Superintendent Message High School Principal DECEMBER 2015 NEWSLETTER ADRIANSD.COM CALENDAR ASVAB Test for Junior & Seniors, Dec 1 RSD Friday, Dec. 4 Christmas Concert, K-5 at 2:00pm; MS/HS at 7:00pm Dec. 7 RSD Friday, Dec. 11 Full Friday School, Dec. 18 End of Semester 1, Dec. 18 The facilities meeting, which had been set for November 23, has been postponed. Not enough information and/or planning are available at this time. We most likely will meet in January, 2016. I’ll keep you, our community, posted on this important item. Congratulations to our fall teams and coaches. You have done a very nice job. The Antelopes represented themselves and our school very well at the State Play-offs. A strong turnout of Antelope supporters turned out for games against Powers and Crane. These young men, and their coaches, deserve our encouragement and thankfulness. They spend long hours and have been totally dedicated to being ‘the best’. At the Adrian School, we have administrators, teachers, and support staff who ‘love kids’ and ‘love’ their jobs. This leads to a school climate that is inclusive and pro- ductive. ‘Thank You’, Adrian staff, for all that you do. Your hard work is appreciated. Antelopes forever, Gene Mills The first half of the year is winding down and the semester will come to a close in only three and a half weeks. It has been a very good first half of the year and we’re hoping that we can all finish the semester in strong fashion. A few highlights worth mentioning include the fact that once again this year we had student representation at the Honor Band and Honor Choir festival held at Northwest Nazarene University. Haylee Richardson, Mariah Richardson and Qim Tolman were selected to participate along with other students from Eastern Oregon and Western Idaho. The girl’s volleyball team finished second in league, as well as, a second place finish at the district tournament in John Day. After a hard fought victory over Butte Falls, the girls fell to the eventual number two at the state tourney, Hosanna Christian. Our football team won their fourth consecutive High Desert League Championship and advanced to the semi-finals before falling to a very good Crane Mustang team. The boys had won 21 consecutive games, and 28 of their last 30 games. Congratulations to the players and coaches on a great run! I hope that you are all able to enjoy the little break that we will have and that you can find some things to be thankful for. I know that I have been truly blessed and I am thankful that I live in such a wonderful community and work with the out- standing students, teachers and families of Adrian! Have a great Thanksgiving! December 7th K-5 at 2:00 MS/HS at 7:00 HS Gym
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Superintendent Message
High School Principal
D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 5 N E W S L E T T E R A D R I A N S D . C O M
C AL E N D AR
ASVAB Test for
Junior & Seniors,
Dec 1
RSD Friday, Dec. 4
Christmas Concert,
K-5 at 2:00pm;
MS/HS at 7:00pm
Dec. 7
RSD Friday, Dec. 11
Full Friday School,
Dec. 18
End of Semester 1,
Dec. 18
The facilities meeting, which had been set for November 23, has been postponed. Not enough information and/or planning are available at this time. We most likely will meet in January, 2016. I’ll keep you, our community, posted on this important item. Congratulations to our fall teams and coaches. You have done a very nice job. The Antelopes represented themselves and our school very well at the State Play-offs. A strong turnout of Antelope supporters turned out for games against Powers and Crane. These young men, and their coaches, deserve our encouragement and thankfulness. They spend long hours and have been totally dedicated to being ‘the best’. At the Adrian School, we have administrators, teachers, and support staff who ‘love kids’ and ‘love’ their jobs. This leads to a school climate that is inclusive and pro-ductive. ‘Thank You’, Adrian staff, for all that you do. Your hard work is appreciated. Antelopes forever, Gene Mills
The first half of the year is winding down and the semester will come to a close in only three and a half weeks. It has been a very good first half of the year and we’re hoping that we can all finish the semester in strong fashion. A few highlights worth mentioning include the fact that once again this year we had student representation at the Honor Band and Honor Choir festival held at Northwest Nazarene University. Haylee Richardson, Mariah Richardson and Qim Tolman were selected to participate along with other students from Eastern Oregon and Western Idaho. The girl’s volleyball team finished second in league, as well as, a second place finish at the district tournament in John Day. After a hard fought victory over Butte Falls, the girls fell to the eventual number two at the state tourney, Hosanna Christian. Our football team won their fourth consecutive High Desert League Championship and advanced to the semi-finals before falling to a very good Crane Mustang team. The boys had won 21 consecutive games, and 28 of their last 30 games. Congratulations to the players and coaches on a great run! I hope that you are all able to enjoy the little break that we will have and that you can find some things to be thankful for. I know that I have been truly blessed and I am thankful that I live in such a wonderful community and work with the out-standing students, teachers and families of Adrian! Have a great Thanksgiving!
