CCCHS staff members were given a special treat of Torch Coffee this morning. Tovah Catlin, CCCHS internship student at Torch Coffee, helped plan and execute the event. Baristas were Emma Frigon and Ezri Catlin.
CCCHS December BOE Report
Mrs. Hamel's class continued their unit on holiday traditions with a class tradition! Each year they make sugar cookies for the staff to decorate. Students in her class also make and decorate cookies to take home to their families. Mrs. Hamel has worked hard to receive grants to help provide adaptive equipment to make cooking lessons accessible to ALL of her students.
Mr. Roberts' integrated science classes are in the middle of building robotic vehicles. This particular one even has a camera that can be viewed from an iPad! After they are built, students will program them to complete a task without using controls on their end.
YLink's Karaoke Night is immediately after the basketball game this Friday. Stick around for snacks, hot chocolate, karaoke, dodgeball, and ornament painting and crafts! The event is completely free for students.
As part of their finals grade, Mrs. Ware is having her Calculus students create a school-wide scavenger hunt that will be given in February. They have to use math equations and numbers around the school to help the students solve problems. This is a fun activity that is becoming an annual event at CCCHS!
Throughout the year, Mr. Nordhus is bringing in speakers to talk to his Personal Finance class about practical financing decisions they will be making after leaving high school. Today, he welcomed Justin Tadtman and Renee Langvardt from Farm Bureau Financial Services to talk about his profession and the different types of insurance that can be purchased.
Mrs. Craig is using the last part of the semester with her Health classes going over the six classes of nutrients and their functions in relation to how they can help the body.
During the month of December, select CCCHS band and choir members will be performing at the Clay County Medical Center main lobby. Today, the Tiger Chorale and a small group band ensemble performed for workers and patients. It's one of many ways our kids at USD 379 try to give back to our community!
CCCHS Tiger Talks - November Edition
This newsletter is created by Ms. McFadden's Journalism and Yearbook classes.
Tis the season! Students in Mrs. Hamel's Life Skills classes discussed traditions and helped decorate the CCCHS Christmas tree.
Happy Thanksgiving from USD 379!
Each quarter we create a video for staff, parents, and community members who have signed up to be a USD 379 Academic Ambassador. These videos highlight different academic curriculums used in the district and how they impact our kids. (go to usd379.org/academics to sign up)
We decided to share the latest video with the general public. It dives into the district’s 5-year plan to improve reading scores, which is taking place across all grade levels. We wanted to showcase the hard work and dedication ALL staff have put into making sure our students have the best ELA education in the state of Kansas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT5V0KUKzP8
The Electronic Imaging class is back at it today with the winter sports & activities photos! Be on the look out for some team and "muscle" shots coming your way soon!
One of the unique "real world" classes offered at CCCHS is a Floral Design class taught by Mrs. Flegler. Last week, her students created small arrangements and wrote thank you notes to seven faculty members. They delivered the arrangements and thank you notes to show gratitude to the staff. The CCCHS FFA purchased the flowers to make this small gesture possible.
Mr. Nordhus' Photo Imaging class played “Photoshop Bingo with a Trashketball component” today. The bingo sheets have Photoshop tools on them. When students earned a bingo, they got a chance to shoot a basket and get points when they make it. Not only are they recalling what the tools are and do, they get a chance to have a little fun as well!
On National Substitute Appreciation Day, we celebrate and say THANK YOU to our dedicated substitute educators!
Artificial Intelligence is new to the educational world, and teachers like Mrs. Murphy know it can be beneficial to students if used effectively. Today her English 12 seniors were researching AI and its connection to an area of their interest: education, art, the military, agriculture, etc. So far they've found credible resources, and now they're creating an annotated bibliography.
Yesterday, USD 379 was visited by 2023-24 Kansas Teacher of the Year nominees from around the state. The host was Mrs. Flegler, who was the USD 379 secondary teacher of the year last year. One of the benefits of the recognition is that teachers get to visit other schools to see what they are doing to help students succeed. These teachers spent the day touring schools in Clay Center and visiting with our staff and students. They left very impressed by USD 379!
Mrs. Hughes' Spanish 1 students reviewed for a test in a unique way, thanks to her student teacher, Mrs. Palma. They worked through a digital breakout box where the students had to solve puzzles to open the combination and break free, similar to an escape room.
