Central CSD

Today the Central Community FFA members handed out commodity bags courtesy of the Clayton County Corn Growers. Items included were butter, cheese stick, meat stick, soy nuts, popcorn, soap, chewing gum, and hand sanitizer.

The UIC Individual Speech Contest for this evening has been canceled and will not be made up.

On Saturday, Feb. 19th, All-State members of the Large Group Speech Team were able to attend the IHSSA LG Speech All-State Festival at Iowa State University in Ames. Readers Theatre received their non-performing All-State honors and were able to see several outstanding events. The Radio Broadcasting group was able to present their piece for KCCI (Des Moines) reporter and anchor, Eric Hanson, and received great comments and laughs from the audience on their satirical and comedic piece, W-E-N-D. While they didn’t receive the Radio Broadcasting banner, they still represented Central at its finest. Congratulations LG Speech Team on this high honor!

Today is the start of National FFA Week! Central Community FFA will be celebrating all week long! To begin, we'd like to invite the staff and student body to participate in dress up days! Stay tuned each day to social media to see how our chapter is celebrating!

If you cannot attend the Girls Regional Basketball game @ East Buchanan tonight, 94.7 KMCH in Manchester will be covering it. Go Warriors!!

The JH boys basketball game for tonight has been cancelled. The boys will practice from 3:45-5:00 today.

Last week #ClaytonCountyBEST student were invited to MFL MarMac to have lunch with the newly launched MORE program that is similar to Central’s Clayton County BEST program. Student were able to share their experiences and compare notes.

In Makerspace, this 2nd grader turned her perler beads into earrings. She’s now considering starting her own online store.

6-8th Grade Dance information. Please call 245-1750 with any questions.

Tickets for Friday night's basketball game can be purchased using this link: https://ia.varsitybound.com/sports/girlsbasketball/2021-22/tickets All tickets must be purchased online.

Jillian Webb Hermann visited our art class today with her photography. It was very interesting and engaging. She started with sharing a few basics about photography and some of her favorite things about it, personally and professionally. She ended the period with a fun, mini photo shoot of the class to demonstrate the importance of lighting and will also give us the gallery of images! View more footage here: https://tinyurl.com/525xw6ap

Congratulations to the girls basketball team on advancing to the Regional Semi-Final! The game is on Friday, February 18 at East Buchanan High School. We want you to be aware that tickets for the game will be sold online and cash will not be accepted at the door. When the link for online tickets becomes available we will share it. Go Warriors!

#ClaytonCountyBEST welcomes Art's Way Scientific to #InTheKnowInTheNook on Wednesday, February 16th during 5th period. Art's Way Scientific designs, manufactures, delivers and installs custom research facilities for health care and agriculture purposes generally in less than 6 months, as compared to years often required for conventional design/build projects. Come to the Clayton County BEST office during 5th period on Wednesday to learn more about this great local business and the career opportunities they have to offer. https://youtu.be/-MAmzloSnLI

Central Community School is looking for volunteers on February 21st for the Individual Speech Contest. The event will run from 4:30-845 pm. If you are available to help with a shift, please stop by the office or email awalch@central.k12.ia.us.

Mrs. Kremer’s 4th grade class writing and illustrating their own adventure stories on animals they have researched over the past few weeks. While being creative these students are also using facts they have learned, like defense mechanisms to help their animals survive.

Tickets for tonight's game will be cash sales at the door. The Warriors take on Turkey Valley. Game time is 7:00 PM. Go Warriors!

Mrs. Follon's third grade students and their creative Valentine boxes. They are great gift givers, too.

Tickets for tonight's boys basketball game @ Edgewood-Colesburg can be found here: https://www.iahsaa.org/tickets/ Game time is 7:00 PM. GO WARRIORS!

Chelsea Hanson, owner of TDs, came to Ms. Schmeling's 7th grade Math class to share her experience with sales tax, tips, discounts, and markups. Students were able to apply their learning from the classroom by finding the markup price of a real life example. Try your luck at the example!

High school art students “wrapped” up yesterday’s Workshop Wednesday with Sue Kuennen and her rock weaving! The kids did an amazing job! Check out their creations on artsonia: https://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?project=2351996 and see who will be visiting us next week: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xe1TUUH4I4K5LB43enBk4yaEuZ5yLbDJlWYGuuU1BzU/edit?usp=sharing