Connect-Dec. 23

Dec. 23, 2025

In the days leading up to winter break, many schools hosted fun events to bring school communities together and to celebrate the many winter holidays.

Osseo Area Schools uses EduTrakConnect to add money to a student’s lunch account, register for athletics and other school activities, and pay fines and fees. The EduTrakConnect portal will update to a new version Dec 23. This update brings a new look and improved features to more easily manage accounts.

Dr. Hiel met with two students from Osseo Middle School recently to go over some fun "this or that" scenarios before winter break!

Osseo Area Schools early childhood programs will host two free Virtual Preschool Information Sessions on Jan. 8 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. and Jan. 13 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. for parents/caregivers exploring school year 2026-27 preschool or prekindergarten options for their child who will be 3 or 4 on or before Sept. 1, 2026.

Shannon Burton from the Maple Grove Fire Department came to visit Oak View Elementary School fourth grade students Dec. 18, and he surprised the school’s winners of this year’s fire safety poster contest. Find out more about the fire safety poster contest.

Students at Osseo Middle School (OMS) worked with American Indian Education Culture and Language Specialist Jill Lindl to learn about how in many Indigenous cultures, including Ojibwe and Dakota, blankets are given to honor someone so that they may feel the collective warmth and embrace of their family, friends and community.

Students at OMS worked together to make fourteen fleece tie blankets that were donated to a shelter that serves the indigenous community, so that the unsheltered relatives may feel the warmth and embrace of their Native community at OMS.

• Dec. 24-Jan. 2: No school, winter break
• Jan. 6: School board organizational meeting and work session
• Jan. 8: Virtual Preschool information session
• Jan. 13: Virtual Preschool information session
• Jan. 14: Preschool for Threes, Preschool for Three to Fives, Prekindergarten for Fours and Four Star Express registration opens at 9 a.m.
• Jan. 15: Deadline for Tuition Free Prekindergarten priority application window for non-magnet schools
• Jan. 16: Student asynchronous (remote) learning day, licensed staff instructional planning
• Jan. 19: No school, holiday
• Jan. 20: School board regular business meeting