Here is a list of tips and tricks that you can use to keep the germs away. Once your Family is vaccinated, make sure you use these tricks to make the flu virus too scared to come to your house!

• Sing and Scrub: make sure your children wash their hands frequently with warm water and soap for at least 20 seconds. That’s the time it takes to sing the Happy Birthday song twice. This will clean off any germs that they may unknowingly pick up throughout the day and keep them from passing them on.
• Do the Elbow Cough: Cough into elbows, not hands where it’s more likely to spread bacteria and viruses through touch.
• Disinfect Germ Hot Spots: disinfect the surfaces kids touch most frequently with disinfecting products. The top 5 germ hot spots are: Phone receivers; refrigerator, microwave and door handles; kitchen faucets; light switches; TV remotes.

Follow Good Health guidelines: Eat right, exercise, and get plenty of sleep. That will help boost your immune system which is your body’s way of fighting off the effects of colds and flu.

ICS School Nurses:
Dawn Haertel, RN & Sue Waldoch, RN

On October 15 and 16, 2008 students invited their grandparents and community elders to visit school as part of Elder’s Week at the Indian Community School. Grandparents spent time in their grandchild’s classroom reading and telling stories, being interviewed or sharing a special interest and then shared lunch with their grandchild.

We had over fifty grandparents and elders participate in elder’s Week activities.

“Thank you Elder’s”.

Students from Indian Community School participated in the Franklin Mission Heritage Week celebration last weekend at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare in Franklin. Students gave a presentation about our peoples past, present, and future and a brief history of the Indian Community School. Afterwards, the ICS Drum and Dance groups gave a singing and dance presentation to the audience. Here are some picture of our students at the event.

Dear ICS Parents,

We are happy to announce that ICS has just received a grant from the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) to provide students with a fresh fruit or vegetable snack once per week. Research proves eating a well-rounded and nutritious diet can really make a difference in students’ academic performance.

Eating healthy foods helps children focus on learning and staying alert in the classroom. At the Indian Community School of Milwaukee we are very proud to have been chosen to participate in this program and look forward to contributing to the wellness of our students through this program.

The Indian Community School will serve the fresh fruit or vegetable snack on Monday afternoon, starting the first week of October during classroom time.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the Food Service Department.

Sincerely,
Natalia Woehl, M.ed. RD.CD.
ICS Nutrition Manager

The 2008 - 2009 ICS Student / Parent Handbook and School Calendar are available on the Links > Parent page.

An Indian Community School Open House will be held at 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 26th, for the ICS community and supporters. ICS Student Ambassadors will give tours. Light refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP to Donna Bruneau 414-483-8755.

The Open Board Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, February 6, 2008 is being re-scheduled to Wednesday, February 20, 2008 due to weather concerns.

The first Halloween Fest was held at our new school on Friday, October 26^th. Students (and some parents) were elaborately dressed in brilliantly colored costumes. Many activities were available for everyone to participate in including:

• Painting Pumpkins
• The Thrill Walk
• Penny Pitching
• Bingo
• Halloween Craft-making
• A Creepy Café Spook House

A large kettle of homemade chicken/wild rice soup was made which was served with traditional fresh hot Fry Bread. Carmel Apples and a Bake Sale enhanced the food choices. The event was attended by nearly 300 people and everyone had a great time. Special THANKS to Parent Council Officer, Jessica Meshigaud, and Family Resource Center director, Cindy Janechek, for their tireless efforts in making this happen, and to Sean Meshigaud for the cooking, and to the nearly 30 volunteers who helped run the activities and who helped clean-up afterward.

We got to sleep in finally. We woke up refreshed. Because we got in late, the bus driver has to let the bus sit for so many hours we left later. We attempted to take a shower, but it was freezing cold, OMG! We were ready to sit for another long bus ride. We left at 11:00, we hit some detours, so we didn’t get to the Mall of America until 8:30. We only had like an hour to shop. I bought some clothes and jewelry, some other people got shoes.

We when got back to the hotel we were ready to swim…and it was only a hot tub. We sweated like pigs in the sauna. When we got back to our room, we were ready to eat. It was like 11:00 and we ordered pizza. After we were done eating we got to take a long HOT shower. Our room did not go to bed until 4:00 a.m.

We were pretty tired the next morning. We barely got dressed and packed in time. We ate our breakfast and got on the bus. We stopped in Black River Falls for a bathroom break. Then we stopped in Wisconsin Dells for lunch. We are almost home now and I am happy to sleep in my own bed.
By Annabelle

We woke up in the dorms, ate our breakfast and headed to the Cultural Center. Ray Dupri came and showed us his antler and horn jewelry that he makes. He told us about the hides and how he preserves them.

Then we were able to help make fry bread and wojapi in the kitchen. The fry bread was really good and tasty. Then a man came and gave a demonstration about the drum. He sang some songs for us and explained the meaning of them.

Bear Butte. It was a 2 mile hike one way. It took us 40 minutes to get up to the top. As we were hiking we came upon clouds. When we got to the top you couldn’t see anything because all the clouds were in the way. Then the wind blew and you could see all around. Then the wind blew again and we couldn’t see again. I ran a lot of the way down, it took 30 minutes to get back. When we got to the bottom, the inside bathroom place was closed, and we got a drink from a bubbler. We had to wait about 15 minutes for the bus to come. On the way back we stopped to eat in Sturgis. We ate Subway, and a lot of other people ate at the Pizza Ranch. After we ate Subway, my group and I went to the gas station to get snacks for later.

We drove back to Eagle Butte to watch a healing ceremony that involved Mr. Walking Elk. It was really dark outside it gave the ceremony a more ceremonial feel. It was kind of cool-we even got to see what was concerning Mr. Walking Elk. He wasn’t sick, but he knew that something wasn’t quite right. Mr. Waling Elk told him that he had had some pains in his chest while in the Sweat Lodge that made him know that something was wrong. He sucked plague out of his arteries and even showed it to us. He sucked a needle out of his back.

Mitch adds: This is only one kind of doctoring that our people have access to through ceremonies.

We got back on the bus thinking we were going to go back to the dorms. We got stuck in the nastiest, clayiest, dirtiest, mud you can ever step on. All the people in the bus had to go to the back to for weight to try to get it out. That didn’t work. So we had to call someone who got someone to get a tractor to get us out. The tractor pulled us out, so that we finally got back to the dorms about 1:30 in the morning.
By Cody