McKinley had a Fire Prevention Assembly today by our Abilene Fire Department! Mrs. Krause and Mrs. Pekarek overcame their fear of heights! We appreciate our fire department taking the time to teach us how to stay safe!

It's National School Custodian Day and McKinley is celebrating our wonderful full-time and part-time custodial staff! We appreciate their hard work devoted to keeping our school clean and safe!

3rd grade McKinley McKouncil is doing a fundraiser for our Rocket Slide at McKinley!

Great way to start our Friday at McKinley with the Abilene Athletics Leadership students greeting us!

We appreciate our food service team at McKinley! Thank you for all you do to serve our students!

McKinley ABC had two more great community speakers visit last week. Kim Shafer, from The Japan Club, and Miss Bette (Engelhaupt) from Dickinson County Arts Council.

Today was National Constitution Day! McKinley 3rd graders participated in a Constitution scavenger hunt to learn lots of facts about the importance of our U.S. Constitution!

McKinley ABC was fortunate to have some great community speakers last week! Denise Liby and Mary Hildebrand, with Ike Education and Jackie Walsh, Faith Rocks Ministry Equine with her therapy horses.

We loved starting our morning at McKinley with high 5's from the AHS Cowboy football team!! Your McKinley fans will be cheering you on tonight for the first home football game!

Ms. Wahl's 2nd graders were busy today on National Skyscraper Day building their own skyscrapers which also connected to their story this week, "The Mice Who Lived in the Shoe." 3rd graders have been learning about finding the areas of a shape this week in math! It's wonderful to see our students engaged in their learning and gaining new skills!

A PBS kids show, "Melvin Mania's Local Town on the Ground," featured Abilene and our schools today! We had two 3rd grade McKinley students interviewed, F. Ward and R. Nagely. We can't wait to see the episode when it airs on Sept. 23rd! We will be sure to post a link!

What a great turnout at our carnival tonight!! Thank you, families, for coming and we hope you had a great time! We want to give a HUGE thanks to Shelly Alderson for making this fun event possible and for supporting more family engagement opportunities with funds raised from this event!

PK-5 Families! We hope you can join us tonight for a fun family event!

PK-5 Families, we hope you will join us for the annual Back to School Carnival!!

We loved meeting our students and families at McKinley today! It's going to be a great school year!

Our elementary teachers have been busy the last two in-service days with their own learning! What a great team of teachers and support staff ready to welcome students on Thursday!

Don't forget tomorrow night is our Back to School night at all 3 buildings! Bring your school supplies and meet your teacher!