
Herington high school basketball game is cancelled tonight and will be rescheduled for next week Friday.

From 3:30pm-9:00pm yesterday, the Herington Forensics team started off their season with a great tournament in Marion! Everyone did an amazing job, even considering that this was their very first one ever!
Medaling in Serious Solo, getting 5th place was Julianna Fisher. Medaling in IDA, getting 3rd place was the team of Hailey Delisle and Myranda Stika. AMAZING performances from the rest of the team really made Coach Hirsch extremely proud.
Also, they were so hungry after for pizza they insisted taking pictures with Casey’s Pizza. :)
They go to the Hillsboro tournament on Monday with 11 students! That starts at 3:45 and will last until around 9 as well. Wish them luck!




Punctuation, Accuracy, Rate, and Expression (PARE) are important concepts for developing fluent readers. In this MTSS group, students stamped the punctuation to bring attention to appropriate pauses, which helps support fluent reading. Fluent reading is one of many areas that helps develop reading comprehension. #growinglearners


Mrs. Beames’s students complete a Valentine’s Day water color painting. #growinglearners




Fourth graders with Mrs. Fish have fun using candy hearts to complete a writing activity. #growinglearners




Kindergarteners in Mrs. Kahle's reading group retold the story of "We're Going on a Bearhunt" today. They have been learning about character and setting. In order to help understand these story elements, each group chose an animal, researched the animal's habitat and created pictures of the habitats and characters. Today, they used that learning to take their audience on a hunt to find their animals. #growinglearners





Senior English had a visit from "Bob Ross" this morning. As part of a research project, the senior class had to write a paper and create a presentation that would marry both English and another class of their choosing.



The middle school staff members chose 8th grader, Trenton Braucher, as the January Student of the Month. Trenton has participated in football,
wrestling, and track while attending Herington Middle School. Trenton believes the staff chose him as student of the month because he works hard to get his homework done, he uses his time wisely in class, he is willing to help other students and he is involved in school activities. Trenton is the son of Tonya Braucher. Written by Amanda Hawkins


Thank you to Mrs. Valentine, aka Susan Mueller, and her friend, the Love Monster, for the great Valentine stories at HES this morning. We enjoyed starting our day with special guests. #growinglearners




Mrs. Beye’s MTSS “Positivity Bus” traveled to Mr. Stegman’s 4th grade PE class today to invite the kids to get on the bus and follow the Five Basic Rules for the Ride of Their Lives.




HES families: Friendly reminder that today is the last day of our Hoops for Herington Hearts fundraiser! Please be sure to return your packets to the students’ teacher tomorrow. We are inviting family members to come join in on basketball activities in the gym during PE time tomorrow.
Also, the HES PTO sweetheart dance is scheduled from 6:30-7:30 tomorrow night! We hope to see you there!

FCCLA this week competed with their Star Events and ran their district elections. Very proud all three events will be going onto State FCCLA in April. Sarah Biehler, Jacelynne Griffith and Tristyn Killer did Illustrated Talk, Hailey Delisle for Leadership and Madi Becker for Job Interview. Our judges were Tristyn Kremeier and Halle Rutschman.
Sarah Biehler and Tristyn Killer will be next years District C President and 1st Vice President. Congratulations to all!




Students are learning cribbing skills tonight during Community Emergency Response Training (CERT).



Biology students are in the middle of a genetics unit this week. Students are working on a dragon activity where they determine their dragon traits and then draw the dragon.





A special thank you goes out to the IServe staff today for all of their extra efforts. A lot of things happen behind the scenes that many do not realize and this crew worked extremely hard today to make tonight’s activities ready for the community to participate in. Tonight we are thankful for those that work hard begins the scenes. Thank you IServe and your workers.

Congratulations to the 7th and 8th grade Scholars Bowl teams for representing Herington phenomenally at the tournament in Wakefield today! 8th grade ended up with 2nd place!



Rule 9 - “Drive with Purpose”. Today Mrs. Beye’s MTSS read the chapters on driving with purpose and then did an activity to share what we thought each person in our groups purpose was. A great pick me up for a Monday morning. To realize our purpose.




Friday, February 15th schedule against Wabaunsee. Games start at 4:45. New gym - JV Girls, V Girls, V Boys. Old Gym - JV Boys , C Boys , C Girls

Tomorrow nights boys game starts at 6:30 pm. Entry to the game will be $2 for adult and $1 for students.

HES Families: The HES Parent Teacher Organization invites you to a “Sweetheart Dance” in the Herington Elementary gym on Friday, February 15th from 6:30-7:30. There will also be a photobooth set-up in the café. All students must be accompanied by an adult and admission is free. We will have some light snacks and bottled water if anyone needs to take a break from the dance floor!