Olympia CUSD 16

Olympia West is ready for the Christmas parade!

Varsity Boys Basketball pick up their first win of the season at the El Paso Gridley tournament over Roanoke Benson. 57 to 50.

Help! My Kid Wants to Use Social Media! Get your child -- and yourself -- ready for the next step with these conversation starters. https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/help-my-kid-wants-to-use-social-media

Varsity Girls Basketball picks up a win in their home opener over Athens. 53 - 31. JV Girls pick up the W as well.

Oly 6th graders completed a STEM project where they researched and created a food truck business. In Math, students created their food truck's menu, researched costs associated with their food options, and budgeted the endeavor from the ground up. In ELA, students chose creative tasks which helped to promote their food truck business. In Science, students designed their food truck-inside and out- from an engineering perspective. In SS, students used census data to determine the best market for their food truck operation. Awesome work, Spartans!

Check out this short video for your elementary kiddos around what a digital footprint really means. We already K-5 students posting and interacting online, so let's start some good habits early! http://bit.ly/OlyDFV2

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The OHS Speech Team placed 5th out of 25 teams in team sweeps today at Richwoods! The team brought home 7 Varsity Finalists and 4 JV. Congrats Spartans!

Social media offers a chance to choose how we present ourselves to the world. We can snap and share a pic in the moment or carefully stage photos and select only the ones we think are best. Listen as students reflect on how this impacts their lives. http://bit.ly/Oly2DFV4

Video: bit.ly/Oly2DFV3 Lots of students are exploring and developing their own identities, and they often do this online and on social media. Some kids use multiple accounts, each for a different audience, but with this, what’s real and what’s unrealistic can often get blurred. In this video, your kids can hear other teens talk about the ins and outs of presenting themselves to others online, and consider what it means to “be yourself” in digital spaces.

The Olympia Spartan Gear store is now open 365 days a year. Use code spirit21 to get 25% for the first four weeks.

Olympia Middle and High School Angel Tree sign-up deadline is November 17th. Angel Tree is sponsored by the Olympia Spartan Promise Council. Parents check your email for details. Questions contact Olympia Family Coordinator, Michelle.maris@olympia.org

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Forming an identity is a big part of being a middle schooler. Most students are working it out through experimentation, with plenty of awkward missteps and mistakes along the way. It's a normal, natural part of growing up. But in the age of social media, this part of adolescence can be tough -- both for kids to navigate and for adults to understand. New social media platforms come and go, often with features designed to captivate young users right in the midst of figuring out just who they are. Read more about how teachers use classroom lessons to teach about online identity: https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/instagram-middle-school-and-digital-citizenship

Varsity Girls Basketball starts the season off with a 57 to 29 win over Tri City.

Article Time! How Colleges Use Kids' Social Media Feeds. Learn how what you post can hurt - and help - the admissions process. https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/how-colleges-use-kids-social-media-feeds

This week's activities

Today's Activities

4 days! The Community Claus Spaghetti Dinner and Family Reading Night are in 4 days. There is still time to reserve your meal pick-up time. Limited seating is available at St. John's for families attending Family Reading Night. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0944AAA722A02-community2

As tweens and teens start sharing content and engaging with others online, it's vital for them to understand what they're leaving behind and what they might reveal. Help guide kids toward creating the kind of footprint they can be proud of @ http://bit.ly/Oly2DF