![](https://www.apptegy.net/fallback/circled_default_avatar.png)
Grasshoppers and Ladybugs and Ants– Oh My! On May 18th, PCE’s 2nd graders embarked on a journey through Fugate Woods courtesy of a Biodiversity Field Trip Grant from the Illinois DNR. Students explored the hiking trails in Fugate Woods, learned about the different types of plants and animals found throughout our state, drew what they saw in nature, and recorded their field trip experiences in their very own Nature Journal. This field trip is the culminating activity for Mrs. Fehr’s and Mrs. Small’s joint art and research unit about insects.
![Fugate Woods](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4553638/large_F6vgQtj4TGwyhuSTWcnYNw.jpeg)
![Fugate Woods](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4553641/large_jhPlA-mXE7bYftFeLuzpvQ.jpeg)
![Fugate Woods](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4553643/large_iBaKchOsTUw-P7lMqb2MNg.jpeg)
![Fugate Woods](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4553644/large_vzD3gHeWCsZEK96evl0r8Q.jpeg)
![](https://www.apptegy.net/fallback/circled_default_avatar.png)
The last day for senior attendance is today, May 19th.
Baccalaureate will be held for the graduates at the First Baptist Church at 7pm on Sunday, May 21. Students should arrive at the church at 6:45 pm with their graduation gowns.
As of now, there is no rain in the forecast for next week so graduation practice will be on Thursday, May 25th after we finish our graduation walk at Prairie Central Elementary.
If your student is walking in the graduation ceremony, they must attend graduation practice! Before graduation practice, seniors will meet at Prairie Central Elementary for a graduation walk for our younger students. Students will need to be at Prairie Central Elementary no later than 8 am. After the graduation walk, we will come back to the high school for graduation practice. LifeTouch will be here to take graduation pictures and the senior class photo during graduation practice.
This senior class was the winner of our 2023 Class Cup. The reward for winning will be a lunch provided by Pizza By Marchelloni after graduation practice.
If you have any questions, please contact the PCHS office.
Wade Czerwonka
Principal, Prairie Central High School
411 N. 7th St.
Fairbury, IL 61739
815-692-2355
![](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/prairie_central_cusd_8_ar/profile/avatar/72143/circled_0108c208-c52d-41d8-a8cf-d6009dceeb65.png)
Proud of all of our PCHS 3-sport athletes: Dylan Bazzell, Drew Fehr, Drew Haberkorn, Austin Hansen, Cam Palmore, Tyler Curl, Alex Kaufman, JC Spence, Gavin Tredennick, Lucy Whitfill, Hudson Ault. Kaleb Diemer, Lane Whitfill, Zach Bull, Kenna Forsyth, Easton Friedman, Tony Schahrer, & Gavin Tredennick!
#ItsAGreatDayToBeAHawk
![PC 3-Sport](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4550166/large_photo1684465228101.jpg)
![](https://www.apptegy.net/fallback/circled_default_avatar.png)
Good luck to our JH Class 3A state track qualifiers, who are headed to Peoria today: Colter Kerber, Aubrey Atkins, Hannah Sedam, Cadyn Pride, Anna Cutrell, Jayla Hammond, and Lexi Donovan. Best of luck, we are proud of you! #ItsAGreatDayToBeAHawk
![track](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4546581/large_TB-CLhmcpTbk4_d3Mcz4gQ.jpeg)
![](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/prairie_central_cusd_8_ar/profile/avatar/72143/circled_0108c208-c52d-41d8-a8cf-d6009dceeb65.png)
PC youth volleyball camp forms are due Friday, May 26. See attached if interested.
#ItsAGreatDayToBeAHawk
![PC Youth VB Camp](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4545202/large_photo1684439851824.jpg)
![](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/prairie_central_cusd_8_ar/profile/avatar/69557/circled_86b7f33f-f19f-49f1-8e6c-5a4f2e051fe7.png)
Just a reminder that the last day of student attendance will be Thursday, June 1st. This will be a two-hour early release day. The last day for seniors is tomorrow, May 19th. We hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable summer!
![](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/prairie_central_cusd_8_ar/profile/avatar/72143/circled_0108c208-c52d-41d8-a8cf-d6009dceeb65.png)
Congratulations Collin and Sam!
#ItsAGreatDayToBeAHawk
![AOM](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4544252/large_qtSZEwLPxUDBOZd6RzP57w.png)
![](https://www.apptegy.net/fallback/circled_default_avatar.png)
PCJH Physical Education students are right on target as they begin the archery unit.
![archery](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4536955/large_9zQcK-WV9Z9dCug_w_xnHw.jpeg)
![archery](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4536956/large_r2Cm_GIbKE9VQwzfn8gT1w.jpeg)
![](https://www.apptegy.net/fallback/circled_default_avatar.png)
Second graders at PCE helped Fairview Haven celebrate National Nursing Home Week with a bubble party yesterday. The day was absolutely perfect! Thank you to Fairview Haven for inviting us over. Four of our students were randomly chosen to win DQ gift cards as well.
![Fairview Haven](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4541029/large_KimZk0Qj-lZayWkKbZojiw.jpeg)
![Fairview Haven](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4541030/large_6nJwIpiaEN3K8Nz-5rLv6w.jpeg)
![](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/prairie_central_cusd_8_ar/profile/avatar/69557/circled_86b7f33f-f19f-49f1-8e6c-5a4f2e051fe7.png)
Prairie Central is in need of summer mowing help! For more detailed information on the position and how to apply, please see our Facebook page or website.
![](https://www.apptegy.net/fallback/circled_default_avatar.png)
During the month of May, our 7th graders took turns traveling out to the Pontiac Criminal Justice Center to see first-hand the inner workings of our local law enforcement system.
