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Applications are being accepted for the student member of the Iowa State Board of Education. Each year the Governor appoints a student to serve as a nonvoting member of the State Board. At the time of application, the student must be a full-time, regularly enrolled tenth-or eleventh-grade student in an Iowa school district. The term of the student member starts May 1, 2022, and ends April 30, 2023. The State Board meets at least seven times during that term, with most meetings taking place in the Grimes State Office Building in Des Moines. The deadline for submitting an application with all required documents is Jan. 31, 2022.
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The dance team will be performing at 8:33 AM and again at 6:22 tonight. They will be livestreaming their performance from their Benton Community Dance Team Facebook page.

Girls BB highlights

Atkins Elementary - Kinders are learning about comparing lengths at common starting points using different units of measurement.
Second graders are currently working on subtracting numbers greater than one hundred. Students are using place value charts and the standard algorithm to support their answer.
Make sure to ask your Bobcat what s/he is working on in math!




Keystone Elementary - Lots of excitement throughout the building on our 2nd day back from fall break. Today students enjoyed lunch by candlelight for their all-building PBIS reward. Keep leading with safe, caring, respectful, and responsible habits!




It was a great performance last night!

Classroom lesson highlight

Important Information for Boys basketball at Grinnell on Saturday. Grinnell still has a mask policy in place, so masks are required to enter the game. Also, tickets for Saturday’s game MUST be purchased online at the following site:
https://www.vancoevents.com/YEE

Hope to see you there!

Girls BB gets big win over Mount Vernon in WAMAC conference play. Photos courtesy of Andrea Townsley.

Benton CSD is a busy place!
#BeABobcat
#APlaceToBelong




Congratulations!

Benton CSD welcomes newly elected District 4 Director, Cynthia Phillips.

Thank you Pat!

From Keystone Elementary Staff to your home! #keyrocks

Congratulations to Mrs. Nelson and Norway Intermediate Students: Paige Eastman, Ian Sadler, and Joel Hacker for their Opus Honor Choir performance last week in Ames!



Yard Signs for Sale!


Have a great Bobcat day!

AK read the story Stone Soup, and as per the book, everyone contributed to making a pot of stone soup in our classroom! Children brought all types of items (corn, celery, spices, green beans, etc) to add to our soup.
‘It was YUMMY!’ And we all tried it!! Atkins Elementary




Mrs. Redlinger has her students using their place value charts to add double digit numbers together. The place value chart helps reinforce what the true quantities of numbers are as students work to compute the sum. Keystone Elementary




