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Coal City Middle School Daily Announcements

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

B Day

Today’s lunch: Chicken Wrap Snax, Steamed Corn, Diced Peaches, Milk

Ala Carte: Stuffed Crust Pizza

The Coalers traveled to Morris Thursday night to take on Morris & Seneca. The Coalers improved to 5-0 on the year defeating Morris, 47-39, and Seneca 84-11.

Varsity Winners: Grady Jensen, Ryder Gill, Banien Durkee, Gavin Roudis, Phoenix Senodenos, Levi Marshall, Nicholas Miller, Roman Taylor, Carter Wix, Dominic Zuccarello, Cody Kozlowski, Logan Marshall.

JV Winners: Ryan Housman, Reed Horrie, Anthony Venegas, Jacob Moore, Danny Bergin, Carter Thill, Alex Duran, Travis Blatzheim, Luke Phillips, Camden Schott, Eathyn Rivera, Brent Stark

The Coalers will be at home against Homer and Bradley on Wednesday.

Thank you to everyone who competed in round one of the spelling bee! The top students from each grade level will advance to round two of the spelling bee which will take place on Tuesday, January 28th. This will take place before school at 8:10 A.M. in Mrs. Sweeney’s room (in the 6th-grade hallway). If you are unable to make it before school, please see Mrs. Sweeney or Mrs. Sobieck to make other arrangements.

Please congratulate the following students:

6th Grade

Jillian Erhard
Lily Harding
Reagan Jeschke
Jackson Pruim
Blake Bradley
Emma Palacios
Olivia Vironda
Drake Aichele
Steven Breen
Nolan Cardenas
Kamden Gabehart
Elle Gordon
Izzy Muhlenbruch

7th Grade

Addison Skaggs
Landyn Pierard
Melody Leman
Abby Hitchcock
Remii Yott
Maisey Skaggs
Dominic Velasco
Canon Wills
Carson Picchi
Emerlyn Kaluzny
Ace Haberzetle
Isabella Hernandez

8th Grade

Liam Allen
Max Christensen
Alyson Shelton
Patrick Tibble
Gavin Roudis
Andrew Obert
Trent Kingman
Jackson Dvorak
Jair Garcia
Cameron Haas
Autumn Garza

These students will need to pick up the study list for the second-round test. 6th graders can see Mrs. Sweeney in the 6th-grade hallway, 7th graders can see Mrs. Sobieck in the 7th-grade hallway, and 8th graders can see Mrs. Sweeney in the 6th-grade hallway.

Best of luck!

6th grade Volleyball team finished in 2nd place with a 3-1 record at the Martin Luther King Jr. Tournament at Kankakee this past Saturday.

They defeated Limestone, Bradley, and Peotone in Pool Play and lost to Limestone in the Championship Match in a super tight match: 24-26; 25-23; 13-15!!!!

Aubree Dearth led the Coalers with 16 points and Harper Lardi, Reese Watson and Maddie Williams were all in double digits too.

This moves the team’s overall record to 7-3.

Great Job, Coalers!

Our Coaler Character Trait for this month is Leadership. Previously you were given a list of skills it takes to be a good, effective leader. A good leader is goal oriented, honest, hard-working, willing to serve others, a good listener, a good communicator, a good decision-maker, encouraging, positive, and responsible. Each day we will break down these skills and practice them.

Let’s break down what being a hard worker looks like. Hard work is contagious. If one student is working hard and shows a true passion for the subject, they’ll inspire others to believe that they, too, can (and should) strive for excellence. In short, hardworking student leaders inspire and push their classmates to do more.

Here is an example from a teacher’s point-of-view: While the Ant and Grasshopper group is busy on the computer, your Whales and Dolphins group is consumed by the cardboard boxes you supplied them. As you come by to see if they need anything, you see one student who is especially hard at work cutting out a hole for the whale’s mouth. Not every member of the group is as involved as he is, but after observing his enthusiasm — and noticing how much you admire it — they too join in and begin to work on cutting and shaping the other boxes.

Put it into action: Think about a part of your life that you like to work extra hard at. Maybe you spend hours at home shooting 1000 baskets to improve your game. Maybe you spend two extra hours at home studying because that subject just doesn’t come easy to you. Maybe you are passionate about helping others and you work extra hard at being there for your friends and family. Whatever it is, do you realize that working hard at anything in your life is an excellent way to show great leadership?