Panther Newsletter

Don’t forget these important upcoming dates:

• December 20th: 12:30 Early Dismissal

• December 23rd - January 1st: Winter Break no school or daycare

• January 15th: 12:30 Early Dismissal Teacher PD

• February 21st: No school Teacher PD

• March 4th: Early Dismissal - Conferences

• March 6th: Early Dismissal - Conferences

• March 10th - 14th: Spring Break no school or daycare

Mrs. Fessler took seven freshmen girls to the annual Go Further STEM conference at Iowa State University on November 7th.

Pictured (L to R): Audrey Tudor, Josephine Martin, Quinn Schrage, Avery Brunsvold, Clare Nobbs, Autumn Hucka, and Brynlee Faber.

Mrs. Pridgen's class hosted a special Class-giving meal. One of the students had never experienced a big Thanksgiving feast before. The class enjoyed turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, corn, and rolls, and everyone had a wonderful time sharing the meal together.

The 2nd graders in Mrs. Matzen's and Mrs. Lorentzen's classes learned about the history of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with our Balloons Over Broadway unit. During the unit, the kids learned how the parade began, the changes that have happened over the years, and the creative mind behind the balloons we are familiar with today. The 2nd graders also studied problem/solution, story elements, and sequencing. For the culminating activity, the kids sketched a balloon, created it on the iPad, made their own balloon, and finally participated in their own Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Iowa’s School Performance Profiles have been released to the public. Central Springs Middle School is “Commendable” and was .12 points away from being classified as “High Performing”. We are no longer targeted as a school in need of supports! We will analyze the data and look for areas of growth and continue our progress in improving performance. Thank you to the students, teachers, support staff, parents, and the AEA for all the hard work over the past three years that helped the school reach this high level of performance.

More information can be found at: https://www.iaschoolperformance.gov

A huge congratulations to Thomas Haas and Gavin Ryner for being selected to the Iowa All-State Choir! Both students worked incredibly hard to earn this honor and joined top vocalists from across the state for this opportunity. We’re so proud of their dedication and talent!

As the weather begins to turn, we'd like to remind families that the district has the ability to use up to five e-learning days. E-learning days allow students to continue their lessons from home.

An E-Learning day will be announced via JMC. Here are the basic instructions for students and families:

Elementary students:

• Packets were sent home at conferences.
• Students should complete the assigned work on the E-Learning day and return it to school to receive credit for the day.

Intermediate Grades 4-5:

• Packets were sent home during conferences or with the students whose parents did not attend conferences.
• Students complete and return the packet the next school day.
• Teachers will check and respond to student emails throughout the school day.

Middle School Grades 6-8:

• Assignments will be posted in Google Classroom by 9 a.m.
• Teachers available on Google Meet from 10-11 a.m. and 1-2 p.m.) should students need assistance. Teachers will check and respond to student emails throughout the school day.

High School students:

• E-Learning assignments, which may include videos, will be posted in Google Classroom by 9:00 a.m.
• On Mondays, assignments will only be posted. However, at an instructor's discretion and with advanced notification provided prior to the canceled school day (Tuesdays through Fridays), students may be required to meet via Zoom or Google Meet during a predetermined 40-minute scheduled class time.
• Faculty hours from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. This time is set aside for students to reach out to faculty members, via email, to ask questions regarding current course content and assignments.
• To receive credit, completed E-Learning assignments must be submitted within two days. Student participation and engagement, as evidenced by assignment completion, will be recorded by each instructor.

Central Springs Panther Fans:

I have some exciting news to share on behalf of the Panther's athletic program. Together with Hudl, we plan to offer a livestream of every home varsity game played in the gym or on our field. We will still have both of our YouTube pages. The new platform will only be used for Athletics.

If you can attend our games, we encourage you to do so. We want to give people who can't physically attend our games the ability to tune in and support Panther's athletics. With our livestream, working parents, faraway family members, alumni, and anyone else who wants to watch can support our athletes.

It is free to use and watch but you can use the following links to sign up for an account. You can click on this link and then create an account. You can also download the app for easy access with your phone. The links below are for anyone that wants more information.

For Fans see below links.

https://support.hudl.com/s/article/find-your-organization-hudl-fan?topic=Hudl_for_Fans&language=en_US

https://support.hudl.com/s/article/download-the-hudl-fan-app-hudl-fan?language=en_US&topic=Hudl_for_Fans

https://support.hudl.com/s/article/favorite-a-organization-hudl-fan?language=en_US&topic=Hudl_for_Fans

https://support.hudl.com/s/article/enable-notifications?language=en_US&topic=Hudl_for_Fans

Please feel free to reach out to me with any questions or concerns.

