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Let's go band! We are proud of our current and alumni musicians! Congratulations on a fantastic concert!

🌱💚 MCS Garden Work Day – A Huge Success! 💚🌱 What an amazing Family Garden Work Day! We had a record number of helpers show up, and thanks to all your hard work, we got everything done in record time — and even had time to tackle extra tasks! 💪🌼 Our school community garden is blooming brighter because of the time, energy, and heart you all shared today. 🌻 From weeding and planting to hauling and organizing, every little bit made a huge difference. Truly, many hands make light work! A huge THANK YOU to all our incredible Merrimac Families for showing up and digging in together. 🌿💖 Special thanks to Buttermilk Barn for the soil donation! #MerrimacStrong #GardenDaySuccess #ThankYouFamilies #CommunityRoots #ManyHandsMakeLightWork

Egg-citing update on the incubators! Students candled the eggs to check for blood vessels and see which eggs have a chick or duckling developing inside. It's hard to wait! #agintheclassroom

Looking good in print! MCS was featured in the Spring Annual Report of the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin as a grant recipient! Our fall field trip received funds from their #GoOutsideFund grant! Thank you!

Egg-citing day at MCS as we set the chicken and duck eggs in the incubators! Now we learn a lesson in patience until hatching day! #AgInTheClassroom #spsdlearns

Soil science for #EarthDay was a hit! Real soil for planting and edible soil for the layers of the earth! Thank you to #AgInTheClassroom and the Sauk County Farm Bureau! ❤️🌎🌱

Thank you to the Sand County Foundation for visiting on #EarthDay and bringing the fun pollinator game! We had fun bee-ing the bees! ❤️🐝 ❤️🌎

Stir it Up Sauk Prairie visited the 4th graders today. They learned about “eating the rainbow” and the importance of eating different colored fruits and veggies! They got to prep, create, and enjoy veggie pizza!

Congratulations to Kirsten Johnson, Mary Walz, Todd Breunig, Jenna McCann and Emily Rennicke on being named Herb Kohl Educational Foundation honorees. We are proud of how you represent our amazing teacher team! Teachers can be nominated for the Kohl Educational Foundation Teacher Fellow award by students, parents, other teachers, community members, or administrators. One hundred (100) teachers in Wisconsin are recognized with this honor each year. Thank you to these educators for teaching and inspiring our students: Kirsten Johnson, Science teacher at Sauk Prairie High School Mary Walz, Math and Computer Science teacher at Sauk Prairie High School Todd Breunig, Physical Education teacher at Sauk Prairie High School Jenna McCann, 2nd Grade teacher at Merrimac Community School Emily Rennicke, Physical Education teacher at Sauk Prairie Middle School

Congratulations to all of our young writers who participated in the Young Author's Conference. Sauk Prairie was represented by 18 students from grades 3-5. These young authors from Grand Ave, Merrimac and Tower Rock had their writing selected as winning entries. Because of their winning pieces, the students earned participation in the Central Wisconsin Talented and Gifted (CWTAG) Young Author's Conference where they heard from a published author and attended writing workshops. Their work is published in an anthology of winning entries. The Young Author's Conference, held earlier this year in Westfield, featured writing from students across Central Wisconsin in the areas of poetry, narrative writing, and creative writing.

Habitat dioramas by grade 1 are filled with flora and fauna! Students demonstrated their learning by choosing and creating an ecosystem!

Let's get growing! Grade 5 checked the water quality and transplanted their seedlings into the Tower Garden! #AgInTheClassroom #schoolgarden

Orchard pruning and a #FirstDayHike for April! A big thank you to Zach Engleking and EC3 for pruning our school orchard! We appreciate your support of our project! After helping in the orchard, students took a magnifying glass walk in the school prairie to see all the little things! Moss, old chrysalis, seed heads, and more!

"Community" service is our middle name! Students prepped village planters for spring planting by removing the winter decorations. #TogetherWeSoar

The power of persuasion is strong with second grader Bennett! 💪✍️ As part of a writing lesson from our Amplify ELA curriculum, he crafted a compelling message to Principal Brehm, making a heartfelt case for soccer goals on the playground. ⚽️ His eloquence paid off—because who could say no to such a well-written request? Thanks to generous donations from our amazing school community, the goals became a reality! Today, Bennett, his friend, and his older brother even skipped the pre-spring break movie to help assemble them. Talk about dedication! As the saying goes, "It never hurts to ask." Congrats, Bennett, on using your voice to Amplify our outdoor space! 🎉 #TogetherWeSoar #MCS #AmplifyELA #StudentVoice #RecessRevamp

Students celebrated #NationalAgricultureDay with books, seedlings, trout, weaving, hatching quail, and a treat! Just a normal day at MCS! Thank you to @wiagintheclassroom for the visit from our favorite ag lady!

Physics, energy, wind power, and a planetarium made for an awesome field trip. Hands-on, brains-on!

A trip to UW Madison was dino-mite as students learned about Wisconsin geology, fossils, and had time for hands-on activities!

Drip drip drip! Sounds like spring at MCS! Students tapped a maple tree for making syrup and cleaned out the bluebird houses for early birds! #togetherwesoar #agintheclassroom #schoolforest

Can you squeeze an egg with one hand? MCS 4k students learned the answer is no. They tried with all their might but couldn't. Students then practiced cracking eggs into a bowl to help make scrambled eggs and ham for snack. The eggs magically turned green when Mrs. Gagnon started whisking them! It was a great week reading Dr. Seuss books, working on rhyming, and getting the quail eggs in the incubator.