Don’t forget the parade tonight at 6 to kick off Virtual School next week! Make a sign, dress up, or just hang out in your yard! We will be by most streets! We can’t wait to see everyone....from a distance!!!
Email issues have been fixed. Please let me know if you’re still have trouble accessing your email. J. Walden
Students having trouble with accessing email via phone: Mrs. Barnes is working on it but: iPhone users will have to add their school email under the blue mail icon that comes on the iPhone. They can also go through safari and access email through google.com. Android users can either get the gmail app or go through their internet browser and access email through google.com.
Virtual School Kick-off Parade will be Thursday starting at 6pm! We will drive the bus routes. PLEASE DO NOT GATHER, just stay in your yards or by yourself along the routes! Hope to see all of our students and parents! Make a sign, dress up or be creative so we see you!!
Teachers will be contacting students and parents today and tomorrow. Some of these calls will come from unfamiliar numbers! Please watch for these calls! Lots of information about virtual school and upcoming events will be given in during these contacts!!
We have free mulch if anyone in Arkoma would like some for their flower beds. If interested contact Mr. Walden on Jessica Walden’s FB page.
Parents/guardians - please answer this survey about your home internet: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1gEuwWmb-w6n2peKNNoOCm2GEXUrYqzjFSFREzpAzdV9ySA/viewform
If you have not heard traditional school setting will not happen for remainder of the year. This decided for us by OSDE, for entire state. We are currently working on a continuous education plan that we must put in place for remainder of the year. We will be surveying our community probably more than once to try and serve the parents and students the best we can. Starting sometime during the week of April 6th will be some form of distance learning for students.
Also we will continue meals through the remainder of school year.
More info to follow as we receive it.
🎉 FUN IDEA AHEAD !🎉
Have you seen the super neat “bear hunt” trend going around Facebook? It’s so fun!
Families are putting stuffed bears in their front windows so other families can drive around their towns going on “Bear hunts”. A sort of safer version of hide and seek 😆
We would LOVE to take this idea and put a twist on it for our little Mustangs and call it the Arkoma Zoo!
If you’d like to participate, have your child grab a favorite stuffed friend and put it in a window of your home where it’s easily seen from the street by tonight. You might even put a fun fact written big on a sign next to it, just like they have at the zoo so the kids get a little learning snuck in when they find an animal.
Then, this weekend or next week, print out this fun bingo sheet, load the fam up in the car and go take a ride around Arkoma for the “drive thru zoo!”
If your family makes a bingo, have a fun dance party or maybe even ice cream to celebrate!
Don’t forget to obey the traffic laws 😉and share pictures of your family out and about with us here!
If you plan on participating, post a fun animal gif in the comments below! No need to give any addresses as part of the fun is driving around in search for the next stuffed friend!
-The Mustang CIA
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On our way to the apartments!
Running a little bit behind but we are on our way!
Pulling into sooner place the. Back down state line.
Mustang Meals will be at Archwood Apts in about five minutes
Meal delivery will start at 10. Pickup will be from 10-12:30 at elementary cafeteria. Honk and they will bring it out! Meals will needed to be heated up!!
Meal delivery pulling into garden walk
Food delivery is almost to
Lynn drive. Getting on state line road.
Starting meal delivery. Using morning bus routes. If bus doesn’t come by your house of morning please be outside or watching. Thank you.
We will start delivering meals @10 today. Please keep in mind some meals may needed to be heated. If you pick up meals at elementary please honk and it will be brought out. Please be patient this is a work in progress. Thank you.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT AT HOME INSTRUCTION:
THE State Department has made it very clear that there is to be NO instruction through April 5th. This is considered an extended break with the purpose of protecting students and staff. After April 5th instruction will be addressed whether in person or virtually. We are diligently working to be prepared when that time comes.
In the meantime, our staff has gathered many online resources for students of all ages to use during this break.
To access these resources, go to the Arkoma Public Schools website and click on HOME RESOURCES.
DONT FORGET: Meal delivery and pick-up will begin this Monday!
As more information becomes available we will do our best to convey it to our community. Thank you.
Per the State Dept of Ed, ALL schools in Oklahoma are to shut down operations until April 6th.
NO INSTRUCTION, SCHOOLWORK OR GRADING IS ALLOWED DURING THIS TIME.
Arkoma Schools is working to provide students with resources they can use during this break, if they choose to do so. More information to come.