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The Avon Oral Interpretation Team was awarded one of the Class B Team Excellence Awards at the State Oral Interpretation Festival. Reese Powers and Makayla Kopp received a “Superior” rating and gold meal for their duet “Science: No Boys Allowed.” Sarah Swier received a “Superior” rating and gold medal for her Storytelling piece “Katie and Her Best Friend.” Reece Loewe also competed with the serious prose piece “Magic Shoes.” The highest award an individual at the State Festival can receive is a “Superior” rating and gold medal. The highest team award at the State Festival is the Team Excellence Award. Pictured are, from left: Sarah Swier, Reece Loewe, Makayla Kopp and Reese Powers. Courtesy Photo
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Around the third week in January, Haleigh Tjeerdsma, Haden Cahoy, Rachael DeJong, Kiara Driesen, Haley Gillette, Christian Doom, Noah Watchorn, Caleb Wallinga, and Erica Cahoy will perform at the Region One-Act Play competition in Mitchell, SD at the Pepsi-Cola theater.
Read moreAs the countdown to Christmas is getting shorter, the plans with families are started. Our usual Christmas tradition of getting all the siblings together and having a big supper. Then we sit down in the living room and open all of our presents on Christmas Eve. After all the presents are open, we do a white elephant gift exchange with just the siblings. The gift idea is based on the letter of the alphabet my dad puts on the cow tags. This year our letter is H.
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Aaden wakes up for school at 7:00 a.m. every morning. In school his favorite subject is science. He thinks school is okay, but it’s not his favorite. After school, he goes home and does one of his favorite hobbies, plays video games. Another one of Aaden’s favorite hobbies is playing sports; his favorite is soccer.
Read moreAs the end of the semester approaches, the junior high is planning a fun way to finish up! They are going to have a Christmas party on December 22, the last day of the semester.
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For only a dollar, the cheer team is selling Candy Grams through December 17 to Avon students and staff. They are hoping to spread Christmas cheer
Read moreMrs. Autumn Shultz, Avon’s vocal director, left October 6 for maternity leave and returned December 7...a week before the Christmas Concert. The hardest part of coming back is leaving my kids and having to wake up earlier. She was pleased, however, with how well Mrs. Ethel Cooper, her long-term substitute, had prepared the groups. She only added finishing details with diction and dynamics to polish the selections for performance. Mrs. Schultz said, “Students are very flexible and able to adjust and make changes quickly.”
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With semester testing right around the corner, students have started cramming all the knowledge they have learned in the past 18 weeks. Semester tests are a very critical part of any student’s education.
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