On Wednesday, October 2nd, students will dismiss @ 12:30pm for staff inservice.
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!

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.
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.

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.



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.




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!

Attention AC Parents: On Friday Sept 27th, school buses will not be running in the afternoon. Students will need to be picked up by 2pm and the Homecoming parade will start @ 3pm on main street. Thunderhawk football game @ AC will start at 7pm vs Burke.
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!





AC/DC Thunder Volleyball team will travel to Armour to play TDA today. Action will start at 4:30pm with 2 JH games, followed by JV & V. Good Luck Thunder!
Reminder: Preschool screening will take place on Thursday, September 26th at Andes Central School. Please see the attached or visit the Parent Section of the website for more information . https://5il.co/2x02a

AC Athletic Boosters is having an AC/DC Thunder Pink Out shirt sale. Orders are due October 2nd. Contact the Athletic Boosters for more information.

We will start off Homecoming Week with JH FB vs Gregory @ Tripp - 4pm (no JV game), XC @ Bon Homme - 2pm, and Coronation @ 7pm tonight in the auxiliary gym. This will be live streamed at: https://fan.hudl.com/usa/sd/lake-andes/organization/18768/andes-central-high-school
Andes Central's Parent Portal is your resource to check on student(s) grades, attendance, and more. Please contact the school if you would like to sign up. Information & links can be found on our website under the Parent/Guardian section. https://www.andescentral.k12.sd.us/documents/parents/66785



The 4-0 TDA/AC/DC Thunderhawk football team has a bye this week. Follow us next week as we will host Burke for Andes Central's Homecoming game.

Mrs. Hellenga's first grade class was busy practicing their math facts. The math facts were numbered around the classroom, and students had to walk the room to find and solve the problems to record on their answer sheet.





