The Olive Branch

What's Up At The Nest...

10.26.18

We really enjoyed seeing so many of you on Tuesday night at our 1st ever Family Reading Night. Although it is a few months away, we are already looking forward to our next family event, Family STEAM Night on 1/31/19. Fun details about this event will be shared soon.

Please make sure to review our plans for Halloween which are listed below. Hope to see you along the parade route on Wednesday!

We hope you have a great weekend!

Becky & Erin

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Halloween Reminders

Please review the following which has important information about AM kindergarten plans, classroom room reps & volunteers, costume guidelines, lunch, inclement weather plans for the parade, outdoor parade, food, and safety & supervision.

Halloween A to Z 2018

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Family Reading Night

Families celebrated reading and learned about trees and woodland animals in connection to our One Book One School program on the book Wishtree. Rotating through different stations at the Family Reading Night, families listened to stories, made nests, animal masks, and musical instruments, programmed Beebots, created word cloud posters, touched animals, created leaf rubbings, and more!

We’d like to invite all families who attended the evening to click HERE to provide feedback on the event.

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Thank You From the LMC!

The Library Media Center Staff would like to thank the Olive-Mary Stitt families who visited the LMC during Family Reading Night and sponsored new books for our library collection. Our total count of donated books was 60. Also, we had some students who won autographed copies of new books. The winners were as follows: Adriana R. in 4-4 won The Island of Dr. Libris, Ella V. in 3-4 won Abe Lincoln at Last!, Elliott M. in 1-2 won Nerdy Birdy Tweets. Thank you to all of our families for your support! We will use your donations to purchase additional materials for our library.

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Wishtree Update

The excitement over sharing our One Book One School book, Wishtree, is growing! Over the last two weeks classes have been solving clues to find hidden Wishtree animals in a scavenger hunt around the school. So far, classes have found Bongo; the crow; and BigYou, the raccoon.

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Head Lice

Each October, the district nurses send out an information letter about lice. Please contact our school nurse, Mrs. Henrique, if you have any questions. Click HERE to read the letter.

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Stay Warm and Wear a Coat

Now that cooler temperatures have arrived we want to remind families that our expectation for recess is for students to wear a jacket or sweatshirt if the temperature is below 50 degrees. Students can always take them off and tie them around their waist if they are warm but they are not allowed to return to their classroom if they go outside and are cold. We appreciate your help in reminding your child that if you send them to school with a jacket they should be wearing it at recess too.