The Olive Branch

1.18.19

Last week, we dropped off our kindness notes at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library. Within days, we had multiple people tweeting and emailing their thanks for the notes that were hidden in books including this email: Received your Kindness Note today! Thank you for brightening my day, on this cold and cloudy Winter afternoon. Enjoying reading the book even more. As you can see from the picture, one of our students also found a note. This weekend might be a great time to get to AHML to check out a book, and you just might find one of our notes! Yesterday, we enjoyed a team building activity with our fabulous firsties. So much fun watching them work together and cheering each other on!

Have a wonderful, snowy weekend!

Becky & Erin


Kindergarten Registration/Open House If your child will be joining us next year as part of the OMS class of 2025, please join us on January 23rd. Please also share this information with any neighbors that may have children entering kindergarten next year. KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION Wednesday, January 23, 2019 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. OR 4:00 - 6:45 p.m. KINDERGARTEN PARENT OPEN HOUSE Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:00 - 6:45 p.m. If you have any questions, please call the office at 847.398.4282.	Lunch Shift Change Tuesday, January 22nd will be our official lunch shift change day. Students that had lunch at 12:10 PM for the first half of the year will eat at 12:40 PM and go out for recess first. Students that had lunch at 12:40 PM will eat at 12:10 PM and go out for recess afterward. We are looking forward to this change and the opportunity for our students to experience the lunch period from a new perspective. Students will continue to sit with their class at their assigned lunch tables.	STEAM Night Volunteers Needed! Let's explore STEAM topics (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) as a school community during our first ever OMS STEAM Night from 6:30-8:00 pm on Thursday, January 31st!. Expect a wonder-filled family event designed with dozens of opportunities for families to learn and laugh together. Our fourth graders will be adding to our evening by performing two brief concerts during STEAM Night. This is not a drop-off event, children are to be directly supervised during the event. Olive Staff and PTA are eager to share this evening with your family. Please give us a headcount here. Interested in volunteering? Please consider joining us!

Kindergarten Registration/Open House

If your child will be joining us next year as part of the OMS class of 2025, please join us on January 23rd. Please also share this information with any neighbors that may have children entering kindergarten next year.

KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

9:30 - 11:00 a.m. OR 4:00 - 6:45 p.m.

KINDERGARTEN PARENT OPEN HOUSE

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

4:00 - 6:45 p.m.

If you have any questions, please call the office at 847.398.4282.

Lunch Shift Change

Tuesday, January 22nd will be our official lunch shift change day. Students that had lunch at 12:10 PM for the first half of the year will eat at 12:40 PM and go out for recess first. Students that had lunch at 12:40 PM will eat at 12:10 PM and go out for recess afterward. We are looking forward to this change and the opportunity for our students to experience the lunch period from a new perspective. Students will continue to sit with their class at their assigned lunch tables.

STEAM Night Volunteers Needed!

Let's explore STEAM topics (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) as a school community during our first ever OMS STEAM Night from 6:30-8:00 pm on Thursday, January 31st!. Expect a wonder-filled family event designed with dozens of opportunities for families to learn and laugh together. Our fourth graders will be adding to our evening by performing two brief concerts during STEAM Night. This is not a drop-off event, children are to be directly supervised during the event. Olive Staff and PTA are eager to share this evening with your family. Please give us a headcount here. Interested in volunteering? Please consider joining us!

Arrival/Dismissal Reminders

With many more cars in our drop-off and pick-up lanes these days, we thought this would be a good time to remind everyone about some of our arrival/dismissal procedures. The video below explains are procedures in greater detail. Please be sure to share these procedures and the video with any relatives and caregivers that may assist with transporting your child. In particular:

Student drop-off and pick-up is prohibited along Olive Street between Arlington Heights Road and Douglas Street.
Please pull your car as far forward into the loading zone as traffic allows. As space becomes available, please continue to pull your vehicle forward to close any gaps.
Students may unload/load from the PASSENGER SIDE of the vehicle only. The driver may NOT get out of the car and cars may NOT be left unattended in the loading zone.

We have these procedures in place to keep you and your children safe. They only work if we all work together!

Author Allan Woodrow Will Visit OMS

Olive is honored to host author Allan Woodrow. He was scheduled to visit on Thursday, January 24 for students in third, fourth, and fifth grades. However, Mr. Woodrow has had a change of plans. We will need to reschedule his visit. We will let students the new date. He is best known for his humorous realistic fiction set in schools.

If any students or families would like to order personalized autographed books by Mr. Woodrow, please print and return an order form to the library media center by the day of his visit. Follow this link to the LMC website to find the order form to print. Paper copies of order forms will also be available in the library for students to bring home.

https://olivemarystittlmc.weebly.com/author-visits.html