Bowbells Public School

BPS job openings for the 2023-2024 school year. Contact Mrs. Thingvold for more information. 701-377-2397 or celeste.thingvold@k12.nd.us

Message to parents. You may be eligible to receive P-EBT benefits for your school-aged children this summer. Children who received free or reduced-price lunch through the National School Lunch Program and were attending school at the end of the 22-23 school year. If your children are not currently eligible but might be for the 2023-2024 school year, you are encouraged to complete the P-EBT application and submit a Free/Reduced-Price application by August 25, 2023. Contact the school where your children will be attending for an application form. This year parents/guardians must complete an application to receive Summer P-EBT. The application can be completed online at https://ndsummerebt.nd.gov/ If you can't complete the application online, you can get a paper application by sending an email to snap-pebt@nd.gov or downloading it from our website. For more information regarding Summer P-EBT email snap-pebt@nd.gov or call 701-328-2732.

Congratulations Class of 2023!

🎉Good luck to the Renville County softball team at the Region 3 Softball Tournament which will be played at Minot South Hill Complex next week! 🗓️Monday, May 22nd ⏰ 2pm on KC Diamond 🥎Renville County vs #9 Rugby or #8 Stanley 🥇Renville County comes in as the #1 seed

UPWARD BASKETBALL IS BACK!!!!!!!! Encounter Church of the Nazarene has teamed up with Kenmare Public School to bring Upward Basketball back to Kenmare and the surrounding area!! Registration is NOW OPEN so click the link below to get registered and will all the details of dates and times! We can't wait to join you all this summer!!! CLICK HERE: https://registration.upward.org/UPW84076 📣Get registered today for the upcoming Upward Basketball Camp this summer!📣 🏀This is for next years kindergarteners through 8th grade and it’s going to be a great time! 🏀Click the link below for details and to get registered today! ⬇️Link⬇️ https://registration.upward.org/UPW84076

Good luck to the Honker baseball team as they begin post season play!!

Attention! School will be dismissed on Friday at 1 o'clock for the summer. Please make arrangements to have your students picked up at that time.

Check out the first and second grade on KX News performing the "Pledge of Allegiance". https://www.kxnet.com/news/local-news/daily-pledge-of-allegiance-may-8/

The Bowbells Public School celebrated beef month. We were honored to have Grace Ones explain her role as the 2023 Angus Princess. We also had Josh and Kari Cook with Sunset Meats talk about beef production. We currently use Sunset Meats for our Beef to school program. We were honored to have them all speak to us and answer questions we had. All elementary kids also received an activity booklet from the ND Beef Commission. We also enjoyed Beef Sticks for everyone-- compliments of North Country Mercantile & Equipment Matte Quarter Horses Morgel Farms We ended our day with Slush Burgers with ND raised beed.

Music concert for grades k-8 Monday. May 15 7:00!

Youth OHV Safety Course https://www.showclix.com/events/31717

Lemonade Benefit!

Carver Undhjem placed 3rd in the Burke County Math Meet! He competed against 14 other fourth grade students from Burke County in the areas of Basic Math, Geometry, Word Problems, Odds and Ends and Measurement. He has worked hard this year in Math and has definitely earned this 3rd place award! We are so proud of how hard he has worked this year!

Thank you to Bowbells teachers! You all are amazing individuals and we appreciate everything you do for our students! We have the best!!

Congratulations to Tucker Timm for winning the triple crown, 1st in folkstyle, 1st in freestyle and 1st in Greco!!

By Beth Aufforth 2023 State Speech Congratulations to the following students for earning awards at State Speech. Junior, Mya Woodbeck finished 6th in Dramatic Interpretation Woodbeck and also All-State Award Sophomore, Braeden Carlberg finished 7th in Humorous Interpretation. Senior Luke Crosby received a Superior Speaker medal in Radio for tying to advance to Finals.

Shout out to our bus drivers...Barb, Greg, Tammy, Cyle, and anyone else that transports our students safely to and from school and any activity our kids have! You are so appreciated!!!

State Qualifiers Luke Crosby in Radio, Carson Thingvold in Impromptu, Cambry Ankenbauer in Speech to Persuade Braeden Carlberg in Humorous Ann Crosby in Programmed Reading. Second place winners who also qualified for the State competition were— Mya Woodbeck and Cohen Seime in Humorous Duo, Mya Woodbeck in Dramatic, Web Lowry in Speech to Inform Cambry Ankenbauer in a Speech to Entertain Clara Ankenbauer and Ann Crosby in Serious Duo, Gavin Aufforth in Humorous Interpretation Earning third place finishes who also qualified include— Cohen Seime in Speech to Entertain Becca Maroney in Serious Interpretation.

Regional Speech news 2023 - By Beth Aufforth The Bowbells Speech Team earned 132 points to win the Region 9 Speech meet with 20 entries advancing to finals. Qualifying for State with first place wins were the following: Luke Crosby in Radio, Carson Thingvold in Impromptu, Cambry Ankenbauer in Speech to Persuade Braeden Carlberg in Humorous Ann Crosby in Programmed Reading. Second place winners who also qualified for the State competition were— Mya Woodbeck and Cohen Seime in Humorous Duo, Mya Woodbeck in Dramatic, Web Lowry in Speech to Inform Cambry Ankenbauer in a Speech to Entertain Clara Ankenbauer and Ann Crosby in Serious Duo, Gavin Aufforth in Humorous Interpretation Earning third place finishes who also qualified include— Cohen Seime in Speech to Entertain Becca Maroney in Serious Interpretation. Other place winners include— A fourth place Peyton Nelson in Serious Alison Carleberg finished fifth in Poetry and eighth in Dramatic. In sixth place -- Autumn James in Radio Tucker Timm in Storytelling. James was also seventh in Poetry. Eighth place Cannen Lalum in Impromptu, and Aidan Peterson in Serious. Other Bowbells Students competing were Cavin Bliven, Wynter Shelton-Schmidt, Emma Sandberg, Kelbi Seime, Riley Undhjem.

Due to poor roads and visibility issues, there is no school today. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day!!