Upcoming events

Today: Baseball at Floyd, 3 p.m. varsity, 5 p.m. junior varsity; Varsity track meet at Texico High School.

Wednesday: Kiwanis Club of Portales Little Olympics track meet, 9 a.m., at Elida Schools.

Thursday: Baseball at Grady, 3 p.m. varsity doubleheader

Friday: District track at Fort Sumner.

May 3: Baseball hosting Gateway Christian, 3 p.m. varsity doubleheader.

May 7: Makeup day.

 Around the school

• English IV students are creating presentations on research papers, English III and II students are working on poetry units and English I students are completing activities on “Great Expectations.”

• Family and consumer sciences students just completed a unit on career investigation.

• The quality of education surveys have been sent home with students. Please send the completed survey back to your child’s homeroom teacher.

• State track meet qualifiers at this time are: Shanna Anthony, shot put; Shealton Veo, 100-meter hurdles; Hunter Haley, high jump and 400 meters.

The Class 1A-2A state meet will be held May 5-6 at the University of New Mexico.

• Austin Daughtry, a fifth-grader at Elida Elementary, demonstrated a question and answer box that he made last week as part of the “Afterschool is Cool!” program.

The students are learning about electricity conduction.