December 7th
K-5 at 2:00
MS/HS at 7:00
HS Gym
Math 30 Seconds
“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” (Henry J. Keiser) We will repeat some of the problem-solving strategies suggested earlier with the added emphasis on the fact that all successful strategies de-mand active and concentrated thinking on the part of the problem solver. Guess and check. Look for a pattern. Make a diagram or model. Act it out. Work back-wards. Simplify the problem. Eliminate possi-bilities. Make a systematic list. Get advice or do research. Sleep on it. (Paul Giganti “Making Math Part of Your Family’s Life” The Oregon Mathematics Teacher, December 2003) If parents remind students of these strategies and use timely questions, they may be able to assist their student in mathematics without knowing the math content. In fact par-ents may be able to learn some math. T.S.
The month of November is a special one! The feast of Thanksgiving and gathering of love ones; State High School Football Playoffs—Go ‘Lopes; and honoring those who serve and/or have served our country as a member of the armed forces. With a focus on Veterans Day, the student body enlisted the help of the first, third and fourth grade clas-ses to write letters to our community veterans. With help from high school leadership students, we created posters and hung them around town expressing our appreciation for the brave men and women choosing to help protect our lives and freedoms. ASB and Leadership supported the Green Light a Vet program by sending home letters and a green lightbulb with students in an effort to show support and appreciation to our veterans. Leadership also went out to the community and passed out green lightbulbs and cookies and thank you notes to vets. We noticed a lot of green lights shining throughout the community. We wish to thank all veterans, your service is commendable and we graciously thank each and every one of you! Adrian ASB members have been busy with various school projects and assemblies. Michael Griffin hosted a town hall meeting for the Owyhee Canyonlands. ASB members assisted him in hosting the all the digni-taries from around the county and state at the event. Approximately 600 people were in attendance at the meeting. ASB also assisted with the PTO Halloween Carnival, which was enjoyed by all who attended. Adrian Football and Volleyball teams completed their seasons. Both teams competed at the State Play-offs. Congratulations are in order for both squads. -Erin Nielson, ASB reporter
Seniors and Parents of Seniors Christmas break is a great time to begin work-ing on the FAFSA(Free Application for Federal Student Aid). Go to www.fafsa.gov to begin the process, you can use estimates of your resources and income until your tax infor-mation is available in January. The sooner this process is begun the better chance you have to get federal student aid. There will also be a free FAFSA workshop in January at TVCC. I will get word to the seniors when I have a firm date. This is a free workshop where you can get help with financial aid and filling out the FAFSA.
The PTO put on a great Halloween carnival. They also have planned some educational field trips for our further Fridays. Our Librarian, Elma Witty, has arranged for an Author to come for an assembly this Wednesday. OBOB (Oregon Battle of the Books) practice has started for the students. Every Monday morning awards are being given out to the students for their reading efforts. We have a family portrait fund raiser going on this month. Our K-8 students and staff are excited about supporting our High School football team as it defends its State Title Championship. Thanks for all of your support. William H. Ellsworth K-8 Principal
Among the new books currently availa-ble in the library are the following:
· Wings of Fire series by Tui Sutherland
· Kill Order by James Dashner (prequel to the Maze Runner series)
· The Heir by Kiera Cass (book 4 of the Selection series)
· The Prince and The Guard by Kiera Cass (Selection series novella)
· Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School by Jeff Kinney (10
th book
in the series) Books from the following series have been ordered using credits earned from book fair sales. They should be availa-ble next month. Several other books that are not part of a series have also been ordered.
