Crosby-Ironton School District

🎄✨ Holiday Dress-Up Week is Almost Here! ✨🎄

Both CRES and the High School are gearing up for a festive week of fun from December 15–19! 🎅🦌❄️

Check out the flyers below for each building’s themed dress-up days, and join us in spreading holiday cheer all week long. CRES is the first flyer listed. ❤️💚

We can’t wait to see everyone’s spirit and creativity! 🎁✨

2 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

📢We are back today with a 'Fast Fact Friday' video.🎥
Take a listen and find out what's happening at C-I Schools this weekend.

https://youtube.com/shorts/rZcHpXwyDwg?feature=share

3 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

Students in Mrs. Syrstad's Children’s Lit class took lesser-known Brothers Grimm fairytales and rewrote them to be appropriate for an audience of children. Students had to justify their changes and explain how their changes are more developmentally appropriate for a younger audience.
Students then presented them to the class.

3 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

The King's Son who Feared Nothing by Tyler VanValkenburg a title page to a rewrite of a story

The second page to the rewrite about a prince who had been sheltered his whole life

3rd page about the prince's adventure and meeting a giant

4th page of the rewrite in which the Giant was going to threaten the prince but the prince turned it around and threatened the giant

The story doesn't end here but this is how the prince's ring spoke to him and found the princess

Title page of a rewrite called the Girl and the Wizard by Rachel, Isabelle, Jordan and Oliviah

page two of the rewrite about an old man and his family who lived in the woods and didn't have any money. Suddenly a wizard appreared and said he can help him

page 3 of rewrite in which years went by and the wizard came back to claim the old man's daughter and the old man says no you can't have her and the wizard wants her hair instead for a beard so he cut it

The old man and the daughter stood there for a while in shock. He told her to leave so the wizard couldn't hurt her anymore. He gave her a compass and sent her on her way

The daughter run until the sun went down and found herself in a garden with an apple tree. She ate til she was full, and slept against the apple tree. Early in the morning a King from the castle found the girl under the tree. THis is the end of the story but a quick synopsis of the 5 pages here.

🍰Our culinary students have been busy baking up something amazing! 🍰This week, two kitchen groups took on a full scratch-cake challenge — from researching recipes to costing ingredients to creating every layer by hand.

👩‍🍳 Kitchen 1:
Olivia Essman, Taya Hiltbrunner, Tyler Vanvalkenburg, and Grey Colwell
✨ Made a strawberry cake

👨‍🍳 Kitchen 2:
Zachary Hoyt, Justin Reisz, Jayda Neumann, Avah Stroschein, and Jayda Windorski
✨ Made a butter pecan cake

Students crafted their cakes, fillings, frostings, and coatings completely from scratch — and the results looked incredible! Great job to both teams for their hard work and creativity! 🎉👏

3 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

a mix of female and male student posing in their kitchen behind their strawberry cake they made in culinary class

A mix of 5 female and male student in culinary class posing behind their butter pecan cake they made

strawberry layered cake with strawberries and vanilla cookies that a culinary group made

Butter pecan cake made by culinary students

Congratulations to our Welder of the Week, Tyler Crawley, for his Mig and 7018 combo weldment!

4 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

Male student his mig weldmet as Welder of the Week!

Superintendent Aulie sits down with Ms. Brammer and Ms. VanGrootheest, choir and band directors at the high school in his latest podcast.

Take a listen…https://open.spotify.com/episode/4djXORevfKfgEWkVHMFJTz?si=yXScPyPoRXCSsmAy6Bcjww

5 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

A big thank you to Clow Stamping for keeping our welding program supplied with steel! Your support makes hands-on learning possible, and our students are excited to put it to use in their upcoming projects. 💥👨‍🏭

We appreciate your partnership in helping our students build real-world skills! 💙🛠️

#RangerNation #Community #GoCIGo

5 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

students in Ranger Made and welding classes unloading donated steel sheets from Clow Stamping

Wednesday, December 10, C-I Schools will have a 2 hour late start. Busses will be at bus stops 2 hours later than usual. There will be no before school activities.

5 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

2 hour late start on wednesday December 10.

C-I Schools will be dismissing two hours early today due to the incoming winter storm.

CRES - 1:00 pm departure
High School - 1:15 pm departure

No after school activities. Wrestling is postponed and will be rescheduled.

Please be safe out there!

6 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

Superintendent Aulie sits down with C-I Transportation Director, Josh Schiffler in the newest podcast!

