Alma Area Schools - Promoting Lifelong Learning and Achievement

Buffalo County 5th & 6th Grade Prevention Day On January 28 all fifth and sixth graders in Buffalo County participated in the annual Buffalo County Partnership Council 5th and 6th Grade Prevention Day. Fifth and sixth graders from all four school districts of Cochrane-Fountain City, Alma, Mondovi and Gilmanton engaged in the virtual event from their classrooms. The program was hosted by the Buffalo County Partnership Council (BCPC), a group of teachers, students, county agencies, and community organizations with the mission to “provide collaborative prevention programming to educate youth and their families to make healthy choices and positively influence people and policies.” The day of prevention included two key presenters focused on preparing young people to start their middle school experience on the right foot. Energizer Carl Olson utilized a mix of motivation and magic to encourage young people to think critically about thinking outside of the box, decision-making, character, showing gratitude to others and strategies for success in their next years before graduation. In his closing, he reminded students, “Good, Better, Best; Never Let it Rest!” His presentation engaged students with his inspiring anecdotes and magic tricks. Fifth and Sixth Grade Day also featured a presentation from Buffalo County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Nic Scholl and his drug enforcement dog, Owen. Deputy Scholl used body cam video to show students how Owen sniffs out illegal substances including meth, marijuana, heroin and cocaine. Deputy Scholl shared with students Owen’s purpose and spoke with students about how he assists in solving drug-related crimes in Buffalo County. Fifth and sixth graders had many questions of Deputy Scholl and were eager to learn more about how Owen stays healthy and stays up to date on his training. Thanks Mrs. Rieck, Mrs. Lisowski and all others who made this experience possible!

Mrs. Glander's sixth grade students studied about papyrus, a type of paper made by the Egyptians. The students made their own recycled paper from torn paper. After making paper, they compared this process with that used to make papyrus.

Congratulations Conservation Poster Winners Division K-2 Winners 2nd place Aubree Rolbiecki 1st place Finleigh Kosik 3rd place Shelby Reinhardt Division 2-3 Winners 2nd place Addie Baker 1st place Liam Kosik 3rd place Jemma Fernholz Division 4-6 Winners 2nd place Nessa Noll 1st place Clare Jumbeck 3rd place Alyssa Johnson

Congratulations to this weeks Alma Pride Winners!

Rivermen Clubhouse thanks Ms. Emma Brecka for all the fun times within her time interacting with all of us. She brought joy to each of our afternoons in the past month. We all will miss her and hope she has a great end of her first year of college. We can’t wait to spend time with Emma in the future. Thank you Emma!

Links for Thursday, January 28: Game Links for Thursday, January 28 Boys Basketball plays at Alma tonight vs Melrose-Mindoro. C-team plays at 6:00 in the High School Gym; JV plays at 6:00 in the Elementary/Big Gym with Varsity to follow around 7:15. The Dance Team will also perform at half time of the Varsity game and can be watched on either of the JV/Varsity links. C-team link to IP Camera: https://justagamelive.com/clients/alma-pepin-eagles/live/26172 JV/Varsity link to IP Camera: https://justagamelive.com/clients/alma-pepin-eagles/live/26173 JV/Varsity link to live steam with score: https://justagamelive.com/clients/alma-pepin-eagles/live/26184 Alma wrestlers also have a meet tonight at Wabasha-Kellogg starting at 5:00PM W-K VS F-C/L/M-C; 6:15PM F-C/L/M-C VS CHATFIELD (EACH ROUND WILL START APPROXIMATELY 20 MINUTES AFTER THE PREVIOUS ROUND FINISHES) 7:30PM W-K VS CHATFIELD • VARSITY ON MAT 1 AND JV ON MAT 2 JV and VARSITY MATCHES LIVE STREAM- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU9N46--dtk&feature=youtu.be Thank you to our streaming sponsors: Bank of Alma Dairyland Power Greater Insurance Lake Pepin Real Estate GO EAGLES!

The first grade class is studying how life was different long ago this week during Language Arts and Social Studies. Mrs. Steinke brought in 12 items used long ago and the first graders had fun trying to figure out what they were! Some were easy, like the camera and ice cream maker. Others were more difficult...the cotton candy maker was really a bedpan! Ewwwww! And the toaster? It’s not a lantern? How does that work? We had a lot of fun and even saw an old toy horse that was 60 years old! It belonged to Mrs. Steinke when she was a little girl!

