East Butler Public Schools

Blue River wrestled well for the third day in a row. The team placed 5th of 16 teams at the Centennial Invitational. Individual placer: Danica @ 115 🥈 Arianna @ 120 🥉 Kaileigh @ 135 4th Evelyn @ 235 🥉

Blue River defeated South Sioux City 42-39. It came down to the last match, which was won by Evelyn Matulka with a pin! Congratulations Blue River, going 3-1 at the NSWCA Girls State Duals, placing 9th of 16 teams.

NSWCA Girls State Duals Round 3 Blue River beats Ralston 42-31 Next matchup is against South Sioux City. The meet is running ahead of schedule. Go Panthers!

Round 2 NSWCA Girls State Duals - Blue River advances over Omaha Benson, 49-24. Next dual will be against Ralston at 2:15.

The Panthers are competing at the NSWCA Girls State Duals in Norfolk today. Blue River fell to Omaha Westside in Round 1, 54-30. Blue River faces Omaha Benson at 11:30.

Blue River won the Triangular, winning against Arlington 51-30 and Raymond Central 66-18. They will compete at the NSWCA Girls Class A State Duals on Friday, January 23. Wrestling begins at 9am. Go Panthers!

Our girls wrestling team will be competing in the state duals tomorrow. Here is some information about the event.

The wrestling meet for tomorrow has been moved to a 10:00 A.M. start.

There will not be JV girls basketball tomorrow. The JV boys will start at 5:00 with the varsity girls to follow.

East Butler FCCLA participated in the STAR Competition today at St. Edward High School.

Congratulations to everyone!
* = State Qualifier
*Gunner - Career Investigation Top Silver - Runner Up
Emerson - Career Investigation Bronze
*Blaire, Ellie, Tessa - Focus on Children (2) Top Silver
Michael, Jon, Isabella - Focus on Children (3 ) Silver
Amaure - Professional Presentation (2) Silver
Emy, Addi - Professional Presentation (2) Silver
*Kate, Kourtney - Professional Presentation (3) Gold - Runner Up
*Allison, Lillyan - Nutrition & Wellness (2) Silver - Runner Up

🧈 🍞 Dwight kindergarten finished their unit on learning about the past today and made their own butter! They loved seeing it turn from a liquid to a solid and then trying it out afterward! 🍞 🧈

Here are the brackets for the CRC tournament starting this Saturday!

Congratulations to the Blue River Wrestlers on their win against Wahoo, 40-31. Marnita Spatz won the last match of the night to secure the victory!

Come Learn about the facility enhancement that the school district is considering. January 28th at 6:30 PM.

Activities Schedule for the week of January 18th - 24th: https://www.gobound.com/ne/schools/eastbutler/calendar?includePractices=false&v=week&date=2026-01-18

Blue River placed 8th of 24 teams at the Schuyler Invitational!
Marnita 5th
Danica 🥈
Arianna 🥉
Nevaeh 5th
Abby 5th
Evelyn 5th

3rd graders modeled squirrel populations in different environments to learn about adaptations. Unfortunately, not every squirrel survived. 🐿️

🦕Dwight Prek paleontologists🦕 We searched for fossils (raisins) in a cookie. We had to estimate how many and then we counted how many there really was. We compared to decide which was bigger, our estimate or the actual count.

The 4th graders received their Rainbow Trout eggs today! We will raise them until May in our classroom. Then release them into the wild.