Ordean East Middle School News

25-26 Incoming 9th graders! The EHS Open House is TONIGHT!

Join us for a fun and informative East High Registration Information Night the evening of Thursday, February 13th from 5:30-6:30 in the EHS Auditorium. All current 8th graders and their parents/guardians are welcome to attend. East counselors will give a presentation including info on registration, enrollment, and expectations. There are optional student-led tours to follow.

Stay afterwards to watch the East High Boys Basketball team take on Denfeld @ 7:00 PM!

Hope to see you there!

Duluth students participated in the Regional Spelling Bee this past Tuesday, February 11th and the final 3 students were all from Ordean! Gemma Kim was the champion after 25 rounds and will be going to Nationals in Washington DC in March. Annabelle Wu came in 2nd and Wyatt Olek came in 3rd! We are so thrilled to see our Huskies shining and GO GEMMA!!!!!

After four days of fantastic sales, the PBIS Team is pleased to say that we have SOLD OUT of candy grams and flowers with over 200 flowers and 800 candy grams set to be delivered tomorrow on Valentine's Day! We absolutely could not have prepared everything without the help of our awesome parent volunteers who took time out of their days to lend a hand. It has definitely been a team effort and we hope to see lots of smiles around the school during delivery tomorrow.

THANK YOU PTA and PARENT VOLUNTEERS!!!

Ordean East Student Council is hosting a food drive! The drive will run from March 3-13 and benefit CHUM. Your generosity can help change lives. Stay tuned for more information and check out the flyer below!

6th graders enjoyed M & M Probability day this week. Each student was given a mini bag of M & M's. Students performed 50 trials to determine the experimental probability of each color M & M occurring. They then dumped out the bag and compared that to the theoretical probability of each color occurring. We kept careful track of data. Students collectively performed 7300 trials this year. Orange was the most prevalent M & M color, and brown was the least. Thanks to the families that donated M & M's for our tasty math lesson!

On Wednesday, the 6th grade came together in the auditorium to celebrate their many successes from Semester 1 including 240 students making Honor/Merit Roll, over 100 students with 0 tardies, and 94% of students without ANY major behavior referrals! We also hosted several returning East High School students to talk about the importance of building strong skills in middle school. They spoke wonderfully and we look forward to hosting them again after break for our 7th and 8th grade groups.

Duluth Farm to School is honored to be the recipient of February's Duluth Whole Foods Co-op's Give! Program. When shopping at the Central Hillside and Denfeld Whole Foods locations, customers can round up to the nearest dollar at the register to support repair of school garden beds and youth programming. The Farm to School program is so important to our school garden at Ordean East. If you shop at the Whole Foods Co-Op, please consider rounding up!

Feb. 13th - EHS Registration Information Night

5:30-6:30 PM - EHS Auditorium

Feb. 25th - 9th Grade Registration

During 8th Grade English Classes

Mar. 11th - OEMS Orchestra Concert

7:00 PM - OEMS Gymnasium

May 6th - New Student Open House

Parents and Students: Please watch for upcoming announcements each week about our track season. Our coach has not been confirmed yet, but when that happens, there will be a link for track sign-ups in the S'more! The season will start late March.

Mrs. Vang will be available after school the last week of February to help with Projects. We have a meeting on the 27th where we will be celebrating all of your hard work before the competition day! Looking forward to seeing you all soon. - Mrs. Vang and Mr. Schmitz

Email: ordeaneast@isd709.org
Website: https://ordeaneast.isd709.org/
Phone: 218-336-8940