Port Clinton High School juniors Noah Cross and Jake Prosser have been selected to participate in the American Legion Buckeye Boys State. American Legion Post 113 selected the students to participate at event to be held June 9-16 on the campus of Bowling Green State University.  

Buckeye Boys State is an eight day intensive education program on Ohio government for high school students. American Legion Buckeye Boys State is a program where each participant becomes a part of the operation of local, county and state governments. During Boys State students experience the rights, privileges, duties and responsibilities of a franchised citizen. The students are elected to the various offices and participate in activities such as legislative sessions, court proceedings, law enforcement presentations, assemblies, band and recreation. High School juniors are selected by their local American Legion Posts.

Recently the Oak Harbor High School DECA program's financial literacy promotion project, which included high school students Austin Wiegand, Nathan Segaard and Samantha Durivage, partnered with two of Mrs. Krieger’s fifth grade mathematics classes at Oak Harbor Middle School. Krieger spearheaded the activity by registering her students into the Toledo Blade’s Stock Market Contest, sponsored and judged by Fifth Third Bank and the Toledo Blade.

Wednesday was Dinosaur Day for Mrs. Rita McNutt’s first graders at Immaculate Conception School.  It was a day full of hands on learning about the prehistoric beasts of the past.  The children visited several stations that allowed them to explore, experience, and create.

Kayden Shrader makes fossils with colorful clay.

Joe Nguyen looks for fossils (AKA chocolate chips) from the depths

of his cookie.

Kayden Shrader makes fossils with colorful clay.

Joe Nguyen looks for fossils (AKA chocolate chips) from the depths

of his cookie.

There was a clay station that allowed the students to make fossils with plastic dinosaurs.  The class ate like dinosaurs as they enjoyed beef jerky, broccoli, cauliflower, and celery stalks and peanut butter.  Each young paleontologist was given a chocolate chip cookie, a toothpick, and a small paint brush to carefully remove “fossils” or chocolate chips from the cookie- a tedious and precise process. The students each were given dinosaur activity books that incorporated many areas of learning, such as math, spelling, reading, and writing, with the dinosaur theme. At the conclusion of the day,  Mr. Gregory Fox entertained the class with song.

Destiny Wallace, Kindergarten student at Bataan Memorial Primary, completes a lesson on a tablet in Mrs. Morgan Siefke’s classroom. "ScootPad" is an application that tests students to see how they are progressing on kindergarten skills and concepts, important skills such as knowing where the front of the book is, knowing which sounds letters start with and kindergarten math skills like number sense.

Port Clinton City Schools has kindergarten screening for next year on April 22–25. Call 419-732-2102 for an appointment.

More pictures are online at www.pccsd.net or the district Facebook page.

Mrs. Rita McNutt’s first grade class at Immaculate Conception School in Port Clinton received an extra special piece of mail Tuesday, a thank you message from the community of Newtown, CT. Last December, after the tragic events at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the class talked about the sadness that the community of Newtown was dealing with. The first graders spent some quiet time in church, lit a candle, and said special prayers for the school, the families and the community. The class then returned to the classroom to make cards that were sent off to the school by Principal Connie Snyder.  This week the class received a response from the town of Newtown that brightened their day. The response thanked the class for their thoughts and prayers and said that knowing that people care does indeed help their healing. The entire school continues to send its prayers to the community of Newtown, Connecticut.