· Fly Guy · Bad Kitty · Dear Dragon · Dork Diaries · Dragon Masters · Elephant & Piggie · Ever After High · Humphrey Adventures · I Survived · Nancy Clancy · Ricky Ricotta · Spirit Animals · Lunar Chronicles · Baby-Sitters Club graphic
novels Also available next month will be the first 4 books of the Oracle series written by C. W. Trisef. Trisef came to Adrian on November 18 and intrigued middle school and high school students by de-scribing some of the mysteries encoun-tered by the characters in his books.
Kindergarten Juan Rico—Outstanding Focus Katie Osborn—Excellent Listener Grade 1 Lane Zeigler & Trey Baye—Super AR Readers Abraham Robles—Excellent Math Effort Grade 2 Brylie Eggebeen—Most Improved Reader Evelynne Ditmer—Most Improved Academic Student Grayson Cleaver—Outstanding AR Reader Grade 3 Alauna Cameron &Taylor Homenyk—Model Student Grade 4 Rylee Ready, Lucy Martin, Mylie Zimmerman— Amazing Effort in Academics Grade 5 Zachary Sumpter—Super Science Student Grade 6 Chase Johnston—Hard Worker & Great Attitude Grade 7 Manuel Aguire, Esmeralda Arias, & Derek Combe—Great Behavior Grade 8 McKenzie Sorrell—Math Wizard Illana Bowen—Award of Courage
During the month of October, Adrian FFA members were actively engaged in a state wide Food Drive effort. The Oregon FFA recently partnered with Les Schwab to host a food drive. Each FFA chapter throughout the state was partnered with a Les Schwab tire store, for Adrian they were partnered with the Coos Bay store. The Adrian FFA chapter took on the Food Drive challenge and devised a two-part plan which they were able to successfully implement. The first portion involved gleaning local potato and onion fields. The Glean Team was overseen and ran by chapter member, Hunter Phelps as his Physical Project for Senior Project. As the final bags were tallied, the Chapter and school members had collected more than 77,647 pounds of produce which was given away at various school and community functions even a semi-load of potatoes were delivered to the Oregon Food Bank in Portland. Phase two involved the “Changing Hunger” loose change and non-perishable food collection drive. The Kindergarten through eighth grades were challenged to donate with the top class receiving an ice cream Sundae party provid-ed by the FFA Officers!! It was a close event that came down to the final minutes of donations, but in the end Ms. Zimmerman’s 3
rd grade class were the victors and had collected the equivalent of 940
pounds!! Second place went the 8th grade with 894 pounds and third place was the 4
th grade class with
386 pounds. In addition, the FFA chapter awarded the top student in each class with an FFA prize. The winners are listed below: Kindergarten-Lilly Anderson (11.8 pounds) 5
High school students were also challenged to participate and donate loose change and food items. Winning a month’s supply of chocolate milk was Marcus Furtado (Junior). Second place went to Lauren Barraza (Junior) who received a gallon of milk and Wes White (Junior) was third and received half a gallon of chocolate milk. In total the “Changing Hunger” drive brought in 3,478.32 pounds!! Added to the gleaning total, Adrian FFA submitted a total of 81,125.32 pounds of food!! The Adrian FFA would like to thank the students and community members of Adrian for their support
and efforts with the food drive! They especially want to recognize Mr. Geary Johnson and the Riley
Bradford family for their contributions! The Food Drive was a huge success and in time they will learn
how they did compared to the other
FFA chapters in the state!!
