
MS Dance – will resume practice on Jan. 27th after school in the middle school cafeteria.

MS Boys Basketball – can start practice right away. 8th will practice/tryout after school on Jan. 20th, 7th on Jan. 21st and 6th on Jan. 22nd all at Oly West. Make sure you are registered on 8to18, have a current physical turned in and COVID release form.

MS Volleyball – can start practice right away. 8th will practice/tryout after school on Jan. 20th, 7th on Jan 21st and 6th on Jan 22nd in the MS Gym. Make sure you are registered on 8to18, have a current physical and COVID release form turned into the office. Masks required

Phone service has been restored to OHS, OMS, and the district office. Thank you!

Phones are currently down at OHS, OMS, and the District Office. We will update you when things are back up and running. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

OHS Science students implementing a Covid-safe hands-on experiment in order to determine the meaning of slope. Awesome work!


Wikipedia.org is where millions of people stop first for information. Tools like it are what make the internet so valuable. But they also teach an important lesson, one you can start teaching your kids now: don’t believe everything you read.
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Website Update: The sites are now up and running! If you experience a warning page when navigating to your building's site, you can safely proceed past it. That issue will also be resolved soon. Thank you for your patience and we hope you find the new site beneficial!

Website down @ 12:00 PM.
We are doing a visual refresh of our website at noon today. There will be some downtime, but we should be up and running before long! If you would like a sneak peak and a tour of the new layout, checkout this video:
https://youtu.be/FTG2kREb3Cw

Fearless Fact Finding!
Check out this list of trustworthy resources to help you learn what's true (and what is not!) on the web. You can even use one of them to look back in time and what was on a website in the past!

Fake News & Media Messages Tip #5: Choose a Variety of Sources.
Show your children how you get news and information from different places, and explain how you make your choices. Use words like "credible," "trustworthy," "respected," and "fair." Ask them where they get their information, and if they think about those same words when choosing. As kids get older, introduce the ideas of bias, satire, and clickbait.

OHS Student Council spends Saturday helping Helping Hands. If you need winter clothing, contact Kathy @ Helping Hands. They have new born through adult.


If a picture's worth a thousand words, do the words always tell a true story? One way to find out is through a reverse image search. Search with an image instead of a keyword and see what you discover!

Just a friendly reminder, the Student Council auction ends Thursday night.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bWd7j4dEyZl0RytDC2syMNvUklAhTCdw_-fgRYVoIME/mobilepresent?slide=id.p


Fake News & Media Messages Tip #3: Explore Different Sides of a Story!
Use real-life examples to help kids understand how people can view the same situation with totally different perspectives. One child might experience a game on the playground as fun, while another might feel like the rules are unfair. Sibling conflict can be a great example of how two people can have wildly different opinions about the same event. With older children, talk through controversial subjects and take turns arguing for different sides to help kids understand various viewpoints.

Kids find and read news in lots of different ways. But studies show they're not very good at interpreting what they see. How can we help them get better? Teaching your students about the structure of online news articles is an important place to start.
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OHS Student Council sponsoring Christmas Silent Auction. All proceeds will go to fund Student Council projects. Click on the following link to access the Silent Auction: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bWd7j4dEyZl0RytDC2syMNvUklAhTCdw_-fgRYVoIME/edit?usp=sharing.


Fake news is nothing new. Check out this timeline to learn about some ways it has been utilized throughout history to influence society. Ask your family about other examples that you know of and why they were used!

Fake News & Media Messages Tip #2: Play "Spot The Ad"
When you see advertising on TV or on a billboard, ask your children to figure out what the ad is selling. Sometimes it's obvious, and sometimes it's not. Help them explore why certain pictures, sounds, or words are used to sell certain products.

Learning anatomy and physiology through pig dissection!

