Due to incorrect information, the Elwood JH Quiz Bowl team will not be included in the Axtell JH Quiz Bowl meet today. The Elementary Quiz Bowl team will still be competing today in Axtell.
Today is Give Big Elwood day, an opportunity for you to help the many worthwhile causes in our community. There are six we'd like to highlight that are part of the school or support the students and organizations here. Please consider donating to one or all of these groups.
Beef in Schools
https://www.givebiglexington.org/story/Elwoodbeefinschools
Elwood Booster Club
https://www.givebiglexington.org/story/Elwoodboosterclub22
Elwood TeamMates
https://www.givebiglexington.org/story/Elwoodteammates22
Elwood FFA
https://www.givebiglexington.org/story/Elwoodffa23
Elwood High Stampede
https://www.givebiglexington.org/story/Elwoodhighstampede
Pirates Providing Hope
https://www.givebiglexington.org/story/Piratesprovidinghope
Thank you for your generosity and support.
JHWR: Hi-Line @ Alma Invite: Thursday, November 9, 2023 starting at 2:00 PM. #gobulls
Congratulations to the following actors for winning Outstanding Performance Awards at Monday's One-Act festival in Wil-Hil: Gavin Tilson, Delaney Collins, Zach Whittaker, and Kara Brockman. Great work! The next performance is in Cozad, this Thursday at 6 pm.
Thank you Beef in School donors. Hamburger day!!!
Elwood High School Quiz Bowl will be participating at Arapahoe on Tuesday, November 7, 2023 starting at 4:30 PM. #gopirates
Winter sports pictures will be taken on November 13th. Packets will be sent home with the athletes but you can order online as well. Click the following link or use the QR code, pictures must be ordered by midnight November 14th. https://h2ophoto.net/
Elwood One-Act will be participating at the Wilcox-Hildreth Invite on Monday, November 6, 2023. Elwood will perform at 3:15 PM. #gopirates
Please join us next Friday for our Veterans Day program
During the week of November 13th-17th, students in grades 3-12 will be asked to fill out our annual school connections survey. If you would like to know more about this survey or would like to opt your child out, please email kilah.oaklund@elwoodpirates.org.
It has been a week of very challenging material in Chemistry. However, the juniors have persevered!!! So today we reviewed with a friendly competition using individual white boards. Great job juniors!!!
Our Intro to FCS classes had fun matching up with Kindergarten and PreK students to design a silly monster and story using story cubes. The students then sewed felt creations of the characters and wrote stories they read to the younger students. It was fun for all!
Here are the entries and winners from the 2023 Book Character Pumpkin Contest. All of the entries turned out to be AMAZING!! We want to thank all that participated this year. Each entry was very creative and unique, the kids did an AWESOME job on them!!! He are your winners for this years contest:
Lower Division
1st- Ferdinand: Cooper Huyser
2nd- Bad Seed: Kip Gall
3rd- Dinosaur: Evrhett Oakland
4th- Pete the Cat: Peter Spivey
Upper Division
1st- Patrick Mahomes: Bentley Schnacker
2nd- Piggie Pie: Lakyn Weissert
3rd- Mario: Reese Cunningham
4th- Nemo: Breckynne O'Hanlon
We have been studying catapults in 7th grade. We watched an introductory video, completed vocabulary, took notes over different types of catapults, and created designs for a catapult to build. Today we started building catapults.
Students in digital art class spent a day last week learning about the history of the Day of the Dead holiday in Mexico. They also compared those teaditions with American holidays and traditions. Then they made a papel picado (punched paper) banner fornthe classroom.
You may have seen babies out and about last weekend with the Child Development students. They had one weekend of learning what parenthood was like taking RealCare babies home to experience the reality of midnight feedings and fussy babies.
Ask your 9th grade science student tonight, why the string didn't fall apart when lit on fire?
The 7th graders displayed their new hand sewing skills making Emoji pillows at the end of first quarter!
If you haven’t brought your Book Character Pumpkin for the contest yet, don’t sweat it. Entries aren’t due until Monday by noon. Here are the rules and form for the contest. Happy seeing the entries so far looking forward to seeing more next week!
Congratulations to the following students who made the first quarter honor roll. Great work everyone!
