MAYWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOL

Striving for Excellence, Achieving Success

www.maywoodtigers.org

Trent Benjamin

Superintendent

1 Tiger Drive

PO BOX 46

Maywood, NE 69038

Phone: 308-362-4223

On January 12, the staff from Maywood Public Schools attended The Art and Science of Teaching, An Instruction-al Framework for Growing Teaching Effectiveness. The conference was put on by Dr. Phil Warrick. He travels around the United States and puts on conferences for the Marzano Academy. Dr. Warrick had some great infor-mation on communication with students, establishing classroom routines, segmenting lessons, processing con-tent, and many other topics were discussed on that day. Our teachers came back to school with some fresh ide-as to implement in their classrooms. It was a very beneficial day for everyone. On the activity side, we have a lot of activities taking place, national FFA week Feb. 22-26, Spelling Bee Feb 25th, the speech team is competing in meets the next few weeks, MPCC building competition, and the basketball sea-sons are winding down. The students and sponsors have put in a lot of time and effort and I would want to thank them for their efforts. Spring activities will be starting soon. Girls and boys track and boys golf will be starting practice very soon. There are track t-shirts for sale. The order forms can be picked up in the office. Please get out and support the MHC Wolves. Maywood Pride! Jason Brown, Principal/AD

February 2016

Upcoming Activities at MPS—

Tuesday, March 7, 2016—1:00 p.m. dismissal—High School Quiz Bowl at 1:30 p.m. in Maywood

Thursday, March 17, 2016—UNK Indoor Track Meet at 1:00 p.m.

Wednesday, March 23, 2016—No School—MHC Track Invite at McCook at 9:30 a.m.

Friday, April 22, 2016—School Carnival and Pancake Feed

Wednesday, April 27, 2016—Kindergarten Orientation

Monday, May 2, 2016—Academic Honors Night for grades 6—12 at 7:00 p.m. in Maywood.

Thursday, May 5, 2016—Spring Concert at 7:00 p.m.

Friday, May 6, 2016—Preschool Graduation at 10:00 a.m.

Thursday, May 12, 2016—Athletic Banquet for grades 9—12 at 6:00 p.m. in Hayes Center.

Friday, May 13, 2016—Elementary Honors and Field Day

Saturday, May 14, 2016—Graduation at 2:00 p.m.

Maywood Public School

March 2016

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 Spring FFA CDE #2 at NCTA

2 Booster Club meeting at 7:00 p.m.

3 NSAA Girls State BB Tour-ney

4 NSAA Girls State BB Tour-ney No School—Spring Break

5 NSAA Girls State BB Tour-ney Best of the West Speech Meet in North Platte

6 7 8 1:00 dismis-sal High School Quiz Bowl in Maywood at 1:30 p.m.

9 10 NSAA Boys State BB Tour-ney No School—Spring Break- Can Food Drive Day Off

11 NSAA Boys State BB Tour-ney No School—Spring Break

12 NSAA Boys State BB Tour-ney Jr. High Music at Ogallala District Speech at North Platte

13 Daylight Saving Time

14 15 End of 3rd Quarter

16 Spring Sports Photos NPCC Interhigh Day

17 UNK Indoor Track Meet at 1:00 p.m.

18 FFA Activate & Leverage Lead-ership Confer-ence

19 Class D All State Band FFA Activate & Leverage Leader-ship Conference

20 21 Farm Safe-ty Day for 5th & 6th graders at NCTA

22 RPAC In-strumental Clinic at May-wood. Clinic at 1:00 p.m. Con-cert at 7:00 p.m.

23 CALENDAR CHANGE—No School MHC Track In-vite at McCook at 9:30 a.m.

24 Senior Trip 25 Easter Break No School

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27 28 Easter Break No School

29 Maywood Jr. High Track Invite at 1:30 p.m.

30 Cambridge Golf Invite

High School ESU Quiz Bowl at MPCC ( Barnett Hall ) in McCook at 1:30 p.m. MCC Interhigh Day

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Eileen's Cookie forms will be given out to the students in March. We will sell cookies for two weeks. This school wide sales program gives the opportunity for children who have been burned to go

to summer camp. The students are picked by St. Elizabeth's Burn Center. Since we have been doing this fund raiser the students and community have sponsored 3 children a year. If you need more information on the cookie sales please contact Adrienne Johnson at home or at school. Thank you for your support!

