East Butler Public Schools

East Butler 5th & 6th grade students visited UNL yesterday! We learned about veterinary science and natural resources, got ice cream from the Dairy Store 🍦, toured the Larsen Tractor Museum and Test Lab, and visited Memorial Stadium!🏟️🏈

Trees! Trees! Trees! For the third year, East Butler in Dwight has been named a Trees Campus by the Arbor Day Fountain! This year's group participated in the Trees in the Classroom curriculum, participated in a community project by pruning trees, researched trees at Great Plains Nursery, and held an Arbor Day Celebration with the help of the Lower Platte South NRD!

The East Butler track and field team performed well yesterday on a beautiful day at districts in Osceola. We've qualified 11 athletes for the state meet in 12 different events! Below is the link to order your state track and field T-shirt. Get them ASAP so you can be decked out for the state track meet on May 22nd/23rd. http://eastbutlerstatetrack2026.itemorder.com/

The boys track team are district champs! The following athletes have qualified for the state meet next week: Drew - 1st SP Dylan - 2nd SP Rocco - 1st LJ, 1st 100, 1st 200 Grant  - 1st TJ, 1st 400, 1st 800 4x1 - 1st: Allen, Rocco, Devon, & Grant Blaire - 2nd 100 hurdles Allison - 2nd 3200 meters Addi - 2nd 800 4x8 - 1st: Allison, Margret, Kate, & Addi

Absolute perfect day at the zoo for the Dwight 3rd & 4th and Brainard 3rd grade. ☀️

The final bell may ring today, but the story of the East Butler Senior Class of 2026 is just beginning. Thank you for the memories, the leadership, and the awesome people you are. We will miss you, and you are always welcome at East Butler. Go Tigers!!!

Senior Jacob Pekarek spent his last day of Calculus using integrals to find the center of mass of a non-uniform sheet of plexiglass. As the picture shows, it works!

The 4th graders "Escaped Through Nebraska" with Ms.Janessa, from the Butler County Extension office. What a great way to review everything they have learned about Nebraska this year!

Dwight PreK had some special visitors. Farmer David brought a calf and a goat for us to pet!

The 4th graders participated in Butler County AG Literacy day. It was a fun day of learning about agriculture in our state!

It's that time of year again! Parents, please get your elementary Tigers signed up to come to the East Butler elementary basketball camp for the 1st-3rd of June! Instruction will be provided by the EB boys coaching staff, and members of our state basketball team! Forms can be turned into the office or Coach Novak. Walk ins welcomed also! Contact Coach Novak with any questions. Go Tigers!

This week Dwight prek was all about bugs. We got to explore worms..

🐝We pretended to be bees.🐝 🌻We got pollen (Cheeto dust) on our fingers and then spread it to our flowers while we drank nectar (juice).

🐛🦋Dwight kindergarten had 15 caterpillars the last few weeks that they got to watch grow and change into butterflies. They released them today with the their 5th grade buddies into the 5/6 butterfly garden. 🐛🦋

Tonight's the night! The East Butler Spring Concert is this evening at 6:30 for all 5-12 instrumental groups and the HS Choir. Make sure you arrive early so you can be serenaded by the guitar class and their pre-show music!

Back-to-back Men’s CRC Conference Track Champions! Grant was the named the Gale Arnett Male Athlete of the CRC Meet. The girls team captured 6th place.

Here is the meet schedule for the CRC JH track meet tomorrow.

3rd graders learned all about amazing trees and resources needed for survival. Thanks to Adam Sutton, Environmental Educator with the Lower Platte South NRD. Each student even got to take home a sapling to plant! 🌱🌳

📚 ✏️ Proud Authors Alert! The Brainard and Dwight kindergarteners wrote their very own book and had it published. Today they had a red carpet celebration and got to share their work! A copy will be in both classrooms as well! Be sure to check out what makes each of us special! ✏️📚