CUMBERLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT

🤸🍁 Jumping for joy with this GREAT fall weather! #CSDGoBeavers

Our 8th graders are putting in hard work on their Patriot’s Pen essays for the VFW ✏️ writing contest! This year’s prompt, “My Voice in America’s Democracy,” has sparked thoughtful responses. Students have been collaborating by reviewing and providing feedback to their peers, sharpening their writing skills along the way. ✍️🇺🇸 #CSDGoBeavers

🧈🥞 Our 5th graders really churned out some fun in science! After making butter and buttermilk, they turned their hard work into delicious homemade pancakes! YUM! 😋 Along with full bellies, they picked up some valuable life skills. 👏 #CSDGoBeavers

🎨🦁 CES Artists Are "Roaring" with Creativity! 🐯🎨 Both 2nd grade and Kindergarten have been hard at work crafting their ferocious tigers and lions! 2nd graders used fluorescent paint to bring their tigers to life, while Kindergarten’s colorful lions really ROAR with personality! 🖌️✨ Awesome job, CES artists—you’ve pounced on creativity!

Our #CSDGoBeavers FFA has been busy learning and growing in so many ways! Check out what they have been up to: 💙 Nearly two dozen Cumberland FFA members volunteered at the 2024 Food for America Program at the Jerome Farm in Barron. The Cumberland FFA joined forces with the Barron and Prairie Farm FFA Chapters to share the story of agriculture with all 4th graders in the Barron and Prairie Farm School Districts and all 6th graders in the Cumberland School District. 💛 Cumberland FFA had a team compete earlier this month at the Central National Dairy Cattle Evaluation Contest hosted at the World Dairy Expo in Madison. Those attending included: Mrs. Grewe (Assistant FFA Advisor), Carter Fauske, Miya Lehman, and Caylin Schultz. 💙 Two Cumberland FFA members Tani Riebe and Colbie Ladd, attended the FFA FIRE Leadership Conference at UW-River Falls. 💛 The Cumberland Flex Farms are off to a great start this school year! Thanks to the support of the Cumberland Education Foundation, students are growing their very own lettuce for the hot lunch program. This year, one of the Flex Farms was transported to the Elementary School. High school agriculture students are working with elementary students each week to help them manage their unit while learning about plants and food production.

Our #CSDGoBeavers Middle School Cross Country team 🏃‍♂️🏃 had an excellent 2024 season! They had their final meet in Cameron, where three runners 🏅medaled: Jovina was 4th, Riley was 9th, and Adelyn was 11th. Two other runners were close to medaling: Daisy came in 15th place, and Leo was 13th. 🎉 WAY TO GO runners!! To celebrate, on their drive home they made a stop for treats. They also celebrated again to wrap up their season by enjoying 🍕 pizza, handing out individual awards, and playing one last game. Thank you runners for a great season!!

✨ October Masterpieces of the Month! ✨ Artist Sonia Delaunay, known for her Orphism style paintings, was the inspiration for these beautiful Masterpieces created by our 6th-grade art students! Check out these masterpieces on display outside of the Middle School office throughout October. 🖌️ Stella Skinner 🖌️ Britton Elmberg 🖌️ Adelyn Ordway 🖌️ Alexander Mendoza-Galvan 🖌️ Adeline Streitz 🖌️ Ashlyn Johnson (not pictured) #CSDGoBeavers

🕰️ History coming alive for our #CSDGoBeavers 5th graders! Our fifth graders had an incredible time at Fort Folle Avoine, where they learned all about the Fur Trade! They enjoyed stepping back in time and imagining what life was like during that era. It was a fun and educational experience for everyone! 😊

Take another look into the Positivity Project! 👍❤️ These #CSDGoBeavers students focused on TEAMWORK last week. Mrs. Fauske’s class worked together to try holding a textbook up off the table using only fourteen notecards. One team achieved that goal, but they all won at teamwork!

Check out these reactions! 😀😲🫨 Our #CSDGoBeavers Middle School and High School started a new character education program called The Positivity Project. Each day the students spend 15 minutes ⏲️ discussing and participating in activities to foster more positive relationships among each other. Take a 👀 look at the fun learning going on as students participate in an activity focusing on curiosity!

