Cobden Junior High & High School

Members of Educators Rising collected Toys for Tots. Toys will be donated to local families.

In seventh grade, we learned how Christmas is celebrated around the world. Each student picked a different country. They wrote research papers. After they finished their research, they created posters and gave presentations to teach the class about their country.

Need a last minute gift for the Appleknocker fans in your life? We’ve got you covered! Stop by the office today!

Parents- picture retakes, girls and boys basketball (Jr and sr high), cheer(Jr and sr high), and soccer pics will be taken on Friday, December 9.

Tonight’s JHG basketball game has been canceled due to illness at the opposing school.

See a Beta Club member to purchase your poinsettia

Congratulations to this week’s Seeds of Happiness winners!

The Cobden Agriculture Department would like to give a huge Thank You to DTM Custom Applications for their donation of time and equipment. Dylan Duty and John Fuhrhop, employees of DTM and Cobden Alumni, did a great job preparing the future greenhouse site!

If you ordered tickets for tomorrow's games; Cobden vs Meridian at the Fed Ex Forum in Memphis, you may pick them up in the office today before 4:00. We still have a few for sale as well, call the office for yours today!

December Menu

We currently have 9 tickets in the office for sale! $48 each. You don’t want to miss this amazing experience! Call the HS office for yours today!

Mrs Holly Hurt is excited to announce the next student trip: The Emerald Isle - A Tour of Ireland in June 2024! We will be visiting: Dublin, Cashel, Blarney, Killarney, Limerick, Bunratty, Galway and Shannon. Sights include: St. Patrick's Cathedral, Trinity College to view The Book of Kells, St. Patrick's Rock, the Rock of Cashel, Caisleán na Blarnan, Blarney Woollen Mills, the Ring of Kerry, Skellig Michael Island, Bog Village, the Shannon River, Bunratty Castle, Folk Park, St. Mary's Cathedral, the Cliffs of Moher, Corcomroe Abbey, Eyre Square, Lynch's Castle, St. Nicholas' Church, the Bowling Green district with the house of Nora Barnaclethe, and the River Corrib, Overnights: Dublin 2 • Killarney 2 • Limerick 1 • Galway 2. There will be a parent meeting for student travel on Wednesday, November 30, 2022, at 5:30, in Mrs. Hurts classroom. Current 8th graders and up are eligible to travel. Please email hhurt@cusd17.com for more information.

On Saturday, November 19th, Grace White participated in the All-District Festival at Belleville West High School in Belleville, IL. She practiced with the Senior Band and Senior Orchestra for 6 hours. Grace is pictured here holding the plaque she received from All-District. From this event, Grace was selected to participate in All-State as one of the state's top band students. All-State is scheduled for January 25th-28th in Peoria. Congratulations, Grace!

Homecoming information!

Co Op students have been job shadowing this past month. Students then researched their career and presented to the class. Students shadowed at: McBride Mack Sales Duckworks Rural Health SIH-medical translator Southern Roots Shear Encounters International Union of Operating Engineers

Mr. Grossman is excited to announce the choice for this year’s play: Radium Girls! In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees. As the case goes on, however, Grace finds herself battling not just with the U.S. Radium Corporation, but with her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire. Called a "powerful" and "engrossing" drama by critics, Radium Girls offers a wry, unflinching look at the peculiarly American obsessions with health, wealth, and the commercialization of science. Auditions will be held Monday, December 5th after school in Mr. Grossman’s room for any interested High School student. Please see Mr. Grossman to pick up an Audition Packet ASAP! We hope to see many of you there!

Cobden High School Education Pathway student, Allison Benefield, taught a phonics lesson to second graders this week. She practiced the "th" and "wh" sounds. Then Allison led an art project involving the phonics lesson. Allison plans on majoring in Elementary Education at SIUC next year.

SIUC Student observer, Katie Mueller, spoke with Educators Rising members during lunch last week. Katie gave important advice about how to be successful in the teacher education program at SIU. Students were able to ask questions about classes and observation experiences in the teacher education program at SIUC.

Dental Safari 2022

A reminder that all food drive donations are due to class sponsors by Tuesday morning.