Elementary grade cards were sent home with students the last day of school and have been sent via email for the 2024-2025 school year. Class placements for 2025-2026 will not be set until a later date due to changes in staff. We will notify parents/guardians via email and social media (Facebook/Crane School app) once placements are sent out. We hope everyone has a wonderful summer!
Elementary Summer School parents, our elementary students will NOT be going to the pool tomorrow because of cooler temperatures.
Crane R-III is once again offering one section of full-day three-year-old preschool for the 2025-2026 school year. Eligible students have to turn three by August 1, 2025. Spots are very limited and there will be a waitlist. If you are interested in your three-year-old child attending full-day preschool at Crane Elementary, please complete the Google Form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDqs3eYqZCQgiM_9A4yPxV-mx-sdSREW8u1PKWb8c_nuhZmw/viewform?usp=sharing
Summer School starts tomorrow (5/27). Here is some information for our Elementary Summer School students.
Today marked the final day of the school year for the Crane Pirate Staff, and we kicked things off with a heartfelt celebration for four amazing retirees. A huge congratulations to Mrs. Leslie Henry, Mrs. Michelle Malcom, Mr. Phil McKinley, and Mr. Donnie White on their well-earned retirement!
Mrs. Henry has dedicated 29.5 years to education, and we were lucky to have her with us for the last two years as our Elementary Counselor. Mrs. Malcom has been a steady and supportive presence at Crane, serving as a paraprofessional for an incredible 25 years. Mr. McKinley has spent 34 years teaching high school English with 27 of those right here at Crane, shaping the lives of countless students. And Mr. White has been behind the wheel for the past 10 years, safely getting our Pirates to and from school every day.
The dedication, heart, and impact these four have had on our school community will be felt for many years to come. Be sure to check out the photo of Mr. McKinley with current Crane R-III staff who had the unique honor of being his students back in high school! It is proof of just how far an educator's influence reaches.
Not pictured: Donnie White
Congratulations Crane Graduates! The High School Graduation video is ready for viewing and downloading. There are three separate videos to avoid overwhelming the server. If one video does not work, please use another link within the folder. The videos may still get overwhelmed with access/download attempts, so please be patient; it usually takes Google about 24 hours to reset the view count. Copy this URL into your browser's address bar to access the HS Graduation Video: [ https://shorturl.at/vd07M ]
Happy last day of school! Please don’t forget to order a 2024-2025 Yearbook; sales end on June 5th! [ https://shop.yearbookmarket.com/craneelementaryandhighschool ]. We can continue providing photography and improving our work with your support! All the photos we took throughout the year are available digitally with your yearbook purchase. Questions? Contact (knighta@crane.k12.mo.us)
Reminder for the Crane Elementary end of year awards assemblies tomorrow!
All Jr High and High School students, whether they are enrolled in any summer school classes or not, need to turn If their chromebooks, with case and charger, to their Pirate Time teachers. With that in mind, we want to let parents and students know how that will work for those students who are taking any online classes (Health or Personal Finance) for summer school. Those students need to come in any time next week to pick up a chromebook for their summer school classes. Initial login, contact, and progress for Health and Personal Finance needs to be made before Friday, May 30th. Contact the high school office if you have any further questions or your child has difficulty getting started on those classes next week!
Thank you,
~Mrs. Mease
6th grade students in Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Lamberson's classes have been working on researching an animal and creating it out of boxes! They created presentations after their research was complete, then got to building! They had to measure to find length, width and height, and then find the surface area and volume of their animal! Then they got to paint and decorate it before finally getting to present them! Great job 6th grade!
5th grade students in Mrs. Johnson's class created their own board games that reviewed math topics that were learned throughout the year! They did an awesome job with these, and got SO creative! They then got to rotate and play each other's games! Great work this year, 5th grade!
As the school year comes to a close, Mrs. Custer has implemented daily themes to keep students engaged with various activities that reflect their learning throughout the year. On Tuesday and Wednesday, students participated in "Camp Read-A-Lot," where their desks were transformed into tents. They engaged in activities focused on retelling, sequencing, vocabulary, and more, all centered around the book "A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee," while also reviewing telling time and money concepts.
On Thursday, the theme was popcorn. Students worked on fact family popcorn buckets, tackled addition puzzles, conducted taste tests, and learned interesting facts about popcorn from "The Popcorn Book" by Tomie de Paola. For instance, did you know that Americans consume over 500,000,000 pounds of popcorn annually? To wrap up the day, students enjoyed a movie while munching on popcorn and all the essentials for a perfect movie experience.
Next week marks the final week of school, and more exciting activities await in Mrs. Custer's class.
The JH Football meeting tomorrow is for current 6th and 7th graders and their parents
Reminder of the parent/player football meeting at 6:00 tomorrow night in the library. If your child is unsure, please come and ask questions and meet the coach.
Our amazing Elementary teachers got "tatted" by their students this week and last, all in good fun to motivate them for the end-of-year iReady diagnostic tests. Students were thrilled to see their progress, comparing their end-of-year scores to their middle-of-the-year results.
One of Mrs. Maples' students even remarked, "Mrs. Maples, that's a lot of tattoos. We learned a lot from you!"
We're so proud of the incredible growth our students have shown this year! Keep it up, Crane Elementary!
#CraneElementary #StudentGrowth #EndOfYearSuccess
Due to the weather updates we have recently received from the National Weather Service, the estimated timing of the severe storms with potential tennis-ball sized hail is expected to hit during our normal dismissal time. With that being said, we want to try our best to get everyone home safely before it hits so we will be dismissing school early this afternoon, May 19, at 2:30 PM. Parents, if your child needs to go home a different way than normal, please call your child’s school office ASAP.
There will be an informational meeting for parents and student athletes that are interested in playing JH Football on Wednesday night at 6:00 in the library. Any male or female student currently in the 6th and 7th grades along with their parent(s) wanting to play should be there . Our new coach, Mr. Chane Hutton, will be there to talk with everyone and answer any questions.
This is a reminder that we DO have school tomorrow, Monday, May 19th! That includes VoTech for our Juniors who go. It's the last week of school. Let's finish strong!
We are excited to announce a new addition to the Crane Pirate Family. Coach Chane Hutton will be our JH Football Coach.
Having spent 12 years Coaching Youth Competitive Football, 6 years as the Head Jr High Football Coach at Summit Christian Academy, and last year as a Varsity Assistant Football Coach at Nixa, I am very excited to help bring a brand new Football program to the Crane Pirates. Let's Run It Back!!
Tomorrow, May 16th, our Crane PAT program will be hosting a Muffins with Mom event. Search our Crane Parents as Teachers organization on Facebook to find more information about this event.
