Arapahoe-Holbrook Public Schools

Alma Invite - Ander placed 14th with an 88 RPAC - Haiden Placed 8th with an 88

Spanish Play Monday, May 8th 9:00am N Gym (Old Gym) The Spanish Students will be having their Spanish Play, 'Madagascar', on Monday starting at 9am in the N Gym!

The second graders were rewarded by our kitchen staff today for their outstanding behavior all year in the lunch line! They were consistently quiet and respectful while waiting to get their trays each day. They got to enjoy cookies in class and even take a few home! Thank you to our kitchen staff for all you do for our kiddos!

Arapahoe-Holbrook FFA Banquet Friday, May 5th 7:00pm N Gym (Old Gym) Reminder: The FFA Banquet is tomorrow night at 7pm in the N Gym!

JH Track Meet Tuesday, May 2nd Cambridge, NE - Grace Andrews - new JH Girls Mile Record Holder (5:43) - Girls Team - 1st Place Congratulations to the JH Girls Team on their first-place finish Tuesday at the Cambridge Meet. Grace Andrews also broke the JH Girls School Record in the mile running a 5:43 breaking the record previously held by Stephanie Paulsen since 2010! JH Track Photos - Cambridge Meet (Link) Courtesy of: Dan Sich https://drive.google.comx/drive/folders/1lermp_BddtZZW33ChLJabhWjtMN181AK

7-12 Academic Awards Assembly Friday, May 5th 1:15pm North Gym (Old Gym) *Public is invited Livestream Link (YouTube): https://youtube.com/live/DyQAeU7E_RE?feature=share The Academic Awards Assembly will take place at 1:15pm tomorrow in the N Gym. The Public is invited to attend as well. If you cannot make it, the assembly will be livestreamed on our YouTube Channel and available for rewatching afterwards.

Our First Annual Battle of the Books! 📚😃 Teams of 3rd &4th Graders and teams of 5th & 6th Graders competed to see who knew their books best! The Battle of the Books was intense, and slightly hilarious! Congrats to the winning 5th&6th grade team of Elsie, Kinley and Lilly! 🥳 And congrats to the winning 3rd &4th grade team of Easton, Cody and Jamisen! 🥳 😃A rough upset for the "Blickenspahr" and the Emma/Rheanna teams! 🙌😊 Thank you to Katie Helms and Amy Strand for your help in making this happen!

Southern Valley Golf Invite Thursday, May 4th 10:00am Cardinal Country Club Oxford, NE Good luck to the Warrior Golf Team in Oxford today!

Alma Track Meet Thursday, May 4th 10:00am Alma, NE Good luck to the Warrior Track team at the Alma meet today!

At the Arapahoe Athletic Booster Banquet on Monday Thomas “T-BONE” Adams was named ATHLETIC BOOSTER OF THE YEAR Thank you for supporting Arapahoe Athletics @tboneadams24 #RollTribe @APSNE_Events

Best of the West Meet (Sutherland) 🥉Naomi Gutierrez - 3rd place (Triple Jump)🥉

Senior 'Sneak' Field Trip Last Wednesday, the Seniors and their sponsors went on their Senior 'Sneak' trip. We started by eating breakfast at Tornado Alley before heading to Holdrege where we visited the Nebraska Prairie Museum before heading to Grand Island to the Trampoline Park. Of course, we had to eat an early dinner at Texas Roadhouse too before heading home! Graduation is in 10 days and the Seniors have less than 1 week left of High School!

Excited to announce a great opportunity for our kids to take their skillset to the next level by bringing in one of the best basketball skill trainers in the Midwest, Shane Hennen! He's been a skills trainer for 7 years. You can check out his social media @hennen_workouts. This is for ALL girls and boys in grades 5th-8th of the 2023-24 school year. This will be a 2 day camp on June 16th & 17th. Forms have been sent home with the students. Any questions, please contact Coach Blackmore.

The Spanish play scheduled for Wednesday, May 3 has been moved to Monday, May 8. Starting time will be 9:00am.

Summer Boys Basketball Camp forms are being sent home. This is for boys currently in grades K-5. Boys in 4th and 5th grades planning on attending both this camp and the Shane Hennen Camp June 16th & 17th can attend the Arapahoe Camp for free. *Make a note on the returned form.

