2010-2011 Weber Celebrations!

• Weber students and their families have served our community both
locally and globally this year. Highlights include Founder’s Day
service projects in honor of Irving Weber. Students made blankets
for the homeless shelter, bookmarks for library, math games for the
Neighborhood Center, collected cards and supplies for soldiers,
donated to Shelter House, and raised money for a school in
Cambodia through our Pennies for Peace project. Team 3 students
adopted the Emerson Pointe community, and Students celebrated
Earth Day and during Souper Bowl Parties families donated 2720
pounds of food to the Crisis Center. Weber students and staff sent off
1310 paper cranes and sold paper crane jewelry and cotton candy
to earn $3,620 for the Japanese Red Cross. Through Jump Rope for
Heart students raised $11 000.00 for the American Heart
Association
• Students from 28 different countries attended Weber this year and
they celebrated diversity by continuing the rich tradition of hosting
an all-school assembly on United Nations Day that included a fashion
show featuring clothing from a variety of countries and music.
Parents and community members rounded out the morning by
teaching mini-courses celebrating the uniqueness of cultures
(language, customs, etc) to the students.
• Students had several new opportunities to develop their character
and leadership skills. Students continued to serve and lead within the school through Student Council. Two new service/learning groups were also implemented for Team 4 students: LAMPS(Leadership, Achievement, Motivation, Personal Development & Service) and SPA (Service, Personal Development and Achievement). Several students also participated over their lunch hour in a hip-hop dance group called Flight Boyz.

Spring Greens Day-June 1st

On June 1st, all ICCSD schools will serve fresh, locally-grown salad greens for lunch for the first time! The greens will be served as salads and sandwich fixings for student and staff lunches.

During Spring Greens Day students will find educational materials on their lunch table that tells them about the farmers that grew the salad greens and provides interesting facts about lettuce. Volunteers will be visiting schools during lunch to talk to students about fresh, local foods.

Farm to School has been working with ICCSD food services director, Diane Duncan-Goldsmith, and three local growers to coordinate this event. Derek Roller of Echollective Farm in Mechanicsville and Andy and Melissa Dunham of Grinnell Heritage Farm in Grinnell are growing a total of 330 pounds of lettuce to serve to approximately 6400 students. James Nisly of Organic Greens in Kalona will be washing, cutting, and packaging the greens in his licensed processing facility so that the greens can be served “ready-to-eat” in the cafeterias.

The salad greens are being purchased with an Iowa Farm to School Grant from the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS).

The ICCSD Farm to School chapter, a project of the Johnson County Local Food Alliance, is one of several Iowa Farm to School chapters across the state. The goals of Farm to School are to get kids thinking about where their food comes from and how it’s grown, help kids make healthy food choices, connect local farmers with schools, add local foods to school lunches, and provide students with hands-on activities such as school gardens and in-class cooking demonstrations. More information about the ICCSD Farm to School chapter is available at http://sites.google.com/site/iccsdfarmtoschool/

THANK YOU, Weber Families!

On behalf of the Weber staff, we would like to THANK our Weber families for
a wonderful Staff Appreciation Week! We thoroughly enjoyed our flowers, gift cards, flower seeds, 30 minute breaks, and all the yummy food!! We appreciate your thoughtfulness and ongoing support! THANK YOU!

Bullying Segments on KCRG

KCRG recently produced seven segments on the topic of bullying, and four of them (highlighted in red) were taped in schools in AEA 10. The dates and times are listed below. The segments will be aired in their entirety on KCRG 9.2 (the digital sub-channel) on May 21st at 6:30pm.

• May 16th at 6pm “R-Word” (Prairie HS)
• May 17th at 6pm “Cyber Bullying” (UNI)
• May 18th at 6pm “Waterloo Hotline” (Waterloo East HS)
• May 19th at 6pm “Bullying Laws” (Kennedy HS,Cedar Rapids Police Department)
• May 19th at 10pm “Mean Girls” (Wickham Elementary School)
• May 20th at 6pm “Teenage Stories” (Kennedy HS)
• May 21st at 6:30pm “The Bully Project” (Waitt Institute, UNI)

The first segment deals with the derogatory term that is sometimes directed towards special education students.

Check them out!

Healthy Habits

Check out this inspiring article from the North Liberty Leader.

Healthy habits begin at school, last a lifetime -- northlibertyleader.com
http://www.northlibertyleader.com/