- Taco Dinner in the HS Commons - sponsored as a fundraiser for the Spanish Club
- Elem Christmas Concert - Pen Pal Performance @ 1:00p / Public @ 6:30pSPANISH CLUB TO COASTA RICA IN 2014
Travelling sometime in June of 2014, four members of the Drummond High School Spanish Club will be travelling to Costa Rica with their Spanish teacher, Laura Jennerman. The students going on this trip are: Hailey Moore, Dena Hambrecht, LeeAnna Ruprecht, and Sophia Lucas. The trip is for eight days and seven nights. The students will be staying with host families as well as at a lodge. Students will travel to the Costa Rican rainforest, a chocolate plantation, a pineapple plantation, an orphanage or local school, and the beach at Isla Tortuga (Turtle Island).
The cost of the trip is approximately $2200 per student. Students have been and will be participating in a number of fundraising activities to help pay for the trip. They are volunteering at local events, holding bake sales, taco dinners, and much more.
Please consider making a donation to our trip, either to an individual student, or to the whole group. Donations may be sent to:
Drummond High School Spanish Club
P.O. Box 40
Drummond, WI 54832
Author Eliot Schrefer Visits Drummond!
Drummond students had the unique opportunity to hear a presentation by a national award winning author on Tuesday. The Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute recipient of the nature writing award for children's literature, Eliot Schrefer, discussed his travels to the Congo to research for his book Endangered.
Mr. Schrefer spoke to grades 7-12 about bonobos (pygmy chimpanzees), the Congo and how he got hooked on both. Mr. Schrefer used both video footage along with storytelling, as he took listeners on a journey into the world of the bonobos & the Congo. As a follow-up he went into an English class after his presentation and discussed the writing process and his personal experience with writing as a profession.
In addition to receiving the SONWA award, Endangered has also been recognized as a Finalist for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature 2012, NPR “Best Books 2012: 5 Young Adult Novels That You'll Never Outgrow”, ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults 2013, Finalist for the Cybils award for Young Adult Literature, and the American Library Association’s Amelia Bloomer List Selection 2013.
Mr. Stitt’s Microcomputer class gave a presentation on internet safety to the fifth grade classes. Topics covered were the dangers of talking to people online - including social networking, cyberbullying, and online predators. They told them of the warning signs of predators and cyberbullying. It was emphasized to stop and report cyberbullying and online predators to parents, teachers, or any adult. The Microcomputer class handed out crosswords to the younger students to engage them in the presentation. A video on online predators and a video on cyberbullying were also included in the presentation. They were good listeners and asked great questions.
