The Olive Branch 2.3.23

Total Read Time - About 5 minutes!

Principal's Message

Valentines Parties

American Heart Association - Kids Heart Challenge!

One Book One School

5 Essentials Survey <--- Click Here

Lunch Shift Switch

Important Dates

Good Afternoon,

If you haven't already signed up for Parent-Teacher Conferences please CLICK HERE! Parent-Teacher conferences will be held on Thursday, Feb. 16th and Friday, Feb. 17th.

Erin, Julia, and the OMS Staff

Valentines Parties are on February 14th.

Please remember we do not allow food items in goodie bags or attached to Valentines cards.

Our school is kicking off our Kids Heart Challenge program on February 6, 2023, but you can get a jump start TODAY! Our school goal is to raise $6,000 or more!

Getting started is as easy as 1..2…3

1. Download the Kids Heart Challenge App or visit heart.org/KHC to register.
2. Choose your daily health challenge to Move More or Be Kind and earn your own BE THE TORCH wristband so you can help light the way!
3. Get a head start on COMPLETING FINN’S MISSION in your Headquarters, where you and your family can put the power of lifesaving Hands-Only CPR into YOUR hands and help us create a community of lifesavers! Try to do all 8 activities to complete the Mission!
4. Don’t forget: Double your Gift! Check to see if your employer will match your donation today! Follow the steps and forward the confirmation to matchinggifts@heart.org to have this added to the student’s fundraising page.
   

As a connection to the One Book One School Rescue At Lake Wild, beavers have been the learning topic in many library media center lessons this week. Fifth graders read informational articles about beavers, animal rehabilitators, and keystone species. Next week, they’ll teach their classmates what they learned and play their favorite review game, Blooket, to test their new knowledge. Second graders practiced using nonfiction text features to read about beavers and then played a partner board game. First graders took notes about beavers from the database, Pebble Go, and played a class Baamboozle game. Families are encouraged to keep reading the book together. According to the reading schedule on the LMC website, we should be halfway through the book!

Please take a few minutes to complete the 5Essentials Survey. Your participation in the parent portion of the survey will help us understand the conditions at our school and guide improvement. A report will be generated only if we have at least 20 percent parent participation. As of today, we only have 4% participation.

Survey Link: https://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/?target_name=parent

*Your identity and survey responses will be kept completely confidential and will never be connected to you or your child.*

Beginning Monday, February 6th, our lunch shifts will be as follows:

1st Shift - 12:10-12:40

2nd, 5th
3rd (Tingalia, Bagg)

2nd Shift - 12:40 - 1:10
1st, 4th
3rd (Helmann, Molnar, Yarbrough)

2.7.23 - 23-24 Kindergarten Parent Night @ 6:15pm

2.8.23 - Multilingual Family Night @ 6:00pm

2.14.23 - Classroom Valentine's Parties

2.15.23 - 3rd Grade Clay Night w/ Mr. DeMarco @ 6:30pm

2.16 - 2.17 - Parent-Teacher Conferences - no school for students

2.20.23 - No School - Presidents' Day

Link to D25 Year at a Glance Calendar

Link to D25 Year at a Glance 23-24 Calendar

Questions? Please reach out to your OMS teacher or your administrative team.

OMS Staff Directory

Ms. Erin Davis, Principal edavis@sd25.org

Mrs. Julia Pemberton, Assistant Principal jpemberton@sd25.org

Website: https://www.sd25.org/Olive
Location: 303 East Olive Street, Arlington Heights, IL, USA
Phone: 847.398.4282
Twitter: @ahsd25Olive