Ida Grove Elementary School

Beginning days at the Ida Grove Elementary

Ida Grove Elementary Falcons of the Week 💜

Reminder: There will be no school on Monday, September 1st, for Labor Day. Enjoy the long weekend!

The 2025 OABCIG Homecoming spirit shirts are available for purchase!

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Purchase your homecoming spirit shirt to wear on Falcon Friday the week of homecoming, October 3rd. All shirts will be delivered and distributed the week of homecoming. Orders are due Monday, September 8th at 10 a.m.

Please reach out to Mrs. Beyke with any questions at kbeyke@oabcig.org.

Mrs.Wittrock and Mrs. Schmidt's students had fun celebrating their third day of school in 3rd grade today. They did some fun activities to help celebrate.

Healthy Kids Iowa has announced site locations in Ida and Sac County! How it Works: 1. Families will visit their local participating pantry and complete the TEFAP application at each site and self-attest to eligibility to be approved for the program. Each child will receive up to $40 of healthy foods per month for the months of June, July and August. 2. Healthy Kids Iowa food is only available once per month, per eligible child, for the months of June, July, and August. 3. Eligible children may only visit one site per month for Healthy Kids Iowa foods. Eligibility Requirements: • Households at 185% or below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL). • Households with children aged 4-18. • Households that have already self-attested to eligibility for The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) with children aged 4 to 18 are eligible to participate in this program. For questions about Healthy Kids Iowa, visit hhs.iowa.gov/healthy-kids-iowa or email HKI@hhs.iowa.gov.

OABCIG celebrated staff years of service during our End of the Year Breakfast. Please help us to thank all our staff for a great school year! And, please help us to congratulate the staff below for all their years of service at OABCIG Schools! 10 years Kristina Blackman Holly Conover Jacob Pedersen Ashley Wittrock Tiffany Lindberg 15 Years Haley Miesner Renae Remer Alycia Sporrer Beth Euchner 20 Years Randy Nieman 25 Years Rita Freese (no picture) 30 Years David Winterrowd Patricia Winterrowd Mary Sorensen

To end our last Wit and Wisdom module over Mythology, the Ida Grove 4th graders worked with Mrs. Masters on a challenge to create a building to support pennies after studying the Parthenon building in Greece.

This week, the Ida Grove 4th and 5th graders participated in Underground Student Dress up Days (the staff and teachers didn't know). Days included, Monday - Pajama Day, Tuesday - Mismatch Day, Wednesday - Sports Day, Thursday - Crazy Hair and Sock/Shoes Day, and Friday - 5th grade wore green and 4th grade wore yellow. The students had a lot of fun doing this.

Ida Grove Elementary Falcons of the Week 💜

In Module 4 of Wit and Wisdom the Ida Grove 3rd graders learned about different art and artists. We studied the artist Jackson Pollock who was very famous for his abstract drip painting that he created outside or in his barn. Our classes tried to experience what it would be like to paint outside and make an abstract painting. We had a lot of fun getting messy and being artists!

Mrs. Schmidt's 3rd grade class had a Glow Day as they reviewed skills learned throughout the year.

OABCIG High School mentors and their OABCIG Ida Grove elementary mentees enjoyed an hour of skating at the Ida Grove Skate Palace recently. Ninety students are involved in the program, which matches select high schoolers with elementary students who would benefit from the extra support and encouragement a high school "buddy" can provide. 'Matches' met weekly at the elementary school.

Doesn’t every child dream of being a prince or princess? Well, our first graders got the chance to live out that dream for one day. We ended our last Wit and Wisdom Reading Module of the year by having a Prince and Princess Ball. With all the fun, we also encourage them to learn. The First graders read Cinderella stories from all around the world. Through these different tales of Cinderella, the first graders deepened their vocabulary, knowledge of common story elements, and similar themes. What is amazing is that the first graders learned people around the world all admire Cinderella even when the story elements change. This taught them some life lessons to never give up and to always be kind. The students were able to have their picture taken with their favorite Cinderella story and will be writing an opinion story about their choice. Learning can be fun!!! For the Ball, the first graders dressed up like princes and princesses and even did a regal walk through the elementary hallways. Once at the ball the students enjoyed a royal feast, which was a snack and drink. A very big shout out and thank you to our PTP!! They provided the decorations and refreshments for the ball. For entertainment, the students watched the movie Cinderella. For added fun, our activity teachers got involved and did Prince and Princess activities in their classrooms throughout the week.The students made crowns in Art, listened to more story versions of Cinderella in the Library, sang princess songs in Music, and played prince and princess themed games in Technology. It was a week filled with a common theme but focused on learning while having fun. The first graders learned a lot and many of them said it was the best day ever! As a teacher, that made all the hard work worth it, we do this always for the students! Thank you to everyone who made this a success for the first graders.

Ida Grove Elementary Falcons of the Week 💜

Rural Non-Congregate Summer Meals will be available again for the summer of 2025. We will serve grab and go style meals from both the Ida Grove Elementary and the Odebolt Elementary/Middle School buildings. Meals will be served from the front entrance/canopy area of the buildings. Meal pick-up times are 11:30-12:30 at both locations. Meal service is only being offered from June 2 - June 27. Meals are FREE and for students/children only (18 & Under), no adult meals are being offered. Meal would include the lunch (for that day) and the next day's breakfast. Meal service is scheduled to begin on Monday, June 2, 2025 (will include Monday lunch & Tuesday breakfast). Pickup location & time: OABCIG Elementary-Ida Grove (Main Entrance) - 11:30 AM-12:30 PM OABCIG Elementary/MS-Odebolt (Main Entrance) - 11:30 AM-12:30 PM **Please note, students being bussed for summer school will be given a meal to take with them when they are bussed home. Parents will not need to pick up a meal for summer school students when summer school is in session. **Parent/Guardian may pick up without the child being present. Daycares may not pick up meals for the children in their establishments per USDA guidance. Please fill out this survey link if you plan to utilize our summer meals program: https://forms.gle/cWQJuSzZyjDf2SLT6

Ida Grove Elementary Falcons of the Week 💜

OABCIG first graders went on their annual Spring field trip to Moorehead Park. The first graders did three centers. The first center was with Naturalist Danielle and she took the students on a hike to learn all about birds in their natural environment. They even got to use binoculars. Then the next center was a nature journal where the students used magnifying glasses to observe and investigate the area around them. Then the students recorded their observations in their journal. The last center was entitled "Bird Beak Buffet" a hands-on-activity that the students used various tools that acted as a bird's beak to see which worked best to get a certain bird's food in the various environments. The first graders learned so much and we are so lucky to have such a great resource in our district.

Third graders at Ida Grove learned more about how math and art combine in tessellations, which are patterns that fit together with no gaps. After learning more about tessellations in nature and the works of M. C. Escher, students tried their hands at making tessellations of their own.

The Ida Grove First Grade students performed ‘Contraction Surgery”. The students became word surgeons as they learned how to make contractions! The students had masks, gloves, and hats to be able to dress the part of a surgeon (Donated by Megan Wellendorf). Mrs. Nielsen’s high school students came to assist us during the activity. Thank you Mrs. Nielsen’s high schoolers. Students worked carefully cutting the words apart and surgically removing letters in order to shorten the two words into a contraction. Each doctor was equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to form words like "I'll", "They're", and "Wouldn't". All of the surgeons were very successful and everyone had a fun learning experience.