The Olive Branch

What's Up At The Nest...

10.19.18

Thank you to Olive-U that joined us for parent-teacher conferences yesterday and today. We appreciate the questions, support, celebrations, and an opportunity to collaborate with you regarding your child's growth. Touching base earlier in the year really enhances our ability partner with you throughout the year. We also want to thank Diane Burda and Sarah Wade for an amazing PTA conference dinner. To say we were spoiled would be an understatement! Check out Twitter (@ahsd25Olive) for some more pictures of the event.

Becky & Erin

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Celebrate One Book One School at the Family Reading Night on October 23!

Families are invited to attend the Olive-Mary Stitt Family Reading Night on Tuesday, October 23 from 6:30-8:00 p.m. Many families have already registered to attend the evening. They will be provided with individual family schedules. Please try to arrive 10 minutes early so that you have time to pick up your schedule for the night. If your family missed the deadline to sign up, you may still attend two events that evening. All families will be able to view the opening presentation from The Grove (a Glenview Park District nature center) at 6:30 pm. In addition, everyone is invited to visit the OMS Library Media Center to work on activities related to our One Book One School event and to decide if they'd like to sponsor a book for our collection.

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Halloween Permission Slips

A Halloween permission form must be completed for each of your OMS students by WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24TH. Classroom teachers and PTA room reps. will be sharing additional details about the day in the coming weeks.

Halloween Permission Slip 2018 (AM Kindergarten)

Halloween Permission Slip 2018 (PM Kindergarten)

Halloween Permission Slip 2018 (1st - 5th grade)

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Come to the LMC during the Family Reading Night!

Everyone is invited to the LMC during Reading Night on Tuesday, October 23. Families who registered in advance will have the LMC in their schedules as a station to visit during the evening. We will have all of our new books on display as part of our annual “sponsor a book” fundraiser for the library. If you find a book you’d like to sponsor, please bring it to the checkout desk and make a donation with cash or check. The donation cost varies depending on if the book is a paperback, regular hardcover, or premium hardcover($6, $10, or $15). The library staff will place a personalized bookplate inside the book indicating the sponsor name. Your child will be the first one to check it out on the following school day. Also, for every family who sponsors a book, each child in the family can enter a raffle to win a copy of a book autographed by the author. We have one of each of these three books to give away.

Staff Shout-out - Mrs. Czerniuk

Grace, Rachel, and Jackson help us get to know our new school psychologist, Mrs. Czerniuk.

Video of the Week - Arrival Dismissal Procedures

With the colder temperatures comes more cars in our drop-off and pick-up line. To ensure all of our students are safe and that you get in and out efficiently, we need everyone to follow the procedures. The video below reviews our procedures. Please share these procedures with any caregivers that may drop off or pick up your child. A few important reminders:

Students must have all of their bags and materials with them ready to hop out of the car. Students may not retrieve items from the trunk in the drop-off line.
Once students have exited the car on the sidewalk, please merge to the left. If you are unable to merge, please continue pulling forward until you are able to merge.