United Bay Community Credit Union very recently joined our community and immediately reached out to the district to ask what they could do to support updating the old scoreboards, which served us well for many years. Last Friday, we were excited to unveil our brand new gym scoreboards, generously and entirely paid for by United Bay! With their donation, nothing has come out of the pockets of our community to finance this project.
These boards will be used for volleyball, wrestling, and basketball throughout the year and assist us in continuing to update the look of our Jr/Sr High gymnasium. A sincere thank you to United Bay Community Credit Union and its representatives for their support. Joining us from the UBCCU team that evening was Diane Abbonizio, Doug Kelly, Kerri Singley, Jen Shelby, Mackenzie Shelby, Leslie Webb, and Jayna Hafelein. A special thank you to Emily Burgess who was not able to be here that night, for her tremendous efforts and support to make this happen. Thank you all!
Congrats to Joseph Vansickle for getting his first Turkey (3 strikes in a row) during bowling practice last week! Way to go, "Jotatochip!"
TONIGHT: Drama Club's Christmas at Coleman! Don't be a Grinch or Scrooge and miss out on an opportunity for holiday fun for all ages! Check out the flier for more info.
Huge thanks to United Bay Community Credit Union for the super generous donation allowing us to purchase new scoreboards for our high school gymnasium! We are unveiling them right before the Varsity Boys Basketball game tomorrow night around 6:30 pm. We hope to see you there!
Are you coming to Christmas at Coleman, hosted by the Drama Club? Well, you should! It's only one week away, on December 11th. Check out the flier for more info . . . and don't miss your opportunity to catch a glimpse of the upcoming Spring play, Beauty and the Beast!
Coleman Christmas band and choir concert is TONIGHT! Who else is looking forward to hearing what they've all been working so hard at?
Students at the Jr/Sr High and Elementary participated in making bulletin boards for kindness week. Great job, Comets! (Quilt is at the J/S High and leaves are at the Elementary).
Recently, Drama Club students went to a Theatre and Dance Day at Central Michigan University where they could participate in workshops on acting, voice, props and costumes. They got to meet members of the cast of the Fall production of Cabaret, and get to know other theater majors at the University. We love to see our Comets building skills and being proactive!
The Drama Club is hosting "Christmas at Coleman" on Monday, December 11th! It will be a fun opportunity to meet your favorite characters, get a present from Santa & Mrs. Claus, then catch a sneak peak of the upcoming Spring play, "Beauty and the Beast!" Add it to your calendars -- we hope to see you there!
Coming up next week: Coleman Band and Choir Christmas at Warriner 17 will be Monday, November 27th at 6:30pm in Plachta Auditorium, Warriner Hall, Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant.
Tickets are $4 per person ($16 max per family) and must be purchased in advance. Call 989-442-1998 or email band@colemanschools.net for more information.
Your high school bowling team started practice last week! Coach Francis and Coach Brown are excited to announce a girl's roster of eight bowlers as well as a boy's roster of eight bowlers. Comets will be practicing on Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30PM - 5PM. Parent permission forms are required if students need a ride from a coach. We will be bowling in two conferences this year, on Monday nights and Saturday mornings. We will announce a parent meeting on a practice night when we have all of the places and times decided. We are all really excited for a great season this year, go Comets!!!
Elementary PTO, parents, and students prepared dutch apple pies for pick up Saturdy. Pie sales, as well as gift card sales, are part of the anual fundraising schedule in October for the PTO.
Thank you to this Kindness Crew for helping pass out donuts and hot chocolate Monday morning to kick-off our Kindness Week Activities!
Congratulations to Ms. Summer Yancer who will be starting her position as the Competitive Cheer Coach! Coach Yancer has been working with the younger cheer team the past year and as an assistant with Coach Klopf for some time. We're excited for her to share her experiences throughout many years of cheer and her skill in relating to students. We're looking forward to seeing how she will continue to build the program. Coach Yancer is excited to work with the athletes and staff to bring even more PR to the Cheer team and its athletes. Please help her feel welcome.
Shout out to Mr. Skylyr Zink for all of his efforts to increase exposure and awareness to post-secondary learning opportunities and college access! In addition to coordinating well-attended college rep visits, Skylyr has secured two grants from the Community Foundation to provide transportation for college campus visits! Check out this graphic below that also highlights the work Skylyr (and students) put in for College Application Month in October. Thank you Skylyr for all that you do! For more information regarding scholarships, work-based learning, CTE, dual enrollment, early college, FAFSA, and more, check out the Student Resources page! https://www.colemanschools.net/o/jr-sr-high-school/page/student-resources
Mr. David Brown has agreed to be the High School Boys Bowling Coach starting this season! Mr. Brown teaches Physics and Chemistry, along with STEAM and Coding courses for Coleman Schools. He's excited to join Mr. Francis who is the Girls Bowling Coach in continuing to build the program as a primary or secondary sport for our students. Please help welcome him to this new position and if you are interested in Bowling, get signed up now in the High School Office. The Winter season starts soon - get ready to go and cheer them on!
Some of our awesome student leaders attended Midland County Youth Impact Partnership's Leadership Day on October 24 in Bullock Creek. Our students learned about sense of purpose, positive peer relationships, and self-esteem. After the break out sessions, they were given time to brainstorm ideas for their school's week of kindness, which is November 13-17. Our students did a great job representing Coleman Community Schools!
Coach Todd Halcomb will join us as the new Varsity Boys Basketball Coach. Coach Halcomb has coached in a variety of sports over many years, including Boys Basketball in Vestaburg. He chose to step away from coaching for a while for family reasons and is now able to come back to his love of coaching. Please help him feel welcome!
Recently, members of the Michigan FFA visited the Coleman Regional Agriscience Center. Following is a letter shared with Mr. Fischer and Mrs. Zwemmer about their visit. We are incredibly proud of the students, our teachers and the program. Great work! #GOCOMETS
Good Morning Mr. Fischer,
Logan and I had a great time visiting your chapter and getting to know you and your students! We really appreciate you opening your classroom to us. I especially enjoyed learning more about how your program works and seeing the barn. Your classes were so fun to work with, we loved being able to use those full 2 hours! I think I can speak for both of us when I say this was one of our favorite visits. Also, if you have those group pictures or any other pictures from the day we would love to have you share those! We look forward to hopefully seeing you and your students again soon.
Thank you again,
Lilly Nyland
Michigan FFA State Secretary
https://www.colemanschools.net/page/agriscience
The Cole family, with more kids than any other family in Coleman we believe, in Comet uniforms this fall. We'll let them start us off! Anyone else have some great pictures of their kids or family donning Comet gear or colors this fall? Send them to pr@colemanschools.net!
Here's to a great end of the season run for our fall sports and ramping up for winter season sports. #GOCOMETS
