Gold Standard Pirates of the Week!
PK-4: Josie Schloss
5-8: Jordyn Voigt (not pictured)
9-12: Brady Bierma
Congratulations!
Contest Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Contest Site: First United Methodist Church, Mitchell
The contest schedule will be as follows:
8:00-8:20 a.m. Registration & Judges’ Meeting
8:25-8:30 a.m. General Information Session
8:30-9:40 a.m. Non-Original Oratory and Interpretation of Serious Reading
9:45 a.m. Coaches Meeting
9:50-11:00 a.m. Poetry Reading and Storytelling
11:00-12:15 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
12:15-1:25 p.m. Humorous Reading and Duet Interpretation
1:30 p.m. Readers Theater
The community is invited to the Avon Oral Interp Night of Excellence. The event will be held Tuesday, November 8 in the main gym at 7:00 PM. Students will present their pieces to the public.
For 4th grade's STEM project, the groups looked up famous bridges and the key shapes found in them. They then designed their own with limited materials and amount of time to see who's could be the sturdiest one. They did an awesome job of putting their engineer skills to use!
The Avon Oral Interp Team competed at the 5B District Competition in Mitchell. The team won the Class 5B Championship! Congratulations to the following students qualifying for the region competition: Kate Swier - Storytelling, Macy Voigt - Poetry, Sarah Swier - Serious, Ashley Tolsma - Humorous, Sarah and Kate Swier - Duet, and Landon Thury, Courtney Sees, McKenna Kocmich, Gracie Small, and Sarah Swier - Reader’s Theater. The Region competition is Tuesday, November 15 in Mitchell and is open to the public. So proud of our Pirate OI Team!
AHS Blood Drive, Main Gym Lobby
Please join us for the Veteran's Day Program on November 9 at 2:45 pm in the main gym. Anyone is welcome to attend.
High School Student Council members read Halloween stories and did activities with the elementary classes yesterday! Our student council members rock!
MS/HS Student Council held a costume contest yesterday. Aty Akridge was the winner!
Following the parade Mr. Kuhlman and Ms. Jurrens, with the help from some students, demonstrated some science experiments!
Elementary Costume Parade! Grades K-4 paraded through the gym to Halloween music! We had a special visitor that matched some of our students' costumes!
There are only 20 squares left for the Science Sportsman Raffle. Contact Mr. Kuhlman if interested.
The Avon Oral Interp team competed at the Yankton Lewis & Clark Invite on Saturday. The following students placed: Ashley Tolsma - 1st place Humorous, Kate Swier - 2nd place Storytelling, and Erica Cahoy - 3rd place Non-original Oratory.
The team will compete on Tuesday at Districts in Mitchell. The following students are competing: Sarah Swier - Serious, Ashley Tolsma - Humorous, Kate Swier - Storytelling, Sarah and Kate Swier - Duet, Erica Cahoy - Non-original Oratory, Macy Voigt - Poetry, and Landon Thury, McKenna Kocmich, Gracie Small, Courtney Sees, and Sarah Swier - Reader’s Theater.
Good Luck at Districts!
Gold Standard Pirates of the week!
Pk-4: Burk Baade (not pictured)
5-8: Rilyn Thury
9-12: Airen Cline
Congratulations!
Today we recognized some of our students as another month is coming to a close.
Kaydence Metzger- MS Student of Excellence
Jake Namminga - MS Positive Pirate
Madi Mudder- HS Positive Pirate
Lance Odens -HS Student of Excellence
Isaac Wynia - Elementary Student of Excellence
James Namminga - Elementary Positive Pirate
Congratulations to all!
REMINDER:
6th-8th Grade Parents,
Join us TONIGHT (10/26) at 7pm for a 25-min digital meeting on the 2024 Washington, D.C. trip. This meeting is online! Each traveler is eligible for an Early Bird Scholarship of $500!
Click to RSVP: https://bit.ly/3E1YPL9
Click to join: https://schooltrip.us/AvonSD24
*Your child was given a reminder postcard on Monday with the above information about the meeting and options to RSVP.
*Mrs. Haenfler will be logging on to the meeting in her classroom for anyone that would rather meet in person. Please use the front doors to the school if you plan on attending in person.
Here is the information for the broadcast of the playoff game with Herreid-Selby on Thursday. Game time is 6:00 PM.
Game Broadcast:
Live Ticket: https://wolverines.liveticket.tv/
KMLO: www.drgnews.com/KMLO
DRG Media Group: https://drgnews.com/kmlo/
Congratulations to Coach Jurrens, Tyler, and John on a great cross country season! Tyler medaled, placing 25th at the meet on Saturday.
The Avon OI team competed at the Karl E. Mundt Oral Interpretation Tournament at DSU on Saturday. Ashley Tolsma placed third in grand finals. The Avon team as a whole won the Class B team sweepstakes. Congratulations Team!
Good luck to these gentleman today!
