Tomorrow, close to 4,000 high school musicians will be auditioning across the state of Iowa for their place in the Iowa All State Band, Orchestra, or Chorus. We want to wish good luck to the 6 East Sac musicians who will be auditioning throughout the day tomorrow in LeMars. They have been working hard since this summer to prepare and go give their best at their audition. We are so proud of them regardless of what the results say tomorrow.
Instrumentalists auditioning include Max Manternach on trombone, Paige Hout on trumpet, and Ximena Sandoval on flute.
Vocalists auditioning include Emmalinn Carico, Sasrah Bontrager, and Paris McRea.
Please send all the good vibes and well-wishes to these students tomorrow!
Sac County Courthouse and County Employees welcomed students this morning for High Five Friday! Thank you for starting your day with us and bringing smiles to so many faces!
Our ESC Raider Football Team as qualified for the State Playoffs and plays TONIGHT at Woodward Granger! Good luck! Go Raiders!!!
Congratulations to East Sac Counties Riley Aragon and Landon Sporrer on qualifying for the State Cross County Meet! Way to work hard and earn a trip to State!!! Go Raiders!!!
Good luck to our East Sac County Cross Country Teams as they compete in the State Qualifying Meet TODAY in Orange City!!! Go Raiders!!!
Congratulations to Nevaeh Stone, Katelyn Clayton, Makya Mann, Dallas Kennebeck, and Brayden Phillipson! These five students were accepted into the NWIBA Honor Band. These kids worked very hard to earn their seats. This is a tremendous honor and we are very proud of them! Way to go!
An extra special congratulations to Mr. Brayden Phillipson who was selected to perform with the All-Iowa 8th Grade Honor Band in May. Brayden received the top score on his ballot of all the Euphonium players auditioning in Northwest Iowa. Awesome job Brayden!
We hope to see you TONIGHT in Holstein to support our Lady Raiders as they compete in the 2nd Round of Regionals! Good luck! Go Raiders!!!
Tonight was sure a great night for our MS Football team! They won their game vs. Pocahontas and to make it even more special, they had the support of the HS Football Team and Coaches who were there to cheer them on!!! Just as the younger kids support our older kids, the older kids returned he favor tonight. GO RAIDERS!!!
To start the year, the 3rd graders read two different Magic Treehouse stories. They then identified elements that make a story a Magic Treehouse story. For their final project, they are working on writing their own Magic Treehouse stories. The goal for the students is to write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. They have been working very hard to edit their papers & create their final product. They are very excited to share these with their parents and guardians at conferences!
Ms. Hoefling's Intro to Ag class has been learning about Parliamentary Procedure. During this specific class period, students had the opportunity to put the skills they have learned into action, by creating a Candy mixture or "salad". In order to get a specific candy in the mixture, students had to properly make a motion, discuss, and pass the motion before it was added. It is important for students to learn how to properly run a meeting and the rules that go along with parliamentary procedures as they go into their future careers!
For those of you who use Tik Tok, the East Sac County student council has created an account to share information and recognitions. Please follow them to stay in the loop!
Tomorrow these 7th and 8th grade band members will be heading to Storm Lake for the NWIBA JH Honor Band Auditions. Let's wish them all good luck!!!
ESC Government class students held a debate for a mock presidential election in front of the entire student body today!! For a class project, these students held primaries in their classes and picked one candidate from each class and these two are now going head to head to see who could be the winner! Students will vote next week to complete this project. And it was a great interactive look at the presidential process from primary, to debate, to final vote!
This morning we welcomed Park View Rehabilitation Center to our building for High Five Friday! Students truly enjoy having special greeters on Friday mornings; what a great start to the day!
Here are some more pictures from Fire Prevention Week!!! A big thank you goes out to our local fire departments!!!
Today we recognize and show our appreciation for Mr. Hemiller and his work as the East Sac County Superintendent. He works very hard to ensure staff, families, and students are safe, successful, and enjoy their experience at ESC. Thank you for your work and dedication to our district and community. We appreciate you!
What a wonderful performance by our ESC high school choir tonight, under the direction of first year choir director Evan Gutzmer! The choir did amazing job with an ambitious song selection that these students handled with ease!!
This past Friday, the Woman of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Sac City delivered each first grader a Reading Bear. They hand-made 58 bears so each first grader would have the opportunity to have a bear to read to during school. The purpose of this program is to build confidence in their reading as they would have their own bear to listen to them read during reading time. The kids were excited to pick out their bear that they get to keep at the end of the year.
Thank you to the woman of St. Paul's Lutheran Church for providing this opportunity for our first graders!!!
Kindergarten students from Mrs. Freier''s class had a great time last week learning about fire safety, firefighters, and fire trucks! Each student received a Fire Hat and a ride on a Fire Truck!!!
In Personal Finance students learned all about careers from how to pick a career that is right for them, filling out applications, completing resumes, writing a cover letter, interviewing, and writing a thank you letter. In the following pictures students are shown completing their mock interviews. Students were to apply to an open sales associate position and interview for that same position. In order to make the process as real world as possible students interviewed each other while the other students in the classroom critiqued their interviews by writing positive aspects and things that need to be improved within the interview process. Students were to dress up and were graded on appearance, first impressions, interview content, interview technique/skills, and their closing. Students then were required to write a reflection about their interview. This was a great experience for the students; they were able to sit through an interview and get some real world experience before actually interviewing outside of school.
