Churchill County School District highlights for Sept. 4

Churchill County High School

Churchill County FFA students helped the Farm Bureau at this year’s Fallon Cantaloupe Festival with the Ag Wagon and Moolissa (the milk cow). They also hosted Cow Chip Bingo and sold raffle tickets for their meat box raffle.

CCHS 10th-grade student Laci Peterson enjoyed getting to interact with the people and kids from the community.

“I really liked getting to answer questions and explain why FFA and Agriculture are so important to our community. This was an amazing experience and opportunity to help our chapter grow,” Peterson said.

The FFA will be hosting a drive-thru dinner on Sept. 21 the Barrel House at the fairgrounds. Orders are open now through Sept. 12. You will have the option of ordering between a tri-tip or pulled pork sandwich with all the fixins’. Contact FFA Adviser Aspen Johnson (johnsona@churchillcsd.com).

Churchill County Middle School

Students in Allison Lister’s Career and Technical Education class are learning vital skills that can be used in the workplace.

Students are preparing themselves to job search, apply for jobs, build a resume and behave appropriately. Each student has the opportunity to learn about careers in alternative energy, criminalistics, design and marketing, audio production, manufacturing, electricity and electronics, fire management, emergency service management, home maintenance, child development, culinary arts, health sciences, pneumatics, biomedical engineering and veterinary medicine.

“I really want to expand this program even more and bring in public speakers who are in these career fields to talk to the students and bring their knowledge into the classroom,” Lister said. If you are a part of one of these career fields and would like to talk to speak to these CTE students about your career, email Lister at listera2@churchillcsd.com.

 “I feel like the students would get a lot out of hearing from those who are currently working in this field and learning more about the career opportunities available for them locally,” she added.

Numa

Students in Alissa Bailey's fourth-grade class got messy in science. They are learning to analyze and interpret data from maps and they created a 3D map of Nevada.

“They did such a great job identifying all the physical features. I was very impressed,” Bailey said.

Students really enjoyed this assignment and liked the opportunity to work together in groups. "My favorite part was painting. I also really loved working together with my group as a team," student Avery Gardner said.

E.C. Best

The CCSD Transportation Department and the Fallon Police Department hosted a "Safe Routes to School" assembly at ECB last Thursday. The emphasis of the assembly was on safety for walkers, bike riders, and bus riders.

JeanE Workman, who drives bus 48, and transportation manager Natasha Domes did a bus safety presentation. They had the bus rules on a big poster board and read them aloud with the students.

“We really tried to hit on everything possible. We talked about the Danger Zone around the bus, walking to the bus stop, crossing the street and street safety, behavior at the bus stop, how to know when the bus comes to a complete stop (what noise it makes), how to properly load on the bus, how to exit the bus in case of emergency and how to properly ride the bus,” Domes said.

Students in Octavia Merritt’s class enjoy outdoor recess.

 

They did a demonstration on how it sounds to the bus driver when students are talking really loud and how much of a difference it makes when they whisper or use their inside voices. Domes also selected some students to demonstrate how to do all the safe actions and even had a special treasure chest for their helpers to pick out a treat afterward.

“I really loved the opportunity to speak with our young students about safety alongside our School Resource Officer Chris Bloomfield. I would love to host this assembly in all of our elementary schools and hope to coordinate with the other principals so we can do so,” Domes said.

Lahontan Elementary

Kindergarten students in Rhonda Maynes' class are only two weeks into school and have already learned so many things. Last week students all took turns and got to see science in action as they observed baking soda reacting with vinegar. They also explored color mixing and observed what color was revealed when other colors were mixed.

Northside Early Learning Center

Students in Octavia Merritt’s class have been enjoying outdoor recess. Not only are they having fun, but they are also incorporating learning as well.

“They are counting, sliding, pretending to have an ice cream shop, and using their imagination,” Merritt said.

Engaging in outdoor play introduces children to new situations and encourages them to try new things at their own pace which is why it is important in early childhood development.

“By being presented with opportunities to try something new, these young students independently test their own abilities and learn new skills in the process, which in turn allows them to develop self-awareness and a sense of independence as they grow more confident in their capabilities,” Merritt said.