Oak Park Elementary School

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Congratulations to Ana Manuel Torres who is our latest Million Word Reader! We are proud of you!

The Daikin Festival is back in Decatur for 2024 and Daiken employees came to OPES today to teach some Japanese dance moves and promote the event. Daiken will celebrate its 30th ...

Congratulations, Keyla! She joins the million word club today! We are so proud of you!

Burritt’s Spring Farm Days are an exciting time to visit this educational museum and park that overlooks Huntsville, Alabama. Students met the barnyard animals, experienced the hi...

Amy Shelton, District Administrative Coordinator for the Morgan County Soil and Water Conservation District located in Hartselle, presented OPES Library Media Specialist Sally Sav...

OPES first graders attended the Let's Pretend Hospital, a project of the UAH Nursing School. Let's Pretend Hospital is designed for first grade students to help reduce the fear a...

Today's solar eclipse was an amazing opportunity to teach students about our amazing world. Students learned about and observed this incredible natural phenomena. The next solar e...

The DCS Character Trait of the Month for March was Leadership. At OPES we are proud of students who help lead the way by their positive actions and attitudes. We recognized two of...

Happy Assistant Principal's Week to our Teacher In Residence, LaToya Patton! We appreciate all you do!

Warehouse Coffee is back on Tuesday in the teacher parking lot! Your breakfast treat supports the OPES music program! We hope you can come by for a coffee, hot chocolate or breakf...

Fifth graders participated in a Race for Egg-cellence for ACAP practice on Thursday. Students read and annotated ACAP sample passages and answered ACAP sample text dependent quest...

First graders had their second annual jelly bean hunt on Monday. The rest of the week first graders used those jelly beans to add, subtract, measure and graph to first grade stand...

Congratulations to our Alabama Center for the Arts and Carnegie Visual Arts Center’s Youth Art Month Show participants from Oak Park. Our students won three awards. See captions b...

End of year testing will take place in elementary schools during April. It is time for students to show how much they have learned this year! Please help by being sure your child ...

Students who met their goal for RED tickets enjoyed a PBIS Rewards Party this week. PBIS is our Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports program. We encourage little raiders to...

OPES is proud of our Green Power team! The Green Power Splash competition was held at Calhoun College. Green Power is a national competition where children design, build and race ...

Jamie Webster, owner of Webster Karate on 6th Street, thrilled students with his performance of Green Eggs and Ham on Thursday! Mr. Webster's props and silliness brought the boo...

OPES finished up our Read Across America celebration with the book Lexie the Word Wrangler by Rebecca Van Slyke. In our ELA curriculum we learn how to round up letters into word...

The McWane Center in Birmingham is a museum that is full of immersive and interactive science exhibits that spark students' imagination and understanding! Our third graders had a ...