🥁🎶 Our #CSDGoBeavers Marching Band took 2nd at the Hudson Invitational! This past Saturday, the Cumberland High School Marching Band traveled to Hudson, WI to take part in Rhythm by the River, a joint competition hosted by Hudson and River Falls High Schools. Nine marching bands from both Wisconsin and Minnesota competed for top honors in music, marching, percussion, and color guard in front of a panel of eight Wisconsin School Music Association adjudicators. The Cumberland Band made tremendous progress since their last competition and improved their score over 5 points from their performance in Baldwin two weeks ago. The students are working hard in rehearsals and each performance has been an improvement over the previous. Cumberland will continue their season next week when they travel to Chippewa Falls, WI where they will compete against four other bands in their class from both Wisconsin and Minnesota. 🗓️ Cumberland’s performance time is at 7:30pm on Saturday, October 5, 2024. Come to Chippewa Falls and support the Band! Complete results for Rhythm by the River were as follows: Class A/AA 🔴 1st Place - Baldwin-Woodville High School - 77.163 🔴 2nd Place - Cumberland High School - 72.65 🔴 3rd Place - Hutchinson High School - 59.85 🔴 4th Place - Sparta High School - 57.163 🔴 5th Place - Arcadia High School - 48.575 Class AAA/AAAA ⚫ 1st Place - Farmington High School - 78.963 ⚫ 2nd Place - Hastings High School - 76.513 ⚫ 3rd Place - Waseca High School - 72.775 Exhibition Hudson High School River Falls High School Cumberland’s Remaining Schedule for 2024: ▪ Saturday, October 5th – Chippewa Falls Show ▪ Friday, October 18th - State Send-Off Show - 12:30pm - Endeavor Stadium ▪ Saturday, October 19th – State Championships – UW-Whitewater

Check out these #CSDGoBeavers 🪡 sewing rockstars! Mrs. Thill’s Fashion Design class sewed up a storm! 🧵✂️ Students learned how to use rotary cutters, rulers, and basic sewing skills to create quilted pillows and cozy mittens. It was a stitching success!🧶

🎲🃏 7th graders are battling it out in a game of WAR! But instead of soldiers, they’re armed with ➕ positive and ➖ negative integers! They’re sharpening their math skills one card at a time—because when it comes to adding integers, it’s all about knowing when to stay positive and when to go negative! 😉 #CSDGoBeavers

🎉🛌 Homecoming Week is off to a comfy start with PJ Day! But wait... there’s more! Yesterday, our #CSDGoBeavers middle schoolers took it up a notch and traded PJs for camo! 🦌🍂 Check out some of our awesome students showing off their hunting gear. Who’s ready for the next dress-up day?!

🌞🎾 Beating the heat with Bocce Ball! With the hot temps last week, the high school outdoor pursuits class took it easy and enjoyed a game of bocce ball! 😎 This fun lifetime activity was a new experience for many of our students, and they had a blast learning the game! #CSDGoBeavers

🌳📖 Taking full advantage of the warm weather, these young authors from Mrs. Schallock’s Creative Writing class traded desks for fresh air and let their creativity soar while writing outside! Nothing like some sunshine to spark those story ideas! 🌞 #CSDGoBeavers

🌾 Wisconsin State FFA Officer Emma Johnson of the Amery FFA kicked off the school year by providing leadership training for every #CSDGoBeavers middle school and high school Agriculture student in the Cumberland School District. Thank you, Emma! 💙💛

🏃‍♂️☀️ The CMS Cross Country team had an awesome afternoon racing in Cameron against sixteen other schools! Despite the heat, many #CSDGoBeavers runners crushed their personal times—maybe it was the thought of freezy pops at the finish line! 😄🍧 Special shoutout to Adelyn for taking 15th place and Jovina for securing 10th! 🎉👏 Great job, team!

🌽🎉 Pop the confetti—our Kindergarteners tried corn on the cob for the first time ever, and it was a kernel of fun! These #CSDGoBeavers taste-testers couldn’t get enough of this delicious treat! 😋👧👦

If you were given the challenge of making the tallest tower out of 15 notecards and tape, how would you build it? 🤔 These #CSDGoBeavers fifth graders worked super hard and won the challenge! The 🥇 first-place winner’s tower was 42 inches tall and coming in 🥈 second was 39 inches! Good work fifth graders! 👍