WILLIAMS STREET JOURNAL

Special Points of Interest:

Twin Loup Christmas

Concert, December 8th

@ 7:30 in Loup County

FBLA Soup Supper,

December 8th, 5-7pm

Preschool/Elementary

Christmas Program, De-

cember 19th @ 7pm

FFA LSE’s, December

14th @ Sargent

Last Day of 2nd Quarter,

December 21st

Christmas Break Decem-

ber 22nd-January 4th

In This Issue

Community News, What’s New, Music Notes, Envi-ronmental Science 2,3

Veterans Day Essay Win-ners 4,5

Veterans Day Essay Win-ner, TL Sports 6,7

Mystery Student, Senior Spotlight , Menu 8,9

Activities Calendar 10

K-6 singing at the 1026 Veterans Day Program

Extra, Extra Read all About it!

Veteran’s Day Program On Friday, November, 11th the school held a Veterans Day program! It was filled

with the Twin Loup Band, K-6 stole the show with their outstanding singing abili-

ties, and we heard some wonderful patriotic speeches. Speech winners in the jun-

ior high were: Keegan 3rd place, Dean 2nd place, and Gray 1st place. Our Speech

I winners were Grace 4th, JD 3rd, Jordan 2nd, and Austin 1st. Congratulations to

you all. We would just like to thank everyone who has and who continues to serve

our country. We are forever grateful for their service to our country. We can never

thank YOU enough!

Loup County Public Schools December 2016

RESPECT RESPONSIBILITY RESULTS

From the Superintendent’s Desk

What a great start to the school year. The pre-kindergarten, a new program this year, is up and running. These students are such a delightful addition to the school environment. Mrs. Klanecky is working with the six students in that group and it is just amazing how each has adjusted to going to school. In addition to the six pre-kindergarten students the school has seen eight new students enroll since the first week of school.

As the month of December approaches I would remind parents it signals the end of the first semester of the school year. I would ask that you take advantage of the Power School Stu-dent Information System to track your student(s) grades. This allows opportunity for you to offer encouragement and motivation to the student. The information from Power School can also generate topics of communication with your student as well as with the teacher if the need arises. Power School is just a great way to stay abreast of your student's academic endeavors before the end of the grading period and you see the grades for the first time on the report card. I encourage you to take advantage of this process so both the home and the school can work together to help your student have greater success in school.

December also brings the start of the winter activity season with many nights scheduled for activities. The December calendar is full of music programs, girls and boys basketball games, wrestling meets and the start of speech. Even in this busy time of year we must remind stu-dents that activities are a great opportunity to be involved in but are not an excuse to slack off in their academic efforts. Time management is essential. Students often need parental ad-vice in staying on top of their "game".

I would remind you that school is dismissed at 2:00 on December 22 for the start of Christmas Break and it will resume on January 4 at 8:00 with a regular school day. So as Christmas draws near, Teresa, Raif and I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a joyous holi-day season. Remember in all the business and activities what the real reason for the season is and may your families be richly blessed.

LOUP COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL --- RESPECT, RESPONSIBLITY and RESULTS.

What’s New at LCPS...

Preschool Preschool is exploring the different colors and temperatures of Fall. In class,

they're working on different types of patterns, counting, and writing their names.

And just started a unit about balls. We are learning about how they are made, if

they can roll, what they weigh, if they bounce, the different sizes there, etc. Explor-

ing through play is our favorite way to learn. -Ashley Klanecky

Family Reading/Math Night Family Reading & Math Night was Tuesday, November 15, at the Loup County

Elementary. Students K - 6 and their family members came and enjoyed an even-

ing of fun and learning! Thank you to everyone who came, it was a great time!

FFA The Loup County FFA has started their annual fruit sales! Everyone is off to a great start and everyone has a goal they want to reach. Fruit sales started in late

October and will end on November 18th. 8 members of the Loup County Chapter attended the District Edge Leadership Conference in Loup City on November 3rd. The students met and listened to 3 Nebraska State Officers and attended two hour

leadership programs. The whole FFA Chapter has been preparing hard for the LSE’s on December 14th in Sargent. They are working hard and are ready to achieve great things! -Emily

From the Art Room Educationquest instigated a day for seniors to sign up for the college of their choice. On October 11, 2016 Loup County seniors had a Sign up for College Day! The staff joined the fun by wearing clothing from their individual alumni. All five seniors involved have received one or more acceptance letters! Congratulations seniors! 7th and 8th Grade Art Students had a Michelangelo day. They painted upside down under the tables just like Michelangelo! The students thought that it was very difficult to do and messy! The students did a great job and we have some good Halloween master pieces.

