OCEAN Newsletter
March 1, 2024
Here are the new announcements in this newsletter:
- OCEAN Field Trip: Friday March 8th Seattle Aquarium
- Healthcare Career Exploration Event for 8th Graders March 8 1:30-3:05pm
- OCEAN Science Fair March 26 5:30pm
- A Midsummer Night's Dream - Set Painting Saturday March 2 at 10am
- Volunteers Needed
- Close the Fundraising Gap
- Love & Logic Parenting Class!
- Maritime Career Fair
- West Sound Tech Applications Now Open
New announcements:
OCEAN Field Trip: Friday March 8th Seattle Aquarium
For our upcoming trip we have the awesome opportunity to go to the Seattle Aquarium. This should be an amazing trip. They have incredible displays of a number of diverse habitats. In the museum we will break up into small groups. The aquarium requires we have one parent for each group of five students. Please let me know if you can chaperone. Each small group will tour the museum.
As always this trip is parent accompanied. Once I have three confirmed chaperones. We will have space for unaccompanied students in the vans. This is done on a first come first served basis. Please let me know if you are attending the trip with your child. Important: Please RSVP via email ASAP if you want to come. . Please email dmolotsky@ptschools.org
When: 3/8/24 Friday
Meeting Time: 7:45
Trip Leaves: 7:55
Ferry Time: 9:40 Walk on the Ferry
Enter at Aquarium 10:45
Lunch - 12:30 - at Aquarium
Leave Aquarium - 1:30
Ferry Time: 2:05
Trip Returns 4:00ish
What to bring: Water Bottle, Lunch, Snacks, Raingear, and Appropriate Shoes.
If you have them, please bring: Sketch pad and pencils.
Healthcare Career Exploration Event for 8th Graders March 8 1:30-3:05pm
LEARNING LABS: CPR, LAB, AMBULANCE, IMAGING, BLOOD PRESSURE,
SPORTS MEDICINE & RESPIRATORY THERAPY
Blue Heron Middle School Gymnasium
March 8, 2024 1:30 - 3:05 PM Blue Heron & OCEAN 8th Grade Students
OCEAN STudents meet in Katie's Room at 1:30 to participate.
Sponsored by Jefferson Healthcare in partnership with Olympic Ambulance and East Jefferson Fire & Rescue as part of Career Connect Washington Grant
OCEAN Science Fair March 26 5:30pm
Invention Convention Science Fair is coming up! Save the Date: March 26th at 5:30 in the Blue Heron Commons. Countdown: 25 days. K-8 families can reach out to MB if they have any questions or need help: marmstrong@ptschools.org. Tri-fold boards for the presentation will be sent home next week.
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Set Painting Saturday March 2 at 10am
We have one more big push to get the sets painted for the Midsummer Night's Dream. Meet at the Fairgrounds old commercial building this coming Saturday, March 2nd at 10 AM. Wear warm clothes you can get dirty. Bring a water bottle and snacks. No prior experience needed.
Volunteers Needed
Close the Fundraising Gap
Families, please help us close the gap of our fundraising goal for our March production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Your students are doing an amazing job, working so hard, and we can’t wait to see the benefits of theater participation working in their lives!
If this type of experience is something you’d like to see more of at OCEAN, please share the word that we still need to raise some funds for it to be sustainable.
Feel free to donate online here (every little bit helps), share the link with family and friends, or drop a check off at the OCEAN office to save fees. We are so grateful!
Love & Logic Parenting Class!
Please join us for a class on Parenting the Love and Logic Way. Love and Logic is a proven technique that has withstood close to 50 years of testing in homes just like yours. The tools you will gain are simple and effective.
6 weekly sessions beginning on Tuesday, March 5.
Where: The class will be taught in person at Salish Coast Elementary in room 67
(up the stairs next to the gym and down the hall)
Childcare is provided in the Library
When you sign up, please let us know if you will be needing childcare.
