Horace Mann Elementary School News

Having fun on a beautiful day!

Horace Mann students enjoyed a Bounce House and Bounce Slide for meeting their PBIS goa...

Avan shares his cookie with his stuffy!

Celebrating Success!

April 10, 2023

Mrs. Ebert's Kindergarten class had a pizza and cookie party to celebrate meeting t...

Anna, Evee, Mia and Ruby enjoyed the activities!

The Kindergarten and First Grade classes created obstacle courses as a team for other g...

Kids reading Dr. Suess books.

Dr. Suess Day

March 7, 2023

Fifth Graders still enjoy the rhyming rhythm of the many Dr. Suess books.   ...

Book Bowl Team Competes!

February 24, 2023

The 5th Grade "Barking Bulldogs" competed in the annual Book Bowl held at OHS...

Nicolai chose to dress like Nurse Kim and posed with his teacher Mrs. Ebert too!

Because of snow days, we postponed two Spirit Week days to this week. Jacoby ch...

100 Days of School!

January 31, 2023

Kindergarten is always excited to celebrate the 100th day of school. Learning to count ...

Mrs. Weilbrenner's class

Fifth Grade Fashion Show

January 23, 2023

The fashion show is a fun way for students to practice using adjectives to describ...

Student get ready for the start of the movie.

Movie is School Wide Reward

December 19, 2022

Horace Mann received a "Commendable" rating on the Iowa School Performance Pr...

Fifth graders show off their hard work!

Holidays Around the World

December 19, 2022

Mrs. Weilbrenner's class gathered for a photo after their "Holidays Around the...

Drake and Isaac won the Poster Contest.  Congratulations!

D.A.R.E. Graduation

December 5, 2022

The D.A.R.E. program (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is part of the 5th grade curricu...

Luna and Nazario are all smiles as the contest begins. Nazario went on to finish first!

Pie Eating Contest

November 28, 2022

The Pie Eating Contest was the all school reward for earning Bulldog Bucks during the m...

Meeting an adoptable puppy!

Horace Mann students collected donations for Heartland Humane this month.  As a th...

"Hike the Hills"

November 1, 2022

It was a beautiful day to "hike"! The students earned the all school reward o...

Pioneer Ridge in the classroom.

Pioneer Comes to Horace Mann

October 14, 2022

Fourth grade learned about endangered species and first grade learned about bats.

Horace Mann students wore out the bulldog with cheering, music and fun for our DJ lunch...

Curious science students.

Fourth Grade Science

October 4, 2022

Mrs. Ingle’s Fourth Grade students are studying live animals for science: mealwor...

Fifth Grade Day of Service

September 16, 2022

It was a beautiful day to tidy up the park! Great job to Mrs. Weilbrenner's and Mrs...

Kids playing on new playground equipment.

New Playground is Open!

September 14, 2022

The students are loving the newly installed playground equipment.  Families are we...

Natnael makes progress learning English through games.

Learning the Language

September 13, 2022

Ottumwa Schools support our students who are just learning the English language.  ...

The new school year brings new friendships as Davina and Yonatan are finding out.

New Friendships

August 31, 2022

Precieuse and Ness share their friendship artwork.  

New Playground Equipment!

August 26, 2022

Students love the newly installed playground equipment at Horace Mann!  Look for m...

Back-to-School Night!

August 18, 2022

Thursday, August 18th from 4:30-6:00 p.m. at Horace Mann! Please come to meet your t...

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Pioneeer Ridge is offering activities for children ages four to 13. Camps range in cost...

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CAMP UPDATE FROM COACH THOMAS AND COACH VANDENBERG: The Ottumwa girls basketball and...