Located in the southern part of the district, Okte Elementary School is one of four off-campus schools. It opened in 1973.
Posted 5/10/12
Okte’s Community Action Club are collecting can tabs to support the Ronald McDonald House. Click here to see their movie.
Posted 5/10/12
This year's PTA "Reflections" program theme was "Diversity means...". Okte had 10 children participate: Payton DeCrescente, Keira Delaney, Jesse Ferraioli, Hannah Franklin, Madeline Franklin, Kayleigh Nadal, Zoey Nadal, Purva Shenoy, Sky Zagorski, and Sofia Zambri-Moran, within the varying categories. Six of those entries went on from Okte to the Regional Division, with one entry continuing on to the State Division. A reception was held to acknowledge all of the Regional and State winners at Ballson Spa High School. CONGRATULATIONS to ALL of Okte's participants!
Posted 4/27/12
Okte's Drama Club, under the direction of Mr. Carter & Mrs. McQuade, performed "Annie Jr." at High School West to an almost sold out crowd! [MORE]
Posted 4/16/12
Humingbird Day was created at Okte to remember what was learned about the “power of one” during last year’s Shensational study of environmentalist Wangari Maathai. Wangari tells the story of the tiny hummingbird, who, seeing his forest home on fire, does the best he can to put the fire out despite the futility all the other animals are feeling. [MORE]
Posted 3/27/12
Teams from Okte, Tesago and Shatekon competed in a reading tournament in March. Shen Kids Read was modeled after the “Battle of the Books” competitions, and involved students answering questions about several books in a game show fashion. [MORE]
Posted 3/16/12
Active! Get Fit!"
program, Okte was one of the five top participators in New
York State and was awarded $500.00 in
new PE/Recess equipment.[MORE
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Posted 3/16/12
Fifth
grade classes at Okte wrote their own fairy tales, but
these took a twist or became "Fractured Fairy Tales". [MORE]
Posted 3/16/12
Okte's 5th graders
are participating in the first ever "Shen Kids Read
Tournament". [MORE]
Posted 3/16/12
Okte fourth graders
would like to thank the Ashman family, owners of Upper
Crust Pizza, for their donation of pizza boxes. [MORE]
Posted 2/22/12
PTA held its annual
"Family Fit Night" where families could come and see what
local businesses have to offer in the way of fitness &
health. [MORE
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Posted 1/13/11
Okte 5th graders
celebrate their writing with a Sub Sandwich party... a fun
way to learn the necessary parts needed for a complete
writing sample. [MORE
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Posted 1/13/11
Okte 5th graders
donate money, toiletries and other small items to women
and children in need. [MORE
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Posted 1/6/12
Okte held its annual "Sing-a-Long" right
before vacation. Each grade prepared a song selection that
they had practiced during music class, then performed it as
a group.[MORE
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Posted 1/6/12
Okte's Chorus & Chamber Choir had the
honor of singing at Colonie Center. They performed a variety
of songs, including many holiday favorites.[MORE
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Posted 1/6/12
The Winter Concert was the first public
performance of the year for Okte's 5th grade orchestra and
chorus. All of their hard work paid off. [MORE
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Posted 12/16/11
Okte’s Community
Action Club held a food drive to benefit CAPTAIN. [MORE
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Posted 12/16/11
Okte’s Community
Action Club took some time during this holiday season to
send some support to wounded soldiers. [MORE
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Posted 11/22/11
Peace, Love, Read" was Okte's PARP theme this year, and the Okte community showed it's love in a BIG way! We asked for gently used books to be donated to Schoharie's library after they lost so much due to flooding.
Posted 11/22/11
Coach Gifford has the kids climbing the walls in PE! Thanks to the proceeds from Okte's Annual Ice Cream Social, Coach Gifford was able to purchase a rock wall, for the gym, to be used by all grades!
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Posted 11/22/11
Second graders at
Okte are using the W.I.S.E. curriculum (Wonder,
Investigate, Synthesize, and Express) to frame their
research about turkeys. [MORE
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Posted 11/14/11
Okte 5th-graders
became "Pumpkin-ologists" in science. [MORE
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Posted 11/14/11
Okte held its
annual "Monster Mash". Many students and their families
came out for the fun hay maze , face painting and the
variety of games that were held in the cafeteria. [MORE
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Posted 11/9/11
All four of the 4th grade
classes at Okte entered a Fire Prevention poster contest. The
Fire Department collected the posters and voted one poster from
each class room
the winner. [MORE]
Posted 10/26/11
3rd graders at Okte
are enjoying their swim time at the pool. They are
learning all about water safety
and basic swimming strokes. [MORE
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Posted 10/26/11
Okte's new
orchestra students performed for the first time in public,
accompanied by their instructor, Mrs. Brothers. [MORE
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Posted 10/26/11
First graders at
Okte got an up close look at spiders when The
Scotia-Glenville Museum's program, "Silent Spinners",
stopped by for a visit. [MORE
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Posted 10/26/11
3rd graders at Okte made plaster masks. Each child took turns with a buddy, following the steps it takes, to have a completed mask.
[MORE]
Posted 10/20/11
October is Fire
Prevention Month and Okte students have been learning from
the best! Our wonderful local firefighters have been
spending time visiting classrooms, explaining the dangers
of fire and what to do if they are caught in one. [MORE
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Posted 10/13/11
Teachers and
students in Kindergarten through 2nd grade at Okte,
participated in Jumpstart's "Read for the Record". [MORE
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Posted
10/4/11
Okte held it's
annual "Welcome Back BBQ" at Krauses. [MORE
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Posted
9/28/11
Okte families
participated in "School Banking Night" where they set up
school banking accounts to help children develop financial
literacy skills. [MORE
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Posted 9/16/11
On September 9th,
2011,
students took time out of their day to commemorate
September 11th. Students talked about peace and did an
activity called Pinwheels for Peace. [MORE
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5/15/12 - School Budget Vote and Board Election, Gowana Gym 7 a.m. - 9p.m.
5/25 - 28/12 - No School, Memorial Day Weekend
6/2/12 - A Green and White Night, Shenendehowa Educational Foundation Fundraiser 6:30 p.m., Hilton Garden Inn
6/8/12 - Half Day ES, AM Kdg in Session
6/15/12 - Half Day ES, AM Kdg in Session
6/21/12 - Half Day ES, No Kdg, Last Day of School
Grade 2 - Home page
Grade 3 - Home page
Grade 4
Ms. Butera
Mrs. Lee
Mrs. Sansone
Mr. Wilkinson
Grade 5 - Home Page
Ms. Fahey, Mrs. Moran , Miss Lieberman, Mrs. Weller
Special Areas
Mrs. Schram, accelerated
math
Ms Braglia, art
Mrs. McQuade, special education
| GRADES 1-5 School starts at 9:05 a.m. School dismisses at 3:15 p.m HALF DAYS Dismissal is 12:15 p.m |
AM KINDERGARTEN |
PM KINDERGARTEN |
