Junior high boys win first round game of the BVL tournament against Washington County. Down by 5 at halftime the mustangs come back and out score the Tigers 33-9 in the second half to win 48-29!
Waterville Grade School students had a great day celebrating Kansas! Students enjoyed rotations with guest presenters including a Park Ranger from Homestead National Historical Park sharing a buffalo trunk, the Blue Rapids Museum providing a bingo game for us, Regina Blaske with Parents as Teachers reading us a Kansas story, Cindy Kulp sharing beekeeping with us, old time games during PE, and square dancing during music! Thank you to all our guests for making this day special for us!





Mrs. Williams class worked on booklets for Kansas Day.
Fourth graders also enjoyed doing a scavenger hunt to answer an infographic this morning and a crossword to learn about history, facts, and everything Kansas today!










The 4th graders did a study on Marshall County Dirt celebrating Kansas Day. They layered the different stages to build a good "cup" of dirt out of wafers, pudding, cookies, pretzels and sprinkles. Eating dirt never tasted soooo good!

REMINDER: Saturday morning, Jan. 31, the REACH OUT Food Pantry in Blue Rapids will be open to serve Valley Heights families at the Methodist Church, 105 W 4th Street. 9am-10am. #foodforyourtable


Good luck to the JH Boys Basketball team playing in the first round of the BVL Tournament vs Washington County. Tipoff is set for 4:45 pm @ Clyde.
Good luck to the HS basketball teams playing at Concordia! JV girls-4:30, JV boys 5:45, V girls- 6:00, V boys-7:30.

Valley Heights Preschool and Kinder-Prep classes had Officer Dan Hargrave visit to talk about police officers and staying safe. Thank you for keeping us safe.
Holy Cow! Congratulations Valley Heights!!
FFA Members and staff had all hands on deck yesterday hosting the Kansas Northeast District FFA Speech, Employment and Agronomy contests for 30 FFA Chapters and 260+ students for the day! We received many complements about our school and FFA members throughout the day from advisors and judges. We couldn't have done it without all of our wonderful help!!
Now to the good stuff... We had 11 FFA Members (who couldn't all be in one place at the same time for a picture 🤣) Competing in various events throughout the day, 8 of which received a medal!! VH FFA Also received 2nd place all around chapter with the combined team scores.
Results:
Senior Prepared Speech
- Lawson Stryker - 3rd place individual
- Kinsley Gillig - 5th place individual
Junior Prepared Speech
- Kynadee bishop 3rd place individual
- Callie Schmidt 4th place individual
Sophomore Prepared Speech
- Klara McIntyre 9th place individual
- Leah Steinfort 24th place individual
Freshmen Prepared Speech
- Avery bishop 10th place individual
Extemporaneous Speaking
- Dawson Vermetten 2nd place individual
- Jacob Vathauer 13th place individual
Employment Skills A
- Kinsley Gillig 16th place individual
Employment Skills B
- Josie Parker 2nd place individual
- Caden weaver 18th place individual
FFA Members and staff had all hands on deck yesterday hosting the Kansas Northeast District FFA Speech, Employment and Agronomy contests for 30 FFA Chapters and 260+ students for the day! We received many complements about our school and FFA members throughout the day from advisors and judges. We couldn't have done it without all of our wonderful help!!
Now to the good stuff... We had 11 FFA Members (who couldn't all be in one place at the same time for a picture 🤣) Competing in various events throughout the day, 8 of which received a medal!! VH FFA Also received 2nd place all around chapter with the combined team scores.
Results:
Senior Prepared Speech
- Lawson Stryker - 3rd place individual
- Kinsley Gillig - 5th place individual
Junior Prepared Speech
- Kynadee bishop 3rd place individual
- Callie Schmidt 4th place individual
Sophomore Prepared Speech
- Klara McIntyre 9th place individual
- Leah Steinfort 24th place individual
Freshmen Prepared Speech
- Avery bishop 10th place individual
Extemporaneous Speaking
- Dawson Vermetten 2nd place individual
- Jacob Vathauer 13th place individual
Employment Skills A
- Kinsley Gillig 16th place individual
Employment Skills B
- Josie Parker 2nd place individual
- Caden weaver 18th place individual

The basketball broadcast between Valley Heights and Linn is live!
https://youtube.com/live/QMGGdnyAonQ
https://youtube.com/live/QMGGdnyAonQ
KNDY will be calling the Valley Heights vs. Linn game tonight on FM 95.5 and on the KNDY radio.com app.
Celebrating the small victories is a part of the process to achieving your goals! Share your accomplishments with others who will help keep you accountable and share in your joy! #goforit #newyearnewgoals

Congratulations to Lexi, Zaiden, Edison, Easton, Rainaa, Aurora, Twila and Eric for being the top eight in the Spelling Bee preliminary. Zaiden, Edison, Easton, Rainaa, Aurora and Twila will be attending the Marshall County Spelling Bee in Marysville on February 5th. In case of any of them being absent, Lexi and/or Eric will attend in their place. Good luck to all!

Tonight's HS Basketball games in Linn tip off at 4:00PM with JV. Expect to see the live broadcast up between 4:00 and 4:15PM.
Follow the link here to be notified when the feed is live!
https://youtube.com/live/QMGGdnyAonQ
Good luck to the HS Basketball teams competing @ Linn. JV girls will start at 4:00 pm, with JV boys to follow. Varsity games will start at 6:00 pm.

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The HS boys game is still on for tonight. The boys will be playing at Washington County at 6:30 pm. Go Mustangs!
Here is the updated bracket for the BVL Tournament. The boys will open tournament play on Thursday, January 29, against Washington at 4:45 p.m. in Clyde. The girls will open up play on Saturday, January 31, against the winner of CC and BV at 1:00 pm at Clyde.


Districts FBLA at Republic County on Monday has been postponed to Thursday.
