Reminder: Food Share this Thursday Nov 17 @4pm
Reading Buddies! Students in the Woodland Critter and Frog classes are joining together in groups to read as a community. Pairing different grade level students for reading time is beneficial for reading skills, peer modeling, and FUN interacting with other students! What a great way to encourage reading with students sharing and working together!
Students in Mrs. K's class had a special guest visit recently, Charles Kotasek who is a student at the MNCS High School. He came to speak with our students about the bass guitar and harmonics. His presentation included showing us his awesome bass guitar he actually made himself and also playing some well known musical classics! He even took requests from students! Students also had the chance to play the instrument. They learned more about the benefits of project based learning and a little bit of what it is like to be at the High School.
Thank you to Charles Kotasek for visiting! Our students enjoyed your presentation and talented bass playing!
The MNCS Junior High Knowledge Bowl team took 3rd place at the meet at Fitzgerald in Mankato yesterday!! Way to go team!!!
For one of todays experiences a group of students had to create a restaurant, including the name, design, set up, and menu. They then cooked a wonderful meal and served it to some staff. We all gave this restaurant 5 stars!
More Halloween excitement with MNCS Elementary!...
This Halloween at MNCS was an exciting one! Students had so much fun Trick-Or-Treating downtown Henderson for our annual Halloween event! Students visited local businesses and received lots of goodies and candy! We also had a Halloween costume contest in the afternoon with students dressed in their best Halloween costumes to make this Monday special! There were so many
creative and festive costumes, with some wonderful performances! All were winners and was such a fun day with students showing their Halloween spirit!
We want to thank all the local businesses who participated this year and brought smiles to our students faces with a bag full of treats!
Students got to put super glue on their face and a microscope slide to try and see if they could find skin mites on their skin
**No beautiful faces were harmed during this activity
Nuts and Bolts has arranged to help with the meat raffles at The 300 Club in Le Sueur during November and December. The proceeds from each night, which will go toward helping fund Experience Fridays, Genius hour, snacks, classroom supplies, etc for MNCS. However, four adult volunteers are needed each Saturday. If you are interested please use the link to sign up. Thank you!
http://www.tinyurl.com/meatraffles
Reminder: Early Release on Wednesday Oct 26th
HS 1:05 ES 1:15
Students in Mrs K's class had a special guest visit their art class recently! One of our student's grandfather, Steve Anderson is a Cartoonist who came to instruct students on how to draw cartoons and the progression of animation! Students worked on a one page cartoon with Steve and are now working on an eight page cartoon story book with Mrs. K! They are enjoying the creative process and making their own animated characters!
More McGowan's Farm History Fest Fun!
MNCS students enjoyed the recent trip to McGowan's Farm for History Fest! They were able to experience what it was like in the past with a variety of entertainers and activities ranging from Historical Interpreters of 17th century, launching a catapult, cider making, cannon shooting, pirates, face painting, and so much more! What a fun day of learning experiences and being out in the beautiful fall weather!
There will be two food trucks parked at MNCS High School tonight starting at 4:00 p.m. for presentation night
One will be The Squeaky Cow (burgers, fries, cheese curds, and more) https://www.thesqueakycow.com/menu
The other one will be Cookie Dough Bliss (edible cookie dough, ice cream, and other sweets)
https://www.cookiedobliss.com/menu
Come grab some food while you check out the students projects!
Students in the Frogs class were able to enjoy time outside and appreciate the colorful leaves and beautiful fall weather!
NOW ENROLLING!
Minnesota New Country Elementary School is now enrolling for Kindergarten through 6th grade! MNCS is a tuition-free K-12 public charter school and a leader in Project-Based Learning. Discover how MNCS can help develop your child into an independent learner! Offering free busing to/from: Mankato, St. Peter, Le Sueur, Gaylord, Winthrop, Green Isle, Arlington, and Belle Plaine. We offer experiential learning opportunities to students and a small school setting with small class sizes!
Interested in learning more? Please contact Brianne Fuhrmann, MNCS Elementary Administrative Assistant at 507-868-0071 ext. 0 or by email bfuhrmann@newcountryschool.com.
Come and learn with MNCS Elementary!
MNCS Elementary students were asked by Mrs. K in science class- is there sound in space? Students learned more about how sound travels by participating in several fun experiments! Sound requires a medium to travel through and travels by making molecules vibrate. In deep space, the large empty areas between stars and planets, there are no molecules to vibrate. There is no sound!
The BWCA crew spent the afternoon in Ely, MN on 9/26/22. We had the pleasure of touring the Dorothy Molter Museum. Dorothy lived up in the Boundary Waters on Knife Lake on the Isle of Pines for 56 years. She was a registered nurse, and a remarkable woman who broke female stereotypes and thrived in the wilderness. Dorothy is also famous for making her homemade root beer to serve to her 6000 guests who would stop by each year during canoeing season. She made 11,000-12,000 bottles of root beer per year. Dorothy was the last full time non-indigenous resident of the BWCA. She worked with the U.S. Forrest Service as a “volunteer in service”. Dorothy passed in 1986 at the age of 79. Be sure to Google Dorothy to learn more about her incredible life - she was an amazing lady!!
“If I ever find a man who can portage heavier loads, chop more wood, or catch more fish, then I’ll marry him.” - Dorothy Molter
Hello! My name is Megan Boelter and I'm a new paraprofessional at the high school. I live in Belle Plaine with my husband, Jeff, and our 4 wonderful and crazy children. We also have a bearded dragon and a new bulldog puppy! I enjoy spending time with friends and family, traveling, and am always up for a new adventure! I am very excited to join the MNCS team, and can't wait to see all the amazing things happening this year! Welcome to MNCS Megan!
MNCS Student Project Spotlight!
Devan's Welding Art Project is amazing! Devan created several "farm scene" pieces to form his collection. A boot rack made out of horseshoes and rebar, a table made out of his grandfather's 30 plus year old chain, a butterfly lawn/garden art, a tractor made out of a bike chain and a spoon for the seat, a suet feeder, and a little motorcycle made out of a spark plug and nuts. Great work Devan!!
