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Students of the Week for Oct. 05, 2026
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Homecoming Coronation 2026
đź‘‘đź’š What a beautiful Homecoming Coronation and celebration! đź’šđź‘‘
Congratulations to the 2026 Hay Springs Homecoming Royalty. Second Attendants: Evan Smith and Kya Binger; First Attendants: Reese Varvel and Tripp Buettner; Homecoming King and Queen: Riley Johnson and Alaina Raymer; and Crownbearers: Bryant Heiting and Kimber Martin.
A special thank you to our friends at the nursing home for welcoming our Homecoming Court with spirit sticks, smiles, and so much love!
We are so grateful for the wonderful support our students receive from our community. There’s nothing quite like Hawk Pride across generations.
Freedom Tribute
Freedom Tribute was set up at the Crawford Ball Fields, bringing an amazing opportunity right to our community.
The Traveling Wall is a massive, 80% scale replica of the famous Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Standing 8 feet tall and stretching 360 feet across the grass, it travels all over the
country. This allows people who might never get the chance to visit the nation’s capital to see it in person. The wall is made of a reflective black material. Seeing its massive length—and realizing how
small the text has to be to fit all 58,000+ names of brave soldiers—really makes you understand the immense scale of the lives lost. Many people searched for specific names, with several leaving
flowers, or old photographs at the base of the wall.
On September 9th, we had the privilege of visiting the display. One of our teachers challenged us with a meaningful mission: to locate the name of Dennis Moreno, a former Hay Springs alumnus, on the Vietnam Wall.
Right next to the wall stood the Cost of Freedom Tribute. This part of the display extended the honor beyond Vietnam, covering almost every major American conflict, including World War I, World War II, 9/11, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Here, we were asked to complete the second part of our mission: finding the name of another Hay Springs alumnus, Corey Mracek.
Seeing local veterans standing guard and talking to visitors highlighted the true significance of the event. Bringing a monument like this to a small town like Crawford gives our community a rare,
hands-on opportunity to experience history, honor our local alumni, and remember the true cost of freedom.
Teamwork Excercises
The am PK and Senior Buddies are back at it!
Yesterday the am PK finished their volleyball unit with big kid volleyballs; learning how to get low and eventually pass!
Today, Dr. Coffey took the pairs through several teamwork exercises including the adapted three legged, wheelbarrow, squats, back to back, and animal races. Students learned the importance of communication and trust. It’s always a great day to be outside with our youngest Hawks paired with our most experienced Hawks for moments like this!
Bear Hunt
Another fabulous adventure with the AM preschoolers and their senior sidekicks!
After reading aloud “Going on a Bear Hunt,” Dr. Coffey sent everyone off into the “wild” to go on a “Bear Hunt” or “Nature Hunt” of their own!
The students were able to find and identify the following: leaf, flower, twig, tree, spider web, bird, sun, ant, grass, bee, and plant. 🙌🏻
Balloon Volleyball
While K-11th graders were working hard at their NWEA testing, Dr. Coffey, the seniors, and the AM preschoolers were playing balloon volleyball!
Equation Christmas Trees
The Algebra 1 class just finished a Unit on Linear and Nonlinear Functions where they learned how to graph linear and absolute value functions and the effects of transformations on the graphs of those functions. Using this new knowledge, they used Desmos graphing calculator to write their own equations to create a Christmas Tree. Merry Christmas from the Algebra 1 class!
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