
This weeks Friday Bulldog Wrap Up!
Have a wonderful weekend.
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Have a wonderful weekend.
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This weeks Part 2 of the Bulldog News!
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Traveling Tom's Coffee Truck will be at McKell Middle School
October 7th 7a-9a
Parents/Guardians as you swing by to drop off your students, grab a coffee and help support the school.
Everyone is welcome to grab a coffee before work, or just to take that needed coffee break!
Part of the proceeds will go to McKell Middle!!



This weeks edition of the Bulldog Beacon!











Our photography students are working hard at understanding what all it takes to get a good photo. Here is a great student made piece of some photography historical facts.


All About Ag Week student work
In Mr. Packs English Class, students worked in groups to create posters that promote agriculture and agritourism in Greenup County.
In Mr. Packs English Class, students worked in groups to create posters that promote agriculture and agritourism in Greenup County.











Episode 2 of The Bulldog News! All the highlights for the student news!
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Students in Mrs. Markins’ classes stepped back in time to create their own colonies in the early 1600s. They determined their colony’s name, region, crops, supplies, careers of settlers, and what they would do in order to make their colony survive!
#alloutforAg
#alloutforAg





What an AMAZING visit from the Commisoner of Agriculture Jonathan Shell and the President of Kentucy Farm Bureau Eddie Melton. Our students loved showing off all of their hard work!











In Ms. Collins Music Classes they Made instruments with paper and rice, and playing an All in for Ag Week Music Kahoot!







This week's Bulldog Friday Wrap Up!


Mr. Pack had his 8th grade classes research and create Ag posters to show and celebrate the great land of Greenup County! We might have future real estate agents, tourist committee members and graphic artists.






Another wonderful All in for Ag week activity was Pumpkin Carving! This has become an annual tradition at our school to help decorate for the upcoming Fall and spooky season. The kids always enjoy this! Soon we will roast pumpkin seeds for students and staff to enjoy!











Mrs. Coleman's Math Clas became cattle ranchers by playing “Cash Cow”. They learned the risk and opportunities of owning a beef cattle farm, the needs of beef cattle, and how weather/climate affects available resources and organisms in an ecosystem. They rolled the dice at 10 different stations to add, subtract, or multiply their income according to what the paper told them to do with the number they rolled. They had a blast competing to see who could make the most money at the end. Some students made a lot of money, and few learned what it meant to go into debt! 😂










CORN!
Our students at MMS love corn and what better for our Friday Local Homegrown lunch as Greenup Co. grown Corn!
With our corn we will also have salads, produce and Hamburgers from Stockmans meat. All in the heart of Greenup County and South Shore!
We are having our own farm to table!
Our students at MMS love corn and what better for our Friday Local Homegrown lunch as Greenup Co. grown Corn!
With our corn we will also have salads, produce and Hamburgers from Stockmans meat. All in the heart of Greenup County and South Shore!
We are having our own farm to table!











Mrs. Lynd-Abdon's Photography class helped capture All in forAg Week. They were snapping shots of classes and activites throughout the school!







It was a BEEutiful day! Yesterday community member Richard Timberlake came to McKell Middle to visit our Honey Bees! !! He shared a lot about the art of bee keeping, and what to look for while examining the bee hive. We located our Queen for the first time and have a healthy hive of over 15,000 bees! Our students had a wonderful and cant wait to get honey from them!











For All out for Ag Week, our Agriculture class had a lesson in butter making, the class got to compare fresh cow milk to store bought milk, how to make butter by hand and compare to store bought butter, and also where buttermilk comes from.










Farmer Hat Day!
Thursday September 18, 2025
Thursday September 18, 2025


Monarch Habitat
The measure of a successful monarch habitat depends on whether you have provided both nectar/food sources for mature monarchs but also monarch larva food sources. Monarchs lay eggs exclusively on milkweed and the larva when hatched feed only on milkweed.
McKell Middle School in our first season has supplied nectar for visiting Monarchs and in turn they used the milkweed provided to lay eggs. We have several larva/caterpillar eating furiously headed to the final stage in their life cycle. After forming a chrysalis they will emerge as butterflies in about two weeks. These butterflies are the last of the summer season and will fly all the way to their wintering grounds in Mexico. Next spring they will lay eggs to start the journey north again.
Even with the summer’s drought Mrs. Fraley’s students provided a sustainable habitat that will continue to provide an outdoor classroom for McKell students.
The measure of a successful monarch habitat depends on whether you have provided both nectar/food sources for mature monarchs but also monarch larva food sources. Monarchs lay eggs exclusively on milkweed and the larva when hatched feed only on milkweed.
McKell Middle School in our first season has supplied nectar for visiting Monarchs and in turn they used the milkweed provided to lay eggs. We have several larva/caterpillar eating furiously headed to the final stage in their life cycle. After forming a chrysalis they will emerge as butterflies in about two weeks. These butterflies are the last of the summer season and will fly all the way to their wintering grounds in Mexico. Next spring they will lay eggs to start the journey north again.
Even with the summer’s drought Mrs. Fraley’s students provided a sustainable habitat that will continue to provide an outdoor classroom for McKell students.








