Katahdin Schools

Physics lab students demonstrate two types of waves transverse and longitudinal. Slinkies can be a fun toy, but also a great tool in physics to demonstrate the way two different types of waves travel. Students used slinkies to help them complete a lab comparing the two types of waves. Transverse waves move up and down like the surface ripples on water, and longitudinal waves travel horizontally like sound waves traveling through air.

KES ASP grade 2 snowshoeing~ #wearekatahdin #katahdinstrong

Congratulations to our student-athletes for making Class D All-Aroostook for Basketball! These students were selected by opposing coaches from all across Aroostook county. Congratulations Makayla Hartsgrove, Hunter Hartsgrove, Grady Ritchie, and Justin Hurlbert, you all played a amazing season!

February is heart health month and the middle and high school students made posters to spread awareness about the importance of heart health. Emma, Maddox and Mickenzie received a 212 for taking their time to hang up the posters in the hall for display. Any high school class that made a poster received 5 bonus points towards cougar fest.

New job opportunities at Katahdin Schools. Please see the attached postings.

Olympics Opening Ceremony cont'd~ #wearekatahdin #katahdinstrong

Olympic Week Opening Ceremony~ Classes chose countries to represent and are learning all about them! Let the games begin~ #wearekatahdin #katahdinstrong

Katahdin Schools Weekly Update~ https://5il.co/16bjn

We have some outstanding students who juggle many sports on top of a busy school year. It’s been great to see them back in the gym and working hard to achieve their goals! Katahdin has some pretty awesome kids that have had the determination and grit to travel to Houlton each week to train hard as well as get up in front of a huge crowd and do these amazing things! ;) We just love watching them all grow each season! 😊

Good Friday morning, Due to the inclement weather we have unfortunately have had to cancel our fun Friday activities including the ice skating trip at Millar Arena, Ski for Life at Big Rock, and Adventure Friday at KES. The make up date for ice skating will be March 3rd.

Mrs’s Detour’s students are hard at work creating album covers for the book they read~ Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pies by Jordan Sonnenblick. Albums will be finished soon~ more pictures will be sent tomorrow 🎼🎼

Students in 7th grade are applying knowledge and reasoning while they collaborate on “He said, She said” task cards for a unit on angles and triangles. They had to decide who has the correct answer and why? Great mathematical discussion.

Over the course of a few weeks, students will be reading the book Hamlet by Shakespeare in English 11. After reading through Act II of the book, Mr. Reid took students into the auditorium to deliver their renditions of the Act in groups to the rest of their classmates. Then they were asked to summarize the act and to answer questions on how the plot, characters, and themes have advanced in the book. The complicated text in Hamlet can be better understood by students when they talk about it as a class and act out parts that might not make sense when reading silently to themselves.

KES and KMHS are so happy to say that last week, on our Ski for Life trip to Big Rock Mountain in Mars Hill we got to take 92 kids to ski and snowboard! Mrs. Hanson and Mrs. Schmidt Mrs. Pocock, Mrs. Richie, and our bus drivers Sue and Dakota take these kids every Friday an hour and a half north so they have the opportunity to be outdoors and active with their friends. We can’t thank them enough for everything they do for our students. We are also so appreciative for all the things that the Big Rock staff does every week to set the skiers up with boots, skis, helmets, and lift passes. Ski for life will run over vacation week, they will still go on the normal day Friday the 25th but times will look a little different. Bus pickup times will be 8:30 at both Debbie's Deli and the Sherman Irving, busses will meet at the school for attendance at 9:00 and departure for the mountain will be at 9:30. Skiing will go from 11- 4 on the mountain, and then they will depart for home.

Katahdin Schools Weekly Update~

Go Red The first Friday each February, American Heart Month, the nation comes together, igniting a wave of red from coast to coast. Staff and students were part of the wave. This national campaign, GO Red, is in support of increasing awareness for heart disease. At KMHS students and staff wore red and designed Heart Healthy fact posters. We gathered in the gym and took this picture of a HEART. What fun we had!!! Thanks for Mrs. Edmunds-Francis for taking the picture! Following the picture taking we were all treated to a heart healthy bag of popcorn served up by Mrs. Rush and Mrs. Duffy! The eighth grade class cut out the Red Dress and then Mackenzie B. and Lakelyn glued them on each and every bag. Thanks girls! 27 middle school students wore red and 57 high school students participated along with almost every staff member. Cougar points were awarded for 4th place- Sophomores, 3rd place- Seniors, 2nd place- Freshman and 1st place- Juniors . Well “played” everyone!

There are some menu changes for Thursday and Friday 2/10 & 2/11: Thursday: Crispy chicken and potato wedges Friday: Taco salad Have a great day! :-)

Mrs. McLaughlin's 5th grade class has been learning about mixtures and solutions, so they took the activity outside to see if there are material in nature that will dissolve in water. They returned to the classroom and learned that the properties of a material help define it as either a mixture or a solution. Students used screens, filters, and evaporation, to separate materials in a mixture and in a solution. #wearekatahdin #katahdinstrong

RSU #89 is closed for the day. Tuesday, February 8, 2022.

RSU 89 will have a 2 hour delay today, February 8,2022.