McKinley had a visit from our Abilene Firefighters today as we learn about Fire Safety this week! We learned about the importance of not being afraid of firefighters if they come into your home and making sure you have designated a meeting place if you have to evacuate your home!

Come shop for a FREE Halloween Costume at the McKinley Halloween drive on Thursday morning and Friday afternoon of this week!! We have lots of elementary aged boy costumes!!

Such a fun week at McKinley ABC last week!! Painting horses and making paper sack pumpkins were the highlights! Thank you Jackie Walsh and Jamie Ely from the Abilene Public Library for coming!

McKinley students started their day off with being greeted by four legged friends and the Abilene Animal Hospital! Thank you for the joy you brought our students this morning!

We appreciate our wonderful custodial crew at McKinley! Thank you Kent, Steve, and Melissa (not pictured) for all you do!! Happy School Custodian Day!

We would love to have more children's Halloween costume donations for our Costume Drive next week!! Drop them off anytime at our McKinley School Office before next week on Wednesday! Come and shop next week on Thursday morning and Friday afternoon for a free costume!

At McKinley, we focused on our district core value of RESPECT during the month of September! M. Bowers, K. Kroeker-Jones, and Mrs. McDonald were our two students and one staff member who won the RESPECT award from a list of many nominations this month! Congratulations! October's focus is on COOPERATION!

McKinley Site Council is treating staff and teachers to a day of snacks as a "thank you" for all you do!! Our staff is very appreciative of this kind gesture from our Site Council!!

Don't forget!!! Our PK-5 Carnival is MONDAY from 6-8pm at the AHS football field!

The generosity of local businesses to help support our public schools is always amazing!! Big thanks to Holm Automotive in supporting our students and staff at McKinley!

Big thanks to these two retired teachers that continually give of their time to make our schools amazing! Thank you Mrs. Nuss and Mrs. Hoffman for greeting our students today!

Today our PK-5 students celebrated Constitution Day by reading about our Constitution, doing an escape room activity to learn facts about our Constitution, and our youngest learners painted their own flags!

Our 3rd grade McKinley McKouncil is hosting a Halloween Costume Drive! Please consider donating a new or gently used children's costume or come and pick one out for your child!

West's Country Mart put lots of smiles on our McKinley faces this morning!! Thank you for giving of your time to greet us!!!

McKinley Intermediate School would like to thank Lorie Flippo's family for the generous Memorial donation for our new swing in her name. This is a great addition to our playground and will benefit future students for years to come!

Let me introduce you to our 1st quarter McKinley McKouncil members: Cash Martin, Camdyn Milican, Gunner Bohannan, and Everette Seematter. These four students are showing their leadership skills already as 3rd graders by taking on new roles school-wide at McKinley and planning an upcoming Halloween Costume Drive for our community! They enjoyed donated Happy Meals by our local McDonald's for our first McKouncil meeting!

The Carnival will happen!!! M ark your calendars for the new date!!

We have amazing police officers in Abilene who give of their time once a month to come and eat with our McKinley ticket winners! Our students worked hard to earn tickets to eat with them and our students loved it that they took time to play with them on our playground today!!

A great Friday at McKinley!! Being greeted this morning by Holm Automotive and our first Family Lunch Friday made this day pretty special!!

The PK-5 Back to School Carnival has been CANCELLED for tonight!!!