Congrats to the Oral Interp students on their performance at the State Oral Interp Festival. Great job and thank you for representing our school! Thank you to Jacquelynn Skotvold for advising the group.
12/2: Busy day of activities:
9 am Our readers theatre performs at State in Mitchell at the performance art center.
6:15 JV/Varsity Girls Basketball kicks off vs Hanson @ Home
Games live streamed at:
https://tornadoes.liveticket.tv/index.php?page=girls-basketball
Elementary Christmas Concert: Come ring in the Holiday Season with the Kindergarten-5th graders tonight at 7pm. The doors will open to the gym at 6:30. Students will be asked to report to their rooms no earlier than 6:45.
Hot off the press, the December 1st Tornado Times edition is ready. Get your hard copy at One American Bank, Lewis Drug, or the School Library.
12/1 Events for the day:
4 pm JH GBB @ Beresford. Games at the elementary school
7 pm K-5 Winter Concert in the Gold gym
The Centerville School District will have a 10am start, today, Tuesday, November 29th.
11/28/22:
4 pm JH GBB vs Baltic @ Home. 8th/A game followed by 6/7th game. All games will be played in the gold gym.
Congratulations to volleyball Great Plains Conference selections. Thea Gust honorable mention and Bailey Hansen first team.
The Centerville National Honor Society spend last evening serving at the Banquet in Sioux Falls. The Banquet serves over 200,000 meals a year. The students did an excellent job serving this organization and the people. A special thank you to Knudson Masonry, Thomson Insurance Agency, and the Knight Family for providing donations to make this happen.
Congratulations to the Great Plains Conference team selections. Lane Johnson is name to the first team and Cole Edberg is honorable mention. Nice work gentlemen.
Congratulations to the Oral Interp's Reader's Theatre group for qualifying for the state competition. The group will perform at the State competition on Friday, December 2nd in Mitchell. Group members include Brady Muller, Luke Knight, Averie Salberg, and Anna Preheim.
During their November School Board meeting, the Centerville School Board anonymously passes a resolution to oppose the current Social Studies Standards as written. In an effort to support the teachers and allow our students to learn appropriate content for their age group the board passed the below resolution:
Centerville School Board
Social Studies Resolution:
November 14, 2022
South Dakota teachers, administrators and school board members from around the state made clear in public comment and testimony during the State Board of Education Standards hearings their serious concerns with the proposed Social Studies standards from the Social Studies Content Standards Commission.
We, the Centerville School Board, oppose the proposed Social Studies standards for the following reasons:
Whereas:
1. The process of revising the Social Studies standards was done in a manner that did not consult the expertise of South Dakota educators in their development, as has been the practice for decades of standards revision;
2. The proposed Social Studies standards are not based on educational best practices, but rather are written as tasks, not standards;
3. Many of the proposed Social Studies standards are not age appropriate for students, lack depth of knowledge, higher order thinking and do not address skill development;
4. The proposed standards would require excessive contact hours to teach to students, which would take time away from other curricular subjects;
5. Current Social Studies materials used in schools do not align with the proposed Social Studies standards, which will result in new materials, teacher training and resources needing to be purchased at a high cost to schools.
Therefore, we, the Centerville School Board respectfully ask the State Board of Education Standards request the Department of Education reconvene the Social Studies workgroup from 2021, with instructions for the workgroup to revise their draft with consideration of the Social Studies Content Standards Commission’s proposal. The goal should be a third proposed set of standards as a compromise between the first two Social Studies content standards proposals.
Thank you!
Get your copy of the November 15th Tornado Times today. Hard copies can be picked up at the Library, One American Bank, and Lewis Drug. This edition is filled with Social Studies Standards news, Halloween stories, and much more!
Older version of the Tornado Times can be viewed by following: https://www.centerville.k12.sd.us/page/newsletters
11/15/22: Due to illness Scotland is not able to play the JH girls basketball game tonight. The game will be postponed to a later date.
Region Oral Interp today at Augustana. Good luck to Addyson Brandsrud Serious Category and Luke Knight, Anna Preheim, Brady Muller and Averie Salberg Readers Theatre! The competition starts at 9 am.
Booster Club Apparel: Christmas apparel order, last chance to order to get by Christmas. The online store will close at 10 am on Monday, November 21st.
Centerville Christmas Booster Club Apparel: https://centervilleboosterxmas22.itemorder.com/shop/home/
Looking for Tornado gear or possible gifts? Check out the GBB team store:
https://centerville-hoops.itemorder.com/
11/8 events. 3:30 pm Junior High Girls Basketball games vs Canton 7A followed by 7B. Games will be in the gold gym no livestream available.
7 pm SoDak 16 Volleyball Baltic vs Dakota Valley in the purple gym. This is an event sponsored by the SDHSAA. No passes will be accepted $6 for adults $4 for students.
Games will be livestreamed at:
https://youtu.be/s6ZQw0YWXUw
The class of 1985 has made a $250 memorial donation in memory of Lee Peterson. This donation will go toward continued improvements at the Stan Schmiedt complex. Thank you class of 1985.
11/3/22: Junior High Girls Basketball starts today at home vs Parker.
3:30 pm the A game will start 10 minutes after the B game will start.
Games will be on the liveticket tv site. Here is the link:
https://youtu.be/vuC843LlL0M
