8th graders attending the trip today: pack your rain gear and show up with a positive attitude! 😃
What a wonderful day it was to be a Mink!
✔️Wax Museum & Project Displays
✔️ Nobody Trashes Tennessee Program grades 7-8
✔️ EG Fisher Public Library presentation
✔️ Water Day for PreK and Kindergarten
✔️ Senior Walk
3rd grade’s performance will be tomorrow at 9:30. Sno Biz will be at school with $3 & $4 options after lunch. We’d like to wish safe travels to our 8th grade class as they take their annual trip.
It will be a busy day at Calhoun School! Public is invited to view 8th Grade's Living Wax Museum plus project displays from other grade levels 9:45 - noon. Please check in at front office. Finally, our Senior Walk for this year's high school graduates will begin at 1:30.
7th graders enjoyed an end-of-year field trip to Top Golf and CiCi's Pizza. As usual, our students were praised for their behavior and manners. Way to go, Minks!
Calhoun 2nd and 3rd grades enjoyed their trip to Jumpin Junction today!
Thank you to Resolute Forest Products and BW Sign Masters for helping us show our school spirit (and possibly a principal's obsession with gold)! #minkpride
8th Graders! Check out this opportunity!
Calhoun School was well-represented at this year's Academic Olympics. Each school chooses 4 students per grade three through eight. Students travel to TWU for a day of academic testing in Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies. Tonight was the awards ceremony. We are so very proud of all participants and winners! Way to go, Minks!
Girls Soccer
McMinn County Schools currently has a co-op set up with Athens City Middle School for girls soccer. Tryouts will be
May 24th
3:30 to 5:00
Athens City Field
The McMinn Central Soccer coaches are starting a girls team as well that will be unsanctioned. In other words they won’t be TMSAA affiliated. They will also have tryouts on May 24th from 1:00-2:00 at Central High School. Anyone in the county may tryout for this team as well.
No basketball workouts this week.
Monday:
•K-3 Field Day beginning 8:30
•Midlife Frysis Food Truck & Pam's Bundt Cakes open to adult customers
•Dailey's Delights available for purchase after lunch for students $4 or $7
Calhoun PreK enjoyed a field trip to Mimi's Jungle Gym in Athens on Friday!
Current 5th-7th grades
Boston Enrichment Trip 2025
Parent Information Meeting
Monday May 20, 2024
6 pm
CES cafeteria
Trip will explore Boston, Plymouth, Salem, Lexington, Concord and so much more June 10-13! This takes the place of the DC Inaugural 2025 trip.
It has been a BUSY Friday at Calhoun School!
•Field Day Grades 4-8 (message us your pictures please!)
•Color Wars (we'll update you with leader on Monday!)
•TWRA presentation for 3rd Grade
•Kona Ice
•PreK Field Trip
•Kindergarten Field Trip
I Scream,
You Scream,
PreK screams for ICE CREAM!
For next year’s 6th - 8th graders:
Middle School Sports:
•Football parent meeting May 9 6:00 @ MCHS Stadium
•Tennis May 21 3:45-4:45 @ MCHS
•Girls Soccer May 24 3:30-5 @ Athens City
•Softball May 28 7:00 - 8:30 pm @ MCHS
Surplus sales!
Want to know how to reward 160 excellent readers?! Take them to Athens Movie Palace! Congratulations to all these students for such an accomplishment!
Big shout out to Calhoun 3rd Grade. ALL third graders made their yearly Accelerated Reader goal!!
Thank you to our fearless leader Mrs. Monroe for orchestrating, to Calhoun PTO for sponsoring, and to Athens Movie Palace for accommodating.
Today's PreK fun featured bubbles and popsicles!
