Pana CUSD 8

Thursday 4/25 was a day full of new experiences with 2 facility tours for Animal Science. Our first stop was Borgic Farms west of Nokomis, top producing hog farm in the state of Illinois. They have 12,000 Sows total, 10,000 working (able to breed and have litters). They have roughly 1,400 piglets each day, and wean 100 sows everyday. Students got to tour the Farrowing barns, some even got the experience of sleeving a piglet - Blayne, Leeland and Isaiah received a little souvenir at the end for trying something new! Breeding barn, full AI with teasing boars on site, weaning barn where piglets will then get sorted and ready for a truck to haul to grower locations. They provide 450,000 market hogs for the market each year. Next we stopped at Baumans Dairy Farm, 7th generation family farm that has over 200 head of Dairy Cows. They are getting an average of 92-93 lbs of milk a day from one cow. Students got to experience the milking process in the parlor & bottle feed some bucket calves. Calves are weaned from their mothers after 12-24 hours as the cows will overproduce milk and it can make the calves sick from eating too much. We thank both sites for hosting us and allowing students new opportunities, as well as relate management and care practices learned in class to real life industry settings.

On Monday, April 29, the Junior High Bands gave a sneak peek of their Spring Concert repertoire to the entire Junior High student body. What a great audience they were! Please enjoy this sneak peek and hope to see you at our Spring Honors Concerts on Wednesday, May 1at 6:30pm (Junior High bands and choir) and 7:30pm (High School bands and choir). https://youtu.be/xfqw_mj0BNA?si=uGdYqpRIMABHqYyS

Thursday 4/25 was a day full of new experiences with 2 facility tours for Animal Science. Our first stop was Borgic Farms west of Nokomis, top producing hog farm in the state of Illinois. They have 12,000 Sows total, 10,000 working (able to breed and have litters). They have roughly 1,400 piglets each day, and wean 100 sows everyday. Students got to tour the Farrowing barns, some even got the experience of sleeving a piglet - Blayne, Leeland and Isaiah received a little souvenir at the end for trying something new! Breeding barn, full AI with teasing boars on site, weaning barn where piglets will then get sorted and ready for a truck to haul to grower locations. They provide 450,000 market hogs for the market each year. Next we stopped at Baumans Dairy Farm, 7th generation family farm that has over 200 head of Dairy Cows. They are getting an average of 92-93 lbs of milk a day from one cow. Students got to experience the milking process in the parlor & bottle feed some bucket calves. Calves are weaned from their mothers after 12-24 hours as the cows will overproduce milk and it can make the calves sick from eating too much. We thank both sites for hosting us and allowing students new opportunities, as well as relate management and care practices learned in class to real life industry settings.

On May 5th, 2024, the senior class will host a Baccalaureate service at 4:00 pm at the Pana Christian Church. This is a non-denominational service to celebrate the graduating seniors of Pana High. If you are interested please have your seniors check their email to fill out the RSVP. This event is open to the community! All families and students are welcome to attend.

The class of 2024 has chosen as the Most Musical Seniors, John Berns and Emma Stephens. Congratulations to these All-State Musicians.

Today is the LAST DAY to reserve a yearbook! You can order and pay online at our school store at https://tinyurl.com/panaHSybk OR bring cash or a check for $65 made out to Pana High School. All cash and check orders are due by tomorrow, 4/30 (Tuesday), before 8:30am! You can pay in the office or pay Mr. Dail in Room 206.

Pana Elementary, Junior High, and High School volleyball camp forms are due 5/3/24 to your child's school office. Camps are for students who are ENTERING grades 4-12.

🎨What's Happening in the PHS ART ROOM🎨: 1st Hour Intro to Art Students finished their Architecture replica sculptures. Each student got to work individually or in a group setting. This is a good project for students to complete as 3-dimensional formations and working with minimum items. Enjoy the photos of the students and their artwork! #BeCreative🧑🏻‍🎨 #Artwork🖍 #GoPanthers

Congratulations to Gage and Boone from Mrs. Crawford's class! Gage won the April character trait of Perseverance and Boone won the April Kindness Kounts award!

8th Grade Students are working with Newton's 3 Laws of Motion. They created a 3D printed Tractor to compete in our Tractor Pull. Each image is the tractor with the highest weight pull from that class hour.

Mrs. Goff did a fun activity today in Mrs. King’s group for her Social Studies class on Egyptians! Students had to create a mummy out of toilet paper. They also learned about King Tut as well. They had so much fun!

Please join is in celebration of our 2024 Pana CUSD #8 Retirees, at Pana High School, Commons Area, May 20, 2024 from 4-6.

Come checkout the 8th grade American History classes WWII projects at the PJHS Curriculum Fair May 14th.

Still looking for multiple teams for both shifts. https://drive.google.com/file/d/163UyF-Q4j_NWznxl7SsDVKnVEm8AE1bX/view?usp=drivesdk

Congratulations to the most artistic seniors, Andie Koontz and Simon Rickett. They were chosen by the class of 2024.

Mrs. Lenover's class had exciting Escape Room fun!

🎨What's Happening in the Art Room PHS Edition🎨: 1st hour Intro to Art students finished up their replicas of known Architecture structures. Some architecture replica structures are life-like real & also imaginary. These are found all over the world. Enjoy the individual & group photos! #Becreative🎨 #Besafe🛟 #Gopanthers🐾

Our musical seniors will be performing in their last concert on May 1st at PHS. We will be honoring our seniors. Please come out and support these outstanding seniors.  The Pana High School Choir had a stellar year of music making!  They performed for the community at the Demonstration Concert, the Sounds of the Season Concert, Hickory Estates, PHS Basketball Games, the Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade, the Music in Our Schools Recital, and the Spring Honors Concert.  In the fall, we had seven students (Nicole Arkebauer, John Berns, Cayden Hankins, Gabriella Heinrich, Em Mendenhall, Emma Stephens, and Madison Wehrle) selected for the ILMEA District Concert and Jazz Choirs.  From that, two students were selected to attend ILMEA All-State in January:  Emma Stephens was in the Honors Choir, and John Berns was in the All State Vocal Jazz Choir.  John Berns was also chosen as a IHSA National Anthem Soloist and performed at the Boys' Basketball Championship in March.  Many of the students took part in the wildly successful Pana Panther Showcase.  The choir and soloists also performed at IHSA Solo and Ensemble Contest, where they earned 12 Superior ratings and 1 Excellent rating.  In April, the choir performed at the IHSA Organizational Contest where they earned 3 straight Division I (Superior) ratings.  Finally, the students very much enjoyed having Student Teacher Mrs. Roberts with them during the Spring Semester.  Mrs. Chase is very proud of their accomplishments!

Congratulations to the best dressed seniors, Rudy Zahradka and Tayla Rhoades. They were chosen by the class of 2024.

Join the PHS Jazz Band and all the othrr bands and choirs at their Spring Honors Concerts on Wed, May 1 in the PHS Gymnasium! Junior High Concert will be at 6:30pm and the High School Concert will start at 7:30 pm! Free Admission..hope to see you there!