Anna-Marie Chamberlain Adrian Agricultural Education
Instructor & FFA Advisor PO Box 108 Adrian, OR. 97901
541-372-2335
THANK YOU! The Adrian PTO would like to thank all of the many volunteers who helped to make the Halloween Carnival a success! Thank you to: PTO members, Parents, Teachers, School Staff, Stephenie Thomas, Maria Schulthies, Anita Aguirre, Kimberly Bertalotto, Michealann Seiders, Sherri McCoy, Julene Bowns, Amy Wood, Lisa Johnston, Tammy Thornley, Kasey Mendoza, Manuel and Christy Carrasco, Bailey Martinez, Erin Nielson, Laura Mayzac, Jen Nielson, Ja'net Faulconer, Jake and Penny Speelmon, Patty Gasser, Barbara Schulth-ies, Brandi Eggebeen, Sheree Martinez, Ryan and Jenifer Martin, Eric White family, Amy Homenyk, Jimmy Owyhee Grocery, M&W-Nyssa and M&W-Parma, Grocery Oulet, Albertsons, Adrian Market, Butter Braids Frozen Pastry, Kinny and Keele True Value Hardware, Nick Castro, and the many people who cooked, served, donated, and took time to help us make the carnival a success this year. If we have left anyone out in error, we apologize and sincerely Thank You for your help. We had a ghoulishly good time! We also wanted to express thanks to all those that have participated and helped with the Butter Braids fundraiser. It was a successful and delicious fundraiser, proceeds funding the AR reading incentives. Presley Speelmon’s design won the student competition and is proudly featured on the front of our Adrian T-shirts, Hoodies, and Jackets for sale at the front office with Krissy. Way to go Presley! Get yours today! We have just a handful {less than 10} of the Adrian Community Calendars left. If you didn’t get one, pick one up today at the office for $8! Thank You, Thank You, -Adrian PTO
The elementary students are busy preparing for their winter Christmas concert, to be held on Monday, Dec. 7th at 2 pm in the High school gym. The middle school and high school will present a festive night of music that evening at 7:00 pm, also in the Gym. Fundraising news: In case you haven’t heard, the music department is collecting box tops from your favorite participating products. Look for this symbol on specially marked packages. Then, collect them and return to them to school with your student. You can also drop them off at the office! We get 10 cents for box top we collect! Keep music alive! Mrs. VanCorbach
By: Jade Faulconer
It may be difficult for some students to get accustomed to our cold weather in Adrian. It has been challenging for 15 year old Thai exchange student Nath (Oscar) Podswan who is comfortable with the warm climate of Thailand. And even though Adrian doesn’t have much scenery or is not surrounded by water, Oscar is adjusting and does like Adrian. Oscar is used to the big city, Bangkok which has
about 6.4 million people. Oscar’s family comes from Chinese
descent but speak Thai. They work as civil engineers,. Oscar
speaks Thai and English.
Oscar has a love for American hamburgers and
cheeseburgers. He lives in the dorms with the other six
exchange students and with the VanCorBach’s, the dorm
parents. Oscar’s weekend getaway family is the Mills family
and he said they are a very nice couple.
Oscar plays basketball. He played it back in Thailand
and is planning to play basketball for the ‘Lopes’ this year,
“just for fun,” he said. He also tried football this year, but decided basketball is the sport he enjoys.
Oscar is just like any other students in Adrian High School. He as a lot of homework and likes to hang
out with his new friends at Adrian and his “exchange brothers.” Oscar also enjoys attending the football games to
support the Antelopes while chatting to his friends.
By: Cecilia Martin del Campo The anticipation was dwindling to an end as, Jan Kietzmann’s flight from Essen, Germany to Boise, Idaho was coming to an end. He met with Mrs. Vancorbach and started a whole new journey to Adrian, Oregon. Pulling into Adrian, Jan wasn’t sure what to expect at all because it was much smaller than his home town. Adrian has a population of 170 people while the city of Essen has a population of 566,862. Our school has a population of 70 students and Jan comes from a school of 1,100.
Jan comes from a family of five. His stated his mother sells furniture while his dad is a project manager. Jan has two younger sisters ages 12 and 5. His 12 year old sister enjoys hanging out on her phone while his 5 year old sister enjoys playing with Barbie dolls. In his free time, Jan enjoys playing computer games, playing sports, reading or hanging out with his friends. His favorite American food is cheese burgers. His first American sport he’s played, is football. So far he said he’s really enjoyed it. Back home his favorite sport is athletics, also known as track. After he’s finished his semester at Adrian he plans to return to Germany and continue school to become an Architect. Unlike all the other Foreign exchange students Jan will be cutting his visit short and return to Germany after Christmas break, because he doesn’t want to repeat his sophomore year back home. Jan has been a pleasant addition to our school and we have enjoyed his humor, soft spoken demeanor, and warm smile.
