Dear Oakley Park families,

I wanted to thank you for a wonderful school year. I continue to feel so blessed to lead this school community. Although COVID continued to provide some challenges, with your support we were able to resume many of our “usual” events including an AMAZING Spring Fair to wrap up the school year! Thank you for your partnership, working alongside the Oakley Park staff to support our Owls. Our school community is a very special, student centered place, because of the care and commitment of staff and families.

I hope all families enjoy a relaxed summer schedule! I remember loving the simple things like not packing lunches and not feeling the urgency of maintaining an early bedtime routine! It has been a busy year for all of us and taking time to rest, refuel, and recharge is so important! I am looking forward to welcoming students, families and staff back to our renovated building in August! While the entire project will not be completed when we open our doors in August, our classrooms and learning spaces will be updated and ready for learning!

I hope to enjoy some down time during the month of July but I will continue to check my email throughout the summer!

I wish you a wonderful summer!

Sincerely,

Kristin Froning

Reading: All reading is good reading! Books, magazines, maps, signs, etc. Have your child read them to themselves or aloud to you and then ask them to tell you about what they read and what it means or what they think will happen next.

Check out the Children's Choices Reading List. Also, check out the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge.

Writing: Have your child keep a journal or write letters to family members. Write stories together to share with a neighbor or family member. Write book reviews (or product reviews) on Amazon. Be sure that they know their writing is important and that their reader wants to be able to understand what they’ve written.

Math: Numbers are everywhere! Ask your child about the numbers you see. Skip count together by 2, 5, or 10. Split a pizza and have them tell you what fraction of the pizza they get to have. The National Association of Elementary School Principal’s has some good suggestions to support these skills, too!

Everyday Math Website

• Students use during the school year and can log in all summer long using the same login credentials.

iReady Lessons: Math and Reading

• Student have access to the iReady lessons through August 19, 2022. iReady had loaded lessons appropriate for your student based on the diagnostic test administered in May/June.

Commerce Township Summer Reading Program

Barnes and Noble Summer Reading

Scholastic Books Reading Summer Challenge

Oakley Park will continue with the same "bell times" for the 2022- 2023 school year.

Drop off: 8:50 AM

First Bell: 8:55 AM

Tardy Bell: 9:00 AM
Dismissal: 4:00 PM
1/2 Day Dismissal: 12:25 PM

Kindergarten

• Mrs. Dabish, Mrs. DAndreta and TBA

1st Grade

• Mrs. Pace, Mrs. Rozman, Ms. Mills

2nd Grade

• Mr. Love (new to Oakley Park) Mrs. Prestel, Mrs. Holbrook

3rd Grade

• Mrs. Bielis-Volkers, Mrs. Baur, Mrs. Fegely

4th Grade

• Mrs. DeJonghe, Mrs. Jeneary

5th Grade

• Mr. Bernstein, Mr. Kwiatkowski, Mrs. Rachwal

What is the Pandemic-EBT Program?

The Pandemic-EBT (P-EBT) Program provides food benefits to families with children who were not able to get free or reduced-price school meals due to COVID. You may hear about this benefit from other schools or in the media.

Who is eligible?

Being eligible for this program will depend on what school your student attends. Eligibility for the Pandemic-EBT (P-EBT) Program can be different between schools within the same district.

What makes a school eligible for P-EBT?

A school building is eligible only if the building has had 5 school days in a row of reduced in-person hours due to COVID (closures due to staffing shortages do not count for P-EBT benefits).

What could make my child eligible for P-EBT?

1) If the school they attend is eligible for P-EBT and

2) If your student has applied and been approved for free/reduced lunch and

3) Did not receive instruction in-person for some or all the month due to COVID-19 related absence There may be months when your student’s attendance was different from what the school reported. In that case, you may be able to have your student’s benefit level reconsidered. Your request to be reconsidered must be submitted by June 30, 2022. In the month(s) below your school reported primarily in-person. Your student(s) may be P-EBT eligible If your student Did not receive instruction in-person for some or all the month due to COVID-19 related absence in the following month(s):

October 2021, November 2021, and December 2021