Community

News

Winter Coat Drive The Prairie Rose food pantry is

having a winter coat drive for those

in need. Please leave clean winter

coats, gloves and hats in front of

pantry at 406 2nd St. in Taylor and

someone will check daily to put

them inside. You can also drop

them off at the bank, school, and

churches in Taylor until December

13th. These will be given out on

December 14th at the Food Pantry

from 4:30-6:30pm. We appreciate

all the support!

Students at District Edge Leadership Conference

Preschool students enjoying life inside and outside of the classroom!

Other News

FBLA will be doing a soup supper

December 8th before the concert!

5-7pm! More details to come, just

make sure to mark your calendars!

MNAC Vocal Clinic

The Twin Loup SR High

choir members attended the

MNAC East Vocal Clinic in

Callaway on Monday, Oct.

24th. They joined a 75 mem-

ber choir made up of stu-

dents from Ansley, Arnold,

Anselmo-Merna, Brady,

Callaway and of course the

Sargent/Taylor Music Co-

op. Students spent the day

working under the direction

of Mr. Josh Hughes from

the Amherst Public

Schools. At 5:30 PM a con-

cert was presented for a

very nice crowd of friends

and families.

Songs done at the clinic this

year were: Kuimba!

(Come!) by Victor Johnson;

Song for the Unsung Hero,

by Pamela and Joseph

Martin; Gentle Annie by

Dennis Eliot; I Am A Small

Part of the World by Jay

Althhouse; Fields of Gold

by Sting (Girls song); My

Heart’s in the Highlands by

Robert Burns and Lon Ber-

ry; and Let There Be Peace

by Andy Beck.

Music Notes

The Twin Loup Co-op Band has been very busy the past few weeks. We have

entertained at football half-times for 5 games this year. It’s true that we are rotat-

ing the same songs each time, but there is a limit of what we can play with the

instrumentation that is available during the games. Hopefully we can work some

new songs into our arsenal as basketball season approaches. It was great of

Hunter Kraus to help us out during the Homecoming Pep Rally. Thank you!

Both the 7-12 band and the K-6 students spent a lot of time preparing songs for

the Veterans’ Day Program on November 11th. The band presented songs by two

famous American March Kings: Carl King and John Phillip Sousa. They kept eve-

ryone’s toes tapping as they played Torch of Liberty March and an arrangement

of Stars and Stripes Forever.

The Kindergarten, First and Second grade students presented their own song: A-

M-E-R-I-C-A, then all the elementary performed American Heart. The Third,

Fourth, Fifth and Sixth grades then finished the musical portion of the morning

with a rousing selection of songs representing the Armed Forces called Military

Medley. We hope everyone enjoyed hearing these songs as much as the kids

loved singing them.

Environmental Science Project

Each year students in environmental science are required to do a second quarter project that could possibly reduce the consumption of fossil fuels. This year’s class has three students: Braden, Brady, and Austin. They decided to work togeth-er on a project to see if a one cylinder four stroke gasoline engine could run suffi-ciently on just petroleum fumes. They used a gallon jug, a one inch diameter clear hose, half inch diameter acetylene hose, a number six size rubber cork, duck tape, hot glue and very minimal petrol. This mechanism works by connecting the hose to the top of the bottle and running it directly into the intake. Also in the bottle the inch diameter hose runs to the bottom with holes drilled in plug to make the petrol bubble as the intake pulls air and fuel. The direct cause of this function is for the piston to compress and ignite just the fumes instead of liquid petroleum. This could reduce fossil fuel consumption by using just the fumes and less liquid fuel. When a motor runs on just the fumes, it is more efficient because it takes very little gas to make a lot of fumes. The students learned many things while doing this project. Brady learned “how the piston can ignite just by fumes and not just the liquid fuel.” Braden learned “that it takes a lot more air than fuel to ignite inside the cylinder so the tube size for the intake of fresh air needed to be substantially big-ger than the output tube.” Austin learned “how to use a lot of duck tape.” -Braden, Brady, & Austin

Environmental Science Project engineered by Braden, Brady, & Austin

Garrett, 5th grade tied for 1st in essay contest,

“The America I believe In”

