FCS Connection December 2019
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2019 Christmas Through the Eyes of a Child
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JD Adams Middle School The STEM Bus was a success at AMS and we can’t wait for it to come back!
Coding to print Groot
New tables for our cafeteria came in time for Christmas Dinner!
Groot is coming to life!
2019 AES Homecoming
Egg drop FUN in the 3rd Grade!!!!
Congratulations to our Christmas Through the Eyes of a Child Winners!!! Great Job!!!!
AES Celebrates Success!!!! Mrs. Bowling 1st grade class was the overall canned food drive!!! They brought in 92 items for our blessings box!!
Betsy Layne Elementary
THANK YOU to everyone from Hibbett Sports (Prestonsburg location)
6th grade classes at BLE raised $105.00 for the Floyd County Animal Shelter the week before Christmas break! This was their act of kindness for the community and these kids did an awesome job spreading the Christmas spirit!
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bringing a special delivery from Santa for some of our students. We appreciate these wonderful gifts!!!
Superintendent Adkins was lucky enough to get to have lunch with these Kindergarten Bobcats at McDonald’s!
Congratulations to BLES archery team! Connor Johnson placed first in elementary and Cheyenne Whitaker second place in elementary. Elementary team got second place as a team. Kevin Howard placed first in middle school and middle school placed second as a team. đ&#x;ŽŻđ&#x;?š #bobcatarchery
Betsy Layne High School Bobcats 554 Bobcat Blvd. Stanville, KY 41659 Phone: 606-263-6280 Principal: Jody Roberts Assistant Principals: Patricia Hackworth Jeremy Hall Guidance Counselor: Justin Akers
A well educated mind will always have more questions than answers. ~ Helen Keller
BLHS Annual Christmas Dinner
Bobcats Archery Right: Kaytlyn Patrick and Erin Akers shot in the Blackcat Christmas Shootout. Kaytlyn Patrick ranked 3rd in all females and Erin Akers ranked 5th in all females. The team pictured below was 3rd in the tournament.
Above: In the 1st Annual MagoďŹƒn Bullseye Tournament, 9th grader Rainey Stevens ranked 5th in all females and 10th grader, Kaytlyn Patrick ranked 6th in all females. They both shot a 274.
Betsy Layne High School Bobcats
BLHS delivered a Christmas book for each student in the feeder schools (BLES and JMS) as a Christmas gift with help through the Striving Readers grant. Each student was able to have a book to read at home over the Christmas break.
Betsy Layne High School Bobcats Congratulations to our ESports team‌.STATE BOUND!!!!
Congratulations to Donovan Mullins for signing to cheer at Campbellsville College.
Duff-Allen Central Elementary
Special thanks to Mr. Halbert, Mrs. Shepherd and the students at Duff-Allen Central Elementary and May Valley Elementary for all your donations to Essentials for Santa!
Congratulations!
Congratulations MS Academic Team! 1st place in the Big Sandy Academic League! Gracie McDavid- 1st in Math and 5th in Social Studies! Braxton Howard- 3rd in Science and 3rd in Social Studies! Brock Horne- 1st in Arts and Humanities! Mason Buck- 1st in Science! Todd Prater- 4th in Arts and Humanities! Kylie Walters- 1st in English Composition! Whitley Hall- 5th in English Composition!
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Floyd Central High Floyd Central STEAM Team presented the ďŹ rst annual STEAM day for the students of FCHS. The team will be organizing a larger event in the spring for the middle schools in the county.
MAY VALLEY ELEMENTARY Determination Perseverance Success
Learning is always fun at MAY VALLEY !
Christmas comes to the valley!
MVE TIGERS A TEAM 1ST RUNNER UP AND B TEAM COUNTY CHAMPS!
May Valley Success!
Brody Horne Science Fair Winner First Place at MVE 2nd Place Regional
MVE Christmas Through the Eyes of a Child School WInners
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STEM Bus @ PES @pesblackcats
Grinch Day Fun! @pesblackcats
More Christmas Celebrations! @pesblackcats
Congratulations
Beth Burchett!
West Virginia Wesleyan College Soccer Team
Artwork Way to go Blackcat! Artist
Keaira Conn
PHS Soccer Teams
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Congratulations
Makayla Ousley!
