Blue Earth Area Elementary School

🎁🥫 BEA Food & Toy Drive Success! 🥫🎁

Students in Kindergarten through 5th Grade worked together to collect food and toys for our local food shelf and toy drive. Their kindness, generosity, and community spirit truly shine this season.

We are incredibly proud to share that our students collected an amazing 2,050 items! 💙💛
Thank you to our BEA families for supporting this wonderful cause—your contributions make a real difference in our community.

BUC Pride on full display! 🦅

🤩🎉Congratulations to Mrs. Sickler and Mrs. Allard, winners of the K-7 Buc Pride Awards for October! Both were nominated by colleagues for their efforts and leadership.
Here are a few of the comments below to highlight them.

Mrs. Sickler:
⭐️Kim shows her dedication in such profound ways, I can hardly keep track. If a teacher has a question, she will not only answer that question, but come to you in person and ensure that everything is covered. She'll even throw together some resources for you! She is creative in her lessons with her students, she works hard at building individual relationships with them, she goes above and beyond to work with parents, and make sure her class's needs are covered. She's inventive, and resourceful. She's an amazing team player and is that type of person to make everyone feel not only involved, but valued. She is thoughtful and professional with teachers, staff, and families alike. She makes sure that we, as teachers, are taking care of ourselves and knows our rights and responsibilities as professionals and as human beings. She's an incredible PLC leader of leaders. Kim acts with selflessness, compassion, and understanding to everyone she meets. She truly wants Blue Earth Area to not only be the best place for educators, but for students and families. She sees potential in everyone and everything, and makes that potential become a reality.

Mrs. Allard:
⭐️Always willing to go above and beyond!
⭐️She is always willing to help out no matter what! She is very supportive and there for staff! If you have an idea she is always willing to listen!
⭐️She is always willing to help anyone who needs it. She is an amazing teacher who always takes the time to understand the kids and their learning needs. She always makes learning fun according to my own kid !

💡Ms. Nagel’s 2nd graders were busy building today—Turkey Cages, to be exact! 🦃🔧 Love seeing their STEM skills shine, just in time for Thanksgiving!

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Wishing our students, staff, and families a restful and joy-filled Thanksgiving Break! Enjoy the time to relax, recharge, and celebrate with the people you love. 🦃🍁

The "E" in the word TERRIFIC is all about being Enthusiastic, and boy, oh boy, our November TERRIFIC Third Graders are rocking that enthusiasm every single day at school!
Way to go, students—your enthusiasm lights up our school! Congratulations, we're bursting with pride for each and every one of you!
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This week, we’ve been celebrating American Education Week, and we want to give a big shout-out to the local businesses who helped make our staff festivities even more special!

☕ Thank you, Taher, for providing coffee on Monday.
🍪 Thank you, McDonald’s, for the delicious cookies.
🍎 Thank you, Blue Earth American Legion, for today’s apples!

We appreciate your generosity and support of our BEA staff! 💙💛

#AmericanEducationWeek #CommunitySupport #BEAProud

🍎📖American Education Week is all about celebrating the amazing team of people who help our students learn and grow—from paras and office staff to bus drivers, the tech office, and students service workers. Each one plays an important part in supporting students and families and keeping our schools running strong.

Let's take a moment this week to thank the education support professionals who care for, support, and protect our students. They make public education possible every day. 👏👏👏

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📚✨ Author Visit Highlight! ✨📚

We were thrilled to welcome Mary Casanova to our school! Our 2nd and 3rd graders had a fantastic time learning about authors, how they write stories, and the creative process behind books.

This special visit was made possible through a partnership with Blue Earth Area Elementary School, Blue Earth Community Library, Friends of the Blue Earth Community Library, and the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Traverse des Sioux Library Cooperative, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Thank you to everyone who helped make this inspiring experience possible for our students! 🧡

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Stories, snacks, and smiles all around! 📖🍎

Our 3rd graders and their guests had a blast at Books & Bites! Thank you to our families, teachers, and SMIF for helping make this reading celebration possible through their literacy grant support!

Today we honor and thank the incredible veterans among our staff for their service and dedication—both to our country and to our students.

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AR Reward Glow Dance Party! 💡🎶

Students who reached their Accelerated Reading (AR) goals this quarter had a glowing good time at our AR Reward Party! Those who met their reading goals were invited to celebrate with a Glow Dance Party, complete with music, lights, and plenty of fun.

The gym was transformed into a glowing celebration as students showed off their dance moves and celebrated their reading success. 📚✨

We’re so proud of all our readers for working hard to meet their goals — keep up the great work, and we can’t wait to see who earns their spot at the next AR party!

#ReadingRocks #ARGoals #GlowDanceParty #BEAProud

Frankie has been busy making her rounds at BEA! 🐾 From classroom visits to hallway hugs, our favorite therapy dog has a special way of making every space a little warmer and every day a little brighter. Whether she’s lending a paw to a student who needs a pick-me-up or sharing her happy energy with staff, Frankie brings a little extra joy wherever she goes.
Thanks for all you do, Frankie and Handler Ms. Albright—you make BEA an even better place to be! 💛

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🤩🎉Congratulations to Ms. Eckhardt and Mrs. Norman, winners of the K-7 Buc Pride Awards for October! Both were nominated by multiple colleagues for their efforts and leadership.
Here are a few of the comments below to highlight them.

