These students met and exceeded my expectations. They worked so well together to design and build new benches for the playground.
Remember school dismissal on Wednesday, November 22nd is at 1pm.
Mark your calendar that on Thursday, December 21st we will dismiss school at 1pm.
Here is the latest Secondary Scoop, which includes information about the 7-12 winter concert, NCRC testing next week, end of semester details, & introduces our 7-12 principal intern for the spring semester. https://www.smore.com/r1pew
- Ms. Simmons
At last! The bathrooms are completed and open for use.
Locker rooms will be opened for student use beginning next week.
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Just a reminder that we still collect HyVee receipts for their community incentive program. If you have receipts, you can send them to school. 💙🦌🤍
Students and staff at the Elkton School welcomed our community to school today to help honor and celebrate our veterans. Thank you to all who have served and thank you to all who attended our program today. 💙❤️🤍🦌🤍❤️💙
Please make note of the following menu changes. You can keep updated on the lunch menu by downloading our app.
November 17th: Hot Dogs (K-6), Polish Sausage (7-12)
November 20th: Chicken Tacos
November 28th: Hot Ham and Cheese
Congratulations to these elementary students for winning the coloring contest. This event was put on by Mrs. Stuefen's Leadership and Service class. The students used all the coloring sheets to decorate the gym for today's program.
Veteran's Day Program, November 10th at 10 AM - North Gym use entrance A-4.
Congrats to the following!
2023 DVC All-Conference Football:
Carson Griffith
Colt Beck
Blake DeVries
Tanner Stein
2023 DVC Honorable Mention Football:
Riddick Westley
Tait Boersma
2023 Dakota Valley Conference Coach of the Year – Ethan Pearson
2023 Dakota Valley Conference Champions – Elkton-Lake Benton Elks
Congrats to junior high students who made the Quarter 1 Honor Roll! As a reminder, high school honor roll is computed at semester time only :)
Join us on Friday, November 10th for our annual Veterans Day Program. The start time is 10 am.
Fun from the PTO Fall Festival today! Elementary enjoyed games and prizes with help from Miss Elkton and Miss Lake Benton. Students in grades 7-12 enjoyed candy bars after lunch. Thanks to all who donated to make the day fun!!
Happy Halloween from the 7-12 students & staff! 🎃
Elementary teachers took part in a team building activity last Wednesday. Teacher teams worked on decorating a pumpkin to be voted on by the elementary students.
The results are in and pumpkin number two, Pikachu, was the winner!
Thank you to The Mighty Elk for sponsoring the prize for the teacher team made up of Mrs. Delaney, Mrs. Jensen, Mrs. Anderson, and Mrs. Kylie Erickson. Thank you to all of our teachers for their awesome creativity and for inspiring our students!
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Puppies! How marvelous!
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Happy Halloween (tomorrow)! 🎃 Students in grades 7-12 are allowed to wear school-appropriate costumes, but face paint is not allowed.
Halloween parties for our Elementary students are also tomorrow! Students may bring their costumes with them to school to change into in the afternoon. We asked that there be no face paint or weapon replicas brought to school. The PTO will be leading games in the gym for our students and teachers have sent out information on their class parties.
Sorry! Please see the UPDATED coaching needs list:
Youth Basketball is currently looking for the following elementary coaches:
-3rd grade girls
-4th grade boys
-4th grade girls
Please contact Mirista Bushman if you are interested: mirista.bushman@k12.sd.us
High school Health is learning about different body systems. They had to use information from the skeletal and muscular unit to create a "robotic model" since they watched an episode of the Magic School Bus where they build a robot.
