Purcell Elementary School

Congratulations to our November Students of the Month! These students show Dragon CARES daily and we are super proud of them! #DragonCARES Way to go Dragons! Pre-K: Leslie Sanchez & Benjamin Blankenship Kindergarten: Elliott Campbell & Axel Alvarado 1st Grade: Gracie Hernandez & Wiley King 2nd Grade: Ava Grace Douglas & Reef Wilkins Thank you, Boomerang, for supporting our students! Each student received a Student of the Month certificate and a free kid's meal from Boomerang!

Thank you Little Dragons and Families for supporting our 1st ever PES Pride Popcorn fundraiser with our PTO! It was a huge success!! We sold 3,794 bags of popcorn! We are thankful to Pride Popcorn for partnering with us in this effort to support our students and teachers. ❤️🐲 We had two classes that were top sellers and will celebrate soon with a popcorn party! Mrs. Ainsworth's 1st grade class & Ms. Cloud's 2nd grade class with each class selling 400 bags! ALL students did a great job and will be rewarded with ice cream before the break.🍿♥️😍🍦🐲 You will be notified when your child's order is ready for pickup at the school. Thank you again for your amazing support!

November PES Staff Spotlight! Please join us in honoring Mrs. Elizabeth Scott and Mrs. Yaceli Minor! These two ladies are such a blessing to so many students, staff and families! ♥️🐲 Elizabeth has been serving students in education for the past 26 years through her love of teaching Music!🎶🎹 One thing she can't live without is Jesus. She loves her son, Jasper. She enjoys playing the piano, ballroom dancing, baking, growing flowers, and traveling. 🌺 Yaceli has been serving students for the past 4 years. She is so kind with students and helps them work through things with grace each day. 💙She loves her family and enjoys spending time with them, drinking coffee and shopping. ☕️ We are blessed to have both of these ladies at PES and appreciate all that they do to make students shine!🐲♥️

Thank you so much Dragon families for giving of your heart last week to our Holiday Food Drive. We had over 1,000 food items donated! The food collected will go back to families in our community through the Lil' Dragons Food Pantry and Operation Christmas for Thanksgiving and Christmas meals. Mrs. Nicklas' Pre-K class collected the most items and received a popcorn party! Way to go! #DragonCARES

Our 2nd Graders led by Mrs. Scott put on a wonderful Thanksgiving Music Program tonight! They have really worked hard and it showed!♥️ Great job everyone! We sure are Glad for our Thanksgiving!🦃🐲♥️

Thursday's Breakfast has been changed. They will serve a muffin, cereal or toast. Thank you and sorry for any inconvenience. ♥️🐲🥛🥣

October PES Staff Spotlight! Please join us in honoring Mrs. Laura Smith and Mrs. Marcela Auz! These two ladies are such a blessing to so many students, staff and families! 🙌🏼♥️🐲 Laura has been serving students in education for the past 15 years through Speech. She loves what she does and it shows. She builds lasting relationships with her students and families. Students love getting to work with her. ♥️ Marcela has been serving students for the past 20 years, 10 yrs across town at the Head Start building and another 10 years here at the elementary. She is so kind with students and helps them work through any struggle they may face during the school day. ♥️ We are blessed to have both of these ladies at PES and appreciate all that they do to make students shine!⭐️

The National Weather Service has advised that severe thunderstorms with the potential of high winds, flooding, lightning and a risk of tornadoes will come through our area between 4 a.m. to 9 a.m on Monday, November 18th. This is when we have students waiting at bus stops and parents dropping students off. Out of an abundance of caution, the start of school day will be delayed until 10 a.m. Buses will run on this delayed schedule at 9 a.m.so please plan accordingly. Doors will open at 9:30 a.m. Breakfast will be served as usual. Schools will release at normal dismissal time. Parents may also elect to have their student complete the day virtually. Thank you for your understanding and commitment to student and staff safety.

