DISTRICT
The next school board meeting is April 18, with a workshop planned for 5:30 p.m., followed by a regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the boardroom. The boardroom is within the auditorium building at 601 N. Sequim Ave. An agenda is available on the district’s website at www.sequim.k12.wa.us under Board of Directors.
The public is encouraged to attend and time is set aside at each meeting for public comment. For more information, contact Marilyn Walsh at mwalsh@sequim.k12.wa.us or 582-3262.
There is no school over spring break, April 4-8. The district office will be open during spring break week from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. We wish all students and staff members a wonderful and safe time on their break and look forward to their return on Monday, April 11.
SEQUIM ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
Over two Saturdays in early March, fifth-grade students from Helen Haller Elementary and Greywolf Elementary spent several hours in Sequim High School’s prep kitchen chopping, preparing and cooking original dishes. The annual Kids Chopped exhibition is sponsored by the Sequim School District and Sodexo Food Services. Family members and food service staff sampled the dishes prepared by the young chefs. Participants received prizes including Panini grills, frozen yogurt machines and kitchen utensils.
Each student submitted an idea on what dish they would prepare, utilizing a mystery ingredient. This year’s mystery ingredient was pickled beets. Each student paired up with an adult and picked a basket of ingredients of which neither the adult nor student knew the contents. Each basket contained a protein item and the pickled beets they had to incorporate somehow in their meal. They then selected other ingredients and were given one hour to complete a meal. The young chefs, with a little assistance from the adults, barbecued, grilled, sautéed and baked their way to create some great dishes.
Laurie Campen, director of Food Services, reports that all entrees included pickled beets and all were declared delicious!
Greywolf participants and the dishes they created were: Friday Fendler/Fried Chicken Salad, Julia Jeffers/Green Salad Mix with Hot Garlic Prawns, Katherine Belbin/Italian Sausage Open-faced Sandwich, Rae Douglas/Dry-rubbed Mesquite Chicken Salad, and Delaney Sizemore/Sliced Grilled Steak with Garlic Grilled Veggies and Beets.
Helen Haller participants and the dishes they created were: Braiden Kitchen/Grilled Tri-Tip Steak with Grilled Asparagus and Beets, Kali Biddle/Pork Stir-Fry with Sautéed Veggies and Rice, Addi Reynolds/Chicken Tacos with Spring Mix Salad, and Brooklynn Castle/Prawn Scampi and Alfredo Prawns with Garlic Bread and Beet Spread.
GREYWOLF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Recently Alex Ogilvie’s first-grade class completed a book entitled “Love is …” Students were asked to write about what love means to them. Here are some examples:
Love is for my cousins when they come all the way from Snohomish. They make me smile because I never get to see them. Lily Sparks
Love is important to me because I love my dog. Hayden Blagdon
Love is when my dad is home. Stacey Bonhejo
Love is my dog Marley. He licks me and he is furry. Kingston Stevens
Love is being with my family. We play hide-and-seek. Roland Brilhart
Love is my whole family. Even my dog Vanilla. Kaitlyn Carpenter
Love is for my dad and grandma because they bought me my pet. Nicholas Levesque
Love is for my mom and dad because I like to go everywhere with them. Brody Neal
Love is my family because they are kind and nice to me. Gage Reynolds
HELEN HALLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The winners of the Elks annual essay contest were all from teacher Eric Danielson’s fifth-grade class. The theme this year was Patriotism. These students won the top awards for their essays:
Kali Biddle, first place; Saul Williams, second place; and Alliyah Weber, third place.
Danielson also hosts Chess Club every fall and winter. The championship game recently was played. Cole Smithson and Colton Cosio were the participants and Cosio came out victorious.
OLYMPIC PENINSULA ACADEMY
Fifth-grader Jenna Mason (pictured below) is our 2016 Pi champion! She memorized the number Pi to 41 digits past the decimal. Rebecca Bullard’s math class engaged in many fun activities to celebrate Pi Day on March 14. Parents sent in six pies and Jenna was able to take home a whole pie of her choice as the Pi champion. The class watched some fun videos about Pi, then went outdoors to the playground and used chalk to write as many numbers of Pi as they could remember. We learned about diameter, radius, circumference and the area of a circle. The class found all of these things with many circles they found around the classroom. We also determined the fraction of pie each student received when the pies were served out in even portions.
SEQUIM MIDDLE SCHOOL
Teacher and ASB advisor Rick Miko reports the Sequim Food Bank picked up 1,017 pounds of food collected at the end of the school’s two-week food drive. Here are the results of the food drive, including the classes of each grade level that won and also individual winners.
The top classes were: Sixth-grade/Marcia Garrett’s class, 194 pounds; seventh-grade/Melissa Withrow’s class, 75 pounds; and eighth-grade/Rick Miko’s class, 122 pounds.
The top five students were Elaine Brown (eighth-grade), 75 pounds; Abigail Carlson (sixth-grade), 56 pounds; Anjeli Chandler (eighth-grade), 46 pounds; Malory Morey (sixth-grade), 45 pounds; and Sydney Swanson (eighth-grade), 26 pounds. The winning classes will celebrate their hard work with a root beer float party and the winning individuals get to bring a friend, along with the ASB officers who organized the event, to an after school pizza party. We’d like to thank everyone who helped with this effort to feed our community!
SEQUIM HIGH SCHOOL
The annual fine arts student assembly was held in the gymnasium on March 18. A slideshow of artwork from Jaye Hall’s glass fusing, painting and drawing classes, Jim Heintz’s photography classes and Jake Reichner’s ceramics classes was projected on a large screen and a few short videos by Christy Ditlefsen’s marketing class also were shown.
The Jazz Band performed, under the direction of Vernon Fosket, and a clarinet duet by Blake Eriks and Eric Anderson, both seniors, was featured as well. Alysha Graham and Nicholas Fazio, both seniors, sang a duet from the operetta’s upcoming production of “Cinderella” and John Lorentzen’s Vocal Ensemble, Men’s Ensemble and Select Choir all performed.
Students from all three high school choirs are participating in a Heritage/World Strides Choral Festival held at Fullerton College in California on April 1. Said director John Lorentzen, “We have four performing groups presenting at this event: Select Choir (with additional members from the Concert Choir), Vocal Ensemble (our curricular 16-voice ensemble that will be representing the North Olympic Peninsula at the State Solo & Ensemble Festival in April), Women’s Chorus (made up of women from both Select Choir and Vocal Ensemble), and Men’s Ensemble (made up of men from both Select Choir and Vocal Ensemble).
“All four of the these groups performed March 22 at the North Olympic Music Educators Choral Adjudication held at Port Angeles High School and all four groups received the highest possible (Superior) ratings. The students have worked very hard. Most of them have learned two entire sets of literature for this event. That is why they have earned some free time in Disneyland after the festival!”
Choir students also will present a post-adjudication/pre-trip concert for the community in the auditorium at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 30, in the auditorium, the night before they depart for Anaheim, Calif. All four ensembles will share the pieces they will be performing at the Heritage/World Strides Festival. In addition, the Concert Choir and the four soloists who were selected to perform at State will be featured.
Students in the band program, under the direction of Vernon Fosket, also will be featured in concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 31, in the auditorium. Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, Concert Band and Percussion Ensemble will perform.
Both concerts are open to the public and are free of charge.
