With so much media and information coming at us through the television, phones, social media, and more, it's more important than ever for kids to understand the basics of media literacy. When kids can identify different types of news and media and the methods and meanings behind them, they're on their way to being critical thinkers and smart consumers.
Throughout the month, we will be sharing a set of five tips to help your children become critical thinkers of news and media. Here is a short video to get those conversations started!
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Today's Activities
Congratulations to the 7th grade volleyball team for winning the Lexington volleyball tournament today!! They are undefeated on the day! Way to go ladies very proud of you all. 🖐️🙌R. E. F. N!G2G+
Congratulations to Mya Downs on her 2nd place finish at the IHSA girls wrestling regional today. She advances to the IHSA girls sectional, which will be held on February 14th.
The Varsity Girls Basketball Team with a dominating win over the Rantoul Eagles at the IPC/Sangamo Shootout 62-33. Sophomore Guard Elyse Eimer with 15 points, earning Player of the Game recognition. The Spartans are home vs El Paso on Monday. Come out and show your support!!
The 8th Grade Boys Basketball team battled in the first round of Regionals today against Clinton. The boys won 38-22 with Will Langley (11 points) and Cade Yoder (7 points) leading the team in scoring.
The boys play again Tuesday (2/4) at 6:15 at EPG Middle School against Heyworth.
Overall Record: 18-7
Go Spartans!
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The High School Wrestling team finished their regular season last night with a big 57-13 win over Morton, bringing our record to 24-6. Next up, we will be hosting regionals at Olympia on Saturday, February 8th. We hope you can come out and support our team!
If you want to know if someone is trying to trick you with a headline, think through a few of these five questions each time you read a shocking story. Don't let them pull the wool over your eyes Spartans!
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Family Activity: Decoding Images. bit.ly/OlyNMFR1
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 children about the structure of online news articles is an important place to start.
Boys Home Game
Today, the Olympia Transition Program went to Ms. Patton's class at Oly West for our January book buddies. We read a poem about kindness & looked at different pictures to decide if it showed friendship. Then, they read a book about being a friend & created their own snowman with ways they can be a friend.
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The 7th Grade Boys Basketball team's season ended last night with a 49-20 loss to Eureka. Cade Yoder (13 points) led the team in scoring. The boys ended the season with a 24-3 overall record and a 22-2 regular season record.
According to our books that is the most wins by an OMS team ever in the regular season and possibly the most wins overall for a team. Even though the season didn't end how they wanted it to, the boys should keep their heads high on having such a great season! Go Spartans!
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The 7th Grade Boys Basketball team moves on to the Regional Championship after a 59-39 victory over Heyworth! Cade Yoder (24 points!) and Hudson Steinkamp (12 points) led the team in scoring.
The boys play tomorrow (1/28) at 6 at Eureka MS against Eureka. Come on out and cheer on the team as they fight to move on to Sectionals!
Overall Record: 24-2
The OHS Cross Country State Qualifiers were recognized at the January Board of Education meeting. Congratulations to Emma Swartzendruber on a great year. Amelia Kistner was also a State Qualifier but could not attend the Board meeting. Congratulations to both girls and Coach Randi Krehbiel!
The OMS Speech Team was recognized for a successful season at the January Board of Education meeting. Congratulations to the team and to Coach Holt.
The JV girls basketball game scheduled at Riverton tonight has been cancelled due to a lack of available players for Riverton. The varsity game will start at 6:00pm
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