Clay Center Community High School

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🌸✨ Disney Meets Floral Design! ✨🌸

Mrs. Flegler's Floral Design class put their creativity to work in a hands-on Disney Floral Design Character Challenge — blending art, agriculture, and storytelling in one meaningful project!

Students were assigned a professional floral design type and challenged to create an arrangement inspired by a Disney character. Along the way, they practiced:

🌼 Design elements (color, line, form, texture, space)
🎯 Design principles (balance, proportion, focal point, rhythm, harmony)
🌿 Thoughtful plant selection & symbolism
✨ Creativity and craftsmanship
📝 Written reflection and self-assessment

From character-inspired color palettes to intentional flower choices, students demonstrated both technical skills and personal expression — just like real floral designers! #celebrate379

CCCHS Youth Leaders in Kansas (YLinK) members traveled with sponsor Lori Martin to Topeka today to attend Youth Mental Health Advocacy Day. Students from across the state had an opportunity to give input to policymakers, including Rep. Lewis "Bill" Bloom, who welcomed the students into the Capitol. #celebrate379

Mrs. Affolter's earth science students participated in a good old prospecting challenge today! In small groups, they used a topogaphic map to figure out where the best areas were to mine Molybdenum, which is a versatile, silvery-grey transition metal with an extremely high melting point used in industrial alloys. #celebrate379

Mr. Craig's Ag Power class has completed its small engines unit. They took a small 4-cycle Kohler engine, tore it down to the block, and reassembled it to run. #celebrate379

Mrs. Flegler's Animal Care (Vet Science) class has been learning about the importance of prescriptions for animal use. They first deciphered prescriptions, then applied math concepts to determine how many tablets should be in a prescription, and then filled the prescription label and bottle to the specifications. The next day, students practiced administering medicines to their "clients" via oral, aural, and ophthalmic routes. #celebrate379

It's getting close to Mock Trial time in government classes! As part of the process, the seniors are teaching each other how to tie neckties! #celebrate379

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Yesterday, Mrs. Craig welcomed three speakers to her freshman health classes:
- USD 379 & Clay Counts Communications Coordinator Matt Weller showed Kansas Communities That Care local and state data and shared a theory from author Jonathan Haidt that youth mental health issues in the last 15 years are the result of cell phone and social media usage.
- Freshman Kate Larson spoke about 379 bullying data and how her class can be the catalyst for a change.
- Senior Braylee Langvardt spoke about Youth Leaders in Kansas (YLinK) and encouraged freshmen to join the leadership organization at CCCHS.
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The Lincoln academics lighthouse team partnered with Mrs. Affolter’s Teaching as a Career class at CCCHS to design bulletin boards in line with LES academic goals this year through Leader in Me. It was a great partnership, and a great result! #celebrate379

Thank you to the members of the CCCHS National Honor Society for volunteering their time at the Harvesters food distribution today. #celebrate379

Tiger Speech and Drama was excited to host Dr. Joelle Arp-Durhman today! She is the head of acting and directing for K-State’s Theatre department. Dr. Apr-Durhman had a round-table discussion with the four directors of the upcoming student-directed one-acts. They discussed approaches to blocking with forensics students and held a question-and-answer session with drama students about the design process. It was a great day! #celebrate379

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Polynomial long division, quadratic equations, it was all going down in Mrs. Stratton's Algebra II class in review for a quiz today! #celebrate379

As part of the new USD 379 PartnerEd grant, Mr. Phil Bone, Design and Pricing Manager at Wardcraft, was brought into Mrs. Schooley's CAD 1 class to help students learn about Revit, a 3D CAD program used to create house plans. The end result for each student will be to design plans for the 2026-27 Tiger House, which will be built on-site by Mr. Pfizenmaier's construction tech class.

Do you work in an agriculture, construction & design, or architecture business and can help provide real-world connections for students while getting paid at the same time? PartnerEd might be the program for you! #celebrate379

Mr. Roberts' Chemistry class burned Flaming Hot Cheetos to calculate the amount of energy (Calories) contained in them. Students measured the energy by using calorimeters (pop cans) and water. They learned that not all Calories were used to heat up the can. They also learned that Cheetos make great fire starters! #celebrate379

Today, English 10 students are creating their own “Life is an Adventure” belts in the spirit of Chris McCandless from the novel, “Into the Wild,” which the class is reading. As a backdrop, Mrs. Reichert's students are listening to the 80’s band “Supertramp,” who inspired our book’s protagonist to take on the alias, Alex Supertramp. #celebrate379

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USD 379 will use Monday's menu (breakfast & lunch) on Tuesday, Jan. 27. We will totally skip Tuesday's menus for the week. The menu will run as planned Wednesday through Friday. #celebrate379