Ouachita River School District

Oden School’s Red Ribbon week dress up days. October 24-28.🧡🖤🐺

Acorn Students Place High in State Fair & AYE Results A number of Acorn High School Students showed livestock at the Arkansas Oklahoma State Fair held in Fort Smith in September and Arkansas Youth Expo held in October. Results from the Arkansas Oklahoma State Fair showings include: Kohlea Carmack - Market Goat. Placing 8th in her class Josey Dollar - Nubian & Lamancha Dairy Goat. Placing 2nd in Jr Showmanship with (ELEANOR). Placing 1st in intermediate kid and Grand Champion Lamancha Jr Doe! She was also in the Best Overall Jr Doe in Show lineup; Fern & Company Rise N Shine. 1st place intermediate kid and Morning View Farm FaceTheMusic (LIZ) placing 1st senior kid! Kyelee Horn- Toggenburg Dairy Goat - 4k Farms (Hey There Dahlia) 1st intermediate kid youth Toggenburg show & 2nd in open Toggenburg show; reserve grand champion junior youth Toggenburg show. (Bluff Top Sandra) placed 1st Senior kid youth Toggenburg show & 2nd in open Toggenburg show, Grand Champion junior Toggenburg doe in youth show. Brydon Cearley- Alpine Dairy Goat. Stidham Farms DG Sallie Sue placing 1st in youth intermediate junior alpine doe, 2nd place intermediate open junior alpine doe, & reserve grand junior alpine doe in the youth show. Tatelyn Wood - Nubian Dairy Goat- 1st in Jr Showmanship. (Millie) placed 3rd in the open and youth show. (Ginger) placed 3rd in the open and junior class. (Maddie) placed 6th in the junior and open class. Savannah Christian - Nubian Dairy Goat placed 5th in Jr Showmanship. (Hot Coco) placed 1st in Sr yearling in Jr & Open Nubian show. (Fancy Rain) placed 2nd in the junior and open show in her class. Arkansas Youth Expo results: Kohlea Carmack - Breeding Does (Goats) placing 11th in her class. Congratulations to each one on your accomplishments! We are proud of you! Ouachita River School District...preparing students for life! #orsdlifeprep

OUR SENIORS HAVE BEEN ADOPTED! The Adopt a Senior Tiger program is a project that was started to show our Senior basketball players how much we support and love them. Small tokens of appreciation and love will be given to the Seniors throughout the basketball season. The players were "adopted" by elementary classrooms and families. On Tuesday, October 18, some of the players got to meet their classroom families. The families are: Braylan Bohlman- Mrs. Wilson's Kindergarten Sky Carmack- Mrs. Tedder's 5th Grade Austin Davis- Mrs. Priddy's 1st Grade Clayton Hobbs- Mrs. Myer's 3rd Grade and The Wagner's Westin Johnson- Mrs. Morris's 3rd Grade Westen McEntire- Mrs. Powell's Kindergarten Braven Rodgers- Mrs. Bohlman's 1st Grade Gavin Strother- Mrs. Willborg's 2nd Grade and The Ledbetter's Dakota Sullivan- Mrs. Hollin's 6th Grade Andrew Watts- Mrs. Daniels and Mrs. Jackie Isaac Tedder- Mrs. Kesterson's 5th Grade Paige Parnell- Mrs. Chaney's Kindergarten

Acorn had a great week of Quiz Bowl last week! Elementary and high school quiz bowl teams competed at the Mena Invitational Quiz Bowl Tournament and came home with 3 trophies. Below are the results: 3rd-4th grade: placed 5th 5th-6th grade: 3rd place trophy Junior High: 4th place trophy Senior High: 4th place trophy

Oden Homecoming information 🧡🖤🐺

Time Change!!!!! If you have time tonight, make the trip to Kirby tonight and help cheer on our Acorn JG, SG, and SB basketball teams. Games start at 5:30 PM

Reminder: If you ordered PinkOut shirts, you may pick them up in the Acorn High School office:)