DEA Agent Amanda Frazier giving a presentation to our Junior and Senior High School. Great information about the dangers of drugs.

Field Day

FROZEN The Musical was more than we ever imagined. So fun to take these kids!

Sloan Luna Portillo (7th Grade) - A Life Taken Too Soon Yesterday was a hard day at the school. One of our former 7th-grade students, Sloan Luna Portillo, was killed in a multi-fatality accident at the Deerfield Corner intersection (Hwy 283/89) south of town that killed another occupant and left both her 11-year-old twin children in critical condition. Sloan's dad is also in critical condition. All 3 kids were students at Arapahoe-Holbrook Public Schools up until Christmas this school year when they moved. They were moving back to the area when the wreck happened. It's hard to try to explain to kids why things like this happen to good people, to young people with a full life yet to live. It was a heavy day at the school yesterday after hearing the news and processing the wide range of emotions that come along with tragic grief such as this. Her classmates made several tributes that they signed and we hung them in Sloan's old locker where her Quiz Bowl name tag from this year was still hanging. We still had her computer bag and name tag so we put it in her locker as well. Next week we will put up some more recent photos included in this post and get some new flowers as well. Classmates stayed after school on Friday to finish hanging things in her locker and reminisced and told stories and other fond memories of Sloan. It helped to start to process things and come to terms with the news. But still, questions remained, why her? How do we move on from this? The only answer I could give was LIVE. Live life to the fullest and give it everything your best for HER. To honor her, to honor the memory of a child taken too soon. That's the way she would've wanted it. Driver Arrested After Multi-Fatality Crash In Furnas County Apr 27, 2023 / Nebraska State Patrol https://statepatrol.nebraska.gov/driver-arrested-after-multi-fatality-crash-furnas-county Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol have arrested a Washington man following a fatal crash in Furnas County, which claimed the lives of two people and critically injured three others. At approximately 12:15 p.m. Thursday, a Hyundai Santa Fe was traveling northbound on Highway 283. At that time, a Dodge Ram 3500 pulling an empty car trailer was traveling westbound on Highway 89, which has a stop sign at the Highway 283 intersection. The pickup ran the stop sign and struck the passenger side of the Hyundai. One occupant of the Hyundai, an adult female, was pronounced deceased on scene. Four additional occupants of the Hyundai were transported to hospitals in critical condition. One of those patients, a female child, was flown by helicopter to Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney and has since passed away. The driver of the Hyundai and another female child were transported to Cambridge Memorial Hospital. The driver has since been flown to Bryan Health West Campus in Lincoln. A male child was transported to Norton County Hospital in Norton, Kansas and has since been flown to a hospital in Wichita. All three remain in critical condition. Names are being withheld at this time pending notification of family. The two occupants of the Dodge were transported to Norton County Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Once released from the hospital, the driver of the Dodge, identified as Kyiaz Ulanov, 28, of Lynnwood, Washington, was arrested for motor vehicle homicide. He was lodged in Phelps County Jail. The Nebraska State Patrol is conducting a full crash reconstruction investigation. From Sonia Diaz I want to thank all of those that have been reaching out from the community to help these children and families from this horrible accident. I will be posting more information to be able to help on Monday. As of right now my priority is trying to be close to the twins and giving them all the love and support they need. Families have asked for me to get help with getting the remains back to their country which I will be on that sometime this coming week! This is a long process and I ask that you all please pray! Thank you Sloan a girl full of life, she had a long way to live. Her smile was always beautiful, when I found her I always told her I love your name and made her repeat her name several times. Pray for her father he is completely devastated admitted to hospital. Pray for your mom and your family, may God give you strength with the unfortunate loss. Only God knows why.

Paper Line Sculptures - K/1st Grade Art The kids have been having fun doing all kinds of projects w/ Ms. Woosley this semester and it's been exciting to see what project she's going to hang up next! For this project, students learned how to describe types of line. Some of the lines we learned are vertical, horizontal, diagonal, zig-zag, curved, and wavy! We looked at artist Alexander Calder as well.