Yearbooks are on sale!!! Please turn in form and payment by April 15th to the school or online orders due by April 13th.
Wow OYE 2024 has came to a close! Okeene was well represented by FFA and 4H members! We are so proud of the their accomplishments and the efforts they put forth with these projects. Congratulations to Kyle Lewis receiving 3rd overall York and making the sale. Congratulations to Jayce Schultz with winning the Brahman Breed, Grand American, and winning two $500.00 scholarships. Congratulations to the Junior Ag Mechanics Boys on their trailer. They won 5th overall in their divisions. Finally, congratulations to Reiley Luckie on receiving a $5,000.00 scholarship.
Some sports activities have been canceled today and tomorrow!
Today's baseball game with Coyle has been cancelled due to weather.
The track meet tomorrow in Fairview has been postponed.
Day 5: Started the day out at the Washington Monument. Our tour guide had our tickets ready and we didn't wait very long in line. What a view of the city from 500 feet above ground level. Our group then moved to the National Archives were we got to see the Magna Carta (The Great Charter), The Declaration of Independence, the US Consitution, and the Bill of Rights. These are the most foundational documents of our republic. What a great experience. Before flying home, we also visited the Library of Congress. The beauty in the architecture is second to none. We could view the reading room and Thomas Jefferson's personal library which was sold the US government to replace the collection that was burned by the British in 1812.
Baseball changes for tomorrow, March 25th. ⚾️
Day 3: Action packed with stops at the US Holocaust Memorial, Ford's Theatre, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, FDR Memorial, and Thomas Jefferson Memorial at the Tidal Basin. These were all super moving tributes to some of the best of us. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garme nt of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly." Martin Luther King Jr. - Alabama, 1963
Day 4: The day started with a tour of the US Capitol. The Rotunda was beautiful and full of our shared history. We followed that up with a visit to the Supreme Court. We didn't get to go in because they were in session on that day. Witnessed a group of people at a peaceful rally discussing copyright law. We also saw the Fox News Supreme Court correspondent getting ready for a live report. Next up was a trip to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum where we saw the Hope Diamond as well as the Selenite Crystal from The Great Salt Plains salt flats. We finished the day with a meal at the Yardhouse in Chinatown.
8th Grade Promotion Parent Meeting
Day 2 Night Tour: The group traveled to the Big Four (WWII Memorial, Vietnam Memorial, Korean War Memorial, and Lincoln Memorial) for a night tour on Day 2. During our trip to the Vietnam Memorial, we were able to locate Donald Yearout's name on the wall. Donald wa a graduate of Okeene High School and lost his life in Vietnam.
Engraved at the World War II Memorial: THE WAR’S END
TODAY THE GUNS ARE SILENT. A GREAT TRAGEDY
HAS ENDED. A GREAT VICTORY HAS BEEN WON. THE SKIES
NO LONGER RAIN DEATH – THE SEAS BEAR ONLY COMMERCE –
MEN EVERYWHERE WALK UPRIGHT IN THE SUNLIGHT.
THE ENTIRE WORLD IS QUIETLY AT PEACE. - Gen Douglass McArthur
Day 2 Part II: Day 2 was full to say the least. The group walked 12 miles on that day alone and covered a lot of topics and sites. After Arlington National Cemetery, the group traveled to the Smithsonian Museum of American History, then United States Holocaust Museum and Memorial. Here are just a few pics of that day.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. - Martin Neimoller
Day 2 of our G & T trip to Washington DC took us to several sites: Arlington National Cemetery, The Smithsonian Museum of American History, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Pentagon City Mall, and a night tour of the Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam War Memorial, Korean War Memorial, and World War II Memorial. Live a life worth their sacrifice has been our theme for this school year. Today’s experiences were a moving connection to our school theme.
Ronald Reagan: Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on Earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price….Those who say that we're in a time when there are not heroes, they just don't know where to look….Beyond those monuments to heroism is the Potomac River, and on the far shore the sloping hills of Arlington National Cemetery, with its row upon row of simple white markers bearing crosses or Stars of David. They add up to only a tiny fraction of the price that has been paid for our freedom.
Each one of those markers is a monument to the kind of hero I spoke of earlier. Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, The Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno, and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called Vietnam.
Under one such marker lies a young man, Martin Treptow, who left his job in a small town barbershop in 1917 to go to France with the famed Rainbow Division. There, on the western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire.
We're told that on his body was found a diary. On the flyleaf under the heading, ''My Pledge,'' he had written these words: ''America must win this war. Therefore I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone.''
A few more pics from Day 1!!!
Day 1 Gifted and Talented Washington DC Trip!!! The day started by leaving Okeene at 2AM in the morning to catch a Red Eye flight out of OKC. We caught a connecting flight in St. Louis and landed in DC at 11:00AM. First order of business was to teach the students how to use the Metro (subway) to get to the hotel. The first day was packed with activities including: The White House Visitor's Center, White House photo opportunity, The Smithsonian's Renwick Art Gallery, and dinner at Hill Country BBQ. We also stumbled onto a street that was being shut down for a Presidential Motorcade. Came within 20 feet of President Biden speeding by in the motorcade.
Full Day for sure, but more to come.
The kindergarten students were challenged to read 1,000 sight/AR words from January to March 13. They knocked it out of the park and they read OVER 16,000 words!! As a reward they got to pie Mrs. Knight, Mr. Regier, and Coach Booth!
Time change for the baseball tournament today!
Our Elementary Merrifield Office Supply Teacher of the Month for March is Mrs. Wardlaw!
Attention 8th Grade Parents
Our Elementary PE department is excited because these were donated by an anonymous donor. Thank you to them and Dtree Designs for this cool asset to our program!
