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Who's t he Best Band?

On October 15th, the 2016 Panther Pride Marching Band attended the MWSU Homecoming Parade and competition. After a devastating blow from the previous competition, confidence from many of the members was down. No one was sure how the MWSU parade was going to go, but we were hopeful.

When the day came, we had one goal in mind: To beat Hamilton. We had worked hard in the few days before to improve. We hoped we could reach our goal. We did some last minute rehearsal, and when it came time to line up we were a litt le more confident. We marched our hardest, along with fifteen other

bands, and focused more than we previously had. It paid off. We were nervous as we headed to the awards ceremony.

We waited impatiently for class 2A to be called, which was our class. When it did, we were shocked and overjoyed to hear that not only had we beat Ha- milton, we got first place.

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Third graders from the 2015-16 school year donated money to install a Buddy Bench in the playground. It was installed in honor of a classmate?s father, Michael Bell, who passed away last spring. Attached to the bench is a nameplate to remember who the bench is for.

The Buddy Bench is an idea that originated in Ger-many. It was brought into the United States by a student from Pennsylvania after some research. The Buddy Bench is to help new or shy students make friends during recess. For most students, recess is supposed to be one of the best parts of elemen-tary school. However, there are some students who feel left out. That?s where the Buddy Bench comes into play. During recess, if a stu-dent had no one to play with they would go sit on the bench. Hopefully, one or more of his/her classmates would ask that lonely child to play with them.

Not only does it help students make friends, it can help them better learn prob-lem solving skills. For exam-ple, if some classmates were fighting their teacher could

send them to the Buddy Bench. Through doing do, those kids could hopefully work out whatever the prob-lem is. It can help guide stu-dents in finding ways to better handle conflicts that often arise on the playground. It can also initiate care and compas-sion for someone other than themselves, as well as give them the ability to show em-pathy.

The Class of 1960 would like to extend a challenge to all graduates of Polo High School! The Class of 1960 purchased the first brick to be placed at

Buddy Bench

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the site of the new Polo Com-munity Track & Field facility upon completion. Bricks are $100 with three lines available for personalization. Individuals or organizations donating larger amounts will be placed on a sign at the facility as well.

This project has been made possible by a land and conservation grant, along with a community walking grant. Tax payers voted in favor of a bond extension, which pro-vided additional funds, and fund raising has begun for equipment. The expected completion date for this pro-ject is Spring, 2017. Progress has been slow due to the amount of rain received over the

Bottom- Two of Michael's Nieces, Ziya and Adri Miller, Respectively

Top- 2015-16 Third Grade Class with the

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Polo Com m unit y Track & Field Project

Subm it t ed by JiIl Rardon

the past six months.

Upon completion, the track will be available to the community 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, when not in use by the school. A fence will be placed at the entrance for people to enter one at a time, but nothing with wheels is allowed on the track due to potential damage to the surface.

Polo Field Day and other local school events will be hosted here, as well as future Middle School and Varsity Track & Field meets. Please contact Michele Sales ([email protected]) or Jill Rardon ([email protected]) for more information on how you can help! Thank you for your support!

Celebrating our Past

Working in the Present

Looking toward the Future

All of our students at Polo have the opportunity to make a difference each day. Teachers have the opportunity to nominate one student from their classroom as to who they feel has demonstrated superhero skills such as self-discipline, unconditional love, perseverance, enthusiasm, respect, honesty, empathy, responsibility, encouragement, and service. To honor those students who have gone above and beyond the regular expectations of being a successful student, they are recognized as Classroom Superheroes during the monthly character education assembly.

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During October?s Character Assembly, the following students were recognized for being classroom superheroes!

Kindergarten: Lili Shrout and Korbyn Gray

1st Grade: Aubree Hall and Brody Shrout

2nd Grade: Meredith Segar and Keegan Howell

3rd Grade: Gracie Thompson and Cody Zeigler

4th Grade: Meranda Segar and Karly Plummer (not pictured--on a field trip)

5th Grade: Keegan Earp and Amelia Tarwater

6th Grade: Ty Claypole

Polo R-VII Classroom Superheroes

By: Rebecca Arway

Student Pictured left to right-

Back Row: Ty Claypole, Amelia Tarwater, Keegan Earp, Cody Zeigler, Keegan Howell, Meredith Segar, and Gracie Thomposon

Front Row: Aubree Hall, Lili Shrout, Brody Shrout, and Korbyn Gray.

It is hard for me to be-lieve that it is the end of first quarter. In this article you will be able to see how busy our students and teachers have been over the past month.Living Hist ory Fest ival

The fourth grade class attended the Living History Festival in Lathrop on October 7th. The students had a great time and enjoyed the hands-on activities of shelling corn, churning butter, sawing logs, and panning for gold.  The students also got experience an old-time medicine show, meet  an Abraham Lincoln im-personator, and experience an old-time school day.

Preschool

The preschool students

learned about fire safety when the Polo Volunteer Fire Depart-ment visited them on October 11th. The preschoolers will also be attending a pumpkin patch for their annual field trip on Oc-tober 26th.

PAT

Just a reminder that the PAT Itty Bitty Book Club will meet again on Friday, Novem-ber 11th at 11:20 in the school library. There is also a PAT Group Connection meeting on October 24th from 6:30-7:30 in the Early Childhood Center.

Parent -Teacher Conference

The teachers have been working hard to get ready for parent-teacher conferences which will be held on Thursday,

News for t he Elem ent ary

By: Mrs. Palm er

October 27th starting at 1:45 and going until 8:00. Preschool conferences will be held in the Early Child-hood Center.  Grades K-4 conferences will be held in their classrooms, while the 5th and 6th grade confer-ences will be held in the multipurpose room.  We are all looking forward to sharing your child?s progress with you on this evening.

Fall Par t ies

Fall parties will be held on Monday, October 31, be-ginning at 2:15 (with a pa-rade @ 2:00) for grades K-4. The morning preschool party will be held at 10:00 a.m. and the afternoon class party will be at 2:00 p.m. on October 31.  Parents and students have been informed that NO CLOWN COSTUMES ARE ALLOWED.

Elem ent ary Counselor 's Corner

By: Rebecca Arway

Throughout the month of September, students in K-6th grade discussed the character word of the month, Responsibility, dur-ing classroom guidance lessons. Students learned the meaning of the word re-sponsibility and discussed the responsibilit ies they have at home, school, and in their community. Students learned that being responsi-

ble means doing the things we HAVE to do, but do not al-ways like to do. Students had the opportunity to identify ways in which they show they are responsible.

To help the students continue to explore and un-derstand the meaning of be-ing a responsible person, here are some ideas:

Talk with your children

about responsibility. Discuss re-sponsibilit ies that the child may have at home and responsibili-ties that you have as a parent/guardian.

?Catch? your children mak-ing responsible choices and let them know how much it means to you that they made a respon-sible choice.

Pillowcase Project

On October 19th, 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders were involved in the Pillowcase Project, which was sponsored by the American Red Cross. The Pillowcase Project, sponsored by Disney, is a pre-paredness education program for children in grades 3 ? 5, which teaches students about personal and family prepared-ness, local hazards, and basic coping skills. The hour long pre-sentation is perfect for schools, after-school programs, Girl and Boy Scout troop meetings, and more. Red Cross volunteers lead students through a ?learn, prac-tice, share? framework to engage them in disaster preparedness. Upon completion, students re-ceive a sturdy pillowcase in which to build their personal emergency supplies kit. Presen-tations are customized to focus on a hazard that is important and relevant to the local com-munity? taken from the Ameri-can Red Cross website.

Here is what some of the students had to say about the project:

Pillowcase Project by: Haylee, Olivia, Am elia , and Madisyn

The Pillowcase Project is about the safety and well beings of others.

It taught us how to be safe

during tornadoes, fires, and earthquakes.It also taught us what essentials to a tornado, always getting out of fires first, and always duck during an earthquake. How the pillow-case project helps us by giving us shelter, giving us meals, and replacing our belongings.It was informative,interesting,and fun to learn about the pillowcase project.I hope you like our summary about Pillowcase Project.

The Pil lowcase Project

By: Owen Horner

The American Red Cross came and taught us about The Pillowcase Project on Tuesday. They taught us what to do if there is a tornado, a fire, or a earthquake.They gave us workbooks that have puz-zles about a fire escape plan.The workbooks also had a chart that showed how many disasters the states in the US had. They gave us coupons to replace smoke detectors that ran out of battery. The Pillow-case Project was helpful for kids to know what to do in case of an emergency.

Pillowcase Project

By: Mrs. Palm er

By: Shylow Mor t on

I am thanking you American Red Cross from coming and letting me

learn how to be safe and prepared for whatever dangerous storm comes. Thank you so much for coming to protect me when there is a danger-ous storm passing through or coming to my family and I. You guys did so much for my fam-ily and I to teach us how to be safe. You taught me to tell my family about what to do in a dangerous situation. We are very grateful.

By: Maver ick Gent ry

You taught us where to go when there is a tornado when we are

ou are driving in a car and you see a tornado you pull over park your car and stay in there. You do not get out of your car. You buckle up and your hands put your hands over your head and neck. If you are out in the middle of nowhere you find the closest house to you and knock on the door so they will let you in. We talked about fires you should have a meeting plan. You should never hide from

the firefighters because they can?t find you but the smoke can. You should have fire alarms in

every single bedroom. When you hear the fire alarms go off you should always have your pillowcase ready to go for tornados, floodings, and hurricanes. You never take it during the fire. You can replace the things in your pillowcase but they can not replace you. This is all about the Pillowcase Project.

By: Megan Vaughan

On Wednesday October 19, 2016 the Red Cross volunteers came to our school and taught us about over your head and neck. If you are out in the middle of nowhere you find the closest house to you and knock on the door so they will let you in. When we talked about fires you should have a meeting plan. You should never hide from emergencies. We learned about a lot of different emergencies. We learned about floods. If there is a flash flood and you are in your car stay inside! Don?t swim out. You could get sick. Another emergency we learned about is earthquakes. We learned four words about what to do. They are. Drop, cover, and hold on. Go under a table! We also learned

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in a car. You also showed us some examples of where to go when there is a fire. You taught us that if you get stuck in a fire most of the time people die from the smoke and not the fire. I want to learn more about tornados and how they form. The whistle on our bedroom door was a good idea because if we get stuck we can blow in it and someone like our par-ents can come get us.

By: Hanna Vaught

Yesterday was 10-19-16 and we had a short assembly in Miss Craig?s room. We mainly talked about tornadoes and fires. We learned that if y

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ways out of each room. You need to check your smoke alarms twice a year. We also learned about tornados also. You need to have a safe place. If the sky is changing color while it is cloudy means it will hail while the tornado is happening. We learned how tornados formed. We also learned how fast a tornado moves on the ground and how fast the winds are in a tornado. We learned to kneel and cover our neck and our heads. We need to have a pillowcase with a few emergency items. The emergency items are bottles of water, soap, flashlight, a toy, a change of clothes, toothbrush and toothpaste,

about fires. We learned that we need to get out in less than 2 minutes. So, you need to practice it twice a year. You

need to crawl on the ground. Your head needs to be at least higher than eight inches off the ground. You need to do that because there are gasses from your furniture or floors. You never ever go back in the house for someone or something. You don?t need to grab your pillowcase. You and your family need to have a meeting place. You need two

a portable radio, paper and pen, a blanket, first aid kit, extra batteries, family photos, and a whistle. The things that have batteries don?t keep them in there until the warning. If they stay in it the batteries will drain faster. You and all your family must know where your safe spot is. It could be a basement, hall, closet, or a place under ground. Your safe spot needs to be in the middle of something or not on outside walls. The room needs to have no windows. If you are in a car, stay in it keep the windows up and put your hand under the window.

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1. What do you plan to do after high school?

Go to College.

2. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Graduating College and buying a house.

3. What is your favorite movie and why?

Wolf of Wall Street.

1. What do you plan to do after high school?

"Get a job until I turn 21, so I can go to the police academy.

2. What is your favorite movie and why?

Shawshank redemption because it is realistic.

3. What is something you would tell your past self

Trust no one.

Meet t he Class of 2017

Gavin Walker

Alex Scot t

1. What do you plan to do after high school?

I plan to go to college and get a four-year degree in Secondary Education with a

focus in English, with a possible minor in Creative Writing.

2. What is your favorite movie and why?

My favorite movie is The Phantom of the Opera because I really like the overall story

behind it.3. What is a quote you live by?

?Stand for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone.? -Andy Biersack

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