I don’t ever recall having an opportunity to photograph a rainbow in March, but on March 19th I captured this photo at Iroquois Lake. There is still ice on the lake, so I wasn’t blessed with a reflection on the water.
The Iroquois Horizons/Community Club is hosting an open house at the school on Sunday, May 4th from 2-5 pm. We want to showcase our beautiful school and make the public aware that we are accepting open enrollments. One of our bus drivers is offering to meet the public at DJ ’s Gas Station in East Huron to bus the public over for this open house. We will offer refreshments at the school.
One of the highlights of the tour will be the projects that each classroom will be displaying during the extravaganza that will be held the next day.
Hope you can come and see our beautiful school.
Iroquois will once again hold a city wide clean up day on Saturday, April 27th at 9:00 am. The dumpster will be by city hall starting on Monday, April 21st. We could use a crew to help go around the town and clean up our town. Bring your gloves and pickups.
we can have dinner at the Pancake Benefit Breakfast that will be held at the Legion Hall that Saturday from 8-1 pm.
Iroquois Elementary fourth grade students recently completed a Kindness Project involving the elementary staff. Some of the things students did to help other staff included reading a book aloud to students, helping fill Wednesday envelopes, assisting with a kindergarten science experiment, helping students with math questions, and cleaning. Students are writing a How to be a Kind Person book in writing workshop. This project will be discussed in their books.
Iroquois Elementary kicked off the school year with a celebration for those students who participated in the summer reading challenge. We had all kinds of water activities for the kids including a dunk tank that was probably the hit of the celebration!
As the school year progressed, the teachers got the children interested in the new Prairie Bud and Prairie Pasque books by taking turns giving a little summary of their book and then drawing a student’s name out of a basket for a cool door prize that had something to do with the book that was just introduced.
We celebrated the 100th day of school by exercising our bodies with 100 exercises and then we went on to read 100 books. The students had fun reporting each book they read until we tallied 100 books and then some.
Our latest elementary literacy activity was celebrating Dr. Seuss’s birthday. The teachers got to pick out their favorite book and dress up like a character from their book. The students were divided into groups and rotated among the teachers to hear a new story every 10 minutes. When we were finished, Mrs. Geyer-Fuhrman introduced our snack of “blue goo” and “pink ink” by reading an excerpt from a Dr. Seuss favorite called One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.
As the elementary begins to wrap things up for the school year and begin planning for this summer’s reading challenge, we are planning a fundraiser for the Elementary Literacy Fund. Each classroom is going to come up with a theme and put together a literacy basket which may include anything from books to fun things you might enjoy this summer or while reading. These baskets will be displayed on awards night, Tuesday, April 29th and at the spring concert on Monday, May 5th. Raffle tickets will be sold at these times for a chance to win the basket of your choice. The drawing will be held on the last day of school. We invite everyone to come and browse our literacy baskets and purchase a chance to win!
I think by merging our community club/Horizons group as one we can have a stronger community leadership system.
we learned a lot from our study circle sessions that we can use in the future.
we also plan to have biannual meetings with every organization in town to update each other on what is happening within their group and how we can help each other.
I really do believe that these have all made us a stronger, closer community.
Upcoming Events
April 9, Wednesday, UMW meets at the Trinity United Methodist Church at 6:00 p.m.
April 11, 12, 13, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, area students attend “Acquire the Fire” in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
April 11, Friday, No School
April 12, Children’s Theater production of “You Look Marvelous” at 2:00 and 7:00 p.m. on Saturday in the south gym.
April 13, Sunday, Pancake Feed at the Legion for the Iroquois Heritage Museum.
April 14, Monday, School Board Meeting in the high school library at 8:00 p.m.
April 16, Wednesday, Sonshine Gang meets after school at the Methodist Church.
Our Iroquois Horizons/Community Club, and Sports Day Committee held a joint planning meeting Monday night. Cheryl Jacobs of the SDSU Cooperative Extension Services was present to discuss the completion of the Horizons Project in the Iroquois Community. Committees reviewed their progress on community goals and objectives in the strategic plan.
Setting up park benches is one project currently underway. Community members may donate money to purchase a park bench in memory of someone. Benches will be placed in Woodall Park, at the school playground, and near the sand volleyball pit and horseshoe pits.
A chain link fence has been donated to the Iroquois Day Care. Volunteers are needed to help move and set up the fence.
A pancake feed is being planned for April 27, at the Legion, as a fundraiser for R.J. Frankfurth, who was recently injured in a car accident.
Sports Day will be held July 11, 12, and 13. Four Wheeler races are being planned for Friday night. Saturday’s events will begin with a “Walk for Life.” A parade will be held later in the morning with the theme “Small Town, Big Dreams.” Bed races will follow the parade on main street. The Iroquois Heritage Museum will be open on Saturday with living history activities for kids of all ages. A town and country show will be held on Saturday, with exhibitors selling their products. Softball, volleyball, and horseshoe events will be held at the park. Saturday evening a kids’ movie will be shown and a street dance will be held. The class of 1988 will hold its 20 year reunion. Sunday morning, a community church service will be held in the park. Mud drag races will be held later in the day. The Sports Day committee will continue to meet monthly to finalize plans.
The next Horizons/Community Club meeting will be held Tuesday, May 6, in the high school library. All interested individuals are encouraged to attend.
Monday, April 7th a meeting was held.
The Iroquois community held a fundraiser Saturday with co-ed sporting events in the gym. The money raised will go toward the purchase on an electronic sign that will be placed in town along Highway 14.
High school students played co-ed volleyball and basketball games. Cheerleaders in grades 5 through 12 performed between games. Boys and girls in grades 4 through 6 also played co-ed basketball.
Concessions were sold. The IPAT (Iroquois Peer Assistance Team) also sold ice cream sundaes.
The event raised approximately $1,800.
-April 4- The high school drama club presents this year’s all school play, “A Wing and a Prayer,” Friday evening. The comedy dinner theater begins at 6:00 p.m. with a meal. The play cast will help serve the meal while in costume. This year’s meal consists of spaghetti with garlic bread, cake, and drinks. Advanced tickets for the dinner theater or for the play only, may be purchased from any of the play cast or you may call the school (546-2426). The play begins at 7:00 p.m.
