Angie Debo Elementary -

It was a big day at The Debo today as we got to meet new ✴️EPS Superintendent, Dr. Josh Delich✴️and show off our building! Dr. Delich got to see our CARE room, he visited with faculty, staff, substitutes, and students, and he even got a little🐬A.D. merch🐬! We know that💜our school is a beautiful little microcosm💜of all the good and potential that exists in Edmond, and we were happy to dote on our community and all the amazing individuals that make it what it is! Let’s give some warm welcomes and well-wishes to Dr. Delich in the👇comments below👇!

Today we celebrated Assistant (to the) Principals’ Week and the best AP we know - 💜Mr. Goodrich💜! Our Dolphin families donated a ton Mr. Goodrich’s favorites to send him on a 🕵️‍♂️special scavenger hunt🕵️‍♂️ around the building that culminated with a family picnic! Whether it’s hosting announcements, coming up with a new celebration for extraordinary efforts and achievements, activating calm for others around him, or just generally being an all-around great guy - 🐬Mr. Goodrich is the kind of person that makes our building a better place🐬! If you haven’t heard it yet today, ❤️we love you, Mr. Goodrich❤️, and we’ll see you in the halls! Check out some highlights of today, and show Mr. Goodrich some love in the👇comments below👇!

You know what they say -🐤the early bird spilled the beans🫘! Wait, no, that doesn’t sound right… Well while we’re over here celebrating 🎉Idiom Day🎉, we might as well add a new word to our vocabularies! Did you know that a malaphor is a mashup of two or more idioms or phrases that results in a NEW nonsensical or amusing expression! Can you guess today’s idioms, and can you combine any to create your own malaphor? Let us know in the👇comments below👇!

Remember the ⛳️putt putt⛳️ course Ms. Ashcraft set up for Read Across America Week?! Well in true🐬Angie Debo🐬fashion, we couldn’t end our week without a dress-up day! Our celebrations culminated with Favorite Book Character Day, and our little bookworms had some of the most creative costumes! Check out our photos below for some inspiration for next year’s celebrations, and don’t forget, inspiration can come from 📚ANY book📚!

It’s all fun and games at 🐬Angie Debo🐬! Last night we hosted our annual SPRINGO🌸BINGO night, and what a turnout we had! With prizes ranging from 📚books to 🏀Thunder tickets to 👨‍🏫principal for a day to an 📱iPad, everyone was a winner! A huge shoutout to our Title I Specialist 💜Mrs. Delpha💜for organizing and coordinating our favorite night of the year! We also want to shoutout: 🍕New Covenant Church, St. Augustine Episcopal Church, and Quail Springs United Methodist Church for helping supply pizza! 📣Orthodontic Associates, New Covenant Church, Bubba Play, Threshold Climbing Gym, Justin Jordan, Ann Knutson for donating some top tier prizes! ❤️St. Augustine volunteers who came to help! 🎈One of our amazing counselors, Ms. Rushing, and a wonderful parent volunteer, Maria Bravo, for doing all the balloons. 🐬Mr. Goodrich, our custodial team, and all the teachers and support staff who stayed and volunteered their time! We ❤️ our little community, and we couldn’t imagine doing this work anywhere else or with anyone else! Check out last night’s 📸pics📸 below! And drop your own in the comments!

❓Did you keep up with the progress of Double Wolf Dare Week❓ Our🐺Wolf Pack🐺raised a whopping $233,229.00 to help Keaton’s Kindness Foundation facilitate the development of a Care Room at Oklahoma Children’s Hospital! And do you know what our 🐬Dolphin Family🐬contributed? Through the PTO 🪙Penny Wars🪙, we raised a grand total of $500.01 to donate to Santa Fe’s grand total! And if you were curious, the winner of our Penny Wars were our👦 boys👦with a grand total of $289.38 - that’s a huge chunk of change! ❤️Thank you so much, Dolphin families! Your contributions to the world around us are building a better future!❤️

Our feed has been filled with 🥶chilly🥶 news updates lately, so we thought we could warm it up with some sweet little images of our 🐶furry🐱 friends! Can you guess which 🐬Dolphin🐬 these cute, little, fur babies belong to? The first correct guess for each furry friend will get a special 📣shoutout📣!

Punxsutawney Phil wasn’t joking around when he predicted six more weeks of winter this year, but if we’re going to get that🌨️precipitation🌨️ we’d prefer good, wholesome packing snow! So with next week’s 🥶low temps🥶 and chances for snow in mind, here’s a little TBT to celebrate the kind of winter days we love - snowy ones!

Because of continued isolated icy roads in parts of our district as well as slick and dangerous parking lots and sidewalks, Edmond Public Schools will move to remote learning for all schools for Thursday, February 13th. Students should refer to information sent by their school site for assignments that will need to be completed for attendance to be counted. Based on the current forecasts, we plan to be back to in-person school on Friday.

Today was a 🏀SLAM DUNK🏀for our second-grade Dolphins! The Rolling Thunder Book Bus stopped by our school, and our second graders got to choose a free book and meet two very special guests - Oklahoma City Thunder’s ⚡️Adam Flagler and Nikola Topić⚡️! Check out some of the📚 titles📚 that our little readers picked below!

Because of the predicted freezing rain creating poor road conditions overnight, Edmond Public Schools will move to remote learning for all schools for Wednesday, February 12th. Students should refer to information sent by their school site for assignments that will need to be completed for attendance to be counted. Updated to reflect correct date.

