The Spanish 3 and 4 students enjoyed practicing their Spanish while eating at Acapulco in Prairie du Chien today for Cinco de Mayo.
The Hanging Gardens of Ancient Mesopotamia recreated in Central's 6th grade. These gardens were the first type of garden to be created for enjoyment purposes and not food production. Students designed their garden's shape, etched designs in foam, stacked their shapes, painted a sand mixture on top of the foam. Then students added flowers and greenery.
Central's 6th grade had a video visitor during Social Studies class. Sixth grade has been studying North and Sorth Korea and we thought we should get some first hand knowledge of what it is like in South Korea. Students wrote up to 3 questions each, we emailed them to Mr. Derek Bergan (currently teaching at Daegu Internation School),who videoed answers and sent the video back to us. We are hoping to add to our interaction with South Korea by sending videos back and forth with his 7th grade class with student-to-student quesitons. (picture only--not full video)
Special thanks to United States Senator Chuck Grassley who visited with Social Studies and #ClaytonCountyBEST students today at Central. Students were able to ask Senator Grassley questions about issues important to them. Students asked about college debt, health care, agriculture prices, gun control, minimum wage and more. Thank you, Senator Grassley for the work you do for Iowans and taking the time to visit with young people.
Join us this evening for Senior Awards!
Third graders have been as busy as bees lately. Here they are learning about pollination and how important bees are in this process. Their "pollen" was cinnamon and coffee and they had fun making sure the "pollen" went from one flower to another.
Students in 6th grade have been learning about Ancient Mesopotamia and the beginning of writing (cuneiform writing.) Symbols for sounds. Students designed their own cuneiform alphabet and practiced writing messages for classmates to solve. Today students were scribes and carved a message onto a clay tablet.
Thank you to all of the Central Teachers who help our students to dream big!
Show your appreciation with a quick email to your favorite Central teacher. You can find staff info here https://www.central.k12.ia.us/staff
The girls track & field meet at Edgewood-Colesburg has been cancelled for tonight.
Congratulations and great job to all the Warriors who participated at the Maquoketa Valley Mini Cat Track & Field meet!
#ClaytonCountyBEST would like to thank Northeast Iowa Resource Conservation & Development for awarding us the Watershed Guardian Grant to purchase trees to plant for Earth Day 2021. Also a big thank you to Osborne Nature Center and Clayton County Conservation for partnering with us on this event.
Central Community FFA competed in the State FFA Soils Evaluation CDE yesterday! The team received a silver! Time to set our sights on how to earn a higher rating next year! This team can do it!
Thank you to Clayton County Development Group for your generous donation to #ClaytonCountyBEST for our work with your tourism brochure. Can’t wait to see the final project.
Thank you to Clayton County Development Group for your generous donation to #ClaytonCountyBEST for our work with your tourism brochure. Can’t wait to see the final project.
The 4th graders planted a tree today in honor of Arbor Day. They also got to take home a shagbark hickory seedling to plant.
Students in Animal Science are learning the primal and retail cuts of beef. Price of the retail cut is highly dependent on the location it is from on the beef animal. One goal for this lesson is to be a wiser consumer at the grocery store when choosing beef.
5-8th Grade Instrumental live stream link.
https://www.nfhsnetwork.com/events/central-community-high-school-elkader-ia/gam76202b9e99?fbclid=IwAR0fjYNV0XCAPoSLeYxVrovEAIKpFsU0MLyVrhipTydjO_3JDdlcZKtXB7o
Cheer on the Central softball team in style! Order apparel online at https://www.thinkcustomapparel.com/shop/softball/18
Clayton Country BEST students Maci and C.J. visit with Executive Director of the Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council, Jeff Weld after presenting to the Council. Maci and C.J. talked about the #STEMBEST Program and their work in #ClaytonCountyBEST. Thanks for representing Central with pride!
