January 10, 2020

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Happy Friday! It is also our last Friday of first semester. Grades will need to be finalized Tuesday before you go home. This will give Mr. Formanek a chance to enter in the no credits and then run eligibility lists. For those students who failed a class, I will need the PASS plan end of semester form filled out. That can be found on the high school professional development site. 

 During semester test today and Monday, please keep the students in the classroom the entire time. If they need to go to the bathroom, that is fine, but limit how many leave your room to one at a time. Again, please be flexible with our winter sport activities as basketball played late last night and wrestling will be leaving early today.

 Looking ahead, during advisory on 1/20, please have the students complete the end of semester reflection and the semester 2 goal setting. On 1/27, Mrs. Isebrand will need to have a Junior class meeting to discuss everyone's favorite topic, Prom. Mrs. Isebrand will send out the location of the meeting, Junior class sponsors should attend this as well. 

 Our district inservice is on January 15, and our next extra hour meeting is on January 22. Our next shelter drill is on January 22 also. I will be out of the building on January 30 as I attend a college and career readiness workshop/visit in Sioux Falls. 

 Have a great weekend!
Mark

Assistant Principal's Happenings

I just have a few notes for Finals.  I have about 20 students who are still working on finishing their attendance contracts.  Many requested to go to study halls/classrooms they might otherwise not need to go over the next three days to finish that time.  Please talk to those students and email me the time they have made up as many of you have already been doing.  If you have students that can still make up work encourage them to come on Tuesday and finish up what they may need to do.  Also, please call home to show parents you are giving every opportunity for their children to succeed. 

 I will send out notifications to coaches and updating the ineligible list as soon as I can.  Be aware an F at semester begins a 30-day ineligibility in their current season or their next season if they are not out for winter activities.  I will also be putting in NC's for students who fail to complete their hours before the end of the semester.  

 Next Wednesday, if time allows in your morning classes, please remind students of our expectations for second-semester finals.  Those can be found in the Handbook- focus on maintaining good grades and no truants.   



Notes from the Librarian

As the semester ends, it also means the beginning of requisition time! If you know of titles that you would like to have in the library, please send me the title and author. This is for fiction and non-fiction wishes. It also includes wishes for ebooks and/or audio books that we can load into Mackinvia for classroom and/or individual checkout. While the majority of students still prefer to read a copy in hand, digital copies can be useful in many ways. 

 Please ask students to also let me know if we are lacking books in a series, genre, or interest of theirs. I try to keep up with what they enjoy, but I know I always miss a few. 

 With the new semester, I will be teaching a new group of students video media. However, I have 4 returning from 1st semester, and the goal is to produce some type of announcement/brief news show at least every 2 weeks (we may need longer the first month). If you have an upcoming event that you would like put in video form to advertise on Twitter, Youtube, or just the local channel, please let me know. We will see what we can do. 

Success Center Updates

Technology Tidbits by Mr. Wingert

It seems that we are constantly being attacked via different phishing scams. This article is alarming in the fact that you are being tricked into giving the hackers permission to have access to your information...even after you change your passwords.

 Google has now given you the ability to break out a single "slice of pie" in a pie chart. This definitely can add a dramatic effect to your data image.

 When creating a copy of an existing Google Slides presentation, you'll now be able to select specific slides to copy instead of the whole deck and you can remove the speaker notes from the copy. 

Upcoming Activities

Saturday, January 11
9:00 am Boy Wrestling @ Lin Mar
9:00 am Girl Wrestling @ Ogden

Monday, January 13
3:30 pm Bowling @ Council Bluffs Thunderbowl
4:00 pm Freshmen Boy Basketball vs. Sioux City West
5:15 pm Freshmen Girl Basketball vs. Sioux City West
5:30 pm JV Boy Basketball vs. Hinton
7:00 pm Varsity Boy Basketball vs. Hinton

Tuesday, January 14
4:00 pm JV Boy/Girl Basketball @ Sioux City West
5:30 pm Varsity Girl Basketball @ Sioux City West
6:00 pm Wrestling @ Spencer
7:00 pm Varsity Boy Basketball @ Sioux City West

