Happy Pi Day! Students in 7th and 8th grade celebrated today by eating pie and playing different pi inspired activities. Check out next month's Cougar Track's article for more details about how we celebrated the irrational number pi!
This first grader cashed in 50 paw points to enjoy a pizza party with a teacher.
We can not go through March without celebrating Dr. Seuss with our buddies!
AGWSR Baseball store is open through March 31st. https://agwsrbaseball2024.itemorder.com/
Save your cans and please donate to After Prom on March 23!
Just a reminder that the Cougar Booster Club online store is still open. Lots of great items available and if there is something you'd love to see become available email the ADs at ad@agwsr.org. Go Cougars!
https://boosterclubapparel.itemorder.com/shop/sale/
AGWSR Family Fun Night 2024: Farm Fair!
April 5th 5:30-7:30 @ Ackley Elementary School
Lots of planning is taking place and we can not wait to have a fun night with all of our families!
Golf is underway and we are actually on the course on the first day! Might be the first time in the last 10 years that was possible! ⛳️
Looking forward to seeing you here!
It is that time of the year again!! The AGWSR dance girls would like to invite all students Preschool through 8th grade to perform at their dance show on April 6th at 4:00. The clinic will be that morning from 9-11 in the high school gym. The cost is $25 and includes 1 routine, a shirt, and a snack. A paper form will be sent home soon or you can fill out this google doc. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HecrnkKlu37d-TFG-pgNvNURGlRkhGrzt9C_4vbb12A/edit?usp=sharing Money/checks can be sent to the school (make checks out to the AGWSR dance team). We hope to see you there!! AGWSR Dance Team
The AGWSR Elementary Battle of the Books teams took on teams across Iowa via a Central Rivers AEA organized online event. While not battling, the team partied it up at the Ackley Public Library! To top it off... lunch at Pizza Ranch! Fun day had by all!
The AGWSR School Library Program organizes and coaches the building team(s).
*Thank you to GNB of Ackley and two private donors for helping us pack our book shelves.
*Thank you to participants' families and a private snack donor for supporting our day.
*Thank you to the Ackley Public Library for opening their doors to us.
Emma cashed in Paw Points to enjoy some fine dining with friends at lunch today!
Please join us on April 5th for Family Fun Night from 5:30pm-7:30pm at the Ackley Elementary
Congratulations to Ava Olson and Catelynn Koop for each receiving Division I ratings at State Individual speech in Hampton on Saturday. Ava performed Musical Theater and Catelynn performed Poetry!
Notice of public hearing for the proposed FY25 property tax levy.
It came to our attention that although we posted this information on our Prom Dance page in February, some of you may have missed the announcement so we are posting it again here... (Mrs. Holmgaard was our Celebrity name drawer)!!
The WINNERS of the 2nd Annual "Dinner for Two" participants were...
Lori Johnson - Homestyle by Deanna Nederhoff
Reta Akers - Ackley Rec Club
Susie Finger - The Wellsburg Tap
Lanae Metzgar - Coffee & Cakes
Jeana Boheman - Noodle Night by Deanna Nederhoff
**The Juniors are now rolling out our final fundraiser for the AGWSR Prom DANCE... if you see a Junior and you are in the mood for a BIG FABULOUS CUPCAKE... from "Cake My Day" by Trevyn Smith - we have just the yum for you!
-AGWSR Prom Advisors
📏⭕️7th graders discovered pi today! They measured the circumference and diameter of various circular objects. After dividing these two numbers, we looked at our class average and realized our numbers were about 3.14 (the approximation of pi!) ⭕️📏
Jaycen cashed in Paw Points to take a picture with his friend!
The AGWSR Academic Decathlon team had a great weekend! And these awesome students didn’t even have school on Friday so they used their vacation day to attend an Academic competition!!👏🏻
The 2024 AGWSR State team
💜3 Honor Participants
Eleanor, Preston and Ava
🩶2 Scholastic Participants
Catelynn and Ella
💙2 Varsity Participants
Jade and Quinton
We finished 4th out of 9 in the small school division and 15th out of 24 overall including medium and large schools AND brought home 8 individual medals!!
💙Jade Varsity Division
Gold Interview. Silver Ecoomics.
Silver Art. Bronze Math.
💙Quinton Varsity Division
Gold Economics. Bronze Social Science.
💜Eleanor Honor Division
Silver Math.
💜Ava Honor Division
Gold Interview.
Congratulations to you all! I am so proud to be your coach! You truly make this competition so much fun!!
Thank you to parents and teachers and coaches for your support! We are the smallest school to make it to state in Iowa! Way to go Cougars!!
2024-2025 topic: Our Changing Climate
Ella, Preston and Quinton will be back with hopefully a few more to compete again!
The WAC 2nd graders were so excited today to get their box with published class books inside!