WCHS BB hosts Blue Valley tonight (2-10-2025) along with recognizing our Youth Basketball teams! Going to be a fun evening! Good Luck Tigers!
Here is the Weekly Newsletter. Don't forget: Tuesday Night's game has been moved to MONDAY night to avoid potentially bad weather. Have a great week. #BeTigerStrong
Alert: Open Gym will be OPEN from 3-4 PM. Thank you Kelsie Beikmann!
Today was a fantastic day for the future of our Washington County Band Program. We battled through some illness today, missed a couple good friends due to illness but all in all today was a success. Thanks to our fantastic bus driver Paula, some very lucky 5th-8th grade students spent the day in Holton at the Holton Honor band festival. 21 musicians from Washington County joined roughly 250 other 5th-8th grade students to rock out with a few new directors.
White band featured our first year students. Blue band featured 2nd year, and Purple band was a combination of 3rd and 4th year players.
Oh and even a few of us directors got in on the fun thanks to the white band director. I debuted today as a bird soloist. We were amazing. Band directors are truly just big band geeks...
You can check out the program at this link.
https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/XYQfimVsTuFWn
And if you want to catch the live stream videos (there are two). You can Hope over to Mrs Abigail J Sawin 's personal page.
Congratulations!! And thanks to all those who made the day possible.
Mrs. Baker's class had an "indoor snowball fight" with extra pages from their Unit 1 math book. It's a way to celebrate moving on to book 2. Look our FRACTIONS, we are ready for you!
Due to the chances of inclement weather moving in next week, the Tuesday, February 11th HS Basketball game located at WCHS vs BV will now take place Monday, February 10.
West Gym: 5:00pm 1/2 JV girls followed by JV boys.
HS Gym: 6:00pm Varsity girls followed by Varsity Boys.
Congratulations to the following band students who have been named to the 12a Honor band at Kansas Music Educators Association Inservice Workshop. This band is the top 1a and 2a band students in the state. There are approximately 90 students in this group. They will be traveling to Wichita at the end of February, to work with a composer and then perform for all the Kansas Music Teachers at Century II Performing Arts building.
Seniors: Aviana Hertz, Mackenzie Kuhaneck, Joselyn Sanchez
Juniors: Brianne Fincham, Tucker Huband
Sophomores: Kelly Annunziato, Cayden Meadows
Freshman: Zoe Sawin
Today, students in Human Anatomy and Physiology visited Cloud County Community college. They placed IVs on practice dummies and learned about the nursing programs and resources at the college. Then they learned more about human anatomy through a cadaver dissection tour.
Eight forensics team members head to Rock Creek on February 8.
The 5th - 8th graders are attending Holton Honor Band this Saturday. Good luck to all! You will find more information on the days program here: https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/XYQfimVsTuFWn (You'll have to copy it out and paste it into this browser.
WCHS FFA Students attended the Public Speaking Event in Clay Center on February 5th. In the Freshmen Division, Rowley Keesecker (Artificial Insemination - The Original A.I. of Agriculture) led the field and placed first overall, Witt Keesecker (Feedlot Production Trends) finished in 4th, and Madisyn LeDuc (Cool Beans - Spring Soybean Planting Strategies) placed 19th overall. Emma O'Rourke competed in the Sophomore Division with her speech entitled "Urbanization of Farmland in Kansas" and placed 15th overall in her division. Addy Oakes competed in the Extemporaneous Speaking event as a freshmen and her topic was Gene Editing in Agriculture. In the FFA Creed Division, Rowley Keesecker was named as the overall District Champion and was chosen to represent the North Central District in the State Creed Speaking Competition in May. Witt Keesecker also placed fourth in the FFA Creed, both earning medals for their accomplishments. Congratulations WCHS FFA Speakers!!!
Tiger Boys lost another close game vs Republic County last night. Again, we had 3 good qtrs and struggled in the 4th. Final score 50-48.
If anyone wants to monitor Open Gym this Sunday, February 9th please reach out to rsmith@usd108.org and I am happy to help get it organized! Unless someone reaches out, there will be no Open Gym due to Super Bowl Sunday! Thank you!
The 7th grade advisory class had their first "art of chit chat" lesson with some volunteers from the community today.
WCHS Scholars Bowl Season came to an end this evening at the Regional Tournament in Frankfort. The Team had several highlights and close matches in a very tough pool of teams that have had consistently strong seasons. WCHS handed Blue Valley their only loss, and finished in a 3-team tiebreaker for 2nd place, going 4-2 overall. The two teams that had both won the rounds against WCHS, Frankfort and Onaga, were also in that tie with a 4-2 overall record. When it was all broken down, WCHS ended up 4th in our Pool and did not advance onto the finals round.
Five seniors from this year's team will be lost to graduation including Joselyn Sanchez, Aviana Hertz, Amber Kolle, Leslie Martinez and Makenna Elliott. Regional Team members also included Sophomore Kelly Annunziato and Junior Jonathan Wright. Thank you all for an amazing experience this year in competitions and practice. I appreciate our senior's leadership and will miss working with them! Thanks for making my first year as Scholars Bowl Coach a great experience!
FCCLA Valentines order form is attached. All proceeds go to the Kole Bruna Family.
I am so proud of our FCCLA members who tried something new and set goals to improve our school, community, and themselves. We had a very good day!
Mrs. Baker's class is finishing up their study of the southeast region. Today they used their map skills, talked about proportion, and used play-doh to build the southeast region.
Students in Financial Literacy gave presentations Wednesday and Thursday over their chosen stock portfolios. Students were allowed to "spend" $10,000 on stocks and/or bond funds of their choice and then gave reasons for their choices.
WCHS BB hosts Republic County tonight (2-6-2025). Good Luck Tigers!
