USD DENTAL UPDATE
We received a message that the USD Dental Hygiene Mobile Unit has needed to make changes for the 25-26 school year, restricting their mileage, regarding how far they can travel to provide services to school districts :(
How does this affect us here in Armour? Unfortunately, this means USD Dental will not be able to provide services to our school district like they have for the past years.
With this being USD's first year under the new restriction (for the 2025-2026 school year), they mentioned that they would keep us updated if there were any changes to the new USD policy.
🏈The Armour School District is looking to hire an Assistant Varsity Football Coach for the TDA-AC/DC Thunderhawks football program. 🏈
If interested please contact Craig Holbeck!
Open until filled.
Craig Holbeck
Craig.a.holbeck@k12.sd.us
605-661-1913
🏀Augustana Head Coach, Cody Schilling, and his staff will be putting on a basketball camp in Armour on July 10-11th. Checks can be brought the 1st day of camp! Forms can be filled out the 1st day of camp or picked up inside the High School Main Doors on the bulletin board anytime. 🏀
Congratulations to Isaac Wunder and Riley Spaans on being selected as Mitchell Area Academic Elite 8 honorees. They have both received this award as Juniors and Seniors! Congratulations to both of them.
School Year 2024-2025.......And That's a Wrap
PLAN B for K-4 Celebration at the Park: Due to the weather, we are moving to the school gym at 1:00 for classroom celebrations with a movie party and popcorn. You are all welcome to stay and join your children at the movie party :)
Armour's Summer Skills Camp has dissolved, due to the expiration of ESSR (COVID-19) relief funds that previously supported the program to help prevent learning loss.
If families would like, please purchase your child their grade level Summer Bridge Boolets. If they complete their booklets and turn them in the very first week of school in the fall, we will still have a pizza party for those students :)
To purchase a booklet, please feel free to check out amazon.com or https://www.google.com/search?q=summer+bridgebooklet&rlz=1C1GCEB_enUS957US1067&oq=summer+bridgebooklet&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQIRgKGKABMgkIAhAhGAoYoAEyCQgDECEYChigATIJCAQQIRgKGKABMgcIBRAhGI8CMgcIBhAhGI8C0gEIMzkyNmoxajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Holbeck or Mrs. Bigge at the school at 605-724-2153
Reminder: NHS/High School Awards Ceremony begins at 6:30PM on Thursday, May 15th. Everyone is invited to come! We look forward to inducting our new NHS members and officers as well as celebrating our amazing students!
Give Away Galore!!!
Parents, please do not panic.
YES, the items your kids are coming home with are legit—haha!! Teachers are purging non-surplusable items from their classrooms, so we have a "Free/Take" table at the elementary entrance.
We loved and used those items once upon a time, and now they are yours......hahahaha!!! Enjoy :)
3rd-8th Credit Recovery Program
Students receiving a final failing grade (F) in ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies are required to attend Armour's Credit Recovery program. The program assists with course skills missed and needed for a successful transition to the next grade.
Once a student has a passing final grade or has reached their goal, they no longer need to attend Credit Recovery.
Dates and Times (9 am-12 pm)
Tuesday May 20
Wednesday, May 21
Thursday, May 22
Tuesday, May 27
If needing to go into June:
Tuesday, June 3
Wednesday, June 4
Thursday, June 5
If you have any questions regarding the program, please reach out to Mrs. Bigge at 605-724-2153
TDA Golf had a warm but wonderful day out golfing today. We had 3 JV golfers today and all 3 placed. Morgan Fink placed 4th, Zach Ziebart placed 7th and Matt Messer 10th. They golfed a challenging course in Springfield.
JH had a nice day outside as well. We didn't place any golfers but we had a great day. They golfed at the Bon Homme course.
Middle School Academic Awards Day
Friday, May 16th, beginning at 11:15.
Families are welcome to attend.
Teacher Appreciation Week
Tuesday's Hair Flip Contest
Staff, students, or as a group, are encouraged to showcase their "hair-tastic" hair-flipping talents.
Props are welcome and encouraged--hahaha!!!
SDSU summer reading opportunity PK-6th grade
Go Big-Go Blue-Go Jackrabbits
Check out the link provided: May 19th registration deadline
https://www.statealum.com/s/1108/21/interior.aspx?sid=1108&gid=1&pgid=7925&cid=11835&ecid=11835
This morning 32 of my Chickadee Bird Club kids went birding at the Fort Randall Dam. It was a beautiful morning and we had such a nice time! First, we birded the trails in two groups. I led one group and the other was led by my friend/birder Chris Anderson from Sioux Falls. Some highlights were: good looks at a Spotted Towhee, Western Kingbird, Bald Eagles, American White Pelicans, Double-crested Cormorants, Cedar Waxwings, Harris's Sparrows and more. We heard lots of different bird songs too. We had a picnic and then the kids played at the playground. Everyone did amazing!!!
Elementary April student and citizen Awards.
Congratulations!!
Come check out the school play on May 9th @ 7:00PM!
Armour Middle School Dance
Help us celebrate the retirement of these two amazing people and teachers!
Vision screenings begin today at 9am. Families with children not in school or it is a non-school day for them, please bring those children about 9:10 and we will work to get them through.
If you happened to forget to fill out a form or have lost your form, and would like your children screened, there will be extra forms available today for parents to fill out when you arrive.