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The second annual Kids in the Community Day was held Wednesday last week with 400 middle school students, homeroom teachers and parent volunteers working to complete service projects in Montevideo.
The purpose of Kids in the Community Day is to give back to our community. Learning happens not only in the classroom but also during rewarding projects outside of the school building.
Students contributed to yard cleanup, leaf raking, planting trees, picking up litter and promoting recycling during the time spent outside of the school building.
All students, wearing gold shirts, gathered in the gym at the middle school to kick off the event with Mayor Debra Lee Fader, Superintendent Dr. Luther Heller and environmentalist Patrick Moore emphasizing the importance of giving back to our community and the pride we take in doing this.
Students were energized by a song and guitar accompaniment lead by Moore, his wife, Mary Moore, and Fader titled “Montevideo Is the Place I Want to Be.”
A T-shirt design contest was held for all students to participate in earlier this fall in search for a Kids in the Community design. Seventh-grader Ellie Opdahl designed the winning T-shirt logo that was printed on gold T-shirts everyone wore as they worked on their projects.
It’s a big project to undertake, but the outcome and rewards exceed the behind-the-scenes work that goes into something like this. It was a great day for kids in our community.
The middle school staff and administrators would like to thank KleinBank, Avicenna, J&D Construction, and the Montevideo Economic Development Authority for their generous contribution to MMS Kids in the Community Day for helping to purchase a gold T-shirt for every student.
MMS would also like to thank the Walmart employees for raising money for teacher classroom supplies. Mr. Rohloff’s homeroom organized a list of items staff need for classroom instruction. His homeroom then took a field trip to Walmart, during homeroom time, to purchase the needed items.
Students worked in teams and stayed within a specific budget. They were able to purchase $141 worth of instructional supplies.
The second annual Kids in the Community Day was held Wednesday last week with 400 middle school students, homeroom teachers and parent volunteers working to complete service projects in Montevideo.
The purpose of Kids in the Community Day is to give back to our community. Learning happens not only in the classroom but also during rewarding projects outside of the school building.
Students contributed to yard cleanup, leaf raking, planting trees, picking up litter and promoting recycling during the time spent outside of the school building.
All students, wearing gold shirts, gathered in the gym at the middle school to kick off the event with Mayor Debra Lee Fader, Superintendent Dr. Luther Heller and environmentalist Patrick Moore emphasizing the importance of giving back to our community and the pride we take in doing this.
Students were energized by a song and guitar accompaniment lead by Moore, his wife, Mary Moore, and Fader titled “Montevideo Is the Place I Want to Be.”
A T-shirt design contest was held for all students to participate in earlier this fall in search for a Kids in the Community design. Seventh-grader Ellie Opdahl designed the winning T-shirt logo that was printed on gold T-shirts everyone wore as they worked on their projects.
It’s a big project to undertake, but the outcome and rewards exceed the behind-the-scenes work that goes into something like this. It was a great day for kids in our community.
The middle school staff and administrators would like to thank KleinBank, Avicenna, J&D Construction, and the Montevideo Economic Development Authority for their generous contribution to MMS Kids in the Community Day for helping to purchase a gold T-shirt for every student.
MMS would also like to thank the Walmart employees for raising money for teacher classroom supplies. Mr. Rohloff’s homeroom organized a list of items staff need for classroom instruction. His homeroom then took a field trip to Walmart, during homeroom time, to purchase the needed items.
Students worked in teams and stayed within a specific budget. They were able to purchase $141 worth of instructional supplies.