Maywood Public School

April 2016

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 Pleasanton Track Meet at Kearney High School at 8:45 a.m.

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3 4 No School Teacher In-service

5 DCS Golf In-vite in Benkel-man at 9:00 a.m. DCS Track at 12:45 p.m. in Benkelman

6 State FFA Convention Jr. High Track Wallace Invite at Sutherland at 10:00 a.m.

7 State FFA Convention FBLA SLC in Omaha

8 State FFA Convention FBLA SLC in Omaha

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10 11 12 Arapahoe Golf Invite at 10:00 a.m. Elementary Quiz Bowl at 4:00 p.m. in Bartley

13 Jr. High Track—Hitchcock Co. Invite in Tren-ton at 9:00 a.m.

14 Medicine Valley Golf In-vite at 10:00 a.m.

15 Medicine Val-ley Track Invite at McCook at 9:30 a.m.

16 Prom

17 18 19 Wallace Track Invite at Sutherland at 3:00 p.m.

20 National Honor Society Induction at 2:45 p.m.

21 District Mu-sic Contest at McCook

22 Southwest Golf Invite at 10:00 a.m. in Cambridge School Carnival

23 Maywood School Spring Clean Up at 9:00 a.m.

24 25 FFA Ban-quet

26 Jr. High Track at 10:00 a.m. South Loup Invite at Arnold.

27 Kindergar-ten Orientation

28 RPAC Golf Meet at 10:00 a.m. in McCook

29 RPAC Track at 11:00 a.m. in Arapa-hoe

30 5th/6th Grade Holdrege Music Festival

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

1 Burritos Cheese—Salsa Spanish Rice Corn Fruit

2 Hamburgers Oven Fries Tomato & Pickle Slices Fruit Dessert

3 Lasagna Roll-Ups Green Beans Fruit Bread Stick

4 No School

7 Ham Patty Sand-wich Macaroni & Cheese Peas Fruit

8 Italian Dunkers Meat Sauce Cheesy Bread Green Beans Fruit

9 Chicken Quesadillas Black Beans—Salsa Spanish Rice Corn Fruit

10 No School 11 No School

14 Beef Tacos Cheese—Salsa Refried Beans Corn Fruit

15 Mini Corndogs Macaroni & Cheese Peas Fruit

16 Chili Soup Crackers Cheddar Cheese Stick Veggie Sticks Peaches Cinnamon Roll

17 Chicken & Gravy over Biscuits Broccoli Fruit Pudding

18 Cheese Pizza Green Beans Pasta Salad Fruit

21 Hot dog or Chili Dog Oven Fries Fruit Dessert

22 Scalloped Pota-toes with Ham Peas Fruit Dinner Roll

23 No School

24 Chicken Tacos Cheese—Salsa Refried Beans Corn Fruit

25 No School Easter Break

28 No School Easter Break

29 Meatball Subs Smilie Fries Fruit Dessert

30 Breaded Chicken Sandwich Baked Beans Tomato Slices Fruit

31 Spaghetti with Meat Sauce Green Beans Fruit Garlic Bread

MAYWOOD PUBLIC SCHOOL MARCH 2016 LUNCH MENU

Maywood Public School is an equal opportunity provider. In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights

regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from

discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conduct-

ed or funded by USDA.

Sunday, March 13, 2016—Daylight Saving Time

Don’t forget to set your clocks forward one hour

before you go to sleep Saturday evening.

