Scroll down to see our students and staff in action This Week in Our Schools!
Featured this week:
- Franklin Elementary: Mrs. Calderon's Kindergarten Students.
- Franklin Elementary: Preschool and Kindergarten Classes.
- Franklin Elementary: Halloween Fun!
- Franklin Elementary: Mrs. Henderson's 2nd Grade Class.
- Franklin Elementary: Mrs. Week's 5th Grade Class.
- Franklin Elementary: Mrs. Calderon's and Ms. Meyer's 4th and 5th Grade EL Students.
- Grant Elementary: Miss Dindinger's Begindergarten Class.
- Grant Elementary: Celebrating "WIGs" Wildly Important Goals!
- Grant Elementary: Mrs. Dusenberry's 1st Grade Class.
- Jefferson Elementary: Mrs. Randleman's 3rd Grade Class.
- Jefferson Elementary: Mrs. Manjoine's 5th Grade Class.
- Jefferson Elementary: 5th Grade Conflict and Perspective Lesson.
- Madison Elementary: Halloween Walk!
- Madison Elementary: 4th Grade Reading Goal Achievers!
- Madison Elementary: Ms. Connor's 5th Grade Class.
- McKinley Elementary: Mrs. Luna's 1st Grade Class.
- McKinley Elementary: Mrs. Bloomquist's 3-5th Grade Library News!
- McKinley Elementary: 2nd Grade Test Talks.
- Mulberry Elementary: Mrs. Green's Kindergarten Class.
- Mulberry Elementary: Halloween Visit to Bickford!
- Mulberry Elementary: German Exchange Student Visit.
- Mulberry Elementary: Mrs. Beilke vs. Silly String!
- Central Middle School: 6th Grade Super Heroes of the Week!
- Central Middle School: Ms. Wiebe's 7th Grade Ag Class.
- Central Middle School: Ms. Wiebe's 8th Grade Ag Class.
- West Middle School: 8th Graders Attend International Day.
- West Middle School: Bear Necessities for Lunch!
- West Middle School: Mrs. Bloomquist's 6th Grade Library Helpers.
- Muscatine High School: Journalism Students.
- Muscatine High School: Mr. Woodward's Academy Students.
- Muscatine High School: Ms. Reade's German Students and Visitors.
- Muscatine High School: Mr. Kitzmann's Principle of Engineering Class.
- Muscatine High School: Muscatine FFA News.
- Muscatine High School: Mrs. Joslyn's AP Physics Students.
- Muscatine High School: MHS Drama Presents "Twelve Angry Jurors."
- This Week in Muskie Sports
- District Staff: November's Outstanding Employees, MHS, CMS, Colorado, Jefferson, District TLC.
FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY
Mrs. Calderon's SHINE group in kindergarten are working on sight words. The students got to roll the dice and read the words. They matched the words on a cup and made their pyramids.
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Franklin PreK and Kindergarten students had James Zahara from Channel 8 news come visit them this morning to talk about the weather!
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Franklin Elementary's Wicked Witch of the West (Ms. Kara) poses with kindergartener Dorothy.
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Mrs. Henderson’s 2nd grade class celebrated Halloween. We made glow in the dark slime and paper flowers while enjoying donuts.
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Mrs. Weeks fifth grade class at Franklin celebrated Halloween in costume.
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Mrs. Calderon's and Ms. Meyers 4th and 5th grade EL students read about Día De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) which is celebrated on November 1st and 2nd in Mexico.
GRANT ELEMENTARY
Miss Dindinger’s Begindergarten class at Grant put first things first this week when they worked first, then played!
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Grant Elementary celebrated their progress on meeting their monthly WIG's (Wildly Important Goals) by staff members wearing wigs during LEAD meeting on Friday!
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Mrs. Dusenberry's first grade classroom celebrated their fall holiday! It was GREAT to see all the parent volunteers and students having such FUN!
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY
Third Graders in Mrs. Randleman's math classes at Jefferson participated in an escape room activity. Students had to collaborate in groups to solve problems together before time ran out. They used QR codes and secret messages as the key to unlock the mystery to escape!
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Mrs. Schlawin taught Jefferson 5th graders in Mrs. Manjoine's class about Destiny Library. She showed us the possibilities are endless!
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Pictured below are some of the 21 fourth grade students who met their reading goal! Keep up the good work!
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Lots of exciting things happened this week in Mrs. Connor's 5th Grade Class! Scroll down to check them out!
MCKINLEY ELEMENTARY
Mrs. Luna's 1st graders enjoyed relay games during McKinley's school-wide fall festival.
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Mrs. Bloomquist is so proud of the 3rd-5th grade students who have taken on the Children's Choice Challenge at McKinley! After students read an Iowa Children's Choice award book, they roll a die to determine the question they answer about the book. Once they've done that, they earn a small prize and a punch in their reading card!
Mrs. Bloomquist is also really excited to see which Goldfinch book is the favorite of the younger students! Once they've read at least five Iowa Goldfinch award books, they will get to write their name on a voting slip and place it under that book's picture. If they find a new favorite, they'll get to move their voting slip!
