Online registration for the 2024-2025 school year is now open! New and current families should visit the link below to complete this quick and simple process! Current families received an email this morning with more information and the same link.
https://www.okobojischools.org/o/ocs/page/enroll-at-okoboji
BIG NEWS! At the July Board Meeting, the OCSD School Board voted to increase daily subsitute teacher pay from $135 to $150! This represents an 11% increase in pay and a nearly 50% raise in pay over the last ten years PLUS the addiiton of a free lunch every day!
Substitute teachers play a vital role in the health of our schools and the growth of our students. If you are interested subbing at Okoboji Schools, please contact Danni Bockman at the OCSD District Office. You can email her at dbockman@okobojischools.org, call the office at 712.338.4757, or stop in the office at 1205 7th Street in Milford during business hours!
As you may or may not know, Mr. Abrahamson (our current Superintendent) is retiring at the conclusion of the 2024-2025 school year. The Okoboji Board of Education recently hired Grundmeyer Leader Services to support the search for a district superintendent. The search will begin immediately and conclude with the hire of a successful leader. Your feedback regarding what desired qualifications is most important for this position will ensure the hire is a good fit for both the school district and community. Please see the link below to provide input and feedback for this incredibly important position!
https://bit.ly/OkobojiCSDSuptSearch2024
Our 4th grade Talent Development students have been working on their leadership, cooperation, and planning skills over the last few weeks. They were able to put those skills into practice with a few visits to our TK classroom by reading books and leading the younger students through activities that they actually prepared!
Today is School Lunch Superhero Day! It is a day to celebrate and thank the school food service team members that work hard every day to make sure all of our kids (and many staff members) have the nutrition they need to grow, learn, and succeed! They are often here well before the start of the day ensuring that breakfast and lunch will be ready for all of our hungry learners!
Thank you to OCSD Food Service Director Carrie Stethem and her outstanding team!
OHS
Brieanna Nabb
Naoko Menting
Deb Malchow
OMS
Carrie Stethem
Lindsey Chaffin
Tia Hofmeyer
Michal Nabb
Mia Bacco
OES
Sherryl Jones
Patty Hofmeyer
Jackie Anderson
Mary Demuth
Sandy Hoffman
Nancy Kissner
Northwest Bank came to visit our TK class to teach us how we can save money, where to keep money safe, and also teach us the difference between a need and a want! What great skills for our students to learn about! Thank you, Northwest Bank, for coming over!
Today is Administrative Professionals Day! We depend on our outstanding team every day and quite literally could not make our school run without them. They do countless things to support the learning, physical, and mental health of all of our students and staff every single day and we want to show them our appreciation today and EVERY day!
Thank you Gayle, Lenae, Amanda, Kizze, and Missy, for all you do for all of us every day!
See below for a statistical update the Boji Mileage Club at OES!
We are very excited to announce that Mrs. Leiss has been awarded a STEM Scale-Up Grant for Making Innovative STEM Connections! This program is designed around a framework that focuses on the idea that making and tinkering are aways to engage student's minds and build conceptual understanding around academic content. Mrs. Leiss is excited to bring this amazing learning experience to many of our students at OES! See the link below for more information:
https://www.sciowa.org/education/professional-development/educators/making-stem-connections/
We are excited to announce that a new member of Team Okoboji was approved at last night's board meeting!
Bre Small grew up in Spencer, IA and recently graduated from Graceland University. Bre will be teaching SPED at OES with a focus on behaviors. She will also be coaching Jr. High softball for us this summer and Jr. High volleyball in the fall! We are so excited to have Bre join Team Okoboji!
Okoboji 8th Grader Collin Kats was involved in a very bad accident over the weekend and is currently receiving medical treatment in Sioux Falls. Collin's birthday is Wednesday and he is a big fan of the Minnesota Vikings. Let's all wear Vikings gear, or purple and gold, on Wednesday to show Collin we are supporting him!
Date to Create 2024 was a major success! Thank you to all that were able to come to our Open House last night. For those interested, below is a link to a youtube video with highlights of our day!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLPzf_GQny4
April 3rd is School Para-Professional Day! Okoboji Schools depends on our amazing team of para-professionals in all of our buildings every single day. They are often the first smile a student sees as they walk in the door and they often spend more one-on-one time with individual students than anyone else in our district. They impact the lives of our students, teachers, and families in countless ways and we could not imagine our schools without them!
Thank you to all of our outstanding para-professionals today and every day!
Date to Create is only 1 week away! The countdown is on! We hope to see you there!
Date to Create is coming soon! Please come to OES for our Open House on April 4 from 5-7 to see some amazing creations from our students! You won't want to miss this one!
Our 1st graders finished up their Fairy Tale unit from our CKLA curriculum. To celebrate, they all got to dress up like a fairy tale character! Look at those amazing teachers and students!!
OES is VERY thankful for the bouncy houses last week as a celebration for great school-wide behavior! These were DONATED by Storm Lake Rent-All! Special thanks goes out to them for their generosity! See below for a link to their bouncy house rental opportunities! They also want everyone to know that if you pick one up on a Friday and keep for the weekend they still only charge for one day!
https://rent-all.com/product-category/party-event/entertainment/
We had an amazing assembly yesterday with Kayla from Rachel's Challenge! Our students were given the challenge to be kind to others, and to start a chain reaction! We plan to do just that and (here's a little teaser) we hope to show you some proof during Date to Create!
Be sure to head to the Pearson Lakes Art Center tomorrow from 5-8 to see some amazing art by students from Okoboji! More details on the flyer at the link below!
https://bit.ly/3wKoruv
***SAVE THE DATE***
Date to Create is one month away!!! Please come to OES for our Open House on April 4 from 5-7 to see some amazing creations from our students! You won't want to miss this one!
