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The Junior High Thunderbirds played a great game tonight against the Salem Greyhounds. Final score: Thunderbirds-28, Greyhounds-12. Join us at Marked Tree next week to support the Junior High Thunderbirds. We hope to see you there!

Congratulations to Jake, our 4-6 artist of the month! Check out his Picasso inspired portrait!

BIG NEWS! Will Searcy spoke with a conservationist from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission today to discuss his project about mapping data to monitor the growth of the wild hog population in Arkansas. He will be using ARCgis to create heat maps from the data they provide.

Congratulations to our K-3 artist of the month, Addie! We have such talented students!

Our 7th grade students had a blast at Harding University. Harding and its students were very welcoming. They allowed us to tour campus and provided our students with lunch. We even had time for a campus scavenger hunt!

ASU-Beebe hosted an awesome tour of campus for our 7th grade students!

Parents and guardians, There will be an 11th grade parent meeting to discuss prom and fundraising Wednesday, September 12th at 5:30 pm in room 1 in the high school. We look forward to seeing you there!

The peewee football games have been rescheduled for Monday at 5:00. Football players need to bring their game gear and stay after school. The players will be fed before the game.

Thank you to all of our grandparents who came out to our Grandparent Breakfast today. We love hosting this event each year and appreciate your continued support!

Parent teacher conferences are next week. High school: Tuesday, September 11 4:30-7:30 Elementary: Thursday, September 13 4:30-7:30 We look forward to seeing everyone there.

Cross County Schools will not be in session Monday, September 3, 2018 in observance of Labor Day.

Tonight, the Cross County Thunderbirds go up against Harrisburg at Thunderbird Stadium. As you know, we launched a new app, so the first parents or community members who find Mr. Prince to show him they have downloaded the app at tonight’s game will receive free Thunderbird merchandise (excludes school staff and students). There will be several items to choose from. See everyone tonight!

Friday night, Cross County will host Harrisburg at Thunderbird Stadium. The game starts at 7:00. Come out in Tbird Blue to support the Thunderbirds. We look forward to seeing everyone there.

Mrs. Fisher’s 7th grade English class is reading The Outsiders. Today, they learned about types of conflict and how those were represented in the book. Students worked in groups, analyzed text, and used digital journals to show what they learned today.

Fourth grade started their Ancient Greece unit centered around reading The Lightning Thief. Today they learned through videos, group discussions, and writing about Ancient Greek vases and their significance in Ancient Greek culture.

Can books take you anywhere? Go see Mrs. Elane in the library to check out your ticket now.

Mrs. Fisher’s Creative Writing class enjoyed the weather to take a tour around campus to draw inspiration from their surroundings to write fictional stories.

This year at Cross County Elementary we are emphasizing kindness. We work each day on growing academically, but character and kindness are just as important. Our wonderful students are complimented for their excellent behavior everywhere we go, and we don’t ever want that to change!

Each week our teachers meet to work on becoming the best teachers around. This week we are focusing on questioning and providing feedback to students in the classroom.

Mr. Blake’s EAST class is hard at work on the live streaming gearing up for a new football season!