SRRMS Kids Against Hunger Project

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

The 7th grade students from Sauk Rapids-RIce Middle School participated in a weeklong service project for the Kids Against Hunger program. They raised a total of $230. They walked to the Kids Against Hunger warehouse where they packaged 39,744 meals. Some of these meals are sent to local food shelves and others are sent all over the world. The majority of the meals are currently being sent to Haiti.

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Reading Challenge at Mississippi Heights and Pleasantview Elementary Schools

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

The schools received 70 copies of the young readers’ edition of the New York Times Bestseller Three Cups of Tea, from Cathy Cooley, a Sauk Rapids parent. The challenge was for all 4th and 5th grade classrooms to read the book.

Three Cups of Tea is the true story of Minnesota native Greg Mortenson who failed in his attempt to climb K2 (the 2nd highest mountain in the world) but in the process of his failure, found a way to bring peace by building schools in some of the most remote parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The reading challenge began with an assembly welcoming Sauk Rapids’ own Jesse Godzala. Godzala will climb Mount Kilimanjaro this summer as part of the Kidney Climb to raise money for the Coborn’s Cancer Center in memory of Jesse’s father, Thomas Godzala, who died from kidney cancer in 2006. The money raised will be used to help kidney cancer patients and their families with the costs of medical care.

At the assembly, Jesse helped the kids understand the challenges of mountain climbing and how he’ll be working to make a difference as Mortenson has done.
Three Cups of Tea is mandatory reading for all senior U.S military commanders, and all special forces deploying to Afghanistan are required to read it.

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Jana Paulson Receives SCSU Teacher of the Year Award

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Jana Paulson received the Teacher of the Year Award at St. Cloud State University’s chapter of Kappa Delta Pi’s spring banquet. Jana Paulson is a fourth grade teacher at Mississippi Heights Elementary School in Sauk Rapids. Matthew Kuefler, who student taught in Mrs. Paulson’s classroom, received the Student Teacher of the Year Award at Kappa Delta Pi’s fall banquet. Kappa Delta Pi is an International Honor Society in Education.

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