Pleasant Hill Elementary School

Congratulations to Ms. Ariah Gordon, Pleasant Hill's beloved 2nd grade teacher for receiving 2 RAD awards! Rookie Achieving and Developing Awards are given by Mid-Del School District from nominations submitted by staff members. Ms. Gordon has made a profound impression and impact on Pleasant Hill staff, students, and family members. She has served Cardinals for two years, earned a Bachelor's degree from Oklahoma State University, and begins graduate school at the University of Oklahoma this summer! We are honored to have you on our team, Ms. Gordon.

☀️ Free Summer Meals are back for Mid-Del students ages 18 and under! 🍎🥪

Please note: Due to ongoing construction, Midwest City High School will not serve as a Summer Food Service Program site this year.

Families can visit the following locations for free breakfast and lunch this summer:

📍 Midwest City Elementary
🗓 June 1 – June 24 | Monday–Thursday
🍳 Breakfast: 8:30–9:30 AM
🥪 Lunch: 11:15 AM–12:15 PM

📍 Del City High School
🗓 May 27 – June 5 | Closed Saturdays & Sundays
🍳 Breakfast: 8:00–9:00 AM
🥪 Lunch: 12:00–1:00 PM

We’re proud to continue serving our students and families throughout the summer! 💜
#OneDistrictOneFamily #mdpurpose

Congratulations to Midwest City Senior Bombers who are graduating next Friday, May 22nd! It was great to have you here on the Hill, imparting wisdom to the PreK-5th Grade Cardinals!

Pleasant Hill's own - Ms. Darlene Stiggers, cafeteria supervisor, and Alaya Henderson, 3rd grader - volunteered for the Stamp Out Hunger Campaign, promoted and facilitated by the United States Post Office. The campaign requested donations from local citizens to be left at mailboxes, which were picked up by mail carriers the second Saturday in May. Ms. Darlene and Alaya were among many community volunteers generously working with the post office to separate canned goods and non-perishable items that day. The items were then loaded on the truck to supply the Oklahoma Regional Food Bank.

Love for literacy will be available soon via the Forest Park Little Library! Thank you to Carmen McBride with the Forest Park Neighborhood Association and artist Erin Latham, PhD, for facilitating, designing, and providing the opportunity for our Student Council to paint the Little Library box last Friday afternoon. We look forward to years of donating and seeking free books in our neighborhood.

Happy Super Kids Day! Thank you to Shatoya Bryson, community volunteers, Spencer FD, and parents for providing this fun field day for super scholars. Your time, donations, and positive energy made this a beautiful day to be a Cardinal!

Thank you to @AmericanFidelity and @Henderson Family for generously feeding the staff BBQ, fixings, cookies, and drinks! It was the perfect end to a week full of learning and loving Cardinal kids!

Thank you to @Mr. Satterwhite and @Ms. Jacobs for our delectable meal Wednesday in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week. Mr. Satterwhite served up the perfect mid-day reprieve with Cheddar's salad, bread and chicken alfredo while Ms. Jacobs' homemade lemon bars completed the sweet treat. Thank you also to @Henderson Family for the adorable staff gift bags. Your thoughtfulness means so much to us and we are truly humbled by your support and continual encouragement.

Happy Nurses Week 2026! Pleasant Hill honors our nurses - Nurse Julie and Nurse Diane - for your dedication to our school staff and students. You are calm, kind, patient, smart, and hard-working. Thank you for being there when it matters most, meeting the needs of the body and spirit. Ms. Gordon's 2nd grade class shares all the ways you help us.....

Super Kids Day is this Friday, May 8th, on the big playground. Sack lunches from the cafeteria will be provided for students.
PreK-2nd grades will be from 9:15am-12:00pm.
3rd-5th grades will be from 1:15-3:30pm.
Families are welcome to volunteer and/or engage in the festivities with their child. Donations are also beneficial! See the flyers for information.

Finally - for maximum summer reading fun and freebies, check out Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Journal Program:

From July 1st-August 31st, grades 1-6 can participate. Read 8 books total (get a sticker from the store after every 2 books read) and fill out the journal. Students then earn a free book from the list. No purchase required to participate.

https://dispatch.barnesandnoble.com/content/dam/ccr/bnstores/books/pdfs/2026/2026-Summer-Reading-BN-Journal-eng.pdf

Check out another summer reading program from Pizza Hut!

SUMMER OF STORIES IS BACK! 📚🍕

Enrollment opened May 1st—get ready to turn reading time into pizza time! 🎉
This summer, keep your kids’ reading, learning, and loving books… all while earning FREE pizza. 🙌

📱 Join through the BOOK IT! App (Summer program only available through App)
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 For parents with kids in pre-K – 6th grade (you will need to enroll each child in the App)
📅 Program runs June 1st – August 31st

Summer Reading Fun is Here! Check out many metro-area options for Summer 2026. First you may want to.......

📚☀️ Join the Summer Reading Challenge with the Metropolitan Library System!

Students can log their reading from June 1–July 31 and earn prizes just for reading! Read a total of 600 minutes (just 20 minutes a day) to receive a completion prize and be entered into prize drawings. The more you read, the more chances you have to win!
Families can track reading through the Beanstack app or online at https://www.metrolibrary.org/summerreading. Paper reading logs are also available at your local library.

Happy reading this summer! 📖✨

Ms. Gordon is proud to present the 2nd Grade Spelling Bee winner - Janori Johns. Janori won after 7 rounds with various classmates. He stunned the class with a confident and determined spelling of the word "beautiful." It's a BEE-utiful day to win the spelling bee. The study list was quite extensive and worthy of many buzzing praises to Janori Johns for taking the time and dedication to prepare as best he could. Way to go, 2nd grade, for studying your irregular and regular spelling pattern words! Go BEE Awesome!!!

We are so proud of Ms. Morris for earning yet another prestigious grant this year! On April 15th, she was awarded a grant for class set of ukuleles by the Junior Service League of Midwest City. She is always going above and beyond for Pleasant Hill and its students to curate diverse culture and multisensory experiences.

Ms. Holloway's Kindergarten class has been hard at work creating and presenting their Roar, Explore, and Learn More Kindergarten Adventures. Each student chose an animal - land or sea - to research, uncovering their habitats, food patterns, and behaviors. These savvy kindergarteners designed a poster to demonstrate their learning in order to pass it on to their classmates. Ms. Holloway set aside days for one set of students to present in rotations, so classmates moved from a presentation center to another for approximately 7-8 minutes each.
Additionally, students learned to introduce themselves, their project, and how to thank and shake hands with their audience at the conclusion.

We’re excited to expand opportunities for our youngest learners! 🎉

Mid-Del Schools is proud to offer the Mid-Del Virtual Academy (MDVA) for grades Kindergarten–5th for the 2026–2027 school year!

This full-time online learning option provides:
✔️ Live instruction from certified teachers
✔️ Learning from home with structured support
✔️ A connection to Mid-Del Schools every step of the way

If you’re interested in enrolling your child, families will need to complete the enrollment process to access the MDVA elementary application.

Learn more and get started today: https://www.mid-del.net/o/district/page/helpful-information-for-mdva-families

#ChooseMidDel #OneDistrictOneFamily #MDVA #mdpurpose

Our Cardinal Crew is droppin' beats for the 5th graders taking their Science State Test this Thursday and Friday -April 23rd & 24th. Be steady and ready, fabulous 5th graders! Do your best and forget the rest!

The whole school is rooting for 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders taking the Math State Test, Sections 1 & 2, this Tuesday, April 21st, and Wednesday, April 22nd! Let's bust a move and find your problem-solving groove!!