Joey Nielsen is the son of Chris and Christy Nielsen.

He has three brothers, Phillip, Steve and Adam. He

also has one sister, Carol.

Joey’s future plans are undecided.

Favorite Food: Steak

Favorite Movie: Die Hard

Favorite Teacher: Mr. Carroll

Joey’s favorite High School memory is playing foot-

ball his Senior year.

His advice to underclassmen is “Don’t sleep in class

and always do your homework.”

Good Luck Joey with your future plans.

Senior Spotlight

Calyn Werkmeister is the son of Dennis and Ila Werkmeister.

He has four brothers, Dakota, Spencer, Mike & Scott.

Calyn plans to attend Joseph’s College of Hair Design in North

Platte and become a Barber.

Favorite Food: Steak

Favorite Movie: The Fault in our Stars

Favorite Teacher: Mr. Kennedy

Calyn’s favorite High School memories are from State FBLA.

His activities include FBLA, Quiz Bowl, Basketball, Football and

Track.

Calyn is also a member of the National Honor Society.

His advice to underclassmen is whatever you are doing, do it

with maximum effort.

Best Wishes Calyn for a successful future!

Class of

2 0 1 6

The Maywood Hayes Center Boys Basketball team,

Students Managers and Coaches cheer on the Lady

Wolves at the D1-11 Sub-districts in Gothenburg on

Tuesday, February 16th. The Lady Wolves fell short

in competition vs. the South Loup Bobcats. The final

score was 40-30. This wraps up the season for the

MHC girls basketball team. Thank you to all of the

Players, Coaches and Student Managers for all of

your hard work and determination. Thank you Par-

ents and Fans for all of your support. #GOWOLVES

February 2016

On Tuesday, February 16th, the Maywood Junior High Quiz Bowl team headed down to Southwest High School in Bartley, Nebraska and put their brains to the test. Throughout the entire competition they battled hard, and came out with their guns blazing, constantly keep-ing their finger on the buzzer. Their focus was sharp and their eyes were on the prize. Heading into the final round of the round-robin style tournament the team held a perfect 8-0 record. At the end of the day, all their hard work certainly paid off as they earned a silver medal.

The future certainly looks bright for these young students. The stu-dents that aided in this valiant effort were comprised of Eli Hand-saker, Parker Johnston, Karlie Gerlach, Maci Sorge, Nolan Benjamin, and Matthew Jacobs. If you see any of these students please be sure to congratulate them on their success!

Written by Bryar Gerlach

And the silver medal

goes to…

Spring Activity Pictures

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

It’s that time of year when seniors are thinking about their futures.

Last month, Isaiah Smith was doing just that. He and Mrs. Phyllis

Johnson attended the “Set Sail” day at North Platte Community Col-

lege. Different speakers talked about setting your goals. Chris

Turner from the college spoke about getting your boat together and

setting your sights on your goals. He also wanted students to have a

support system in place for college and their lives. Dustin Elliott, the

Rough Stock Rodeo Coach at the college, stressed how important it is

to have a list of goals you have written for yourself. Create short and

long term goals. Look at those goals every day and change some of

them as needed. People don’t have to be attending classes to have

goals, they’re for everyone. A student from Mullen also talked about

the importance of goals. He had made some bad decisions earlier in

his school years and now realized that he needed to get his act to-

gether for his future. His motto was, “Set yourself up for success,” by

choosing goals in life. Everyone should have goals. The day was full

of good advice.

Congratulations to

all of the

Maywood

Honor Roll Students.

Great Job! Keep up

the hard work!

Maywood FFA News

Dedicated-one word to describe the members of the Maywood FFA Chapter. Those students preparing for spring CDE’s arrive at school at 7:00 a.m. every Tuesday and Thursday mornings studying and looking for the next district title. Some members have already punched their ticket to compete at state and others are still working hard for that goal.

