C.Klein 6th at Halstead 120 lbs. #LionPride
K. Wheeler 1st at Halstead 113 lbs. at Halstead. #LionPride
Q. Bohl 2nd at Halstead 130 lbs. #LionPride
A. Sharp 4th at Halstead 120 lbs. #LionPride
L. Monts 2nd at Halstead 115 lbs. #LionPride
R. Johnson 3rd at Halstead 100 lbs. #LionPride
Kindergarten kids in Mrs. Shaft's Class practiced being engineers today. Working together and using picture instructions, they built a giant roller coaster! Fun times!
MHS girls wrestling on Friday and boys wrestling on Saturday will be livestreaming on the link below. #LionPride
https://fan.hudl.com/usa/ks/halstead/organization/4177/halstead-high-school/watch?b=QnJvYWRjYXN0MjAwNDU1OQ%3D%3D
We had fun together playing a math game with our Oaks today! Both the Acorns & the Oaks were very competitive!
Minneapolis 1st graders love Thursdays. Acorns to Oaks is always a fun time!
MGS 1st graders are SO happy to have our Acorns to Oaks program started back up!
Junior High wrestling parent meeting Tuesday January 14 at 5:30 in the auditorium.
B. Johnson 3rd at Ellsworth 215 lbs. #LionPride
E. Bohl 3rd at Ellsworth 150 lbs. #LionPride
J. Johns 4th at Ellsworth 138 lbs. #LionPride
A. Arnold 3rd and B. Peters 1st at Ellsworth 132 lbs. #LionPride
C. Klein 4th at Ellsworth 120 lbs. #LionPride
K. Wheeler 1st at Ellsworth 113 lbs. #LionPride
Minneapolis Wrestling today from Ellsworth will be livestreaming at the link below. #LionPride
https://fan.hudl.com/usa/ks/ellsworth/organization/13434/ellsworth-high-school
Mrs. Keri Pratt: USD 239 North Ottawa County Public Schools’ 2025 Teacher of the Year
Mrs. Keri Pratt, a 1st-grade teacher at Minneapolis Grade School, was selected as the USD 239 North Ottawa County Public Schools’ 2025 Teacher of the Year.
Mrs. Pratt graduated from Kansas State University with her Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education in 2000 and from Emporia State University with her Master of Science degree in Curriculum and Instruction in 2006.
She taught Kindergarten for 9 years in Olathe, Kansas, from 2002 to 2010, where she received the Horace Mann Foundation Crystal Apple Award. In 2010, Mrs. Pratt moved to Columbia, MO, where she taught Kindergarten for 7 years and received the Outstanding Educator: PK-2nd grade for Columbia Public Schools. In 2017, she moved back to her hometown of Minneapolis, KS, where she teaches first grade. In 2020, she received the VFW Smart/Maher Education Teacher Award.
Mrs. Pratt loves to witness and be a part of the amazing growth that students make, both academically and socially, during this critical foundational time. Students’ enthusiasm at this age is contagious; she is just as excited to be there! Mrs. Pratt strives to build a classroom environment where all students feel safe, loved, encouraged, and excited to attend school daily. She advocates for building positive relationships with students and their families through open communication between home and school. This helps create a team fostering a love of learning and a strong connection between home, school, and community.
Congratulations to Mrs. Pratt, and we all wish her the best as she competes to be the next Kansas Teacher of the Year!
