Enjoy some pics from McKinley's end of year "special days" of field trips, field days, and classroom special events. We had a great year and thank you for sharing your kids with us!! Have a great summer!!

McKinley ABC partnered with the Abilene Kiwanis Club this year and participated in the "Terrific Kids" program! Our ABC students set academic or behavior goals this year, monitored their progress, and celebrated on Monday with the Kiwanis Club members!

What a fun morning celebrating National "Ride Your Bike to School Day" we had yesterday! Thank you to our Abilene rec center for planning this event!

During the month of April at McKinley, we have been focusing on one of the five Abilene Core Values: PERSEVERANCE! Our students nominated other students and staff when they saw others showing perseverance and today the following 2 students and 1 staff member's name was drawn from the nominations. Congrats to 2nd grader Koy Vanover for persevering with telling time, 3rd grader Ellie Gilliam-McAhren for preserving on state assessments, and Mrs. Kauer for showing perseverance as a 3rd grade teacher! You all did a "Sweet" job!

McKinley was led by the "Principal for the Day," Ms. Needham, today! She directed, inspired, and helped reinforce expectations in our classrooms today! Good job Ms. Needham!

Big thanks to the DK County Sheriff's Department for welcoming our students to McKinley this morning!! Beautiful morning and lots of smiles!!

McKinley enjoy the "Ag in the Classroom" lesson taught by many of our AHS Ag students about the different layers of soil today. Getting to eat "dirt and worms" was pretty fun too!!! Thank you, Mr. Fry and Mr. Hayes, for bringing your students!

Family Lunch Friday is coming up again at McKinley this week! Call to RSVP!

Family Lunch Fridays start again at McKinley this Friday!! Please call our office by 2:30pm tomorrow to RSVP!

We celebrated our paras and aides at McKinley today for National Para Appreciation Day!! These staff members are AMAZING, work hard, and care for our students each day!

Every week we have a McKinley ticket drawing for a student to get to help Mr. Kent raise the flag on Friday. Today, 2nd grader Everette Seematter was chosen. His father, GySgt Christopher Seematter, came and saluted our flag as it was being raised! Very special moment to see a dad who is serving our country salute our flag as his son was raising it! ❤️

Our Abilene Public librarians came and gave high 5's and a little bag of goodies to our McKinley students this morning!! Thank you for starting our Friday off with smiles!!

This morning we learned more about our Boy's Town Skill of the Week, "Asking Permission," from Mr. Liby at McKinley. Thank you for sharing, Mr. Liby!

We are hiring for a full-time sub at McKinley for next school year!

Mr. Brown wanted to make sure our students could try "moose moss" today at lunch after he read to our students last week about it in our Dr. Seuss book!! 🤣😂😳😁 No one thought it was too delicious!!

We ended our week with Mr. Brown coming to read this morning!!! Thank you, Mr. Brown, for sharing about Thidwick the big, hearted moose!! We have loved having our community members sharing their love of reading with our students this week!

The Cat in the Hat visited McKinley this morning!! A big thanks to Mr. Schwartz for sharing one of his favorite Dr. Seuss books and making the story so engaging! We have greatly appreciated all of our readers this week!!!

We loved having Mayor Rein as our guest reader this morning at McKinley for our Read Across America Week!

We loved having Mayor Rein as our guest reader this morning at McKinley for our Read Across America Week!

Mrs. Hoffman shared her favorite Dr. Seuss book this morning to our McKinkey students, "Horton Hatches The Egg!" Thank you for sharing your love of reading!!