🗣️ Best of the West Speech Meet
🗓️ Saturday, Feb. and 28, 2026
📍 Gering, NE




National FFA Week - 2026
Drive Your Tractor to School Day
We have everything from pedal tractors and lawnmowers to loaders and tractors with duals.
🌱#IBelieveInTheFutureOfAgriculture
🌾#FFA
🚜#plainsmenpride


3rd Grade Math:
Students are estimating and measuring the mass of object by using a balance scale and gram weights.
#handsonlearning
#MathIsFun







The character in one of the 2nd graders' #CKLA reader books gets a job at a grocery store. So today, our students took a field trip to Hatch’s to see how a grocery store works. Many thanks to Hatch's Superfoods for providing cookies and popsicles for the students to enjoy!



Trades:
Students are trying their hands at some
Basic plumbing skills. This #CTE elective is taught by Mr. Krutsinger.
#collegeandcareerreadiness
#plainsmenpride



JH Track Info:

The annual “Drive Your Tractor to School Day” for National FFA Week is alive and well at Perkins County!
🌱#IBelieveInTheFutureOfAgriculture
🌾#FFA
🚜#plainsmenpride

🌱 #IBelieveInTheFutureOfAgriculture
🌾 #FFA
🐄 #plainsmenpride


#prom2026

The early morning for our FFA members at the PCS Staff Appreciation Breakfast was made a little sweeter with treats provided by Adams Bank & Trust.

BBB C2-10 Sub. Semis @ Kimball
Perkins Co. - 48
Kimball - 81
The boys battled hard against a hot-handed Kimball squad. Congrats to the fellas on a great season.
Many thanks to our seniors Colton Kroeker, Rylee Schrotberger, Myles Bishop and Ethan Dickinson (mgr) for their years of hard work and leadership.

5th Grade Science:
Mrs. McCord's students explored the water cycle using the Earth System Modeling Tool in @AmplifyScience. They gathered evidence, built models of where and why raindrops form, and wrote scientific explanations showing how the atmosphere influences condensation and rainfall.






7th Grade ELA + Social Studies:
Students researched ancient and modern wonders of the world. Then, they built miniatures of the structures and presented info about them to their peers.
#handsonlearning
#crosscurricular









Weights:
Students wrap up the class with some core work. The new strip of field turf has been put to good use, this year!
#plainsmenpride

🗣️ #plainsmenpride

Subdistrict C2-10 Boys BB
Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026

2nd Grade Science:
Mrs. Cornelius's students are studying the "Properties of Materials." Today they conducted a lab to explore the properties of glue. #HandsOnLearning
PCS K-6 science students use @AmplifyScience curriculum materials.




Attention, Agents!
Our Elementary Book Blast event starts next week! We will set off on a mission to build our students' home libraries. Follow the steps on the Treasure Map coming home next week to embark on this operation to earn exciting prizes and books. 🗺️🌟
@go.booksarefun #bookblastadventures #bookblast #booksarefun #literacy
4th Grade Science:
Mrs. Cunningham's students are wrapping up their unit on Earth's features and rocks. Today they created and enjoyed eating their own "sedimentary rocks" (made from @Starbust candies).



🌱 #IBelieveInTheFutureOfAgriculture
🐄 #FFA
🌾 #plainsmenpride