When: Once a week on Tuesdays, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
March 5, 12, 19, 26 and April 9, 16 (no class April 2 due to Spring Break)
Cost: $10 for the workbook
Sign Up: Call the Salish Coast Elementary Office at 360-379-4535 or
email Lainie Johnson at ljohnson@ptschools.org
Love and Logic Parenting:
With humor and care, we show adults how to discipline kids without losing their love and respect.
We focus on helping children develop personal responsibility, self-control and good decision making skills.
Unlike some approaches we don’t use complicated reward or punishment systems only focused on short-term compliance.
Instead, we focus on nurturing long-term relationships and reinforcing good character.
Questions? contact our facilitator, Peter Braden pbraden@ptschools.org
West Sound Tech Applications Now Open
West Sound Tech Applications for the 2024-2025 school year opened February 27th. If your student is interested, please complete your application now. Some of the popular programs fill up quickly, so the sooner you complete our application the better chance you have of getting into the program of your choosing. I have linked their website below for more information on programs and how to complete your application. Please reach out to me if you have any questions or need help applying.
Website: https://www.westsoundtech.org/
OCEAN High School Student of the Week
Violet Peterson is the OCEAN Student of the week. Violet is an outstanding student, artist, and role model. She advocates for herself, asks tons of questions, and is very responsible in navigating multiple school schedules at OCEAN and PTHS. Violet is actively involved in OCEAN ASB, school-wide events, and community events. Her musicality has blossomed as she participates in both OCEAN violin and guitar lessons with other OCEAN high school students. Violet is also excited to learn new languages including Japanese and Korean.
Hazel Vidal is the OCEAN School student of the week. Hazel is a long time OCEAN student who has consistently been a fantastic example for her peers. She excels academically and is always kind, inclusive and respectful. She is the treasurer of the OCEAN ASB and is a valued member when it comes to organizing and planning school events.
OCEAN Highlights
See what has been happening at OCEAN.
Information from previous newsletters:
Free Breakfast M-F 8:25-8:45am
All OCEAN students have access to school breakfast at no cost. Starting Monday students can enter Blue Heron from the door next to Judd and Koyuki's room using a four digit door code.
Students will walk to the cafeteria, pick up a breakfast, and return to their classroom or the OCEAN tent to eat breakfast.
Students can ask a teacher or the OCEAN office for the door code.
Monthly Meal for OCEAN Teachers & Staff
The OCEAN teachers and staff greatly appreciate support from those who are able to provide a nourishing meal or hearty snack 1 x month on their busy Friday conference days. They are often hustling between conferences and knowing there is a meal waiting in the office is an amazing gift to them. Show your appreciation for our amazing OCEAN staff with food! *SIGN UP TO FEED THE OCEAN STAFF. A big thank you to the OCEAN community for your food love!! Questions? Email arica_simmer@yahoo.com.
Upcoming Events
- March 8 - 8th Grade Career Fair
- March 8 - Field Trip Seattle Aquarium
- March 12 - 2nd Grade CogAT Screener
- March 14 - Theater Performance
- March 17 - Theater Performance
- March 26 - Invention Convention Science Fair
About OCEAN K-12
Email: srubenstein@ptschools.org
Website: https://ocean.ptschools.org/
Location: 3939 San Juan Ave, Port Townsend, WA, USA
Phone: 360-680-5750
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oceank12
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oceank12
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Port Townsend School District No. 50 does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of race, creed, religion, color, immigration status, national origin, age, honorably-discharged veteran or military status, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, marital status, the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability. The district provides equal access to the Boy Scouts of America and all other designated youth groups listed in Title 36 of the United States Code as a patriotic society. The following employees have been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination:
Title IX Coordinator, Darrell Thomas, (360) 379-4548,dthomas@ptschools.org
Section 504/ADA Coordinator, Shelby MacMeekin, (360) 379-4366, smacmeekin@ptschools.org
Civil Rights Compliance Coordinator, Darrell Thomas, (360) 379-4548, dthomas@ptschools.org