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🏃♀️💙Tomorrow is race day! Come cheer on our cross country runners at the Pomme de Terre Dam!
🥎🥎2024 Hermitage Softball Tournament Schedule
Practice your smile this weekend because it is Picture Day Tuesday!
Preschool Newsletter
🥎🚌Due to unavoidable transportation issues, tonight's softball game will not begin until at least 6:00 PM. See you there!
School picture day is Tuesday, October 1st. Forms will be going home with students today. Fall sports pictures will also be taking place that morning. #SmilesUp #AcademicsRelationshipsOpportunities
3rd grade wrote a descriptive sequence paragraph about how to make a peanut butter sandwich. Mrs. Gunter read some of the stories and made a sandwich with the exact directions she was given.
Don't miss a minute of our basketball season this year. Be sure to download the Hudl Fan app to watch all Wheatland home games. GO MULES!!! #AcademicsRelationshipsOpportunities https://apps.apple.com/app/id6449098724
We currently have a senior who is battling a rare form of cancer. There will be a 50/50 drawing at tonight's JH basketball games, with all proceeds going to benefit the family. See a Wheatland Cheerleader for details.
🥎📣🏀Game day x3! Lady Mules host the Lady Panthers at 5:00 at home with JV to follow. JH basketball wraps up the tournament with girls playing Morrisville at 6:30 and boys will play Halfway at 7:45. Wear your blue and cheer on some Mules! 💙🫏#WeAreMules #MulesFan
Mrs. Murphy’s Ecology students learn about measuring abiotic factors thanks to MDC Nature Unbound Grant allowing them to do weekly studies out in the field.
The yearbook class has started the year off working hard to create the 2024-25 yearbook! 🤍💙
5th grade participated in a classroom transformation! Students were dressed as doctors and patients as they practiced the orders of operations in Mrs. Shaddox’s math class (pt2). #FutureDrs&Mathematicians #AcademicsRelationshipsOpportunities
5th grade participated in a classroom transformation! Students were dressed as doctors and patients as they practiced the orders of operations in Mrs. Shaddox’s math class (pt 1). #FutureDrs&Mathematicians #AcademicsRelationshipsOpportunities
Mrs. Lutz & our Kindergarten class are hard at work preparing for our upcoming Veterans Day assembly where they will be singing, "God Bless America". #ForOurHeroes #AcademicsRelationshipsOpportunities
Mrs Murphy’s Anatomy class created a watercolor body tissue art gallery based on the different tissues they are studying in their histology unit.
Students participated in the national event See You at the Pole Wednesday morning before school. The event was sponsored by Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA).
USA Wednesday
This week in American History....
“I have not yet begun to fight!”
September 23, 1779, brought one of the most storied battles in the history of the U.S. Navy. It happened during the Revolutionary War. Captain John Paul Jones, in command of an aging vessel named the Bonhomme Richard, was cruising off England’s coast when he encountered the Serapis, a British ship of war.
Jones engaged the enemy as night was falling. With the opening broadsides, however, two of the Richard’s old cannons exploded, killing crew members and ripping away a chunk of the ship’s side. The Serapis fired broadside after broadside into the stricken Richard. With his ship hit below the water line and leaking badly, Jones knew his only chance was to run into the British vessel and board her decks. He managed to lock the two ships together, but the Serapis kept blasting away into the Richard’s side, setting its old timbers on fire.
It seemed only a question of time before the American ship would go down. The British commander asked if the Richard was ready to surrender. It was then that Jones flung out his famous reply: “I have not yet begun to fight!”
The British shook their heads in disbelief. The Americans fought on. One of them managed to toss a grenade down an open hatch on the Serapis’s deck. The grenade hit some gunpowder, and explosions ripped through the British ship. Both vessels were now drifting wrecks. Still Jones refused to give in. After more than three and a half hours of savage battle by moonlight, the British commander surrendered. The victorious Americans boarded the Serapis and watched as the Richard disappeared beneath the waves.
Today, when the going gets tough, Americans remember the words of Captain John Paul Jones: “I have not yet begun to fight!”
Nurse Rachael's October Newsletter
