Orange River Elementary School

If your student rides bus 1850 in the morning, please check your email for updated route times.

Feel free to email us at [email protected] or call us at (239) 694-1258 if you have questions! 🚌

Reminder that our School Advisory Council (SAC) meeting will be held tomorrow from 3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. 🏫🔔

Autism Awareness Day is observed every year on April 2nd to support neurodiversity by raising global awareness and understanding of Autism. Tomorrow, April 1st, we're encouraging students and staff to wear their favorite Autism Awareness shirt, or something blue to show support!

Reminder that our 2nd Annual Orange River Scholarship 5K will be happening this Thursday, April 2nd! Students were given permission slips last week and the deadline is tomorrow to return them. The fee to enter is $5, and medals will be awarded to 1st/2nd/3rd place in grades K-2, and 1st/2nd/3rd in grades 3-5.

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If you have any questions or would like to donate to our scholarship fund, please call us at (239) 694-1258.

Great work to Job Zephir, who received a Certificate of Excellence for his submission to Lee County's Aspiring Authors Contest! 📖🏆🐯

Way to go Tigers! We're happy to announce our Reflex Math Winners 🏆

Our final champions will receive an individual goodie bag, in addition to a classroom reward:
Cardenas
DeSantis
Hampel
L. Starks
Madigan
Ottilige

Close behind and receiving a classroom treat are:
Anderson
Birkhimer
Borodack
Gromnicki
Guzman
G. Kearney
Krupp
Smith

Congratulations to all classes! Your consistency, effort, and focus paid off 🧠 Even if you didn't win, you still grew, and that's what matters. Let's keep it going for Quarter 4 and get ready for the next grade level!

We have an amazing staff at ORE, and four of our wonderful teachers have been recognized as High Impact Teachers based on VAM scores and the Student Growth Model!

Congratulations to Carmen Cruel, Margaux Fry, Amy Johnson, and Helen Krupp!

Thank you to "Ding" Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge for providing our students with a wonderful learning opportunity! The Wildlife on Wheels (Wow) mobile classroom was here this week to teach our students about wildlife and our ecosystem.

What a wonderful week of reading across America! Today we celebrated with a character parade, where students and staff dressed as their favorite book character. Have a great weekend readers - let's keep working towards our 100 Million Word Challenge! 📖😄📚