Mrs. Harrington & Mrs. Derry's Preschool classes went on a Safari Thursday to end their exciting week of learning about the Savanna. They created binoculars and found hats to hit the long route around the school. Students went looking for rhinos, hippos, lions, and more. The preschoolers had a check list that they marked off the animals as they were found. We had a great time on our fun filled safari!
Due to the weather conditions, Andes Central will have a 10 am start tomorrow, March 5th. We will have Preschool and breakfast will not be served. There will be no early dismissal for staff PD. Studends will be dismissed at 3:25/3:35pm.
The Region Boys Basketball game scheduled for tonight vs Corsica-Stickney, has been moved to Friday, March 7th at 7pm @ Andes Central School.
Due to the weather conditions, there will be no school today, March 4th.
Andes Central students will dismiss at 12:30pm on Wednesday, March 5th, for Staff Inservice.
Andes Central School is preparing for Strategic Planning. If you live in the district and do not have any students currently attending Andes Central, we would appreciate it if you could fill out the Community Survey. Please click on the following link. Deadline to participate is March 7th. Thank you for your time. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/V66FVD2
Tonight the AC/DC Thunder girls basketball team will travel to Mitchell to play Corsica-Stickney @ 7:30pm in the Corn Palace for the Region Semifinals. Good Luck Lady Thunder!
Mr. Watkins MS Science classes are working on their Ecosystem project, as well as showing the first signs of spring with their seed project.
Elementary students are working on a hidden picture project together.
The fifth-grade class has been learning about planets. After researching a planet, the students used that information to create an alien that could live on the planet of their choosing.
Andes Central School hosted the Missouri Valley Regional Spelling Bee yesterday with Burke, Dakota Christian, Gregory, Platte-Geddes, and South Central schools also in attendance. Congratulations to Sully, who placed 1st in 3rd grade; Bradley, who placed 3rd in 4th grade; Kyvon who placed 1st in 4th grade! Great job representing Andes Central!
The AC/DC Lady Thunder basketball team is hunting for a victory! Get your camo and grab your binoculars to cheer them on in their first round of Region 5B basketball action. Tonight, the Thunder will host the Lower Brule Lady Sioux at DC starting @ 7pm. The DC student council will be selling slices of Casey's pizza at the concession stand. The game will be live streamed at: https://www.youtube.com/live/k5ubUEUzido?si=38xpdRsmI2R2_ZUe Good Luck Thunder!
The high school painting class started a fruit filled still life today using gouache paints. As it is real fruit and cannot be moved once they begin, the students have only one week to get it painted before the fruit starts to turn.
Good Luck to the Andes Central students who will be competing at the Missouri Valley Regional Spelling Bee today at Andes Central School!
AC/DC Thunder Wrestling team competed in Regions on Saturday in Wagner. They boys wrestled hard all day. Luke Dangel finished his season with 6th place! Congratulations Thunder on a great season!
Reminder: On Tuesday, February 25th, Andes Central Elementary students, (PK-5) will dismiss @ 11:45 am for the day, as we will be hosting the Missouri Valley Regional Spelling Bee. Buses will be running at this time for Elementary students only. MS/HS students will have their regular scheduled classes and will be dismissed @ 3:35pm. Buses will run at the end of the day for MS/HS students.
Mr. Knodel showed the positive and negative effects of social media to 6th graders in Mr. Cole Johnson's class.
Good Luck to the AC/DC Thunder Wrestling team as they compete at Regions in Wagner tomorrow starting @ 10am!
Andes Central students who were to compete at the Instrumental Contest in Gregory earlier this week will now have their contest on Monday, February 24th @ 8:30am in the Library @ Andes Central School. Families are welcome to attend.
Students in Mrs. Kitchenmaster's kindergarten class played Addition Crossout. They practiced addition by rolling their favorite "dice in dice" to get the sum. The person to cross out the last number was the winner!
