Link to SD State Football Ticket Information:
https://www.platte-geddes.k12.sd.us/article/580071
The fan bus is not full, but will be making the trip to Timber Lake tomorrow. Sponsors have donated funds to ensure those that want to ride the fan bus get to attend the game. If you are interested in riding the bus, contact high school secretary, Kay Hubers, at 605-337-3391. The bus will leave at one o'clock from the north side of the elementary. The schedule allows for one meal stop on the way to Timber Lake and a short stop on the way home. Thank You!
Dear Platte-Geddes Elementary Parents and Staff Members,
We would like to cordially invite you to attend our National Distinguished School "Red Carpet" Celebration Event scheduled for Friday, November 5 @ 8:15 am.
Elementary students should arrive for school at their normal time, be dropped off at the elementary playground (or for breakfast), and they will line up for school as usual with their classmates. They will enter the gymnasium for the program with their respective teachers beginning at 8:15 am.
Each student's name will be read aloud. Each staff member's name will be read aloud. The Platte-Geddes High School Band will play. The Platte-Geddes High School Cheer Team will cheer. The Platte-Geddes Elementary Student Council members have a special presentation planned. And special guest, South Dakota Secretary of Education, Tiffany Sanderson, will be here to offer her congratulations to our school on this prestigious award.
The event will be attended by our high school and junior high students. Immediately following our event, there will be a high school pep rally.
Please plan to join us for a morning of celebration and fun! This event is open to the public. Guests will be asked to please enter the gymnasium through our main west entrance and park in one of our back lots. The seats on the floor will be reserved for our elementary student honorees. Parents and guests may sit in the bleacher section.
In Education,
Jennifer
Jennifer Knecht
Elementary Principal/SPED Director
Platte-Geddes School District
The Platte-Geddes School staff will be sponsoring a Walking Taco Fundraiser at the Region Volleyball matches on Tuesday, Nov 2. Serving will begin at 5:30 till gone. It will be free-will offering with all proceeds going to the Gunderson children. There will also be bake sale items available.
Today is Winter Weather Preparedness Day in South Dakota. We want to take the opportunity to remind everyone that children will be expected to wear a coat, hat, gloves, and appropriate winter gear when the weather is cold. We ask that they wear snow boots, different from shoes worn in the school building, to assist our custodians in keeping our school facilities clean. (when the snow falls.....)
If you need assistance with any of the winter weather gear listed above, please contact Kristen Konechne or me at the school and we will make sure your child has the needed items. We also have coats, hats, and gloves in the office that we loan to students who forget their gear.
Thank you!
Link to Platte-Geddes School Board Special Board Meeting:
Joel Bailey is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Platte-Geddes School District Special Board Meeting
Time: Oct 27, 2021 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://sdk12.zoom.us/j/95251805040?pwd=OGxrS3ZoTTF3KzQwK2JyQm8veGRKQT09
Meeting ID: 952 5180 5040
Passcode: 763921
PIZZA Party
Pizza Party
PIZZA Party photos......
PIZZA PARTY!! Frontier Motors of Winner donated a PIZZA PARTY for our students and staff members in grades 1/2 K-6. Thank you to Jimmy DeWaard and Alex Till for delivering and serving the pizza. Thank you to Tom Boltjes and Ross VanZee of Platte Food Center for donating the drinks and paper products for the party and also for helping to serve. The party was given as a CONGRATULATIONS for our National Distinguished School Award!
ATTENTION FOOTBALL FANS: Amy Ringling has made arrangements with Foreman Busline to take a non-stop Fan Bus to the First Round Football Game in Chester on Thursday. The bus will leave from the north side of the elementary school at 4:30. The cost is $15/person and is open to students in grades 6-12 and adults. Younger students may ride with a parent. Students may sign up with Mrs. Hubers in the high school office. You can also sign up or ask Amy any questions at 605-682-8924. Check are to be made payable to Amy Ringling. TY!
STEAM and the Mountain Plains Crunch Off
STEAM and the Mountain Plains Crunch Off
STEAM class celebrates the Mountain Plains Crunch Off
More STEAM creations.....
In STEAM class, students created posters and artistic displays to celebrate "Farm to School Month" and the "Mountain Plains Crunch Off".
Mountain Plains Crunch Off
In celebration of National Farm to School Month in October, states throughout the Mountain Plaines Region (Colorado, Montana, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming) are competing to see which state can get the most "crunches" into a local apple or other local produce, per capita.
South Dakota State University (SDSU) Extension and the South Dakota Department of Education's Division of Child and Adult Nutrition Services are partnering to bring this event to the state in October. South Dakotans are invited to crunch into local produce and help South Dakota win the "Crunch Crown." "Crunch Off" participants will join students, teachers, farmers, parents, community members and local food enthusiasts in celebrating the wonderful produce South Dakota has to offer.
Platte-Geddes School took part in the crunch off Thursday, October 14th.
Thank you to the following businesses for contributing to the "Crunch Off":
Platte Food Center
Dakota Plains Agency
American Family
Cole's Computers
Platte Enterprise
HUB International
Vicki's Sauna and Spa
The Blue Room
BankWest
Today’s “Good News Calls” went out to a couple of outstanding friends. These two girls showed extreme kindness and understanding to a friend who was having a rough day. They are a fine example of friends showing kindness to another person who really needed a few words of encouragement and a gentle squeeze of support. Thank you to Montana Veurink and Lydia Dyk for demonstrating the Panther Way Expectation of "Kindness" and for quietly and kindly assisting another person who needed a helping hand. Montana and Lydia were nominated for the GNC by Mrs. K and Mrs. Knecht. Thank you, sweet girls, for the kindness shown to others.
We accepted the award last night for being named a National Distinguished School. (And for Cedar Grove's National Distinguished School Award in 2020.) The banquet was outstanding. The State DOE made every single educator in attendance feel honored!! Here are a few photos from the celebration. Secretary of Education, Tiffany Sanderson is pictured with us in the second photo. Congratulations Everyone!! 💯💯❤️❤️
