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February Fast Facts
OES Front Entrance Now Open/COVID Protocols
- As of Monday, February 1st, the New OES Front Entrance is operational! All check ins, check outs, items for drop off, meetings, parent conferences, emergencies will now come through this front entrance area. You no longer need to come to the back parking lot/window area. We are continuing to follow COVID and Safety protocols and guidelines with only visitors entering for scheduled meetings and conferences. Thank you for your patience during the construction this year and also as we finish this year with positivity!
COVID PROTOCOLS
- Continue to monitor your child each morning. If your child is sick, please keep him or her at home.
- If your child has been exposed to a positive case of COVID-19 outside of school and is quarantining, please notify the front office.
- If your child is tested for COVID-19, please keep him/her home until you receive the results. Any absence related to COVID-19 or testing will be coded as such and will not count against your child.
Thank you for your support and understanding as we have navigated the first half of this year and continue our 2nd semester journey.
SUPPORT OUR OES LARGEST FUNDRAISER!
February 5th-17th
SUPPORT OUR OES LARGEST FUNDRAISER!
February 5th-17th
SUPPORT OUR OES LARGEST FUNDRAISER!
February 5th-17th
Students Riding OES/SCCS Buses
As safety protocols and procedures will be enforced and followed, this is a friendly reminder that students are to wear masks while loading, riding and unloading buses daily. If your student rides a bus and is need of a mask, he or she may come by the office to get a mask. Thank you for your understanding!
Upcoming OES Dates
February 11 Progress Reports Go Home/Check Student Address/Phone Number for INOW
and return form so INOW updates can be made
February 28 Last Day to Purchase Yearbook
March 1-5 Book Fair/Read Across America Celebration (More information to come soon)
March 8-12 National Breakfast Week with our OES CNP Staff
March 18 3rd Nine Week Report Card Goes Home
March 22-26 Spring Break No School
Thank you Mrs. Buckner!
National Counseling Week
Happy National Counselor's Week!
OES CHAIR DRIVE!!
OES Appreciates our Bus Drivers for being the first and last smiling faces for our students as well as keeping them safe to and from school daily! WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR OUR TRANSPORTATION STAFF!!
OES is Thankful for our Maintenance Staff for always going above and beyond to repair items on our campus! OUR MAINTENANCE STAFF IS ALWAYS IN THE TRENCHES WORKING SO HARD--THANK YOU!!!
Our OES CNP staff is THE BEST! These sweet ladies ensure all of our staff and students have nutritional meals, but most of all their caring hearts for our students are VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!
1:1 Initiative
1:1 Initiative
1:1 Initiative
PHONICS RESOURCES
Phonics
This is the ability to match a sound (phoneme) to the letter or letters that make the sound (grapheme).
At Home Activities
- Talk about what sounds are made by which letters.
- Point out letters and print in books. Say what those letters are called and tell your child what sounds they make.
- Explain concepts of print in engaging ways, such as those in this article.
- Parts of a sentence Jack Hartmann video
- Match the letter to the sound
- Ask your child to tell you what letter makes a certain sound. You can use this video by Jack Hartmann.
- (What letter makes the /b/ sound?) Write the letter, build the letter with Playdoh, Legos, pasta noodles, etc.
- Do letter sorts with your child sorting for uppercase and lowercase letters using letter tiles, magnetic letters, or letters written on index cards. Have your child cut out letters from magazines/newspapers to sort.
- Make an alphabet book using pictures from old magazines and catalogs. Have your child write the letter at the top. Help your child label the picture and read the words.
- Ask your child to match the letters in his/her name to the sounds in his/her name.
- “Alphabet Ball” - Call out a letter and have your child respond with a word that begins with that letter. Bounce the ball to your child and he/she calls out a letter and you respond.
- Write letters on pieces of paper and put them in a paper bag. Let your child reach in and take out letters. Have your child say the sounds that match the letters.
- Have your child practice letter recognition with this game using an alphabet arc.
- Writing words - Many children love to send and receive notes, and writing is a great way to reinforce phonics skills. Send your child notes in his/her backpack or place notes on the pillow. Have a relative or friend send a letter or email to your child. Whenever your child receives a note, have him/her write back. Don't be concerned about spelling. Instead, have your child sound out the words to the best of his/her ability.
- Labeling words - When reading with your child, keep Post-it notes handy and have your child choose one picture in the book and label the picture on a Post- it. (For example, a picture of a ball – write the word “ball”.) Put the note in the book to read each time you come to that page.
- Long and Short Vowel Sounds Game
- Your child will have high frequency words (meaning words that occur often in print, such as “the” “and” etc.), sometimes called sight words or red words, they’re working on in class. Go on a “red word hunt” in a book and discuss how those words are spelled.
- High Frequency Words Practice
- Practicing words with pictures - Choose pictures from a magazine or catalog. Say the name of the picture, have your child say the sound that the picture begins with and the name of that letter.
- Hunting for words - Choose a letter and have your child hunt for five items beginning with that letter sound. As each object is found, help your child write the word on a list. For example, if the target sound is /m/, the child might find and write mop, mat, mom, map, me.