Reminder! There will be no school tomorrow, Friday, April 19 due to teacher inservice.
Madison High School Choir attended state choir in Prairie View and received an overall score of 55 which in the rubric is an Excellent (with Superior being the highest possible).
*Important Announcement* The track meet originally scheduled for Junior High at Burlingame on Thursday, 4/18, has been moved to Monday, April 22nd, at 10 am.
Madison High School's National Honor Society seniors will host a final blood drive on May 10th from 9 am - 3 pm. Please sign up to help save lives AND help with scholarships for our seniors! Like to sign up: https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?zipSponsor=MadisonKSHS
Please join us on April 24th for our annual college and career signing day and scholarship assembly in the Madison High School theater. All Seniors will be represented as postsecondary, and workforce individuals will be here to recognize them.
This day is a special assembly as we celebrate and look forward to the class of 2024's next step in their life journey.
Madison High School students observed today's solar eclipse.
Madison Elementary students enjoyed viewing the solar eclipse today. They have been learning about the eclipse the last few weeks and were very excited for today! Thank you to the Madison Library for donating eclipse glasses!
At a very tough meet at home today, our JH girls took 1st as a team today! The girls had 5-1st places, 2-2nd places, and 4-3rd places. The boys took 6th overall and had 1-1st place, 2-2nd places, 1-3rd.
Parents and spectators, the JH meet at Waverly is on MONDAY, April 8th not on Tuesday like the calendar says.
Please see the attached schedule of events for the JH home track meet.
Madison’s JH track team had a great start to the season. For their first meet of the year at Eureka, the team brought home 15 gold medals, 2 silver medals, and 8 bronze medals.
Full list of results can be found at Midwesttiming.com
It is that time of year! 5:30 car line up at the HS. Promenade, in the HS auditorium, to follow at 6 pm. All students will then head to the Sauder Center where the disco fever awaits. Terry Rhinehart photographer taking prom pics. Dinner served by the JR class parents. Prom goers will boogie the night away with DJ Rhythm Revival. The night will finish with the After Prom at All Star Sports in Wichita.
Local Masonic Lodge donates to class of 2024 and to the district jump Start program. We thank you for your support and generosity!!
Mr. Redeker's Anatomy and Physiology class and Medical Studies class visited the Emporia State University Cadaver Lab and sat in on an A and P lecture today.
Now enrolling! For more information contact Madison Elementary School at (620) 437-2918 or Lindsey Lowe at llowe@usd386.net.
Madison Elementary celebrated Read Across America Week right before taking off for spring break. Each day, the students did a different reading activity school-wide. On Monday, teachers traded classrooms to read some of their favorite books and complete activities. On Tuesday, students went outside to enjoy the great outdoors while reading books. On Wednesday, each student received a finger flashlight for reading in the dark. Most students wore PJs to school on Thursday for comfy, cozy reading time, bringing our week to a close.
An activity that lasted throughout the week was The Masked Reader. Each day, students listened to a mystery reader disguised by a picture filter and voice changer. Before listening to the story, they were given clues as to who the reader might be and knew that it was someone who works in our building. The final reveal of The Masked Reader was revealed in this video, along with pictures of the different activities from throughout the week.
Lastly, posted outside of the library was an interactive bulletin board with every staff member's picture and pictures of our favorite books. Students could move the books around on the bulletin board throughout the week trying to guess our staff's favorite childhood books. Again, answers were revealed in our end-of-the-week video.
Enjoy and keep reading!!
Mrs. Kusmaul
https://youtu.be/q4QKgh0Ejmw
USD #386 will hold its Free Developmental Screening for children birth to age 5 on Friday, April 12, 2024. Children that might be attending the Early Learning 3 year old or 4 year old program at Madison Elementary School during the 2024-2025 school year or incoming Kindergarten students that have not attended the USD #386 Early Learning program are advised to attend this screening as part of the pre-enrollment process. Please call Madison Elementary School to make an appointment, (620) 437-2918.
On Monday, March 4th, Madison and Hamilton students participated in Madison's annual career fair. Students could sit in and listen to three different career sessions and ended the day with the Keynote speaker, Paul Dean. Paul is a Madison alumni, Mayor of Madison and a local attorney who shared about his time at Madison, the University of Kansas, his career, and his community involvement.
There were numerous alumni and visitors represented to discus various career choices for our students. We want to thank all of those who took time out of their busy schedules to visit with our students about their careers. It is greatly appreciated!
Gannon, Cade, Lane, Hayden and Mr.Thompson doing community service early morning before playing in their substate game this evening. Bulldogs are always there to help in the community when called upon. 🖤💛.
In celebration of Youth Art Month, the Kansas Art Education Association has a yearly Kansas Youth Art Month exhibit on display at the Topeka Shawnee County Public Library from February 27th to March 23rd.
The first Youth Art Month celebration was started in 1969 by The Council for Art Education to advocate for visual art education. The event emphasized the value of students participating in the visual arts. Youth Art Month is celebrated across the nation with art contests, exhibits, and special activities.
There will also be a "People's Choice" voting to the exhibit, all student art included in the YAM exhibit are eligible for awards!
Every art teacher in Kansas can submit ONE student's artwork from each school or level that they teach at into the Youth Art Month Exhibit. KAEA members can additionally submit that same piece into the BLICK Youth Art Month Competition!
The Celebration/Reception will be held in the Topeka Shawnee County Public Library Saturday, March 23rd, 2024 from 1-2:30 PM. There will be time for guests to view the artwork, a guest speaker, recognition of students, activities, sale of YAM merchandise and light refreshments. The library will open at 9:00—YAM activities will be set up by 11:30.
Judy Luthi is one of Madison’s finest artists; she received three medals this year at LCL. She has been chosen as one of the Youth Art Month Featured Artists. Her work will be featured on March 12th on the Kansas Art Education Association and Kansas Art Teacher's Facebook pages. In addition, our social media committee may post on some of KAEA's other social media platforms.
