Catching Up on January Activities

The second graders enjoyed participating with Luther College students in January. The Luther students led activities that focused on the six Character Counts pillars: caring, fairness,respect, responsibility, trustworthiness and citizenship. They played and built projects with the Luther students on the playground during afternoon recess. The students built a huge face and outlined it with food coloring. They also hung oranges in the trees to share with our feathered friends.

Mrs. Schwartzhoff and Miss Cooperman from Helping Services for Northeast Iowa are presenting a substance abuse prevention program called Puppet Pals to the 2nd graders. The six half-hour lessons are taught through the use of six lovable puppets. The concepts are sharing their feelings, peer pressure, good decision making, coping skills, alcohol and nicotine are drugs, and asking for help for any kind of problem. The students really enjoy the puppet plays and stories!

The students from 2nd grade and 6th grade presented the play "The Sneetches" for the January Character Counts assembly. The Sneetches who had stars on their bellies thought they were the best Sneetches on the beach until Sylvester McBean came along with his machine. It took stars off and put stars on and in the end all the Sneetches were confused and decided the stars did not make a difference. The Pillar of Character for January was fairness!