What a busy month we had in October! Many great things happened in our building wrapping up the month with a week full of book fair, parent teacher conferences, and Halloween parties.

This fall's book fair was a huge success with total sales being just shy of $7000! This provides our school with around $3100 of Scholastic dollars to further establish the importance of reading.

Our rockstar teaching staff and supportive parents were able to achieve 97% attendance at this fall’s parent teacher conference. Also, our Title I staff held a focused daycare during conferences providing Foundational Literacy and Math skills for 63 students. This shows great commitment to student growth both at home and here at school. Thank you to all who attended!

Halloween weather allowed us to parade students through the gym and celebrate within classes. If you missed the parade you should be able to view it on Breckenridge Elementary Facebook page.

With colder temperatures please send your children with coats, hats, and gloves. We will continue to go outside for recess, until the temperature is below 10 degrees.

- Mr. Fillwock, Elementary Principal

Construction at the Elementary as of 10/31.

The elementary has been celebrating Wonderful Work on most Wednesdays! Here are some photos to celebrate the wonderful work these students have been doing!

Congratulations to Remi Detrich, Aubrey Davenport, Jessica Reed, Emmit Noack, Romero Garcia, Griffin Mckenzie, Bennett Mapes, and Austen Spiekerman for being the Elementary September Students of the Month!

Our Elementary Run Club had a great season. This club is for 3rd through 5th grade students. We had 44 boys and girls participate this year. During our six week season we worked on our pace, our breathing and getting faster each time out. The students have enjoyed meeting new friends and staying active. We enjoyed the beautiful weather that this Fall has brought and have decided to keep Run Club during the Fall season. We ended our season Thursday, October 21st with a 2 mile fun run. The students did a great job! Thank you to all who came and helped cheer on the runners.

We want to thank our volunteers for their time investing in our students after school. We also want to thank our school community for continuing to support our club. We are looking forward to another season next year. Good luck to our 5th graders who will be moving up to the middle school next year. You will be missed, but you have a great opportunity to run on the cross country team. Anyone who would like to volunteer next year to help out with this club, please contact Mrs. Emily Krenz at the elementary school. We would love to be able to have two teams next year. GO HUSKIES!

Mrs. Avina's Spanish I classes tried their hands at making Mexican Corn Sopes.

Sopes (pronounced soh-pez) are a thick corn tortilla-like masa cake made from masa harina, water, salt, and oil. They originated in central Mexico and act as plates for an abundance of toppings, like chicken, vegetables, and salsa. Enjoy the photos below!

The Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de Muertos or Día de los Muertos) is a holiday celebrated from 31st October through 2nd of November. The multi-day holiday involves family and friends gathering to pay respects and to remember friends and family members who have died. These celebrations can take a humorous tone, as celebrants remember funny events and anecdotes about the departed.

Mrs. Avina's 6th grade Spanish class celebrated by putting up a remembrance table (or ofrenda) and making papel picado ('punched' or 'perforated' paper). This traditional cut paper folk art is found throughout Mexico.

March 25, 2023- April 1, 2023

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For more information or any questions please e-mail Mrs. Aviña (BHS Spanish teacher) - mavina@breckhuskies.org.

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KARA WHITING has been selected as the class of 2022 recipient of the Daughters of American Revolution Good Citizen Award. Kara was chosen because she possesses the qualities of DEPENDABILITY (which includes truthfulness, loyalty, and punctuality); SERVICE (which includes cooperation, courtesy, and consideration of others); LEADERSHIP (which includes personality, self-control, and ability to assume responsibility); and PATRIOTISM (which includes unselfish interest in family, school, community, and nation).

Congratulations, Kara, on receiving this prestigious award.

Nov 2 - PD Day - No School

November 9 - NHS Blood drive in the Media Center (details below)

Nov 15 - PD Day - No School

November 25-26 - No School - Thanksgiving Break

Football, Cross Country, and Volleyball are all wrapping up their regular seasons.

MS Volleyball and Varsity Girls Golf have both finished their seasons. Great work, ladies!

On Saturday, October 2nd, the high school and middle school Cross Country teams traveled to Shepherd for an invitational. The HS Girls took 8th out of 21 schools and the HS boys took 4th out of 22 schools.

The MS Girls took 3rd out of 24 schools and the MS boys finally had a scoring 5 since for the first time since 2019 and took 10th out of 24 schools.

Some individual results and photos below!

Work continues on our elementary addition. The footings and foundation work is coming to a close. We currently are in a holding pattern as we wait for permitting and plans to be approved. The slower approval at the state level and wet fall has slowed progress at the elementary. We have also had issues with final permits and approvals at the high school gym. I have made contact with state legislators with the hopes of pushing the state licensing offices to take action. This year the elementary building is managing with only the use of B and C wing, but we are certainly at full capacity with specials on carts or in the cafeteria. We are excited for the addition of several early elementary and preschool classrooms.

Bids for Summer 2022 work on the baseball, softball, track, and the high school classrooms are in the final steps. Bids will be accepted over the next few weeks with plans that the board will look to approve these bids at our November regular board meeting. One project that is of note is our Science Room Coutryards. This project was inspired by Kya Horman and Katie Steinhaus through last year's Pitcher This Campaign through the United Way. Their Pitch will make this courtyard an outdoor classroom space as well as a designated "potty area" for Blue. Thank you Kya and Katie for your vision for this space. We look forward to seeing this space come to reality!

Please continue to check back each month to see what projects are in the works with our bond projects. We will also provide pictures and updates on our website, which you can visit by clicking HERE.

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 who has tested positive for Covid, we recommend that the student stays home for 10 days. If they stay home for 10 days, they cannot return until after the 10 days or with a negative Covid test result and no symptoms.

If your student is a close contact and has no symptoms, they may remain in school as long as they remain symptom free.

If your student is named as a contact and verbalizes or demonstrates any symptoms at school, they will be sent home for 10 days or until a negative COVID test result has been received.

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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