University of the Cumberlands
Soccer Team
Alice Lloyd College Golf Team
Congratulations Mason Compton!
Stumbo Elementary
THANK YOU Teach For America for giving backpacks and school supplies to every middle school student at John M Stumbo Elementary!
South Floyd Elementary Students K-8 enjoyed and succeeded in Hour of Code challenges.
Middle School Cheerleaders hosted a supply drive for the Floyd County Animal Shelter.
Mrs. Slone’s First Grade is using Flipgrid to communicate with other students on how to analyze the plot of different texts.
Arick Hall was awarded Outstanding Speaker award for his ability to debate bills at the conference.
7th and 8th Grade KYA Members in Frankfort, Dakota Madden was awarded the KY. Outstanding Doorkeeper award which is granted to the parliamentarian who does the best job at the conference.
Kentucky Youth Assembly
Raygan Bates, Madison Sullivan, and Taylor Stumbo were the first time bill authors and their bill passed in The House and Senate. They also presented their bill to our Lt. Governor.
Emily Spears, Taylor Allen, and Chloe Hall were bill authors ranked highly within the competition. They were given the opportunity to present their bill in the Capitol.
Early Childhood SPARK for Early Childhood Education SPARK, which stands for Supporting Parents to Assure Ready Kids, is a school readiness event sponsored by our local CECC providing resources and support to families of children 0 to 5 years of age. Over 100 children and their families participated in the November SPARK event held at the Eastern Branch Library. The children and their families had the opportunity to create a gingerbread house, stocking, ornament, and have a professional photo taken with Santa. Special thank you to volunteers and supporters: KET, Photographer, Mandy Stumbo, Floyd Co. 4-H & Carl D. Perkins Job Corp.
Early Childhood C is for Cookie Stacy Paige, Head Start Teacher at DACE, hosted a holiday cookie decorating event for her families. Everyone had a sweet time creating and designing their own unique holiday cookie.
Early Childhood Holiday Surprise Hundreds of early childhood students in Floyd County had a lot to cheer about on Thursday, December 5th. Preschool and Head Start students received a shoe box ďŹ lled with various goodies for Christmas thanks to a generous donation of the Sinking Fork Baptist Church and Pastor Mike Humphries located in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Members of the church visited each classroom handing out the gifts and reading a special holiday story to students.
Early Childhood All Aboard! The Polar Express Families had a chance to sit back, relax, and enjoy a special viewing of the Polar Express sponsored by the Floyd County Community Early Childhood Council. Participants were treated to pizza donated by Garrett Fountain and ARH and beverages were provided by Coca-Cola. Every child that attended received a bag full of goodies. And a free copy of the book, Polar Express, sponsored by the DACE family resource center.
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Christmas Story Stroll Families joined the Floyd County Community Early Childhood Council in downtown Prestonsburg on December 7 th to participate in the Christmas Story Stroll. Several business had pages of the book, Pete the Cat Saves Christmas, displayed in their window. Families stopped at participating businesses to read the pages and received free goodies and treats. At the end of the story stroll, families headed back to the library where they warmed up with some cookies, cocoa, and a fun holiday craft. Thank you to the following business for their support and donations: Lou's Place for Pets, The Mountain Muse, Little Rascals, Ritchie's Hallmark, Lad ' N ' Lassie, Wildfire Designs, Sugar Magnolias, City Perk, You, Me & Pottery, Sew ' N ' Love, and Daffodil's. Thank you Mayor Les Stapleton for being our guest story stroll reader and the City of Prestonsburg Police for helping us safely cross the streets! Thank you Floyd County Library for the use of your facility. Great time was had by all!
Early Childhood Feeling Crafty The Floyd County Policy Committee members will ring in the holiday season with a snowman themed wind chime. Andrea Slone, family and consumer science agent, and the local homemakers group (Kaye Allen) sponsored the holiday craft at the December meeting. Each member present made a terra cotta pot snowman wind chime.
Early Childhood We are extremely PROUD of all the males who have been volunteering in our DACE classroom in 2019! A special THANK YOU to the following: Jonathan Prater, Derek Sparkman, Wayne Paige, Mason Hall, Austin Blanton, Robert Prater, Nathan Salisbury, Israel Shepherd, Billy Owens, Billy Owens Sr., and Dakota Salyer.