Ida’s Cross Country Teams are recognized for Achieving Academic All-State Honors

 Girls' Team Members L to R.: Ashley Sorge, Linnea Vicari, Kayandra Orwig, and Libby Heil. Alexa Brososky was absent.

Boys’ team members pictured L. to R: Jarrod Sawasky, Garrett Madden, Cody Dixon, and Logan Monaghan. Jeremy Hendzel and Kevin Head were absent.

This fall our cross country teams not only competed on the field but also in the classroom to show that they are true student athletes. The girls’ team had the highest GPA in the state with a 3.95. Team members included Ashley Sorge, Linea Vickery, Libby Heil, and   .  Ashley Sorge placed 8^th in the state meet.  The boys’ team received all-state honorable mention with a 3.466 grade point average. The boys’ team included Jarod Sawasky, Garrett Madden, Cody Dixon, Logan Monahan, Kevin Head and Jeremy Hendzel.  Garrett Madden placed 47^th overall in the state meet.

Board of Education

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING

December 10, 2012 

 Thank you Mr. Sinclair for assisting Mark Mathe from the Mannik and Smith group while they were evaluating the sanitary sewer system in Ida. Mr. Mathe recognized Mr. Sinclair for his assistance using WeatherBug’s online archives.

Special recognition was given to Mrs. Zeichman for her nomination for the Teacher of the Year award. Mrs. Zeichman does a great job!

Congratulations to the boys cross country team. They earned honorable mention academic all-state team honors. The girls cross country team really made their mark by earning 1^st team academic all-state honors. The girl’s team grade point average is 3.95. Members include Ashley Sorge, Libby Heil, Alexa Brososky, Linnea Vicari, Kayandra Orwig, Garrett Madden, Jarrod Sawasky, Jeremy Hendzel, Kevin Head, Cody Dixon and Logan Monaghan. Ashley and Garrett also received individual academic all-state honors.

The Ida Elementary School has been designated a Reward School by the Michigan Department of Education. It is ranked in the top 5% of schools in the State. Congratulations to the entire elementary staff and thank you for doing a great job!

Mrs. Waldron will be chaperoning an Eighth Grade Class Trip to Washington D.C. next school year. Hopefully, students and parents will embrace this opportunity and participate in the trip. All costs for the trip will be the responsibility of the parents but several fundraisers will be scheduled so that students will have an opportunity to raise money and minimize trip costs. Our goal is to offer a middle school trip to Washington D.C. regularly so that all students have the opportunity to tour the nation’s capital.

The Board of Education passed a resolution stipulating that Ida Public Schools meets 7 of the 8 Best Practices as defined by the Governor. The district will now receive approximately $75,000 in additional revenue for the 2013 budget year.

Once approved, the meeting minutes are posted on the district web-site at www.idaschools.org.

Character Strikes Winners

Congratulations to our November winners! 

The theme was Responsibility.

The Middle School students brought in 1,387 cans for the canned food drive!

Once the cans were in, each grade came up with a design for their cans. The 5th grade made a snowman for a 1st place win.. 2nd place went to the 7th grade with their fireplace design. Many other creative designs were developed by all grade levels.

The Ida Bands draw a huge crowd for the Holiday Concert

Thank you Mr. Bennett and Mr. Nichols for an excellent program!

Mrs. Maynard's 3rd Grade Science Classes make some interesting discoveries

 

During Science Lab; third graders were engaged in whether or not the type of soil would affect how much water was absorbed. They made some interesting new discoveries.

Ida Middle School Student is Published!

6th grade student, Blake Gerweck, recently had a poem published by the America Library of Poetry.  His poem is entitled “Blue is…” and was included in the book called, Talented  2012 Poetry Collection.