Basket Buddies Event

The Middle Schoolers had a great event on Thursday. Twelve student volunteers, anonymously made lunch baskets to be bid on my their fellow classmates. The winning bid got to share the lunch with the lunch maker. The basket buddies idea came from an experience read about by some middle school students in their Language Arts class. The goal of the event was to find new and fun ways for kids get to know someone they would not ordinarily spent time with. Lunch Baskets contained things ranging from steak and potatoes to deli sandwiches with soda pop or sparkling cider and fresh homemade cookies to fruit leather.
The students seemed to be reluctant to participate but... after the assembly and lunch were over, students were talking about next time!!!
The event was planned by the Middle School Student Council under the direction of Mrs. Sant.

Floral Team Was Outstanding this week!!

Shoshone FFA competed in a three district Floral Design Career Development Event hosted in Shoshone at the Community Center. Schools in attendance included; Kimberly, Twin Falls, Jerome, Minico, Burley, Gooding, Wendell and Shoshone. Students tested their skills in practicum areas including Floral Arranging, designing of Dish Gardens, pinching of plants for propagation, plant identification, and completed a comprehensive exam.

Shoshone came away with 1st place over all and 1st in the North Magic Valley District.

District High Individuals include:
1st Mckayla Tanner
2nd Christy Race
3rd Kasey Barney
4th Lizzy Lasley
5th Mikaila Mastrofini
9th Jessica Simonson

Way to Go!!!!

Pre-Spring Concert

The Pre-spring concert was outstanding.

Brett Riley and Becca Merrick

High School Choir

HS Band

MS Band
Other great performances were done by Dakota Brown accompanied by Brett Riley and Belinda Marsh play the piano.

High School Art!

The High School Art classes is working with clay making some great pieces

Aca-Deca Team Competes well!

The team comes home with 4th place, 15 state medals and 3rd in the Super Quiz.
The team members were Diana Vaught, Brian Corona, Fredrik Tveitnes, DJ Stanhope, Caleb Aoi, Morgan Weber, Caulen Bryant, Anne Gochnour, Rebekah Merrick, Dakota Brown, Marisa Grissom and Katherine Rubio.

Medalists
DJ Stanhope - Gold for music, Silver for Economics, Bronze in Interview
Caleb Aoi - Silver Math, Bronze Economics and Bronze Interview
Morgan Weber - Gold Science, Silver Interview
Caulen Bryant - Gold Essay, Bronze Music
Anne Gochnour - Bronze Math and Economics
Rebekah Merrick- Silver Speech, Bronze Super Quiz
Dakota Brown - Silver in Music

What a great way to represent Shoshone!!!

BIG THANK YOU!

As the BPA Team just completed state and Aca-Deca is almost on their way we would like to express a Huge Thank you to the PTO and the Shoshone Education Foundation for the donations!
We appreciate the support!!!!

BPA Team Sets School Record!!

Business Professionals of America (BPA) had a great time at State Competition. They earned more awards than ever before for the school!
Web Design Team (Caleb, Garrett, Sabrina, Diana V) 3rd place
Caleb Aoi – Financial Math and Analysis 2nd place – Qualified for Nationals
DJ Stanhope – Fundamental Word Processing – Top 10
Anne Gochnour – Advanced Spreadsheets – Top 10
Diana Vaught – Computer Security – Top 10
Sabrina Chitwood – Desktop Publishing – Top 10

Great Job Team!!

Picture: Diana Vaught, Caleb Aoi, DJ Stanhope, Devon Davis, Morgan Weber, Sabrina Chitwood; Front: Maira Torres, Diana Albarran, Cristal Torres, Anne Gochnour, Hagerman Student

What's happening in Science

Mr. Mitchell's science class took a different approach for learning "Plate Tectonics". Students were given a check list of different learning opportunities and students were given the ability to choose how they learned the information. The students had 10 school days or 2.5 weeks to complete the chapter and take the test. Mr. Mitchell felt students did an outstanding job of self monitoring and worked well for the entire assignment.
The standards covered in this unit were:
8-9.ES.1.1.2 Apply the concepts of order and organization to a given system.
8-9.ES.1.2.2 Develop models to explain concepts or systems.
8-9.ES.1.6.4 Formulate scientific explanations and models using logic and evidence.
8-9.ES.4.2.1 Explain the internal energy sources of the earth

Examples of student work!!!

Shakespeare Coming to Shoshone

Tuesday March 13th, the Shakespeare festival will present MacBeth to the secondary students (6th-12th graders). The assembly will be an outstanding opportunity for students to experience Shakespeare. Come join us if you can! Performance at 1:00 pm!

Did you get a letter for your Middle School student?

In your mailbox last week, you should have received a letter with your students Idaho Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) data.

Classroom teachers and the ISAT prep teams developed goals for each student in all subject areas. Check out how your child has done the last two years and where we expect them to be this year! Goals are ambitious and achievable. Ask your child about the goals and how they are going to achieve them!

Starting April 9th, all Middle School students will begin taking the ISAT in the areas of Reading, Language Usage and Math.

What is your High School student doing from 3:30-4:00?

They can be in 1 of 5 places.

1) Study Hall with Mrs. Buckway
2) Study Hall with Mrs. Lewis
3) Music opportunities with Ms. LeBeau
4) Gym/Weight Room with Mr. Chapman
5) or home

In preparation for spring testing, students will be benchmark tested in Reading, Math and Language Usage. If the student does not meet proficiency they will be assigned a class from 3:30 to 4:00. This is an opportunity for students to get individualized or small group assistance.