Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours, from Mighty Oak Academy to Porkland and St C's Tees and everyone that makes up Love City we're thankful for you! Looking forward to what this next year has in store! 

We finished out our last full week before Thanksgiving break.  Next week we'll only be in school for two days.  Our Kindergarten class has developed a tradition of birthday parades, and this week was Kalen's birthday.  The class goes on a tour of the whole school visiting each class on their birthday parade, so all the other students get to join in and celebrate! 

This week we held our first all school family meeting.  The Family Meeting pairs our older students with our younger students to foster relationship and bonding throughout the school.  Our middle schoolers and 4th and 5th grade class were paired with our kindergartners, and 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders.  This family meeting was just to have them get to know each other.  We'll be having family meetings about twice a month and will encourage the students to get to know each other better and and we'll give them small projects to work on together to foster collaboration across grades. Bellarmine also continues to come once a week to teach physical fitness to our students, this week they worked on proper stretching techniques. 

Last weekend was our Fall Festival! it was awesome to be able to hold this event again.  In addition to our neighbors, all of our families from Mighty Oak Academy came to the festival and a special thank you to all our parents that volunteered to help make the festival a success!  This week at Mighty Oak Academy, our middle schoolers presented their fashion business ideas to our "sharks"! We were impressed with their ideas and creativity ! 

This week our Kindergarten class took a trip to Hubers Educational Farm, they got to pick their own pumpkins, ride a tractor, and have lunch in the pavilion! 

St C's Tees has some new styles now available at Porkland!  We have T-shirts and sweatshirts with Portland and the Portland anchor.  Stop by today, grab some fish for dinner and pick up a new sweatshirt! 

This week our 2nd and 3rd graders took a field trip to the main branch of the Louisville Public Library.  They signed up for library cards, took in an exhibit about 9/11, learned about film making and checked out their first books.  

This week our middle schoolers took a field trip to the main branch of the Louisville Public Library.  They signed up for library cards, took in an exhibit about 9/11 and checked out their first books.  Our Kindergarteners also celebrated one of their birthdays with a birthday parade to all the classrooms in the school.  Each class sang happy birthday to our birthday boy, Sonny'Ray! 

This week we are back from fall break and diving in to our 2nd six weeks curriculum! Students are learning fundamental skills in reading, writing and math, to get ready for the next phase of the curriculum which is project based learning.  With Project Based Learning students cover multiple subjects within a single project and learn critical thinking, collaboration and communication skills. 

We had a short week this week at Mighty Oak Academy.  With only three days in school our students were looking forward to fall break and a four day weekend.  On Tuesday night we hosted our first parent night of the semester.  Parents came and learned what their students have been learning for the first six weeks and got a preview of what we will be focusing on the next six weeks.  Students also got a chance to show off their work! 

We completed our first 6 weeks of school! The students made thank you cards and brought them over to Porkland to say thank you for making their lunches, it was an awesome time of community as the school and Porkland came together.  We also welcomed USA Tennis for our first after school program.  15 of our elementary school students participated in the program and we're excited to have USA Tennis with us for the next 10 weeks. 

This week we continued to focus on our 1st 6 weeks curriculum, building powerpoint presentations about who we are and what we like, speaking positive affirmations to ourselves and learning how to related to each other through projects.  Week five is in the books! and we're looking forward to week 6! 

This week we took advantage of the cooler weather to spend some time outdoors.  Bellarmine continued their  health and physical education program on Wednesday.  Our middle school students worked on learning about school family and our kindergartners worked on counting.  Next week we will be in week 5 of our social emotional learning curriculum. 

This week we welcomed Bellarmine University Athletic Training Masters Program to Might Oak Academy.  This is a continuation of a partnership we started last year where Bellarmine came to teach P.E.  Bellarmine will be here every Wednesday throughout the semester teaching physical fitness and health components in our P.E. classes.  We also continued our social emotional learning focusing on noticing, unity and encouragement.  

We completed our second week of school, and dived into our social emotional learning curriculum.  The first six weeks of school are spent learning how to regulate ourselves and then how to relate to others.  Below is an outline of our curriculum topics for the first six weeks. 

It was the first week of school for our 2021 - 2022 school year!  We welcomed all our students to school on Monday morning and had an awesome week of getting to know each other. We had morning assemblies, classroom learning activities and yummy lunches! Check out the video below of a recap of our first week of school!

We continued to prepare this week for the start of school.  With School starting on Monday August 16, the whole team came together to clean, organize and prepare the entire building for school. When school opens on Monday morning our students will be greeted by brand new classrooms and an inspiring creative learning environment.  We can't wait to start! 

Summer camps have officially come to a close for 2021.  We loved spending the summer with all of our kids! and we hope they had a blast too! This week we jumped in feet first to preparation for the new school year to start in one week!  Our teachers and school staff had a full week of training and are eager to get to work next week, preparing their classrooms and getting ready for the new school year! 

This past week was football camp!  Even though it was the hottest week of the year so far, we still came out to the park every morning for our football workout! We played football in the morning and then headed back to the Mackin in the afternoon for lunch, arts and crafts and a movie. Special thanks to the Nick Rodman Foundation for coordinating and running the camp and to the LMPD officers that came out to coach!  It was an awesome week! 

So what are the pillars of Mighty Oak Academy? Our approach to education is not just about academics, but also about all aspects of growing up to be life long learners and global citizens.  Our pillars are the foundation for our approach to education.  In order to learn children need all five pillars, not just one.

So what does it mean to equip the saints to do the work?  And who are the saints? The saints are the people who live in the community, who have been there for generations or have decided to make the community their home.  It's these saints that are tasked with building their community.  All the programs and activities are designed to build up the