The 7th grade Ancient History Class has been exploring how early peoples communicated. Earlier this year, a cave paintings activity focused on illustrating culturally important parts of their life. Currently they are finishing up a unit on the Fertile Crescent during which they had some fun seeing the difference between Cuneiform, a language where symbols represented words and syllables, and Phoenician, an early alphabetic language.
The Marion National Honor Society, Cross Country Team, and a couple of Cheerleaders had a blast volunteering at the Ragnar Michigan Road Race! The NHS ensured the first relay hand-off at Exchange 1 in Traverse City went smoothly. The Cross Country team and Cheerleaders built the finish line and welcomed the first few relay teams across the finish line in Muskegon. From start to finish, that's OVER 200 MILES OF RUNNING in a day and a half! One of those teams included some familiar faces! Great '24 finish to team "In my Ragnar Era!!" Thanks for being such awesome role models.
Marion hosted the Burr Oak HS traveling Volleyball team on Thursday Oct 3 as they passed through the area on their way to the UP. Good Luck Burr Oak! Thanks for the great game.
This Friday is a half day of school. If your child needs alternative transportation, please contact the bus garage to ensure they are dropped off at the correct location.
High School announcements for the week of September 30
Jr/Sr High Breakfast and Lunch Menus for October
Elementary Breakfast/Lunch Menus for October
Miss Umbreit's first grade class started their apple study this week! They have been learning about the life cycle and parts of an apple, the legend of Johnny Appleseed, and the many treats made from apples. Yesterday, they helped Miss Umbreit make one of those yummy treats...applesauce!
JR/SR High Parent Teacher Conferences
Important information for Middle School parents!
The Marion Cross Country Team traveled North to the Hanson Hills Recreation Area to compete in The Grayling Cross Country Invitational. Runners fought through sandy terrain with a combination of open blue skies and a beautiful wooded section. The ski slope backdrop behind the finish line proved to be too tempting. AFTER the races were over, this team attacked the hill and conquered it!
Here are our 7th graders enjoying their time learning as part of the CNET program at CTC.
JR/SR High Interventionist Openings
Regular Board of Education Meeting Agenda
Monday, September 16
6:00pm
Twinning in kindergarten today! Go Eagles!!
Marion Athletic Boosters are looking for volunteers for Fall Concessions.
Please Sign Up!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0849A9A62CAAF4C16-50690824-fall
Title 1 Parent Involvement and Annual Parent Meeting
The 6th Grade just finished up with their introduction to the 5 Themes of Geography; Movement, Region, Human Environment Interaction, Location, and Place, and are now exploring different types of maps. To illustrate a dilemma cartographers have, taking the surface area of a sphere and projecting it onto a flat surface, students tried to take an orange peel and flatten it out. Some students attempted to arrange small pieces on their desks, others tried to hammer out the edges to make their pieces connect, and a third group carefully removed almost the entire peel in one long piece. Though each method created a different type of distortion, the strategies used by students are similar to the popular world map projections we use today!
Saturday, 9/7, Marion Cross Country welcomed Central Michigan Homeschool Athletics, Farwell, Forest Area, Lansing Waverly, Cadillac, and Manton Schools as they competed in the Marion Steeplechase Race. This race is a bit different than a normal cross country meet; runners competed as teams of 3 and navigated around and over hay bales, logs, and tires throughout the 5k, 2mi, and 1mi fun run courses. Thank you to Lansing Waverly for continuing the tradition of joining us the day before the meet as we put the finishing touches on the course and to share in some running comradery.
Marion Highlights
2nd Place Men's Varsity 2 Mile Team
1st place runner! Isiah Peterson (10th) 14:30
3rd place runner Jaden Kiger (11th) 14:50
12th place runner Jamie Knapp (10th) 25:38
1st Place Women's Varsity 5k Team
1st place runner! Bella Radtke (10th) 27:09
(scored with 2 ghost runners)
MS Boys 2 Mile
31st place runner Lucas Euwema (6th) 18:00
43rd place runner Preston Teare (6th) 21:39
Full results can be found here: https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/239743/results/all
Special attention Marion Elementary parents.
There will be planned road closures for Thursday afternoon during pick up, as well as Friday for drop off and pick up. Main St will be closed from Pine St to Clark St.
What does this mean for parents? Please see below for drop off and pick up changes for students at regularly scheduled pick up and drop off time.
Thursday 9/12
Parents coming from the West of the elementary school will need to use the detour going North onto N Case St, then East onto Wing St, turn South onto Lake Shore Drive, followed by turning West onto Water St. Follow Water St into the parking lot behind the elementary school. Please utilize the photo below for the flow of traffic and safety of students.
Parents coming from the East of the elementary school will be able to turn west onto Water St from M66. Follow Water St into the parking lot that buses are normally parked in. Please utilize the photo below for the flow of traffic and safety of students.
Transportation has asked that parents do not line up on Water St until approximately 2:40pm to allow for all of the buses to get out of the parking lot before traffic starts coming in.
The parking lot in the front of the school that is normally used for pick up/drop off will be used for BUSES ONLY.
Friday 9/13
Parents will need to drop off their students and pick up their students at the north parking lot (where buses normally park) utilizing the detours. Again the parking lot in the front of the school will be used for BUSES ONLY.