Sincerely,

B.J. Fessler

K-3 Winter Concert - Monday, December 16 at 6:00 pm

K-3 Spring Concert - Monday, May 5 at 6:00 pm

K-3 Winter Concert - Tuesday, December 10 at 6:00 pm

K-3 Spring Concert - Thursday, April 24 at 6:00 pm

Vocal 4-8

2/27 6-12 Vocal (Manly) 7:00 pm

4/11 6-8 Musical (NS) 7:00 pm

4/29 4-5 Vocal/5-8 Band (NS) 7:00 pm

Band 5-8

2/25 5-12 Band (Manly) 7:00 pm

4/29 5-8 Band/4-5 Vocal (NS) 7:00 pm

5/13 5-8 Band Solos (NS) 4:00 pm

Highlights:

• Conference Champs
• All - Conference Honors
• Kaci Crum - 1st Team & NE All-District
• Zari McDonough - 1st Team
• Paige Prazak- 1st Team
• Quinn Smith - 2nd Team
• Sydney Berding- Honorable Mention
• Player of the Year - Zari McDonough
• Coach of The Year Nicci McDonough

Team Awards:

MPV - Azaria McDonough

Offensive Player of the Year - Kaci Crum

Defensive Player of the Year - Sydney Berding

Team Energizer - Maddy Morud

Girls Cross Country

• Claire Rye -1st Team All Conference
• Whitney Davis - 2nd Team All Conference
• Addy Main - 2nd Team All Conference

Boys Cross Country

• Kade Tabbert - 2nd Team All Conference
• Gavin Ryner
• 2nd Team All Conference
• State Qualifier
• Academic All-State Runner - Must be a senior, have a 3.8 GPA or higher, & and ACT score of 28 or higher

Team Awards

• Rookie of the Year
• HS boys- Kade Tabbert
• Most Improved
• HS girls- Whitney Davis
• HS boys- Tate Wymore
• Most Valuable Player

• HS Girls- Claire Rye

• HS Boys- Gavin Ryner

• LEAD Award

• Gavin Ryner

Highlights:

• HS football finished up their season this week
• Varsity 3-5, JV 5-2
• Many great accomplishments from our team this year:
• First team to 50 points, first 3-0 start, first top15 team ranking.
• We went 3-4 vs playoff teams this year.
• We lose 3 Seniors and return many players next year!

1st Team All-District:

• Jaxon Edwards LB

• Braydin Crum DB

• Lincoln Blickenderfer LB

2nd Team All-District:

• Avery Gregoire RB

• Mannie Gregoire DB

• Adam Roegner DL

• Ryan Shimek OL

• Luke Fielder LB

Honorable Mention:

• Jace Huebsch
• Winton Hogen

Academic All District:

• Winton Hogen

• Dawson Dirksen

• Aaron Miller
• Cole Hagen
• Jaxon Edwards
• Lincoln Blickenderfer
• Adler Rowe

Team awards

MVP - Jaxon Edwards

Most Improved - Qyesion Blake Tate

Rising Star - Zach Ward

Hardest Worker - Tyshawn Dale

• Finished the regular season 8-3-1
• Qualified for the State Tournament as the 4-seed
• Finished 4th at State

CSHS Competition Cheer team competed at state on Saturday, November 2nd in Des Moines. This year the Competition team placed 7th out of 26 other 2A teams. This is a major victory for our team as 2A is the largest classification for the state cheerleading championships. We competed in the division Game Time Spirit, and this year the 2A Game Time Spirit had the most teams competing, compared to any other division and class size, including 3A and 4A. Last year the team placed 11th, so they are only getting better every year! Being at the smaller side of 2A, we compete against other schools that have almost double our enrollment numbers, and some of the schools are ones that we surpassed. The CS Comp Team really put everything they had into their performance and we could not be happier with how well they did. Our turnout at state was incredible as well! So many family and friends came to support. Competition cheerleaders: Kenzie Bass Jordis Waitek Josslyn Deal Emmy Molstad Aubrey Zimmerle Rachel Mason Autumn Hucka Lily Navratil Kaci Nuhring Kilah Ostercamp

For the first time in school history, our E-Sports team is heading to State! Congratulations to the team for this milestone achievement!

The Team:

Draven Thomas

Blade Gobeli

Makhail Ziv

Donnie White

Braylan Bull

Kaiden Schmidt

Josh Young

Jack Pruin

Coach Belinda Nelson & Coach Jereme Baldus

We return 3 state qualifiers from last season. Dawson Jacobsen finished 6th last year at state. We have a lot of returning letter winners back from last season. Hopefully after Christmas we'll get guys in the right place in the line-up and be a very competitive team.

- Coach McDonough

We’re thrilled to have two girls representing our school in Girls Wrestling this season! They’ll be competing alongside the Mason City girls wrestling team.

We return 3 starters from a Conference Championship Team and we have some great young kids to add to our 5 Seniors. If we can get healthy then we should be very competitive. We are very excited to see how the season unfolds.

- Coach Fessler

This years boys basketball team gets back 1 starter from last years team and brings back just one other player that got varsity minutes off the bench last season. We are young and small but we play extremely hard and are a very competitive group of guys. We are a very close group and have a ton of fun together. Coach Luther, Coach Logeman and I are extremely happy with how the first couple weeks of practice and are excited to see this group grow and learn throughout the course of the season.

- Coach Hamand

We are excited to kick off winter cheerleading within the following weeks, having both basketball and wrestling cheer teams again.

-Coach Barker

We have 22 kids out for our winter season. The 2 games we will be participating in are Overwatch 2 and Rocket League. We will have a Varsity and a JV team for both games. Overwatch 2 Varsity matches are on Tuesdays and Rocket League are on Thursdays.

- Coach Nelson