Avon School District 4-1

Parents/Guardians:
Today, your child is bringing home a Book Buddy Lanyard, letting you know about a safe and easy way for our school to raise funds for essential tools our students and teachers need to succeed.

The SchoolStore Program is 100% online, so there is NO face-to-face selling, handling money, or delivering products. Your participation will take less than 12 minutes, and there are exciting prizes to make it fun for the students.

Here is all you need to do to participate:
1. Go to https://www.schoolstore.net/sid.t?0000050906 to sign up.
2. Send form emails inviting family, friends, and co-workers to support your child.
3. Return the Book Buddy Lanyard with the Student Prize Code to school for your child to get their fun participation prize.

Please see attached for the stores you can shop through the School Store!

Be sure to ask your child for the Book Buddy Lanyard tonight. Your participation will make a difference for our school and teachers!

Thanks for supporting our students and staff!

The young Pirates are in action today on Alcester!

A big thank you to Avon Alumni Logan Mudder for doing the installation of the new adjustable basketball hoops that were recently purchased from Sports Games Center. This, for sure, will be a popular item at recess and help develop some basketball skills for our future Pirate Hoopsters!

There is nothing like enjoying a fresh bag of popcorn and watching a Pirate Victory. A special thanks to Paul Voigt and Voigt Seed for donating all the popcorn and oil for all our Pirate sports. Hooks up!

The football game will be livestreamed tonight. Just go to Avon Pirates Live on Youtube. They have made some changes, so the game will not be listed prior to the start of it.

Join us in the raising of the Jolly Roger at 6:45. Hooks up!

Gold Standard Pirates of the Week! PK-4: Maverick Van Gerpen 5-8: Gauge Maggs 9-12: Jacob Sassaman Congratulations! 🏴‍☠️

Albert Einstein (Mr. Hento) brought the 4th graders down to the gym today to learn about potential and kinetic energy. Challenge your students to see if they can tell you the difference!

Football season starts tonight!

Are you ready for some football! Thanks to Dennis, April, and Ray for painting the field. Game time 7:00 Friday. Go Pirates!

We have our first Junior Pirate Club members! Join today or tomorrow, and you will have a chance to deliver the game ball on Friday night at the football game! Hooks up and Go Pirates!

Introducing the "Junior Pirate Club" Open to Preschool through grade five. For only $5.00, you get an official certificate, wristband, eye patch, Pirate hat, and foam sword. Other perks include the chance to deliver the game ball, lunch with a player, and special drawings throughout the year. See Mr. Kuhlman to join. Hooks Up and Go Pirates!

7th grade started off civics this year by learning about who citizens are and what their duties and responsibilities are to the country. Then, they made a poster to hang in the hallway.

Can't have "Friday Night Lights" without lights! A special thanks to Berndt's Tree Service for helping to fix the lights at the football field! Thanks for your support of Pirate Athletics!

The 5th grade used their STEM time today, completing the marshmallow challenge. Each group had 18 minutes to build the tallest free standing structure that could hold one marshmallow. Supplies were 20 pieces of spaghetti, 1 marshmallow, 1yd of string and 1 yd of masking tape. Great conversations and teamwork were products of our challenge. The winners structure was 19 inches tall! Nice work, fifth graders!!

According to US News and World Report, Avon High School has been ranked as the #18 best HS in the state of South Dakota out of the 115 SD High Schools that made the list. In addition, 7 of the top 20 schools had enrollments under 100 students, which shows the success of our small schools. I am very proud of our students, staff, and community for this ranking and we will continue to work to move up the list. Stay Hungry! See complete rankings below.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/south-dakota/rankings

Here is the bracket for the Hanson Volleyball Tournament.

Gold Standard Pirate of the Week!
PK-4: Teagan Powers
5-8: Dahmari Sully
9-12: Bailey Kemnitz
Congratulations!

We can't thank Apparel Worx, the booster club, Annie, Janelle, and Theresa enough for coming up with such great Pirate apparel each year! I am looking forward to seeing all the new gear on our students, staff, and parents. If you forget to order contact the Booster club. They always maintain a nice selection. Go Pirates!

It definitely was a great day to be a Pirate! This was the 38th first day for me as a teacher, and it never gets old. As I walked around the building, I could feel the enthusiasm of the students and staff. We had great attendance today, and that plays a large part in the success of students in school. Day one is in the books. Be grateful for it, and look forward to tomorrow. Each day is a blessed opportunity to learn something new! First Grade enjoyed some "Jitter" juice to start the day.