Reminder: Andes Central students will dismiss @ 12:30pm today for staff inservice.
In Mrs. Sheppard's music class, the 2nd grade began learning Silent Night in the Lakota language for the upcoming Winter Concert!
Mrs. Kitchenmaster's class played "Roll a Word" to practice reading and writing words that they have already learned this past month: my, by, to, the, see, go. They love reading new words!
Juniors and Seniors had an opportunity to go to Mitchell on September 23rd to learn about different colleges at a college fair at Dakota Wesleyan University and different careers based on programs at Mitchell Technical College. The day finished with a tour of the MTC campus.
Community Art Sessions will start October 16th and tentatively running every Wednesday and Friday through March 14th. Individuals and families welcome and supplies are provided. If interested please contact Justus Winter at justus.winter@k12.sd.us or call 487-5268.
The Andes Central Band has been working hard to prepare for the Homecoming Parade & playing at the football game last Friday.
AC/DC Thunder Volleyball will host Colome @ AC today. JH will start @ 5pm, with JV at 6:30pm and V to follow. Games will be live streamed at: https://fan.hudl.com/usa/sd/lake-andes/organization/18768/andes-central-high-school Good Luck Thunder!
AC/DC Thunder Cross Country team competed at the Platte-Geddes Invite on Saturday. Congrats to Carmela who placed 7th for the JV team & the girls V team who placed 3rd!
Financial Aid Night is October 8th at 7pm in Mrs. Wilbur's room for seniors and their families. Click on the link for more information. https://5il.co/2xxyo
On Wednesday, October 2nd, students will dismiss @ 12:30pm for staff inservice.
Reminder to AC Parents: School buses will not be running in the afternoon today. Please have your students picked up by 2pm, as the Homecoming parade will start @ 3pm.
The TDA/AC/DC Thunderhawks will host the Burke Cougars tonight @ 7pm in Lake Andes for Andes Central's Homecoming football game. The game will be live streamed at: https://www.youtube.com/live/kUSHHK-paj0 AC After Prom will also have a Tailgate from 5:30-7pm at the football field. Good Luck Thunderhawks!
In Mrs. B. Johnson's U.S. History class, the students were studying and preparing for their quiz over the early exploration of the Americas by playing a Blooket!
Mr. Sheppard's Junior class is reading "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel. This novel blends hyper-realism with fantastic elements, whilst exploring themes of survival against the elements of nature, dealing with loss, and overcoming trauma.
Ms. Janish's Kindergarten class has been busy practicing math skills. They are ordering numbers and building towers with cubes to match, and playing memory by matching 5 frames to numerals.
Andes Central Homecoming dress up days so far have been Senior Citizen Day, Hip Hop Day, Cowboy Day, and Fake Injury Day. Tomorrow, we will end the week with Spirit/Black & Gold Day.
Elementary students working on file folders and stamping words.
Congratulations to AJ & Mahpiya as they were crowned King & Queen during the Homecoming Coronation Monday night! Burning of the AC/DC followed.
On Saturday, AC/DC Thunder Varsity Volleyball had a rough tournament in Bon Homme & lost their 3 matches. MS VB went to the Wagner tournament and took home 3rd place in the 8th grade division. Congrats to the MS team!
Thunder Volleyball battled back and pushed to 5 sets last night vs TDA, but fell just short. They now prepare for back-to-back matches next week against Menno and Colome on Monday and Tuesday. Also, a big Thank You from the entire Thunder Volleyball team to the preschool students for the wonderful pictures they made for the team!
