"Community" service is in our name! Students decked the village planters with boughs and seasonal cheer! Enjoy them as you drive through town! #TogetherWeSoar
10 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Looking festive!
Teamwork !
Let it snow!
First the greens...
Branches first...
Community service in the sunshine!
Community service with some raindrops!
National Eat a Cranberry Day made for a tasty Cooking Time! Cranberry Pie and Harvest Bites featured Wisconsin agricultural products. Thanks to #AgInTheClaassroom for a great lesson about Christmas tree farms too!
10 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Learning about tree farms!
Cranberry pie!
Christmas tree lesson
Wisconsin agriculture products for Cooking Time!
Lintl's lab was full of Doctors today. We took insides out, did some operation, labeled the eyes and ears and let's not forget tried out some crutches. Thank you to the HSA for helping get supplies in order to create project based learning opportunities for students!
10 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Steady hands !
Giving crutches a try!
Intense concentration
Doctors in training
Getting the hang of it!
Medical team
Ready to operate
Patient consult
Steady hands
Looking very official
Experimenting with different building materials, first graders constructed pyramids to connect with curriculum!
10 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Pyramid engineering !
Pyramid engineering!
Pyramid engineering!
Pyramid engineering!
Pyramid engineering!
Our barnyard project celebrates #AmericaRecyclesDay everyday by reducing food waste from our school! Thank you to Buttermilk Barn for donating the pumpkins!
10 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Sheep ❤️ pumpkins !
Must be delicious !
School chickens reduce food waste.
🐓❤️🎃
Pumpkins and pollinators made for a perfect fall field trip! Kindergarten and grade two extended their science learning to Keller's Kornucopia. Bee hives and the pumpkin patch made for a great morning! Thank you for letting us pick a free pumpkin! ❤️🐝❤️🎃
11 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Pick a perfect pumpkin !
Straw bale maze fun!
Pick a perfect pumpkin!
Straw bale maze!
Pick a perfect pumpkin!
Pumpkins on the bus go round and round!
Ready to go!
Looking up!
So many 🎃 to choose from!
Ready to go!
A big thank you to Sauk County Seal-A-Smile for helping our students have healthy teeth! They were impressed that our whole school brushes their teeth after lunch!
11 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Practice brushing!
Teeth cleaning!
Brushing teeth after lunch!
Service learning helps our community! Grade 2 cleaned out the village planters along highway 78 with the changing seasons. Great teamwork! #togetherwesoar
11 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Practicing service learning!
Teamwork !
Pulling out the dead summer plants.
Ready to go!
Teamwork !
Teamwork !
Teamwork !
Bonus walk around the wetland!
Kindergartners are using their knowledge of plants to grow wheat grass for the chickens and lettuce for the tortoise! Caring kids!
11 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Treats for the chickens!
Treats for the chickens!
Planting wheat grass
Planting lettuce for the tortoise
Planting lettuce for the tortoise
Planting lettuce for the tortoise
Planting lettuce for the tortoise
Grades 1 and 2 extended their Fairytales and Fables Unit to the Overture Center! A delightful show of Peter Rabbit was followed by a tour of the Ruth Culver Community Library and playtime by the Wisconsin River. Great day!
11 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Ready for the show!
Amazing seats!
Ready for the show!
Great sears!
Carpet picnic
Carpet picnic
Great Sauk Trail
Riverwalk park
Scavenger hunt success!
Riverwalk
🌻 Science was in full bloom in Kindergarten! The parts of plants and their functions were easy to see in the school garden. We are growing our learning! #schoolgarden
11 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Sunflower science !
Flower comparison
Outdoor science !
Sunflower science !
Community helpers are everywhere! MCS 4K students learned about librarians, postal workers, delivery drivers, teachers, and more this week. They had a great walking field trip to the Merrimac Fire and Ambulance Station. Thank you to Ms. Tina and Ms. Bailey for telling us what fire fighters and EMTs do!
11 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Merrimac Fire and Rescue
Ready to go!
Learning about the equipment
Answering questions
Thank you to the families and staff who helped winterize the garden, clean the duck pen, and prep pickets! Your volunteering makes our projects possible. #togetherwesoar
11 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Garden helpers!
Roll out the barrel!
Scooping
Scooping!
Garden helpers!
New barrels ready for spring planting!
Before the thunder!
Huzzah! Grades 3-4-5 traveled back in time to the Renaissance at Circus World. Lots of connections to our history lessons brought to life!
11 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Rogues and Ruffians
Fire eaters!
History alive!
Bridge to history
Acrobatics
Musical history
Spear throwing
Spear throwing
Spear throwing
Spear throwing
Cherry dumplings and Wisconsin agricultural products made for a tasty cooking time. Thank you to the Sauk County Farm Bureau and Wisconsin Ag in the Classroom for visiting again this year! #agintheclassroom
11 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Rolling out the dumpling dough.
Ready for cherries!
Rolling out the dumpling dough.
Bubbling!
Taste test!
Taste test!
Taste test!
Wisconsin agriculture products activity
Wisconsin agriculture products activity
Taking turns!
Great views from the highest point in SW Wisconsin! Students hiked the Flintrock Trail at Blue Mounds State Park to learn more about limestone and chert. Ask your favorite student for details!
11 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Hiking kids!
Good buddies
Forest friends
Learning trail navigation
Hiking rocks!
Climbing the tower!
Hiking rocks!
Into the woods!
On top of the world!
Enjoying the view!
A field trip 400 million years in the making! Students visited #caveofthemounds for an amazing subterranean learning experience!
11 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Cave of the Mounds
Cave of the Mounds
Cave of the Mounds
Cave of the Mounds
Cave of the Mounds
Cave of the Mounds
Cute fossils
Cave of the Mounds
Petrified at Cave of the Mounds
Students learned about how ground water moves, pollution, and the importance of preventing the contamination of our watershed. #togetherwesoar
11 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Ground water lesson
Up close!
Learning how water moves underground
Getting a good look
Good listeners
Up close look
Getting a good look
Ground water demonstration
The bumper crop of apples from the school orchard continues with apple art in Kindergarten and apple crisp in grade 3. The apple crisp modeled how the earth's crust and mantle are layered. Science is delicious! #agintheclassroom #schoolgarden
12 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Apple printing!
Apple printing!
Apple printing!
Apple printing!
Science is delicious !
Science is delicious!
Science is delicious!
Thank you to the George Culver Community Library and the Ruth Culver Community Library for bringing Llama Llama in red pajamas to our school!! The K-2 classes enjoyed the visit! ❤️📚❤️🦙
12 months ago, Merrimac Community School
Who wants a library card?
Llama llama visit!
Llama llama visit!
Llama llama visit!
Reading is fun!
Llama llama visit!