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READ ACROSS AMERICA!
Here are guidelines for our Friday, March 7th, Anything But a Backpack Day at Numa. This idea was selected by Numa Student Council, and those students also discussed these guidelines.
Friday, March 7th is also our Read Across America Day. Teachers and staff throughout the school are hosting read-aloud activities for 30 minutes that Friday morning, and students had the opportunity to sign up in the library for the room of their choice.
Following our reading activities, we will be holding our Numa Spelling Bee, featuring six spelling finalists (three from 4th grade and three from 5th grade). They will compete at our 9:30am assembly to determine the top Numa Speller for this year.
Churchill County High School 💚🌊
Churchill County High School students helped ChurchillCSD kick off the Modern Learning Conference 2025 (MLC25) on Monday, February 24. Educators from across the county received a warm welcome to ChurchillCSD at CCHS as they arrived from Reno. ROTC students, dressed in full uniform, greeted the guests and guided them through the Greenwave inflatable football helmet at the auditorium entrance. Inside, the guests were handed a swag bag that included cookies made by Alisha White and her culinary art students and wooden keychains designed, cut, and laser engraved by Jake Lewis and his students. As the guests entered the auditorium, they were shown their seats by ROTC members while the CCHS band entertained them with music. To officially kick off the welcome event, the ROTC presented the colors and the band played the National Anthem. The involvement of CCHS students set the tone for the rest of the day and the conference. Their dedication and willingness to help and be so welcoming made the event even more memorable for guests.
Churchill County Middle School 💚🌊
Principal Victor Schoenfeldt recognized 25 dedicated students for maintaining perfect attendance during the 2024-2025 school year with a special celebration on Thursday, February 27. During fifth period, students gathered in the library and enjoyed pizza, drinks, sweet treats, and tech time. As an added fun surprise, all of the students were entered into a drawing and one lucky winner, student Rhett Beach, won a $75 Amazon gift card. Congratulations to the following students for perfect attendance: Isabella Bailey, Laurel Beach, Rhett Beach, Haley Camara, Alice Chambers, Kinley Dinneen, Russell Downs, Darius Fruzza, Xavier Fruzza, Juan Gonzales Martin, Ali Rae Hamlin, Amelyia Hamlin, Brodie Kiger, Landon Liston, Neveah Martinez, Leland Schut, Sophia Seymour, Andrew Stanton, Mark Thomas, Ameera Tyler, Issabelle (Izzy) Walter-Chicas-Garibay, Emerson Weldon-Ward, Jack Willey, Zoey Wright, and Morgan Zanetti.
Numa Elementary School 💛🦆
Barb Hickox's fifth grade class put their critical thinking skills to the test as they learned how to draw inferences by solving mock crime scenes with the help of some local professionals. Capt. Riley, Det. Sgt. Perez, Officer Aller, and Officer Alcaraz from the Fallon Police Department came in to help students solve a mock crime by assisting them in pulling forensic evidence together and writing up the criminal case using the RACE method for writing. To conclude the unit on drawing inferences, the Investigator team, Sgt. Maynez, Corporal White, and Corporal Hardin, from Churchill County Sheriff's Office came in and presented a mock crime scene. Students had to narrow down suspects using evidence found at the crime scene to solve it. The students learned a lot and had fun covering the learning targets. We would like to thank the Fallon Police Department and the Churchill County Sheriff's Office for the great job they do for our community and for helping us put evidence together to solve crimes.
E.C. Best Elementary School 💙🐶
This last month, students in Lisa Christy's English Language Learner program completed the annual WIDA Access test. This test assesses the students' English skills in four language domains: reading, listening, writing, and speaking. When students completed each part of the test, they chose a delicious snack. This assessment is very rigorous and time-consuming, but all of her students worked hard to perform their best on this important test and she is very proud of their progress.
Lahontan Elementary School 🤍🐺
Last week students in Kirby Goetsch’s Kindergarten class celebrated National Children's Dental Health Month by learning how to take care of their teeth. Every day they read a poem and identified some new ELA concept words with the short e sound, words with the long e sound, sight words, and question marks. During centers students used toothbrushes and puffy paint to find and cover sight word "cavities" on construction paper teeth, wrote sight words on laminated teeth and brushed them away with toothbrushes, labeled pictures of dental health practices, read a scholastic magazine about taking care of their teeth and decided which foods would make their teeth happy and which might make them sad. Then on their Chromebooks they played a game called "Brush Those Teeth", watched videos about tooth facts, and listened to tooth-related stories. Students also had the chance to use letter tile "teeth" to spell consonant, vowel, consonant (CVC) words and practiced writing/tracing sentences about dental health tools like floss and mouthwash. On Wednesday, students had a visit from a local hygienist who talked to the class about dental health and answered their questions about how to brush their teeth, how long they should brush their teeth, how many baby teeth they have, and if their cavities can get worse if they don't go to the dentist. Finally, to practice counting up to 20 objects, the students used mini marshmallows to create models of their mouths because most kids will have 20 baby teeth before they start losing teeth and getting their adult ones. This unit not only covered dental health but also included writing, math, creativity, and reading skills, making it a great unit all around for the students.
Northside Early Learning Center 💙💛🐻
Octavia Merritt’s class is setting out on an adventure this March and is asking for the community’s help. The students are searching for a leprechaun and are looking for letters that lead them closer to figuring out where he might be. Merritt designed this activity to teach her students the power of written communication and to show them that connecting with people does not require the latest technology or social media. The class has already been receiving letters and surprises from various places and now Merritt is hoping to expand their reach even further in their hunt for the leprechaun. “We would love for friends, families, and the Fallon community to help spread the word and even participate by sending us a letter about where you may have seen the leprechaun,” Merritt said. “This is just a great way for my young students to see how we can communicate with others by sending letters through the mail and it has been so exciting for them to see where the letters come from and I am looking forward to seeing what responses we get for leprechaun spotting.” Anyone interested in sending letters, postcards, small notes, clues, and stories about the leprechaun can send them to Mrs. Octavia Merritt’s class at NELC: 340 Venturacci Lane; Fallon, Nevada, 89406. Let’s rally together and help these young students and make their St. Patrick’s Day even more special.
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Churchill County School District
Email: parentinfo@churchillcsd.com
Website: https://www.churchillcsd.com/en-US
Location: 690 South Maine Street, Fallon, NV, USA
Phone: 775-423-5184
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