The Acorn senior high quiz bowl team competed at the regional quiz bowl tournament in Spring Hill today. They placed 3rd place and qualified for state!
Attention Oden Woods and Waters Club Members! Sign up to work the Ouachita Challenge on March 25 and you can win these prizes!
Come on out to Oden Elementary’s reading presentation in the cafeteria! Students have done an outstanding job on their digital and print presentations!
ORSD SPRING BREAK WEEK
Reminder:
Acorn High School students only have to come to their schedule conference time with their guardians tomorrow.
Attention Acorn students that ordered a class ring!!!
Herff Jones will be here Friday at 8:15. Full payment must be paid.
Diamond Bank Donation to OHS Recognizing FFA Week
During National FFA Week, Ruth Stovall, Bank Teller at Diamond Bank presented the Oden High School FFA Chapter of Ouachita River School District with a donation. Mr. Barry Norman is Oden High School FFA Advisor and teaches Construction Technology Program of Study on the Oden Schools’ campus. Thank you, Diamond Bank for your generosity and support of programs and students in preparing them for life! ORSD appreciates you!
#orsdlifeprep
March SMACtalk Newsletter
Ode Maddox Elementary students have been reading and are ready to show off some of their favorite books! On Parent-Teacher Conferences, March 17th from 3:30-8:00, the cafeteria will will be filled with student created book presentations. Be sure to check out the big screen for digital presentations, as well as, the table top displays and wall posters. Please come by and support our students!
Attention Acorn High School Parents:
There will be NO after school tutoring this Thursday, March 17th.
Oden High School CAPS Conferences will be Thursday, March 17th from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Appointments have been made with parents. We are sending reminder notes home today with your scheduled time. We are looking forward to seeing you!
Ode Maddox Elementary
Parent Teacher Conferences will be this Thursday, March 17th starting at 3:30 p.m. and ending at 8:00 p.m.. Teachers have made appointments with parents. We look forward to seeing you!
Attention Acorn Elementary Parents!! No after-school tutoring March 17, 2022.
Attention Acorn High School Parents:
Due to inclement weather, there will be NO athletic or school trips today.
Oden students in Ms. Jackson’s JAG class recently completed the ACT WorkKeys exam, where they earned their National Career Readiness Certificates. This certificate is an industry recognized credential that can aid students in entering the workforce and allowing prospective employers to see what foundational work skills these students already have.
AES is proud to announce our February students of the month!
Kindergarten-Daxton Hart & Kele Halderson
1st Grade- Mia Martinez & Abi Wagner
2nd Grade- Kennedi Cooke & Caleb Christian
3rd Grade- Corbin Thacker & Lucas Spencer
4th Grade- John Wood & Jade Tackett
5th Grade- Bailey White & Kaidon McQueen
6th Grade- Chloe Blair & Cooper Strother
ATTENTION ACORN TIGER FANS:
The softball and baseball games scheduled for tomorrow against Caddo Hills have been cancelled due to the threat of inclement weather.
7th grade students in Mrs. Lyle’s Family CSI class have earned their Babysitting Basics Certification from the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service. Students spent last week training to become responsible, caring, trust worthy babysitters. Training topics included ideas to entertain children, how to handle emergencies, first aid & safety pointers, employer expectations, and how to care for children of different ages. The course was led by UofA Extension Agents, Bridgette Martin and Debra Miller.
Read Across America’s top point earners for each class enjoyed a pizza lunch today! Way to read kiddos! 🍕📚🧡🖤
ORSD Awarded EVERY KID OUTDOORS TRANSPORTATION GRANT
NATIONAL PARK TRUST AND USDA FOREST SERVICE SELECT
Ouachita River School District
2022 EVERY KID OUTDOORS TRANSPORTATION GRANTEE
28 Grants Awarded Will Get Nearly 9,000 Kids Outside
Mena, AR; March 7, 2022 – The National Park Trust announced the first round of grantees for the Every Kid Outdoors Transportation Grants Program and has selected Ouachita River School District in the first round of grant awards. In partnership with the USDA Forest Service, the National Park Trust developed the Every Kid Outdoors grant to support schools and organizations focused on connecting elementary school-aged youth to public parks, lands and waters.
For over a decade, National Park Trust has been a leader in youth outdoor programming and has been actively addressing the lack of transportation to outdoor spaces – one of the most significant barriers to kids getting outside and experiencing nature. This grant supports the Every Kid Outdoors program, a federal youth initiative designed to provide every 4th grader in the United States the opportunity to visit public lands and waters for free with their families. The National Park Trust and the USDA Forest Service understand that the great outdoors is an excellent classroom and hope the experiences provided by this grant program will help kids establish lifelong connections with nature and become the next generation of park stewards.
Ouachita River School District received a $5,000 award to support our work in engaging our 5th and 6th grade students (approximately 100 students) in hands-on learning experiences about our Bald Eagles and other native birds in the state of Arkansas! Students will be participating in activities in class to get geared up to go to Dardanelle State Park to learn even more about Eagles, as well as other birds of prey and mammals native to our area! They will also be hiking trails to discover other natural habitats.
“See Eagles Fly!” Class Quote
This project was made possible by USDA Forest Service and National Park Trust’s Every Kid Outdoors Transportation Grant.
National Park Trust Quote
"We are delighted to expand our partnership with the USDA Forest Service by providing numerous nonprofits and schools across the country with Every Kid Outdoors Transportation Grants. These critical resources will allow thousands
of children from underserved communities to discover our public lands and waters. For many of these students, it will be their first opportunity to explore the great outdoors" said Grace Lee, executive director of National Park Trust.
This opportunity was made available to 501(c)3 non–profit organizations and schools from all over the United States looking for resources and funding to connect their community’s elementary school-aged kids with local public lands and waters. The Park Trust and USDA Forest Service awarded 28 grants, up to $5,000 each, to qualified applicants – totaling more than $110,000.
ABOUT NATIONAL PARK TRUST
National Park Trust is a non-profit dedicated to preserving our national parks. The Park Trust accomplishes this goal through land acquisition to expand and “complete” our national parks and by creating a pipeline of future park stewards by connecting kids to parks. Established in 1983, the Park Trust has preserved nearly 30,000 acres in 31 states, one U.S. Territory, and Washington, D.C. In addition, since 2009, National Park Trust has engaged more than 3 million kids and families with the great outdoors through their national Buddy Bison School Programs and annual Kids to Parks Day. Find out more about the Park Trust’s mission of preserving parks today and creating park stewards for tomorrow at www.parktrust.org.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Ivan Levin at 540.818.5818 or ivan@parktrust.org.
In partnership with:
USDA Forest Service
National Park Trust
