Great day of professional learning for many of our district staff lead by Steve and Michelle Ventura. Great end of day summary presentations provided by our staff.
Honored to participate in today's Pinwheels for Prevention Campaign. Safe and Sound Child Advocacy Center is working hard to eliminate child abuse and neglect in Midland County! Congratulations to Kristie Clark for her recognition as a Champion for Children! So well deserved!
Bullock Creek Band Alumni Rebekah Kindy, Kaylee Monville, Anna Pelli, and Mrs. B all got to perform together at Eastern Michigan University today!
Throughout last week, third grade students from Pine River spent each morning at the Chippewa Nature Center. They learned how people throughout Michigan's history used nature. They explored how indigenous tribes, fur traders, lumberman, and homesteaders used nature. It was a fun week filled with learning in the context of nature.
A huge thank you to Midland County United Way for organizing all these special readers for our students at Pine River Elementary today!
An amazing organization, Just For Kids, came and presented some of our outstanding Little Lancers with a bike today! We want to congratulate these kids for their outstanding citizenship, display of kindness, hard work, and amazing attitude!
We appreciate this organization for these donations and the presentation of these prizes to our kiddos!
Congratulations to our winners: Ivylynn Owens, Bence Tomas, Ben Vercher, Hayslee Frasle, James Ellsworth, Amelia Dopp, Clara Widenmier, and Dean Keyes.
First time ever! Congratulations to the Bullock Creek Varsity Jazz Band for earning their first Division I at the State Festival at Meridian HS yesterday evening!
It's spirit week at Floyd this week and these are just a few of our "Book Character Day" participants. So many cute and creative characters filled our school!
Floyd 5th graders have been collecting sap. Today they filtered and boiled several gallons of sap and turned it into maple syrup. Tomorrow they will celebrate the fruits of their labor with a pancake breakfast. If you know Mr. Wright, you know no activity is complete without a math question. 😉
Many of our Floyd Elementary families enjoyed an evening together at our "Family Game Night". The activities included board games, a scavenger hunt, STEM/nature activities, nature games, active games in the gym, and lots of laughter and great conversations.
Congratulations to the Bullock Creek Varsity Band members who performed at state Solo and Ensemble Festival this weekend! We had over 50 students performing solos, duets, and large chambers ensembles. The soloists had to perform their piece, scales, and sight read as well. Many students earned medals, and a handful earned medals in multiple events!
This evening our Board of Education honored Andrew Whittington with the Lancer Leader Award for his success in becoming an Eagle Scout! Congratulations Andrew!
These generous students had a working lunch today organizing and preparing the next batch of Creeker Coupons for their Floyd peers. Each day we celebrate safe, respectful, and responsible choices made at school and on the school bus by recognizing Creeker Coupon recipients on the morning announcements.
Floyd students celebrated March is reading month by reading by a school campfire with their class.
We are at the SVSU teacher fair! Stop in and say "hi!"
Oh Danny boy, the pipes the pipes are calling! This morning members of the White Pine Pipes & Drums ensemble performed for the 8th grade band students today! What a treat on St. Patrick's Day!
Jacob Wendorf and the big bird Mr. Lou E. Loon paid a visit to BCEL this afternoon to promote the Loons Reading Program all of our kids are participating in!! The Loons partnered with BCEL to help spread the love of literacy!
We loved the story Jacob read and all the interaction Lou E. had with our Little Lancers!!!
Thank you Great Lakes Loons for caring about our kids!!
Play Ball!!!!!
Mrs. Woods’ class 1st grade class at BCEL had guest readers yesterday for March is reading month. We were so excited to hear parents read and we were so engaged! What a great way to increase our listening comprehension skills!
Morgan Dukarski, 5th grader at Floyd Elementary, hopes to be a teacher when she grows up. She reached her goal of 450 AR points with the incentive that she could be teacher for the day in Mrs. Schroders 5th grade classroom. Today was her day to teach and she did an outstanding job!!
Interviews and crime scene analysis in Biology.