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Murdock Newsletter

April 25, 2007

 

Calendar
Apr 27-Athletic Banquet
May 1 – D.A.R.E. Graduation for 5th grade students at 7:00 p.m. in the elementary gym.
May 3-MS/SH Spring Concert at Murdock at 7:00 p.m.
May 4-Seniors last day of school
May 7 – All Stars Ceremony for all 6th grade students and parents at 7:00 p.m. in the elementary gym.
May 8-High School Honors night at Murdock at 7:00 p.m.
May 11-graduation practice 8:15 at Murdock
May 12-Graduation 2:00 pm at Murdock-CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES!!
May 13-Mother’s Day
May 14-School Board meeting at Murdock at 7:30 p.m.
May 15-Middle School Honors Night at Murdock at 7:00 p.m.
May 18 – Elementary Talent Contest
May 21 – Field Day from 1:00-3:00 p.m. on the football field for all K-6 students.
May 22-Last day of school!
May 24-Booster Club Meeting
May 26-Elmwood Alumni Banquet
May 28-Memorial Day
June 2-Murdock Alumni Banquet

Need a good laugh? Read these SHAMELESS PUNS
* I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
* Police were called to a daycare, where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
* Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He is all right now.
* The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes was on shaky ground.
* The dead batteries were given out free of charge.
* If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.
* A dentist and a manicurist fought tooth and nail.
* A backward poet writes inverse.
* In a democracy, it is your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your count that votes.
*With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
* Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft, and I will show you A -flat miner.
* When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.
* A calendar's days are numbered.
* A boiled egg is hard to beat.
* He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
* A plateau is a high form of flattery.
* The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.
* To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
* When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.
* A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
* A thief fell and broke his leg in wet cement. He became a hardened criminal.
* Thieves who steal corn from a garden could be charged with stalking.
* We'll never run out of math teachers, because they always multiply.
* When the smog lifts in Los Angeles , U C L A.
* The math professor went crazy with the blackboard. He did a number on it.

Booster Club Meeting Change Attention all Booster Club members: The month of May's Booster Club meeting has been move to a new date. We will now be meeting on Thursday, May 24, 2007. As always see Mr. Allemang at 867-2341 or you may e-mail him at tallemang@esu3.org.

Attending the Nebraska City on Friday April 20, was a huge success for the vocal music department. The district contest was at Nebraska City instead of Auburn this year.

Mrs. Colbert said, “I really liked the facility and thought the host school did a marvelous job.”

The choir received a plaque for their performance on Friday. To receive a plaque, all judges must give the choir a superior rating. Elmwood-Murdock was the only choir to receive this honor among the class C schools at our site.

Attached are the results, including the students participating.
Vocal District Contest results Mixed Chorus – Superior + Plaque (I’s from all 3 judges)
Superiors:
Mixed Quartet (Jessica & Ross Mumford, Alex Ulmer & Samantha Colbert)
Mixed Duet (Jessica & Ross Mumford)
Solos: Jessica Mumford, Sierra Ronhovde, Alex Ulmer, Samantha Colbert, Ross Mumford
Mixed Trio (Scott, Sierra & Staci Ronhovde)
Mixed Double Sextet (Jessica Mumford, Natalie Stander, Sunshine Bacus, Ashley Beyer, Kirstie Harvey, Rachel Fortney, Griffin Hovorka, Noah Philson, Patrick Johnson, Sean Stille, Art Burtch, Trent Shrader)
Girls Duet (Hannah Fischer, Sierra Ronhovde)
Excellents:
Solos: Staci Ronhovde, Ashley Beyer, Hannah Fischer, Tamara Rorie, Taylor Moreau.
Girls’ Triple Trio (Victoria Rosenboom, Amanda Brewer, Ashley Beyer, Staci Ronhovde, Rachel Fortney, Molly Zimmerman, Shayna Dwyer, Ashley Kitrell, Megan Scholting)
Girls’ Sextet (Lacey Reed, Tamara Rorie, Taylor Moreau, Paige Meyer, Brooke Glasshoff, Patricia Schwechtje)

Mrs. Colbert said, “I was very pleased with the students’ performances. Nervousness is often an issue at these competitions. Singing in front of a judge who is about to tell you what is good or bad about your performance often overshadows the joy of singing! I'm proud of the students from Elmwood-Murdock and very happy to be given the opportunity to guide them in their musical endeavors!”

Six grade students took a field trip Friday, April 13. Their first stop was the one-room school in Murdock. They proceeded onto the High School for a tour. Only a couple weeks left to be sixth graders. The tour gave them an opportunity to become familiar with what life will be like as they transition into Middle School.

The last stop they made was at the Strategic Air & Space Museum. They were guided through an educational tour of four 30 minute stops. Students searched for trivia answers as they toured.

Pictured - Dalton Synovec, Jake Vavak, Cole Boeckman, Brandon Luetchens, and Cody Brown experienced the Orbit Table Simulator. It allowed the students to orbit marble satellites similar to the satellites that orbit our Earth. The whole in the center represents whatever you are orbiting, like the earth. The marble that rolls around the center is the satellite. Orbits can have different shapes and therefore will roll closer and farther at different times.

The students had a great experience riding the gravity simulator. It gave them a little bit of an idea of what an astronaut might experience as he or she entered in and out of space.

The Strategic Air & Space Museum is a great place to visit and is very close by!

News to the Editor
- Please send all your Murdock area news to me. Birthdays, anniversaries, announcements, events or news are welcome and will be added to the upcoming newsletter. Thanks in advance for all your help!

Teri Bowman
Editor@murdocknebraska.com