We will be doing the Iowa Assessments in the high school on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday next week. Please see the information below:
STUDENTS (GRADES 9-12): ITED’S will be given on Monday, Feb. 6; Tuesday, Feb. 7, and Wednesday, Feb. 8, from 8:30 – 9:20 a.m. We will take one 40 minute test each day.
BE SURE TO BRING PENCILS and CALCULATORS.
TO FIND OUT WHERE YOU REPORT MONDAY MORNING FOR ITED’S, SEE LIST BY PEG’S OFFICE.
SENIORS: You do not need to report to school until 9:20 on Monday, Feb. 6; and Tuesday, Feb. 7, due to ITED testing.
SENIORS: On Wednesday, Feb. 8, there will be a senior informational meeting (regarding local scholarships) at 8:32 in the lunchroom. All seniors not in an academy need to attend. Seniors in an academy will meet in the lunchroom on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at 3:00 p.m.
Make sure your studnets get good sleep and eat a good breakfast on testing days. We will only be doing three tests, we want to make sure our students do their absolute best on these tests!
Friday, February 3, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
Coaches vs. Cancer and NIC Corn Bowl Wrestling
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| The boys basketball team dressed for the Coaches vs Cancer night. |
Tonight is the annual Coaches vs. Cancer game in the NIC. All four locations will be doing activities and dressing in pink to support cancer research. Our game will be at Belmond Klemme. Throughout the last weeks we have been doing activities to raise money. We had a change war last week that was thoroughly dominated by the elementary school students. The high school and middle school also did a nice job. This is a great joint effort by our conference, to battle cancer.
Tomorrow will be the first annual NIC Corn Bowl Wrestling Challenge at NIACC. Each conference will hold its own tournament in two separate gyms beginning at 10:00 AM. Then at 3:30 the conferences will match up in a dual format. The Champions from each conference will wrestle each other along with the runners up, third place finishers, and fourth place finishers. It should be some great wrestling!
Lots of positive things going on in our Conference this weekend!
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Congratulations Large Group Speech State Qualifiers!
Congratulations to our large group speech state qualifiers! They will perform on February 4th at Dubuque Senior. Musical Theatre, Choral Reading, three Group Improvs and Ensemble Acting were the events that qualified.
Mrs. Kudej and Mrs. Gretillat are the speech coaches.
Back - Tre Lehoe, Colin Becker, Ahna Bruns, Derica Jakoubek, Brookelyn Savoy, Jenna Arkema, Taylor Glawe, Katherine Jamtgaard, Brandon Luppen.
Front - Kaylee Weiland, Marcy Mayland, Larissa Christ, Angie Lynn, Cassi Jackson, Rachel Francis, Haley Hiscocks, Krista Kruger - Missing - Paige Thompson
Mrs. Kudej and Mrs. Gretillat are the speech coaches.
Back - Tre Lehoe, Colin Becker, Ahna Bruns, Derica Jakoubek, Brookelyn Savoy, Jenna Arkema, Taylor Glawe, Katherine Jamtgaard, Brandon Luppen.
Front - Kaylee Weiland, Marcy Mayland, Larissa Christ, Angie Lynn, Cassi Jackson, Rachel Francis, Haley Hiscocks, Krista Kruger - Missing - Paige Thompson
Monday, January 16, 2012
Second Semester Off and Running!
Parents,
The second semester is off to a good start. Schedule changes were made and incompletes were completed. It was a busy couple of days but it went well. As I have said before this is a fresh start for each of your students. Let's all work together to make this a great semester!
We will have an assembly on Friday. Jarred DeVries will address the students on Friday afternoon. He is a former Aplington Parkersburg Falcon, Iowa Hawkeye and Detroit Lion. I'm sure he will have a great message for our students. We will have our advisory time directly after his speech to discuss the message.
It is a busy week at West Hancock. We will host two basketball quads and a wrestling triangular. Our Music Boosters Pancake supper will be on Friday night. They will serve from 5-7. Please stop out and support our Music departments.
Good luck to our large group speech team as they head off to competition this weekend!
