Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton Community School District

Support the Jr Class After Prom!!! These will be available Friday at the football game and also by contacting a Junior parent or a member of the Jr. class. We have two different sizes - small one for $5 and the big one for $10 - all proceeds to after prom. A super big thank you!!!!

Here is your 2021 Homecoming Court!!! L-R: Macy Emgarten, Dane Paulsen, Ashley Hansen, Jackson Shores, Mollie Rasmussen, Aiden Potts, Alisa Partridge, and Benjamin Paulsen. A big congratulations goes out to these students!!! Homecoming will be Friday the 24th at 7PM! Homecoming days are as follows: Monday - Camo Day Tuesday - Tourist Day Wednesday - Neon Day Thursday - Decade Day Friday - Spirit Day GOOOO SPARTANS!!!! #EEHKspartanpride

Join the Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton Board of Directors The following seats are up for election on November 2, 2021: •At Large (3 Openings) – Terms expire in 2025 o Currently held by Kevin Petersen, Tamie Fahn and Pat Greving (not running) Required paperwork can be picked up at the Elk Horn Office (M-F 8 am-4 pm) or printed from the attachments below. Deadline for filing paperwork is Thursday, September 16, 2021 at 5:00 pm. Questions? Contact Jan Greving at 712-764-4616 or jgreving@eehkspartans.org PDF LINK: https://www.exira-ehk.k12.ia.us/o/exira-ehk/browse/256030 • School Candidates Guide.pdf • School no party affidavit.pdf • nompetnonpartisan.pdf

Monday 9/13 Today's JH football game at CR-B is POSTPONED. JV football will scrimmage at 6:30pm @ CR-B. Thank you.

HEY! Don't miss some GREAT opportunities to support our school and students this weekend at the local garage sales! First off: The Exira-EHK Community School (High School) is having their garage sale on Friday from 5pm-8pm & Saturday from 8am-Noon! They will have New & Used Books (All ages), Homeschool Materials, Spartan Apparel (Youth-Adult), Misc. School Supplies & Equipment! More to Come!!! The money for the sale will go towards purchasing some updated non-fiction books in the MS/HS library and also to help with replacing some of the worn and very loved books at the elementary. Secondly: McKenna Larsen is trying to raise money for traveling to San Diego California to perform with the Southwest Iowa High School Honor Marching Band at the Holiday Bowl! This is a great honor to be selected for this, but she needs your help to continue to raise the funds! Sale will be tonight 4pm-7pm, Friday 8am-7pm & Saturday 8am-2pm. They will be serving a Maidrite Meal on Friday, Serving Aebleskiver on Saturday! They have clothing all sizes, Baby items, Play Pen, Toys, Etc....many miscellaneous items! Sale will be held at 310 West Odense Street Kimballton. Please consider supporting these two opportunities to help giving students at Exira-EHK the most amazing opportunities!

Hey Spartans! We hope you had the best Labor Day, and were able to recuperate after a BUSY 2 weeks! Check out what our middle school students were up to in Science Class! Now...I am no science expert but from my understanding they were making different "rock layers" out of candy! Now...the real question....Was more of the candy going into their formations or were there more pieces going into their mouths? Hmmmm. See you tomorrow Spartans for an amazing 3rd week of school! #EEHKspartanpride

Check this out!!! Another way to support the Junior Class!!! Who wants their driveway painted? The junior class is going around spray painting spartan logos on driveways! It’s just in time for homecoming to show off your SPARTAN SPIRIT!! You have a choice of a spartan head, “GO SPARTANS”, or BOTH! Days Available: Sunday September 15th, Wednesday September 18th, September Saturday 25th Prices: $15 for a single $25 for both Contact: Shay Burmeister- 712-304-5692 Ella Petersen- 712-249-4572 McKenna Larsen- 712-249-7616

Our Spartan Junior class is raising money for their after prom, this coming spring. It would mean a lot to them if you purchased some Spartan apparel to help them out and support our school! Orders are available at the school offices. Thanks for your support!

Here are your announcements for next week as well as some things that took place this week! Thank you Spartan Media Students for your awesome work! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpcqM4ja45M Make sure to subscribe to our Spartan Media channel! #EEHKspartanpride

What's been happening at Exira-EHK! Well, check out our family consumer science classes! We had some wonderful chocolate chip cookies and Rice Krispie treats made by our students! Go Spartans! #EEHKspartanpride

What's been happening Spartans!!! Check out some of our middle school students working on primary and secondary sources! #EEHKspartanpride

