Hello Floodwood!
Our Early Childhood Family Education Program will be wrapping up here in May for this school year, with five sessions left come join us for fun and learning. May 1st is our next session from 4:00 to 6:00pm. More information can be found on the flyer, reach out to Shannon Meyer ECFE Teacher by emailing: smeyer@isd698.org with questions or to find out more. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Great River Energy will be hosting its Cooperative Careers Camp on June 26. This is a great opportunity for high school students to get a taste of the power industry. Camp registration is now open. This is Great River Energy’s second year offering the free one-day camp and they have added three additional careers: Survey, GIS and UAS.
Great River Energy’s Cooperative... - Great River Energy | Facebook – Facebook post for more information
Cooperative Careers Camp - Great River Energy – Registration form (and more information)
Great River Energy supplies wholesale power to Lake Country Power. They are a generation and transmission cooperative headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnesota. Lake Country Power is a distribution cooperative.
Registration is first-come, first-served, so please don’t delay letting your students know about this opportunity. Great River Energy serves 26 distribution cooperatives, so this opportunity is widely open. Students are responsible for their own transportation to Maple Grove. Feel free to forward my email to your students in grades 9 – 12.
Physical Wellbeing - Listening to and taking care of your body for optimal health and functioning.
Why is this important?
Building awareness about the physical effects of the overuse of screens is important in order to understand how your screen time use impacts you physically. The healing effects of nature is an inspirational and powerful tool to promote physical wellbeing.
This weeks challenge:
What do you need to inspire you to spend two hours a week outside in nature? Who will join you? Where will you go? Be sure to notice how nature makes you feel physically and mentally.
Book Fair will be returning starting this Saturday at the Community Education Craft Fair!!
MCA Testing will continue this week on April 29th for 5th, 8th and 10th grade. We would like to remind families to be sure their children are prepared with a good night’s rest, minimize screen time the night before and healthy breakfast. Also to do their best to be on time and present on days of testing. Teachers work hard to be sure to have extra snacks and fun to celebrate their hard work on testing days. Please see the attached photo on ways parents/guardians can help their students with test anxiety.
Please add to reach out to counselor at lschubitzke@isd698.org if they would like some more guidance.
Cognitive Wellbeing is enhancing and nurturing one’s mental processes to foster a healthy brain in order to optimize learning, intuition, focus, memory, judgement, and other cognitive functions.
Why is this important?
Raising awareness about The Attention Economy - the current business model or Big Tech - reduces individual feelings of guilt and shame; raises awareness of steps needed to reduce distraction; and motivates people to make choices that put them in control rather than Big Tech.
Brain Hacking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awAMTQZmvPE
Brain Drain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3jQbyiov-k
This weeks challenge:
What motivation or guardrails do you need to complete a task before getting drawn into digital media? Partner with a friend to find a creative way to keep social media from interrupting attention and safeguard your wellbeing.
MCA Testing will continue this week on April 23 and 24. We would like to remind families to be sure their children are prepared with a good night’s rest, minimize screen time the night before and healthy breakfast. Also to do their best to be on time and present on days of testing. Teachers work hard to be sure to have extra snacks and fun to celebrate their hard work on testing days. Please see the attached photo on ways parents/guardians can help their students with test anxiety.
Please add to reach out to counselor at lschubitzke@isd698.org if they would like some more guidance.
Congratulations to Freshman, Alison Rahja, on her over the fence homerun and to the Varsity girls softball team in the victory over McGregor today!
Mental Wellbeing - “A state of well-being in which the individual realizes their own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to their community.” - World Health Organization
Why is this important?
It’s easy to use a screen to distract ourselves when we’re feeling upset. Learning about and developing mental wellbeing skills to cope with life stressors that aren’t screen-based expands possibilities for connecting with ourselves and provides for deeper learning and growing.
This weeks challenge:
Consider time spent on your device. What healthy activities is screen time replacing? Throughout the day, ask yourself - “Am I choosing to be on my device or am I on my device by habit or because I feel like I should be?” Be aware of what is happening in that moment and how you are feeling.
Pickleball has started!! If you are interested in reserving court time or coming to a "Learn to play pickleball" session, please contact Peg or Jeff.
Reminder
HEALTHY EATING EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR MAY 5th!
Hello, join Floodwood's ECFE program for a special night! Students birth to 8 years of age can join us on May 5th from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm. We will be talking about healthy eating, read a story, sing songs, and create our own smoothies! There are free door prizes, but space is limited. Register for your spot today! Take a look at the flyer for more information. We are so excited to have you join us!
Please reach out to Shannon Meyer at smeyer@isd698.org.
The Floodwood School would like to wish Sophomore, Alexis Hutchinson, good luck at her gymnastics Regional competition this weekend!
Have fun, compete hard and best of luck!!
Senior, Kalli Fjeld, represented Floodwood well on Wednesday evening at the Iron Range All Star Basketball Game.
The FHS Senior High Band took a little trip recently. They experienced hearing an orchestra at Orchestra Hall, explored the Mall of America and played with the Pine River-Backus Senior High Band. The Pine River-Backus band director worked with our students as well on some of their pieces. It was a fun couple of days experiencing music outside the Floodwood band room.
Coming up on May 3rd, the Floodwood bands will be playing at The Event Center for the yearly JAMD event! We would love to see you there!
Reminder
Babysitting Class will be held Tuesday June 24th. Registration form and payment can be returned to the district office.
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