Spend some time this Thanksgiving with your family and actually count your blessings together. Share gratitude with your children, siblings, parents, extended family, church family and friends who have become family. #countyourblessings
6th graders made slime for their STEM activity! They had so much fun!!!
Valley Heights community, we need your help! While inviting Veterans to our Veterans day event, I realized we do not have some addresses to invite some of our Veterans. If you can think of someone please email me their name and address so we can get them added to the list next year, cgallimore@valleyheights.org. Thank you for your help!
Join our Colts PTO for a movie night on December 6th at 7:00 pm at the Waterville Grade School!
The 4th grade students each brought an item to contribute to their friendship mix. They are enjoying it while working on a couple crafts this morning.
Heartfelt THANKS to those who helped "stuff the bus" at Coffee Crossing yesterday during TCB's lunch hour. You are helping Schools That Care make a difference to Valley Heights students and families!
Valley Heights Students and Schools That Care will be packing40-50 Christmas Meal Boxes next month. Can you help by donating food items listed or make/freeze pies to donate? OR donate cash and let the students shop for you. Thank you for your support!
Thank you to the Lunch Ladies for preparing the Thanksgiving Dinner for staff, students and their guests. Also, we had a great team of volunteers helping! It was a great meal with lots of compliments. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!! Enjoy the pictures!
TODAY! Coffee Crossing is partnering with Schools That Care to STUFF THE BUS this holiday season of giving 11 am-1pm. See the Family Advocate during the lunch hour to help stuff the bus at Coffee Crossing in Waterville.
BONUS: TCB will be serving lunch!
BONUS: TCB will be serving lunch!
Today is our Thanksgiving meal! Please see the meal times below.
What a night for our JH Basketball Girls! They came away with two more big wins tonight against Linn!
A Team: 24-21
B Team: 31-29
Congratulations to the football players that earned all league and all district honors this year!
Mrs. Woodyard's first graders did a virtual rollercoaster ride and made a story plan about it. They learned how to help calm their bodies. Then we were able to have some fun and stretch out words in the dark!
Good luck to the JH Basketball teams playing at Linn.
Order of Play:
New Gym: A Girls, A Boys
Old Gym- ½ C Boys (5:15) B Boys, B Girls
Order of Play:
New Gym: A Girls, A Boys
Old Gym- ½ C Boys (5:15) B Boys, B Girls
REMINDER: Due to the Thanksgiving Day Holiday this month, the Reach Out Food Pantry in BR will be open this Saturday, Nov. 22, but closed on the Nov. 29. Serving Valley Heights families 9am-10am Nov. 22 at the Methodist Church in Blue Rapids.
Beginning Sunday, December 7, the Blue Rapids Gym will be open for Valley Heights community to shoot, work on their ball handling, or play basketball to hone their skills.
Elementary students grades 3 - 6 will have the gym from 1--2:00, & 7th grade - adult will have gym access from 2:00 - 3:00.
Students in grades 3 - 6 must have a parent/guardian accompany them. Clean Basketball or tennis shoes must be worn when on the court. All participants must abide by school behavior standards or you will be asked to leave and not return.
The following dates will be open gym:
December: 7, 14
January: 4, 11, 18, 25
February: 1, 8, 15, 22
Elementary students grades 3 - 6 will have the gym from 1--2:00, & 7th grade - adult will have gym access from 2:00 - 3:00.
Students in grades 3 - 6 must have a parent/guardian accompany them. Clean Basketball or tennis shoes must be worn when on the court. All participants must abide by school behavior standards or you will be asked to leave and not return.
The following dates will be open gym:
December: 7, 14
January: 4, 11, 18, 25
February: 1, 8, 15, 22
Mrs. Woodyard's first graders during science were making umbrellas to try to get theirs to stay up when the wind was blowing! #future-scientist
