506 N. Black River St, Sparta, WI 54656
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Phone: 608-366-3504
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Fax: 608-366-3506
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Russ’ Raves
Greetings from the Main Office! We are finalizing a 1
st semester! Our seniors are still preparing to get ready for graduation (May 25), and our juniors are finalizing their preparation for their state mandated ACT exam on Feb. 27.
Our students work very hard in and out of the classroom, and I would highly encourage parents/guardians to have daily discussions with their son/daughter about their education. Communication between families is very important in raising student achievement. Also, please communicate with our faculty as well to ensure everyone is giving their best effort.
Please keep encouraging them to do their best, and get plenty of rest with the cold/flu season upon us. If you have time, please come and watch our students perform in our various sports and performances that will be coming up.
Go Spartans!!!
Sam Russ
Twitter:@Best_of_SHS
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January 15:
No School
, Teacher Inservice
January 19:
End of 1
st
Semester
February 6:
Reality Store
February 12:
(School in Session)
P/T Conferences,
3-7 p.m.
February 15:
No School,
P/T Conferences,
11a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
February 16:
No School,
P/T Conferences,
7:30 - 11:30 a.m.
February 19:
No School
, Teacher Inservice
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FCCLA/FCS news
We’ve grown! The High School Family Consumer Sciences Department is happy to Welcome on Ms. Haley Berz! It’s a great feeling knowing that we are expanding our department and that the students are wanting to get move involved with FCS. We’ve been very busy this past semester with three sections of parenting. At the beginning of the year, students were very much looking forward to taking home our real life baby simulators. We just finished taking turns on weekends with the baby simulators and shared some thoughts and feelings what it was like to be a parent for a weekend, some were more thrilled with the experience than others, but we had great discussions on them and what it really takes to be a parent. Our Intro to Foods and Creative Foods classes have been enjoying making homemade dishes, appetizers to desserts. Our Creative foods class looks forward to wrapping up their semester with us by creating a signature dish they have picked out as a group and we are excited to see how they turn out. Beginning Fashion and fabrics has really enjoyed creating fun things such as hand sewn monsters, hats and mittens, stuffed animals, and we will wrap up this semester with pajama pants. It's been a fun and busy semester and wish all our students the best of luck with the rest of the school year.
Kassey Brooks & Haley Berz (FCS)
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FCCLA News:
First off, I would like to congratulate Kristen Clark, Sophomore, at competing at Nationals this past summer in Nashville TN on her Environmental Ambassador project which was focused on food waste and our food compactor at the High School. She did an amazing job bring home a silver
placing. We are looking forward to our regional competition on February 9, 2018 at WTC. We have 12 active members this year and they are all looking forward to competing. We have participated in Christmas for Kids this past December and three of our members created hats to add to each child’s gift as a part of their community service project for regionals. They showed great passion for wanting to contribute to these childrens' gifts and I hope their project is rewarded for it. I hope to get quite a few participants to the state level in Wisconsin Dells April 3-5, 2018 and if any advance from there we will be able to attend Nationals again in Atlanta, GA!
Kassey Brooks (FCCLA advisor)
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Christmas for Kids gifts created by Sparta FCCLA members.
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tudent Services has fun and engaging opportunities planned in February for all grade levels focusing on College and Career Readiness.
As many are aware, Juniors will be taking the statewide ACT test on Tuesday, February 27th. This test is a tool for college preparation and one of the many ways students demonstrate their academic knowledge in the areas of Math, English, Reading, Science, and Writing. The scores are college reportable and used by many post-secondary institutions as admissions tests. While the Juniors are taking the exam, the Freshmen, Sophomores, and Seniors will be participating in other College and Career Readiness activities.
Freshmen and Sophomores will be visiting college campuses and businesses. Freshmen will board buses and make the trip to UW-Platteville where they will get a tour of the college campus, speak with faculty, and engage in fun activities to gain a better idea of what college is about. Sophomores will be heading to Winona, where they will make several stops including Winona State University, Southeast Technical College, and local businesses.
Seniors will volunteer their time to the local community by completing Service Learning activities or job shadowing in their career field of interest. Students are encouraged to research and reach out to local businesses to set up a job shadow or arrange to volunteer and acquire the 40 hours needed for graduation from Sparta High School.
College and Career Readiness will continue the morning of February 28th while the Juniors take the statewide ACT WorkKeys exam, which measures foundational and personal skills as they apply to the workplace. Seniors will participate in mock interviews to get ready for careers after high school while an optional scholarship completion and essay writing workshop will be held. Freshmen and Sophomores will be in their grad groups taking the ASPIRE interim test in Math, English, and Reading.
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News from the English Department
Freshman English students have been busy with a global issues novel unit. Students chose novels from a variety of world literature titles to learn about different cultures and to experience a novel they may not have normally chosen. The students read independently, journaled, and discussed the books with their classmates. The first-time unit was a great success!
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December Students of the Month
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Back Row: Hunter, Guy, Cameron Bauges, Gunar Schmitz, Derrion Johnson
Front Row: Cammi Stelter, Isaac Stuessel, Cody Parkinson, Julie Flock, Alexandria Deaver
Not Pictured: Aaron Jacobson, Garet Pfaff, and Mallory Schwartze
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Academic Decathlon
The Academic Decathlon Team has competed in the Local Competition so far this season and we qualified for the Regional Competition at UW Stevens Point on January 12. Ribbon Winners were Ethan Anderson 3rd place in Math and Science and Izak Anderson 2nd place in the overall scholastic category. Our theme this year is Africa and the topics we cover are the following:
Art, Economics, Literature and Essay Writing, Mathematics, Music, Science, Social Science
Regional Competition will test in the areas listed above as well as a prepared speech, impromptu speech and interview
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DECA Sports and Marketing Conference
The Sparta DECA Chapter attended the Wisconsin Sports and Entertainment Marketing Conference in Green Bay December 16, 2017. At this conference they networked with other DECA members, had learning opportunities, toured Lambeau Field and the Packer Hall of Fame and the Resch Center which included taking in a UW-Green
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