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
Biscuits & Gravy 1 Chicken or Fish Nuggets Fries Apple Birthday Cake
Banana Muffins 2 Chili w/Cheese Crackers Green Salad/Banana Cinnamon Roll
Breakfast Burrito 16 Cheesy Potato Soup Crackers Baby Carrots/Banana Hot Roll
Hash browns 17 Beef-a-roni Green Salad Mixed Fruit Chocolate Cake
Apple Fruit Pocket 18 Corndog Fries Apple
21 22 23 24 25
28 29 30 31
Adrian School Cafeteria Lunch
Cafeteria Hours
Breakfast 7:30-7:55 a.m.
Lunch
K-5 11:00-11:45 6-12 11:50-12:20
Prices Breakfast K-12 $1.70 Adult $2.10
Lunch
K-5 $2.55 6-12 $2.70 Adult $3.60
(K-12) & Adults Extra Milk .35 (6-12) & Adults Extra Entree
$1.25
Food Service Supervisor
Julie Morton
541-372-2337
All Meals Are Served With Choice of Milk Or Water
* Fat Free White * 1% White ** Fat Free Chocolate
December 2015
Have a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Christmas Break
Adrian School District #61 Condensed Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
October 12, 2015
Members present were: Ryan Martin, Eddie Kinkade, Bobby Davis, and Jake Speelmon.
Call to Order The meeting was called to order at 8:00 p.m. by Board Chairman, Ryan Martin. The meeting was opened with the Pledge of Allegiance.
Adopt Agenda The agenda was amended to add action item 6 d). Overnight trip request for Girls in Sci-ence. Motion was made and was seconded to adopt the agenda as amended. Motion carried unanimously. Student Reports/Requests Sundee Speelmon reported that the FFA students participated in the soil and dairy judging contests, placing in the top three in both events. Midterms have passed and parent-teacher conferences were held on Sept. 23 and 24. Homecoming was held on October 9 and all of the teams won. The students enjoyed participating in the spirit week activities. Upcoming events are: the PSAT testing for Sophomores and Juniors, the FFA will be working at the Spooky Lanes this Thursday, the College Fair is on Oct. 20, the State FFA Officers will be here visiting, the FFA National Convention trip will leave on Oct. 27, and a Red Cross Blood Drive, St. Alphonsus Mammogram Bus, and flu shots by Malheur County Health Department will be happening on October 23. The regular season for volleyball and football is coming to an end. District volleyball is in John Day on October 24 and the football league playoff game is October 30. Elementary Principal Report Mr. Ellsworth reported that parent-teacher conferences were successful. The elementary and middle school students appreciated being involved in the spirit week activities. The elemen-tary students had a chance to go through the smoke house, a house fire awareness activity. The safety committee is working on a plan to coordinate our crisis management with the emergency response teams. High School Principal Report Mr. Purnell reported that parent-teacher conferences went well. We would like to have a better turn out at the high school. The high school has been reviewing the school lockdown procedures on R/SD Fridays. Some of the staff are reading and discussing the Visible Learning. Tuesday is the college fair and an Oregon Department of Education test coordinator meeting. The Department of Environmental Quality has a program which involves the inspection of the science labs and the removal of any of the inappropriate chemicals and materials at no cost to the district. The Essential Skills classes work with students to help them meet the graduation requirements. Superintendent Report Mr. Mills reported that he and Eddie Kinkade had attended the Oregon School Boards Association Fall Regional Dinner at the Malheur ESD on Monday, October 5, 2015. One of the topics presented was the matching money for capital construction. The county superintendents are discussing school safety and working on getting some School Resource Officer time for the county schools in future. Mr. Mills will be out of the district to a PACE workshop in Burns on October 15, 2015. Financial Report Darla Witty presented a balance sheet and summary of receipts and expenditures as of August 31, 2015. She reported that the current Average Daily Membership is greater than what was used in the estimate for state school support funding, the ADM numbers will be updated in December and will result in additional funding in the current fiscal year.
