Odebolt Elementary School

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

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

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.

Last week, Mrs. First's second-grade class received their published books! They were excited to read their pages and check out their illustrations! 📚

Join us for the Odebolt K-2 Spring Concert this Tuesday, April 15 at 7 PM in the Odebolt Middle School Gym 🎶

The final day to order the Preschool - 8th grade yearbook is April 17! No late orders will be accepted. Yearbooks will be delivered and distributed before the end of the school year

The 3rd and 4th grade classes had the opportunity to participate in a mobile seed survivor classroom that was in connection with Nutrien. The students participated in a session that involved a presentation about agriculture, digging for fossils, planting a sunflower, and investigating soil. They also got to go inside their traveling trailer participating in interactive games on plant nutrients. We are lucky to get the trailer to come to our school as it only goes to a handful of states during the year and comes from Canada.

OABCIG CSD will dismiss students at 1:00 PM on Wednesday, April 9, for staff to participate in professional development.

3rd graders from both buildings went to the Sioux City Symphony where students were able to sing and play their recorders with the symphony. They then went to the Sioux City Public Museum where they explored the history of Sioux City, viewed replicas of dinosaur fossils, and dug for dinosaur fossils.

The first grade classes at Ida Grove and Odebolt are learning about Powerful Forces in our reading curriculum. One of these powerful forces is the wind. The students learned fun facts about wind, but also some important information on how the wind impacts people and nature. What better way for our students to experience the powerful force of wind, but by making their own kite. We would like to thank Mrs. Masters, OABCIG Tag coordinator, who was instrumental in this activity as she brought the kite kits for every first grade student and instructed them how to make their own kite. She also brought middle school Tag students to help our students with this activity. After decorating their kites the first graders actually got to fly their kites outside and experience first-hand the powerful force of wind, and we were very lucky to have a somewhat windy day.

The Scholastic book fair in Odebolt has been extended! We will be open from 8:00-5:30 PM on Monday, March 24.

OABCIG Schools will be closed on Thursday, March 20th. Parent Teacher conferences scheduled for Thursday, March 20th are also cancelled. Parents can arrange another time to meet with a teacher(s) if they would like by reaching out to the teacher.

Due to the expected inclement weather, there will be no school for OABCIG Schools on Wednesday, March 19th.

OABCIG CSD will be running 2:30 PM Dismissals on Tuesday, March 18 and Thursday, March 20 for Parent Teacher Conferences. There will be no school on Friday, March 21

Scholastic Book Fair begins at the Odebolt Elementary Library on Monday, March 17. Open to students during school hours. Open to the public on Tuesday and Thursday from 2:30-7:00 p.m. All proceeds benefit the Odebolt School libraries.

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!

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.