Ouachita River School District

Acorn Jr. Girls and Jr. Boys Basketball tonight at County Line.

Acorn Elementary will not have after-school tutoring this Wednesday, October 26 and Thursday, October 27.

Acorn High School will not have tutoring this Thursday, October 27th due to Parent/Teacher Conferences.

Acorn High School Project Prevent Hosts Food Drive Help support Backpack Program with ready-made food/snacks/drinks! Tuesday, November 1st Acorn vs Cossatot River Basketball Game Acorn Gym

ORSD - Acorn and Oden campuses will be hosting parent/teacher conferences on Thursday, October 27, 2022. If you have questions or need additional information, please contact your child's school building office. We look forward to sharing your child's progress!

OHS Homecoming Court 2022/23! 🧡🖤🐺

Thank you to The Ouachitas for providing a meal for our Lady Tigers and Tigers!!! We appreciate you!

ORSD Family, Thursday October 27th will be our first Parent Teacher Conference night. Our conferences will begin at 3:30 pm and finish at 8:00 pm. In order to make our parent teacher conference times as efficient as possible, ORSD will dismiss that day early at 2:30 pm. Parents please make arrangements to be at your child's bus stop one hour early that evening. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to call your child's building or campus. I look forward to seeing you all next Thursday! Respectfully, Jerrall Strasner Superintendent

Oden Homecoming Announcement 📣 *Gym Doors will open to the public at 4:00 p.m. for tonight’s homecoming. *Sr. Boys play first followed by jr. girls and sr. girls. *homecoming dance to follow games in cafeteria. Permission slip is required. Dance ends at 11:00. Students must be picked up at 11:00p.m.

It’s time for Halloween Boo Grams!! Let Acorn FCCLA send a Cake Ball Boo Gram to your little Boo!!👻🎃🎃 Orders due 10/28. Please see any Acorn FCCLA member or email Mrs. Lyle. mlyle@orsd.k12.ar.us (Elementary students will be bringing home forms.)

Seven members of Acorn FCCLA and their adviser, Mindy Lyle attended National FCCLA’s Capitol Leadership Conference in Washington DC last week. They joined other FCCLA members from across the nation to use their voice to promote the need for the continuation of congressional support to fund Career and Technical Education and gain the support necessary to ensure all students have access to Family and Consumer Science Education. Students learned how to advocate on Capitol Hill and with their local administration. Acorn students also toured various museums and monuments, the United States Capitol, and Mt Vernon. Students pictured: Paige Parnell, Kora Carter, Matthew Lyle, Damon Cruz, Lauren Cruz, Lyndsey Powell, and Jordan Lyle

Oden Sr. Banners are up! 🧡🖤🏀🐺

More good behavior here at AES! Students visit Mrs. Jackson’s office for good behavior!

Thank you, Kooper and Aubrey, for putting up our flag every morning! ~AES~

ATTENTION: Acorn Lady Tigers and Tigers will be traveling to Nevada County for basketball games tomorrow!!! Games start at 5:30

Oden students have enjoyed spirit week as we prepare for homecoming this Friday. Wednesday was “Anything but a backpack day”. It was a huge hit with students!

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