Olive Hill Elementary

🎒 For families participating in our Backpack Food Program: Backpack families from West side schools can pick up at Olive Hill Elementary Family Resource Center (at the back of the school facing the parking lot) from 12:30-1:30. Just pull up outside the FRC door. Parents are to stay in the car, we will come to you.❄️

⛄️ This severe winter weather has definitely given us a few more days home. Thursday January 29th and Friday January 30th will be Traditional Snow Days. We hope that this finds you warm and safe. Reach out through the CCSD Connect (Apptegy) app or through email if you need anything. ❄️

❄️Bulldog Family: Tomorrow will be a Traditional Snow Day! We hope this finds you warm and safe. As always, reach out if you need anything.🐾❤️

🐾Attention Bulldog Family: Monday and Tuesday will be NTI days 7 & 8. Please reach out if you need any help with assignments. Utilize Apptegy (CCSD Connect) to message your child's teacher or feel free to email them with any questions. Stay safe and warm! ❄️ (Shout out to our Ms. Mary Webb for the graphic)

As you already know, today is NTI Day#6. Teachers are able to be reached via the CCSD Connect app and by email. Please reach out for help with assignments, as they are available to help. Please respond to messages from teachers to help with maintaining good communication. Stay safe!

🏆Our Academic Team competed this evening. We are always so proud of our students. The results are: Math: Ean Humphries 3rd Peyton Holifield and JQ Liles 5th Science: Emery King 2nd Peyton Holifield 5th Mazie Bromwell 6th Social Studies: Noah Moore 2nd Jackson Burns 4th Jade Hackney 6th Language arts: Natalie Barker 3rd Jonathan Foltz 4th Emma Carroll 5th Arts/Humanities: Jonathan Foltz Joshua James/Coy Kiser 4th OHES won quick recall. Go Bulldogs! 🐾

🏆 We wanted to take time to recognize former OHES student, current WCMS student Hunter Stevens "Big Red" (WCHS football player as well) for helping us unload cars this morning. Mr. Earl, Mrs. Amy and Mrs. Hylton were thankful for the extra hands on this cold day! We love to see students who are still serving with heart!❤️

📚 January Reading Challenge is Here! 📚 We’re excited to kick off our January Beanstack Reading Challenge and encourage our students to make reading a daily habit—at school and at home! ✨ How it works: • Grades K–2: The class in each grade with the most total minutes read will earn a Library Lunch • Grades 3–5: The top 5 readers in each grade (by minutes read) will earn a Library Lunch Reading just a little each day helps build vocabulary, comprehension, confidence, and a lifelong love of books. Families can help by encouraging nightly reading and logging minutes in Beanstack. Every minute counts! Let’s work together to make January a month full of stories, imagination, and strong readers 📖💙 If you haven't already, be sure to download the Beanstack app on a device at home so students can log their reading outside of school as well! Need help? Contact our Librarian, Mrs. Stevens at allison.bond@carter.kyschools.us or 606-474-6696 extension 23030

TOMORROW is GO GOLD FOR RYLEE! As a reminder tomorrow Carter County Staff and Students are invited to wear Gold (or yellow!) to celebrate our friend and student Rylee who is ringing the bell to signify his end of chemo! Help celebrate this major milestone and accomplishment.

Our playground is currently closed for enhancements to be made, including additional sensory equipment. Thank you for your patience as we provide our students and community with an amazing experience. We anticipate several weeks before completion. Stay tuned for updates.

Our SBDM council will be meeting tomorrow in special session, at 3:30 p.m. in the conference room at OHES.

After our participation in the KCSS assessment, we want to make everyone aware of some changes for visitors to our school. ALL visitors will be required to present a valid photo ID upon arrival. Please be prepared to display your ID to the camera at our front entrance. This is in accordance with the Kentucky School Safety and Resiliency Act/ KRS 158.162(3)(d)(7). Deliveries/drop offs may be left at our front door as well.

There will be a special SBDM meeting on Wednesday at 4:30 at Olive Hill Elementary School. (This is due to rescheduling due to weather)

❄️Today is NTI Day #3. Teachers are available to help with assignments and are reaching out to families to check in. If you do not have the app for communication, you can always email your child's teacher for additional help as well. Let us know if you need anything! ❄️

...RESCHEDULED!.... Important Schedule Update Due to concerns about the winter weather forecast for Friday and into the weekend, we have decided to cancel our Christmas program performance scheduled for 9:00 AM and 5:30 PM tomorrow. The performance has been rescheduled for next Thursday, December 18th at the same times. Thank you for your understanding and flexibility. We look forward to seeing everyone next Thursday evening!

❄️🎄 Just a reminder: If the weather outside decides to not be frightful, we are still gearing up for Friday's big production! Our students and staff have worked hard to bring back this annual tradition! 🎄❄️

Due to the weather on Monday, we had to reschedule our "Holiday Meals on a Thrifty Budget" event. The event will be held on Monday, December 15 from 5:30 -7:00 P.M. Registration is limited to 25 Olive Hill Elementary families so be sure to register soon! A free meal is provided and each family will receive a crock pot, recipes, and dinner ideas!

Due to school closure today, our regular SBDM meeting will be rescheduled.

Gearing up for some big weeks ahead!