Huskie News

March is Reading Month! Breckenridge Elementary will be doing many activities and lessons throughout the school day in the month of March to increase that have even more to do with reading and increasing interest in reading. View the calendar above, and the links are below!

Here are some of the links from the calendar!

February 28th - Diverse Texts to Share

March 10 - Directions for Binoculars

March 13 - Free Genre Poster

March 24 - How Books Are Made video

Congratulations to the Superbowl Reading winners, Lydia Potter (900 minutes read) and Sofia LaRose (600 minutes read)! Great job to all of Mrs. Chovanec's first graders for practicing their reading and turning in footballs!

4th Graders have been working on Math related skills in MTSS the past few weeks with Title One Teachers. This past week we have had a Scavenger Hunt using QR codes and the Ipads to solve multi-step story problems. We also learned how to play Multiplication War to help memorize our facts.

In another group, we have been working on multiplication array models and have just begun one-step word problems.

Congratulations to Zoe Nichols, Jayden Vine, Emersyn McGill, Emmitt Rippie, Aria Larkin, Hudson, Cooper, Jace Bartlett, Pearl Hunter-Smith, Maiyah Delo, Grace Slavik, Collin Corbat, & Luke Hoyt. Special Thanks to DTE and Frankenmuth Chamber & CVB for sponsoring our school! Students of the Month were given Saginaw Spirit Hockey tickets.

Congratulations to Brinley Humm, Kora Krenz, Allyson Pryor, and Lydia Slavik for their 3rd place finish at the United Way Pitch-er This grant project! Their idea for an outdoor activity area will be fully funded. Students will be able to use this area for outdoor activities in the months weather allows, and in the winter the games can be brought inside for use during PE classes. These ladies have worked hard on this project for months and their hard work paid off today!

Mrs. Aviña's 6th & 8th graders made Mexican Buñelos! Buñelos are a fried dough with cinnamon sugar coating!

7th hour Spanish students served tacos during the Love & Friendship Fiesta.

Students who competed at the district level were as follows: Cramer Laurenz and Calista Goward (Demonstration - Mushrooms - Earned Silver), MaKenna Cutting and Julie Becker (Demonstration - Calf Processing - Earned Silver), Alexis Wiklanski and McKayla Sanders (Demonstration - Food Preservation Methods - Earned Silver). The Renewable Energy Agricultural Issues team earned Gold and progressed to regionals, ending up being the State Alternate Team - members include Kayla Goward, Megan Goward, Tori Most, and Avery Westall. Individual competitors were Dillon Goward (Job Interview - Earned Silver), Marissa Bloomquist (Job Interview - Earned Silver), Shayla Jolliff (Job Interview - Earned Gold and Progressed to Regionals), and Miranda Bloomquist (Earned Gold - Progressed to Regionals). The FFA has two individuals moving on to State Convention and State Contests - Shayla Jolliff in Job Interview and Miranda Bloomquist in Creed Speaking. Go FFA Huskies!

Plants will be coming into our greenhouse in March! Botany will have the opportunity to raise them for our plant sale. The tentative dates for the sale are May 6th and 7th, just in time for Mother's Day!

February 21-25 was National FFA Week and students participated in Dress Up Days and had an Ice Cream Social to celebrate FFA and agriculture!

March 1 - Elementary Safari Assembly

March 7 - K-2 Fine Arts Night

March 10 - K-5 Hearing and Vision Screening

March 16 - NHS Blood Drive

March 18 - End of Marking Period

March 28 - April 1 - Spring Break

Congratulations to the Girls Varsity Bowling team, who are going to State for the first time in school history! Last weekend they were named MSAC League Champions, with Rylie Ripley taking 1st, Rachel Laurenz taking 3rd, and Julie Becker finishing 4th.

This weekend, they placed 2nd in the team regional competition, earning the programs first advancement to state finals for the Varsity Girls team! Congratulations!

Congratulations to Trapper Gillespie as well - he qualified individually for the Boys Varsity team!

Way to bowl, Huskies!

Congratulations to the 7th & 8th grade boys basketball teams on a great season!

Both teams ended their seasons with a winning record -

The 7th grade boys had 7 wins and 3 losses, while the the 8th grade boys had 8 wins and 2 losses.

Congratulations!

Construction has picked up in the MS/HS. Seven classrooms in the north hall are well on their way to being updated. Our schedule will have teachers moving into these classrooms the week of March 21, then construction will begin on seven new classrooms during spring break. Renovations of the HS locker rooms continues, with showers, flooring, and lockers being updated. The old shop/weightroom area is currently being cleaned up and items put into storage. Demolition on this area will turn it into a multi-use athletic space complete with a weightroom, turf room, batting cages, cheer mats, and wrestling mats.

Elementary construction continues. Our truss company has been wrapping up another job, so we are currently waiting for them to get our roof started. Once the roof is installed, interior work will really ramp up.

There is much summer work scheduled across our campus. Site work on our athletic fields will begin as soon as spring sport seasons wrap up. Work on MS/HS classrooms will continue into the summer with work on courtyards, science classrooms, and hallway ceilings and lighting being a large bulk of the work. In the elementary, new hallway flooring and updates to the existing B and C wing restrooms are in the works. All classrooms across the district will be getting new projectors and whiteboards. Many areas are getting a new coat of paint as well.

Exciting things are happening at BCS, where we are Learning Under Construction!

-Wade Slavik, Superintendent

Did you know it's easier than ever to help your school out using the Box Tops for Education app? CLICK HERE to go to the website, which will provide links to download the app and instructions on how to get started!

Did you know that PowerSchool, our student information system, makes it easy for you to monitor your student's grades and attendance? You can also see the daily announcements so you will always know what is going on at the school. The PowerSchool app can be easily loaded onto your phone so the information will be at your fingertips. Click here for a quick video showing you how to set the app up on your phone. The school code is WMKP.

Did you know you can access the latest sports schedules, updates from administration, and lunch menus right from our new App?! The BCS app offers everything from documents to schedules to menus and more. Search "Breckenridge Community Schools" in your app store and download the app so you can stay in the know with all the happenings at Breckenridge Community Schools!

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Click HERE to download on Google Play.

Click HERE to download on the Apple App Store.

If your student stays home from school sick, or leaves school early, please keep them home until they have been symptom free for at least 24 hours.

If your student is a close contact of someone at school who has tested positive for Covid, we recommend wearing a mask for 10 days and testing on the 5th day since contact. If your student develops symptoms, your student may test, but must stay home until symptoms are gone. Rapid tests are available upon written request (E-mail or note) of the parent/guardian and will be administered by administration.

If your student is a close contact of someone at home who has tested positive for Covid, we require the student to test for 5 days after contact in order to stay in school.

If staff/students test positive, they must isolate at home for 5 days. They may return after 5 days if they are symptom free, but they must wear a mask for the next 5 days. If choosing not to wear a mask when they return after day five, they must isolate for the full 10 days.

Click here for more information about this year's school year!

Website: breckhuskies.org
Location: 700 Wright Street, Breckenridge, MI, USA
Phone: (989) 842-3182
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