FFA members competed in the first set of spring Career Development Events (CDE’s) in Curtis on February 10th. The floricul-ture team of Marisa Foster, 1st individual, Bailey Brown, blue ribbon, Kayla Minary, blue ribbon, & Tate Hartley, white rib-bon, placed 2nd and will compete at the state contest in April. Members had to identify flowers and equipment used for floral arrangements, complete a general knowledge exam over floriculture basics, and create a bud vase arrangement. The livestock management team consisting of Bailey Brown, Bryar Gerlach, Tucker Hartley, Pake Johnston, Kaely Perkins, & Von Fritsche also competed. The team finished 7th in an event with tough competition. This is a unique contest as team mem-bers complete the entire contest together. Each team takes a general knowledge test over dairy, beef, sheep, swine, poul-try, & horses. Other components of the contest included milk tasting, feed identification, egg grading, breed id, leg confor-mation, body condition scoring, and wholesale meat cuts. Other happenings from the month of February included the re-view of State Degrees and Proficiency Applications. Bryar Gerlach received a gold rating for his proficiency application in swine production entrepreneurship. His application will be reviewed at the state level later this month. Proficiency Awards recognize the development of technical knowledge and skills that students develop through their Supervised Agricultural Experience programs.

Upcoming events for members include the next set of CDE contest on March 1st in Curtis. Teams that will be competing are nursery and landscape, vet science, and meats evaluation. March 4th, the Eustis-Farnam FFA Chapter will host their annual CDE contest with agronomy, food science, and meats evaluation. Students will also have the opportunity to attend the Ac-tivate & Leverage leadership conference in Kearney facilitated by the Nebraska State Officers on March 18-19. As always, if you have a special skill or would like to help in or out of the Ag classroom, please let any of the FFA members or Miss Arm-strong know!

Did you enjoy the chocolates and candies from our fruit sales this year? Wish you could get more meat and cheese? YOU ARE IN LUCK! 4 Seasons Fundraising is allowing our chapter to sell items online from February 19-29th. Students won’t be selling items door to door but will send emails out if interested. You purchase directly through the company on their web-site and the items get shipped directly to you. If you would like to order more goodies, let any FFA member know or con-tact Miss Armstrong at 362-4223. We can assist you with the ordering process.

Thank you to those who supported the Maywood FFA Chapter Annual Pork Loin Dinner in January!

Pictured above is the Floriculture Team - Tate Hartley, Bailey Brown, Kayla Minary & Marisa Foster.

February 2016

MPS results for RPAC Art contest held in

Cambridge on January 20, 2016

Medal Winner: Bailey Brown for her art project titled

“Lion”. Bailey used acrylics and regular inks.

First Honorable Mention was also awarded to Bailey Brown

for “Lilo & Stitch” (pictured below) She used acrylic paints.

The technique in this particular project was called pointil-

lism.

Second Honorable Mention to Jace Walther for his ink pro-

ject “Duck”.

Third Honorable Mention to Calyn Werkmeister for “Robot”

Calyn used acrylic paints.

Bailey Brown and her Medal winning project, “Lion”.

MPS Pre-school class flying kites!

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Maywood NE 69038

Postal Patron

We have had some exciting career opportunities happening here at MHS! On March 7th, 7 of our stu-

dents will travel to McCook, NE to a Community Career Day sponsored by McCook Community Hospital.

The students will choose sessions that they are interested in learning about in the healthcare field. Ra-

diology, Nursing, Physical Therapy, Surgery, and Pharmacy are some of the exciting careers explored.

The students will tour different departments of the hospital as well.

These next few months are filled with activities to keep our spring season busy here at school. On

March 16th a number of 9-12 students will travel to North Platte Community College Interhigh Day and

on March 30th to McCook Community College. The students will take tests and be involved in content

specific activities on the college campus. They have the opportunity to win scholarships and awards by

scoring in the top 3. Many different schools participate in these academic competitions, so it is always a

great experience for our students.

Kimberly Stengel

School Counselor

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.