The 4th graders have been learning about static electricity in science. Today students had to rub a balloon on their head, then use the static to make an aluminum can roll. Then they had to see if their hypothesis on how far the can would roll was correct or not by measuring the distance it rolled. Some students were surprised at how far they could get their can to roll!
The HS Lady Spartan Volleyball team is have a volleyball clinic for grades 3rd-5th on Oct. 12 from 10:00am to 12:00pm. The Deadline to sign up is Oct. 10th. For contact information, see the attachment.
HS Volleyball Regional will be at Caldwell HS; with the following schools: Argonia HS; Burden-Central HS; Caldwell HS; Dexter HS\Cedar Vale HS; Oxford HS; South Haven HS; Udall HS. Brackets and seeding won't be posted until Oct. 10th after 10:00am. The first round will be played on Oct. 16th.
TONIGHT: HS Lady Spartan Volleyball will host the Flinthills Mustangs and Central-Burden Raiders at Cedar Vale. Matches start at 4:00pm with JV; see attachment for details. GOOD LUCK LADIES!! GO SPARTANS!!
First graders had a lot of fun celebrating Citizenship Month in September! We learned about being good neighbors, what the Pledge of Allegiance really means, what the colors of the flag symbolizes, and how the Constitution is our country's rule book!
SATURDAY: HS JV Volleyball will travel to Flinthills for Flinthills JV Invitational. Matches will start at 9:00am; see attachment for details. GOOD LUCK LADIES!! GO SPARTANS!!
TOMORROW: HS Football travel to Sedan to face the Blue Devils. Kick off is at 7:00pm! GOOD LUCK!! GO SPARTANS!!
TONIGHT: MS Volleyball and Football travel to South Haven. Volleyball will face the South Haven Cardinals and Caldwell Blue Jays starting at 4:00pm; see attachment for details. Football will face the South Haven/Caldwell Thunderbolts kick off is at 6:30pm. Also, they are charging admission; $3 for Adults and $2 K-12 Students. GOOD LUCK!! GO SPARTANS!!
YESTERDAY: 6th Grade students visited the 40,000 acre Tallgrass Prairie Preserve north of Pawhuska, OK. They hiked through the 7 foot tall grasses and watched the herd of 3,000 bison roam on the near extinct tallgrass prairie. This was part of their six week unit of "Unique Kansas."
The 4th graders have been learning about conductors and insulators in science. Today they got to use what they have learned and play a game of freeze tag. Students were either an electrifying student (the ones that are "It"), a conductor, or an insulator. Since conductors let electricity pass through easily, those students had to feeeze immediately. The insulators had to be tagged 3 times before they were frozen because they don't allow electricity to flow through. The students had fun applying what they have learned!
TONIGHT: HS Volleyball head to Argonia to face the Red Raiders and the Oxford Wildcats. Matches start at 4:45 and will play as follows:
4:45 - 5:40 - CVD JV v. Oxford JV
5:40 - 6:00 - Warm Up for first Varsity Match
6:00 - 7:00 - Argonia V v. CVD V
7:00 - 8:00 - CVD V v. Oxford V
8:00 - 9:00 - Argonia V v. Oxford V
If the JV games run early, we will not start the first varsity game before before 6:00 pm.
GOOD LUCK LADIES!!! GO SPARTANS!!
YESTERDAY: 6th Grade Students have been studying the adaptations of the American Bison, as well as the many uses for each part of the animal by shopping for everyday items like a Plains Indian if they would have had a "Bison Store".
On Thursday we had a special visitor, Donna Martin, in fifth grade. For our Native American unit, students have been learning about the different regions where Native Americans settled. We learned about the different types of clothing, food, land, tools, transportation and shelter each region used. Mrs. Martin is an expert on the Native Americans in the Plains region and came on Thursday to show our students how to build a tipi and share some stories and artifacts from that region. Students helped to build the tipi with Mrs. Martins help and then we all went inside the tipi to learn about the Native Americans and pass around artifacts. It was a great day of learning.
TODAY: 2nd graders have had fun watching our caterpillars turn into a chrysalis and finally this week turning into a butterfly. We were sad to see them go, but excited to let them go!
TOMORROW: HS Football host the Flinthills Mustangs. Kickoff will be at 7:00pm. The Homecoming ceremony will be at halftime with pictures to follow in the commons. GOOD LUCK!! GO SPARTANS!!
TONIGHT: There will be a bonfire at Richard Artherton's house around 9:00pm (when the MS get back from their game). To get our football team FIRED UP for their game against Flinthills tomorrow! Hope to see everyone there!
TONIGHT: MS Volleyball and Football will host the Central-Burden Raiders at CV. Volleyball will start at 3:30pm with C team followed by B then A. Football kicks off at 6:30pm. GOOD LUCK!! GO SPARTANS!!
TODAY: There will be a pep assembly at 2:00pm at the football field.
TODAY: Yearbook staff went to a workshop at Southwestern College.
YESTERDAY:8th grade learning Earth Science. The lithosphere (hard part of the Earth) is made up of rocks that contain minerals. We're testing rocks for calcite. A few drops of acetic acid are dropped on a piece of limestone & granite. The limestone reacted by producing bubbles of CO2 gas. The granite remained unchanged.