Monday –Board Meeting – 7:00 pm – Britt
Saturday – Large Group District Speech
The second semester is off to a good start. Schedule changes were made and incompletes were completed. It was a busy couple of days but it went well. As I have said before this is a fresh start for each of your students. Let's all work together to make this a great semester!
We will have an assembly on Friday. Jarred DeVries will address the students on Friday afternoon. He is a former Aplington Parkersburg Falcon, Iowa Hawkeye and Detroit Lion. I'm sure he will have a great message for our students. We will have our advisory time directly after his speech to discuss the message.
It is a busy week at West Hancock. We will host two basketball quads and a wrestling triangular. Our Music Boosters Pancake supper will be on Friday night. They will serve from 5-7. Please stop out and support our Music departments.
Good luck to our large group speech team as they head off to competition this weekend!
Weekly Schedule
Tuesday –B/G JV/V BB Garner – quad – H – 4:00 pm
WR – Algona – Osage - @ AlgonaWednesday
Thursday – WR – Central Springs – NK – H – 6:00 pm
FR BB @ Garner - 6:15Friday - B/G JV/V BB – Osage – H – 4:00
Music Boosters Pancake SupperSaturday – Large Group District Speech
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Honor Band Participants
Congratulations to honor band participants Paige Thompson and Natasha Peterson. They are pictured here with Band director Ms. Janel Harms. They participated in the honor band last Saturday at NIACC.
Friday January 6th - Quite a night!
On Friday the 6th of January we hosted Forest City in a quad basketball game. It was quite a night. In my five years at West Hancock this might have been the most crowded and busiest. But it was a great night!
We started the night off with two JV games. During the JV games last years seniors were my guests for some pizza and good conversation. Each year I invite the alumni back and ask how their first year of college has gone. We had some good discussion. Two things that they were clear on, taking the semester assesments was a positive thing and having some post secondary options as seniors was a definite plus. I have inlcuded some pictures of our alumni below. It was nice to see them again!
At halftime of our Girls game we had some Queens of The Court! Thank you to these volunteers for helping the after prom committe raise quite a nice sum of money! All funds will be used for the after prom party.
Thanks to Gerrardo, Jon, Derek and Jacob!
We started the night off with two JV games. During the JV games last years seniors were my guests for some pizza and good conversation. Each year I invite the alumni back and ask how their first year of college has gone. We had some good discussion. Two things that they were clear on, taking the semester assesments was a positive thing and having some post secondary options as seniors was a definite plus. I have inlcuded some pictures of our alumni below. It was nice to see them again!
At halftime of our Girls game we had some Queens of The Court! Thank you to these volunteers for helping the after prom committe raise quite a nice sum of money! All funds will be used for the after prom party.
Thanks to Gerrardo, Jon, Derek and Jacob!
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
New Year - New Semester - New Start
Tomorrow will begin the second semester. Congratulations to all students, you have a 4.0 for the semester, an "A" in every class. Your attitude and effort for the next eighteen weeks will determine happens to that A.
Second Semester grades will be published this afternoon. All Incompletes must be made up by the end of the day on Tuesday January 10th. If your student has an Incomplete it means they are missing one or more assignments that is effecting their grade. Please encourage your student to get those assignments turned in and improve their grade. If no additional assignments are turned in the students grade will be what is currently in the grade book. If you have questions I would encourage you to go on line and see what scores they are missing.
Please take a few minutes to sit down with your students and discuss how the first semester went. Talk about what could have been done differently to achieve more success or what they did to achieve the success they were hoping to.
As you sit down and reflect with your student about the previous semester, use the time to make new goals for second semester. Talk about goals for each week, the semester, and beyond. If you are not clear with expectations, your students will never know. Let them know that this is a fresh start and if semester one did not go the way they would have liked, they have a chance to start over in semester two. Goals do not have to be academic. What about these types of goals: attendance, behavior, things at home? The more the school and the family can work together the more your student will benefit. Please take some time to "check in" with your child as we start the second semester.
If students have any scheduling concerns or changes they need to get those taken care of by the end of the day on Friday. After that schedules will be set for the semester. Any questions on courses or scheduling should be directed to Mrs. Clark.
Let's work together to make it a great semester!
