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Author Visits Lincoln Print
Written by S. Johnson   
Saturday, March 10 2012 09:18

Author Visit; Thursday, March 1st.
Author: Jim Aylesworth

Phyllis Houck wrote a grant request from the Partnership Committee to fund an author visit. The Partnership Committee is a sub-committee of the Dixon School Board. This Committee funds projects and/or activities that involve extra-curricular and co-curricular projects. The Committee funds items and projects that the District and other resources can not fund. "I wanted Mr. Aylesworth to visit our students this week to correlate with Read Across America day," Phyllis said.  This is celebrated across America in correlation with Dr. Seuss's birthday, March 2nd.. Lincoln School had community guest readers come the afternoon of Wednesday, February 29th,  to read some of Mr. Aylesworth's books to the second and third grade students in their classrooms to preview his visit on Thursday. Both days were very informative and enjoyable for the students. The students loved hearing about Mr. Aylesworth life and how he became an author. Mr. Aylesworth uses a lot of music and rhyme in his stories which catches children's attention and holds their interest. One of the most intriguing parts was the students' reaction when he told them he used to be a first grade teacher.
Teachers and students decorated each classroom using a theme from one of Mr. Aylesworth's books. To our surprise, after the presentations,  Mr. Aylesworth visited each room and signed the artwork. He will never forget the wonderful students and staff from Lincoln.
 
DHS Math Team Wins 1st Place Print
Written by L. Loescher   
Thursday, March 08 2012 09:50
The Dixon High School Math Team competed in the ICTM 2012 Regional Math Contest held at Rockford College on February 25th.  The team, comprised of Molly Fane, Kayla McGuire, Scott Goad, Kevin Heath, and Christopher Gale, won 1st place in "The Calculator Team" contest.  Dixon's Molly Fane also took 5th place in the Algebra I division and Kevin Heath took 1st place in the Pre-Calc division.  The team is advancing to the State Competition as well the two individual winners.

Their sponsor is Jessica Anderson.
 
DHS All-Conference Band Selection Print
Written by S. Boll   
Tuesday, March 06 2012 11:35

Congratulation to the Dixon High School band students who were selected for all-conference:

Big 12 All-Conference Freshman/Sophomore Band. Tom Whitcombe-Trumpet, Andrew Clark-Trumpet, Samantha Riggin-Clarinet, Rachel Turffs-Clarinet, Rachel Gascoigne-Clarinet, Matt Sanders-Bass Clacinet, Maggie Bushman-Alto Saxophone, Jacob Harrison-French Horn, Maribeth Johnson-Trombone. All-Conference Junior/Senior Band. Ellie Drezen-Piccolo, Joey Hammitt-Clarinet, Kurt Gale-Clarinet, Michael Rivera-Alto Saxophone, Thomas Clemens-Baritone Saxophone, Alicia Brown-Trumpet, Austin Dillon-French Horn, Ian Schielein-French Horn. Performance will be in LaSalle on March 13.2012.
 
Somalia Poverty Project Print
Written by Megan, Caroline, Kaylee, Lizzie   
Monday, March 05 2012 20:22

Global Citizenship is the idea that, as well as being a citizen of one’s local community or nation, it is also possible to act as a citizen of the world. Global citizenship recognizes that people in different countries are increasingly connected to each other through trade, communication and the exchange of information. Poverty has overtaken Somalia’s population and is slowly spreading throughout the countries of Africa. Even with one step, we’re saving many lives, ones that have been deprived of some of the simple necessities of life.

Our class, Mrs. Kitzman's Social Studies, is beginning an act of global citizenship through a Somalian Poverty Project. Our first steps are ones throughout our community by helping the local food pantry. From there our next steps will be incorporating Heifer International in our project. The goals we have set are to hold a bake sale, selling pop and baked goods, putting on a dance, selling T-Shirts promoting our cause, and all the proceeds we’ve profited will go towards Heifer International, focused towards Somalia.

Global Citizenship is the achievement we are reaching for in this project to assist Somalia on its journey out of poverty. We will become better educated of the events taking place throughout this world, and we learn to aid our fellow countries in able to make the world a better place. In this process change starts with 30 students.
 
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