Because of an increasing number of student and staff absences this week, we have made the difficult decision to close school for all Edmond Public Schools for tomorrow, Friday, January 31st. Extracurricular activities will continue as scheduled.   This decision was made in advance to give our families and staff members time to prepare. We will let you know as soon as possible how this instructional time will be made up.   We look forward to seeing your students back in class on Monday morning.

❓Did you know that January is School Board Appreciation Month?❓ Well, we did, so we thought we would treat our District 4 Representative, Cynthia Benson, to a celebratory 🕵️‍♀️scavenger hunt🕵️‍♂️! Thanks to our families and students, Mrs. Benson, accompanied by some very special 🐬student liaisons🐬, was able to follow hints taking her to each grade level in the building to pick up all kinds of goodies and treats! A special shoutout to: ✅our fifth-grade hosts: Bryan, Copeland, Devon, Emanuel, Emma, and Miranda. They were incredible school representatives! ✅our generous families who donated gifts! ✅our loving students who made all sorts of hand-made creations and showed our collective loving spirit! ✅EPS Communications for capturing all these precious moments around the building today! There’s nothing quite like being part of our 💜Dolphin family💜, and we’re so glad Mrs. Benson is one of ours! Let’s give her some A.D. love in the👇comments below👇!

Below 🥶freezing temps🥶 can’t get us down because we’ve got some sweet, new sweatshirts to keep us warm! A huge thank you to our 💜PTO💜 for always providing us with some much needed and much appreciated dolphin gear! Make sure to send your student in 🧣layers🧣this week! And label all layers with their first and last names! Our “Lost and Found” pile will be donated this Friday, so stay tuned for a fashion show of missing items!

We know that one of the things that is always in our control is our own attitude, and these students have an 💜attitude of gratitude💜! Our ✨Word of the Month Awards✨ are the perfect time for faculty and staff to intentionally recognize the individual contributions of our amazing students. They are also a great reminder of what 🐬Angie Debo🐬 is all about! We know that gratitude is being thankful, but more than that, gratitude is an action that requires conscientious awareness for how we interact with 🌎the world around us🌍. These students are not just thankful in words, but they are thankful in their actions - from remembering to use their manners to uplifting and supporting others, these students remind us every day that we're here to do something good with our time and talents! To our ✨Gratitude Award✨ winners, you're doing good and kind things! Keep up the hard work! We are grateful to call you ours! Show our winners some love in the 👇comments below👇, and check out some of the sweet words their teachers had for them!

Because of continued snowfall and roads freezing overnight, all Edmond Public Schools will move to remote learning for Friday, January 10th. Students should refer to information sent by their school site for assignments that will need to be completed for attendance to be counted.

🎶Oh, what fun it is to be...a Debo Dolphin!🎶 Before the break students and staff participated in our Annual Holiday 🎤Sing-Along and Teacher Talent Show🎤! This year's winners had a busy day because right after being named the Candy Cane Crew of the Year, Mrs. Williams and Mr. Goodrich got to work whipping up specialty 🧀grilled cheeses🧀 for all school employees - what a way to head into the holidays! Check the winning performance (and all the others) by using the 👇link below👇: https://www.canva.com/design/DAF3iQxVisI/scSqcVYLZQ1Axls59-4QOw/view?utm_content=DAF3iQxVisI&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=heb661e18dd 💜We missed you all over the holiday break, and we're so happy to have you back!💜

🎉Congratulations to Mrs. Keck, our Support Employee of the Year!🎉 We know that our building couldn’t function without the dedication of each and every person who pours into our little community - our ✨support staff✨ are truly the backbone of our building! As an integral member of our 🐬CARE Team🐬 Mrs. Keck provides a consistently calm and caring perspective to every situation in our building. She’s a safe space and person for staff and students alike, and we are so grateful for everything she does around our building! Give Mrs. Keck some love in the 👇comments below👇! 💜We’re so happy to call you ours, Mrs. Keck!💜

Our second annual 🎊Holiday Bash🎊 was the perfect way to usher in the holiday season! Students (current and former alike) got to indulge in a pizza dinner, craft a winter-themed ornament, and they even got to take pictures with THE 🎅🏼Mr. and Mrs. Claus🧑🏻‍🎄 - it seems like we must be on the nice list this year! A huge thanks to our: 💜PTO for organizing a festive, fun family event! 🐺Santa Fe NHS students for volunteering to pass out food and drinks! ❄️A.D. moms who helped prep ornaments prior to tonight’s event! Although it’s not pictured, families started bringing in their Holiday Hero donations this evening, and the 🎁present pile🎁 looked ready to make some special holiday memories! If you want to donate a gift to help a fellow family, check out our SignUpGenius below: https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/70A0C49A5A72CA2F49-53246238-angie Thanks for sharing some of your holiday cheer with us! If you have pictures from tonight, drop them in the 👇comments below👇!

Are you still full from the food and family festivities of the 🦃holiday🦃? Do you need a little rest and relax time? Why not indulge in 📖Ms. Ashcraft’s📖 “Take a Break with a Good Book” holiday library challenge? To enter for a chance to win your own Redbud or Sequoyah Book just follow the instructions below: ✅Check out a book from our A.D. library! 📖Read your book over the holiday break! 📸Post a picture to this “Take a Break with a Good Book” Facebook post! 🧑‍🎨Recreate or reimagine your book’s cover using the book graphic provided in your blue, dolphin folder! ✏️Follow the template provided in your blue, dolphin folder to create a book review! Submit your work by Wednesday, December 4th to have your 🖼️art🖼️ displayed on the Library’s bulletin board! So drop those reading pics in the 👇comments below👇! We can’t wait to see what you’re reading!