Jr. High assistant girls basketball coach.

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Willie visits Mrs. Schmidt’s Retirement Party!!!

On October 2nd Janice Schmidt was honored by her community,

teachers and staff, as well as friends and family. Oh and not to men-

tion “Willie the Wildcat!” Willie brought gifts from the K-State Athletic De-

partment: autographed pictures from Coach Frank Martin and Coach Bill Sny-

der and a personal letter from Bill Snyder. Other letters presented to Janice

that evening were from Sam Brownback, Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts. We

want to wish Janice the best in her retirement!!!!!

Power School Single Sign In

We will be turning on the Single Sign In for Parents in Power School.

The screen will look somewhat different. You will click on Create

Account. Create your own username and password. To add your

child/children you will put in their first name only. Enter the user ID and password as-

signed to you as a parent by Power School. Then choose the relationship. When you have all of

your children entered click Enter. Once it is created you should only have to login once to access

each of your children’s grades.

Parents Please Remember to Mark your Calen-

dars!!! School will be dismissing at 11:30 on No-

vember 24th for

Thanksgiving

Break. There

will be no School

November 25th

and 26th.

Daylight Savings Time is

fast approaching! Don’t

forget to set your clocks

back on November7th!

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Bennington Junior High Honor Roll

(1st Nine Weeks)

Principal's Honor Roll 4.0-3.5 (*Denotes 4.0): 8th Grade– Tyler Appleby, Mickinzi Burrow,

Kayla Chance, Jude Depperschmidt, *Josh Fief, *Jenna Gantenbein, Amelie Kobler,

*Michaelyn Laflen, Ashley Long, Parker Montgomery, Kayla Schlachter, *Dustin Stanley, Elise Vishnefske

7th Grade-Aubree Anderson, Sierrah Baffa, Jacob Bulleigh, Kindra DeWitt, Delaney Ellis, Cyleste Frame,

Trenton Fulton, Joseph Isaacson, Colby Johnson, Brad Jones, *Abby Jurgensmeier, Kody Kind, Courtney

Schimmel, Madeline Schmidt, Jayme Sloan, Luke Snyder, Jacob Stanley, *Oliva Stewart, Bryan Weary, Rylie

Womochil 6th Grade-Nathanel Barker, Kade Carlson, JR Carroll, *Britney Falcon, Ashley Gellinger, Kath-

ryn Jackson, Kaysia Lopez, Brad Mick, *Skylar Nelson, *Ashley Oldham, Denise Ragnoni, Zach Reed,

Maria Sandlin, *Claire Schmidt, *Kalli Shipley, *Andrew Stratman, Darian Webb, Kashia Westbrook

Honor Roll 3.49-3.0: 8th Grade– Gabby Cooper, Keely Fellers, Andrea Jackson, Kaitlyn Jackson, Kyle Kie-

borz, Weston Lampe, Collin Lopez, Jacob Matney, Mikayla Reed 7th Grade-Peyton Chard, Allen Cleve-

land, Ashley Jueneman, TJ Ragnoni, Leslie Swagerty 6th Grade-Cameron Cook, Bryce Griffin, Collin John-

son, Avery Kidd, Ashlee Mayorga, Hannah Schlachter, Josh Siemsen, Alex Windhorst, Trey Wood

Trojan Booster Club

The Next Trojan Booster Club Meeting is Wednesday, November 10th @ 7:30pm.

Football shirts are still available for sale. We have some in all sizes, some with the year

and some without. $12 each. Contact a Booster Club Officer to pick up, and / or pay

for for your Football shirt.

Trojan Booster Club Committee:

Kathy Robinson/President (kathyrobison1111@yahoo.com)

Jane Small/Vice President (jsmall@tes.usd240.k12.ks.us)

Rhonda Bell/Secretary (THS_CHEERCOACH@yahoo.com)

Tina Baker/Treasurer (785-452-2504).

Bennington Fire Department Visits the School

October 3rd-9th was Fire safety week. The Bennington Fire De-

partment shared all about fire safety and how to

stay safe with all of the students at Bennington!

Thank you to all the

volunteer Firefighters

and EMS for all their

hard work.

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Bennington Grade School & Junior High September

Students of the Month!

Congratulations to our September Students of the

Month!

