Floodwood School District

2019 Athletic Banquet is this Thursday, May 9th at 6pm. Join us for dinner and recognize our student-athletes. The Sports Booster Raffle Drawing will take place throughout the banquet.

The winner of the 5th grade book bracket challenge is Hatchet by Gary Paulson

Attention Seniors, Would you like a graduation poster for your party? Ask Ms. Davidson for details.

Please help us celebrate our amazing teachers this week!

Kindergarten Celebration Invitation

French Toast and Friends: Fun Food Friday's Spontaneous Lesson in Kindness On Fun Food Friday, our kindergarten students used a problem as an opportunity to extend kindness and warm the hearts (and bodies) of classmates! The Problem: Our room was quite cold and students were having a hard time warming up. The Solution: A student thought it would be a nice surprise to make something hot in our classroom kitchen for her friends. We looked in our cupboards and fridge, discussed what we knew about cooking at home, and decided on french toast! We went through the process of gathering supplies and several classmates immediately chipped in to help. Cracking eggs, adding sweet spices, cutting slices of bread, dunking, frying, and cutting were tasks shared by a kitchen of experts. Afterward, we enjoyed two varieties of french toast while devouring a feast of "good fit" books with friends. We also had several visitors stop by to find out what we were cooking and sample our work. French Toast and Friends: This recipe makes Fun Food Fridays extra delicious!

The final contestants from our Spring Cutest Pet contest.

Results are in from the cutest pet contest this spring. Sally Skripsky won with 46 votes. She received meat treats from Milo's Kitchen as a reward. Here are the other contestants from the contest.

Join us for our final concert of the year! 7pm in the floodwood gymnasium!

We're looking for Little League Baseball players age 14 and under for the summer program. Please contact Ms. Fierke for a sign up sheet.

Come learn about perfume and essential oils. See the attached flyer for more details

STEAM night! All are welcome! 5-7pm. FREE

Yesterday staff surprised Mrs. Holmes with a retirement party. Thank you Mrs. Holmes for your 30+ years teaching at Floodwood. Your dedication, love of learning and passion will be missed! Enjoy retirement!!!

Create your own Essential Oil perfume. See the flyer for details

Fun with a Purpose: Last week, kindergarten students worked in the kitchen, designed and built a variety of structures, took observational notes on our caterpillars, learned about airplane design, and wrote clues for a mystery friend’s Easter egg hunt. Learning is kindergarten is fun, purposeful, and rigorous! We build upon what we know, practice skills we’re learning across all subject areas, apply each step of the inquiry process in the moment of an authentic challenge, and build community within our classroom in a myriad of ways. All of this takes place within the context of engaging, meaningful, play-based explorations. This is fun with a purpose in kindergarten!

Last week's K2 STEM hosted a high school paper airplane-making expert! We followed directions for a simple design and then tested our prototypes in the gym. Afterward, we learned about a special design he created and watched it SOAR all over the small gym with the slightest touch. We cannot wait to learn more about this design and more at our upcoming STEAM night!

Moving Full STEAM Ahead: Don't miss this week's STEAM-themed family fun night! What: STEAM Family Fun Night with an emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics Where: The Floodwood School will host this event with activities going on outdoors, in both gyms, hallways, the home economics room, and the music room! Participants include the Range Astronomy Club, Iron Range Makerspace, First Lego League Robotics Team, Programming 101, Rivers 2 Lake, Mrs. Mac's Towing, as well as many experts representing a variety of community businesses and organizations. Come explore STEAM power and enjoy make and take projects, give aways, and food items for sale, with ALL proceeds going toward Floodwood School's STEM Program. Don't miss this exciting event! When: Thursday, April 25th 5:00-7:00 Why: To engage students and their families in hands-on explorations related to STEAM fields. Our event will also kick off our schoolwide STEM initiative and raise awareness and funds for STEM innovations in PreK-12th grade!

Kindergarten Roundup Rescheduled for Thursday, May 2nd at 6:00

Our Online fair (http://www.scholastic.com/bf/floodwoodschool) lasts until Apr. 23rd, check it out if you want to help us enlarge our maker-space STEAM project supplies. A special shout out to the online shopper book donations purchased from the Floodwood School's Wish-list.

Thank you to all the in-person & online shoppers. You made our spring Scholastic Book Fair so successful. We couldn't have been done this without you. Together, your purchasing power, has helped the library raise approximately $550. We hope to get Library Maker-space STEAM items.