Wildcat Pride                                       November 15,  2016
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With November feeling a lot more like September, we've been busy with Veterans Day celebrations, Mary Poppins musical previews, and virtual learning opportunities - all covered in today's articles.  With the end of first term, we thought you might like to catch up with the digital photography class we profiled earlier this school year - here's some more of their work. We've also have a video from this year's Pumpkin Drop at Lakeside and Taylors Falls elementary schools.  

STEM in Action: Scribblebots


The perfect combination of science, engineering, and technology - scribblebots are motorized machines that move in chaotic ways, leaving interesting artistic patterns in their wake.  Collaborative teams of students move through the Engineering Design Process by making simple circuits and offset motors, then test and manipulate variables.  The result is an interactive robot that demonstrates the scientific concepts of electricity, force, and motion with a wildly creative outcome.

Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, along with district technology integrationist Mark Johnson and elementary science specialist Jessica Fitzgerald, brought a unique learning opportunity to the students of Lakeside earlier this month.  See more pictures and catch the scribblebot in action.

CL Celebrates Veterans Day Across the District
                        Blane Maher                                                    Gabrielle Farrell Typ

Wildcat Blane Maher, US Airforce, CLHS Class of 2006, was the keynote speaker at the CLHS Veterans Day program last Friday.  He spoke of his own experiences and helped current CLHS students understand the importance of Veterans Day.

The program included music from Chisago Lakes Stage Choir, which performed both the National Anthem and America the Beautiful, and the Chisago Lakes Wind Ensemble, which played a medley featuring the various service songs. 

Gabrielle Farrell, Voice of Democracy winner, read her essay on this year's topic "My Responsibility to America." 

You can see more from the CLHS program, and some highlights from Lakeside, Taylors Falls, and the middle school.

Super(califragilisticexpialidocious) Musical Preview
Performers from the cast of Mary Poppins visited the elementary schools to preview the musical.  Hard to tell who was having more fun! 

Kayli Schneider as Mary Poppins....and many small children thoroughly enthralled.

Mary Poppins starts Thursday night and runs through Sunday.  You can buy tickets online or at the PAC box office.  Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students and seniors. 

On the Calendar:

November 15: School Board Meeting in the District Office Boardroom @ 6:30 p.m.

November 17-20: Mary Poppins at CLHS in the PAC

November 22: TF/LS Children's Choir in the PAC at 7:00 p.m.

November 23-25: Thanksgiving Break - NO SCHOOL
November 23: Adventure Day

December 3: Secret Santa Workshop at the Primary

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