![courthouse](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4536928/large_SOk9iNUM49iWizEE8OIR5Q.jpeg)
![courthouse](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4536930/large__nJw5mnUcPV0Tlg8a7SFGQ.jpeg)
![courthouse](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4536932/large_jb58X2R5-YDNn-A3BE04KA.jpeg)
![courthouse](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4536936/large_TFnxPOsAQxCY6uP0ts3V-A.jpeg)
![courthouse](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4536938/large_kykxGw3GORZ3J06GFBCczQ.jpeg)
![courthouse](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4536940/large_m7nbZFycUICELdDfmaKS-Q.jpeg)
![](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/prairie_central_cusd_8_ar/profile/avatar/69556/circled_e9811816-8ef3-433d-9868-b625bdacd53d.png)
It was a big night last night at the UE! Our annual spring art show and band/choir concert was a great success! Check out photos from both events here. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-GMB6VLLqJFUTtXgzHuzVFW-qnJeEWCJ?usp=share_link
![](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/prairie_central_cusd_8_ar/profile/avatar/69556/circled_e9811816-8ef3-433d-9868-b625bdacd53d.png)
Sixth grade students had an opportunity to display their hard work at their science fair. Projects tested things like eggs, toothpaste, ice cream, plant growth, plastic, toilet paper and electricity. Visiting 5th grade students were able to participate in many hands on activities of the projects. Check out some of their projects here. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-7PQ1c9WJm66MCJttpNU1Z_RSqmGogYU?usp=share_link
![Science Fair](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4527902/large_9CQ8u6Y38-xO-zeKBbFlng.jpeg)
![](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/prairie_central_cusd_8_ar/profile/avatar/69556/circled_e9811816-8ef3-433d-9868-b625bdacd53d.png)
The UE is doing a student library card drive!
![Library Card Drive](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4526994/large_jvJewoeYvcg5yn4G1hnhIA.png)
![](https://www.apptegy.net/fallback/circled_default_avatar.png)
Connecting to our study of World War II and the Holocaust in ELA and Social Studies, eighth graders visited the Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie on Tuesday. Visitors enter through the dark doors and exit through the light doors to signify this dark time in world history and how we learn to make choices to not let history repeat itself. We also listened to a Holocaust survivor tell her story as she fled Nazi Germany in 1939 when she was only four years old. We learned that we can all be upstanders and treat everyone with kindness!
![museum](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4524304/large_-8m18Zr2ZQar1Sx0kkZtVg.jpeg)
![museum](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4524306/large_kQPjZ0O0OA0hGc3nQR9RnQ.jpeg)
![museum](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4524310/large_E4QebE1_QKp_CtCqT9Z4-A.jpeg)
![](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/prairie_central_cusd_8_ar/profile/avatar/72143/circled_0108c208-c52d-41d8-a8cf-d6009dceeb65.png)
Reminder from Coach Ziller that tonight's Lil Hawks wrestling clinic will be at the high school, 5:30-6:30 in the wrestling room / small gym.
Thursday's clinic will be back at the UE and include our end-of-clinic tournament. Wear your Lil Hawks shirts. We will start at 5:30 and end when everyone is done wrestling. If we're done before 6:30, we will play some games to finish out the night.
![](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/prairie_central_cusd_8_ar/profile/avatar/72143/circled_0108c208-c52d-41d8-a8cf-d6009dceeb65.png)
The PCHS baseball and softball games at Braidwood Reed Custer scheduled for today, Friday, May 12 have been canceled due to field conditions from an afternoon storm.
![](https://www.apptegy.net/fallback/circled_default_avatar.png)
PCE hosted STEAM Night and the Art Show last night. We had a great turnout!
![STEAM night](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4482514/large_o5b0gbEXnpxNFs6A6cWD2A.jpeg)
![STEAM night](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4482516/large_3Pn81hVt4ikWaG-7A-7_Fw.jpeg)
![Art show](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4482518/large_s_YaB9a1txRvESkuHyEXYQ.jpeg)
![Art show](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4482519/large_XFJuPFNtekWr6sESCpAdvQ.jpeg)
![Art show](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4482523/large_HuDOuKvm0QwMb2kVsjEnVA.jpeg)
![](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/prairie_central_cusd_8_ar/profile/avatar/72143/circled_0108c208-c52d-41d8-a8cf-d6009dceeb65.png)
Mrs. Bedeker's Honors English I finished the challenging novel Great Expectations. In connection to the quirky character from the novel, Miss Havisham, the class had a Miss Havisham's Wedding Cake Decorating Day!
#ItsAGreatDayToBeAHawk
![Cake](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4472272/large_jUEcxTsjNEIjfI438xt40w.jpeg)
![Cake](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4472280/large_4oLnz9Z8axTQCcP0BcGOmw.jpeg)
![Cake](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4472286/large_vVr56gG8LrYz_QoHANokcQ.jpeg)
![Cake](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4472288/large_zNAXceDWKfeDyEqSuzE2lw.jpeg)
![](https://www.apptegy.net/fallback/circled_default_avatar.png)
Anyone interested in Softball or Baseball in Junior High for next school year (2023-2024), the dates of the parent informational meetings have changed. Both will still be held in the Junior High cafeteria.
Baseball: Monday, May 22 at 6:00pm
Softball: Thursday, May 25 at 6:00pm
![baseball](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4469941/large_wZlYrONpVQtmVRlLqxIkOQ.jpeg)
![softball](https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/live_feed_image/image/4469943/large_a0An0h4_yKG8daB9nKM5aw.jpeg)