Oak Grove Middle School

Tomorrow, April 23rd is National School Bus Driver appreciation day! Please join us in saying THANK YOU to those who make sure our students are delivered to and from school each day; take students on field trips all over the country; and transport teams to and fro. We are thankful, grateful, and blessed with the best! If YOU'RE interested in joining the busing team, contact bharper@paragouldschools.net

Hi OGMS families! Are you reading Restart with your student? Today we had a BLAST with several students in the library playing Kahoot! Trivia over some of the reading chapters (Mrs. Cook was having so much fun that she forgot to get pictures!) Tonight's reading is chapters 15 and 16. Enjoy and have a great weekend!

STEM Night and EAST Night out at OGMS are TONIGHT from 6-7 pm!

All PSD campuses will be closed on Monday, April 8, 2024 due to the total solar eclipse. Glasses, as well as information regarding the eclipse, was sent home with students today. We hope you are able to enjoy this incredible event!

Great job to all the PSD art students who had their works of art displayed at the PSD art show tonight. Super talented students in our district with some amazing art instructors. OGMS principals were partial to OGMS student work and were in awe! ONLY THE BEST AT OGMS!

Join us for our first annual district art show next week!

Attention parents and guardians of 5th grade girls!

Congratulations to our top super readers for 5th and 6th grade: Rhiannon Agee and Jacob Shepherd! We are so proud of each of our readers who participated this nine weeks! #OGMSreads #onlytheBESTatOGMS

Important reminder! Parents/guardians of current 1st grade students who will go into 2nd grade for the 2024-25 school year, don't forget to choose an elementary school. The survey closes tonight at 7:00pm. Click the link below to choose which ELEMENTARY school (Baldwin/Oak Grove Elementary/Woodrow Wilson) your student will attend next year. Fill out one survey per child going into 2nd grade. Paper applications will be accepted at PSD's Central Office in person at 1501 West Court Street; by fax (870) 240-2293; or by email at ajohnson@paragouldschools.net from March 15 - 29. Go Rams! https://forms.gle/bKZgsy5UVJ8g4VfK9

March Parent newsletters should be coming home in backpacks this afternoon! If you ever miss a newsletter, they are always under our Documents folder on the website. We also have handy resources available in that folder and in the Documents folder in Rooms!

Hello OGMS families! Please join us this Friday, March 15 for our 3rd quarter awards assemblies. These will be held in the gym at the following times: 6th grade: 8:45 am 5th grade: 10:00 am 3rd quarter music students will be performing with their flutaphones at the beginning of each assembly. Principal's list, honor roll, perfect attendance, special class, and Accelerated Reader awards will be given at each assembly. We hope to see you!

Attention all parents/guardians of current 1st grade students who will go into 2nd grade for the 2024-25 school year. Click the link below to choose which ELEMENTARY school (Baldwin/Oak Grove Elementary/Woodrow Wilson) your student will attend next year. Fill out one survey per child going into 2nd grade. The online survey closes at 7:00pm on Thursday, March 14th. Paper applications will be accepted at PSD's Central Office in person at 1501 West Court Street; by fax (870) 240-2293; or by email at ajohnson@paragouldschools.net from March 15 - 29. Go Rams! https://forms.gle/bKZgsy5UVJ8g4VfK9

Reminder: Class/homeroom pictures will be taken TOMORROW! Order forms should have come home last week. If you'd like to order one online, you can order from https://my.lifetouch.com/mylifetouch/#/ using picture day ID #EVT2D3F4K. Orders turned in using the order form MUST be sent by tomorrow and include cash or check.

Our theme this year is "It Takes a Village" Well, our village showed up and showed out and helped us PASS the bond restructure! We are beyond thankful to everyone who voted FOR the Rams! Let's continue to work together towards achieving our goals and driving the Paragould School District to new heights. Our village is strong! Great things are happening and even greater things are to come.

Good afternoon OGMS Family!! Tomorrow we take the writing portion of the ATLAS test. Please make sure your students get plenty of rest tonight, eat something tomorrow morning, and come to school encouraged. Thank you for helping us do our best on the test!

"You Can Be and Do Anything When You're a Ram" This was our 2nd video in a student created video series that showcases our Rams! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZVsQqTkQfl3J8jicArIDjps_8KZjKg83/view?usp=drive_link

"All That and More" The last in a 3 student created video series about being a Paragould Ram! Sad they're ending? Never fear, there are two more coming later this spring that will showcase our events! Go Rams! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uVGPc1qGdZgdwWPF2TE93qvZxjiN_CqO/view?usp=drive_link

"What it Means to Me" Click the link below to see a student created video about being a Paragould Ram. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_IHOFcaIuc-t8kisGDbogagfvu6UMFHj/view?usp=drive_link

Have we told you lately how much we love our math classes? Our 6th grade math students spent some time outside on Friday of last week taking measurements of real-world objects and calculating the area of those objects. Practical use + outside time = a WIN! #onlytheBESTatOGMS

So proud of our OGMS students for making cards during Kindness week and then having our Community Service group get to hand them out to the residents at Belle Meade Cottages. The kids loved it but we believe the cottage residents enjoyed it the most. ONLY THE BEST AT OGMS!!