Ida Grove Elementary Falcons of the Week 💜
Rural Non-Congregate Summer Meals will be available again for the summer of 2025. We will serve grab and go style meals from both the Ida Grove Elementary and the Odebolt Elementary/Middle School buildings. Meals will be served from the front entrance/canopy area of the buildings. Meal pick-up times are 11:30-12:30 at both locations.
Meal service is only being offered from June 2 - June 27.
Meals are FREE and for students/children only (18 & Under), no adult meals are being offered.
Meal would include the lunch (for that day) and the next day's breakfast.
Meal service is scheduled to begin on Monday, June 2, 2025 (will include Monday lunch & Tuesday breakfast).
Pickup location & time:
OABCIG Elementary-Ida Grove (Main Entrance) - 11:30 AM-12:30 PM
OABCIG Elementary/MS-Odebolt (Main Entrance) - 11:30 AM-12:30 PM
**Please note, students being bussed for summer school will be given a meal to take with them when they are bussed home. Parents will not need to pick up a meal for summer school students when summer school is in session.
**Parent/Guardian may pick up without the child being present. Daycares may not pick up meals for the children in their establishments per USDA guidance.
Please fill out this survey link if you plan to utilize our summer meals program: https://forms.gle/cWQJuSzZyjDf2SLT6
Ida Grove Elementary Falcons of the Week 💜
OABCIG first graders went on their annual Spring field trip to Moorehead Park. The first graders did three centers. The first center was with Naturalist Danielle and she took the students on a hike to learn all about birds in their natural environment. They even got to use binoculars. Then the next center was a nature journal where the students used magnifying glasses to observe and investigate the area around them. Then the students recorded their observations in their journal. The last center was entitled "Bird Beak Buffet" a hands-on-activity that the students used various tools that acted as a bird's beak to see which worked best to get a certain bird's food in the various environments. The first graders learned so much and we are so lucky to have such a great resource in our district.
Third graders at Ida Grove learned more about how math and art combine in tessellations, which are patterns that fit together with no gaps. After learning more about tessellations in nature and the works of M. C. Escher, students tried their hands at making tessellations of their own.
The Ida Grove First Grade students performed ‘Contraction Surgery”. The students became word surgeons as they learned how to make contractions! The students had masks, gloves, and hats to be able to dress the part of a surgeon (Donated by Megan Wellendorf). Mrs. Nielsen’s high school students came to assist us during the activity. Thank you Mrs. Nielsen’s high schoolers.
Students worked carefully cutting the words apart and surgically removing letters in order to shorten the two words into a contraction. Each doctor was equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to form words like "I'll", "They're", and "Wouldn't".
All of the surgeons were very successful and everyone had a fun learning experience.
Ida Grove Elementary Falcons of the Week 💜
The OABCIG 5th Grade had a busy day! They started their morning with a reading challenge celebration. If they read 1,000 pages, they got to enjoy a morning at the Ida Grove Rec Center. There was swimming, volleyball, basketball, games, and a treat provided by both PTP groups. In the afternoon, we were invited to Horn Memorial Hospital to have our annual Arbor Day presentation with the USDA Office. We heard from them about importance of Arbor Day and planting trees. Then we went out to the hospital grounds to plant the first of many apple trees that our 5th grade classes will add to their growing apple orchard. Thank you for asking us to be apart of this new tradition!
The Ida Grove 4th grade students took a field trip to the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha. This trip was started up again after it stopped when COVID hit. We were excited for the opportunity to take the students to the zoo again!
Ida Grove Elementary Falcons of the Week 💜
Ida Grove Elementary Falcons of the Week 💜
The final day to order the Preschool - 8th grade yearbook is April 17!
No late orders will be accepted. Yearbooks will be delivered and distributed before the end of the school year
The 3rd and 4th grade classes had the opportunity to participate in a mobile seed survivor classroom that was in connection with Nutrien. The students participated in a session that involved a presentation about agriculture, digging for fossils, planting a sunflower, and investigating soil. They also got to go inside their traveling trailer participating in interactive games on plant nutrients. We are lucky to get the trailer to come to our school as it only goes to a handful of states during the year and comes from Canada.
Ida Grove 4th and 5th grade Spring Concert this Thursday, April 10th at 7:00 p.m. in the High School Auditorium.
OABCIG CSD will dismiss students at 1:00 PM on Wednesday, April 9, for staff to participate in professional development.
Ida Grove Elementary Falcons of the Week 💜
The Ida Grove 3rd graders wrote a book that was published! They chose a scientist that they would want to be like from the scientists they learned about in their Wit and Wisdom curriculum. They also illustrated a picture to go along with what they wrote.
Ida Grove Elementary Falcons of the Week 💜
3rd graders from both buildings went to the Sioux City Symphony where students were able to sing and play their recorders with the symphony. They then went to the Sioux City Public Museum where they explored the history of Sioux City, viewed replicas of dinosaur fossils, and dug for dinosaur fossils.
The first grade classes at Ida Grove and Odebolt are learning about Powerful Forces in our reading curriculum. One of these powerful forces is the wind. The students learned fun facts about wind, but also some important information on how the wind impacts people and nature. What better way for our students to experience the powerful force of wind, but by making their own kite.
We would like to thank Mrs. Masters, OABCIG Tag coordinator, who was instrumental in this activity as she brought the kite kits for every first grade student and instructed them how to make their own kite. She also brought middle school Tag students to help our students with this activity. After decorating their kites the first graders actually got to fly their kites outside and experience first-hand the powerful force of wind, and we were very lucky to have a somewhat windy day.
