Thank you to the Rotary Club for volunteering your time and donating dictionaries to all 3rd Grade students. We appreciate all you do for our community and schools!
Middle school Fellowship of Christian Athletes helped serve the Veteran’s Day Dinner. Thank you Veterans for your service!!
Falls City high school hosted the annual Veterans Day program. Chorus and band members from Sacred Heart and Falls City high provided the music and the speaker was Captain Ethan Fritz. Thank you Ethan for your message and service. Thank you to all the veterans and their families for their service and sacrifice.
The Mock Trial Teams traveled to Papillion on November 10 to compete in the Nebraska State Bar Foundation Mock Trial Competition. Falls City High School is fielding two teams this year. Falls City competed against teams from Bellevue West High School and Springfield Plattview in the Sarpy County Courthouse. Each team was assigned a side of a Civil Lawsuit and presented its case using evidence and exhibits and called witnesses to testify in the case. 3 students assumed the roles of Attorneys and 3 students were assigned roles as witnesses. Attorneys questioned witnesses on both direct examination and cross-examination. During the trial, attorneys could object to questions that were asked by the opposing party and could respond when their questions were objected to by opposing parties in the case.
At the conclusion of the trial, performance judges (who are practicing attorneys) and the presiding judge gave valuable feedback to both teams. The feedback provided both compliments and suggestions for the participants to use in future competitions.
The winners of the regional competition will meet in Omaha at the State Competition in December.
Schools in the region include. Papillion Lavista High School, Bellevue West High School, Weeping Water High School, HTRS, and Conestoga High School.
Team members on Falls City's team include: Stiephan Fields, Jaden Ansel, Makayla Ansel, Jaxtyn Harvey, Hayden Findlay, Kaitlyn Kirkendall, Katelynn Titus, Jayme Ewers, Bailey Thimmes, Paige Young, Brock Caudle, Ethan Morris
Falls City's Attorney Coach is Samantha Scheitel
This week the 4th grade students got out of the classroom for art and learned how to use a window to trace their sketches for their next project. Can’t wait to see how these turn out!
Veterans Day program on Friday, November 11th at 11:00am will be live-streamed here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbvam3Bk9ENo9Fjw1-fT-og
Madison Jones, the daughter of Luke and Celeste Jones has signed to play Softball at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Madi has had a very successful High School career at Falls City. She currently holds multiple school records.
To learn about Election Day Mrs. Bauman's preschool class voted for their favorite cookie. The students were able to vote for either Oreo or Chocolate Chip. We counted the votes and the winner was....Oreo!! Of course to celebrate we had to have a couple of them!!
FCMS parents: Your students will be bringing home their 3 week report cards tonight. Please review grades with students. Thanks!
The Falls City Police Department will be patrolling the drop off and pick up areas
at school this week. Please follow all posted rules and use the correct drop off and pick up locations.
Just a Reminder... Daylight Savings Time!
FCHS Cheerleaders hosting Turkey Bingo at the high school tonight. #gobblegobble
NJHS food drive update: 266 items! Continue to help us meet our goal of 1500 by Friday 11-11. Students will have a pajama day to be announced; can enough items be brought for staff to run in an inflatable through an obstacle course?
FCCLA District 1 Leadership Conference took place at Peru State College today. This year’s theme was called, “Find Your Fire”. The keynote speaker Casey Molifua, You vs. You addressed that effective leadership starts with self-leadership. 98 members attended the conference.
Burke Wissman battled the #3 NSESA Smash player this afternoon and went all five rounds but came up just short of a round two playoff victory. Great season Burke!
The Rocket League 1 team came up short also this afternoon with a tough loss to a scrappy Thayer Central team. Great job this season Ethan, Peyton, and Eric!
Today Buster joined the North School students during library! Buster makes time in his schedule to visit and check out our elementary libraries.
Three high school band students, Sierrah Vermeer, Bailey Thimmes, and Jayme Ewers, attended the UNO Brass Day yesterday. They worked with the Seraph Brass quintet, UNO School of Music faculty, and performed with other high school brass students in a phenomenal concert!
Omaha World-Herald Softball Honorable mention All-state.
Madi Jones, Kacy Brewer, Elyse Poppe, & Hannah Collier.
Congrats to the #9 ranked Falls City 2 Rocket League team (Chase Simpson, Chase Brown, and Ryker McCullough) on defeating the #8 ranked Conestoga 1 team 3-0 in a best of 5. They advance to the quarterfinals next week and will more than likely take on #1 ranked David City 1. A win next week will advance them to the state tournament in Hastings on Saturday, November 19.
#4 ranked FC 1 (Peyton Brown, Ethan Boatright, and Eric Heinzelman) plays #13 ranked Thayer Central 1 Thursday afternoon at 4:15. The competition will be live streamed via Twitch. With a win, they would more than likely face #5 ranked Syracuse 1 in the quarterfinals next week.
The end of the season steak fry for Tiger Football players in grades 7-12 will be at noon on November 13th in the High School Cafeteria. Please RSVP with Coach Bangert so we know how many steaks to prepare. (Send him an email so he knows if you will attend) See you then!