We want to thank our PTA. PTA provided over 2500 worth of items to teacher classrooms. Their generosity fulfilled many teacher's "wishlists." On behalf of all of the teachers at the Hot Springs School District, we appreciate this group and every member in it.
The Dakota Smiles Dental Bus will be at the Hot Springs School District beginning on November 11th. We will have between 50-55 slots that we are able to fill for our students. Forms are being sent home for the elementary school in the Tuesday folders. Middle/High school forms are available at the offices. This service is provided by the American Legion and Kiwiana's of Hot Springs. Students have access to the van for free until the age of 18. If you have any questions, please call the nursing office at 745-1210/4264.
Update on the donation for our CTE students from RCS Construction. This is an even better picture of the students WITH the donation
Our elementary students are focusing on the character trait of managing impulsivity. This is a useful link to gain an understanding of what that reinforcement and support could look like at home.
https://goodhealthpsych.com/blog/10-fun-impulse-control-activities-for-kids-building-self-regulation-skills/
Thank you to RCS Construction. The CTE building is a wonderful asset to our school district. Their support for our students did not stop with the building. Last Spring they donated 5,00 0 in Dewalt tools. They stopped by Friday and donated more items for our CTE students.
Update from Boys' Golf:
Results from the Black Hills Conference Championship Golf Meet held on 9-24-24 in Deadwood on the Tomahawk Golf Course.
Schools entered-ST. Thomas More, Belle Fourche, Sturgis, Spearfish, Custer, Hill City, RC Christian, Hot Springs, Douglas & Mahpiya Luta.
STM won the BHC crown with a 4 person 18 hole score of 322,2nd-Sturgis-325, 3rd-Spearfish-336, 4th-Custer-343 & 5th-Hot Springs-367.
Spearfish’s Parker Reede took the BHC medalist honors with a 18 hole score of 75,2nd-STM’s Vincent Vanliere-76, 3rd-BF’s Isaac Voyles-76, 4th-Custer’s Lane Poper-78 & 5th-Sturgis’s Jaxon Dodson-78.
Hot Springs was led by Brock Scchroeder-83- 10th, Austin Heinert-89- 20th, Noah Weiseler-96 -34th, Teegan Lucey-99- 35th & Sammy Waldner-109- 49th.
Varsity plays next in the Region 4 Championship in Custer on the Rocky Knolls Golf Course on Monday 9-30-24 starting at 10am. This meet determines which golfers advance to the State Golf Meet in Hartford on 10/7 & 8th-24
The top 55% and the top 3 teams qualify for the state meet, est. 22 kids.
Results from the Douglas JV meet held in Douglas on the Prairie Ridge Golf Course on 9-26-24.
Schools entered-Douglas, RC Stevens, RC Central, RC Christian, STM, BF, HS, Sturgis, L/D, Little Wound, Lakota Tech & Pine Ridge.
RC Stevens took the team title with a 4 person 18 hole score of 347, 2nd-STM-359 & 3rd-RC Central-389, Hot Springs was 8th with 436.
Trenton Gibbs won the medalist honors with a 18 hole score of 81, 2nd-Cross Schmidt-81, 3rd-Zander-Purcell-84, 4th-Anders Lockhart & 5th-Landon Little-85(I don’t have what schools they were from).
Hot Springs was led by Gabe Burgess-103-31st, Holten Rutz-104-32nd, Hazen Rutz-109-37th, Xander Shaw-120-48th, Kavan Watters-123-55th & Conner O’Hern-139-61st place.
The JV are done for the 2024 season.
Our Middle School Knowledge Bowl team placed 8th this last weekend. They compete again this Saturday AT home from 8-1.
Our art students had artwork displayed at the Buffalo Round Up Arts Festival this weekend. Beautiful!!!!!
Talk about collaboration. Students in our art and shop classes are helping with stage props for the upcoming theater production.
Elementary students might not like this, but we wanted to share some free educational sites that you may want to have students use over the long weekends and/or in their downtime.
ABCY.com- practice math and reading skills
storyline online- free online library where books are read to students
factmonstonster.com- practice math facts
cool math games - however, make sure the game they are playing is more educational than not (I have fallen for this several times with my own child and find out there are more games that are 'entertainment.')
Prodigy
Khan Academy
Great reminder for us parents/guardians from Love and Logic:
Have you ever thought about what a blessing it is to be a good thinker? Now I'm not necessarily talking about being a genius or intellectually gifted. I'm mostly referring to being able to use good problem-solving skills and good old-fashioned common sense.
As this world becomes ever more complex and temptation-laden, it becomes more and more important that we teach our kids how to build their mental muscles. Listed below are some quick tips.
• When your kids ask you for help, encourage them to try a bit longer before you jump in to help them. The only way to really learn good thinking skills is by having to figure out some things on your own.
• Ask them as many questions as possible. Examples include, "What else might you try? What have you seen other people do to solve this problem? What would happen if you tried ______? Where might you learn how to do that? Is that something you could learn about in a book, by asking someone, or by looking on the internet?"
• Allow them to mess up. Too frequently, we step in and tell kids exactly what to do when we worry that they might make a mistake. When the consequences are small, allow them to blow it and learn.
Thank you to our Rotary Organization for the donation to the school's Angel Fund. The Angel Fund goes towards students' needs (food, shoes, coats, glasses, laundry, etc).
Beautiful day for a XC meet.
Career Exploration Camp at Western Dakota Technical College.
Scrubs Camp: October 29th
All programs Camp: March 20th
https://www.wdt.edu/future-students/career-exploration-camps/
BIG NEWS.
The Hot Springs School District's preschool has been recognized by the School Administrators of South Dakota as an exemplary preschool in the state of South Dakota. Exemplary – Programs at this level are exhibiting high quality practices consistently across all categories, structural elements (schedule, teacher training, ratios), classroom environment and dimensions of teacher-student interactions.
https://www.sasd.org/preschool-levels-excellence/
A great read for parents and guardians.
https://charactercounts.org/36-ways-to-build-kids-character/
The Bison soccer team traveled to James Valley Christian to play in Huron on Friday but fell 0-9. Saturday morning the Bison defeated Groton 2-1! Way to play hard Bison!
Our soccer team plays Tuesday at Douglas and Thursday at RC Christian.
There are a few opportunities this week to support our Bison athletics at home. Our MS volleyball team is at home tomorrow starting at 4:30. The Cross Country team runs at home Tuesday too. The race is scheduled to begin at 10am. And the last home event this week is our HS volleyball team hosting Lakota Tech on Thursday.
A happy Monday morning from the Hot Springs School District. The next three Mondays we are going to share a part of what we are all about at the Hot Springs School District.
Here at Hot Springs, we believe that (1) all students can learn, (2) academic excellence is the focus of learning and supports the total development of the student, (3) students learn best when they are actively involved, (4) students are individual learners with differing learning styles, maturation rates, and educational needs, (5) students must be given the opportunity to reach their potential, and (6) student can learn to productively work both individually and cooperatively with others.
Great night for football.
