Patriot’s Pen Essay Contest Winners Announced! In September, 7th grade students wrote essays as part of an essay contest sponsored by the VFW. The topic was “My Voice in America’s Democracy.” The winners from the Coleman Post #1071 were announced. Winning first place was Braylee Dickinson, and second place was awarded to Teagan Kennedy. Arianna Rooks earned third place. Each winner was awarded a cash prize, courtesy of VFW Post #1071. Congratulations to our essay winners, and a special thank you to VFW Post #1071 for their generous prize donations! Photos attached: (left to right): T. Kennedy, B. Dickinson, A. Rooks
The two Culinary classes put their skills to use and put in a lot of time and effort to help make the Gerstacker Holiday Party a success! Students and Chef Jacob Moore served at the event. Thank you Gerstacker team for trusting us for the third year with your event! #LEADLikeAComet
In Mrs. Shumaker's class, the freshmen did a Character Cube project on the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird. Each side of the cube tells something about the character and what they did in the story. Then they were hung from the ceiling so that all the class could see them! Great job 9th grade!
Coleman Schools will have a 2-hour delay today, Monday, December 16th due to a few icy roads and fog, which should improve a little later this morning. Buses will still run to the ESA for those students in ESA programs. 1st and 2nd hour English and Social Studies exams at the Jr/Sr High will begin tomorrow. Exams will be held for English and Social Studies starting with 3rd hour today. Ag and Culinary at Coleman for the morning are not running due to the delay and students going to other CTE programs for the morning will not have bussing but may drive themselves if they wish.
I have heard from some people that the voice message that went out was blank; my apologies for that. A text and email were sent to help with that. Again, sorry for the disruption.
Back during Kindness Week, the Jr/Sr High had a door decorating competition! The winners were Mr. Francis (balloon door) and Mrs. Robison (turkey door) and they each won an ice cream float party for their classes. Nice work being kind, Comets! #LEADLikeAComet
Our fantastic Jr/Sr High Secretaries- Mrs. Bell (who hasn't learned yet how to retire and is helping train our newest team member- lucky us!), Mrs. Sian (who is not allowed to ever retire), Mrs. Porter (who is always smiling and splits her time between buildings) and Mr. Willard (Athletic Dept. secretary who has been a perfect addition and fits right in with this crew and is great to our kids). Happy Holidays everybody!
We have some Culinary students who are practicing on a SkillsUSA project for their first competition in February! One will be showing a skills competition which she will be making and presenting on how to build crepes. The other two shown are working on icing roses as they will be competing in the baking portion of the competition. Good luck, students!
For International Education Week, one of our enchange students, Julia, organized a presentation about her home country, Poland! She presented it to her fellow students, who enjoyed her entertaining lesson. Thanks, Julia!
Ms. Lea served 175 cups of hot cocoa at lunch during kindness week! Students said something nice to the person in front of them and behind them so they were always giving and getting kind words said to them while they waited to get a cup of cocoa. How cozy! ☕
Congratulations to senior Kapre Lynch on being a John Alden Chapter Good Citizen! We're so proud of you! #LEADLikeAComet
Culinary Arts class cooked up a Thanksgiving dinner last week and worked on sugar cookies to take home! It looks amazing! 🌽🍗🥧
Afternoon practices will be optional today for HS. All JH practices are cancelled. Boys HS Basketball optional practices will be at 3:30. Girls HS Basketball optional practices will be at 3:15 in the Family Center. Wrestling will not have practice today.
STUDENTS- since I know you're awake now that you don't have to go to school ;o) spend your time on something productive. I could use some new memes or a quick video to share on ice, snow or severe cold days and I know YOU are great at making them. Parents can help, too. Keep them school/community appropriate, send them to jmccormack@colemanschools.net and yours might be used on the next Act of God Day. Include your name(s) so I can give you credit. Bonus points if it makes me laugh out loud! Let's have a little fun with it. - Mrs. McCormack
Coleman Schools will be closed today, Thursday, Dec. 5th, due to icy road conditions. Information on any afternoon/evening events will be posted later today. Please be safe and stay warm.
For Wed., 12.4, SPARKS and IGNITE programs are closing early today at 4:30 p.m. due to the icy road conditions. Drama will end tryouts early at 4:45 p.m. High school Boys Basketball practice is canceled and Girls Basketball practice will end a bit early to help keep more students of the icy roads in the dark. JH Girls Basketball game is still on for 4:30 as the opposing team has arrived. Please be safe if you have to go out.
Quiz Bowl had a cool opportunity to play at CMU for Quiz Central back in November! Students enjoyed lunch at one of the campus cafeterias, tokk a campus tour, and had lots of fun along the way. Quiz Central will air on Feb 19th, 2025 on CMU Public Broadcasting. Looking forward to seeing it! Who else is tuning in?
REMINDER: Wed., Nov. 27th is a half day of school with elementary out at 11:30 a.m. and jr/sr high out at 11:20 a.m. and there will be no SPARKS/IGNITE either due to the half day. There is NO SCHOOL this Thursday and Friday due to Thanksgiving Break. Have a relaxing and fun break and we will see you back at school on Monday, Dec. 2nd!
CGRESD who runs SPARKS and Ignite programs in our buildings notified us they are canceled for today, 11.26.2024. They have already sent messages out to parents of students in the program. We are sorry for any inconvenience.
Spanish 2 students studied Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), earlier this month! It is celebrated on November 1st and 2nd annually in Mexico. Students researched the celebration in the weeks leading up to it and created an ofrenda in the high school showcase. An ofrenda is an offering/altar prepared to honor and celebrate the lives of those loved ones who have passed on. It often includes water, salt, pan de muerto, marigolds, candles, and things our loved ones enjoyed during their lives. It is believed that Día de Muertos is the one night per year that our loved ones can come back to visit (like in the movie Coco!). Thanks for all the hard work you put into this project, Comets!
High School Art Class recently finished their Elements of Art projects! Students explored the seven elements (line, shape, color, form and value) where they picked one cohesive image that was divided into seven sections to illustrate the seven elements. Students now understand that the elements of art are the basic components that artists use to create visual compositions. Now our high school students understand how to analyze and appreciate art by identifying and describing how artists use these elements to express themselves through different techniques and stylization. Here's just a few of the students' projects. So beautiful and interesting to look at!
