Underwood School District

Reminder - School Picture Retake Day is Tuesday, November 2nd. Forms are available in the school office.

New COVID-19 Rapid Testing Sites Announced: To provide Minnesota families even more access to free, quick testing resources, Governor Walz has expanded rapid COVID-19 testing opportunities across the state. These sites will allow Minnesotans experiencing COVID-19 symptoms to take an antigen test and receive results in 1-3 hours. Please share with your families the COVID-19 community rapid testing sites that would be most convenient to access. Rapid COVID-19 testing is now available at the following nearby cities: Moorhead Wadena -- *Opened October 26 Please use the following link to schedule an appointment -- https://mn.gov/covid19/get-tested/testing-locations/community-testing.jsp

The young eagles flight program, with 6 local pilots, flew the Underwood 7th grade class on Monday morning at the Fergus Falls airport. The young eagles program is a national program to get kids interested in all aviation jobs and to teach students about flying. The kids had a blast with some taking their first flights ever.

The Underwood Junior high knowledge bowl season started off on Tuesday in Fergus Falls with 19 teams attending. The 8th grade team of Rowan Finseth, Mason Hoyt, Hunter Pederson, Gabe Lindstrom, and Quenton Beske started and finished in first place. Way to go gentlemen.

What a 'fun-tastic' morning at OtterBerry Farm! The kindergarten classes went through the corn maze, fed the animals, played and went for a wagon ride. We cannot wait to decorate our pumpkins :)

The 3rd graders had a great time harvesting prairie plant seeds out at the Prairie Wetlands Learning Center today. The students have been studying plants and conducting seed experiments over the past several weeks.

On October 13th some of our high school students attended JobFest put on by the Rural Minnesota CEP at Mstate in Fergus Falls. There were many local businesses there for students to apply for jobs and talk about future employment after graduation.

On October 7th Juniors and Seniors attended the T4 (Tools, Trades, Torque, Tech) event at NDSCS. Students got to experience a variety of in-demand careers and explore the college. We visited the Dental Hygiene, Land Surveying and Power Sports departments.

Mrs. Hoyt’s 7th grade math classes used their scientific notation and metric system skills to break into a Breakout box today. They saved King Henry’s chocolate milk! All of the groups did an awesome job working as teams!

Underwood Public School is looking for substitutes in the following areas: Teachers, Paraprofessionals, Custodians, Food Service, Transportation. If interested, please visit https://www.underwood.k12.mn.us/page/job-postings

Congrats to Underwood High School on receiving a Next Gen Personal Finance Gold Award. NGPF is a non-profit with a mission to ensure every high school student in America takes a personal finance course by the year 2030. Gold Standard Schools ensure that all students take at least one standalone semester course in personal finance. Gold Standard Schools also show remarkable leadership, surging ahead of state progress on financial education for students. Please check out the NGPF's website to learn more information about awards given to schools across the nation -- https://www.ngpf.org/blog/advocacy/press-release-ngpf-gold-standard-schools/

Twinning Day for Homecoming 2021

Homecoming Week is "alive & doing well" at Underwood School this week!! Coronation festivities started the week with the 2021 Homecoming Queen & King being announced. Congrats to Seniors, Brianna Evavold & Trevor Swonger, on being selected as this year's Queen & King. Homecoming week continues this with a variety of fun-filled homecoming activities for our students and staff to enjoy along with a different dress up day for each day for the week -- Tuesday is "White Lie T-Shirt Day" with our Social Studies & Language Arts Teachers "donning" their Tuesday apparel.

Reminder - Wednesday, September 22nd is picture day at Underwood School.

The Underwood School District has an opening for a Full-time Paraprofessional (6.75 hours/per school day). The position is open until filled. If interested in this opening, please send a cover letter, resume and school application (available on our district website) to Arick Follingstad, Principal, Underwood School, 100 Southern Ave, Underwood, MN 56586 or email your cover letter, resume and application to afollingstad@underwood.k12.mn.us

Mrs. Hoekstra & Mrs. Pedersen’s 3rd grade classes visited the Sundberg Apiary last week. While there, the students learned many interesting facts about honeybees, as well as the process of collecting honey. It was pretty sweet getting to sample the honey and seeing a future queen bee still growing inside the honeycomb!

It’s a beautiful day for the first day of the 2021-2022 school year for 7th-12th grade students! We are looking forward to a great start to the year! Elementary Students - we are excited to see you tomorrow!

Please take some time to watch the short video with some important back-to-school information. Please be sure to watch the entire video! https://youtu.be/tmc0a4Sr1b4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmc0a4Sr1b4 We are looking forward to a great start to a new school year!

Underwood's Harvest Festival was the place to be on Saturday. The Underwood Community held their annual Harvest Festival with a variety of fun-filled events for all ages to participate in. One of the BIG events/activities of the day was the parade where the Underwood School was represented via the Rocket Marching Band, a float featuring and "now & then" theme in honor of the school's 100th anniversary and a float featuring the present and past administrators at Underwood School. The UHS Marching band was definitely one of the main highlights of the parade, donning their new uniforms and playing some awesome music. A HUGE crowd of community supporters, young and old, lined the streets and definitely showed their appreciation for the UHS Marching Band and all of the other parade entries. A fun day had by all!!

Kindra Peterson, Underwood class of 2020, on the field in the marching band during Minnesota Gopher Football home opener vs. Ohio State.