This year's school closings and delays currently put OABCIG 2 hours below the minimum student contact hours required by the State. To make up those 2 hours, OABCIG will be cancelling our PD session currently scheduled for March 26th. This will make that Wednesday, March 26th a FULL DAY, no early dismissal.
All OABCIG Spring Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held on:
Tuesday, March 18th from 4:00-7:30
and Thursday, March 20th from 4:00-7:30
**Preschool conferences may begin at 3:00 to accommodate all preschool families. Preschool parents, please follow any extra information on conference scheduling from your child's Preschool teacher in Seesaw.
**If your child is seen by a Title One and/or Special Education teacher, these conferences may be conducted with your child's classroom teacher this time. If you do NOT see their name listed to schedule a conference with then you only need to sign up with the classroom teacher.
All OABCIG Spring conferences will be held in person. Parents with students PreK-8 will use JMC to schedule conferences. Parents of High School (9-12) students will come to the High School on the conference day/s to meet teachers in the Gym, no scheduling is required.
To schedule conferences, parents please follow these directions:
* Log in to your Parent/Family JMC portal (make sure the school year is 2024-2025 at the top of the log in screen)
* Click on "Teacher Conference Scheduler" from the left.
* Next, select the conference day and time you prefer for each teacher (repeat for each teacher/student you have or would like to conference with)
**Your times save automatically as soon as you select them
**Conference sign up will be open until Monday, March 17th @ Noon, then it will be closed.
**Sign up will reopen on Tuesday, March 18th at 7:30 PM until Wednesday, March 19th @ 6:00 PM (in case parents would like to add a conference or missed Tuesday's conferences).
If you have any questions, or need your JMC parent login information (username/password) please email jweeda@oabcig.org.
We look forward to conferencing with you soon!
Ida Grove Elementary Falcons of the Week 💜
OABCIG Schools will have a two hour late start on Thursday, March 6th. There will be no morning activities and no morning Preschool.
OABCIG Schools will be closed on Wednesday, March 5th due to the predicted weather conditions.
Don't forget!
Free Student Breakfast 🍳Monday, March 3rd
Ida Grove Elementary Falcons of the Week 💜
REMINDER - OABCIG Community School District will dismiss at 1:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 26, for staff to participate in professional development.
OABCIG Community School District will offer students a FREE breakfast on March 3rd as part of the School Breakfast Program during National School Breakfast Week.
OABCIG Schools will have a 2 hour late start Friday, February 21st. There will be no morning activities and no morning preschool.
OABCIG Schools will have a 2 hour late start Thursday, February 20th. There will be no morning activities and no morning preschool.
OABCIG Schools will have a 2 hour late start on Wednesday, February 19th. There will be no morning activities and no morning Preschool.
February 3rd was a special day for the OABCIG Ida Grove Kindergarten and First Grade classes; it was the 100th day of school! To celebrate this accomplishment, we had some special projects for the students. One of these projects was for each class to collect 100 items for the local food pantry. And guess what? Each class not only reached this goal but actually surpassed it!!! Kindergarten collected 200 items and the First Grade collected 229 items for a grand total of 429 items! We invited Kris Gunderson and Julie Cameron from the food pantry to come to the school and talk to the students about the organization and what they do. The students had great questions, they asked “How do you volunteer?” and “How many items do you think went out this year?” It was also discussed what time of year is the food pantry most in need of items. We learned that Spring is when they need more items because with summer coming, students are not in school and are eating more meals at home. We also learned that Dollar General has partnered with local food banks to provide food for our local communities. What a great thing! Our students learned so much about the food pantry and all the great work that they do to provide a service to those in our community who may need some help. We would like to thank Kris and Julie again for coming.
Ida Grove Elementary Falcons of the Week 💜
Danielle Bennett came to visit the Ida Grove 4th graders during science to wrap up their unit over fossils. She shared some fossils with the students and they tried to be paleontologists and guess the animal.
Jim Lundell came and visited the Ida Grove 4th graders to share a story about a friend that was known as the Chocolate Pilot during WWII. Jim showed a video to the students, read them a book, and brought them chocolate and gum to go along with what he shared.
Ida Grove Elementary Falcons of the Week 💜
The fifth graders in Ida Grove and Odebolt have been learning about the Civil War recently, so on Monday, January 27, they were able to meet three local Civil War reenactors. Terry Gerdes, Barry Bergman, and Keith Mentzer taught the students more about camp life, the cavalry, and the weapons used during the war. After their learning sessions, students gathered outside to witness a small replica cannon being shot (using blanks). We appreciate the men from 2nd Battery Iowa who spent the day sharing their expertise with the fifth grade students at OABCIG.
Today, students in Mrs. Schmidt's class learned about telescopes to tie in with their literature lessons about Galileo and his observation of the stars. Each student then made a simple telescope to take home.
Recently, the 5th graders have been learning about the Civil War. We hope to have a group of Civil War Reenactors at the Ida Grove Elementary School to shoot off a cannon several times between 1:30 and 1:50 on Monday, January 27.