Thursday, January 16
5:30 pm JV Girl Basketball @ Sioux City East
5:30 pm Wrestling vs. East and West
7:00 pm Varsity Girl Basketball @ Sioux City East

Friday, January 17
Iowa Lakes Jazz Festival

Saturday, January 18
10:00 am Wrestling - LeMars Invite
5:30 pm JV Boy Basketball vs Sioux City East
7:00 pm Varsity Boy Basketball vs. Sioux City East

Monday, January 20
NWI HS Honor Choir
3:30 pm Bowling vs. SBL
5:00 pm JV Wrestling @ Storm Lake
6:00 pm Freshmen Girl Basketball @ Unity
7:15 pm Freshmen Boy Basketball @ Unity

Tuesday, January 21
4:00 pm JV Boy/Girl Basketball vs. SBL
5:30 pm Varsity Girl Basketball vs. SBL
7:00 pm Varsity Boy Basketball vs. SBL

Thursday, January 23
NWI HS Honor Orchestra Festival
6:00 pm Freshmen Girl Basketball @ MOC
6:00 pm Freshmen Boy Basketball vs. MOC
7:15 pm JV Girl Basketball @ MOC
7:15 pm JV Boy Basketball @ MOC

Friday, January 24
4:00 pm JV Boy/Girl Basketball @ CB AL
5:00 pm Girl Wrestling IWCOA Girls State Tournament @ Waverly
5:30 pm Girl Varsity Basketball @ CB AL
7:00 pm Boy Varsity Basketball @ CB AL

Saturday, January 25
8:00 am IHSSA Large Group Speech District Contest @ Sioux City East
9:00 am Freshmen Girl Basketball vs. SBL
9:00 am Girl Wrestling IWCOA Girls State Tournament @ Waverly
9:00 am Wrestling @ Heelan
10:15 am Freshmen Boy Basketball vs. SBL

Monday, January 27
State Jazz Band
3:30 PM Bowling vs. CB TJ
6:00 pm Freshmen Girl Basketball @ Storm Lake
7:15 pm Freshmen Boy Basketball @ Storm Lake

Tuesday, January 28
4:00 pm JV Boy/Girl Basketball vs. Heelan
5:30 pm Varsity Girl Basketball vs. Heelan
6:00 pm Wrestling @ West Sioux
7:00 pm Varsity Boy Basketball vs. Heelan

Thursday, January 30
4:00 pm Wrestling @ Heelan
6:00 pm Freshmen Girl Basketball vs. Western Christian
7:15 pm Freshmen Boy Basketball vs. Western Christian

Friday, January 31
4:00 pm JV Boy/Girl Basketball vs CB TJ
5:30 pm Varsity Girl Basketball vs. CB TJ
7:00 pm Varsity Boy Basketball vs. CB TJ

Saturday, February 1
Show Choir Clinic
9:30 am JV Wrestling @ Kingsley
10:00 am Bowling LeMars Invite

 Sunday, February 2
2:00 pm Large Group Speech State Performers Showcase

Monday, February 3
3:30 pm JV/Varsity Bowling vs Multiple Schools

 Tuesday, February 4
4:00 pm JV Boy and Girl Basketball vs. Sioux City North
5:30 pm Varsity Girl Basketball vs. Sioux City North
7:00 pm Varsity Boy Basketball vs. Sioux City North
7:00 pm Varsity/JV wrestling @ MOC

 Wednesday, February 5
TBD - IHSMA Show Choir Festival

 Thursday, February 6
5:30 pm Boy JV Basketball @ Cherokee
6:00 pm Girl Freshmen Basketball @ Sioux City East
7:00 pm Boy Varsity Basketball @ Cherokee
7:15 pm Boy Freshmen Basketball @ Sioux City East

 Friday, February 7
TBD - Morningside Jazz Festival
4:00 pm JV Boy/Girl Basketball vs. Sioux City West
5:30 pm Varsity Girl Basketball vs. Sioux City West
7:00 pm Varsity Boy Basketball vs. Sioux City West

 Saturday, February 8
8:00 am IHSAA Large Group Speech State Contest

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