✨ High Plains Bank Christmas Tree Contest! ✨
Our elementary classes decked out their trees at High Plains Bank—and they look amazing!
Stop by the bank to vote for your favorite tree by placing a donation in its box. Every dollar counts as a vote, and the best part? Each class benefits from the money donated. Each winning class also gets prize money sponsored by High Plains Bank! Voting ends on Christmas Eve at noon!
Last year, teachers used their earnings for so many meaningful things— start-of-year goodies, end-of-year gifts for students, Christmas crafts, new classroom chairs, cardstock, manipulatives, STEM bin activities, snacks, novel-study book sets, classroom calculators, postcard-exchange supplies, and new library books. These funds were deeply appreciated by both teachers and students. Your support truly makes a difference.
Head over to High Plains Bank and help your favorite class shine bright this season! 🎄
After several weeks of researching, reading, and writing about the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression, and key facts about Oklahoma history, our 8th grade ELA students had the chance to put their knowledge to work in a very special way.
Friday, they teamed up with Ms. Hauser’s 3rd graders and used a giant floor map of Oklahoma—on loan from the Oklahoma Alliance for Geographic Education—to teach the younger students what they had learned.
Working in pairs, the 8th graders guided their 3rd grade partners across the map, helping them understand Oklahoma’s counties, cities, rivers, landmarks, and our place in the United States. They also shared kid-friendly explanations of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression.
Our 8th graders did a spectacular job stepping into the role of teachers. They were patient, prepared, confident, and engaging. And the 3rd graders? They were incredible students—curious, attentive, and excited to learn from their big buddies.
It was a wonderful day of collaboration, leadership, and learning. We are so proud of all of them!
Students must sign up before lunch on the day they plan to attend.
There’s also an online tutoring option available to all students through the Okeene Public Library — a great resource for homework help anytime! 💻 Here is a tutorial on how to access it: https://app.tango.us/app/workflow/Access-Live-Tutoring-via-Okeene-Public-Library-14c19c89771f49d8809830a3d261d631
4-H Junior Wheat Show placings:
1st place & 4-H Grand Champion – Autumn Schultz – Okeene 4-H – Doublestop CL Plus
5th place – Taylor Robison – Okeene 4-H – Doublestop CL Plus
7th place – Taylor Robison – Okeene 4-H – Butler’s Gold
10th place – Autumn Schultz – Okeene 4-H – Strad CL Plus
11th place – Raylee Fisher – Okeene 4-H – Doublestop CL Plus
12th place – Emery Fisher – Okeene 4-H – Doublestop CL Plus
FFA Junior Wheat Show placings:
1st place and FFA Champion – Jayce Schultz – Okeene FFA – Doublestop CL Plus
4th place – Brayson Roberts – Okeene FFA – Doublestop CL Plus
5th place – Logan Chance – Okeene FFA – Doublestop CL Plus
8th place – Grant Robison – Okeene FFA – Doublestop CL Plus
9th place – Carson Payne – Thomas Fay Custer FFA – Doublestop CL Plus
10th place – Bryson Sawyer – Okeene FFA – Green Hammer
11th place – Baylea Robison – Okeene FFA – Doublestop CL Plus
14th place – Baylea Robison – Okeene FFA – Butler’s Gold
16th place – Tyler Sawyer – Okeene FFA – Doublestop CL Plus
17th place – Tyler Sawyer – Okeene FFA – Green Hammer
18th place – Bryson Sawyer – Okeene FFA – Doublestop CL Plus
19th place – Preston Boeckman – Okeene FFA – Doublestop CL Plus
22nd place – Grant Robison – Okeene FFA – Butler’s Gold
23rd place – Jayce Schultz – Okeene FFA – Strad CL Plus
25th place – Avery Fisher – Okeene FFA – Doublestop CL Plus
Send a Santa Sack Surprise!
Help spread a little holiday magic to our Okeene students from Pre-K through 12th grade by purchasing a Santa Sack this season! Each Santa Sack will include:
✨ a drink
✨ a candy bar
✨ a candy cane
✨ two extra special surprises
All orders are due Friday, December 12th, and Santa Sacks will be delivered the following week—just in time to brighten the holiday season!
Let’s make this a festive week our students will remember!
For Basketball's Meet the Whippets, we need 3 more parents to sign up to bring cookies! Click on the link to sign up for Thursday Sign UP for Meet the Whippets
Congratulations to Caden Reames. He accomplished a statistically impossible feat. He (from a class B school) is now the 4th-ranked high school clarinet player in the ENTIRE state of Oklahoma.
At Oklahoma Music Educator Association (OKMEA) All-State, every high school in this state is represented, regardless of school size and classification. Students from big schools have the advantage of multiple band staff members, clinics, workshops, and almost all of these students take lessons from a college professor to prepare for this event.
Caden did not attend any workshops, he did not have a masterclass session with a clarinet expert, and he did not work with a college professor. He worked tirelessly, primarily on his own, in 3 weeks to prepare for this competition.
It is so difficult to make OKMEA All-State from small schools, that directors from small schools formed their own All-State Honor Band. The Oklahoma Small Schools Band Director Association (OSSBDA) All-State, which is open to schools up to class 4A. If you recall, Caden placed 2nd in THAT honor band last month.
Caden also made All-State in the amazing One Act, and displays the same phenomenal drive to excellence in the classroom as well. Placing him at FIVE All-State qualifications in his career
It's fair to say that Caden Reames does whatever it takes to be the best at everything he chooses to do!
Come meet your Okeene basketball teams for the 2025-2026 season at "Meet the Whippets" on Thursday, Dec. 11th at 5:00pm in the basketball gym at the sports complex! Cookies sponsored by Whippet Boosters to follow introductions.
Help spread a little holiday magic to our Okeene students from Pre-K through 12th grade by purchasing a Santa Sack this season! Each Santa Sack will include:
✨ a drink
✨ a candy bar
✨ a candy cane
✨ two extra special surprises
All orders are due Friday, December 12th, and Santa Sacks will be delivered the following week—just in time to brighten the holiday season!
Let’s make this a festive week our students will remember!
🚀Built rockets and did the Wright Brothers airplane challenge. For this, they launched the rockets at the Sports Complex and they reached the height of 300 feet.
🛩️An Airplane challenge, which took place in the Elementary gym. The planes flew in a circle at about waist high.
🏎️Built Co2 Cars out of balsa wood. They learned how to use woodworking tools to cut and sand the cars.
HD
1st Ethan Milligan/Korey Turnham
2nd Ben Cheap/Brayson Roberts
DD
1st Fatima Molina/Sofia Zamora
3rd Julia Penner/Korey Turnham
HI
2nd Ethan Milligan
POETRY
3rd Julia Penner
MONO
2nd William Woolley
SO
1st Logan Bryan
2nd Kalystah York
3rd Kadence Lewis
OO
2nd Olivia Schieber
DEX
3rd Bridger Hursh
