🎉 Typing Agent March Madness Winners! 🎉
Our 4th–6th grade students brought the heat in this year's Typing Agent March Madness Competition! 💻🔥
👏 Congratulations to Mrs. Baciak's 4th grade class for taking 1st place after typing their way to the top of the bracket!
🥈 Shoutout to Mrs. Cook's 6th graders for a strong 2nd place finish!
💪 Special recognition goes to our Top Typer:
🏆 Cody Williams (6th grade, Mrs. Cook) who completed an incredible 460 lessons!
In total, students completed a whopping 3,585 lessons during the month of March. Way to go, everyone! 🥳
#TypingAgent #MarchMadness #TopTypers #StudentSuccess #4thTo6thGrade #KeyboardChampions
All Students in Grade 3rd-6th: Forward testing will take place on various days between April 1-16 4th Grade will additionally test on March 18, 20, & 21 Each Grade level will receive on day of free breakfast and a snack during testing! Parents: If your child will be absent during these dates, please notify their teacher.
The School District of Florence County will be closed today March 19th, 2025 due to the forecasted winter weather. Stay Safe!
🎉📚 Good luck to these amazing Bobcats as they compete in the Reading Olympics Regional Competition this Monday, 3/17! 🏅📖 We’re so proud of your hard work and dedication. Go Bobcats! 🐾👏 #ReadingOlympics #GoFloCats #GoodLuck
All Students in Grade 3rd-6th: Forward testing will take place on various days between April 1-16 4th Grade will additionally test on March 18, 20, & 21 Each Grade level will receive on day of free breakfast and a snack during testing! Parents: If your child will be absent during these dates, please notify their teacher.
The School District of Florence County will be closed tomorrow Thursday March 6th, 2025. Literacy Night and the 7th & 8th Grade Volleyball Game have been postponed with more information to come.
Enjoy a night of Tall Tales and Fairy Tales at Florence Elementary Literacy Night
Thursday, March 6th, 2025 from 5:30-7:00. Doors open at 5:30. Children need to attend with and adult.
Let's Rally Together - Wear Brewers Attire or Colors Tomorrow to Support Eric.
Florence will be joining Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine in remembering Eric Swanson, a beloved instructor and coach they recently lost. To show our support, we encourage all students and staff to wear Brewers Attire or blue and gold tomorrow (Thursday).
Let's come together as a community to show our support for Eric, his family and our neighbors in Pembine. Please help spread the word. #CommunityMatters
Best of luck to our Varsity Girls Basketball team as they battle for the Regional Championship tonight. Tip off is @ 6:00 p.m. in Sevastopol. Doors open @ 5:00 p.m. & admission is $6.00. For those who aren't able to make the trip, it will be streamed on Hudl. Good luck ladies!"
📢 Important Update: Scholastic Book Fair 📢
Due to scheduling issues with deliveries in our area, the Scholastic Book Fair will not be physically present at our Family Literacy Night on March 6. However, we still have great ways for families to shop and support our school!
📅 Final In-Person Shopping Opportunity 📚
Students will have a chance to visit the Scholastic Book Fair on Monday, March 3, from 7:45 AM to 8:30 AM to shop in person!
📚Literacy Night Opportunities- Thursday, March 6 5:30-7:00 📚
🔹 Visit our Scholastic Online Fair – We’ll have a station set up to scan a QR code to place orders using a debit or credit card.
🔹 Order from the Scholastic Book Fair flyer – Bring cash or checks to place your order. We will have physical flyers at Literacy Night & a virtual copy is linked below.
We appreciate your understanding and support in making this event a success! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. See you at Family Literacy Night! ✨📖 #FamilyLiteracyNight #ScholasticBookFair #LoveForReading
https://online.fliphtml5.com/vfkrg/hqmr/
Attention Florence Families Little League baseball and softball signups are now open.
Save the Date
Our youth Volleyball camp has moved slightly this summer. More information will come home soon.
Dates July 21-23
Florence High School
8am-11am
Open to 4th-8th grade girls
Our JV and Varsity players are the instructors
$50 includes T shirt
Florence Elementary students jumped for joy & heart health today! So proud of their participation in Jump Rope for Heart, supporting the American Heart Association. Florence elementary school raised $2619.46 to support heart health. Thank you for your support. #GoFloCats
Huge congrats to our Great 8 competitors! We're incredibly proud of your accomplishments and how you represented our district. You all shined! A huge thank you to all of the adults that stepped up to coach our students in these events. Thank you for your support #GoFloCats
Congrats to our amazing students who qualified for Reading Olympics 2025! 📚🎉 Our 5/6th & 7/8th grade teams will represent Florence at Regionals in March! A local competition will decide which 3rd/4th grade team advances. Proud of their hard work and dedication! #GoFloCats
The 30th Great 8 Winter Games was held on Saturday, February 15th in Florence, Iron Mountain, Kingsford, Niagara, and Norway. The area 4th-8th grade students had the opportunity to participate in individual and team sports. It was a wonderful experience for our youth with memories that will last a lifetime.
I would like to thank the Florence County School District for its continued support as well as Christy Larson, superintendent. I would also like to thank the following area sponsor that has helped tremendously in offsetting the cost of providing this positive experience to the youth in our area and have helped make this annual event a huge success: Florence Elementary School PTO.
In addition, I would like to express my gratitude to the many coaches and volunteers that dedicated numerous hours helping our youth enjoy the Great 8 experience:
Morgan Tomczak, Jay Walstrom , Bri Knox, David Murrow, Andrea Millan, Ashlyn & Miley VanDenHeuvel, Felicia Horton, Bill Witynski, Chris Secrist, Brandon Jerue, Dwaine Drewa, Allison Wood, Jaylinn Kappes, Sean Cassidy, Lily Soderberg, Gavin Strong (Kingsford), Kevin Guiliani (Crystal Falls), Gabe Quevedo (Crystal Falls), Matthew Showers (Crystal Falls), Monica Chartier, Nick/Carmie/Sienna Schmoll, Addy Franz, Melissa Faccio and Dustin Williams, Bryan Bomberg, Richelle Jochem, Vanessa Schimmelpfenning, Holly Krueger, Tracy Cassidy & the National Honor Society
Thank you!
Stephanie Tomczak
Great 8 Winter Games Coordinator
📖✨ Florence Elementary students are sharpening their dictionary skills! From exploring new words to mastering definitions, they’re building a strong foundation for lifelong learning. Keep up the great work, future word wizards! 🔍📚 #LifelongLearners #WordPower #GoFloCats
The School District of Florence County is under a 2 hour delay today February 18th, 2025.
🏆 Dodgeball Champs! 🏆 Our boys showed up and showed out! 💪 6th grade took 5th place, 7th grade battled to 3rd place, and 8th grade dominated with a 1st place victory! 🥇🔥 Proud of all our teams for their hustle and heart! #GoFloCats #HardWorkPaysOff 🎯💥
🏀 Huge shoutout to our 4th grade girls basketball team for taking 3rd place in the Great 8 games this weekend! 🎉 Your hard work, teamwork, and hustle paid off—way to represent our school! 💪👏 #Proud #Great8 #GoFloCats