Acorn Schools’ Host 2022 Harvest Festival On the evening of Friday, October 14th, Acorn Schools hosted the annual Harvest Festival event. The event is a tradition for Acorn Public Schools and held each fall on the Acorn campus to provide an engaging, fun, and celebratory experience for the whole family and community. Each grade level, from preschool to grade 12, host a game or activity to raise money for grade level special projects as well as to enhance and enrich classroom experiences for students. The crowning event at Harvest Festival is Acorn Schools’ 2022-2023 Royalty Court presented and first, second and third place winners recognized for Acorn Elementary and Acorn High School for their fundraising efforts. 2022-2023 Acorn Schools Royalty presented: ACORN ELEMENTARY Preschool 3-yr Olds Flower Girl & Escort: Novaleigh McKee & Gabriel Hurtado Preschool 4-yr Olds Flower Girl & Escort: Treasure Bice & Kyler Ford Kindergarten Queen & King: Kashlyn Hollin & River Smith 1st Grade Queen & King - 3rd Place Winners Londyn Wilson & Canyon Davis 2nd Grade Queen & King: Mackenzie Cearly & Collier Sams 3rd Grade Queen & King - 2nd Place Winners Ava Wells & Alex Schneberger 4th Grade Queen & King: Anastasia Johnson & Hunter Pippen (Hunter Pippen not pictured) 5th Grade Queen & King - 1st Place Winners Temperance Mabry & Reese McBride 6th Grade Queen & King: Annalysia Watts & Kooper Hollin ACORN HIGH SCHOOL 7th Grade Queen & King: Emele Caldwell & Dawson Davis (Dawson Davis not pictured) 8th Grade Queen & King - 3rd Place Winners Taylar Kesterson & Eilam Holland 9th Grade Queen & King KaitLynn Ledbetter & Eathan Caldwell 10th Grade Queen & King Paxton Hooper & Tyler Pippen 11th Grade Queen & King - 1st Place Winners Kora Carter & Nehemiah Auer 12th Grade Queen & King - 2nd Place Winners Brookelyn Goss & Gavin Strother Ouachita River School District Through a safe, caring, and serving environment, students learn, grow, excel, and succeed...this is our mission in preparing students for LIFE!

Acorn Preschool would like to thank all the businesses and parents for donating raffle prizes or buying tickets for the raffle ! Special thank you to the following people and businesses! Julie Daniels -- Massage at Salon Dajons Cathy McEntire -- Southern Roots Salon Cynthia Doty -- Souther Edge Salon Cheyanne Anderson -- Nails at Living Tree Day Spa Eric Hicks -- Massage at Living Tree Day Spa Jade Ferguson -- Hair/Nails at Living Tree Day Spa Mary Jane Lopez -- Custom Tumbler and Pen Davelynn Strothers -- Fall Door Hanger

ORSD will celebrate Red Ribbon Week October 24th-30th. During Red Ribbon Week we encourage students to participate in each day's themed dress up to the celebrate and promote being Drug Free!

A HUGE SHOUT-OUT to Sterling Machinery for the generous donation to Acorn Schools! Thank you so much for the Tiger T-shirts! Photo (l to r); AHS Cheer Sponsor Katelyn Staggs, Sterling Machinery Office Manager Shelley Harvey and AHS Principal Dewayne Taylor.

Attention Acorn Tiger fans: If you ordered PinkOut shirts, they are at the Acorn High School Office. Reminder that payment must be paid before shirts can be picked up:) Thank you for supporting your Acorn Tigers!!!

Mr. Nancy’s 7th grade class at Oden have been learning about chemical bonding this week. Today they are doing a lab experiment on chemical bonding.

Positive Referral Alert! 📣 Oden 2nd grade student Jaycee Moore received a positive office referral. Jaycee is a hard worker, is kind to others and helps her classmates. Way to go Jaycee! We are proud of you! 🧡🖤🐺

Acorn High School would like to thank our local businesses for supporting or teachers and students!!!!!

Re/Max brought their hot air balloon to school today! Thank you for the presentation Mena Re/Max.

Acorn Students Learn About Fire Prevention & Careers In observance of Fire Prevention Week, October 9-15, 2022, the Mena Fire Department recently donated Fire Prevention booklets for Pre-K through 4th Grades to all local area schools including Acorn Elementary School. Photo; (l to r) Mrs. Beth Jackson, Acorn Elementary Principal, Mena Fire Department Assistant Fire Chief Charles Hankins and Emory Zakin, Firefighter. On Thursday, October 13, 2022, Mena Fire Department personnel shared information with Acorn High School students related to a variety of careers in fire science and emergency response situations. Representing Mena Fire Department personnel for the presentation included: Joe Quinn, Duane Harvey, Emory Zakin, and MFD Assistant Fire Chief Charles Hankins. They shared valuable information about careers, how to obtain certifications, training, and education for various occupations, and discussed scenarios that emergency personnel encounter as well as a tour of the fire truck and equipment utilized in emergency situations. Thank you, Mena Fire Department for an excellent presentation, demonstrations, and sharing testimonials of your own experiences in the field! Ouachita River School District…preparing students for life! #orsdlifeprep

Acorn Preschool had a special visitor today. Thank you Smokey the Bear for teaching our students about the importance of Fire Safety.

Oden Homecoming spirit week! Oct. 17-24.

Students in Mrs. Jeannie's preschool class are learning about community helpers. One of the community helpers they visited this week was Mrs. Posey in the elementary library and she got to read the book Trick or Pete by James Dean to them.