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CHS was “Walkin’ in a Winter Wonderland” by wearing Blue & White for Winterfest week today!

Mesa Elementary Christmas Concert was a huge success 🎵🎼🎶 Thank you, Mrs. Eppich for putting this together!! 🥰 The students sang their little hearts out ♥️🎶 🎼 🎵

Pajama Day…but make it holiday themed! Everyone’s favorite dress up day!

The Christmas spirit was alive at the most anticipated assembly of the year today! At today’s Winter Wishes assembly over 100 students were granted a winter wish! Wishes granted were things like Takis, Red Bulls, a cake from Costco, homemade cookies & brownies, blankets, books, snack baskets, gift cards, sports balls, sodas, and more! The ASB works extremely hard to make this assembly happen and spread Christmas cheer throughout the school. It wouldn’t be possible without the ASB as well as donations from the CHS staff! The Girls Basketball, Boys Basketball, Girls Wrestling, and Boys Wrestling teams were also recognized today. They are each having a great season so far. Come out to support the Eagles and winter sports!

Mesa Elementary Holiday Spirit Week 🎅🏻🎄 Holiday Cheer ~ Wear a Christmas Sweater or Christmas Colors ♥️💚🎄

This round of archery hit the target 🎯 Last day of archery for the season!

The CHS ASB delivered boxes of food and household items to 15 families across the North Franklin School District this morning. All of the items were donated by CHS staff & students during the last two weeks due in the annual “Build-a-Basket” collection and class competition. Giving to others is the true meaning of Christmas. Thank you for spreading kindness, CHS Eagles! 🤍

Ho Ho Ho! 🎅🏻 The Christmas spirit is alive at CHS! Today’s theme for Winterfest was Candy Cane Day - or red & white! ♥️🤍 Looks like a great start to the week!

Mesa Elementary Holiday Spirit Week 🎄🎅🏻 💥 School Spirit Day ~ Show your spirit by wearing Mesa gear or school colors 🖤♥️🐎🧲

NFSD FAMILY SOCIAL MEDIA NIGHT: RAISING DIGITAL CITIZENS Thank you to all of those who attended this activity! Shelby Jensen, our guest speaker from ESD 123 offered a number of resources to assist parents in understanding and dealing with the dangers of social media. Here are those resources: Fake Smile, Real Plain Video: https://youtu.be/8FTTIuc9qP0?si=Z1bEJFysqno_spxt 5 Ways to Stop Cyberbullying: https://youtu.be/zASfp7_-lhg?si=lA6yJ43FNFpPYJ2S What is Catfishing: https://youtu.be/DRnTJBZXeA4?si=vfu-8VhjYdwK97HH Sextortion: Online Coercion and Blackmail: https://youtu.be/sdEIAeu2_ms?si=pv8rUuGYS8agzp_U Take It Down: https://youtu.be/pAaXbBzVdJE

Guillermo Medellin, a senior, entered the Ben Franklin Transit Art Contest as a student at Tri-Tech Skills Center and won 1st place! His artwork will be featured on the side of Ben Franklin Transit busses around the Tri-Cities! Congratulations Guillermo!

Saving lives one drop at a time! 🩸 The CHS National Honor Society hosted a successful blood drive with the American Red Cross yesterday. Thank you for making a difference!

Connell High School would like to thank Community First Bank for their generous $500 donation towards our annual Build A Basket project, helping families across the North Franklin School District have a happy holiday season! Branch Manager Jared Waibel presenting the check to the CHS ASB officers.

Holiday Spirit Week @Mesa Elementary 🎄🎁🎅🏻 💥next week - December 18-22 💥

Our BCE Bobcat math team did and outstanding job last week at the math competition in Connell! The 6th grade teams took 1st and 2nd place. We also took 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 6th for individuals! Team 1st Place Tegan Mathis Hallie Hawkins Mackenzie Shaw Adalyn Wood Team 2nd Place Alexander Aguilar Alexis Guzman Stetson Hawkins Presley Klingler Team 3rd Place Cristian Ramirez Cora Campbell Angel Ruiz 4th and 5th grade teams also pictured. Way to represent, Bobcats!

DECA representing by working the Eagles Nest concession stand at last night’s basketball game! Service with a smile!! 😃

Our Hicap students got in the Christmas spirit to decorate the playground for the holiday season. Each student designed and labeled a Christmas object on graph paper; keeping in mind the size of the area of fence they were using and the circumference of the cup. The students voted on each others’ designs and a winning design was chosen to be completed. They had a lot of fun in this project and they hope that it brightens the day of everyone that sees it. Merry Christmas.🎁🎄 Thank you Mrs. Harris!!!

Our 6th graders are amazing! Today they did their Book Club culminating novel projects. They read the novel The Lemonade War, then students could choose to create a Diorama or a Game Board. For both projects they had to have a good understanding of the plot, characters and setting of the book. They used imagination, creativity, problem solving, building, analysis and presentation skills. Miss Daly and Mrs Winkelman were very proud of them for choosing pivotal scenes from the story for their dioramas and putting so much time and effort into the details! We were proud of the kids that chose Game Board projects for incorporating questions from throughout the story and having all parts of the games ready for play! Way to go Bobcats! Check out the photos!

Today our fifth graders did persuasive advertisement presentations for ugly Christmas sweaters! Mrs. Boucher coached them through the process. Students were to use promotion, passionate delivery, details, creativity and clever words in their presentations. Here are pictures of the students at the end of each presentation! Nice job Bobcat fifth graders! ¡Hoy nuestros alumnos de quinto grado hicieron presentaciones publicitarias persuasivas para feos suéteres navideños! La Sra. Boucher los guió durante el proceso. Los estudiantes debían utilizar promoción, entrega apasionada, detalles, creatividad y palabras inteligentes en sus presentaciones. ¡Aquí hay fotos de los estudiantes al final de cada presentación! ¡Buen trabajo Bobcat, estudiantes de quinto grado!

Bobcat citizens! This week! We have holiday spirit the week of December 18-22 at BCE! Participate in showing your bobcat pride spirit! ¡Ciudadanos linces! Esta semana… ¡Tenemos espíritu navideño la semana del 18 al 22 de diciembre en BCE! ¡Participe para mostrar su espíritu de orgullo de lince