Purcell Intermediate School

That's a wrap on week three! In Miss Windham's class, her students learned their content in the form of playing and team collaboration! ✨ 🗼After mastering place value and base 10 form, they held a base 10 tower competition. They could only use a certain number to create the tallest tower and the tallest was 51 inches! 🧑‍🍳Her students also worked on sequencing, communication skills, listening, and team work by modeling a pizza restaurant. There was a customer, a server, a chef, and two supply managers in each group. They made tasty-looking pizzas! 🍕

🇺🇸 Happy Labor Day, Dragons! 🇺🇸

A reminder to our Purcell Public Schools families that school will be closed Monday, September 7th, in observance of Labor Day.

We hope all of you enjoy a safe and relaxing long weekend!

School will resume on Tuesday, September 8th.

🐉 Go Dragons! 🐉

A little creativity + a lot of teamwork = some pretty awesome 5th grade engineering! 🌸🏗️ Yesterday, Mrs. Piazza's class made aluminum flowers, and today they put their problem-solving skills to work with toothpick towers!

Third grade fun never stops!! 🤩 Mrs. Davis' class models their teamwork skills and sportsmanship through many group challenges: 🪱🛟 Saving Fred 🎈"Keepy Uppy" With Balloons 🎲Place Value Rolling Go team!! 🐉💗

Week 1 of school is officially completed! Fun has continued, curriculum has started, and classroom community has been strengthened! ✨💗 Third grade has been learning place value in math and main idea in reading. Miss Windham's class tied in hands-on projects, social emotional lessons, and fun science activities! 🛍️Main Idea Bags 🌋Pointed vs. Shield Volcanoes 🧪Lava Lamps ➕Place Value Volcanoes 📚"My Mouth is a Volcano!", "We Don't Eat Our Classmates!" 🗣️ Discussions on Interrupting/Blurting, Boundaries, and Kindness

Ms. Greenlee's third grade class has been working on their communication skills by solving puzzles! 🧩 They are challenged to solve the puzzles with and without all members talking and/or touching the puzzle pieces. Talk about teamwork!! ✨🐉

🥦🐔🎮 PE FUN DAY! 🎮🐔🥦 We packed a LOT of learning, movement, and FUN into PE on Friday! 🙌 🍎 Go, Slow & Whoa Foods! We learned how to make healthy choices by sorting foods into three categories: 💚 GO Foods – healthy choices with little or no added sugar, saturated fat, or salt. 💛 SLOW Foods – sometimes foods that we can enjoy in moderation. ❤️ WHOA Foods – foods that tend to have the most added sugar, added salt, and saturated fat. Then we took the learning to the gym! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ 🐔 Super Chicken – An interactive RPS (Rock, Paper, Scissors) game where students battle their way through levels to become IMMORTAL! 👑 Once they reach the top, they climb onto the bench and show us their BEST immortal pose! 😂💪 🍄 YOSHI! – One of our invasion-game favorites! Students worked on movement, strategy, teamwork, spatial awareness, and having FUN while competing. 🎮🔥 🏈❤️ And we LOVE seeing our Purcell Dragon spirit showing up in PE! So many students came dressed up and ready to cheer on our Dragons for the season opener football game! 🐉🏈 We’re loving the school spirit! Learning, moving, laughing, and cheering on our Dragons… THAT’S A GREAT DAY IN PE! ❤️🖤🐉 #PurcellDragons #PEFun #GoSlowWhoa #HealthyChoices #SuperChicken #Yoshi #DragonPride #SchoolSpirit #MoveLearnGrow

Show us your dragon pride tomorrow by wearing your best Purcell gear!!! It's our first Friday back to school as well as the first home football game of the season. GO DRAGONS!!! 🏈

🐉 Congratulations, Principal Swayze! 🐉 

Please join us for our Safe and Healthy Fit Committee Meeting.

🔥 Team Building + Gaga Ball Fun! 🔥 We are continuing to team build, learn procedures, and learn our Gaga Ball expectations! 🐉❤️ We’ve also been getting active with OPEN games while learning important academic vocabulary like growth mindset, cooperation, and shared space. 🧠🤝 We’re learning, moving, communicating, and having FUN while becoming a stronger PE team! 💪🏽🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ #PurcellDragons #PEFun #TeamBuilding #GrowthMindset #Cooperation #GagaBall #OPENPE

We have amazing third graders!! 🤩 This group of friends chose to spend their ENTIRE recess cleaning the front of our school and fence line. Way to go!!! 🌎🚮🌳

Mrs. Jones’ homeroom had a great first couple of days in science! They jumped right in with STEM Bins—building, creating, working together, and having a little fun along the way. A great way to start the year!

What better way to start the school year than by laughing, eating, and having fun!! 🤩 In Miss Windham's third grade class, there has been a lot of team building, communication learning, and procedure practicing! 🎈❤️Balloon challenges- using only pointer fingers, using only one hand, using only one hand and one leg, and staying seated while only using their pointer fingers to pass the balloon. ✨🧱STEM fun! 🪱🛟 Saving Fred the Gummy Worm- keeping him dry, securing him in a life raft, successfully building a carrier for him to zipline, and providing him with shelter during a storm!

🎉 BACK TO SCHOOL IN PE! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ We had a GREAT first two days in PE! ❤️🖤 This week, we learned our expectations and procedures while having a LOT of fun! We jumped right in with games like Head, Shoulders, Knees, Color; Jack in the Box; Jack In, Jack Out; In the River, On the Bank; and the Crazy Card Challenge! 🃏 Through all the fun, our Dragons were working on listening, reaction time, cooperation, communication, teamwork, and—most importantly—getting to know each other! 🐉 What a fantastic start to the school year! We can’t wait to see what this year brings! Let’s GO, Dragons! ❤️🖤 #BackToSchool #PurcellDragons #PE #PhysicalEducation #Teamwork #DragonPride

✨ What’s Happening in Mrs. Ambrose’s 3rd Grade Class✨ We’ve had such a fun start to the school year! ❤️🖤 Our first days have been all about getting to know each other, building our classroom community, and learning how to be successful 3rd graders! 🎶 "Find Someone Who" with music 🤝 Practicing classroom procedures 🧩 Exploring our STEM bins 🍎 Completing our Saving Fred STEM challenge We are learning, laughing, working together, and having a GREAT start to 3rd grade! 📚✨

Thank you to Landmark Church for treating our teachers to delicious donuts! 🍩❤️ We are so blessed to have a community that loves, supports, and encourages our teachers! Thank you for making our day a little sweeter! 🐉🍩 #PurcellDragons #ThankYou #CommunitySupport

🦷❤️ A HUGE thank you to Oklahoma Family Dentistry for the sweetest teacher basket, packed full of supplies and goodies every teacher needs to start the school year off right! 🍎✏️ We are so blessed to have a community that loves, appreciates, and supports our teachers! Your kindness means so much to our Purcell family! ❤️🖤🐉 Thank you for helping us kick off the school year with a little extra joy! 🎉

☕️🍎 A Sweet Welcome Back! 🍎☕️ A huge THANK YOU to our amazing cafeteria staff for welcoming us back for Day 2 of in-service with homemade apple muffins and iced coffee! 🧁💙 We are so grateful for the thoughtful way you take care of our staff! We’re ready for a great day as we prepare to welcome our students back and meet their teachers tonight! 🐉❤️ #PurcellDragons #BackToSchool #InService #ThankYou

We’re honored to be recognized as one of @healthiergeneration's 2026 #HealthiestSchools! This achievement reflects our commitment to creating a healthy, supportive environment for every student, staff member, and family. See the full list at healthiestschools.org!