Fearless Fact Finding!
Check out this list of trustworthy resources to help you learning 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!
Congrats Trevor White for advancing to IHSA Bowling Sectionals this Saturday in Collinsville! Trevor placed 11th place at IHSA Regionals with a 6 Game Total Score of 1232! Good Luck Trevor at Sectionals!
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. Family Tip Sheet: bit.ly/OlyNMFR2
Lady Spartans pick up a couple home non conference wins over East Peoria tonight. JV 36 to 27 and Varsity 55 to 21. Varsity improves their record to 19 and 5 on the season.
Congratulations to the OHS Speech Team for placing First in team sweeps for limited entries this past weekend at Glenwood High School. Special congrats to Morgan Cisco (JV champ in Original Comedy) and Grace Melick (Varsity tournament champion in Oratorical Declamation)!
Congratulations to Olympia senior Colby Burt for scoring her 1000th career point in the Spartans’ win over Peoria Heights.
Don't forget your St. Jude shirt orders are due at noon on Monday, January 20th!
https://forms.gle/qpLQBJyV2pQmw2ew8
The FFA Silent Auction is cancelled for tonight, 1/17. It will be rescheduled for Tuesday, January 28th during the Boys Basketball Games vs. Bloomington Central Catholic.
Jan. 17th - Tonight’s Varsity Boys’ Basketball Game vs Flanagan is being moved up to 5:30pm. The JV Game is cancelled. Hall of Fame inductees will be introduced at Halftime of the Varsity Game.
Boys’ Swim practice for tonight has been cancelled. The boys swim team bus time for Saturday, 1/18, has changed. The new bus time for Saturday's, 1/18, meet is now 8:00 am. See Mr. Abrams or Modrusic if you have questions.
Fam. 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. Sibling conflict is a great example of how two people can have wildly different opinions on the same event.
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!
Link: http://bit.ly/OLYNMLr
Common Sense has released a brand new News & Media Literacy Resource Center with TONS of resources around this topic. Check out this new web series from Crash Course!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN07XYqqWSKpPrtNDiCHTzU
Link: http://bit.ly/OLYNMLr
Common Sense has recently released a brand new News & Media Literacy Resource Center with TONS of resources around this topic. Particularly neat is a new web series by Crash Course...check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN07XYqqWSKpPrtNDiCHTzU
Spartans Love St. Jude - Help support a great cause for the Boys' Basketball Game on January 24th vs. St. Joe-Ogden - order a shirt to support the Children of St. Jude - https://forms.gle/QbmCBHCc2U3oY9kv5
The boys’ swim meet for tonight, Jan. 14th has been cancelled, they will have dry land practice after school.
Olympia’s Speech team competed very well at the Norlympia tournament with 4 Varsity tournament champions! Grace Melick in Dramatic Interpretation and Declamation, Beatrice Harbaugh in Poetry and Mariah Maris in Prose. Congratulations to the team!
Family Tip 2: Play "Spot the Ad"!
When you see media, ask your kids to figure out what the ad is selling. Sometimes it's obvious, and sometimes it's not. Help them explore why certain pictures, sounds, and words are used to sell certain products.
The Lady Spartans pick up a couple big conference wins at home over St. Joseph-Ogden. JV 45 to 28 and Varsity 42 to 33. Varsity record moves to 2 - 0 in the conference and 16 - 3 overall.
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!
