Announcements
Daily Announcements for: Thursday, November 6, 2025
For PreK-12th Students:
• Happy birthday to Asher Munneke and Parker Ringling!!
• Thought of the day: “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” – Pele
• Joke of the day: If you see a crime in an Apple store, what are you? An i-witness!
• Random fact of the day: All the world’s bacteria stacked on top of each other would stretch for 10 billion light-years.
• This Week’s Lunch Menu and Helpers:
Thursday, Nov. 6: Fried Chicken, Savannah Feenstra
• Next Week’s Lunch Menu and Helpers:
Monday, Nov. 10: Shepherd’s Pie, Vicky Olsen
Tuesday, Nov. 11: Tacos, Patty Veurink
Wednesday, Nov. 12: Chicken Alfredo, Danica Zomer
Thursday, Nov. 13: Sausage Gravy and Biscuits, Kirsti Muckey
• We will be hosting our Veteran’s Day Chapel on Tuesday, November 11. Students, please wear red, white, and/or blue as much as possible. A t-shirt and jeans are fine but focus on those colors on top.
• ICE Cheer & Dance Registration is now open until November 15. Practices start the week of Dec 1. Please contact Danae (605)680-4150 for more details!
For 7th-12th Grade Students:
• Friday, Lunch Clean Up – 8th Grade
• Friday Music, November 7 Band
For Preschool-6th Grade Students:
• Lunch Times: 11:40 a.m. – preschool; 11:45 a.m. – kindergarten; 11:50 a.m. – 1st/2nd grades; 11:55 p.m. – 3rd/4th grades; 12:00 p.m. – 5th/6th grades
• Friday Music, November 7 Band
• Audrey DH, Cheyenne S, Lily M, and Zoey DH please turn in your volleyball uniforms
Parents/Readers on the Web:
• The kitchen has 3 large bags of stuffing for sale five dollars a bag… Contact Harriett.
• The Dordt hunt is November 5-8. Please pray for safety for the hunters. Thank you to all the generous land owners for donating hunting land.
• You are invited to join us for our annual Veterans Day program on Tuesday, November 11, at 10 a.m. in the gym. The student council will provide breakfast for veterans and their families at 9:15 a.m. We hope you can join us in giving tribute to our Veterans and those who currently serve our country!
• Thank you to everyone who helped make the Fall Fling a success. We appreciate your bake sale items, soup and sandwich orders, eating lunch, purchases. and attendance! Thank you to our corporate donors: Casey's, Coke, Dakota Toms, Dutch Oven, Krulls, Midwest Cheese, Overweg Feeds, Royal Neighbors and Thrivent.
Today’s Absences
Payton E
Upcoming Absences
Friday, Nov. 7
Payton E
November 12 (after 6th hour), November 14, possibly November 17—Kahne
Upcoming Events
Nov. 6 VB Regions
4/5/6 Girls & Boys BB vs. TDA, at DC
Build Dakota Roadshow (8th hr)
Nov. 7 FB Playoffs
Nov. 8 JH GBB at Wagner
Nov. 10 School Board, 7:00 p.m.
4/5/6 BB vs. Ethan, at DC
Nov. 11 VB SoDak 16
Veterans Day Chapel 10:00 a.m.
Nov. 12 Quiz Bowl, 9:45 a.m.
Nov. 13 State FB
JH GBB at Burke
4/5/6 BB vs. KWL, at DC
Nov. 14 State FB
Nov. 15 State FB
Nov. 17 Fellowship Meeting at 5:30 p.m.
Nov. 18 Scrip
JH Festival @ Platte
4/5/6 BB at Corsica
Nov. 20 State VB
JH GBB vs Platte-Geddes, at DC
Nov. 21 State VB
Nov. 22 State VB
Nov. 25 HS Festival @ Gregory (Audrey DH, Danae F, Felicity D)
Nov. 26 EARLY DISMISSAL, 11:50 a.m.
Nov. 27 Thanksgiving
NO SCHOOL
Nov. 28 NO SCHOOL
Dec. 1 JH GBB vs TDA, at AC
Dec. 2 JH GBB vs Boyd Co., at Spencer, NE
Dec. 3 ASVAB for Juniors, 1:10 to 3:20 p.m.
Dec. 4 PreK-12 Christmas Concert
Dec. 5 GBB Memory Mates, 2:30 p.m.
Dec. 6 JH GBB at Colome
Dec. 8 JH GBB vs Bon Homme, at AC
School Board, 7:00 p.m.
Dec. 9 GBB vs Centerville, at AC
Dec. 10 BBB Memory Mates, 3:30 p.m.
Dec. 13 JH GBB GPC at Avon
BB DH vs Platte-Geddes, a Platte
Dec. 15 JH GBB vs Corsica-Stickney at DC
Dec. 16 Scrip
BB DH vs Ethan at DC—Pep Band Plays
Dec. 17 LATE START, 10 a.m.
EXAMS 7th-12th grades
Dec. 18 LATE START, 10 a.m.
EXAMS 7th-12th grades
BB DH vs Gayville-Volin, at Gayville
Dec. 19 EARLY DISMISSAL, 11 a.m.
End of 2nd Quarter and 1st Semester
JH GBB at Mitchell Christian
Dec. 20 BB DH vs Irene-Wakonda, at Irene