Menno School District

On Saturday, January 30, 2021, the state VFW Headquarters had a Zoom meeting with the Patriot's Pen, Voice of Democracy, and the teacher awards. Taylor Freier received second place in the Patriot's Pen essay contest, and will receive a prize from the VFW. Stay tuned for more.

DWU Classic on Friday, Feb. 12 Menno vs. Jones County at 12:30 at the Corn Palace Info on the games: We are extremely excited to have you participating in the 2021 DWU Culver’s HS Girls Classic. This year will look slightly different from a logistical standpoint to account for our institutional COVID-19 protocols. Below are a few changes that we want to specifically highlight for Friday, February 12th. - Face coverings will be required for the duration of the event - There will be two sessions (outlined below) - Limited to 1,000 tickets for each session (presale tickets will be online at www.dwuathletics.com/ticketing and available at the door until capacity limits are reached) - Presale ticketing will go live at 9:00am on Saturday, January 30th at www.dwuathletics.com/ticketing - Corn Palace will be cleared between sessions - Tickets will be $8 for adults and $4 for K-12 students (ticket prices are per session) - All games will be streamed online at https://portal.stretchinternet.com/dwu/ or available on your local Mitchell Telecom channel **DWU Culver’s HS Girls Classic Matchups** SESSION 1 11:00am- Lyman vs. Howard 12:30pm- Jones County vs. Menno 2:00pm- Burke vs. Bridgewater-Emery 3:30pm- Herreid-Selby vs. Corsica-Stickney SESSION 2 *admission for SESSION 2 will start at 5:00pm* 5:30pm- Sioux Falls Christian vs. St. Thomas More 7:00pm- Kimball White Lake vs. Hanson 8:30pm- Viborg-Hurley vs. White River Additional Information - Second team listed will be the designated home team (light uniforms and north bench) - Locker room assignments will be posted upon your arrival - Minimum of 10 minute warm-up with armory available during game before yours (visiting team during halftime and home team during 3rd quarter) - Athletic Training will be on site for the duration of the day - School officials will be given a promo code to receive a set number of comped tickets - Food, beverage and t-shirts will be placed in your locker room at the conclusion of the game - There will be an MVP announced after each game. Please have your teams remain on the floor until this presentation is complete. - Buses are asked to park behind the Corn Palace - Team personnel will enter through the back doors of the Corn Palace - Boys Classic pairings will be announced Saturday, February 6th at 9:00am. Similar format and protocols are expected to be used. We appreciate your cooperation in helping keep our teams, spectators and event workers safe. We ask that respective school administrators/staff help enforce the protocols put forth by Dakota Wesleyan University and the Corn Palace during their respective schools contest.

Carly Herrboldt, Brady Fergen, Kaelea McCoy, and Kyle Kyriss received outstanding performance medals at the Region 1-B One Act Play contest in Sioux Falls on Wednesday, January 27th.

Good luck to the Wolves tonight as they travel to Corsica for the bball double header vs Corsica-Stickney. C team girls leave at 2:45, others leave 3:40 Girls C game 4:00 – Elem gym Girls JV 5:15 – Elem gym, Boys JV 5:15 – HS Gym Var boys 6:30 followed by varsity girls Corsica/Stickney has a mandatory mask policy. Anyone not on the court playing ball needs to wear a mask. Cheerleaders do not have to wear one when cheering.

Menno Quiz Bowl will be holding practices on Tuesday February 2nd for Middle School and Thursday February 4th for High School. Both will be at 7:30 in the morning. Students can enter through the south door.

Activities going on today and Saturday: Friday -Bball double header at Corsica-Stickney (at Corsica), C team girls leave at 2:45, others leave 3:40, Girls C game 4:00 – Elem gym, Girls JV 5:15 – Elem gym, Boys JV 5:15 – HS Gym, Var boys 6:30 followed by varsity girls. Watch the game online at http://jags.live/ Corsica/Stickney has a mandatory mask policy. Anyone not on the court playing ball needs to wear a mask. Cheerleaders do not have to wear one when cheering. Saturday - Wrestling Tour at Wagner 10:00, weigh-in 6:45 am in Freeman

Junior High Oral Interp starts now for seventh and eighth grade students who are interested. Students have started to choose pieces. Four categories are available - drama, humor, oratory, and poetry. This is a great activity for practicing theatrical and speaking skills.

Reminder FFA/FCCLA game night tonight in the Ag room at 6:30 pm

Activities going on today Thursday--FCCLA/FFA Game Night for members, 6:30 Ag room

Students are reminded that laptops belong in the cart when you are at lunch or if you need a place to put them during PE, Band or Chorus. They do not belong on the floor or in the bleachers with your book bags. They do not belong in the halls outside of the locker rooms during any athletic practices. Since it is also winter please remember that cold is hard on your laptop and battery. Please do not start a cold laptop but allow it to warm up first.

Congratulations to the cast and crew of “Pandemic” for bringing home second place at the Region 1-B contest yesterday. Congratulations to Brady F., Carly H., Kyle K., and Kaelea M. for receiving an outstanding performance medal.

Here is a link to the Yankton P & D article on "Pandemic" the one act play written and produced by the Menno High School students. https://www.yankton.net/community/article_7a596d64-6120-11eb-8194-33db58bbda14.html#tncms-source=signup

The Menno One Act Play, Pandemic, received the second place trophy at Regions today. They will be performing at the state contest on February 6 in Brookings.

Elementary students competed last week in a building contest for their PAWS Pass reward.

Elementary PE grades PreK, K, 1 had fun with a parachute and grades 2-6 are in their basketball unit. High School Health did a poll with grade 6-12 on "What would make you feel better about yourself"?

Maxwell had a great time making a tower out of cups, paper, straws, and tape. We broke into teams , got busy planning and building. A great time had by all!

The 2nd-4th grade students at Maxwell Colony are creating ABC books about South Dakota.

The 3rd graders have been working on finding the area and perimeter of different shapes in Math.

We started ACCESS testing today at Jamesville Colony!

Fifth grade has an English test over indefinite and reflexive pronouns on Thursday. Study the spelling words, practice test Thursday.