Harlan Elementary School

🔢✨ Math Fun in Mrs. Howard’s Kindergarten Class! ✨🔢 Today, our kindergarten mathematicians explored the pattern of 1 more in the forward counting sequence! Students used visual models and counting strategies to discover that as we count forward, each number is 1 more than the number before it. We practiced counting from 1 to 10, looked for patterns, and shared what we noticed and heard along the way. Our little learners are becoming such great mathematicians! 💕📚🔢 Way to go, Mrs. Howard’s Kindergarten Class! 🌸✨

📚🔥 The Literati Book Fair is coming to Harlan Elementary! 🔥📚 Get ready to cozy up with a good book! Our campfire-themed Book Fair will be October 26–30. Students will have the opportunity to shop for new books and discover exciting new stories throughout the week! 📖✨ 🌲 Family Night: Monday, October 26 ⏰ 5:00–7:00 PM Families are invited to come shop the Book Fair together! We can’t wait to fill those bookshelves and get our Dragons reading, dreaming, and discovering! 🐉💚📚

📣💚 CALLING ALL FUTURE GREEN DRAGON CHEERLEADERS! 💚📣

Harlan High School Cheer is excited to host a Cheer Camp this Saturday for girls in K4 through 7th Grade! 🐉📣

This is the perfect opportunity for our youngest Green Dragons to learn some new cheers, practice their skills, make new friends, and most importantly—HAVE FUN! 💚🤍

✨ WHO: Girls in K4–7th Grade
📅 WHEN: This Saturday, October 10th
📍 WHERE: Harlan High School

Bring your Green Dragon spirit and get ready to cheer, dance, and have a GREAT time! We can't wait to see all of our future Harlan High School cheerleaders! 🐉💚

LET'S GO, BIG GREEN! 📣💚🤍

💚🐉 Good luck to our Harlan Elementary and Middle School cross country teams as they compete in the Regional Championship today at Lynn Camp! Run hard and represent Harlan with pride. We’re cheering for you every step of the way! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

💚🐉 A special thank you to all of the wonderful grandparents and families who joined us for Grandparents Breakfast at HES for our 3rd graders! Thank you for starting your morning with us! 💚

🔔 REMINDER! 🔔 There will be NO Dragons Beyond the Bell (DBBE) at Harlan Elementary School on Thursday, October 1st! 🐉💚

🇺🇸🐉 HHS Alumni Spotlight: Staff Sergeant Shea Moody We would like to recognize 2005 HHS graduate Staff Sergeant Shea Moody! A former Green Dragon football and baseball player, Moody was named the 2026 Kentucky National Guardsman of the Year through the Best Warrior Competition. Moody served in the United States Marine Corps from 2009–2013 as a Low Altitude Air Defense Gunner. He later owned a CrossFit gym in Corbin before joining the Army National Guard in 2019. He is currently deployed with the Mountain Warriors of the 1st Battalion, 149th Infantry Regiment. He calls Corbin home alongside his wife, Amber, a second-grade teacher, and their children, Baylor, Piper, and Campbell. Congratulations on this outstanding honor, Staff Sergeant Moody! Thank you for your service and for representing HHS with pride and valor. 💚

Our second grade students loved celebrating Grandparents’ Breakfast with their grandparents and families at Harlan Elementary! 💚🐉 Thank you to everyone who joined us for a wonderful morning! We loved having you at HES! 🥞☕

Our Harlan runners had a great weekend at the Cougar Prowl Invitational! Several runners posted season best times, and Gibson Wilder broke 20 minutes for the first time with a time of 19:29.82. Every varsity boy finished in under 23 minutes, and both middle school teams placed third! 💚🖤 Middle School Girls 3K, 3rd place Brooklyn Huff: 14:40.76 MJ Taylor: 15:08.33 Emily Turner: 15:23.75 Elianna Carver: 15:43.11 Sadie Skidmore: 16:53.47 Middle School Boys 3K, 3rd place Trenton Turner: 12:52.47 Aiden Browning: 13:21.18 Ben Toll: 13:24.31 Emmett Alred: 14:10.58 Canaan Bolton: 14:32.58 Varsity Girls Harper Carmical: 21:59.73, 13th place Lillie Carver: 24:42.65 Audree Mills: 25:57.86 Josephine Toll: 28:53.12 Gwen Toll: 30:15.29 Adelynn Turner: 31:06.72 Varsity Boys Gibson Wilder: 19:29.82 Cruz Galloway: 20:33.12 Dalton Halcomb: 20:56.86 Carter White: 21:14.25 Mason Raleigh: 22:17.94 Tucker White: 22:28.60 TL Miller: 22:34.64 Great job, runners!