Public Comment There were none.
Consent Agenda Motion was made and was seconded to adopt the September 10, 2015, minutes as pre-sented and to approve payment of the bills as listed in the amount of $336,681.83. Motion carried unani-mously.
Action Items Amend teacher contracts It was recommended that the teaching contracts for Tammy Blanchard and Kelsey Zimmerman be amended to reflect movement on the salary schedule for coursework taken. Motion was made and was seconded to amend the teacher contracts as recommended. Motion carried unanimously. Winter Coaching Extra-duty contracts The winter extra duty coaching contracts were recommended as fol-lows: Gene Mills, Head Girls Basketball Coach, Kevin Purnell, Assistant Girls Basketball Coach, Nolan Shira, Head Boys Basketball Coach, Head Middle School Girls Basketball Coach, and Head Middle School Boys Basketball Coach, LaDawn Bayes, MS Girls Assistant Basketball Coach, Nathan Bayes, MS Boys Assistant Basketball Coach, to pay Heidi Purnell, $600 from the Head Girls Basketball Coaching stipend to assist the
basketball teams with chaperoning and overnight trips, and Eddie Kinkade, Head Wrestling Coach. Mr. Kinkade would like to volunteer his time and have one half of the wrestling coaching stipend go to Mark Ishida to serve as Assistant Wrestling Coach and for the balance of the stipend go to the wrestling account in the stu-dent body funds. First reading on policy A first reading was held on policy JECB Admission of Nonresident Students, JECB-AR(1), JECB-AR(4) and JECB-AR (6) and policy KN/JHFE-AR Abuse of a Child Investigations Conducted on District Premises. A second reading will be held next month. Overnight Trip Request Mrs. Gordon would like to take a group of middle schools girls to the Girls in Science Program at LaGrande on October 23-24, 2015. She is requesting permission for an overnight trip to take the students up the night before so that they would not have to leave so early in the morning. Motion was made and was seconded to approve the overnight trip request for Girls in Science. Motion carried unanimously.
Information Items Facilities Update Mr. Mills shared that he has had Mr. Coles from Design West out to look at what Mr. Mills has on his mind for the siting the new gymnasium where the old elementary was and using the remainder of the old elementary school for locker rooms, a wrestling room and classroom space. Mr. Coles is familiar with House Bill 447. He is putting together some preliminary drawings and cost estimates. Mr. Mills shared a handout containing details on the HB 447 program. The matching funds are split into two pots, with 60% of the funds being distributed based on several factors which include assessed property values, ADMw, and the percentage of students in poverty. A list of the rankings will be out in December. Forty per-cent of the funds will be distributed on a first come first serve basis. The application window will open some-time after the first of the year. The district would know the status of their application before putting their bond measure on the ballot. The current facility grant program will continue, with the available funding being distrib-uted proportionally among the qualified applicants.
Board Comments It was commented that Homecoming was great, with the community pep assembly and spirit week activities. Adjournment Motion was made and was seconded to adjourn the meeting. Motion carried unanimously. The meeting was declared adjourned at 8:50 p.m. Complete copies of the minutes are posted in each building and on the district website, www.adriansd.com. Copies may be requested from the District Office.
Paid Family Research Opportunity
Partners For a Hunger-Free Oregon is conducting interviews from families that participated in the Summer EBT for Children (SEBTC) pilot program in the Adrian School District. If you received extra benefits on a new or preexisting Oregon Trail SNAP card this past summer, and would be willing to answer a few questions about your experience with the pilot, please contact Partners For a Hunger-Free Oregon researcher Amy Woehling via phone: (224) 627-5693 or email: [email protected] Eligible families who assist in our research efforts by completing an in-depth interview will receive a monetary incentive as a small thank you for sharing your experiences and story. Based on interview responses, select families may be invited to share their story further with policymakers and advocacy groups in the state. Thank you!