Molly Eckhardt:
⭐️Molly is an excellent PLC Leader. She runs the meetings with leadership and care. Molly has been a great at leading our group to being productive and coming up with new ideas. She is also a great math teacher! Thank you Molly!

⭐️Molly is working hard to improve her class in many ways!!! She continues to research best practices, uses tech in creative ways in math, and takes advantage of manipulatives and gamification!! She is also doing an amazing job in her new leadership role in PLC/ MS PD. She keeps us all responsible, present, and on track- not an easy job!! Not to mention, she can handle the thousands of questions that are thrown at her (from staff and students) with grace!

Marnie Norman:
⭐️Marnie is a wonderful asset to BEAS. She consistently goes above and beyond to support not only her students but also her colleagues. She genuinely wants everyone to be successful and to reach their fullest potential. Marnie is continually learning new strategies and eagerly shares them with others.

⭐️We’re so lucky to have Marnie on our team! She’s amazing with kids and always brings so much knowledge, patience, and positivity to her work. She is the kind of teammate who’s always willing to lend a hand, share ideas, and go the extra mile to support both students and staff.

Congrats to both of our very deserving winners!
The Buccy heads were created and donated by Thomas Wallace.
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This week we’re celebrating National School Psychology Week! 💙✨
School psychologists play an important role in helping students learn, grow, and thrive—both in and out of the classroom.

This year’s theme, “Finding Your Path,” reminds us that everyone’s journey looks different—and that with the right support, every student can discover their own path to success and well-being.

A big thank you to our school psychometrist, Jen Martin, for the care, guidance, and support you provide every day! 💛

The public is welcome to join us as we honor our veterans today, Tuesday, November 11, 10:30 am at Blue Earth Area High School.
If you aren't able to join us in person for the program at the high school, please join virtually using this link: https://boxcast.tv/view/veterans-day-program-zijjnata2jnrwxl2ofcj

Get ready! The Blue Earth Area Foundation's biggest annual fundraiser, BUC$ for BUCS, is coming up on November 22nd!
This event is our stress-free way to raise essential money that directly supports our students, programs, and the entire school community—and the best part is: Our students do not have to sell anything door-to-door!
How You Can Support BEA:
1. Join Us! We would love to see you there! Come enjoy a wonderful evening and support our school. You'll also have a chance to bid on some great items in our auction!
2. Purchase a Ticket (Even if you can't attend!) There's still time to get your ticket! Even if you are unable to join us on November 22nd, purchasing a ticket still provides vital support to our students and automatically enters you into a drawing for door prizes.
Tickets are available now—just let us know if you would like to purchase one! Tickets are only $25

Purchase your ticket(s) before the event on the Community Ed webstore:
blueeartharea.revtrak.net/rw-community-ed/ > click on Special Events--Fundraisers

October's Terrific Third Graders exemplify the 'T' in TERRIFIC - Thoughtfulness! These third graders are shining examples of being thoughtful! They inspire us all with their considerate actions. Congrats, TERRIFIC third graders!

Thank you to the Kiwanis Club of Blue Earth for sponsoring this program; it is a joy to see how proud the students are when they are chosen for this award!
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📚🥪 4th & 5th Grade Books & Bites Adventure!

Last week, our 4th and 5th graders had a blast at Books & Bites! Students enjoyed delicious snacks, dove into some great stories, and had even more fun solving scavenger hunt clues that took them all around the building. A big thank you to everyone who helped make this event so memorable and engaging for our young readers!

#BooksAndBites #LoveReading #ReadersRock #SchoolFun

Last week, 23 BEA FFA Members taught 3rd and 4th Grade students at Blue Earth Area Elementary school about agriculture via 4 different learning stations.

🌱At one station, students learned about plant science and the requirements plants need to grow. They learned about germination, created a growing environment for them to see germination happen by putting soybean seeds in a ziploc bag with wet cotton balls, and then planted flowers.

🍿At another station, they learned about feed rations for livestock, how their diets are similar and different to humans, and then the kids were able to make a snack ration using corn pops, popcorn, pretzels, mini marshmallows and M&M's.

🐐The outside rotations included Livestock and equipment. For livestock, members talked about safety around the animals, common terminology, and the basics of what they eat and do throughout their day. On site there were goats, chickens, ducks, a rabbit, and our members also talked about cattle.

🚜On the equipment side of things, we had a 4 wheeler, snowmobile, tractor with a rototiller, and a payloader(the Payloader was provided by Yeager Implement) and FFA members taught the students about common uses and the safety guidelines related to the items both if they were driving them as well as if they are around them and someone else is driving them.

What an awesome teaching experience for our FFA members—and a fun learning day for our 3rd and 4th graders!
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As the first quarter of the school year comes to an end this week, we would like to remind parents and students of the following important items.

Friday, October 31st, is a no school day for all students in grades PreK-12 at Blue Earth Area Schools

Monday, November 3rd, is a **no school day for PreK - 5 students only** due to teacher training. There is school for students in grades 6th - 12th grade.