Hunter Kraus

David, 5th grade tied for 1st in essay contest,

“The America I believe In”

Twin Loup Sports

Wolves are State Bound The Twin Loup Wolves are STATE BOUND! After a nail biting finish against Blue

Hill and a great defensive showing against Sandhills/Thedford our boys are head-

ed to Memorial Stadium! For the first time in Twin Loup history we are sending a

team to the State Championship. Twin Loup has had a major history making sea-

son so far with an undefeated season at 12-0 and qualifying for state. Lets cheer

on the Wolves in Memorial Stadium during the Championship game against the

Falls City Sacred Heart Irish. Go Wolves! -Whitney

Girls Basketball Starts The Twin Loup Lady Wolves are ready to start the 2016-17 Basketball season.

The Lady Wolves will have an early focus on shooting, ball handling, and condi-

tioning this season while Coach Kozeal and the Wolves finish up their football

season in Lincoln. Coach Allen thinks that our keys to success will be the large

amount of returning starters and letter winners on our team. The team has hopes

for a winning record this season, as well as a good showing in districts and possi-

bly becoming a state qualifying team. The Twin Loup Lady Wolves will hit the

hardwood December 2nd, in Callaway, hope to see everyone there! -Whitney

Volleyball wraps up...

For Twin Loup Lady Wolves volleyball sub districts we played Ewing in Ord. Our girls came out on fire winning the first two sets. The third set was close, but sadly they couldn’t pull through. During the fourth set it started out close. We got the

lead and came out on top to advance to the second round. The second game of the night was against St. Mary’s where our girls played hard and tough but unfor-tunately came out with a loss ending there season. We want to thank everyone for

their support this season! GO WOLVES! -Hailey

Junior High Sports

JH Boys Wrestling Junior High wrestling has started and the boys are excited for the season. Their first meet was held at Burwell on

November 10th. Weston had one win and two losses. Dean had 2 wins and no losses. Keegan had one win and

two losses. They will be competing again in Mullen on Friday November 18th. Good luck boys! -Emily

JH Girls Basketball

For girls JH basketball this year they

have about 16 girls out, 6 from Taylor and 10 from Sargent. The girls started practices about a week ago. They

don’t have their first game till January so they have a little more than a month to learn all their plays and work on

fundamentals. –Hailey

Proud of our Lady Wolves

Wolves are STATE BOUND

Mystery

Student...

Can you guess which

LCPS student this is?

Favorite food?

Mac & Cheese

If you could have any

magic power, what would

it be?

Read people’s mind.

How many family mem-

bers do you have?

4 & 2 half sisters

Do you shave your legs?

Why?

Yes , I am a girl

What is your favorite hob-

by?

Painting

Last Month’s Secret Student

Hunter Kraus

Class of 2016

Senior Spotlight

Emily

What are your future plans?

Attend Hastings Central Community College

Most memorable moment at LCPS?

Having such fun classmates!

What will you remember most about

LCPS?

All the amazing memories and the wonderful

people

What advice would you give other stu-

dents?

Always keep a positive mindset and respect

others.

December 2016

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

Keep update with the

school calendar online

for changes!

http://

www.loupcountyschools.org/

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2

BB @Callaway-

6/7:30

Wrestling

@Ravenna-1:00

3

BB @Taylor vs.

Sandhills/Thedford-

6/7:30

4

5

JH Wrestling

@Merna-11:00

6

7

8

Twin Loup Concert

@Taylor 7:30

FBLA Soup Sup-

per 5-7:00

9

BB @Stuart-6/7:30

Wrestling

@Sargent-1:00

10

BB @Sargent vs.

Brady-6/7:30

Wrestling @Merna-

10:00

11 12

13

BB @Litchfield-

6/7:30

14

FFA District Lead-

ership Skills

@Sargent

Board Meeting

7:00

15

16

BB @Stapleton-

6/7:30

17

Wrestling @Elgin-9:30

18 19

K-6 Christmas Con-

cert-7:00

20

BB @Sargent vs.

Burwell-6/7:30

Wrestling

@Greeley-5:00

21

End of 2nd Quar-

ter

Christmas Break-

2:00 Dismissal

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23

5 Day Moratorium

24

No Practice

25

No Practice

26

No Practice

27

No Practice

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School resumes January

4th @ 8am

December 2016