"Your Selling Team" Surprises Chadron Primary Students

                                                         

     On Friday, December 13th, representatives from Your Selling Team," a business to business call center located in Chadron, surprised each Primary Student with a $2 bill.  Giving each student in Grades K-4 money has been an annual event since the business began seven years ago.  The students at Chadron Primary would like to thank Your Selling Team for their generosity.

The Week of Code

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If your children have been talking about playing Angry Birds this week, it's probably true!  Our students have been participating in the Hour of Code organized by code.org.  We have been working on learning coding skills using the computer science tutorials based on games like Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies.

Kindergarten used the binary coding activity to learn a "secret code" while first grade used a robot as well as Tynker and second grade learned how to move the Angry Birds around at http://learn.code.org/.

Students can create accounts at code.org if they want to save their progress and win prizes.

We are going to continue on with the code as more and more websites are popping up to help children learn basic programming.  There are some great websites that help K-2 learn basic coding and critical thinking skills.  We have also signed Chadron up to take part in Code Club for students age 9-11 to see just what we can come up with. More information on that can be found at http://codeclubworld.org/

Change in School Calendar

  January 17th, 2014 has been changed to a full day.  January 24th, 2014 will be a 12:00 dismissal.  Lunch will be served early on January 24th.  Please mark your calendars.

Chadron Primary School Will Collect Food for Local Food Pantry

 

     The Chadron Primary School Students will begin collecting non-perishable food items beginning on Monday, December 2nd and will conclude the collection on December 19th.  In lieu of having students purchase a gift for a gift exchange with their classmates at their class parties on December 20th, students are encouraged to bring food items to put under our Christmas tree.  The food items that are received will be donated to a local food pantry and will be distributed to families in the community of Chadron who are in need.
     The project has been a huge success in the past.  As always, your generosity is greatly appreciated.

Primary Students Participate in the "Festival of Trees"

 

      Chadron Primary Students have been busy making Christmas ornaments to decorate the tree in the entry way of the Dawes County Courthouse.  On Friday, November 22, each student had the opportunity to hang his/her "special" ornament on the tree.  This is the second year that the K-2 students have participated in the event.
     The public is welcome to view all of the trees at the courthouse beginning at their Open House on Friday, December 6, after the "Parade of Lights" until 8:00 P.M.  The decorated trees will be available to view until December 27th.

First Grade Student Wins Hometown Hero Contest

 

Eliana Uhing with "her" Hometown Hero, SRO Officer Aron Chrisman

     Eliana Uhing, daughter of Libby Uhing, a second grade teacher at Chadron Primary School and Willy Uhing, a Chadron High School English teacher, recently participated in and was designated as a winner of a Hometown Hero Contest sponsored by Region I in Scottsbluff.  Below is the letter that she wrote about about her hometown hero, Office Aron Chrisman, Chadron Public School's Resource Office.  Eliana and "her" hometown hero will be honored at a banquet at the Scottsbluff Elks Club on Tuesday, November 19th.  Congratulations, Eliana and Officer Chrisman!

Chadron Volunteer Firemen Teach Students About Fire Prevention

 Volunteers from the Chadron Fire Department (Jack Rhembrandt, Jake McCrary, Bryan Stolley, Hollie Eiler, and Alyssa Norton) set up 4 stations on October 24th for Primary Students to learn about fire prevention.  Topics that the volunteers discussed with the students included how to "Stop, Drop, and Roll," the number to call in case of an emergency, and the importance of developing a family meeting place in case of a fire.  In addition, students were allowed to sit inside the ambulance and the fire truck.