Glen Lake Community Schools

Glen Lake Music Presents: Dessert Cabaret. Join us for an evening of songs and sweets. Tonight, May 22nd at 7pm in the Glen Lake Auditeria. Free of charge.

Exploring the wonders of nature with our little botanists-in-training! 🌱 Students in elementary Explorers class planted 8 varieties of over 400 native flowers and plants along the sidewalk by our amphitheater. Special thanks to Flaska Landscaping for teaming up with us to sprout some eco-friendly magic around Glen Lake.

Reminder that the Brilliant Books Middle School Book Fair is happening now! Stop in the high school media center to check it out. It is open through tomorrow, May 23rd. You can also shop it online with your student! You can shop online at this link: https://www.brilliant-books.net/thank-you-supporting-glen-lake-community-schools 25% of your purchase goes to support the Glen Lake library!

Reminder: There is no school Monday, May 27th for Memorial Day! Enjoy the long weekend!

Elementary School Families working on their summer bucket lists. Some of our favorites... "Swimming at the beach" "Reading 100 books" "Camping with my family" and "I want more school" 🖤🤍💛 ⚓️

Digging into Fun: 4th Graders Sow the Seeds of Knowledge at Loma Organic Farm! 🌱🌻🚜

Athletic registration for the 2024-2025 school year is now open in Final Forms. To register parents will need to log into their Final Forms account and select the blue box to switch to the 2024-2025 year. From there parents can choose which sport(s) your child wishes to participate in next year. Final Forms registration is for all middle school and high school athletics along with elementary Pop Warner football and cheer. Sign up for elementary basketball will come out in November. glenlake-mi.finalforms.com

The Varsity Track & Field team competed at Regionals in East Jordan on Saturday and our boys team clenched the Regional trophy. Congratulations to all of our athletes that competed and to this group listed that will now move on to the State Finals on June 1. Eleanor Valkner Shot put Discus Kariesue Taghon 100 meter dash 200 meter dash 4x200 relay 4x400 relay Lydia Fosmore 4x200 relay 4x400 relay Emily Alaimo 4x200 relay 4x400 relay Robin Lane 4x200 relay 4x400 relay Warren Aylsworth Shot put Discus Dylan Cundiff 400 meter 4x200 relay 4x400 relay 4x800 relay Colebrook Sutherland 800 meter 1600 meter 4x400 relay 4x800 relay Abraham Feeney 1600 meter 3200 meter 4x800 relay Tyler Bixby 300 meter hurdles 4x100 relay 4x200 relay 4x800 relay Boden Fisher 4x100 relay 4x200 relay 4x400 relay Porter Martin 4x100 relay Breckin Nerg 4x400 relay Benji Allen 200 meter dash 4x100 relay 4x200 relay

Today we celebrated two amazing young ladies who signed their letters of intent to continue athletics at the collegiate level. Paige Steffke signed to play soccer next year at Trine University and Kariesue Taghon will be a member of the Track & Field team at Aquinas.

Celebrating a magnificent concert experience brought to us from our Glen Lake Secondary Band Students! As Mrs. Case has stated, "Small, but Mighty!" The entire night was filled with incredible musicians sharing their talent, passion, and heart! The 6th-12th grade band members came together to close their concert with Pirates Of the Caribbean. They received a much deserved standing ovation! Thank you to Mrs. Case - You have left an impact for all of us! Thank you Mr. Stow and our GL Band Boosters. Our band program continues to grow through purpose, passion, and love! 🎶🖤⚓️🖤🎶

Watch this short, beautiful video about the daily learning our middle school students experience. Classes are co-designed by staff and students to bring hands on, real world learning into our daily lives! Congratulations again to Glen Lake Community Schools. So proud of our Middle School staff and students. This video brings tears of happiness, love and joy that all students deserve! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shzNCOD73xU

Last minute opportunity: Archaeological Discovery Day for Students Must register by today, May 13th. This will occur May 18th, 2024 at the Leelanau County Poor Farm Site * Miles Kimmerly Park. Contact Steve Stier 517-648-2933 stephenstier@gmail.com if interested. Attendance is limited to 5 students.

Glen Lake Band Program presents Music's Greatest Hits! You can catch the 6th, 7th, 8th, high school and jazz band performances at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, May 15th!

Superintendent, Mr.Misner, gets dunked by Glen Lake Elementary students at the PTO Carnival!

Wave goodbye to Spike! Glen Lake's fourth graders release their beloved sturgeon back into the wild after a year of care. 🌊🐟 #SpikeTheSturgeon #ConservationChampions

Tonight's the night! It's the much anticipated return of the PTO Carnival! We hope you'll join us from 5-8pm for tons of family fun! Admission is $5 per person or $20 per family. There will be games galore, bounce houses, a cake walk, concessions, dunk tank, face painting, raffle and silent auction. Raffle tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5. Raffle items include brand new bikes as well as the amazing class baskets that were put together by each elementary class! Don't miss the silent auction - there are several amazing items to be bid on! You definitely don't want to miss everyone's favorite event - The Dunk Tank!!! For just $1 a throw try your aim at dunking Mr. Misner, Mr. Brandsen, Mr. Richmond, Mrs. Palmer, Mr. Swartzmiller or high school student athlete, Benji Allen! ***The concessions, raffle tickets and dunk tank are CASH ONLY***

Busy day for our 8th graders! What an incredible learning experience it has been! We continue to receive compliments on how kind and respectful our Glen Lake 8th graders are!

You can check out this cornhole board set made by high school students in Mr. Drown's wood working classes at the GL PTO Carnival tomorrow night! The wood working students put the cornhole board sets together and a student who is in both Mr. Drown's class and Ms. Walker's art class designed the decals that were applied. This cornhole set will be used at the Carnival and for other GL events in the future.

From tiny gardeners to big dreamers: Our preschoolers planned, built, and filled their planter boxes with compost and creativity! 🌱🔩 Next stop: the great outdoors for planting day! 🌿

6th graders at LOC enjoying their outdoor adventures! Collaborative learning at its best!