Chillicothe City Schools -

There will be no school on Tuesday, November 11th, in recognition of Veterans Day!

*This is for all grade levels and buildings. All CCSD offices will be closed that day.*

Chillicothe High School and Middle School will be closed on Friday, November 14th. All 7th - 12th grade students will not attend school that day.

All other CCSD buildings - Chillicothe STEM Preschool, Primary School, and Intermediate School - will be open and in session that day. Pre-K - 6th grade students should attend school on Friday, November 14th!

We’d like to give a HUGE thank you to everyone who helped us PACK THE BUS last night! CCSD is committed to continuing helping to fight food insecurity in our district and community. Your donations will go a long way to help those in need! 💙🚍 We’d also like to give a special shoutout to Downtown Chillicothe for their support and help with this project!

Please join us on Monday, November 10th for our annual Veterans Day program! It will begin at 9:00AM in the Chillicothe Intermediate School Cafeteria!

We were honored to join the First Capital Rotary meeting this morning to discuss food insecurities impacting many of our students’ everyday lives and to collect donations for our SNAP GAP “heat-to-eat” meals. A huge thank-you to Accurate Heating and Cooling for replacing our 7–12 walk-in freezer, installing a new backup generator, and generously donating $500 toward our SNAP GAP program! 💙🍽️

Don’t forget to help us pack the bus TODAY, from 4:00PM - 6:00PM!

These students scored a “PERFECT 10” on the essay portion of the English/Language Arts Quarterly Assessment! Congratulations to Ella Parker, Frank Price, David Hankinson, Xavien Woodfork, Torrianos Garcia, Owen Meachum, and Quentin Smith! Great work, Cavaliers!

Chillicothe Fire Department is hosting a Drive-Thru Food Drive THIS Saturday to help combat food insecurity in our community! Be sure to come out, donate, and help feed your community!

They will be receiving donations at the department, at 54 E Water St, from 9:00AM - 1:00PM.

🕰️ Another fun extension to the grade level Changes study in second grade is our Trek Through Time community experience! 🕰️
Designed using the expertise of our local historical society, this experience takes our students back through time in our historic downtown. You may see us during our travels the next couple of days!

(Thank you to Dard Hunter for greeting us and adding to our info each year, and to the Majestic Theatre for our lunch space each day!)

👀 Be on the lookout for this notebook to come home! If you decide to time travel with your student using the home connection pages included within it, you will earn 1 of the 3 needed credits for the invite to the December Innovators’ Breakfast.🏅🍩

Help us Pack The Bus THIS Thursday, November 6th, from 4-6PM. A Chillicothe City School District school bus will be parked on The west side of Paint Street, outside the jail. Please donate canned goods or non-perishable food items, or make a monetary donation if you can, to support the Cavalier Closet!

MR. CONFERENCE PLAYER OF THE YEAR 🏆 Give a big round of applause to our guy Cartae Ligon for winning conference player of the year! In only his Sophomore campaign he put up video game numbers 🎮! He had mind-blowing 🤯 performances and amassed over 2200 Rushing yards for 27 TD’s, over 300 receiving yards for 2 TDs, 200 yds kick returns, 80 tackles, 3 interceptions, 4 PBU’s! Congratulations, Cartae, the future is bright for you!

Halloween at CCSD 🎃💙 We hope everyone had an awesome day! We sure did!

We’ve had such a stellar Halloween here at Chillicothe Intermediate School! 💙🎃 More photos here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XMVTDJ3GPHL_dcu3hr_5VZf9QeWTnxEw

Our seniors brought their Halloween Spirit to this year’s costume contest—organized by Student Council and hosted by senior class advisors Mrs. Dana and Ms. Arredondo!

🏆 Winners include:
😂 Funniest Costume: Noah McAdams as Austin Powers
👯 Best Group: Maleah Geise, Kara Loel, Mick Monk & Karissa Umphries as childhood trick-or-treaters
🎨 Most Creative: Elizabeth Miller as a Renaissance Lady
🧵 Best DIY: Brooke Taylor as Strawberry Shortcake
🫶 Best Duo: Reagan Helmick & Layla Reisinger as Elphaba and Dorothy
🦖 Scariest: Alayna Sutherland & AJ Crosby as a brachiosaurus dinosaur

Way to go, Class of 2025—your creativity slayed! 💀✨

Happy Halloween 🎃 We had a very kooky, ooky, spooky parade this morning! Our little Cavaliers had so much fun showing off their costumes and Halloween spirit! 💙 More Halloween parade photos here 📸: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12OZrdWU3JqPa_bHm7XNAZBMOB4kMLoFp

We hope all of our spooky little Cavaliers are excited to Trick or Treat tonight! Please, be smart, safe, and stay warm! 💙👻
*We will update this post and make a new one if Trick or Treat is cancelled or postponed. As of right now, Trick or Treat is still on tonight for the City of Chillicothe!*

🌿🔎3rd graders as field scientists! 👩🏾‍🔬🌱🧑🏻‍🔬 For this Muddy Boots, students advanced their foundational field science skills acquired in their years at Chillicothe Primary, by applying field science processes through a comprehensive botany study.
🌼✍️📐This integrated learning experience combined life science, literacy, and real-world math applications, including perimeter, measurement, and data collection. Utilizing the citizen science app, Seek, students collaborated to identify and document native flora species. They then conducted a comparative study of the Goldenrod species, culminating in official field notes that elevated their scientific drawing skills.
🗒️🌱🙌 We are incredibly proud of our young field scientists! 💙🤍
#chillicothestem
#ExtraordinaryOpportunities

🥾 Muddy Boots 🥾
2nd grade muddy boots is a wrap! Some of these field scientists have been learning at Muddy Boots since their first days in preschool. Every year, twice a year. 💙
We believe in this real world application of classroom learning and the competencies it builds, like compassion, communication and critical thinking. 🤍
We are so grateful for the Ross County Park District for the space and expertise that has helped cultivate these amazing experiences for our students. 🌲
❓Discussion prompts for your 2nd grade field scientist:
- Tell me about the data you documented at Muddy Boots.
- What are differences between cyclical and linear changes? Give an example.
- Tell me about your classroom learning that connected to your experience at Buzzard’s Roost.
- What is your favorite part of being a field scientist? Is this something you would want to be when you grow up?
- Is all change good?
#placebasedlearning #communitypartners #learningisfun #ExtraordinaryOpportunities #fieldscience #chillicothestem