Great job to these kindergarten students who leveled up in Lexia.
On Friday, the Mena High School FBLA and FCCLA had their annual Christmas Party! The theme was Christmas Morning so students celebrated with breakfast food and in their Christmas Morning clothes! They also collected diapers to donate to our local DHS office!
Mena Middle School Elf Visit 2023
Holly Harshman Elementary Teammate Award Winners:
Brent Epperson
Trevor Wood
Natalee Spencer
Hadley Kesterson
The students will be Team Captains at the Senior Ladycat and Bearcat games on Monday against Horatio.
The Mena High School Student Council sponsored an Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest on Thursday. The winner was
Samara Jaynes!
Mrs. Dickison's enrichment reading group has been diving in to Wonder by R. J. Palacio and the amazing life lessons it has to offer. They have worked so hard on their character analysis projects and are finally sharing them today! What an exciting experience!
Members of the MHS National English Honor Society made a surprise visit with Santa Clause at Louise Durham Elementary on Wednesday to pass out Santa Letters to 2nd grade.
Preschool is snow much fun ❄️
Tuesday night was another successful MMS dance. Our next dance will most likely be around Valentine’s Day in February.
Tiny Cambell, Teresa Judkins, and Sharon Shook recently taught Mrs. Wilson's class at Mena High School how to use a quilting machine for their community service learning project. Thanks to their expertise and assistance, students have acquired the skills to craft quilts throughout the semester. These meticulously crafted quilts will be generously donated to Arkansas Children's Hospital.
In the photo, from left to right, you'll find Kristi Wilson, Kaylee Smith, Dylanne Carr, Claire Walston, Delaney Carr, Tiny Campbell, and Teresa Judkins.
The Mena Bearcats and Ladycats competed in the Ram Rumble tournament this weekend.
Emery Anderson took 1st place in her weight class.
Zach Cline took 2nd place in his weight class!
Ainsley Mchadden took 3rd place in hers!
The JR Ladycat Basketball team had a great time shopping and wrapping presents for Angel Tree kids Friday night. It was a wonderful team bonding experience.
The Spotlight Singers had a wonderful time singing at Sounds of the Season at the state Capitol. It’s always one of our favorite trips of the year!
Ornament FUN! 🎄♥️ Ms. Claire Williamson from 4H helped 5th grade make ornaments!
4th and 5th grade "read to a dog".
Tune in Bearcat News on FM101 Monday, December 11th for the weekly report from Louise Durham Elementary featuring SOPHIA.
Sophia is a second grade student in Mrs. Warren's class.
Bearcat News can be heard every school day on Mena Public Schools Radio FM101. Tune in at
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Mena High School AE students took Christmas cards to the Homewood Cottages residents today for a service project.
Congratulations to our MMS grade-level spelling bee winners. They will be headed to the Polk County Spelling Bee next month:
6th grade
Briar Robinson
Zach Horn
Alternate-Joscelyn Bates
7th grade
Talen West
Sophia Kendrick
Alternate -Tanner Cobb
8th grade
Camilla Booher
Shooter Davis
Alternate- Zachary Werkoven
Our zoom meeting with Kwame Alexander (author of The Crossover) and Judy Blume (author of Fudge) at the Mena MIddle School Library was fantastic! They answered one of our student’s questions and we learned a little about building characters in our writing. The highlight was hearing Kwame read his own writing. Thank you Kwame Alexander!
Mena Middle School student Nathan Williamson competed and won first place in the local 2023-2024 VFW Patriot's Pen youth essay contest. Nathan was awarded $300 by the local Veterans of Foreign Wars. His essay was submitted for the state level competition. Congratulations Nathan!
