Overdale Elementary School

First graders started their chicks project! A grandparent donated enough eggs that each of Mrs. Cummings' students will get to monitor their own egg!

Have a Capy Friday! Dr. D and his capybara friend!

The District STEM competition was last night and both our teams did a FANTASTIC job being innovative problem solvers. Their challenge was to build a spaghetti tower that would withstand an earthquake! Both teams had one of the tallest structures of the night and our K-2 team walked away with 2nd place overall! Way to go Mustang engineers!

Overdale families! Join us for fun literacy activities, food trucks, and a celebration of the 11 countries represented by students and families at Overdale! Our Title I Literacy Night is co-sponsored by our PTO and is sure to be a blast! The event is Friday, April 24 from 6:00 - 7:30 PM.

Mrs. Scott’s class adopted a cow back in October.  We have watched our cow grow through monthly updates.  Today we joined a live video to see Jane.  Farmer Chris taught us all about raising dairy cows.

Hey Overdale families! 🛼💙 Just a reminder that tonight is Skate Night! 📍 Skate O Rama ⏰ 6:00–8:00 PM 💲 $5 entry 🛼 $4 skate rental (cash only) ✨ All our Swifties—wear your sparkles! 🏈 Football fans—wear your jerseys! Come out, have some fun, and support our Overdale PTO! We hope to see you there! 🎉

Paraprofessional Day is the perfect opportunity to celebrate the incredible staff we have at Overdale. Our paraprofessionals consistently go above and beyond to support our students, staff, and community. We are so grateful for all they do!

Mrs. Cox, our school librarian at Overdale, is an incredible resource for our school! She is always helpful with all of our book needs and loves making sure students have access to books that match their interests. She also enjoys introducing them to new authors, topics, and genres they may have never discovered.

🏀 Favorite Team: UofL
📖 Favorite Book Series: Harry Potter
💜 Favorite Color: Purple
🥤 Favorite Drink: Coke or Cherry Coke

Thank you, Mrs. Cox, for inspiring a love of reading in our students every day!

Overdale: Tonight is our Domino’s Pizza Night at the Hillview location! Skip cooking, and stop in to grab dinner while supporting Overdale’s PTO. Every order helps give back to our school!

Our Lost and Found is full! If your student is missing jackets, water bottles, or other items, please remind them to check this week. Any items not claimed will be donated.

These students have read and logged at least 10 minutes this week for Beanstack. Don't forget to log those Spring Break reading minutes to help us reach our 200,000 minute goal!

Happy Spring Break!

We at Overdale hope you are having a great week off of school. Please do not forget to re-register your returning student or register your kindergarten student for next year. The link to do so is here:

https://www.bullittschools.org/page/online-registration

Only 25% of our families have done this to date. Please take time to do this so we have accurate counts for placing students in classrooms for next year. If you have any questions, email us at oesoffice@bullitt.kyschools.us or call 502-869-6574.

Please join us for Life Beyond Elementary - Helping Students with Autism Succeed After Elementary School! We will meet in the Overdale Media Center on April 14 to hear from five BCPS families on how district and community resources have helped their student succeed beyond elementary school. Program starts at 6 PM.

Way to go, Mustang Readers!

💻BCPS Online Registration (OLR) for the 2026-2027 School Year This is a reminder to complete your students online registration for the upcoming 2026-2027 School Year. Please note a significant update to this year’s OLR process: we will be requiring all registering existing families to upload a current Photo ID/Driver's License of Parent/Guardian with their current address and 2 proofs of residency. This is a necessary step to ensure the accuracy of our enrollment records and to ensure we have updated addresses for all our families. Below you will find a list of acceptable documents: 🪪 Current Photo ID/Driver’s License 📋2 - Proofs of Residency: ✔️Authentic home builder contract with approved district transfer, lease, closing statement, or other home dwelling document. ✔️Utility bill: Current electricity, gas or water bill with current address ✔️Current employee check stub with current address ✔️Current vehicle registration that matches the driver’s license submitted ✔️Government agency correspondence with current address ✔️Voter registration card If you have questions or need help with registration, please reach out by calling the OLR Hotline at 502-869-6574 or the OES main office line at 502-869-2800. Thank you for your assistance as we prepare for the 2026-2027 school year.

Officer Priddy and Vader were our Mystery Readers today! We enjoyed listening to their book about Vader and hanging out with them this morning! 🐾📚

Third grade have been interpreting data from fossils to provide evidence of organisms and environments long ago.  Today, students in Mrs. Scott’s class learned how fossil dinosaur tracks reveal how quickly they can run.  Students raced against dinosaurs their size.  Be sure to ask your child if they were able to outrun a dinosaur.

Our April Beanstack reading challenge...read and log 300 minutes and be entered to win a gift card to our May BOGO book fair!

Way to go, Mustang Readers!

Who says it isn’t fun to practice our trick words?