Dear Elm Creek Junior High & High School Families,
We are looking closely at all skills we want our students to have upon graduation from high school. One of those skills is the ability to complete tasks on time and successfully. Turning in assignments, completing tasks when asked, and finishing long term projects on time are essential to anyone successfully employed. Although many of us may take this ability for granted there are actually several skills involved to be successful at on-time completion. Time management, organization, communication, and setting priorities and goals are all part of successfully completing tasks on time. As of now, our students have unlimited time to turn in late work. Our concern is by allowing students this unlimited time we are failing to help them understand what it actually means to have a deadline or to practice the skills mentioned above. To address this issue we are going to change how we handle late work. Beginning second semester students will no longer have unlimited time to turn in late work but will have 7 calendar days to turn in an assignment past the due date. We believe that this new expectation, along with coaching and instruction on how to manage time and set goals, and our Essential Time at the end of the day, will help students better develop their abilities in this area.
More XtraMath accomplishments in the 4th grade!🏆 Way to master those facts!
Sixth and first graders work together to make holiday cards for parents! Always fun to see the team work and cooperation between these grades!
6th and 1st Grade making Holiday
cards for their families! Always fun to see the teamwork and cooperation between these grades!!
The first period high school Art and Foods classes are doing a collaborative gingerbread house project! Finished pictures will be posted soon. This project started with drawing a concept/plan, then researching materials, gathering materials, making homemade frosting, and now assembly!
Mrs. Keep's Accounting class working on posting from the general journal to the individual ledgers!
Our Red Cross blood drive has had to change locations for December 21. It will still start at noon and end at 6 PM but will be at the Elm Creek Fire Hall: Please disregard any email about cancellation of your appointment. If you scheduled, it will be at the same time but at the Fire Hall. Thank you!
We want to wish our Buffalo Wrestlers good luck tonight at Ravenna as they dual with Ravenna and Ord starting at 6 PM. GO GET EM!!
Dual order:
Dual 1: Ravenna vs EC. Dual 2: EC vs Ord Dual 3: Ord vs Ravenna
Info sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jeuWmPBimfaEillZxjZ4KOcKqNo9DSZX/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=100914372227606520689&rtpof=true&sd=true
Congrats to Elm Creek’s Fall Athletic and Activities NSAA Academic All State Winners!!
https://nsaa-static.s3.amazonaws.com/textfile/awards/2022-2023FallNCPAWinners.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2Ze4z7n8prdaCYdfV40irl2BjjYULEK83PtJq1F96X6cx8eBYuTrFxwaw
Elementary art students were learning different painting techniques by painting snowy landscapes on canvas.
Santa vs Grinch today in 3rd grade! Santas are excited for Christmas, the Grinches, not so much!
Change of schedule so we can give more girls opportunity to come that have basketball in Cozad….Attention softball pitchers!! Kynlee Marquez will be doing a pitching clinic at Elm Creek High School on Sunday, December 18th from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm for 4th- 7th graders. Then from 6:30 pm-7:30 pm she will work with 8th-12th graders. This will be in the Vintage Gym. She will work with pitchers on grip, spin, mechanics, and mental approach to help you compete in the circle. We hope to see you there. We will need parent catchers so please come and help if you can.
Kindergarten - 3rd grade students in Mrs. Keep's library class have been listening to the Nebraska Golden Sower Nominee Books this fall. They each vote for one book that is their favorite. All votes are submitted and the results of the winning books are released in May!
The 4th graders examined animal artifacts to understand how they could be used for everyday survival.
Geography students are finishing up the semester learning about different maps, how to read them, and how to use them. Todays lesson was on road maps.
Grandma got ran over by which reindeer?? The 6th graders figured it out! Today, these detectives used inferencing, reasoning, and evidence to write a claim proving which reindeer they each think ran grandma over!
Remember this Sunday….Attention softball pitchers!! Kynlee Marquez will be doing a pitching clinic at Elm Creek High School on Sunday, December 18th from 5 pm to 6 pm for 4th- 7th graders. Then from 6 pm-7 pm she will work with 8th-12th graders. This will be in the Vintage Gym. She will work with pitchers on grip, spin, mechanics, and mental approach to help you compete in the circle. We hope to see you there. We will need parent catchers so please come and help if you can.
At 6:30 tonight our High School Youth Group/FCS will be meeting to wrap Community Elves Gifts. Anyone that has gifts, if you could bring them in today that would be great. Mrs. Shoff will be in the office until 5:30 PM and gifts can be dropped off until 6:30 PM.
We do not have enough girls available to play JV on Friday night December 16th vs Bertrand. We will play all games in the High School Gym starting at 4:30. All games will be 4 quarters.
Game 1: JV Boys
Game 2: Varsity Girls
Game 3: Varsity Boys
Thank you for attending our Elementary Winter Concert last night! We are so proud of the students!
