PTO Fall Festival tomorrow!
Marion Cross Country Week of 10/11 Update:
The Middle School Team participated in Cadillac's Costume Run at the CASA Fields on Thursday, 10/10. With beautiful weather, THREE Personal Records, and a medal, the team went home very happy!
Paige Vesey (6th) 16:13 PR, Medalist!
Lucas Euwema (6th) 16:36 PR
Preston Teare (6th) 19:27 PR
Friday, 10/11, both the Middle School and Varsity teams traveled to Montabella to compete in the Mustang Invitational. This time it was the Varsity Ladies with the Personal Record Sweep!
Women's Varsity 5k
Donna Mills (12th) 25:00 PR
Bella (10th) 26:09 PR
Karina Knapp (10th) 1Mi 10:25 PR
Men's Varsity 5k
Jaden Kiger (11th) 23:50
Mason Howell (10th) 22:18
Isiah Peterson (10th) 23:26
MS Girl's 2mi
Paige Vesey (6th) 16:56
MS Boy's 2mi
Preston Teare (6th) 21:10
Next up is the WMD Conference Championship Meet!
The 7th grade Ancient History Class has been exploring how early peoples communicated. Earlier this year, a cave paintings activity focused on illustrating culturally important parts of their life. Currently they are finishing up a unit on the Fertile Crescent during which they had some fun seeing the difference between Cuneiform, a language where symbols represented words and syllables, and Phoenician, an early alphabetic language.
The Marion National Honor Society, Cross Country Team, and a couple of Cheerleaders had a blast volunteering at the Ragnar Michigan Road Race! The NHS ensured the first relay hand-off at Exchange 1 in Traverse City went smoothly. The Cross Country team and Cheerleaders built the finish line and welcomed the first few relay teams across the finish line in Muskegon. From start to finish, that's OVER 200 MILES OF RUNNING in a day and a half! One of those teams included some familiar faces! Great '24 finish to team "In my Ragnar Era!!" Thanks for being such awesome role models.
Marion hosted the Burr Oak HS traveling Volleyball team on Thursday Oct 3 as they passed through the area on their way to the UP. Good Luck Burr Oak! Thanks for the great game.
This Friday is a half day of school. If your child needs alternative transportation, please contact the bus garage to ensure they are dropped off at the correct location.
High School announcements for the week of September 30
Jr/Sr High Breakfast and Lunch Menus for October
Elementary Breakfast/Lunch Menus for October
Miss Umbreit's first grade class started their apple study this week! They have been learning about the life cycle and parts of an apple, the legend of Johnny Appleseed, and the many treats made from apples. Yesterday, they helped Miss Umbreit make one of those yummy treats...applesauce!
JR/SR High Parent Teacher Conferences
Important information for Middle School parents!
The Marion Cross Country Team traveled North to the Hanson Hills Recreation Area to compete in The Grayling Cross Country Invitational. Runners fought through sandy terrain with a combination of open blue skies and a beautiful wooded section. The ski slope backdrop behind the finish line proved to be too tempting. AFTER the races were over, this team attacked the hill and conquered it!
Here are our 7th graders enjoying their time learning as part of the CNET program at CTC.
JR/SR High Interventionist Openings
Regular Board of Education Meeting Agenda
Monday, September 16
6:00pm
Twinning in kindergarten today! Go Eagles!!
Marion Athletic Boosters are looking for volunteers for Fall Concessions.
Please Sign Up!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0849A9A62CAAF4C16-50690824-fall
Title 1 Parent Involvement and Annual Parent Meeting
The 6th Grade just finished up with their introduction to the 5 Themes of Geography; Movement, Region, Human Environment Interaction, Location, and Place, and are now exploring different types of maps. To illustrate a dilemma cartographers have, taking the surface area of a sphere and projecting it onto a flat surface, students tried to take an orange peel and flatten it out. Some students attempted to arrange small pieces on their desks, others tried to hammer out the edges to make their pieces connect, and a third group carefully removed almost the entire peel in one long piece. Though each method created a different type of distortion, the strategies used by students are similar to the popular world map projections we use today!
