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7th Grade Mousetrap Car Tournament

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The Mousetrap Car Tournament champion was Hally Johnson, followed by Toby Scherbarth in second place, and Mia Skinner coming in third. The object of the lesson was for students each to create a vehicle that was solely powered by an unmodified mousetrap. The vehicle was to be no longer than 18 inches and no wider than 10 inches. Students were encouraged to decorate their vehicles but the mousetrap couldn’t be decorated or altered in anyway. Students were able to earn points based on how closely they followed the project guidelines; those winning the tournament earned extra credit.

6th Grader Reader’s Theater

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During December the sixth graders practiced on three different Reader’s Theater Plays: “Christmas Truce”, “Reindeer Names”, and “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas”. On Tuesday, we performed the plays “Christmas Truce” and “Reindeer Names” for the elementary students.

The “Christmas Truce” is a play set during World War I. A group of German and Britain soldiers agreed to a truce. They decided that there would be no shooting over Christmas. During the truce they exchanged items. The British soldiers were writing letters describing the truce to their families back home. Next we performed “Reindeer Names” by Kathryn Reedy. “Reindeer Names” is a play about how Santa’s Reindeer got their names.

Wednesday, we performed “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” by Dr. Seuss. The Grinch was played by Jordyn Anderson. This play was about a Grinch who tried to steal Christmas but did not succeed. The Grinch realized that Christmas is about giving not just receiving and about the people who we celebrate Christmas with.

We would like to thank the classes who attended and everyone who helped make our plays a success. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

by Alexa, Ava, Gabby, Abbey, Anthony, Gage, Jarhett, Noah K, Noah Y, Taden, & Jordyn

Student Council Sponsors Food Drive

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HSPS got into the spirit of the season this week when students and teachers donated food items to the Good Neighbor of Hay Springs. The group was challenged to bring as many items as possible. Classes were competing against one another for a 2-hour early release for Thursday before break. Teachers were promised to get a one-hour late start for their next staff in-service. Seventh graders took high honors and will enjoy an early out; teachers also made their goal and will be rewarded at the next teacher in-service. The Good Neighbor is always in need of items, especially during this time of year. Mrs. Marx and students rallied together and loaded the goods into the suburban and took a trip to the Good Neighbor where more volunteers waited to start putting holiday baskets together for needy families. What a difference a little time and effort can make in the lives of so many. Happy holidays to all from all of us at HSPS!

Personal Finance Challenge

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Hay Springs High School Students competed in the Fall Finance Challenge!

The Finance Challenge is sponsored by the Nebraska Council on Economic Education. The challenge promotes budgeting and general financial literacy in a competitive environment.

We had two teams that competed in the Fall Finance challenge which is a computerized test where students compete against other Nebraska teams. Hay Springs teams competed against 385 other high school teams. Our Accounting 1 team which was comprised of Kaelob Marx, Mattie Johnson, Erin Kadlecek and Payton Schoenhals placed second place winning $20 each. Our second team Personal Finance 1 was comprised of Sam Kearns, Addie Regier, and Thomas Scherbarth and they ranked 92nd in the High School Division.

Students will also compete in the Spring competition in late March. If the students are in the top five in the region they will advance to the regional competition and then on to the National Competition.

New Apparel In Hawks Store

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The Hawk Store will be at the Santa Soup Cook off with new apparel. We will have kid’s hoodies and t-shirts available in the colors pink and gray. For adults we have hoodies, long sleeve t-shirts, and short sleeve t-shirts available in Pink, Dark Green, and Dark Heather. We also will have available for adults ¼ zip jackets available in Dark Green, Yellow, and White.

Price list for the new apparel is as follows:

Item Sizes Price
Youth T- shirts Youth Small thru Youth Large $10
Youth Hoodies Youth Small thru Youth Large $20
Adult T-shirts Small thru X-Large $10
Adult T-shirts 2 X-Large and 3 X-Large $13
Adult Long Sleeve T-shirts Small thru X-Large $15
Adult Long Sleeve T-shirts 2 X-Large and 3 X-Large $18
Adult Hooded Sweatshirt Small thru X-Large $25
Adult Hooded Sweatshirt 2 X-Large and 3 X-Large $28
Adult ¼ zip Jacket Small thru X-Large $32
Adult ¼ zip Jacket 2 X-Large and 3 X-Large $35

In addition, we will also have Hawks Playoff shirts, cups, hats, headbands, and few other clearance items.

 

 

Equine Visitor

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First Grade is working on a Social Studies unit about Life Long Ago. We conducted interviews of family members to find out what life was like long (or longer) ago. We learned from our interviews many things such as how some people rode horses to school longer ago. We were fortunate to have a pony visit us this week! Goliath quickly made friends with everyone in our class and also made a visit to the PreK class as well. It was a great experience and we now have many horse enthusiasts! Thank you to the Gaswick family for sharing Goliath with us.

Veteran’s Day Program 2017

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The annual Hay Springs Public School Veteran’s Day Program took place on November 9th, 2017 in the High School Auditorium.  Thank you to our Veterans and all those who attended! Here is a recording of this event:

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