Owls Head Central School

Welcome to Owls Head Central School

54 Ash Point Drive

Owls Head, ME 04854    

Phone 207-594-5650

Susan Stilwell - Principal

Suzanne Philbrook - Administrative Assistant

Collleen Kreps- Guidance

Lorrie Callaway - Head Teacher

RSU 13 Text Alerts Available

The Director of Information Technology for RSU 13 has set up a server to send out text alerts for the district. If you are interested in signing up please visit:

text.rsu13.org

When entering your cell phone number, the area code is necessary, but do not use spaces or dashes.  Once you submit your cell phone number, you’ll be prompted to enter your “verification code”.  This code will be texted to your cell phone within a few minutes.

Please see the Upcoming Events tab for dates and events at Owls Head School!

PLAYGROUND: The days are getting colder so please make sure to send your child with a warm jacket, hat, gloves, snow pants and boots (if there is snow). Students are outside for 20 minutes before school and 20 minutes at lunch time.

February

2/3                   National Go Red for Women Day, wear red and support The American Heart

          Association

2/14                 Valentine’s Day

2/20-2/24         School vacation Presidents’ Day Holiday

2/20                 End of Trimester 2 grades K-7

March

3/9                   End of Trimester

3/15                 Report Cards go home

3/16                 In-service day (no students) 

Owls Head News

It has been an exciting start to the year, with everyone working very hard to overcome the normal “start of school” problems. Things seem to be settling in nicely now that the bus situation has been mostly resolved.

Third grade has two classrooms with a combined 30 students. They are participating in a program at Tanglewood, which the staff and students talked about during Open Doors on Tuesday, October 4. The students are successfully learning the schedule, routine, rules and layout of the school. The first district writing prompt is now behind them, and they have moved on to other academic challenges. In reading, their focus has been on decoding long words and identifying narrative elements. In writing they have learned about ideas. They are just starting unit 2 in math, which is focused on facts and fact extensions and computation.  Science has revolved around articles in the National Geographic Explorer, which Mrs. Ackor supplements with interactive Promethean board activities.  In social studies they are learning about their founding fathers, the Constitution, and Bill of Rights.  The favorite lesson each day of every 3rd grader seems to be cursive.  They can't get enough of it.

There are 21 students in 4th grade. They are just finishing unit 2 in math.  This is mostly a review on place value and landmarks for minimum, maximum, mode, range, and median.  In reading, their target skill is the decoding of unknown words by looking at root words, prefixes, and suffixes.  In writing students have finished unit 1 in the Write Traits program.

There are 20 students in the 5th grade. They are acquainted with their new and busy schedule this year. Recently, the students completed Unit 1 in Everyday Math. Currently, they are using the traditional algorithms for addition and subtraction. Students have completed the district's writing prompt. They are writing descriptive papers, after reading Rodman Philbrick's, "The Young Man and the Sea".