A couple of students in Mr. Figge's class have taken it upon themselves to spruce up his room during project management time. Though the painting project isn't done yet, sophomores Jadyn Haskin and Addison DeChant are close to finishing, and it looks great!
Mrs. Glessner's middle school English class visited the Onaga Historical Museum recently over two class periods to conduct some research. Students picked an area of interest before their trips, such as a specific war, medicine, fashion, jewelry, trains, or another topic. Then when they visited the museum, students took notes in their area of interest and answered some questions, such as who a person was in their section, or what an item was that they would like to learn more about.
After returning from their second trip yesterday, students will now be writing an essay about what they learned about their topic. After completing their informative essay, students will write a realist fiction about the possible life of an item they found.
A great way to bring a writing project alive!
Halloween Parade Update
Last week's PE award winners! These students had an outstanding week showing good teamwork, sportsmanship, participation and hustle!
Kindergarten-Ezra Miller
1st grade-Beau Berges
2nd grade-Allie Kolterman
3rd grade-Kaydence Grob
4th grade-Kellan Schlegel
5th grade-Autumn Pultz
Read your email for details.
Read your email for details.
High school scholars bowl gets underway this week, and we will have the fall sports banquet this week to recognize athletes from the spring 2023 sports and this year's fall sports. Here are your activities for the week!
Every year when Mr. Kufahl's History of Onaga & Pottawatomie County class talks about the city improvements that took place in Onaga during its early years, the class goes out to the cemetery to find the grave of Newton Jenison. He was buried October 30, 1880, the first person buried in the Onaga cemetery and, although a newer tombstone has been erected since his death for he and other Jenisons buried near him, his original stone is still there.
This semester the topic of "witching" graves came up in class, so they decided to take dowsing rods with them to "witch" his grave, and some of the unmarked graves at the cemetery, on Thursday morning. It was a unique experience and one that junior Wyatt Figge (pictured) enjoyed!
In the process of walking around the cemetery looking for some of the people they'd been discussing in class, they happened upon a tombstone Mr. Kufahl hadn't seen before. In class last week, they had talked about the first elected officials of Onaga after the town established a city government. On Monday, Wyatt was looking for information on Garrard Nold, who was a druggist (pharmacist) in Onaga and had been elected as the town's first city clerk. While researching on newspapers.com, he found the obituary of Nold and the very interesting story of how he died. He saved the clipping from the October 1, 1885 issue of the "Onaga Democrat," which is attached. Then, while walking through the cemetery on Thursday morning, they happened upon his tombstone.
It was a fun, educational trip through some Onaga history!
The high school football team is wrapping up the 2023 season tonight, as it heads to Valley Falls for a cross-district game with the Dragons. The last time these two teams met in a cross district game, five state records were broken and three more were tied as the two teams engaged in a shootout that saw the Buffaloes come out on top. Onaga will look to do the same tonight when the two teams kick off at 6:00pm.
Good luck tonight boys! GO BUFFALOES!!!
FOOTBALL TEAM PAGE
https://www.usd322.org/page/football
Due to weather and ensuring the safety of our community, students, and staff. The Haunted Trail for this Friday and Saturday has been canceled.
Junior high sports apparel is available again! Last fall we had the opportunity to order these t-shirts, long sleeves, hoodies, and sweatshirts for all junior high sports. If you missed your chance to purchase them then, or are needing some cold-weather apparel, follow the link below. We have extended the store so that it will be available until midnight on Wednesday, November 1st.
https://midwestinkco.chipply.com/onagajrhigh/store.aspx?apid=5764946
The 3rd and 4th grade classes are diving into a project-based learning opportunity. They started by developing hypothesis, making guesses and estimating, then, they dove into the hands-on learning of measuring and counting. Upon completion of this step, they replanted seeds in the pumpkins to see how many new pumpkin plants they could grow. They want to send a big thanks to Ms. Figge for allowing them to house their pumpkins in the greenhouse and helping keep an eye on them!
Families: The Annual Thanksgiving Meal will be November 8.
If you plan to participate, tomorrow is the deadline to notify the school so our dedicated Kitchen Staff have time to prepare. The cost of the meal is $6. Please complete and return the attached form by OCTOBER 27.
Don't forget we have some spooky fun for you tomorrow night and Saturday night, as the music department and life science classes are holding their annual Haunted Trail. The event will be from 7:30pm to 10:00pm on both Friday October 27th, and Saturday October 28th. You can show up on the east side of the district office behind the school to begin your haunted trip through the Anne Suther Nature Trail.
Admission is $3 for students and $5 for adults, with all proceeds benefitting the music and middle school science departments. So come get your spooky on this weekend at the Haunted Trail!
Last Friday's home game against Jackson Heights was senior night for the football team. We'd like to thank all of these seniors and their parents for their years of dedication to, and the sacrifices they've made for Onaga football. We appreciate you all!
Big thanks to Kelsey Blow and Olivia Schlegel for the photos!
Here are last week's PE award winners! These students had an outstanding week showing good teamwork, sportsmanship, participation, and hustle!
Kindergarten-Lynelle Cline
1st grade-Cadence Koelzer
2nd grade-Carissa Harrison
3rd grade-Joey Ledbetter
4th grade-Maesynn Collins
5th grade-Daylan Griffin
Onaga HS Football will play in a post season game at Valley Falls THIS Friday at 6:00pm. We hope you can make the game!
Jenni Ebert, Community Health Educator with Riley County Health Department, will be meeting separately with High School and Middle School students on Wednesday, October 25 for an Opioid Safety Workshop. Parents are invited to attend the Parent Opioid Safety Workshop on Tuesday, October 24 at 6:00pm.
Fundraiser Trash Bags are in and ready to be picked up! Thank you for your support!
There is still nothing official on who the high school football team will be playing, whether the game will be Thursday or Friday, nor what the start time will be. But we wanted to make sure we got this out for everyone, so here are the activities for the upcoming week.
