OCHS is very proud of our Spring 2025 KSA Distinguished Readers: Serenity Callahan, Alaina McIntosh, Arianna Smith, Jorge Perez, Peyton Bishop, Eli Bishop, and Connor Patrick. Each student received an engraved, bronze bookmark to celebrate their achievement.
Day 2 of Dataseam Registered Apprentice Bootcamp for Dalton Gibson!
On Saturday the Owls Cross Country team ran the Berea Invitational on the Berea College course. Matthew Darling came in 1st in the 4K and Lyla Spence was 9th for the Owls. In middle school racing, Kelton Smith was 3rd overall in 11:29 and Jorge Perez was 17:51. Sophia Havicus was 28th in 15:11 and Alaina McIntosh ran a 16:35. For the Elementary 2/3 Tori Smith was 31st, Madison Burns 35th and Alexa Farthing 39th out of 62 runners. In 4/5 Camille Brewer was 20th, Madelyn Havicus 26th, Bella Smith 45th, Adilyn Cornett 46th, Ilya Bobrowski-Hall 47th, Serenity Smith 55th and Amara Herald 59th. For our boys Mason Tolson was 37th and Matthew Tolson 65th in a field of 81 runners.
Our new and emerging teachers had their monthly meeting tonight, exploring how intentional planning strengthens teaching and learning by understanding what helps students learn best.
Dataseam Registered Apprentice , Dalton Gibson hard at work at the Dataseam Apprentice Bootcamp hosted at the Challenger Learning Center in Hazard Kentucky!
Nothing gets students more excited about science than seeing it in action! Mr. Lewis’s class had a blast today learning about the flammability of hydrogen gas.
We enjoyed a great evening of creativity and fun during Family Fall Paint Night. Thank you to our PRI school coordinator, Amy Dooley, for organizing the event, and to Kenna Spears for leading the painting.
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OCHS students who benchmarked in reading on the fall MAP test were rewarded today with free books! Great job, Owls!
This week at OCMHS:
District Leaders attend the Kentucky Department of Education's Continuous Improvement Summit for the latest updates on strategies to keep our district moving forward.
Mr. Roberts class has been hard at work distinguishing between /s/ and /z/ sounds at the end of words. Great job!
📜✨ Our 5th grade students became historians! They researched Maya, Aztec, and Inca farming, social classes, and architecture—then turned their findings into a giant classroom codex. Come see their creativity on display! 🌎
Congratulations also go out to the OCMS Lady Owls for their 47-8 win over Lee!
Congratulations OCES Lady Owls on their clean sweep of Manchester tonight!
This week, Mrs. McCoy's Algebra 1 and Mrs. Brewer's Algebra 2 classes enjoyed the new TI-Innovator Rovers, Hubs, & TI-Nspire calculators purchased by the PRI Grant under the direction of Mrs. Amy Dooley. Teachers were mentored by the systematic coach who also lead students through coding the devices to light up, make sounds, & "drive" around the classroom! Teachers intend to use the new technology more often to engage all students in fun and hands on learning experiences.
Today our 5th graders became Aztec engineers! 🌱
We learned about chinampas, also called “floating gardens.” The Aztecs built these by weaving reeds together, piling them with soil, and anchoring them in shallow lakes. These little man-made islands let them grow food right on the water—kind of like early hydroponics!
To bring history to life, we recreated chinampas in class. Students used foil pans, popsicle sticks, colored sponges, and seeds to model the way the Aztecs farmed on water. Now we’ll watch to see if our “floating gardens” sprout! 🌿✨
Hands-on learning makes history unforgettable! 💡📚
Scenes from Owsley County classrooms this week: From the excitement of first graders diving into new stories and stamping their passports to explore similar tales from around the world, to the strum of ukulele lessons filling the room, to high school students tackling piecewise defined functions in Algebra-our classrooms are buzzing with learning at every level.
Student celebrations in Mr. Burns's & Mrs. Gibson's classroom for Kentucky Summative Assessment & kicking off the first week of the peer mentoring program!
