Harlan Elementary School

🎉 Congratulations to our Kindergarten Students of the Month! 🌟 Keep up the wonderful work! We are so proud of you! 💚🖤🐉

Congratulations to our amazing Kindergarten Students of the Month! 🌟
Keep up the wonderful work! 💚🐉👏

🐾🌿 Day 2 of Red Ribbon Week! 🌿🐾 Students showed off their camo and animal print!💚🖤 #RedRibbonWeek #HES

📚💚 Thank you to all the families who joined us for Family Literacy Night at Harlan Elementary School! We had a wonderful evening filled with reading, fun and family time! 📖✨ Thank you to everyone who stopped by the Book Fair and helped make the night a success! 💚🖤

We kicked off Red Ribbon Week in SUPER style at HES!💥 Our students dressed as superheroes to show they have the power to make healthy choices! 💪⭐ #RedRibbonWeek #Superheroes

🎃👻 REMINDER! TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT! 👻🎃 Join us at Harlan Elementary School for our Halloween Dance! 🧡🖤💚 Tonight, October 27 ⏰ 5:00–7:00 PM 🎟️ Admission: $5 per person 🎶 Come enjoy food, games and dancing! We can’t wait to see everyone! 🎃🕸️

There will be NO Dragons Beyond the Bell at Harlan Elementary School on Monday, October 26, or Tuesday, October 27. 📚 Please join us for Family Literacy Night on Monday, October 26, from 5–7 PM! 🎃👻 Come back on Tuesday, October 27, from 5–7 PM for our Halloween Dance! We look forward to seeing our HES families at these fun events! 💚🖤

📚🎉 BIG THINGS ARE HAPPENING AT HARLAN ELEMENTARY TOMORROW! 💚🖤 Monday, October 26, is going to be an exciting day at HES! 🐉 ❤️ Red Ribbon Week Begins! Kick off the week by dressing as your favorite superhero! 🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️ 📚 The Book Fair Opens! Get ready to explore some amazing books and discover your next favorite read! 💚 Family Literacy Night! Join us from 5:00–7:00 PM for an evening filled with fun games, prizes, and family literacy activities! 📖✨ We can’t wait to kick off this exciting week with our HES students and families! 💚🖤🐉

🇺🇸 Harlan Independent Schools: Honoring Our Veterans! 🇺🇸

Harlan Independent Schools invites all Green Dragon families to help us honor the veterans in their families as part of our upcoming Veterans Day Program on November 11th!

We would love to recognize the brave men and women who have served our country by including their information and photographs in a special video that will be displayed during our district's Veterans Day program.

📸 Do you have a veteran in your family? We invite you to complete the Google Form attached to this post and submit information and a picture of your veteran so we can include them in this special tribute.

📌 Important Reminder: If you have submitted your veteran's information in the past, it will automatically be included in this year's video. There is NO NEED to resubmit!

Let's come together as a Family of Dragons to celebrate, remember, and honor the veterans who have made a difference in our lives and our nation. Thank you for helping us recognize their service and sacrifice!

https://forms.gle/XqRyB2d5FyiVNUhg8

If you have any questions, please email Megan Freyer at HHS: megan.freyer@harlanind.kyschools.us


🇺🇸 Once a Dragon, Always a Dragon! 🇺🇸

🎃👻 Halloween Dance at HES! 🖤💚 Join us for a spooktacular evening of food, games, and dancing! 🎶🕸️ -Tuesday, October 27 -5:00–7:00 PM -$5 per person We can’t wait to see everyone there for some Halloween fun! 🎃🦇

📚🐉 Family Literacy Night at HES! 💚🖤 Join us for an evening of fun literacy activities, games, and prizes for the whole family! Monday, October 26 5:00–7:00 PM Harlan Elementary School We can’t wait to see our Dragon families there! 💚📖

💚🐉 What a weekend for Harlan Cross Country! Our runners traveled to Lynn Camp to get a feel for the regional course ahead of next weekend. Despite brutally cold and windy conditions, these kids persevered and delivered some incredible performances, with multiple runners earning season or personal best times! 👏 Special shoutouts to Lillie Carver for breaking 24 minutes and Cruz Galloway for breaking 20 minutes, both setting new personal bests! Most of our middle school varsity runners also tackled TWO races in one day, with many earning personal bests in BOTH races! Their determination and effort deserve to be celebrated! 🏃 LYNN CAMP PRE-REGIONAL RACE Girls: Harper Carmical - 22:31.03 Lillie Carver - 23:53.82 Cora Jones - 25:03.63 Audree Mills - 26:28.60 Adelyn Burgan - 26:49.38 Josephine Toll - 27:39.16 Gwen Toll - 29:23.72 Boys: Gibson Wilder - 19:52.55 Cruz Galloway - 19:56.74 Carter White - 21:20.42 Mason Raleigh - 23:26.03 Tucker White - 23:44.03 🏆 KTCCCA MEET OF CHAMPIONS Our elementary and middle school runners competed in the CHAMPIONSHIP Division, taking on some of the best runners in Kentucky! Every one of our runners earned a personal best and represented the Harlan Green Dragons with pride! 💚 To be the best, you have to compete against the best, and these Dragons rose to the challenge! 🐉 4TH GRADE & UNDER • 2K CHAMPIONSHIP Girls: Lucy Miller - 9:12.35 Shelby Parsons - 9:13.46 MJ Taylor - 9:14.05 Ellianna Carver - 10:03.96 Ramsi Fields - 10:27.77 Leah Burkhart - 10:59.42 Oakley Moody - 11:26.54 Boys: Emmett Alred - 8:32.58 Tyler White - 8:43.66 Ryder Bailey - 8:55.70 Sherman Ward - 10:06.82 🐉 6TH GRADE & UNDER • 3K CHAMPIONSHIP Girls: Jullianne Miller - 11:51.97 • 23rd place Brooklyn Huff - 12:58.74 Sadie Skidmore - 14:53.22 Boys: Conner Ward - 12:45.26 🐉 MIDDLE SCHOOL • 4K CHAMPIONSHIP Girls: Lillie Carver - 18:55.44 Cora Jones - 19:57.43 Josephine Toll - 21:46.83 Boys: Carter White - 16:59.21 TL Miller - 17:45.43 Canaan Bolton - 19:17.96 Xander Owens - 20:50.54 Tucker White - 20:51.44 We are so proud of the hard work, perseverance, and heart these runners bring to every course. Keep pushing, Dragons! 💚🐉

