McKinley celebrated the 100th Day of School with amazing displays created by our students! Many parents and grandparents were able to come and enjoy our museums in our classrooms!

McKinley celebrated the 100th Day of School with amazing displays created by our students! Many parents and grandparents were able to come and enjoy our museums in our classrooms!

Next week is Kindness week in our PK-5 buildings!! Our students will be participating in different activities to promote kindness and caring for each other.

We had a new face for our principal today at McKinley! Principal Nieves did a great job as our Principal for the Day!! This special honor is chosen each quarter to one student at McKinley based on our McKinley ticket drawings!

McKinley families, we hope you can join us for our 100th Day of School celebration on Tuesday of next week!

Amanda Lindahl, K-State Research and Extension visited McKinley ABC Thursday and read the book "No Ordinary Apple," about mindful eating. Students got to sample several different kinds of apples using mindful eating techniques they learned from the book!

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Special ABC activities and eating with Police Officers for tickets winners at 3rd grade this week were fun for all! Bette Engelhaupt, DK County Arts Council visited McKinley ABC Thursday and had students do a very professional looking butterfly craft project.

McKinley's 100th day celebration!

At McKinley ABC this last week, Ike Educators, Denise Liby and Mary Hildebrand, had students do a color by number sunflower picture to go with Kansas’s birthday this month! They also talked about Ike’s staff doing color by number pictures that now travel around the work be viewed.

McKinley has power and phones again! You can reach us at our school number again!

Parents, we would like to keep you informed of the social/emotional skills we are focusing on during January with our PK-3rd graders! This week we are getting back into our classroom routines and focusing on following directions!

Accepting applications for open positions at McKinley for 26-27 school year!

McKinley students and staff had fun with our Ugly Christmas Sweater competition today!!

Best way to end our first semester at McKinley is with a visit from Santa and celebrating our quarter 2 Character Ed awards!

What a fun afternoon we had at McKinley as we traveled through our building and learned about 5 different countries and how holidays are celebrated! Our students heard presentations from Mrs. Griffis about Romania, Mrs. Horan about Sweden, Mrs. Reynolds about Japan, Ms A about Mexico, and Mrs. Meneley and the German club from AHS about Germany!!

Santa visited McKinley ABC today!! He read "The Night Before Christmas," answered many questions and listened to each student’s wish list.

Our McKinley students enjoyed picking out a special gift for a loved one today!! Thank you all who helped with donating items for our Christmas Market led by our 3rd grade McKouncil members!

The 3rd grade McKinley McKouncil has voted!! We have our 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners of our holiday door decorating contest! 1st place goes to Ms. A's Nutcracker/Joy to the World door, 2nd place is Ms. Bachand with the "Wet Bandits," and 3rd place to Mrs. Koch with the Christmas Sigma 6-7 door!!

Mary Hildebrand and Denise Liby, Ike Educators, came to  McKinley ABC and showed students how to make an old fashioned Christmas ornament this week!