The kindergarten and 1st grade took their field trip to the Great Plains Zoo today! An exciting ride there, lots of steps and sights, and a quiet ride home. Everyone had a great time!
These student leaders celebrated Donuts with the Principal today. Keep up the good work.
Academic awards are today at 1pm in the gym. The event will be streamed on the Mount Vernon School Facebook page.
Thanks to everyone that attended the Math and Reading Night! Fun was had by all!!
Due to the recent rain, we will be canceling the Tiny Titan track meet this afternoon. We will be looking to reschedule at a later date.
MVP Titan Athletic Awards Night is Monday May 20th @ 7:00 pm in Mount Vernon. All MVP Athletes 7-12 (2023-224 school year) and families are invited to attend. Please RSVP to Mt. Vernon or Plankinton School by May 15th. Catered meal is sponsored by the Booster Club!
Game Warden Lynn Gueke visited the 4th grade class to talk about the amazing State Parks in South Dakota! He also gave them a free day pass to the park of their choosing on behalf of the Department of Game, Fish and Parks.
Pre-K students prepared for tie-dye day today by making our own shirts during centers time last week. We had great fun using those motor skills to tediously squeeze the dye onto our shirts, explored by mixing colors, and practiced patience waiting for them to be ready to wear!
Good luck to the Titan track team as they travel to Platte today for the SESD Conference Track Meet. #RollTitans
Congratulations to Celina Trisco, Taryn Hegg, Riley Mayer, Haylee Neuheisel, Camden Stahl, and AuBree Tollefson for their acceptance into the National Honor Society!
They will be officially inducted on Thursday, May 9th at 1:00 during the Academic Awards Ceremony. Make plans to come support the NHS members and the other student scholars!
This Friday is the K-8 Field Day. If it rains, the make-up day is Monday, May 13th.
Some weather-related activity announcements:
1. The JH track meet in Parkston has been rescheduled for May 13 with a 4:30 start.
2. We have moved the start time of the varsity softball game today in Parkston from 4:30 to 3:00. We have cancelled the JV game.
Kindergarten Students went on a Virtual Field Trip with the South Dakota Art Museum. We learned all about print making and made some of our own.
The Titans are in Sioux Falls today and tomorrow for track! Tune in or come out and support the Titans.
The Pre K-5 concert will be streamed on Facebook at 7pm.
Baseball Sign up sheet was sent home - or you can pick it up at the Spring Concert. Sign up for concessions stand at the spring concert also. Please come prepared to fill in a time. Contact Brent Olson @ 605-840-0842 (call or text) or brent.olson@k12.sd.us with any questions.
Come to the Tiny Titans 2nd Annual Invite on May 8th. Field events will start at 5:45(immediately following Title night in the MV school). This event will be available to MVP students as well as surrounding towns. See you all there!
The 5th graders are practicing making obtuse, acute, right, isosceles, scalene, equilateral and regular polygons on GeoBoards.
We had a wonderful field trip to the Akta Lakota Museum and the Dignity Statue in Chamberlain.
The Lennox track meet that was scheduled for tomorrow (4/30) has been postponed. We are working on an alternative date.