💚🖤 Thank you to all of our fourth-grade grandparents and families who joined us for Grandparents’ Breakfast at Harlan Elementary School! We loved having you! 🥞🐉

📢 There will be NO Dragons Beyond the Bell (DBBE) at Harlan Elementary School on Monday, October 19, due to an after-school faculty and staff meeting. Thank you for your understanding! 💚🖤

🏈 IT’S GAME DAY, GREEN DRAGONS! 🏈🐉

It’s Friday night football in Harlan! 💚🤍 Tonight, our Harlan Green Dragons take on the Lynn Camp Wildcats under the lights!

🏈 Opponent: Lynn Camp Wildcats
🕢 Kickoff: 7:30 PM
🎉 Senior Night Festivities: 6:00 PM

Before kickoff, we’ll celebrate our outstanding fall senior athletes as Harlan High School honors the seniors who have represented our Green Dragon family with pride, dedication, and hard work. We invite all Green Dragon fans to arrive early, cheer on our seniors, and help us make this a special night!

Let’s pack the stands, wear our Green and White, and show our Dragons what it means to have the support of the entire Harlan community! 💚

🐉 ONE TEAM. ONE FAMILY. GO BIG GREEN! 🐉

#HarlanGreenDragons #DragonPride #FridayNightLights #SeniorNight #GoBigGreen

🐉💚 IT’S SENIOR NIGHT AT HARLAN HIGH SCHOOL! 💚🐉

Tonight, we celebrate the incredible Class of 2027 Green Dragons! 🏈📣⛳🏃‍♂️🎺

Before tonight’s home football game, Harlan High School will recognize our seniors from football, cheerleading, golf, cross country, and marching band, honoring their hard work, dedication, and contributions to the Green Dragon family over the past four years.

📣 Senior Night festivities begin at 6:00 PM!

We invite all Green Dragon families, friends, and fans to come out, show your support, and help us celebrate these outstanding seniors. From the field to the sidelines, the golf course to the cross-country trails, and the marching band, these Dragons have made their mark on Harlan High School, and we are so proud of all they have accomplished!

The Class of 2027 is a special part of our Green Dragon family, and tonight is all about recognizing the memories they've made, the traditions they've carried on, and the legacy they're building. Let's fill the stands with Green and White and make this a night they will never forget!

Once a Dragon, Always a Dragon!

🐉 GO BIG GREEN! 🐉

📸 Thanks to Jon and Heather Photography for the senior portraits.

#SeniorNight #ClassOf2027 #OnceADragonAlwaysADragon #GoBigGreen

🍁🍂 Falling Into Poetry at HES!🍂🍁 Our second graders have been exploring poetry through a fun fall-themed writing activity! Students created acrostic poems using the letters in the word FALL to brainstorm descriptive words and phrases that capture the season. This creative activity helped students strengthen their writing skills, expand their vocabulary, practice using descriptive language, and express their ideas through poetry. Students also decorated their own fall leaves to bring their writing to life! 🧡🍁✏️

🐉💚 Way to Go, Green Dragons! 🎉

The Kentucky Department of Education has released the 2026 Kentucky Summative Assessment (KSA) accountability results, and Harlan Independent School District is proud to report strong academic performances once again!

🏆 Harlan High School received the highest rating of Blue and ranks #24 out of 228 high schools in Kentucky! Harlan Elementary School earned a Green rating, and Harlan Middle School earned a Yellow rating.

👏 We are incredibly proud of our students, teachers, principals, and support staff, whose hard work and dedication have helped Harlan Independent School District achieve outstanding academic results.

The District looks forward to celebrating our amazing KSA results in the weeks to come! 🎉🐉

🍬🎃 Sweet Math Learning! ➕➖ Students had a sweet time practicing addition and subtraction using candy corn! This fun, hands-on activity helped students strengthen their counting skills, build number sense, and solve addition and subtraction problems within 20. By using candy corn as a math manipulative, students were able to model problems, explore different strategies, and develop a deeper understanding of addition and subtraction! 🧡📚

🦸‍♂️❤️ RED RIBBON WEEK AT HES! ❤️🦸‍♀️ Harlan Elementary is celebrating Red Ribbon Week October 26–30! 🎉 Join us for a fun-filled week of dress-up days as we encourage our students to make healthy choices and stay drug free! ❤️ Monday: Dress Like a Hero 🦸‍♂️ 🐾 Tuesday: Camo or Animal Print 💚 Wednesday: Dress Like Your Everyday Hero 💤 Thursday: Pajama Day 🎃 Friday: Halloween Costumes ✨ Be a Hero, Stay Drug Free! ✨