West Holt Public Schools

The Software Development class has been exercising their creative muscles to create animated scenes and are learning how to make their animations respond to keyboard and mouse inputs.

UPDATE!!! JH Boys BB game with Hartington has a time change to 4:00. B Team followed by the A team

Update: JH boys will play Hartington on Thursday at home starting with B team at 3:00.

On Friday, February 6th, 4 West Holt students attended the Wayne State College Honor Choir held on Wayne State’s campus. David Armstrong sang Tenor in the Honor Choir. The highlight piece that the Honor Choir sang was “Hava Nagila” and accompanied on klezmer by Dr. Karl Kolbeck and four hand piano by Dr. Angela MIller-Niles and Shelly Armstrong. Emersyn Mlady (Soprano 2), Aila Nowlin (Alto 1), and Peyton Olberding (Soprano 1) sang in the Treble Choir. The highlight piece for the Treble Choir was “Skye Boat Song”, a traditional Scottish piece. The concert culminated in a mass choir event with both choirs and the Wayne State College Concert Choir accompanied by a special treat: Dr. David Bohnert from WSC on piccolo trumpet and his son Aidan on trumpet as well as Spencer Sindt on trombone and his dad Mike Sindt from Pierce High on sousaphone! (Interested tidbit - Mike Sindt is the Nebraska Music Educator of the Year!) They played dixie music to “Over In the Gloryland” and it was so much fun!

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4th graders have been busy traveling The Oregon Trail! Through hands - on activities and teamwork, students got to simulate what life was like for pioneers-making choices, facing challenges, and learning how tough the journey west really was!

UPDATE: JH BB will be in the main gym tomorrow starting with the B team at 4:00, followed by the A team. Then JHGBB will play O'Neill JV at 6:30 in. the main gym

West Holt Speech hosted its home speech meet on Saturday, February 7th. 290 entries from 18 schools were presented throughout the day. 65 judges shared their feedback to help carry students through the remainder of the season. The speech team thanks the West Holt staff, administration, custodians, and community judges for the use of the facilities and support. The Huskies placed forth. Individual event placings are below. INFORMATIVE: Emersyn- 8th HUMOROUS PROSE: Peyton- 2nd Olivia- 7th David-8th POETRY: Madison K- 2nd Aila-7th Libby G- 5th, Novice PROGRAM ORAL INTERPRETATION-POI: Peyton-4th Alyssa- 8th DUET IMPROMPTU: Claire and Emersyn- 5th Peyton and Aila- 8th ORAL INTERPRETATION OF DRAMA-OID: Emersyn, Olivia, Aila, Peyton, Jacob- 3rd Brayden, Alyssa, Claire, Taylor S, Madi- 8th DUET ACTING: Alyssa & Madi H.- 5th

Congratulations to the Varsity GBB team on their runnerup finish in the GNAC Tournament!!!

Final results! District Champions-Allie Oligmueller (115), Felycia Kerkman (125), Madalyn Pistulka (130). 2nd place-Carleigh Jackson (235) 3rd place- Leah Pistulka (105), Sadie Keogh (110), Morgan Schaaf (145) 4th place- Shae Jackson (170) West Holt Girls are the District Champions for the second consecutive year!

Payton lost in a tough fought heartbreak match. What a great season for the freshman! Leah, Sadie, Morgan and Shae are headed to Omaha! Finals and 3/4 matches still to come 8 Lady Huskies qualified for State!

Allie, Felycia, Madalyn and Carleigh all punched their ticket to Omaha and made it to the finals. Payton, Leah, Sadie, Morgan and Shae are all in the heartbreak round. They gotta win one more to go. Maria lost in the consolations to finish her season. Great season Maria! Teams is still in the lead by 35+ points.

Maria advances in her first wrestle back. KK loses by fall. Great season KK!!

West Holt GBB in the GNAC finals with a 45-44 win over LCC.

Wow! 🔥The West Holt Girls showed up! 9 of 11 girls will wrestle in semis tomorrow-Payton, Leah, Sadie, Allie, Felycia, Madalyn, Morgan, Shae, and Carleigh. Maria and KK will be in the wrestle backs first thing in the morning at 9:30. Everyone is still in the running to punch their ticket to state. Husky ladies also lead the pack in team scores at the end of day 1.

Payton, Sadie, Felycia, Madalyn, Morgan and KK win first round matches Leah, Allie, Shae, Maria and Carleigh all had byes! Keep rolling.

Every morning while in reading class, Mrs. Frickel's Kindergarten class does templates as a class. When it comes to learning about a new vocabulary word, we do pair share to help extend our knowledge. As a class we read the word, go over the definition and then get together with our partner to share our idea of the new vocabulary word. When the students are sharing with their partner, they have a starter sentence they use and then finish the sentence with their thought of the word. This activity helps students relate to the new vocabulary word and also hear different ideas from their partner. After all students have had enough time sharing with their partner, we come back together as a class and talk about what students shared with their partner.

UPDATE UPDATE!!! NO JV GIRLS BB Tournament on MONDAY, JV Boys still a go

We will be having a send off for our Boys State Duals Wrestling team tomorrow, Fri Feb 6th at 3:15 in the afternoon. We will be having the send-off in the main hallway. Teachers please have your students lining the hallway by 3:15 PM so we can send-off our state duals team!