Cross County School District -

If you play baseball or softball, there is no practice today.

Congrats to Kaitlyn Cantrell for being this week’s Be Excellent Challenge golden ticket winner!

Mrs. Sanders second FACS class also participated in Cupcake Wars! The winners are: First place: Trinity Crosby for “White Bear” Second place: Lexie Jarrett for “Little Mermaid” Third place: Katelynne Neldon for “Shish-k-bob on the Grill” They all did a phenomenal job!

Did you hear our amazing teacher interns, Cristal Coronado, Morgan Davis, and Carly Shannon on the radio Tuesday morning? If not, make sure you tune in March 12 to the next T-Bird Tuesday Radio Show to hear more about all the wonderful things happening at Cross County!

Mrs. Sanders strives to teach students real world life skills in her Family and Consumer Science classes. To make it fun and engaging, she hosted Cupcake Wars. Students did an amazing job decorating their cupcakes today. Teachers voted for winners so help us congratulate the following: First place: Dixie Buie for “Campfire” Second place: Brooklyn Burton for “Little Pig” Third place: Sydney Carlise for “A Day at the Beach”

Mrs. Armstrong is always finding ways to make science fun and hands-on! 7th grade science students learned about plate boundaries as part of an Earth Science unit using graham crackers and icing. They used their observation and writing skills to describe what they observed.

Cross County High School mailed progress reports home. If you do not receive one, give us a call.

On Thursday, February 7th the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service exhibit, Arkansas Farm to You, visited Cross County Elementary Technology Academy giving students a chance to explore the interactive, walk-through display from the farm and through the body! Students had the opportunity to learn about Arkansas foods and how their body uses those foods as fuel for being active. The exhibit consisted of 10 stations which make up the agricultural and health adventure, including: Farmer Dale’s Farm, Milk Processing Plant and Market, Café, Mouth, Stomach, Small Intestine, Muscle, Bone, and Skin.

Due to extreme amounts of rain, the following buses will not run their typical routes this afternoon (February 11) or tomorrow morning (February 12): Brinda Jarrett’s Route- school bus will not drive CR 110 and 1170 Tony Busby’s Route- school bus will not drive CR 235 Debbie Anderson’s Route- school bus will not drive Futrell Loop or CR 225 William Baney’s Route- school bus will not drive CR 367 which may result in a 10-15 minute delay in drop-offs and pickups All school bus drivers will use extreme caution on routes and will not go down any road that is impassable or unsafe to drive on. In the event that a school bus driver arrives at an impassable road, we will do our best to contact the parent of the child affected. If we cannot contact the parent, the child will need to be picked up at the school at the conclusion of the route. Parents and students are encouraged to take caution on specific routes. Students have been specifically advised to consider alternate routes for Million Dollar Road. Please continue to follow our facebook page for more information. Updates will be sent out as soon as possible as we continue to monitor the amounts of rain and impact it has on our roadways.

Parents and guardians, This is a reminder that Cross County Schools will be closed Friday, February 15, 2019 and Monday, February 18, 2019 in observance of Presidents' Day.

Please help us congratulate Cross County High School's bowling teams for a dynamic finish to a great season. The boy's and girl's teams participated in the Conference Bowling Meet last week in Jonesboro. The boy's team finished 3rd of 10 teams and qualified for the State Bowling Tournament. Jackson Henderson finished 3rd of 70 bowlers and was named to the 1A-2A-3A East All Conference Team. Special recognition goes to Riley Henderson for qualifying for the State Bowling Tournament for the girls as an individual bowler. The State Bowling meet will be held February 14, 2019 in Fort Smith. Help us wish them good luck!

Senior Night activities will be at 5:45 tonight. Following that, we will play Augusta beginning with senior girls at 6:00. We hope to see you all there to help us support our Thunderbirds.

Every week our teachers meet to learn how to implement academic strategies to help our students. Our math and science teachers are learning strategies to help students understand fractions better. Today, they worked on how to help students understand how to subtract fractions and why it is important for students to be able to do this.

School will be in session on Monday, February 4th. The precautionary boil order in effect for our area at this time means water fountains and water bottle filling stations cannot be used. In consideration of this precautionary boil order, changes have been made after consultation with the Health Department and Water Association. These changes are: - Bottled drinking water will be available for students as needed - Students will be allowed to bring drinks from home - All water fountains and water bottle filling stations will be covered and unavailable Bathrooms will be fully functional and any menu modifications for the cafeteria will be posted on our Facebook page by 5 PM Sunday evening. If you have any questions, call your building principal or my office. We will update you with more information as it becomes available. Nathan Morris

Due to continued problems in a water line off-campus we will be out of school again tomorrow, Friday, February 1. We will utilize AMI Day 3 tomorrow and there will be no home ball games tonight. We hate that this circumstance outside of our control has kept us from teaching and learning this week but we will always put the safety, comfort, and concern for our students and staff first. -Nathan Morris, Superintendent

Due to water line issues, there will be no school for the Cross County School District tomorrow, January 31st. We will utilize AMI Day 2 for this closure. We will evaluate and make a decision as soon as possible about hosting tomorrow evening’s basketball games.

Cross County School District will be dismissing at 2:30 PM today, January 30 due to a cut in the main water line. Buses will leave at 2:30 and run their normal routes. Parents should expect students at bus stops 1 hour earlier than normal. Please contact the school if you have alternate transportation for your child. The district will post when water is restored and inform you of any potential school closings.

Senior Night is Thursday. Festivities will begin at 5:45. There will be only two games, senior girls and boys with a 6:00 start time.

New scoreboards were hung yesterday in the gym. Thank you to Cross County Bank for your continued support of our district.

Reminder: Hoopfest is Friday, January 25, 2019. Join us as we go up against the McCrory Jaguars. Dress up days for both campuses are: Tuesday: Pajama Day Wednesday: Red, White and Blue Day Thursday: Camo Day Friday: Spirit Day We look forward to seeing everyone there!