Take a listen here...https://open.spotify.com/episode/29jL01ZOtR4LE6UAdBnONr?si=GlRXdrUKSpuSEbh6Sa25NA

#RangerNation #GoCIGo

6 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

Take a peek at our Artist of the Week!

Maleah Vignieri, 10th grade, Painting- Mini Canvas Snoopy

7 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

female student holding a mini acrylic painting of snoopy with a santa hat and his yellow bird friend with a santa hat on next to a tiny little Christmas tree

It's Friday Fast Fact Video! Listen in to find out about our upcoming community forum!

https://youtube.com/shorts/LS26Uh5nN8w?feature=share

9 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

📣✨ Check us out in the Cuyuna Lakes Visitor Guide! ✨📣

We’re excited to share that our school is featured in the Cuyuna Lakes Visitor Guide! 🎉
We encourage you to take a look and share our ad with friends, family, and community members—help spread the word about the great things happening here! 💙📘

Thank you for supporting our students and celebrating our school! 🙌

Here it is! 👇

10 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

Crosby-Ironton School District ad that will be featured in the Cuyuna Lakes Visitor Guide

❄️Our first and second graders had a blast in the first snow of the year! ❄️

10 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

two students laying in the snow making snow angels

three students laying in the snow making snow angels

three female student sitting next to a snowman that they built

✨🎄 Jingle Bell Lane at CRES! 🎄✨

Students enjoyed shopping at Jingle Bell Lane this week! Our amazing PTO sponsored the event and volunteered their time to help wrap the gifts students picked out for their families. 🎁❤️

A big thank you to our PTO for making this festive tradition so special for our kids! 🎅🏼🛍️

11 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

photo of all the tables set up with gift items at Jingle Bell Lane

Tables full of items for students to choose as gifts for their family at Jingle Bell Lane

multiple students standing at tables in front of adults who are wrapping their gifts from Jingle Bell Lane

students at Jingle bell lane having adults wrap their gifts

Third graders performed music, created projects with video editing software, and played “glow in the dark basketball” for their Student Expo held on November 19th! They did a fantastic job!

#RangerNation #STEMExpo #GoCIGo

12 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

three third graders showing two adults their computer movie that they made for their expo

one male student showing his mom and other two siblings his editing software and the movie he made on his computer at the expo

3rd graders standing on the risers in the performance area singing a song at their expo

3rd greade students dribbling green glow in the dark basketballs during their expo

third graders lined up standing on a line across from one another with green basketballs and glow bracelets and necklaces with the lights off at their expo

3rd graders playing drums using glow in the dark blue and green drumsticks at their expo

third grade student standing on stage in the performance area reading from a sheet of paper at their expo

Mrs. Roubinek's combo class learned about different cultures and what their fall celebrations are before they headed to Thanksgiving!

12 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

3-4th graders standing around a table with turkey feather,s corn stalks and other items that remind them of Thanksgiving

3rd and 4th grade combo class working at their desks on different cultural celebrations

Take a peek at our Artists of the Week!

Yvette Backowski, 12th grade, Painting- Rendition of Hercules and Gustav Klimt's The Kiss
Macie Steinke, 7th grade art- Acrylic Painting
Brianna Lueck, 11th grade, Creative Crafts- Holiday Half-Drawing
Steven Warren and Zaedyn Anderson, 8th grade art- Value Drawing of Spheres

Keep up the great work!

13 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

Female senior holding her rendition drawing and painting of Hercules' kiss

Female student holding an acrylic painting of a dark blue sky with stars and the moon shingin bright leaving a reflection into the light purple water below

Female student holding a print out of santaon half and a drawing of the Grinch on the other

two male students both holding a black and white pencil drawing of a 3d sphere

Congratulations to our Welder of the Week, Evan Rasmussen!

T weld position 1, 6011 welding rod

13 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

Evan Rasmussen T weld position 1 6011 welding rod welder of the week

As we head into the last few weeks before winter break, our school-wide theme at CRES is Kindness. 💛

From now until break, we’ll be encouraging students to:

•Practice small acts of kindness
•Show gratitude
•Look for ways to support one another in classrooms and around the building

Be sure to check out our KIND poster hanging at the CRES entrance! Pictured as the “I” in KIND are high school Principal Fischer, Superintendent Aulie and CRES student Finley—a fun reminder that kindness starts with all of us. 💫

Let’s finish 2025 with a whole lot of KIND! 🫶

14 days ago, Crosby-Ironton Schools

HS principal Fischer being the "I" in Kind at CRES

Superintendent Aulie being the letter "I" in the Kind poster at CRES

Female student posing at the letter "I" in the word Kind at CRES