Front Row:(L-R) Cooper Ragnoni, August Hulse,

Colton Bradford, Jasey Downing, Nate Ohlson, Kaitlyn

Kieborz, Kolbie Bartlett

2nd Row: (L-R) Jakob Lovendahl, Tacey Coulter, Kay-

sia Lopez, Shara Shepard, Derrika Davis, Karen Eikle-

berry

Back Row: (L-R) Michaelyn Laflen, Ashley Oldham, Jacob Cochran, Jenna Ganten-

bein, Abby Jurgensmeier.

2nd Photo: Hunter McKenna

Yulia

Mrs. Trout's second grade has been studying "Our Community: for social studies.

On September 8th, students had a special visitor from Moscow, Russia. Yulia

spent the day with the class and shared information about her community. The

students enjoyed learning the difference between the American alphabet and the

Russian alphabet. Before Yulia left, the second grade class made a life size "Flat

Stanley" to travel back with her to Russia. The class has received photos of Yulia

and Flat Stanley departing the United States and await more photos of their travels

throughout Russia. In addition to communicating through email and photos, Mrs.

Trout's class is scheduling an opportunity to meet again with Yulia on Skype.

Cross County Teams

Win League!!

Girls and guys XC

teams both won

League!! Earning all

league honors and

medals, placing in the

top 10 were: Jackie

Wagner (3), Ariana

Haag (3), Katey

Whitesell (5), and

Sadie Gantvoort (6).

Paige Krahl earned

honorable mention

placing 13th. All

league honors for the guys were: Daniel Ellis (2),

Josh Hicks (5), and Keegan Reeves (8).

Mrs. Lynn's Kindergarten is Off to a great Start!

Mrs. Lynn’s kindergarten has had a great start to

the school year that has been fun and full of ad-

ventures. So far they have visited the bank and the

pumpkin patch!

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Oscar Day At Tescott Grade School!

Friday, September 30th was OSCAR day at Tescott Elementary. Students were

awarded for reaching their reading goals. Pictured with Mrs. Ouderkirk is Rem-

ington one of our top readers. Way to go Remington! The students enjoyed

reading with a partner and other reading activities that morning after the awards

were presented.

TJH VB Ends Season

Tescott wrapped up the 2010 Junior High Volleyball Season with a pair of losses at

Little River, and then a loss in the opening round of the Twin Lakes VB tourna-

ment. Tescott lost to Lincoln, 15-25 and 21-25 at a triangular meet in Little River.

Tescott played very competitively in this match, but we missed too many serves to

take the victory. “Every time we scored three straight points, we missed the next

serve. We always stopped our own momentum.” In the second contest, Tescott

was defeated by Little River 9-25 and 1-25. Little River is a very talented team,

with several good servers and spikers. “Little river played a very a very aggressive

game, which we were not ready for.” The highlight of this night, was the Junior

Varsity team maintained their undefeated record for the season. We won 8

matches and tied 3. time restraints did not allow the completion of all matches. The JV team consisted of 7th

graders Kyra Bieker, Kait King and Kara Rieth. The 6th grader are Hunter Cole, Terri Giersch, Maddi Small

and Monica Towery. In the League Tournament, Tescott faced a rematch with Lincoln. We played val-

iantly, but lost by the score of 12-21 and 5-21. The highlight of this match was the passing of Loren Herbel

and Tesla Madsen, they combined for 16 perfect passes. These two 8th grade girls became our best passers

during the season, and we will need to have some new players step up next year to become leaders on the

court. “Thanks to all the parents and fans that attended our volleyball games this season. We hope to see you

at the basketball games this winter and at more volleyball contests next fall. Also thanks to the newspaper and

internet sites for posting these articles. Finally thanks to Jane Small for being our assistant. We did not win

as many matches as last year, but the season was fun, and the individual improvement was great. It was a

very rewarding season of us.” Comments by Coach Facklam.

Mrs. Abell's 3rd Graders

Mrs. Abell’s 3rd Grade has done it again! With the help of

Mrs. Good and Mrs. Castillo, the third graders at Tescott have

once again tapped into the wonderful world of Skype. They

had the opportunity to meet and talk with Joanne Kaminski, a

private reading tutor from Sussex, WI. Mrs. Kaminski read a

Halloween story, and shared personal experiences with the

students.

AND TO GET A SNEAK PEEK OF OUR CLASS VISIT:

Mrs. Kaminski’s blog at :http://skypingreadingtutor.wordpress.com/

Undefeated JV

Front Row: Kyra, Maddi, Terri and

Hunter Back Row: Kait, Kara and

Monica