The Kindergarten class reunited with their "High School Buddies!" After carving pumpkins in the fall, everyone knew they wanted to get together again!! Mr. Senske brought the students down and they worked with their buddies to create Valentine's Day boxes. Once the boxes were created, the students exchanged their Valentines!
Attention Parents of Preschoolers! Check out the free preschool screening at McClusky-Goodrich Elementary on Tuesday, March 11th from 12:30pm until 3:30pm. Contact Trista Zerr at 701-341-0539 or trista.zerr@k12.nd.us to reserve a spot by March 7th.
The Fifth graders are really growing! We have a hydroponic garden system and we started out with herbs! This ahopegarden has a self-watering system and grow light and all we do is plant, add nutrients ... and viola!! Ask a 5th grader how much light they need daily and what herb they planted!!
The 2025 CMC spring trap season informational meeting will be held on Sunday, February 16th at 2:30pm at the Turtle Lake Wildlife Club. Any student grades 6-12 are eligible to shoot.
While food labs are always fun in the various FACS classes, the Cultures & Cuisine quartet went above and beyond by going on a mini field trip to the shop to put the finishing touches on their crema catalana. If you see Lilly, Daphne, Maleah or Makiyah, ask them which country the crema catalana represented, and ask them how the crust was formed on their dessert. A special shout out and thank you to Mr. Houser for letting us use your torch!
The kindergarten students celebrated the 100th day of school yesterday! This is a big event in the kindergarten room! Throughout the day they had to search the school to find "gumballs" to fill up their machine. Each gumball had a word for them to read. They also tested their creativity by creating sculptures using 100 marshmallows. For their math time, they rotated between building stations. They had 100 pattern blocks, dominos, popsicle sticks, linking cubes, and toy rings. They were challenged to build something using all 100! To end their day, they used "Froot Loops" to fill tens frames to make 100 and then turned them into a necklace!
They have been doing well with our 48-piece puzzles. Today, they got to open their first 100-piece puzzle!
Some questions to ask your students:
How many tens frames equal to 100?
Can you count by 1's, 5's, and 10's to 100?
The Earth Dragons practiced how to be a good listener and work with a group today. It's all a part of the Dragon Way: Respectful!
Happy 100th Day of School from our (very old) third graders!
Today was a busy day for the First Graders!
They had to read 100 words printed on apples in order to fill their orchard! Then, they had to count by tens to reach 100 and make sure their orchard was full. After that they were tasked with measuring the school, but not with a ruler, with themselves!
Fun fact- the school; from the lost and found all the way to the recess door, is 64.5 First Graders long. 100 First Graders will take you all the way back to the main entrance doors!
The day was filled with activities all relating to 100. What would you do if you had $100? What is something you would not want 100 of? How many triangles can you draw in 100 seconds? SO much more!
Ask your student:
Why is it important to make sure you are laying flat when measuring?
How many groups of 10 are needed to make 100?
Can $100 buy as much stuff as they thought?
January was a busy month for the Computer Science classes. The 8th graders started the quarter building spaghetti bridges to flex their teamwork muscles. All they had to work with was a box of dried spaghetti and hot glue. Their goal was to see whose bridge could hold the most textbooks. Team 1’s bridge held 12 textbooks (56.4 pounds) and Team 2’s bridge held 6 textbooks (27 pounds). Team 3’s bridge held 22 textbooks for a whopping 75.7 pounds before crashing to the floor. Congratulations, Team 3!
The freshman class got to create keychains with their first names using binary code. If you see one of the freshmen, ask them about binary code and have them describe their keychain for you.
Tonight's JHBBB games won't be shown on NFHS due to technical difficulties. We apologize for the inconvenience.
A Friday morning favorite at the elementary school is “Reading Buddies”. Here the second grade students read with their sixth grade friends.
Contact Angel Opdahl at 341-9953 if interested!
Due to weather and road conditions, McClusky-Goodrich Schools will be dismissing at 12:45 PM. The buses will not be running.
The kindergarten class found some open water and went fishing for clusters! In our reading skills sections, students are learning about reading clusters (blends like st, bl, cr). Each fish had a word that started with different clusters, some of the fish were new and past vocabulary words like crop, stem, and grim. Students took turns catching fish and reading their words. As you can see, each catch was very exciting!
Some questions to ask your student:
Can you read the following words?
stop, clap, skip, drum
What are the clusters in each word?
crab, spot, blob, past
Attention CMC basketball fans! Washburn Public School will be hosting a free will fundraiser Thursday evening during the Central McLean/Washburn double headers to support one of their colleagues who lost her husband unexpectedly over Christmas break.
Friday, January 3rd was a great start to the new semester, thanks to the McClusky-Goodrich PTO. The high school students gathered together as a school to watch a movie while they enjoyed pizza and snacks (provided by the PTO).
The elementary students went to the Wing Theater to watch the Wild Robot. It was a special afternoon of togetherness and fun. Our PTO made the day even more special by sponsoring a treat box fully furnished with popcorn, a candy and drink. A huge thank you to our dedicated PTO members for making this possible by sponsoring the movie admission and treat boxes for all of our kids! A thank you to Mrs. Swenson for arranging the showing and our bus drivers for transporting everyone. #McClusky-GoodrichGoodrichPublicSchoolPTO
The McClusky-Goodrich School District is asking for your opinion on moving the 6th Grade to the high school. Please complete the survey in this link:
https://forms.office.com/r/ChMDSFDbT7 by Monday, January 13, 2025.
The Kindergarten students have added a new component to their calendar time. They fill out daily calendar binders that include writing the month, days of the week, weather, days in school, etc. When students answer questions, they get to shoot the basketball for 1 point, 2 points, or 3 points! They help keep score by using tally marks and are practicing counting by 5's. As a class, we scored 12 points on our first day!
Some questions to ask your student:
How would you make 12 using tally marks?
Ask them to count by 5's to 100.