Hey Spartan Fans!!! Check out this information about Quarterback Club! Make sure to support our program to help us out! Thank you! EXIRA-EHK Quarterback Club “Team” Hello Spartan Football Fans! It is unbelievable that the 2021 football season has begun, with everything that has happened this year! Camp began August 3rd and official practice started August 9th. This year we have 25 young men out for football. Although this year’s team is young, we are hoping for an exciting season. The Quarterback Club provides several different things for the players during the season. Over the years, the QBC has helped Spartan football with: *providing food for every varsity away game (sandwiches, chips, cookies, bananas, Gatorade/water) *helped out with the cost of football camps, to include helping with the cost of shorts and t-shirts. *meals at the UNI Dome *football gear provided *water bottles and football plaques at the end of the season to every player *football yard signs for the players *book at the end of the season that contains pictures, stats, etc. of the entire season for each player *sideline jackets purchased *duffle bags supplied for every athlete *sideline headphones for coaching staff The QBC also supports any updating needed in the weight room throughout the year as well. We encourage ALL football parents to become members. In addition to your membership, here are a few things the QBC needs your help with: Making away game sandwiches (contact Tamie Fahn) and helping make the post season booklets. The Quarterback Club does a lot of positive things for our young athletes, and they deserve it. In addition to helping out and supporting our players, all members will be recognized on home football game programs. Below are the different levels that we have for anyone who is interested. We appreciate all the support from the communities. We look forward to seeing you at the games. GO SPARTANS! Membership Levels: Black $30.00 – 74.00 Silver $150.00 – 249.00 Maroon $75.00 – 149.00 Spartan $250 and above Mark your calendars for the first home game at the Spartan football field in Exira on Sept 4th at 7:00 p.m. versus the CRB Crusaders. We hope to see you there! Social Distancing is encouraged. Sincerely, The Quarterback Club C/o Tom Benton 117 Knutsen Street Exira, IA 50076 Questions? Contact: Tom Petersen (268-2743), Travis Nelson (712-249-1048), Ben Hansen (268-2320) or Tom Benton (268-2887).

Don't miss the football game in Griswold at 7PM!! The game will be available at https://www.kjan.com/index.php/kjan-video-network/griz-tiger-vision/ Goooo Spartans! Just a note! Our Spartan Media Students have been busy this week learning technology and how some things work in our program! This amazing graphic was done by one of our students! Be ready for some more graphics by these awesome students in the future! #EEHKspartanpride

Good Morning Spartan Nation! Check out what has been happening with our HS Social Studies!!!! Here some students are working on Civil War Posters! Goo Spartans!! #EEHKspartanpride

What else has been happening at the beginning of the year you ask? Check out these Spartans hard at work doing math puzzles! #EEHKSpartanPride

What's Been Happening You Ask? Well, each day we now start off with the Pledge of Allegiance in all of our classrooms! Check out some of our students! #EEHKSpartanPride

The Exira-EHK HS TAG service project benefited both our students and staff in this school year. Last school year, Ashley Hansen and Macy Emgarten, two high school TAG students, worked towards this goal of supplying students and teachers with items that they need,called a “Spartan Teacher Supply Crate.” The crates included the essential supplies needed for their students’ school year such as Crayola markers, dry erase markers, crayons, glue sticks, pencils, scissors, erasers, kleenex tissues, and more. In recent years, teachers have had to use their own funds to support their students in need of more supplies. Due to last year’s circumstances, we have come to find out that our students are in dire need of these supplies. They gave out these Spartan Teacher Supply Crates at this year’s Open House. Our TAG students shared their project idea with our local businesses, clubs and individuals and their donations totaled over $2,520 for purchasing these supplies for each teacher. “A big THANK YOU goes to all these businesses, clubs and individuals who were the Exira Lions Club; the Spartan Leo Club, Spartan Booster Club; Precision Concrete Services; Shelby County Bank; TJ’s Pour House, Danish Mutual Insurance; Rasmussen, Nelson & Wonio, PLC; Waspy’s Truck Stop; Spartan Insurance LLC; Exira Care Center Corporation; Exira Plumbing, Heating & Electrical LLC; Myrtue Medical Center; Exira Exchange Bank; Landmands Bank; Ohde Funeral Home; Margaret Olson; Doris Jones; Laura Hunt; Trisha & Bruce Boehm; Lisa Dreier and Connie Jessen who the donated funds for this project . Our TAG program will make sure each donation gets used wisely and distributed to the teacher throughout the year. Another big THANK YOU goes out to the two high school TAG students for an amazing service project!.” expressed Lisa Dreier, high school TAG instructor.

Today is the day Spartans! The day our staff has been SOOOO excited for! This morning we get to see all of your excited faces! Exira-EHK's staff has been working so hard the last week AND even this summer in preparation for your arrival! It is a great day to be a Spartan! Check out some of the inviting classrooms! #EEHKspartanpride

For those of you that were not able to make it to the all parent meeting or would like to rewatch the event, here is the link to watch it now! Please watch it so you can be up to speed on procedures and protocols! We are sorry for the inconvenience of our stream not working! We will try to work out the bugs before our next live streamed event! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ER1152fmv4 AND while you are at it, please subscribe to the Spartan Media Channel! We are hoping to put out a lot of content this year!!! Thanks again for your support for our great school! Go Spartans!

Good Morning Spartans!!!! Don't forget about the Football Gatorade Scrimmage tonight! It is now at 5PM at Glidden Ralston!! Be there!!!!