The first grade class is studying how life was different long ago this week during Language Arts and Social Studies. Mrs. Steinke brought in 12 items used long ago and the first graders had fun trying to figure out what they were! Some were easy, like the camera and ice cream maker. Others were more difficult...the cotton candy maker was really a bedpan! Ewwwww! And the toaster? It’s not a lantern? How does that work? We had a lot of fun and even saw an old toy horse that was 60 years old! It belonged to Mrs. Steinke when she was a little girl!

The results from the Buffalo County Environmental Speaking Contest are in! Alivia Elliott won; therefore, her speech video will advance to the area contest. We congratulate Alivia, 1st place, Anders Johansen, 2nd place, and Bella Brouillard, 3rd place.

Game links for Tuesday, January 26: Game Links for Tuesday, Jan. 26 Boys Basketball travels to Mondovi tonight. JV and Cteam starts at 5:45 p.m and Varsity following. Boys Live Stream Link: – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpfQ54oXfskRUGYZ5UObfXg/live Middle School Girls basketball play at Pepin tonight vs EPC 7th grade starts at 5:00 p.m. and 8th grade following at approximately 6:00 p.m. MSGBB live stream link: https://justagamelive.com/clients/alma-pepin-eagles/live/25452 Thank you to our streaming sponsors: Bank of Alma Dairyland Power Greater Insurance Lake Pepin Real Estate GO EAGLES!

Game Links for Monday, Jan. 25 Boys Basketball travels to Independence tonight.  JV starts at 6:00 p.m and Varsity following.  Boys Live Stream Link:  – https://ensemble.cesa10.k12.wi.us/hapi/v1/contents/permalinks/Jc4w6TKj/view Middle School Girls basketball is also traveling to Independence (St. Peter & Paul) NO Fans are allowed at the game.  7th grade starts at 4:00 p.m. and 8th grade following at approximately 5:00 p.m. MSGBB live stream link:  https://www.ssppwi.org/  live stream tab GO EAGLES!

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The Whitehall VEX IQ Tower Above tournament was a success for the Eagles Robotics Club! While all 4 teams had success and highlights in the competition from the day, two Alma teams were randomly joined in the final competition and used their skills to take home 3rd place! Those two teams are pictured here. See the Alma Area School Facebook page for more photos from the event.

Friday, January 22, 2021 -- The Eagle men's basketball traveled south to play against the Cochrane Fountain City Pirates tonight. The junior varisty matched up for competitive play until the end and returned to Alma with a win, 38-34. Here are a few photos if you missed the livestream.

Here is the link for the VEX tournament for Saturday. Matches begin at 9:00 a.m. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJc8xTlcZum4mjri4WkyOVw Or go to whitehallsd.k12.wi.us and scroll down to the bottom of the page to Norse TV

Boys Basketball Games at CFC  will be at the link below.  C-team starts at 4:30 p.m.; JV at approximately 6:00 p.m. and Varsity following at approximately 7:15 p.m. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTZBXYmA1u5QxNuOJ89Jh8w Middle school girls basketball at Alma.  8th grade vs Wabasha-Kellogg at 4:30 p.m. and the 6th grade vs Regis at approximately 5:30 p.m. https://justagamelive.com/clients/alma-pepin-eagles/live/24368 Thank you to our streaming sponsors: Bank of Alma Dairyland Power Greater Insurance Lake Pepin Real Estate Have a wonderful weekend and GO EAGLES!

Here are you Alma Pride and T's for 3's Winners for the Week of January 22! Congratulations!

Ms. Ruff's kindergartners learned about 'growth mindset' and the 'power of yet.' They read the story “Giraffes Can’t Dance” and then talked about what they can’t do yet but, when practiced, what they will be able to do.

Below is the link for the 7th grade girls basketball game at Gilmanton starting at 5:30 p.m. https://justagamelive.com/clients/gilmanton-schools/live/22200 Go Eagles!!

Gearing Up for the Competition Fifth through eighth grade students have continued to design robots after school throughout December and January to ready themselves for the 2021 VEX IQ Rise Above Challenge. Thirteen students are preparing to compete in that challenge in Whitehall on January 23rd.