On Thursday, September 29 Central and Jefferson Intermediate School hosted a family movie night. Families were able to enjoy an outdoor viewing of the movie “Zootopia” on a big inflatable screen. This event took place at the Jefferson Intermediate track. “Zootopia” fruit snacks, animal crackers, M & M’s along with a bottle of water were given to each member of the family by staff. The Jefferson Student Council handed out Glow Sticks for the evening fun. It was a great night.
The National Resource Conservation Service or NRCS spent 3 days this past week here at Central School doing presentations for Earth Day. NRCS spoke to each classroom about soil conservation, animal wildlife here in Nebraska, and taking care of plants/trees. Little Blue Natural Resources District donated a lilac shrub to each student to take home and plant.
On Thursday, January 28th and Friday, January 29th, the students and teachers at Central School Celebrated 100 days of learning so far in the 2015-2016 school year. Celebrations varied from classroom to classroom. Some of the activities included: 100 piece puzzle building, 100 cup sculpture building with cups, doing 100 math problems, rolling a dice until you get to 100, creating artwork with the number 100 or with a 100 stickers on it, reading stories about the 100th day, eating 100th day snacks, counting to 100, plus many more fun things were planned. Check out the photos from Central.
The 2nd Graders at Central listened to a presentation given by Ranger Nick from the Homestead National Monument on the Buffalo on Tuesday, November 10th. The students learned how the Native Americans used all the parts of the Buffalo after a hunt. Ranger Nick had many different items in his trunk that he we were able to see and touch as he spoke about them. A couple of the items Ranger Nick mentioned was a parfleche. A parfleche is made out of the buffalo hide that has been dried out and tanned so it is a soft hide with the hair removed and many Native Americans will use dyes to make a design on them. A parfleche is used like a pouch for carrying items in, much like a purse of today. Another item, Ranger Nick had was a buffalo stomach, the Native Americans used this for cooking things in much like a crockpot today or for storing things in when not cooking. Plus many, many more things to see and learn about.
The first family fun night was held September 24th in front of the FYI Center for Jefferson and Central School Students and Families. Children enjoyed games, food, and dancing to music throughout the night.
Nick Manes, Park Ranger from the Homestead National Monument in Beatrice showed many different animal skins during his “Skins and Skulls” presentation on September 22 to the Second Graders at Central. The students were able to touch and feel many different animal pelts while they learned different facts about each animals. One fact the students all learned that was interesting was that a skunk usually gives three warnings prior to actually spraying.
