Say "hello" to two-way messaging in the MGPS app! With Rooms, our district app now keeps you informed across all of your child's classes. Parents and Guardians, look for your personalized invite to access Messages, Announcements, and Stream this afternoon!
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The 1st and 2nd Grade class has been working hard for the last two weeks! It started with a social studies lesson on relative location. With the gorgeous weather last Friday, we walked around town drawing buildings in our community. We also recorded their relative location to each other. As the weather started to get colder, we used Google Maps to complete the research. Once we had all of our information recorded, we started to draw each building. After a lot of drawing, tracing, coloring, cutting, and many, many glue sticks used, we created a map of McClusky!
Thank you to Mr. Williams and Mr. Senske for coming in to hang up our map!
Some questions to ask your student:
What does relative location mean?
What are some of the building/businesses in McClusky?
Thank you to Mr. Williams and Mr. Senske for coming in to hang up our map!
Some questions to ask your student:
What does relative location mean?
What are some of the building/businesses in McClusky?
Come join us tomorrow evening for Family Math Night!
MGPS will be holding school at its regular time tomorrow, Friday, November 21st. The CMC Lady Cougars will play their second state volleyball game tomorrow at 7pm. Good luck ladies!
Hey, fifth and sixth grade students! You've been invited to Turtle Lake-Mercer's Snowball Dance on Saturday, December 6th from 7pm to 8:30pm. Admission is $5.00.
Mrs. Felchle shared her creativeness with the preschool class. The students did a great job using scissors, gluing and listening to direction. Thank you Mrs. Felchle!!!!
The elementary students love when our School Resource Officer comes for a visit. Thank you, Deputy Thompson, for being a great role model!
On Friday, the 6th through 12th graders were treated to a presentation by the Dakota Zoo. They brought live ferrets, box turtles, a hedgehog and a python for the students to see. Some were even lucky enough to hold the snake.
If you see a high school student, ask them how fast hedgehogs are in real life.
And, if you see one of the brave students that held the snake, ask them what the skin felt like.
Thank you to the Dakota Zoo for coming to visit!
If you see a high school student, ask them how fast hedgehogs are in real life.
And, if you see one of the brave students that held the snake, ask them what the skin felt like.
Thank you to the Dakota Zoo for coming to visit!
Picture Retake Day is coming up! If your student missed last month's Picture Day or you would like their photos retaken, Lifetouch will be back at the Elementary School on Friday, November 14th from 8am until 10am.
Join us for our annual Family Math Night on Monday, November 24th from 6pm until 7:30pm in the high school gym. A free-will offering meal will be served by the music department starting at 5:30pm in the high school FACS room. **Kids aged 6th grade and under must be accompanied by an adult.**
The 6th graders have been hard at work making Biome Dioramas from shoe boxes and lots of creativity! Each student chose their favorite Biome and had to include producers, consumers, and Abiotic factors for their habitat! Ask any 6th grader what they chose and why and who is the top consumer in their Biome!
Congratulations to the October 2025 Dragons of the Month!
We've been invited to Turtle Lake-Mercer's Snowball Dance on December 6th from 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM! This dance is open to students in grades 7-12 and has a $5 cover charge.
Kindergarten is starting their Life Cycles unit in Science this month! They kicked off the unit by learning about the life cycle of a frog. We used a life cycle manipulative set to examine what each stage looks like, watched a video of a real frog to see the changes happening, and finished off with a cut and paste activity of the life cycle!
Stay tuned for more life cycles including chickens, butterflies, plants, and more!
Ask your student:
What is the second stage of a frogs life? (Tadpole)
Do tadpoles grow all of their legs at the same time? (No, they grow back legs first)
Stay tuned for more life cycles including chickens, butterflies, plants, and more!
Ask your student:
What is the second stage of a frogs life? (Tadpole)
Do tadpoles grow all of their legs at the same time? (No, they grow back legs first)
The North Dakota Studies class has been learning about the first peoples to inhabit North Dakota and their ways of life. The class spent a couple weeks learning the basics of flint knapping in an attempt to gain an understanding of the skills and discipline needed to complete everyday tasks. Students critiqued each others work at the end of the unit and discussed questions including the importance of preserving cultural skills, persevering through obstacles, and modern tools we take for granted.
Our JH band students had a great time representing our school at the first ever Region 7 Junior High Honor Band Festival at Turtle Lake!
Yearbooks are for sale! Yearbooks from 2015-2016 to current (including last year's book!) are $30. Anything older is $20. If you're looking for a specific year, please contact Mrs. Lauer at andrea.lauer@k12.nd.us.
Parents of preschool-aged kiddos - sign up for the annual Preschool Screening with Central Regional Special Education Unit. The free screening will take place on Thursday, October 30th from noon until 3pm at the elementary school. RSVP to Trista Zerr at 701-341-0539 or at trista.zerr@k12.nd.us.
1st Grade has been learning all about the human body! We were very fortunate to have the wonderful Nurse Jacy come in and have a discussion with the class. She covered everything from how to become a nurse, what are some of her jobs she does, what is her favorite part of nursing, and she gave so many extra facts about our body! Nurse Jacy even let each student listen through her stethoscope. They listened to their heart, lungs, and stomach!
1st grade got to show off their smarts on the human body as well! Harper took Nurse Jacy through the different systems and organs in the human body display they have been working hard on! A HUGE thank you to Nurse Jacy for taking time out of her day to visit with the students!
Some questions to ask your student:
Where are all of the different spots you can check for your pulse?
What are some of the jobs a nurse does in a day?
How can you live a healthy life?
1st grade got to show off their smarts on the human body as well! Harper took Nurse Jacy through the different systems and organs in the human body display they have been working hard on! A HUGE thank you to Nurse Jacy for taking time out of her day to visit with the students!
Some questions to ask your student:
Where are all of the different spots you can check for your pulse?
What are some of the jobs a nurse does in a day?
How can you live a healthy life?
Junior high girls basketball practice starts Monday, October 20th at Underwood School. Make sure your players' fees and sports physicals are turned in to the office before the start of practice!
