Helman Elementary School

🍎 Behind every great school is a principal who cares deeply about their students, staff, and community.

For Principal Appreciation Month, we're celebrating our wonderful principals who help make Ashland School District a special place to learn, grow, and belong. Each brings their own personality, perspective, and leadership to their school—and we're grateful for all they do!

🎨 🍎 Kindergarteners and 1st graders created an apple art project collage that featured five art techniques: 🍎 🎨

1. Tracing
2. Cutting and gluing ✂️
3. Painting with primary colors (blue, red, yellow) to achieve new colors 🔵 🔴 🟡
4. Adding value (how to make things lighter or darker) 🎨
5. Composition (how to put work together to achieve desired outcome) 🖼️

We learned about appropriate use and care for the following art tools:

Sharpie
Paint brush
Paint palette
Scissors
Glue stick

The following vocabulary was introduced:

Vertical
Horizontal
Primary colors
Secondary colors

Students love being able to create art, and the results look beautiful on the school walls!

🐉 A sweet ending to a beautiful evening at Helman!

Helman Dragons wrapped up this year’s Open House with refreshing popsicles, playground fun, and time to connect with friends!

Throughout the evening, families visited classrooms, connected with teachers, and explored the student work on display throughout the buildings. It was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate student learning, strengthen connections, and welcome families into our school community.

🔢 Math Learning in Action! 🔢

Kindergarteners and first graders in Ms. Tia’s class are exploring patterns that grow and build—using their hands, their ideas, and lots of mathematical thinking!

Hands-on learning at its best!

🐟 Science Comes to Life at Salmon Watch! 🌊

Our 2nd and 3rd graders spent a day at McGregor Park learning about salmon and the health of our local rivers—and they got to be scientists along the way!

Students:
🔬 Examined salmon anatomy and learned what each part does
💧 Tested water quality, including dissolved oxygen and temperature
🦋 Waded into the creek with D-nets to collect macroinvertebrates
🔎 Used identification keys to investigate what they found

Through hands-on investigation, students learned how the creatures living in a river can tell us about its health—and what salmon need to survive.

Nothing beats learning science in the river itself! 💦🐟

⚽️ ✨ Helman night at AHS! ✨ ⚽️

Ashland High School Girls Soccer team welcomed Helman students, staff and families to cheer them on at their game against Roseburg this past Tuesday evening! Good times were shared and the half time show even included Helman Dragons. It was a great night to be a Grizzly OR a dragon!

Hoedown Community Dinner

Join us for our Back-to-School “Hoedown” Community Dinner!

Come connect with other families, enjoy food and sweets, and kick off the year together.

📍 Playground
🕒 Friday, September 25, 5:30-7pm
🍽️ Burgers, hot dogs, and bake sale

We’ll also have the fun cupcake shake and a chance to learn more about PTA. We look forward to seeing you!

It's Helman Day at the AHS Girls' Soccer Game - Tuesday, Sep 22 at 6:30

https://youtube.com/shorts/6JPK1PUFwmY?si=jmn2oormCXvRRLx4

Click on the link to get information about the game!

🐉 Helman Dragons are back in school! 🐉

Yesterday was a fun and fast-paced first day! Students brought in their school supplies, jumped into first-day games, and wrapped up the day with our traditional family picnic on the lawn.

Our Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent also stopped by campus to visit with students and staff—and even took a quick moment to pose with our awesome principal, Susan Hollandsworth!

Let's make it a spectacular school year -- It’s a great day to be a Dragon! ❤️🐉

Welcome Back to School!

The classrooms are ready, the teachers prepared,
The schools have been spruced up with updates to share.
The buses are rolling—we can't wait to greet you,
A new year begins...who knows what adventures will meet you!

Sports and back-to-school events are in full swing...it's that magical time—the start of another school year!

We are so excited to welcome everyone to the start of the 2026–27 school year. Here's to new friendships, new challenges, new discoveries, and endless possibilities.

It's a great day to be an Ashland student!

Summer Learning in Action!

We are two-thirds of the way through our summer learning program, and students have had the opportunity to practice homesteading, make pasta, learn lacrosse, try yoga and engage in many other fun activities!

We are grateful to the teachers and staff who have made this program possible, and especially to our students for bringing their curiosity, energy and enthusiasm each day!

#SummerLearning #AshlandSchools #Hands-On Learning

AHS Culinary Program students were awarded 1st and 2nd place at the inaugural Southern Oregon Kitchen Klash!!!

https://ashland.news/ashland-teams-savor-1st-and-2nd-place-at-inaugural-southern-oregon-kitchen-klash-at-phoenix-high-school/