Weber Chess

The 2010 Team Elementary Chess Championship was held Saturday in Des Moines. Eighty players from across Iowa played 5 rounds, battling for individual and team trophies. In a stunning display of power and depth, Weber’s teams won both the K-6 and K-3 Championships. K-6 Team trophies went to Ziwen Zhou (finishing undefeated with 5-0), Ashwin Kalyanakumar, Arshaq Saleem, Soren Schmidt, and Stefan Schmidt (all finishing 4-1). Also winning 4 rounds were Chris Low and Seung-Ok Oh. The Team was so strong that, had our top 3 finishers not even played, our students would still have won the event. Several of our players won individual trophies, including Ziwen who snagged
1st place after playing consistently excellent chess all day.

There were also top trophies for players on Weber’s K-3 Team: Jason Lee (who, like those above, finished 4-1), Vladimir Tivansky, Pranav Krishnamurthy, and Nathan Huang. There’s a bright future for Weber’s teams since, of the 11 players who competed this year, only 2 will graduate from Weber after this school year.

Congrats to our Weber chess players!

Redistricting Committee Information

Please note that the feedback from the Redistricting Public Forums that were held on February 4 and 5th is posted on the ICCSD website. http://www.iccsd.k12.ia.us/district/redistrict/index.html

School Spririt Day

Logo Day is on February 26 at Weber. Wear your favorite logo from Weber, a sports team, or a logo of your choice!

Spring Conferences

Don't forget to sign up for your spring parent/teacher/student conference. Our goal for spring conferences is to celebrate our learning and growth this year and to set goals for the remainder of the year. See you on either February 25 or March 2! We thank you for your partnership!

RHWK (Roosevelt, Horn, Weber, Kirkwood) Committee

The ICCSD has formed a committee to assist with details surrounding the closing of Roosevelt Elementary and the opening of a new elementary in The Crossings development in 2011-2012. This new school is intended to alleviate overcrowding at Weber, and as such, will result in boundary changes to the Weber attendance area. Weber representatives on the committee are Mrs. Gibson, Mr. Elmer (team 3 teacher) and Lynnette Ammar (parent). If you have questions or comments you would like the committee to address, please contact Lynnette at LRA316@hotmail.com.

Weber Cares!

We would like to thank everyone for their generosity this past month. Together we collected 1,694 pounds of food, which we delivered to the Crisis Center in Iowa City.

From our coin drive to help the people of Haiti we have collected $677.00. We will continue the coin drive through the end of February.

Last weekend the 3 on 3 basketball tournament and bake sale raised $3,000 to be donated to the Red Cross to help the earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.

A SPECIAL THANK YOU to Luke Barta, Bo Nock
and the Swarm basketball team for organizing the event.

Thank you so much for your support.