News reported during the week of May 19, 2008

Greenville Middle School

Congratulations to Janine Connolly for coming up with the idea of Friday Night Lights, instead of Saturday school to help students catch up on late work.  The idea is time efficient for all involved. Great Job Janine!

GMS and HMS

Tuesday, May 20 students from Hortonville Middle School and Greenville Middle School traveled to Manawa to participate in the Academic Quiz Bowl.    Students from HMS who participated were Erik Roe, Peter Tenpas, Mike Darling, Alex Tetzloff, Kate Ubl and Trevor Carter.  Our sub was Meg Tetzloff from HMS.    The GMS students participating were Max Wilson and Joe Dewar.  Max and Joe were joined by Kate Ubl and Trevor Carter from HMS to complete one team.    All the students did an outstanding job in the competition with nine other teams from Manawa, Shiocton, and Weyawaga-Fremont.  The HMS team of Alex, Erik, Peter and Mike took the overall first place amassing over 380 points!  Our team from HMS/GMS, Max, Joe, Kate and Trevor placed a resounding fifth in the competition.  We can truly be proud of our fine young academic students.  Their knowledge goes way beyond their years and I feel very privileged as their coach and teacher to work with these fine young people.  FANTASTIC!

Hortonville Elementary School

Math club students at Hortonville Elementary presented their board games and power point slide shows to the school on the morning of May 21st.  The power points and games were very professionally done, the students were justifiably proud, and the general student body was excited to interact with the presenters.  Some of the projects were worthy of marketing professionally.  Special recognition is due to Marcia Dunathan, Lisa Ales, Jim Johnson, and Matt Craemer for their work with the Math Club in providing leadership, generating enthusiasm, and in their efforts to organize the the Math Morning activity.  Congratulations to each of them and thank you to all staff who contributed time and talent for various math club activities this year.

HASD

I would like to thank Milo Lemke for all the time and care he puts into keeping the green space around our schools looking good. This is a huge task for 1 man. I also would like thank him for the condition of our sports fields. The football field is one of the finest playing surfaces in the area and I'm sure Milo will show the same care in the soon to be seeded soccer field. Your long hours do not go unnoticed. THANKS YOU MILO!

Hortonville High School

As the mentoring program winds down, there are a certain number of students that need special recognition for going above and beyond the call in mentoring other students. Sometimes it was only a day or two to give that  extra  help  on a certain concept or problem. Other times, as in the case of Emily Gibbons who has been working with a student 2 days a week since early November hours,  it is a long term situation.  Nathan Barth has spent  several  hours after school  helping  two students at the elementary school. He has also worked with at least 8 students in the high school.  Both Emily and Nathan completed over 60 hours of mentoring!         Other outstanding mentors are:   Erika Kaczmarzyk  --- over  50 hours.   Michael VanDyke,  Breanna Priest, Kaylie Kuhnke, Mandi Hockers and Paige Prince --- over 40 hours.  Colissa Erickson, Miranda Diedrich,  Gretta Ploch  ---over 30 hours.  We had close to 60 students that volunteered their time mentoring!  A huge than you to all of them!

Greenville Elementary School

A big Thank You goes out to our Greenville PTO for purchasing our kindergarten treasure box items. The students really look forward to earning a trip to the treasure box to choose one of the really cool prizes.  Thank you for all that you do!  Greenville Elementary Kindergarten Team.