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Oak Hills Newsletter

Week of April 29, 2024

Oak HillsNewsletter Week of April 29, 2024

Message from the Principal

Dear Oak Hills Families,


We look forward to connecting with you this week. Teachers have been preparing the past few weeks for conferences. If you need support with scheduling conferences, please reach out to your child's teacher or call the front office to speak with Dawn Marie or Marcy. If you are unable to make a meeting in person, please let your teacher know you need a zoom meeting. With limited time left of the school year, we hope you all can attend the conferences to learn about your child's progress and hear about the goals for the remainder of the year.


Reminder:

School is in session on Wednesday. No school on Thursday, 5/2 or Friday, 5/3. The office will be open on Friday 8am-3pm.


This week, we recognize all our staff for their love, care, talents, and dedication to serving our students and families. We appreciate all the treats, gifts, and messages from all of you this week. We never expect the goodies but am so grateful for our community's generosity and thoughtfulness.


May will be a month filled with learning and fun! Please check out Ms. Larsen's Library News below. May is Get Caught Reading Month! We kick it off with the book fair this week! Many more planned activities throughout the month including field trips!


Have a wonderful week!


Sincerely,

Ms. Do

Updates on Outdoor Reader Boards!

Great news! Our district will be installing the new reader board in the front of our school mid-May. It was slated for this summer, but it will be done before then.


Thank you to our families! Your donations to the Jog-A-Thon funded an outdoor bulletin board! It has been installed in the back of the school. Location: Brick wall next to the dumpster area and across from the portables. So many families walk to the back of the school for drop-off and pick-up; PTO proposed this project. The district approved it and set up the contractor. We will begin placing flyers with school events/clubs/reminders soon! The reader boards are an additional way to communicate to students and families--we are excited about the installments!

Oak Hills Spring Parent Teacher Conferences (REPEAT)

Oak Hills Spring Conferences will be held on Wednesday, May 1st & Thursday, May 2nd, by appointment. Conferences will either be held in person or virtually via Zoom.


Oak Hills Spring Conference Schedule:

  • Wednesday, May 1st- Evening Conferences

  • Thursday, May 2nd- No School for Students, Day/Evening Conferences

  • Friday, May 3rd- No School for Students


Conference scheduling has launched and is open to families via Parent Square. Families will schedule an appointment (one 20-minute block of time) from the options provided. This appointment time is reserved for your family. If you have multiple children at Oak Hills, please schedule a 20-minute time block with each teacher. If an interpreter conference has been scheduled for you, you will not need to sign up for a conference time as one has already been scheduled.


Teachers will send out their Zoom login information to families who indicated a preference for a virtual conference directly. Please don't hesitate to reach out to the school if you run into any difficulty accessing your child's conference or if you need additional support in signing up.

Club Schedule Reminders and New Club Opportunities

This week:


Mon. 4/29 Rose City Chess - PE Portable

Mon. 4/29 Little Otterbots - SEL Portable

Mon. 4/29 Girls Running Club - Gym

Tues. 4/30 Lunch Art Club Grades 2-5 (no registration required)

Wed. 5/1 (This is an edit--last week, it was stated that there were no clubs after school today but there are clubs after school this Wednesday.)

Wed. 5/1 RecTennis -Gym

Wed. 5/1 LEGO Engineers - PE Portable

Thurs. 5/2 No School - Conferences


Next week:

Mon. 5/6 Rose City Chess - PE Portable

Mon. 5/6 Little Otterbots - SEL Portable

Mon. 5/6 Girls Running Club - Gym

Tues. 5/7 Lunch Art Club Grades 2-5

Wed. 5/8 RecTennis - Gym

Wed. 5/8 LEGO Engineers - PE Portable

Thurs. 5/9 Kids Yoga - Portable

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PTO--New Lunchtime Art Club (Grades 2-5)

Art club at Tuesday lunchtime recess starts this week--April 30th through May 21st. We will have various mediums to explore with during the lunch time recesses for grades 2 through 5.

PTO--New Afterschool Math Club

PPP Club is a math club for 3rd - 5th graders who will be working on math skills such as multiplication, division, fractions, and geometry fundamentals. This club is intended to encourage students who love a sharp pencil and a nice long worksheet. Students will be asked to come to work, be motivated to “figure it out” and a willingness to work with friends. PPP Club is intended for students who have a genuine desire and want to participate in a very chill and focused math club. The club will be after school on Tuesdays starting May 14th.


Applications are only available in paper form in the Front Office. The deadline to apply is Wednesday, May 8. Questions? Email Laura Hoffmann at oakhillsvc@gmail.com

Library News from Ms. Larsen

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Book Fair Coming! We will be open May 1st and 2nd during spring conferences.

May 1st 2:45-6:30

May 2nd 8:00-3:30

If you would like to volunteer, please SIGN UP HERE.

