This week's featured Department at CCCMS is our Math Teaching Staff. We appreciate the efforts of our Math Department and are very fortunate to have such a great team! Below is a little bit more about each teacher:
Megan Griffiths is in her second year of teaching 6th-grade Math. She also coaches volleyball and track at the Middle School. She is married to Cane Griffiths, and they have five children who attend USD 379. When she is not at school, you will find her at her kids' various activities.
Courtney Pfizenmaier is in her seventh year at CCCMS after 15 years of experience as an elementary teacher, elementary administrator, and STEM Coach in Geary County USD 475. She lives on a farm in southwest Clay County with her husband, four kids, cows, two dogs, and many farm cats. Courtney enjoys watching her kiddos' extracurricular activities, reading, landscaping, and drinking Dr. Pepper.
Jay Sleichter teaches 8th grade Math. He and his wife Linda have 4 girls and 1 boy. In his free time, he is very active in helping his kids with 4H.
Thank you Math Teachers!
Good Luck to our 7th and 8th Grade Bengal Football teams on their season's final game! Come out to the MAC to support them! 7th grade starts at 4:30 8th grade follows.
We have our first "Like a Champion" Call of the Day! This year, we will recognize students who are actively living the Seven Habits. Our first student who was caught synergizing was Hunter Askew. Hunter took it upon himself on Friday to help Mrs. Siemers clean up the Bengal Library from one of the PAWS challenges. He jumped right in moving the couches back and picking up. Way to help Mrs. Siemers by remembering "Together is Better"!
We are beyond proud of our 8th Grade Lady Bengals and Coaches! 8th Grade Volleyball NCKL Champs! "Like a Champion"
Here are a couple photos of Mr. Kalivoda's 6th Hour Biomedical Engineering class investigating the biomechanics of muscles, connective tissues, and bone interaction. Dissecting chicken wings and manipulating the movement by pulling on the muscles and tendons. Also, investigating the strength of the ligaments and the structure of bones, inside and outside.
Good Luck to all our Bengal Athletes tomorrow morning Saturday, October 12th!
Here is the Link for the 7th Grade NCKL Volleyball Tournament Bracket: https://irishathletics.net/2024/10/11/10-12-7th-grade-nckl-vb-tournament/
The image of the 8th-grade bracket is attached...
Next week Parent-Teacher conferences will be taking place. If you have not signed up with your student's PAWS teacher please do so. If you have not heard from a teacher about conferences call the school at (785) 632-3232. Thank you
This week our Bengal Spotlight Featured PAWS is Mr. Pigorsch's class! Mr. Pigorsch's PAWS
gets pumped up every day for school!!!! They love to be active, help around our school, eat donuts, laugh at jokes, and have fun each school day morning.
World Mental Health Day takes place every year on October 10th to spotlight mental health around the world, raise awareness of mental health issues, and encourage efforts to support those experiencing mental health issues. Let's create a world where everyone feels safe to talk about their mental health struggles.
Good Luck at Rock Creek today Bengals!!! "Like A Champion"
Reminder tomorrow is the End of the First Quarter, it will be an 11:45 dismissal.
Come out tonight and support your Lady Bengals at HOME! 7th Grade plays in the District Gym, and 8th Grade plays in the Middle School Gym. Good Luck Bengals! "Like a Champion"
Good Luck on the road today Lady Bengals! "Like a Champion"
Today may be National Coaches day but we are thankful for our amazing Bengal Coaches everyday! Dick Ahlberg, Aaron Floersch, Levi Nordus, Randy Walling, Addy Mullin Lehman, JD Lane, Emilie Roe, Sarah Dains, Levi Nordus, Brandon Pigorsch, Jarrod Wynn, Austin Last, Travis Smith, Megan Griffiths, Ben Last, Courtney Hammel, Keely Jermark, Alisha Brownell, Brandon Pigorsch, James Gordon, Craig Rickley, and Ashley Snyder thank you all for everything you do for our Bengal Athletes. Your dedication to our students is unbelievable! "Like a Champion"
This week our Bengal Spotlight Featured PAWS is Mrs. Argo's class! Mrs. Argo's PAWS students are a wonderful bunch that is quietly competitive! We are always up for a challenge, especially dodgeball in the hall! We also enjoy less competitive games like beach ball volleyball in the entryway. We are proud of our mascot, Pablo the (stuffed) fish, who adorns our shelf with his brother and sister and is also painted on our wall. Watch for great things coming from the students of Mrs. Argo's PAWS Class this year!
Today's Bengal Spotlight Featured Team is our Bengal Football Team!! Randy Walling, Brandon Pigorsch, Austin Last, and Jarrod Wynn coach the team. To quote Coach Walling, "We have a fine group of players this year...Come out and support the Bengal football team." You can catch them in action today at Fort Riley! Keep working hard Bengals! "Like a Champion"
Good Luck in Fort Riley today Bengals!!! "Like a Champion"
This week our Bengal Spotlight Featured Department is our Custodian staff! We could not run without them! They are the superheroes of the building. Below is just a little look into the lives of Jeremy and Michael! Thank you both for all you do!! Jeremy Lund has been wandering the halls of the middle school for 16 years. He enjoys exploring backroads in his classic Toyota pickup in his spare time. Michael Houchin started at CCCMS last spring and has been a great addition to the staff. He is a local graduate of CCCHS graduating in 2012.
Good Luck today Bengals!!! "Like a Champion"
7 Students participated in the Kansas Ecomeet last week at the Milford Nature Center.
Eco-Meets are competitions that test high school students’ knowledge of Kansas’ wildlife and plants. Students are tested in four areas: a particular habitat, a focus group (of animals), an outdoor scavenger hunt (to assess identification skills), and a fun interpretive event.
The middle school had two groups participate, Cambreigh Howell-Key, Lizzy VanAken, and Peirson Walli-Newmayer. The group of Josey Weller, Kinzee Charbonneau, Lara Hammond, and Jayda Marrs earned 2nd place in the Interpretive Event named, "Wheel of Wilderness"
The Interpretive Event puts a team’s interpretive communication skills to the test. Students will assume the identity of native organisms to put on a 5-minute skit that conveys information to the audience about their plant or animal of choice. These students prepared for this contest last year as 7th graders in Mr. Sleichter's Exploring Ag and Natural Resources class and this year during 6th hour/study lab time.
