LAST MONTH

THIS MONTH

After-School Activities

∙ Hip-Hop

∙ Saturday Skiing, Jan 9-30

∙ School play

∙ [Concert Choir & Wind Band directed by OCS staff]

Communications

∙ Breeze Newsletter, emailed weekly

∙ Breeze Newsletter, emailed weekly, printed Breeze sent home Tues, Jan 12

∙ Term 2 Volunteer Hours report

Curriculum Enhancement Teams

∙ (5^th) Revolutionary War

∙ (1^st) History of World Religions

∙ (K) Around the World

∙ (3^rd) Light & Optics

∙ (2^nd) Pony Express/Slavery, Jan 8

∙ (1^st) Solar System, Jan 22

∙ (3^rd) Early Explorers of North America, Jan 28

∙ (5^th) Constitution & Bill or Rights, Jan 29

Events

∙ Meet & Greet with the Director, Jan 13 (after Awards Assembly)

∙ Classroom Spelling Bees, Jan 19-22

∙ OCS Spelling Bee, Feb 3, 12:15-1:00pm

∙ District Spelling Bee, Mar 27

Fundraising & Grants

∙ Work on 3 major grants for robotics science program, teacher development & language arts/social studies

∙ Soliciting business donations

∙ 2009-10 Goal: $25K, Fundraising as of Dec 31: $13K

Kudos

∙ Birthday cake & presents for staff

∙ Holiday Trees (Wish Lists) posted on doors for each teacher

∙ Birthday cake & presents for staff

∙ Quarterly Student Awards Assembly, Wed. Jan 13, 8:15-8:30am, PARENTS WELCOME!

Room Parents

∙ Organize classroom holiday parties.

∙ At-home projects available by contacting your Room Parents!

∙ Contact Front Desk or your teacher if you don’t know who your Room Parents are.

Spring Carnival

∙ Raffle Donations Collection

∙ Next Carnival Meeting: Jan. 13, noon

STAR Reading Program

∙ Thank you parents for many hours of reading to our students!

** We could use some more volunteers. . . contact Ms. Gaughn or Ms. Carpenter

Upper Grades

∙ New and (greatly) improved fundraising plan for future 8^th grade trips

∙ Cotillion practice

∙ Cotillion, Jan 27