Second Semester grades will be published this afternoon. All Incompletes must be made up by the end of the day on Tuesday January 10th. If your student has an Incomplete it means they are missing one or more assignments that is effecting their grade. Please encourage your student to get those assignments turned in and improve their grade. If no additional assignments are turned in the students grade will be what is currently in the grade book. If you have questions I would encourage you to go on line and see what scores they are missing.
Please take a few minutes to sit down with your students and discuss how the first semester went. Talk about what could have been done differently to achieve more success or what they did to achieve the success they were hoping to.
As you sit down and reflect with your student about the previous semester, use the time to make new goals for second semester. Talk about goals for each week, the semester, and beyond. If you are not clear with expectations, your students will never know. Let them know that this is a fresh start and if semester one did not go the way they would have liked, they have a chance to start over in semester two. Goals do not have to be academic. What about these types of goals: attendance, behavior, things at home? The more the school and the family can work together the more your student will benefit. Please take some time to "check in" with your child as we start the second semester.
If students have any scheduling concerns or changes they need to get those taken care of by the end of the day on Friday. After that schedules will be set for the semester. Any questions on courses or scheduling should be directed to Mrs. Clark.
Let's work together to make it a great semester!
Friday, December 23, 2011
Semester Tests
We are in the middle of semester tests and I thought I would let you know how its going. At the beginning of last year we did away with our attendance incentive and told teachers that they would each be responsible for coming up with a culminating activity, project, or assessment to end their semester. Our teachers have embraced this and all of our students do a variety of assessments, while still getting exposure to large traditional finals that some of their college courses will culminate with. I really feel it is a good mix of assessments and brings some closure to what the students have been doing all semester. In one period on Thursday I went around to classes and these were all of the things I saw.
Students in Public Speaking answer essay questions on their semester test.
Students in Mrs. Lang's class test while their "Heavenly Bars" await them. Mrs. Lang treated them to snacks because of their hard work this semester.
A Spanish student presents an oral presentation for her final project.
Mathematics students take a traditional semester final in Geometry.
Foods students cooked an entire meal as a culminating activity for their class.
In CAD class students designed a home for their final project.
In one of Mr. Franics' other classes students had to identify tools as part of their final test in a previous period.
I'm sure your wondering how the attendance is looking now that we are three semesters removed from the incentive. For the first semester this year we are at 94%. Lat year we were at 93.9%. The last year we had the incentive we were at 95.76%. We knew that there would be some drop off, but it has not been significant. We still have a small number of students who have serious attendance issues. But the majority of our students might miss a day or two per year more than when we had the incentive. We still call parents if the student is not here and I have knocked on plenty of doors to see what students are up to. We want students here and if they are absent without a viable excuse there will be consequences to the student and potentially the parent.
In summary, I am very happy with our current assessment system and I do not miss the trials and tribulations of the old incentive system.
I hope you all have a wonderful holiday and a happy new year. All of my bothers will be back home for a few days and we are looking forward to spending some great time together. We will see all students back on January 4th.
Students in Public Speaking answer essay questions on their semester test.
Students in Mrs. Lang's class test while their "Heavenly Bars" await them. Mrs. Lang treated them to snacks because of their hard work this semester.
Mathematics students take a traditional semester final in Geometry.
Foods students cooked an entire meal as a culminating activity for their class.
In CAD class students designed a home for their final project.
In one of Mr. Franics' other classes students had to identify tools as part of their final test in a previous period.
I'm sure your wondering how the attendance is looking now that we are three semesters removed from the incentive. For the first semester this year we are at 94%. Lat year we were at 93.9%. The last year we had the incentive we were at 95.76%. We knew that there would be some drop off, but it has not been significant. We still have a small number of students who have serious attendance issues. But the majority of our students might miss a day or two per year more than when we had the incentive. We still call parents if the student is not here and I have knocked on plenty of doors to see what students are up to. We want students here and if they are absent without a viable excuse there will be consequences to the student and potentially the parent.
In summary, I am very happy with our current assessment system and I do not miss the trials and tribulations of the old incentive system.
I hope you all have a wonderful holiday and a happy new year. All of my bothers will be back home for a few days and we are looking forward to spending some great time together. We will see all students back on January 4th.
Happy Holidays from the Reckers!
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