Online Shopping Link April 29th - May 12th

Think about buying books for summer reading, teacher gifts, gifts for friends or to donate.

Thank you for supporting literacy and our library!


Get Caught Reading Celebration - May 6-24th

Our school is celebrating reading in May! We would love to involve families! Please email photos of your children getting caught reading in fun places to Mrs. Vallee at anna_vallee@beaverton.k12.or.us by May 17th for an all school video to be shown before the author visit.


Author Visit - We will welcome Kenn Nesbitt on May 24th to our school. If you are interested in purchasing his hilarious poetry books for your home collection and having them autographed when Kenn is here, you may order them on Amazon using this LINK.

Your child can enjoy reading the books then bring them to school on May 24th to be autographed!


OBOB 2025

The full list is out now! Students interested in doing OBOB next year can start to read the books now! We will be making teams in October, so please hold off on talking about making teams. Much changes over the summer. Just enjoy reading the books and talking about them.


OBOB Hall of Fame

If your 3rd - 5th grade child is interested in reading all 16 OBOB books and becoming a part of the OBOB Hall of Fame, here is a LINK to the website page with where you will find the OBOB Hall of Fame link to complete and submit. Once submitted, your child will get a certificate, a free book and their picture in the newsletter! Submissions are accepted all school year!


Questions about the happenings in Library? Check out the LIBRARY WEBSITE for:

  • Helpful Library Links for students and parents

  • How to View Your Library Account (Slides 1-7), View the Library Catalog (slide 8), Putting Books on Hold (Slides 9-10), Renewing books (slides 11-12), Paying Library Fines (Slide 13)

  • OBOB Information

  • Ordering Books From Scholastic for your home collection

  • Donation


If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to Ms. Larsen at leilani_larsen@beaverton.k12.or.us

News from the PTO

Staff Appreciation Activities (see flyer above)

Let's show the teachers and staff some love with treats/activities throughout the week!


Scholastic Book Fair

Wed. May 1 - Thur. May 2 - SIGN-UP HERE

The Scholastic Book Fair will be the week of conferences. Parents are welcome to visit the Book Fair during their conferences! Please stop by!

“Maybe if you go to the book fair your kiddos will end up with more than silly erasers and UV pens, and might get some books to read!”


Staff Appreciation Flower Arranging

Tuesday, April 30 - Shift 1- 7:45 - 9 and Shift 2- 9 -10:30

Help with breaking down donated flowers and bouquets to create new ones for our teachers.


May Bike Week (Next Week, May 6th – 10th)

During the week of May 6th-10th, BSD will have a “bike fairy” that leaves prizes on parked bikes & scooters in the bike racks at all BSD schools. Make sure you ride to school every day next week to increase your chances of getting a prize.

Important Dates-Mark Your Calendars

April 30-May 1 Staff Appreciation Week

Wednesday, May 1 (PM) and Thursday, May 2 (AM/PM) Parent-Teacher Conferences

May 1 and May 2 Book Fair--see times in "Library News" above

Thursday, May 2 and Friday, May 3 No school for students

Thursday, May 9 Kinder Round up 5-6:30pm; Doors open at 4:45pm

Thursday, May 9 ALC (Seitz) and 2nd Grade Field Trip

Thursday, May 9 4th Grade Field Trip

Friday, May 17 Spirit Day: Creative Hair

Friday, May 17 PTO Otterfest 6-8pm

Monday, May 20 Kindergarten Field Trip

Wednesday, May 22 3rd Grade Field Trip (2 classes)

Thursday, May 23 3rd Grade Field Trip (2 classes)

Friday, May 24 Author's Visit Assembly; Schoolwide Read-In

Monday, May 27 No school for staff and students--Memorial Day

Friday, May 31 Volunteer Appreciation Event 8:15am--More details to follow

Friday, May 31 PTO Board Game Night (Time: TBD)

Wednesday, June 5 3rd Grade Field Trip

Friday, June 7 5th Grade End-of-Year Celebration --Oak Hills Rec Center

Wednesday, June 12 Field Day

OSAS Update (Grades 3-5)

Dental Care Recycling Project: Message from 5th Grade Recycling Committee

Helpful Website Buttons--Report Absences and Going Home Plan Changes

Absences and dismissal changes can be reported to us via the Oak Hills website. There are buttons where you can click and report an absence or changes to how your child will be going home.


For dismissal, please do your best to report the changes before 1:00pm since this is when we will be delivering the information to our teachers and students. If it is after 1pm, please call the main office to report the change and not the website button.


Thank you in advance for utilizing this communication tool. It will free up our phone lines for families, staff, and community members who urgently need to get in touch with the office.


Oak Hills website:


https://oakhills.beaverton.k12.or.us/
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