Homecoming shirt forms went home yesterday with your student. You can also order online at https://www.okeenefootballhoco.com. Next Friday is the deadline to order!!
The team started the morning at the elementary school greeting students and will hopefully end the evening with a W! 🏈 Don't forget tonight is WIN-WIN night + the Mini Cheerleaders will cheer at halftime. Game starts at 7:00. Come out and support your Whippets! GO BIG BLUE!! 🐾
Okeene FFA will be taking orders for yard signs like these with your student's name on them. They can customize with names and numbers if you want more than one student on each. They also will have a cheer sign available. They will be set up at the football game tomorrow (Thursday) night. You can also call or text Mr. Riffel to order. Cost is $50 for 1 or $90 for 2.
Gifted and Talented Sept. newsletter
JH Softball Tournament - Sept. 14-15th
Please consider volunteering and helping out our Whippets! 🏈
Please be aware of a schedule change for P/T Conferences at the end of the month.
Our students have had so much fun creating hands-on projects in our new STEM Lab! Students have learned about the Engineering Design Process, completed Engineering Challenges, jumped into 3D design and 3D printing, and have even begun building some robots and learn about coding computers. The September STEM newsletter - Whippet Wonders - can be found here: https://bit.ly/480tm8v
Okeene Cheer is hosting the Pink Out (Win💗Win) event AND Mini Cheer at this Thursday night's game! The Mini Cheer girls will perform at halftime and donations will be collected for Cancer Research!
Come out and cheer on our Whippets and enjoy a great night of fun! 🏈
The Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade classes enjoyed a visit from the High School Football team this morning on Game Day! Players and managers read books, did activities, and even had dance parties to celebrate game day.
Kindergarten had special visitors to talk about community helpers! A huge thank you to the Bachmann family and Mountain Country Foods! Each kid was able to dress up like an employee and take home a package of dog treats!!
Just a reminder that Blue & Gold and DJ's orders are due, tomorrow, Thursday the 31st. If you have any questions,
please contact Mr. Riffel.
The 3rd grade had their first Mystery Reader today! They had a blast trying to figure out who the reader would be from the mystery secret clues. Thank you Sammi Cottrill for reading to them!
14 days in and kindergarten earned their first compliment party! They voted and decided on a movie and popcorn to celebrate!!
Some of our Okeene JH/HS students helped the public library unload 109 boxes of peaches yesterday!
The Okeene Whippets will be the Game of the Week on Skordle. Okeene @ Waynoka September 1, 2023 - 7:00PM kick off.
Mrs. Krause's 2nd graders earned their first positive behavior reward and begged to go to the STEM lab. Mrs. Hutchison set up a Lego "Tallest Tower Challenge" for them. Each group had to use teamwork and cooperation to come up with a plan to build the tallest tower.
Pep rally is at 2:50. Game is at 7:30!
The high school football game this Friday night, August 25th, has been moved to 7:30pm due to the heat. All admission for adults and students will be $5 this season. Good luck, Whippets!
Math is so fun...we all want to sit up front.
