Today’s Winner of the $50.00 Ithaca Wrestling Raffle is Margaret Rossing.
Middle school students! Track season is upon us. The first day of the season is Monday, March 25th. Meet in Mr. Triphan's room at 3:35. A sign up sheet is on the window outside the office.
Our students make a difference everyday in our community! Two in particular were recently spotted. Uriah Honer participates in the Pistons to Pathways program at SWTC, and Channel 3 highlighted the success of that program. (Link inlcuded) Jaxon Louis' picture was seen in Reedsburg as he was recognized in the 2018 campaign of Kids Making a Difference. (link to original announcement included)
https://www.channel3000.com/sponsor/buzzed-into-madison/pistons-to-pathways-at-swtc-/1056549325
https://www.shopko.com/content.jsp?pageName=2018KOK
Congratulations to the Middle School Band and Choir students on their performances at solo/ensemble contest on Saturday at Boscobel HS. They received 23 firsts, 16 seconds, and 2 thirds. Nice job everyone!
Ithaca High School Senior, Haley Durst signed her letter of intent to attend UW-LaCrosse next fall, committing to their Track and Field athletic program. Haley was the 2018 State Champion in Division 3 100m dash. Pictured with Haley are coaches, Jeanna Lorenz and Brady Nelson, parents Keith and Lori Durst, Haley, and sister Hannah Durst. Congratulations and Best of Luck!
Reminder! The Cat's Pajama's Vocal Band is coming to Ithaca tomorrow, Tuesday, March 19th. They are a five person a capella group that been touring around the world since 2005 and has been featured on America's Got Talent & NBC's The Sing-Off. See High School and Middle School choir students to order tickets or get direct tickets from Mr. Braatz in the choir room.
At the district forensics meet on Saturday, students were judged three times on a 25 point scale. Those who earned at least two scores of 20 or more advance to the state in April. Congratulations to our state qualifiers:
Mallory Kershner: Demonstration
Olivia Duell: Farrago
Diego Oritiz: Farrago (Two perfect scores)
Realyn Lasse, Ellie Crook, Annabelle Durst, Cortney Crook: Group Interpretation
Maddie Roh, Erin Louis, Erin Louis, Bethany Weldon: Group Interpretation
Montanna Scott, Kyannah Koch, Keyara Perkins: Group Interpretation
Audrey Newkirk: Public Address (One perfect score)
Brooklyn Granger: Informative Speech
Carissa Willis: Informative Speech
Therese Honer: Moments in History (One perfect score)
Delaney Brown: Poetry Reading (One perfect score)
Megan Burnley: Poetry Reading
Hannah Durst: Prose Reading (One perfect score)
Emma Schoen: Prose Reading
Megan Brisbois: Solo Acting
Julia Schoen: Special Occasion Speech
Congratulations to the following students who placed in the annual Delta Kappa Gamma writing contest sponsored by our local Lambda Chapter. Students are required to write and illustrate their own work. This year Ithaca's 3-10th grade students participated and we had many, many place finishers. These students will be recognized at a reception later in March. Books earning first place are entered into a state-wide competition. Those results will be announced later this year. Great work, students and teachers!
Today’s Winner of the $50.00 Ithaca Wrestling Raffle is Ashley Klingaman.
Community members and HS parents! Any and all interested students (of any age) are invited to an Open House next Thursday, March 21st from 1-4p. Additionally, for any Seniors, assistance will be offered with applications if they have yet to apply as well as FAFSA completion assistance!
The Assistant Dean for the college of Business, Industry, Life Science, and Agriculture will also be on campus to discuss the new AS degrees starting Fall 2019! More information will follow in the next few weeks, but 2 new degrees will be offered at both the Richland and Baraboo Sauk County campuses next fall:
Associate of Science in Business Administration
Associate of Science in Agriculture and Food Science
Students can register for this event at uwplatt.edu/visit.
If you, or any students have any questions, please feel free to reach out!
Maggie Landsinger
Admission Advisor
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Office of Admission-Welcome Center
0300 Ullsvik Hall | P: 608-642-8001
Today’s Winner of the $50.00 Ithaca Wrestling Raffle is Linda Englehard, Saturday’s winner is Mark Fosterling, and Sunday’s winner is Linda Pickel.
Forensics Team: Please be in the commons by 6:15 a.m. this Saturday. We will meet quickly then board the bus to the district meet. We should return around 2:30. Good luck, speakers!
Please consider attending "Let's Talk Drugs," a panel discussion, held in the Richland Center High School Commons on March 18th from 5pm-7pm.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1crTifoJSdr8GQIS8-vKqIyedV0UvMpCboSdDv_pc_DQ/edit#slide=id.p1
Seniors participated in "Mini" Business World program led by Michelle Grajkowski of Wisconsin Business World. "Mini" Business World condenses the core curriculum of the summer program and brings it on-site to participating Wisconsin high schools, technical colleges, universities or manufacturers during the school year. Ithaca students worked together to learn about entrepreneurship, financial literacy, business ethics, career planning, the value of the free-market economic model and the inner workings of Wisconsin's economy.
Registration is now underway for Ithaca Youth Baseball/Softball. The deadline for registering and for the online apparel store is Sunday, March 24th. Please include the Code of Conduct with your registration.
https://wicw.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019_IYB_Registration_Form-1.pdf
https://wicw.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019IYB_Code_of_Conduct.pdf
oday’s Winner of the $50.00 Ithaca Wrestling Raffle is Kinleigh Frost.
CESA 3 will be offering another Substitute Teacher Training on Tuesday, April 23, 2019, from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. This training is offered for anyone with a 2-Year Associates or 4-Year Bachelors Degree and is a requirement to be considered as a substitute at Ithaca School District if you do not have a teaching license.
Participants will learn the general expectations of a substitute teacher, pertinent information on health issues, successful discipline techniques, hints of working with students who have special needs and more.
Please see attached flyer for more information and feel free to share with anyone who inquires about a training to become a licensed substitute teacher.
Area schools are getting ready to participate in the upcoming Get Real event on Wednesday, March 20th. The event was the topic of yesterday's Morning Show program on WRCO. Mallory Kershner, Megan Burnley, and Amara Cockroft spoke on WRCO about the upcoming event. Catch their broadcast here:
http://us7.maindigitalstream.com/2541/
Spreading kindness by sharing time and talent! Fifth graders are posting kindness flowers around the school, as well as some quotes and memes. Tuesday, we partner read books about kindness and goodness. We also started hanging hearts on the kindness tree in the elementary hallway. Stop by and see! Don't forget to share your own acts of kindness and use the hashtag #ithacakindnesschallenge2019 to have the chance to win a prize.
The Kwik Trip Milk Moola program is ending as of March 31. Please bring in all your milk caps and bag tops by March 25. There is a drop off area in the commons or you can send them to school with your elementary aged child. Thank you for your help with this fundraiser! ~The Ithaca PTSO