Congratulations to our October Students of the Month! These students show Dragon CARES daily and we are super proud of them!#DragonCARES Way to go Dragons! 🐲♥️ PreK: Brielle Moore & Kai Cravens K: Neolle Deviney & Anthony Zerbel 1st: Kenley Creswell & Chandler Mahan 2nd: Kyrreeah Willis & Kamdyn Craig Thank you, Boomerang, for supporting our students! Each student received a Student of the Month certificate and a free kid's meal from Boomerang!🎉🐲♥️

Child Safety and Prevention Month: National Child Safety and Prevention Month is dedicated to recognizing the unique potential dangers many children face in their everyday lives and taking tangible steps of prevention against those challenges. Safe Kids Oklahoma has multiple resources to help families! See their website below for information on how they can help keep families safe. Safe Kids Oklahoma https://www.bethanychildrens.org/departments/community-health/safe-kids-oklahoma/

Did you know smoking is the single largest preventable cause of death and illness in the world? November is a great time to talk about the dangers of tobacco and to live tobacco free! Healthy Schools Oklahoma has a few lessons you can watch together to get the conversation started! Visit their YouTube page here: Great American Smoke out and Asthma- November 21st. Visit stopwithme.com for help and resources. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvxhx2cbCmWdHfTo4eIdzZ1xtzOi0u8Fu

Thank you parents and grandparents for bringing students out tonight for our Fall into Learning Night at PES! It was a fun time playing Literacy games together and having some yummy treats. We had such a great time together! 🍁🐲❤️ Thank you and we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! Thank you to those that brought can donations this evening and thank you for such a great evening of fun together!🍁❤️🐲🎉

Don't forget that our food drive continues through tomorrow, Wednesday, November 13th! All donations help with holiday food baskets for families in our community. The classes are having a competition to see which class can bring in the most items! Parents, you may bring food items to our Fall Into Learning night tonight and drop them off at the donation table. Just stop by and see Mrs. Stone first so she can add your item count to your teacher's tally. Also, parents please stop by our Lost & Found tonight while at Fall Into Learning night and claim any lost items!

In honor of Veteran’s Day our elementary students have been learning about the branches of the military in PE. After learning about each branch, they would complete stations … Army: army crawling under the ropes Navy: safety sailing their teammates across the ocean Coast Guard: crossing the river to rescue their teammates Air Force: flying helicopters and jets Marines: sprinting through tires and parachuting across the gym Space Force: creating satellites ❤️🤍💙They want to thank all of our Veterans for their service!! 🇺🇸

Please join me in CONGRATULATING and welcoming Mrs. D'Lana Albright as the Director of Head Start located here at Purcell Elementary School. She began working for Delta Head Start across town and moved when Head Start & PreK moved to the Elementary School. She has been serving in classrooms for the past 10 1/2 years. We are super excited for her to begin this new position and are blessed for all that she does for students, teachers and families each day! Congratulations, D'Lana! ❤️🐲❤️

Please join me in giving well wishes to an amazing woman, Mrs. Ciara Register! She has worked hard, finished her degree and continued to lead Head Start at the Elementary. We have loved having her here and all that she's done for students, teachers and families. She will be missed! She has accepted a position with Norman Regional Hospital and although we will miss her, we wish her many blessings in this new position! Go be YOU Ciara, and continue to be amazing!♥️🐲♥️

Thank you for your patience during what we foresee to be a rainy drop off this morning. For safety reasons, we will not unload students up top in rain or bad weather. Please pull directly in front of the building. Thank you! ☔️🌧♥️🐲❤️

District Wide Food Drive starts TODAY, November 7th and continues through Wednesday, November 13th. The donated items will go to Lil' Dragon Food Pantry and Operation Christmas for holiday food baskets for families in our community! All non-perishable items are accepted but there is a list of items in high need below. Students may bring items to school with them or they can be dropped off in the front office. Students have such pride when they get to participate and bring cans to school for this event. Thank you for helping us help our community! #DragonCARES

Last week during Red Ribbon Week we celebrated making healthy choices for our bodies! Students participated in a coloring contest and our Red Ribbon Week coloring contest winners are: Kindergarten: 1st place Karen Vargas Cruz & 2nd place Valentin Ramirez 1st Grade: 1st place Aurora Velazquez & 2nd place Kaylin Olguin 2nd Grade: 1st place Archer Whisenant & 2nd place Susanna Macleod Winners received a Red Ribbon Week certificate and a free kids meal from Boomarang!

Happy Halloween from PES! 🎃🐲🎃