🤠💚 Saddle up for Mamas & Cowboys at Harlan Elementary! Join us Thursday, October 1 from 5:00–7:00 PM for a fun-filled mother/son evening with games, food, pictures, and lots of memories! 🐉💚 Forms and payment are due Monday, September 28th!

🏈🖤 TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT! 🖤🏈

It’s Football Homecoming at Harlan High School, and the Green Dragons are ready for the Battle of 119! 🐉🔥

The Harlan Green Dragons take on the Pineville Mountain Lions tonight, and we want to see the entire Green Dragon Family in the stands!

🖤 TONIGHT’S THEME: BLACKOUT! 🖤
👑 Homecoming Begins: 5:45 PM
🏈 Kickoff: 7:30 PM
📍 Joe Gilly Field

Come early for Homecoming, wear your BLACK, and bring your loudest Dragon pride! Let’s fill Joe Gilly Field and make it a night to remember!

🐉💚 GO BIG GREEN! 💚🐉

📸 Thanks to junior Carson Osborne for another game day graphic!

🏈🖤 IT’S HOMECOMING! 🖤🏈

The wait is almost over! Tomorrow night, the Harlan Green Dragons take on the Pineville Mountain Lions in the Battle of 119!

And it’s not just any Friday night… IT’S HOMECOMING! 👑💚

🖤 TOMORROW NIGHT’S THEME: BLACKOUT! 🖤

Dragon fans, we need you to pack the stands, wear your BLACK, and bring the energy as we celebrate Homecoming and cheer on our Green Dragons!

👑 Homecoming Ceremony: 5:45 PM
🏈 Kickoff: 7:30 PM
📍 Joe Gilly Field
🔥 Harlan vs. Pineville — Battle of 119
🖤 BLACKOUT THEME

Come early for Homecoming, stay for the game, and help us make Joe Gilly Field LOUD! 📣

📸 Thanks to HHS junior Carson Osborne for the gameday graphic!

LET’S GO, DRAGONS! 🐉💚🖤
#GoBigGreen #HOCO2026 #BattleOf119

First Grade Career Day! 💼✨ Our first grade students had a wonderful time learning about different careers from people throughout our community! We are so thankful to everyone who took the time to visit Harlan Elementary and share their careers and experiences with our students. 💚🐉 Thank you for helping inspire our future! 🌟

Thank you to our Dragon Disciples and everyone who joined us for Meet Me at the Pole at Harlan Elementary! We are grateful to everyone who came together to pray for our school, students, staff, and community. 💚🙏🐉

Harlan Elementary students and families had a great time participating in the STEAM Tower Tumbler Lesson and the Family Mosaic Dragon Wing Build with Brick Mobile! 🐉 These hands-on activities gave students and families the opportunity to be creative, work together, and use their problem-solving and STEAM skills. A special thank you to PRI FSCS SSU and Barbara Ledford for helping make these wonderful learning opportunities possible for our students and families! 💚

Join us this Wednesday for Meet Me at the Pole! 🙏💚 Dragon Disciples will be participating at 7:25 AM in front of Harlan Elementary School as we come together to pray for our school, our students, our teachers, and our community. We hope to see you there! 💚🐉

📚 Special Guest Alert! 📚 Today, Mr. Noe’s class had a wonderful visit from Mrs. Elizabeth from the public library! Since the students have been reading the story At The Library this week, having Mrs. Elizabeth stop by was the perfect way to see the book come to life. She chatted with the class about what she does as a librarian, answered all of their curious questions, and even treated them to a few fun stories. A big thank you to Mrs. Elizabeth and the Harlan public library for taking the time to inspire these young readers! ❤️📖

🍳💚 First Grade Grandparents’ Breakfast! 💚🍳 We loved welcoming our first grade grandparents and families to HES for a special breakfast! Thank you for joining us and making wonderful memories with our students. 🐉💚

🔢✨ Place Value Fun in Mrs. Estep’s Class! ✨🔢 Mrs. Estep’s class started learning about place value! Students used bundling sticks to see how 10 ones make 1 ten, 10 tens make 1 hundred, and 10 hundreds make 1 thousand. What a fun, hands-on way to build an understanding of place value! 💯📚

Good luck to our Harlan Green Dragons Cross Country team as they compete in Lee County, Virginia, this morning! Run strong and make Harlan proud! 🐉💚🏃