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Each month, the Battle Lake School will celebrate staff and students that exhibit characteristics of the "Battler Proud" way. Students and staff have the opportunity to nominate anybody within the school they feel have exhibited specific character traits for that month. For the month of October, the character focus was "Kindness." Congratulations to the following staff/students that were recognized for October:

Students

Kindergarten: Chase Larson

1st Grade: Landon Holzer

1st Grade: Carter Jay

3rd Grade: Thaddaeus Armendarez

4th Grade: Kiara Jay

4th Grade: Nella Porter

5th Grade: Toby Laven

6th Grade: Avery Dorn

6th Grade: Olive Thiel

9th Grade: Riley Johnson

10th Grade: Emily Christensen

Staff

Custodian: Pete Amundson

Counselor: Cassi Buchite

Special Education Teacher: Amy Severson

Art Teacher: Randy McIntire

Paraprofessional: Pam Ranstad

I'm so proud of all the hard work that the students and production team put into our fall musical, Freaky Friday! We not only had students performing on stage, but we had students working backstage, running lights and sound, and playing in the pit band. Almost 550 people attended the musical over four days and I heard so many positive comments about how well everyone performed and how funny the play was. We're looking forward to next year!

Mrs. Peterson

On Monday, December 5, the Battle Lake School held their holiday concert under the direction of Mrs. JoAnn Orpen. Multiple bands performed, including: 5th grade, 6th grade, Junior High, Senior High, and Jazz Band. And for the finale, all bands came together and performed "Joyful Tidings!"

On December 5, the Battle Lake High School Student Council recently attended the Western Division Student Council meeting. It provided leadership training and time to work with other area student councils. Senior Eliana Cole served as the regional secretary and helped lead the meeting.

We caught up with Mr. Ukkelberg to ask him a few questions about FFA, take a look at what he had to say!

What is FFA?
FFA is an intercurricular student organization for those interested in agriculture & leadership.

Why should people join FFA?
Through FFA, students strengthen their personal skills, learn to manage their time & discover how to respect themselves & others.

What are some benefits you get when joining FFA?
FFA has plenty of fun events from the fall festival, to the petting zoo, & various trips throughout the year.

What is your favorite competition?
My favorite competition is "Milk Quality" because it was the competition that I competed in when I was in high school. Plus, you get to eat lots of cheese & I love cheese!

What is your favorite subject to teach?

My favorite subject to teach is "Farm to Table" because we get to eat what we grow!

How long have you been involved with FFA?
I was in FFA all 6 years of high school and all 4 years of college.

How has FFA gone so far this year?
FFA has been going great this year. We already have a few teams going to state & we have even more on the way!

What is the most popular competition?

The most popular competitions in our region of FFA are either small animals or livestock. People love to work with animals!

If you could redo one thing for anything FFA related what would it be?
I would love to go back to nationals. It is a fun time with great people where you get to learn so much about the agriculture industry.

Click on a link below to get the athletic schedule for that week.

December 11 - 17

December 18 - 24

December 25 - 31

January 1 - 7

January 8 - 14

January 15 - 21

January 22 - 28

December 19

Choir Concert

Battle Lake School Auditorium

Starts at 7:00 pm

December 23 - January 2

No School

January 13

5th & 6th Grade Class Trip

January 20

No School

Staff Development Day

February 6

K-3rd Grade Concert

Battle Lake School Auditorium

7:00 pm

February 8

Elementary Parent-Teacher Conferences

4:00 - 8:00 pm

February 20

No School

Presidents' Day

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