Oak Hills Newsletter
January 12, 2018
Assistant Principal's Message
Dear Oak Hills Families,
We are beginning to hit our stride coming back from winter break here at school. We hope your family is settling back into the school routine as well.
I am thrilled one of my favorite days of the month is coming up on January 23rd. It is when Ms. Baumgardner and I get to invite students to come and share a cup of cocoa with us while they read a piece of writing they are working on. We have a lot of talented writers here at Oak Hills! Every month, each teacher nominates two writers to come and read to us. I can't tell you how much we enjoy getting to listen to the stories our students have prepared. We've heard about favorite trips with grandparents and the heroes our students admire. We have even heard fantastical stories of unicorns battling for survival on an alien planet! Thank you for working so hard to inspire your students to read at home. Lots of reading leads to fantastic writing, which leads to my favorite day of the month! Keep up the great writing Oak Hills Otters!
On January 22nd, we will have our math information night from 6-7 in the library. We'll be highlighting one of the new ways your students are learning math this year. We really hope you can join us. You'll get an insider's look at the new ways we are teaching students to problem solve and defend their mathematical ideas. See you there!
Warm regards,
Jennifer DeMartino
Assistant Principal
Sock Hop
Dry Clothes for Wet Weather
Attendance Reminder
- illness
- illness of an immediate family member
- an emergency
Beaverton School District is strictly enforcing this absence policy. Therefore, if a family goes out of town, even if they prearrange it with the school, they will get a phone call each day of the absence stating that their child has an unexcused absence for the day. If you schedule a doctor's appointment during the day, even if you let us know in advance, it will count as unexcused and you will get a phone call. The phone calls are triggered as soon as the absence is entered. We, at Oak Hills, cannot turn off the phone call mechanism.
Oak Hills Directory
Hello Oak Hills Families –
Your 2018 Directory is online only – and free!
https://oakhillsotters.joinourclass.com/member/login
Login email: directory@oakhillspto.org
Password: Otters2018
Please find the attached document with instructions on how to update your child’s info, along with your info, with as little or as much detail as you wish to include. This directory is very basic, and simple to use. Moving forward we can create a higher functioning site, with more tools for our community if we would like to invest as a Parent Community. Please share with us your feedback once you have had a chance to use the tool.
Only families who opted to have their information released for the school directory were included in the set-up of the directory.
Sincerely,
Oak Hills PTO
Oregon Battle of the Books (OBOB) Updates
OBOB will quickly be upon us! Winter break is a great opportunity for students to make sure they’re finishing their OBOB books. Your public library should have copies of these books, and OBOB books could also make a nice holiday present if you’ve got a voracious reader at home!
Our school level OBOB competitions will begin mid-January. Currently we’ve scheduled them to begin in the second full week of January, around the 16th. Ms. Baker and Mandi MacAskill will be reaching out to the fantastic parents who have volunteered to run OBOB tournaments with volunteer slot sign ups.
The student battles will be 100% volunteer run, so if we don’t have volunteers, the students won’t get to battle. We are really relying on our parent volunteers to make this a fun and rewarding experience for our students!
This year the group of volunteers who run OBOB have decided that due to the number of participants, our region will be holding 3 “mini-regional” tournaments with 18-20 schools per tournament rather than one large regional tournament. When we have more information about how this new plan will work, we will pass it along to you.
If you want to help your student prepare for the upcoming tournaments, Ms. Baker has linked a few great resources for practice OBOB questions on the Oak Hills library website (on the Oregon Battle of the Books page). Ask your student who is on their team - winter break could be a good opportunity for some team bonding and running practice questions together! It is also highly recommend to quiz your student on the author names/full titles of each book. This could easily be done with flash cards.
Remember that above all the purpose of OBOB is to encourage reading and expand your student’s reading interests by introducing them to different genres. Even if they only read one book, that’s likely one book they wouldn’t have otherwise been exposed to! Happy reading!
Thank you!
Jessica Baker
Library Media Assistant, Oak Hills Elementary
jessica_e_baker@beaverton.k12.or.us
(503) 365-2410 Ext. 6-2416
Career Fair - Volunteers Needed
Oak Hills will kick off its first annual Career Fair on April 10th from 8:15-10:30! This will be a great opportunity to highlight some amazing careers that our students might like to pursue after school! We are looking for presenters to give 10 minute presentations about the jobs they do. Students would rotate to your station, you'd give a 10 minute presentation and then another group of students would rotate to you. You'd give the presentation approximately 8 times.
Some of the questions that we'd love to have addressed during the presentation are:
- What do you ?
- What did you have to do to prepare for a job in that field?
- How has the shift in technology impacted your job?
- How do you impact the global workforce?
- How do you impact the community?
- Who are the key players you collaborate with in your field?
- How is your job are interconnected with other jobs?
If you feel like you could participate in this informative day and help prepare our students for college and career readiness, please email Jennifer at jennifer_demartino@beaverton.k12.or.us!
Thanks,
Jennifer
On Time Awards - Donate Swag
Oak Hill's Tech Crew T-shirt Contest
Oak Hills Elementary is having a Tech Crew T-shirt Art Contest, which is open to all grades. The winning picture will be printed on the 2017-2018 Tech Crew T-Shirts.
Are there rules?
All entries are to be submitted to Mrs. Vallee either in her mailbox or the Tech Lab T-shirt Entry Box.
The artwork must contain at least 1 otter or robot using at least 1 piece of Technology.
Entries must be received by January 19, 2018.
You do not have to be in Tech Crew to enter.
What am I drawing?
To be eligible, your artwork must depict an Otter or a robot using a piece of Technology. For example, an Otter using an Ipad.
Can I copy something off of the internet?
Noooo! Your artwork must be original. Please make your artwork using crayon, ink, pencil, colored pencils, or color markers,
Prizes
1st Prize: The first prize-winner will have their artwork printed on the 2018 Tech Crew T-shirts and receive a TECH Crew T-shirt.
Runners Up: Award certificates will be given to the finalist in the top ten.Tentative Dates for 2017-2018
1-15 Holiday
1-17 Global Citizenship Committee 8-9 a.m.
1-22 Math Info Night 6pm
1-22 PTO Mtg. 7pm
1-30 Technology Parent Committee 8-9 a.m.
2-2 No School-Grading Day
2-19 Holiday - No School
2-26 PTO Mtg. 3pm
3-7 Conferences 3:30-7:30
3-7 Global Citizenship Committee 8-9 a.m.
3-8 No School for Students - Conferences 7:30 am-7:30 pm
3-9 School Closed
3-13 Technology Parent Committee 8-9 a.m.
3-22 STEM/Future Ready Night 6-8pm
3-26 to 3-30 Spring Break
4-10 Career Fair 8:15-10:30
4-13 No School Assessment Day
4-16 thru 4-20 Book Fair
4-19 Volunteer Tea 1:15pm
4-23 PTO Mtg. 7pm
4-26 Kindergarten Orientation 4:00-5:30
5-2 Global Citizenship Committee 8-9 a.m.
5-8 Technology Parent Committee 8-9 a.m.
5-11 Fifth Grade Wax Museum
5-17 Choir Program 6-7pm
5-21 PTO Mtg. 7pm
5-28 Holiday
5-31 Art Night 6-8pm
6-11 PTO Mtg. 3pm (Budget Mtg.)
6-15 Field Day
6-18 5th Grade Send Off?
6-19 Last Day for Students