Fourth grade students from Mr. Richbourg's class had a blast making Thanksgiving "Turkey Traps" as a STEM activity in the library! They were given only two materials: clay and toothpicks, and using these materials they had to "save Thanksgiving" by designing a trap to "catch" a turkey! #ExcellentEveryday
Orr Cubs were excited to welcome TJC Fairy Tale Theatre in their performance of Hansel and Gretel!
Shout out to our second grade cubs who completed their research projects over nutrition labels to practice comparing numbers today! They’ve been hard at work studying the nutrition labels of their favorite cereals at home, then they presented their findings! #ExcellentEveryday
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We had an extra-ORRdinary start to our day with our storybook parade this morning! Students had a blast dressed as storybook characters and walking in the parade with their books! Thank you to all involved in supporting and growing a love for literacy in our students! #ExcellentEveryday
It has been a truly wonderful week this week with our cubs! Thank you to all who made Red Ribbon Week a huge success.
Students, you are invited to dress up as a storybook character for the Book Character Parade on Monday! Wear your favorite book character costume (dress code appropriate and non-scary) to school on Monday and bring the book to match if you want to walk in the parade!
Congratulations to our grade level winners of the Pumpkin Decorating Contest! These students received the most votes from students and staff this week for their pumpkin designs. The competition was very close and so many designs were creative and incredible. Thank you to all students and parents for your participation!
Students, please pick up your pumpkins to take home Monday, October 31st! Any pumpkins left over after this date will be recycled. Thank you in advance!
The teachers and staff would like to give a big shout out to our fearless leader, Mrs. Smith for Principal Appreciation! Thank you for leading with courage, positivity, and compassion! We appreciate you! #ExcellentEveryday
Crazy hair, crazy clothes, and honor roll parades, Oh My! We are having a great start to our morning today! Our cubs truly know what it means to be #ExcellentEveryday!
Kona Ice for our excellent scholars!
It was nothing but smiles on campus today with pajama day and a visit from Kona Ice! Shoutout to Mr. Cervantes who stopped to snap a couple of photos of the fun! Students don’t forget to wear crazy hair, crazy socks, or mismatched clothes for “Crazy About Good Choices” tomorrow!
We love to see our Kinder cubs joining in on the fun of Red Ribbon Week! Check out these students "Rallying in Red" yesterday! #ExcellentEveryday
It was a great day to “Rally in Red” against drugs for Red Ribbon Week! Students don’t forget that tomorrow we wear pajamas to “Follow Your Dreams”!
We have received 97 amazing pumpkin entries for our pumpkin character decorating contest! Each pumpkin is so creatively crafted and we are so excited to display them for voting next week. Students, thank you for sharing your hard work and creativity! Winners will be announced next Friday, the 28th.
It's "Dewey Week" in the library this week! Students are exploring different types of Nonfiction books through a "book tasting" (reading short pieces of each book), then checking out books to get a Nonfiction Bingo! We are having a blast! #ExcellentEveryday
Students and staff! Wear orange tomorrow, October 19th in support on Unity Day.
https://nationaltoday.com/day-of-unity
We have received some awesome submissions for our pumpkin contest so far! Check out these amazing designs from some of our Orr students. Cubs, you still have until Friday to bring your pumpkin creations to the library! We can't wait to see what you create!
It was an extra-ORRdinary day at Orr today! We started the morning with our Hispanic Heritage program which was a beautiful showcase of talent and hard work from our teachers and students. We also saw many beautiful costumes today as students dressed for the occasion. Students, for our half day of school tomorrow, you can dress up like a famous Hispanic celebrity! We can't wait to see what you come up with!
We've got Mirabel from Encanto and Speedy Gonzalez here to show off their awesome movie/cartoon character costumes for Hispanic Heritage week! Our cubs have had so much fun coming up with creative outfits to wear. Tomorrow, cubs can wear traditional Hispanic attire!
It was a great first day of Hispanic Heritage week! Students, don’t forget that tomorrow you are invited to dress up like a movie cartoon character (Coco, Encanto, Rango, etc.). We can’t wait to see what you come up with!