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All staff at McKinley Elementary give test talks for Iowa Assessments! Here Steve, our custodian is giving a test talk to a 2nd grader!!!
MULBERRY ELEMENTARY
Here are Mrs. Green's Kindergarten Super Heroes of the Week!
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Mulberry students surprised Bickford residents with some goulish attire!
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This week Mulberry's 3rd and 5th grades welcomed high school exchange students from Germany. The German students shared information about their food, culture and educational system. They also taught the 5th graders how to count and say their colors in German.
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Ten raffle ticket sellers had the chance to silly string Mrs. Beilke during morning announcements. As you can see, Mrs. Beilke came prepared!
CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
Congratulations to Central's superhero students in 6th grade. These students have been recognized for working hard, being responsible, and showing strong leadership skills. Keep up the great work!
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The Central 7th grade ag students in Ms. Wiebe's class learned about how to properly move groups of sheep and why they need different vaccinations such a wormer. They also learned how to give wormer in proper doses and keep accurate records of any medications given and got to put their new knowledge into practice.
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Central Middle School 8th graders in Ms. Wiebe's ag class wrapped up their ag business unit with a sales project. They had to pick an ag product to learn about (most picked food) and pretend to be a salesperson for the product. They gave a sales pitch to a customer (business owners, retired teachers, ag supporters and administration) to "sell" their product. Through this project they worked on introductions, good handshakes, building rapport, listening to people, different sales techniques, and also some about ag products. Thank you to all our judges/customers!
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Mrs. Bloomquist couldn't get a paper unjammed from the library printer, but thankfully this trio of sixth-grade students came to the rescue!
MUSCATINE HIGH SCHOOL
MHS Journalism students attended the Iowa High School Press Association Fall Conference in Iowa City with Journalism teacher Katie Brown.
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Students in Mr. Woodward's Academy classes volunteered on their day off last Friday to help with United Way's Kids First Pancake Breakfast!
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MHS hosted 20 students from our exchange school in Germany for the last 2 weeks. The students attended classes with their American host, interacted with elementary and middle school students, explored the Maquoketa caves and had many fun adventures at Halloween! It was a great opportunity for MCSD students to learn a different cultural perspective. Thank you to everyone who welcomed them and took an interest in their lives!
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Mr. Kitzmann's Principals of Engineering students used steam engines to study Thermodynamics.
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Muscatine FFA capped off a great run at the 2017 National FFA Convention and Expo held in Indianapolis, IN with Katie Friederichs receiving her American Degree- the highest honor an FFA member can earn.
The Nursery Landscape team earning a silver rating, members include: Allen Tian, Alley Gray, Carter Oldfield, Kaleigh Bell, Elaina Lee.
The team completed a variety of skills including landscape design, written letter, sod installment, tool operation, and a written test.
The Ag Mechanics Team finished with a Bronze rating. The team consisted of Tanner Gerard, Nick Holladay, Patrick Pendleton, Jacob Miller, Aaron Scott. The team had to compete in a variety of skills including irrigation, welding, electrical skills, a team presentation and a written knowledge test.
The Ag Sales team earned a silver rating. Ryan Calvert, Dalton Petersen, Kyle Tomlin, Taylor Crane, Hannah Spies, Summer Neece competed by selling Kabota RTV’s to a group of judges. In addition they completed a team event which they had to give a presentation about sales to a group of judges and also take a knowledge test.
Finally, few freshman and a few older Muskie FFA members traveled along to network, listen to speakers, attend workshops, and get to watch some of the contest finals to improve themselves and the whole chapter for this next year. The themw of this year's convention was I Can- We Will.
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A few of the Muscatine FFA Freshman attended the Greenhand Fire Up Conference at MidPrairie on Thursday night. The goal of the conference was to teach the Freshman more about FFA opportunities available to them and to get them to networking interact with other freshman (about 250 of them) from the southeast Iowa district.
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AP Physics students in Mrs. Joslyn's class launched water balloons.
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MHS Drama presents: Twelve Angry Jurors at MHS tonight and tomorrow night at 7 PM. Come out and see our talented students!
THIS WEEK IN MUSKIE SPORTS
Boys Cross Country
DISTRICT STAFF
NOVEMBER'S OUTSTANDING EMPLOYEES!
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MUSCATINE HIGH SCHOOL
On Monday, MHS teachers participated in professional learning on grading practices. One session, on feedback, included learning with Legos!
CENTRAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
The CMS Science Department got into the Halloween spirit as the Nutty Professors!
CMS Morning Program staff (Mrs. Torres, and Mr. Wright) & PE Teachers (Steve Chidester & Susanna Rivera) played dodge-ball with the 6th -8th grade during the Morning Program on Tuesday (Halloween) and on Thursday morning of this week as well. Over 200 students participated! It was a BLAST!
COLORADO ELEMENTARY
Colorado Food and Nutrition staff got into the Halloween spirit with Ketchup and a Banana!
JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY
Serving up hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza and taco.....on their heads. Jefferson loves their Lunch Ladies!
DISTRICT TLC
TLC worked collaboratively on best practices on student-centered coaching strategies.
