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
To kick off Valentine's Day our amazing Florence PTO brought elementary parents and students together to start their moring with their Donuts with Grown Ups. Thank you to the Florence PTO for organizing and holding this event for our school community!
Attention Florence Families Little League baseball and softball signups are now open.
Great 8 Games Schedule
This week is Wisconsin School Bus Driver Appreciation Week! We are so grateful for our amazing crew of bus drivers who keep our students safe as they transport them to and from school, sporting events, and field trips. Thank you Florence County School District bus drivers: Tim Bomberg, Bill Burke, Doug Burke, Chuck Lindow, Rick Roberts, and David Gaston.
Great 8 Games Opening Ceremony is February 15th, 2025 at 8:30 am in the Kingsford Middle School Gym. Come help us celebrate our Bobcats and all the other Athletes participating in the Great 8 Games. #GoFloCats
It is that time of year already.
Middle School Volleyball begins February 18th. This is open to 6th, 7th & 8th grade girls. Practice begins at 3:30 at the Elementary on February 18th,Pick up 5:15. Students stop by FHS office to pick up the schedules ASAP. Make sure your physical/alternate year cards are on file with Ad Bryan Bomberg.
Any questions please reach out to Coach Tomczak or Coach Chrisman. High School players please attend whatever you can to help.
Tonight's basketball game is canceled due to the weather. Stay safe!
Attention Florence Families Little League baseball and softball signups are now open.
Florence Elementary PTO Donuts with Grown-Ups is Friday, February 14th!!! 🍩
If you plan on joining us, please fill out the form and return to school by Friday, February 7th. We look forward to seeing you for a fun morning celebrating each other! 😊
The Great 8 dodgeball event will be held at Florence High School on Saturday, February 15th. There is a need for individuals that would be willing to help that day. The time would be from about 10-2, but could change depending if we have enough 7th/8th grade dodgeball teams to host those events.
Positions that are needed are a clock worker, and several dodgeball officials that would run the games.
There will be a gift card given to all individuals that help about a month after this event. Lunch will also be provided.
If you are interested please email tomczaks@myflorence.org as soon as possible.
Thank you!
Our 1st graders are diving into Ancient Egypt! 🏺✨ They’re practicing Egyptian Hieroglyphics to write their names and short words, making history come alive in the classroom. 🖋️🌍 #AncientCivilizations #Hieroglyphics #1stGradeFun #LearningThroughPlay #FutureHistorians #GoFloCats
Florence 2nd graders in Mr. Maki's room wrapped uptheir Reading unit on Ancient Greece with a Classroom Olympics! They had 6 events, measured with meter sticks, & crowned winners with laurel wreaths. Everyone got a crown to take home! 🏅🌿 #GoFloCats #AncientGreece #2ndGradeFun
Save the date for Florence Elementary Literacy Night on March 6th, 2025.
#GoFloCats
Florence 3rd graders learned about elements and chemical formulas in science! Did you know the formula for baking soda is NaHCO3? We mixed it with shaving cream to create "fake snow" ❄️—it was a fun way to see chemistry in action! #STEM #ScienceExperiment #GoFloCats
