A big thank you to the families and staff who helped with spring garden prep today! Your efforts enable all the students to plant, grow, and thrive in our beautiful community garden! Thank you!
🌱 Community Heroes in Action! 🌱
Our Merrimac Community School students took to the streets today to show our village some love for Earth Day! 🌎 From our littlest 5K explorers to our seasoned 5th graders, these eagle-eyed volunteers worked hard to clear litter and keep our community beautiful.
But the green mission didn't end there! Every student headed home with their very own sapling to plant. We’re already looking forward to seeing these trees grow alongside our students. 🌳
As one enthusiastic young friend put it: "I can't wait to go home and bury my tree!"
Check out these proud smiles and hard-working hands in the photos below! 👇
Grades 1 and 2 planted a Wisconsin 'garden in a glove' today, thanks to Ag in the Classroom! Lots of science questions with room to grow our learning!
#AgInTheClassroom
First grade featured their habitat dioramas this week! Other classrooms visited the science displays and listened to the students discuss their ecosystems!
A big thank you to our staffers who helped drag branches and prep the school prairie for our prescribed burn this spring!
Before break, grades 2 and 5 teamed up for some outside community service. Students removed winter decor from the village planters and practiced pruning in the community garden. We love service learning!
❤️🍎A big thank you to the Badger Apple Corp and the Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance for the gift of a heritage apple tree! Students carefully planted it in the school orchard before the rain today! To learn more about the amazing local history, visit https://www.saukprairie.org/apple-corps for more info!
Celebrating #NationalAgricultureDay with our favorite Wisconsin dairy product... ice cream! Thank you Sauk County Farm Bureau! #AgInTheClassroom
First graders just finished their "History of the Earth" unit. Look at these amateur paleontologists!
MCS was well represented at the Serenity Art Gallery Children's Art Show in Sauk City. The art varied from colored pencil, mixed media, photography, collage, and paint. Great job, MCS current students and alumni!
It was a sugar snow! Students boiled the last of the maple sap into syrup and enjoyed it on pancakes today! Math, science, and history all in one tasty project. Yum!
A big thank you to our neighbors for sharing their tree! ❤️
#AgInTheClassroom
Leprechauns were seen sneaking around MCS today. These little leprechauns also had a great time sledding, listening to Irish music, and learning about rainbows. Happy St. Patrick's Day from MCS 4K!
Students are monitoring wildlife in the school forest with Snapshot Wisconsin! Collecting data and identifying animals is real-life science and math!
#WIDNR #WisconsinConservation #SnapshotWisconsin
Signs of spring! Bluebird houses are cleaned out for the early birds arriving on the playground and the maple sap is dripping into collection bags! Outside science is a sign of spring!
Our trip to Olbrich Gardens was tree-mendous! Students reviewed forestry concepts and enjoyed the tropical rain forest blooming with orchids! It was plant-tastic!
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MCS 4K loved learning about pizza! The students made pretend pizzas with construction paper, had a pizzeria in the kitchen center, and made their own individual English muffin pizzas for snack. The school hallway smelled delicious and had the other grades wondering what 4K was up to this week!
MCS 4K had a lovely time celebrating Valentine's Day this week. Students created heart projects, cut out hearts using fun edged scissors, and had buddy time with the 5th grade students.
We are hooked on project-based learning! The baby trout have arrived! Students will care for the fish until their release in May! Life cycles, anatomy, and habitat, oh my!
Glow day was a great way to end 3rd grade’s unit 5 Light and Sound. Illuminating!
