Kindergarten was blessed with multiple readers last week! Two students earned a reward to read to another class and picked kindergarten, Mrs. Feely read about the Macy's Day parade, and Nate spent his Friday morning reading about class pets!
Reading Marathon in Mrs. Krause's room called for Camp Read-a-Lot! 🏕️ Students read books around the campfire, ate s'mores snacks, used flashlights, and snuggled up in their tents. 📚🔦🌲⛺️
Tomorrow's hs girls basketball scrimmage has been canceled
The labor auction is tomorrow night. The pork is on the smoker, the projects are finished and ready for their new home, and we have a great set of students who are ready to work. Come out to the Okeene FFA Labor Auction November 21st at 6 pm in the school cafeteria.
Support your Whippets this Friday in Cashion at 7pm! 🐾
The staff, community, and most importantly, the parents want to say CONGATULATIONS to our Okeene football team, coaches, and managers! Job well done last night!!! 46-36 over Laverne! We are all so proud of you all! We would also like to say thank you to our band, cheer squad, and pep bus for braving the cold and supporting the much deserved win-you are all amazing-Friday was a great day to be a Whippet-you all made all of us proud! Hold your heads high Monday-you earned it!
Our Okeene Whippets will take on Yale at Cashion High School next Friday, Nov. 24th at 7:00pm! Roll on, Blue! 🏈💙🐾
Bob Ford and Terry Strader visited Mr.Woolley's class to hand out awards for the Patriots Pen and Voice of Democracy this week.
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Here is the link to watch tomorrow night's football playoff game. Game starts at 7pm in Laverne. https://www.citylinktv.com/channel/laverne/
Jana Schultz was the 2nd and 3rd grade Mystery Reader this week. She read, Corduroy, to the kids. She also brought each student a stuffed bear, notebook, and crayons! We enjoyed your visit and read aloud!
Let's go, Whippets!! 🏈🐾
There will be an ag booster meeting at 6:15PM tonight in the ag room for those that are able to attend.
The Okeene School Foundation Board met November 7th to discuss teacher grants. The Foundation Board members are Janel Parrish, Kristi Kraft, Loni Schultz, Elaine Gambill, Jim Luckie, and Johna Noble. Todd Woolley was a board member last year but is now a teacher at Okeene Schools. He has been replaced by Hunter Miles. The Foundation granted a total of $6,976.20 in grants to local teachers this year. This is the largest amount that has been granted to date. The School Foundation usually grants between $2,200 to $5,200 a year to teachers. The foundation appreciates all that have contributed to our March Madness fundraiser over the years to make this possible.
The teachers who received grants this year are as follows: Rod Calder - Special Ed Phonics, Chavonne Penner - School Entrance Mural supplies, Elaine Hutchison - Hummingbird Robotics Kits, Tara Fisher - Apple Ipad, Mickey Westfahl - Classroom books, Rhonda Heckart - Art & Reading supplies, Cheryl Boeckman - Chromebook cases for the Elementary, Paige Krause - Writing Curriculum, Dr. Andrea Burns - IXL Math program, Leigh Bisel - Kids Can Cope book series, Kim Wardlaw & Brada Unruh - Classroom books, Tahnya Hursh - ELA reading & writing books, Allyssa Knight - Hands on play toys, Kiley Feely - Books for Elementary and Jr./Sr. high school libraries.
Last week, our Elementary students wrapped up the Bedlam Food Drive. OSU was the winner with 409 items donated while OU came in 2nd with a total of 273 items donated. The 2nd Grade and 5th Grade were the winners for the classes that brought the most food items. Overall, the school donated 580 pounds of food to our local food pantry, which could not come at a better time with the holidays quickly approaching.
A big thank you goes to the Okeene Chamber of Commerce who awarded pizza for the class winners and raffle prizes for students who participated in the food drive. Those businesses included The Dog House, Spiced Magnolia Mercantile, and Luckie Drug. The grand prizes which included Amazon and Dollar General giftcards were donated by Burghardt Farms.
The showteam merch store is now live. Follow the link below to purchase items in the store. It will close December 3 and items will be ready 2-3 weeks following the closing of the store. http://okeeneffamerch23.itemorder.com/
This past week, 2nd graders in Mrs. Krause's class learned what it means to be grateful + how to make their own pumpkin pies in a bag. 🥧🦃
The FFA Labor Auction is quickly approaching. Let our FFA members cook for you right before Thanksgiving with a pulled pork dinner followed by the labor auction. It will be November 21st in the school cafeteria with a meal starting at 6:00 and the auction will begin at 6:45.
Boys and Girls Brackets for 5/6 Grade Tournament in Cherokee
The Okeene Kiwanis invited Mrs. Laubach, OHS Counselor, the five 2023 HOBY delegates and their families to last Thursday's luncheon. Sydney Biggs, Meade Brickman, Edan Chasteen, Diego Lopez and Destry Swaim attended the Hugh O'Brien Leadership Seminar (HOBY) this past summer at the University of Central Oklahoma. They joined Oklahoma high school students from around the state for an intensive program with activities and seminars to promote leadership and initiative to positively impact their world. During the luncheon, each of these students. shared about their experiences attending HOBY, how they have been inspired to positively impact their class, their school, and the Okeene community.
