CHERRY TWP — The fourth-grade class at Dassa McKinney Elementary School will be invaded by farm animals May 11.

The Moniteau School District school board voted Monday night to allow approximately 40 students at Moniteau Jr./Sr. High School to travel to the elementary school with barn animals such as sheep and chickens to teach the fourth-grade class about farming and animals.

District Superintendent Aubrie Schnelle said the initiative came from FFA students.

"It was their idea to do it,“ Schnelle said of the high school students. ”That’s going to be cool, the FFA (students) are going to show the students the animals for what they are calling ‘Ag Adventures.’“

The field trip request came at no cost to the school district.

The school board also voted to approve a memorandum of understanding with the Butler County Children and Youth Agency for a local transportation plan.

Schnelle said this motion is a standard memorandum typically made by every county school district with the children and youth agency, agreeing that the district will provide transportation for students in foster care even if they are being housed in a home outside the district.

The board members also approved a custodial supply bid for the 2022-23 school year at a cost of about $59,999. The district hired Mon-D-Aid & Cleanit Company, Janitor Supply and Pitt Specialty Supply Inc. to provide custodial supplies next school year.