Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 127, Number 51, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 16 December 2004 — Page 4
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Advance News • Thursday, December 16, 2004
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ADVANCE NEWS PHOTOS/AW GADSON Top: Students check out the poster they made. Bottom: Lt. Brad Weaver presents Megan Venable, 8, with a medal based on the work she put into the poster.
Poster earns a kids a tour. Students in Mrs. McGowen’s third grade class at Woodview Elementary were treated to a tour of the Bremen Indiana State Police Post on Dec. 13 after their 15foot mural was selected as the winner of a poster contest for Elkhart County schools. “We truly enjoy walking down the hall and seeing all the posters,” Lt. Brad Weaver said. “You should be really proud of yourselves." The police first served the kids donuts and something to drink, before taking a tour of the station. “We laughed here at the station, that we were going to give you a lot of sugar, then let you go back to school,” Weaver joked. McGowen’s class was selected based on the size of the poster, plus the teamwork put into it. ‘That’s something we try to teach our officers,” Weaver said about teamwork.
Nappanee Public Library News
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will also meet with developers and realtors to find out if any kind of housing developments may be in the plans. His finding will be presented to the board during its Feb. 4 meeting. Sabo said the studies are needed in order to locate where growth is taking place in the area. Wa-Nee Elementary Schools are all at about 500 students, which is getting high, in Sabo's opinion. "In my philosophical view on how large an elementary should get is at about 500," he said. "Woodview and Wakarusa are already over that, and there are 495 at Nappanee." Wagner also said that speaking with the Amish community is important, in order to know if any Amish schools may be built, torn down or consolidated. "I'd like to be involved in that," Sabo said. "I can go out and speak with bishops." After Wagner had left, the board voted to hire him on a 7-0 vote, paying him $5,000 plus expenses, not to exceed $1,500. Because the board was not too happy about its last demographic study, it has outlined a more concrete plan for Wagner, stating what it wants to see. ISTEP+ Director of Curriculum Jim Bennett gave a report on how the third, sixth and eighth grades did on this year's ISTEP+ exam. Compared to other schools in the area, Wa-Nee ranks very high. The state average for passing third grade students in Math was 73 percent, while 76 percent passed in Wa-Nee, while the average in Language Arts was 75 percent, and Wa-Nee passed 82 percent. 90 percent of Wa-Nee sixth graders passed Math, while the average was 75 percent, and 83
Wakarusa Public Library News
LIBRARY CLOSURES The library will be closed on Dec. 24 and Dec. 25 for the Christmas holidays. The library will re-open at 9 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 27. DECORATIONS The library has been wonderfully decorated by the Friends of the Library. This group is wonderful at making the library an inviting place to be during the holidays or anytime. Thank you to the Friends of the Wakarusa Public Library. CHRISTMAS BOOKS Finding Christmas books and music has become easier. The adult Christmas books have been placed on a cart at the end of the 700 area of the adult nonfiction section. The Christmas music has been moved up to the main rack of the audio display rack. We hope these changes will help our patrons to find these items quicker. DIAL A STORY Dial A Story for next week is "Snowball's Christmas Eve." This is the story of how a tiny white kitten helps Santa make his Christmas Eve run. Hear this story at 862-4441. NEW BOOKS ON CD "Redbird Christmas" by
percent passed Language Arts, compared to 70 percent in the state. Eighth grade also ranked above the state average, with 85 percent passing Math (71) and 77 percent passing Language Arts (67). With the No Child Left Behind Act, children across the state are given the same test, which charts their progress through the years. This is the third year of the tests, and the only drop came between sixth and eighth grade came in Language Arts, and that was only by 1 percent. Wa-Nee's percent passing for the three grades is between 71 and 90 percent. "We have 20 to 25 percent that are not passing are the ones we are working with," Bennett said. "We want to find out what we can do to break that ceiling." Bennett also reported on the General Qualifying Exam, which needs to be passed before a student can graduate. Right now, 184 of the 200 seniors have passed the test. The 16 who have not passed it, will have one more opportunity in the spring. If they do not pass the exam, they may qualify for a waiver, which is only issued if the student shows he or she went through remedial courses, or receive a Certificate of Completion. The Certificate doesn't equal a diploma, but does show the student completed all the courses. Letters are sent home by the state and Wa-Nee showing how students are doing in the exams, informing parents of options that can be taken. One option mentioned during the meeting was to provide after school course, summer courses or re-arranging a student's class schedule to submit more classes in the field the student is struggling in. The junior class has had 169 of its 215 students pass the test, and they have three more opportunities to pass the exam, this spring, fall of next year and the following spring.
Fannie Flagg "The Delaney Christmas Carol" by Kay Hooper, Iris Johansen, and Fayrene Preston. "A Christmas Carol" by Jean Shephard "A Christmas Visitor" by Anne Perry "The Christmas Thief" by Mary Higgins Clark CHRISTMAS AUDIO BOOKS The adult Christmas books on cassette/CD have been moved to the new shelf in the audiobook area. CHRISTMAS MOVIE A Christmas Break Movie will be held on Dec. 30 at 10 a.m. This is for all students in grades Kindergarten through fifth grade. Registration is required. DONATED BOOK "Ready To Roll: a Celebration of the Classic American Travel Trailer" by Arrol Gellner has been given in memory of
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Marvin Newcomer by the Wakarusa High School Class df 1940. NEW BOOKS "Shipshewana: An Indiana Amish Community" by Dorothy O. Pratt "The Amish In Their Own Words" by Brad Igou "The Amish: Why They Enchant Us" by Donald B. Kraybill "Centennial Farms of Indiana" by M. Teresa Baer "Speaking My Mind" by Tony Compolo "Up From Ground Zero" by Paul Goldberger "A Matter of Character: Inside the White House of George W. Bush" by Ronald Kessler "House Calls and Hitching Posts: Stories from Dr. Elmer Lehman's Career Among the Amish" by Dr. Elmer Lehman "Can America Survive? The Rage of the Left, The Truth, and What To Do About It" by Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth.