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Seniors need come to the office and write your name the way you want it to appear on your diploma. Getting closer!
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Our Developmental/4K Screening is at the end of January/early February this year. If you have a child who is turning 3-years-old or 4-years-old on or before September 1st, call the office at 608-585-2311 to make an appointment! For more information, reference the attached flyer.
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Support our talented musicians this weekend and congratulations to our Middle and High School Band students participating in our music conference honors bands tomorrow, Saturday, January 5th, at Mineral Point HS: Hailey Boon, Brooklyn Freestone, Reese Ghastin, Alana Nelson, Darin Nelson, Micah Salisbury, Talena Sprecher, Ryan Tourdot, Elise Newkirk, Erica Steinmetz, Anna Durst, Benji Clary, Brooklyn Granger, Calix Wheaton, Emma Schoen, Jacob Mueller, Olivia Duell, and Ryan Ghastin. The students will rehearse all day with other students from 10 schools and will perform in a concert at 4:30 pm. The concert is open to the public and the cost to attend is $3
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Attention Little Dribblers families! Little Dribblers is cancelled for tomorrow January 5. We will practice again on January 12.
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Good morning. Be sure and join Ithaca’s Social Media feeds for a new and fun game next week. Starting this Tuesday we will offer TRIVIA TUESDAY's. We will present fun, obscure, and unique trivia questions concerning all things Ithaca. Trivia Tuesday’s and Throwback Thursday’s from Ithaca Schools!
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Thanks to WRCO Radio and Ron Fruit for the opportunity to discuss all things Ithaca during the December 28th Morning Show. If you missed the show, or would like to hear it again - please click on the following link:
http://www.wrco.com/images/mp3/20181228.mp3
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The sledding hill is OPEN!!!!
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Aldo Leopold said, “We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
Celebrate Aldo Leopold this Saturday at the Discovery Building at 330 N Orchard St, Madison, WI from 10am until Noon. Learn to read animal tracks, investigate species of mammals, birds, fish, and more, create a nature journal, build instruments to measure wind and weather. More information can be found on the website https://discovery.wisc.edu/programs/saturday-science
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Our Lady Bulldogs take on the Weston Silver Eagles in basketball action tonight at home. Come on out and cheer them on! JV begins at 6pm, Varsity at 7:15pm.
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Throwback Thursday time is here! It was an era of short basketball shorts and feathered hair. What year did this picture land in the Ithaca yearbook?
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The Buildings and Grounds Committee and Policy Committee meetings originally scheduled for this evening will now be held on January 9th at their previously scheduled times. Our school calendar on the website has been updated to reflect the changes.
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The Ithaca Lions Club sponsors the KidCare Photo ID Project in our school, providing parents with a free standardized, high quality instant photograph of their child in an ID booklet.
The KidCare Photo ID provides parents with information necessary to have handy if their child were ever lost or abducted. On Wednesday, January 9, Ithaca Lions and the Richland County Sheriff’s Department will be providing this service again to our families. If you have and can find, please send the KidCare blue book to your child’s teacher for it to be updated on January 9. It will then be returned to you.
If you have any questions about the project, please feel free to contact Meredith Bevan or Kathleen Schoen at 585-2311.
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Good morning and welcome to our final day of Winter break. We will welcome students back to class tomorrow. Speaking of tomorrow, after taking a winter break of it's own, our Throwback Thursday photo share will happen again tomorrow - stay tuned!
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Happy New Year from Ithaca Schools!
See you back on Thursday, Jan. 3rd!
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Introducing....Mrs. Juli Thompson!
Juli will be our new Library Assistant, beginning January 3rd. She will be taking the place of Mrs. Ziemke, who is retiring.
Welcome, Mrs. Thompson!
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The Ithaca School District has items for sale on Wisconsin Surplus. We have two buses, one aerator, and two interior wooden doors. Visit the following website for more information: www.wisconsinsurplus.com and then simply search ITHACA.
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Each year, the The Ithaca High School students have collected items for Passages. This year the high school Student Council held a competition between all of the school classes. The freshman came out on top with the most items collected! A total of 979 lbs. of non-perishable food items and toiletries was given to Passages this year! Thank you to all who were involved...it is so appreciated!
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One last reminder...please go to the Ridge and Valley Sports Schedules link on our website, listed under MS and HS SPORTS INFO. Download the app for all of your up to date WIAA Ithaca sports events! We will continue to post the current elementary practices on our EVENTS feed, but hope to remedy this soon, with a calendar link. Thanks for your patience!
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The elementary students collected items for the Pine Valley residents, before they went caroling there today.
Thank you to all who contributed! The residents so enjoy the visit each year! You will see more pics of the visit...
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There is a bag tournament going on right now at Ithaca. Great "wind down" time for teachers, students and administrators getting ready for the Christmas break.