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French club members,

French club will be meeting today, December 10th at 3:35 outside of the cafeteria. We will be eating Yule log, which are rolled ice cream cakes. For those who can stay we will be playing Jokers and Marbles.

Mr. Lake

I am sending home the information about the landform dioramas today. Each child has been assigned a specific landform, which should be written at the top of their papers. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out.

Please note that a half-sheet acknowledging you have read the project requirements is due on December 20. The written report and the actual diorama are due on January 10.

Hello Parents/Guardians,

I cannot believe that we are 2 weeks away from the middle of the school year. Goodness, time is going way too fast! 

The weekly spelling words will continue to come home on Fridays with you student. This sheet will also include our vocabulary words and their definitions. 

Our story for the next two weeks is Biblioburro. Here is a link to the story:

https://youtu.be/L_jDAhSVVl4?si=s5FDEMtKk143Cdm-

Our vocabulary words and comprehension story will be assessed on Thursday, December 19th. This will allow us to have some fun and complete some Christmas activities on Friday, December 20th. 

For Math, we will be finishing up Chapter 6, which is two-digit subtraction with regrouping. We will be testing on either Wednesday, December 18th or Thursday, December 19th. This will depend on how much time we need to review this chapter. 

For Social Studies we are working on mapping skills for the next two weeks and will continue with this after our Winter break.

Please reach out if you have any questions and/or concerns.

Thank you!

Heather Miller

Dear Families,

    As we continue to work our way through the current math unit I would like to offer a Google meet for families to attend to learn more about area model and the topics we are discussing in math class.  I greatly appreciate all of you that help with homework and I know some of the topics can be difficult because it is not how you were taught when you were in school.  If you are available on Tuesday, December 10th at 4:30 pm, please join me for a google meet at https://meet.google.com/hzn-sbzk-vay where I will explain area model and the reason we use this method.  If you are unable to attend but your student still wants to attend for extra practice that is perfectly fine!  Please come prepared with paper and a pencil.

Thank you for your continued support in your child’s education.  You can use the link above or students can access the link through their math google classroom.

Thank you,

Mrs. Hamilton

Leaving Oak Harbor now, we’ll be back in about 30 minutes. Pick up your girls behind elementary (I believe that’s where we’re getting dropped off). 

This week’s Star Student is LEAH!!

Leah would like to be a teacher when she grows up. Here are a few of her favorite things: gym, art, math, sleeping, her mom and dad, her dogs, cheer, jokes, and tickles. Leah is really looking forward to Christmas! Thanks for sharing, Leah!

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Math HW is ws 70. PLEASE HAVE YOUR CHILD USE THE RESOURCES for the area model. There were many papers and examples given. DIORAMA PROJECT slips are WED, DEC. 11. All projects are due on WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18th.

Tonight when picking up your cheerleader, go to the parking lot behind the elementary. I will send out an alert when we leave Oak Harbor and then again when we’re about 15 minutes out. I’ll also have the girls send a text as well incase you don’t see the app alert go out. 

Here is the musical schedule for Decemeber

Friday, Dec 13th - 3:30-5:30 - Script read though in the Student Success Center - Bring a snack or desert to share with everyone

Friday, Dec 13th - 5:00-5:30 - Parent Meeting in the auditorium to go over ad sales, fees, and other information

Monday, Dec 16th - 3:30-4:30 - Principal vocals in Choir Room

Tuesday, Dec 17th - 3:30-5:30 - All Cast vocals in Choir Room

Students need to finish reading the novel by next Monday.  That will include Stave 4 and 5.  We completed Stave 3 in class today, completed all vocabulary work, and began a stave 3 assignment that they need to also finish for homework.   Originally I had it on google classroom but it would not work on the students end so they are completing it on paper.

Parents,

      Our class will attend the Santa Shop today during our Library time.  

Please send in your envelopes with their money if you would like to shop.

If you miss today we can make sure your child gets down there at a good time any

other day this week.

Thank you,

Mrs. Pfouts

Hello HS Students!  

Looking for some community service hours?  Just like to help?  I need some help for Tuesday's concert!  Email me if you are willing to help with any of the following jobs! 

• Curtain:

• Stage Manage from Auditorium (Make sure all groups are moving to where they should be.) 

•  Stage Manage from Backstage (Make sure all groups are moving to where they should be. Open Door curtain for students to exit auditorium to backstage area/hallway) 

• Flight Cadet Wrangler

• Direct traffic backstage...coordinate entrances.exits and curtain. 

• Record Concert selections with iPad.  (Each piece should be an individual recording)

• Assist with Entrances and Exits in Auditorium: (Open Door and/or hold curtain, direct traffic, Monitor Students)

  • A MS Administrator will be in the area to monitor as well if needed)

Thank You in Advance!!

Mrs R

We began our Holidays Around the World research project along with learning about wants and needs during Social Studies.  We learned about Christmas in Australia, Italy, and France. On Friday we enjoyed a tasty Foodie Friday with simple foods to symbolize each country: star cookies (Italy), Fairy Bread (Australia) and swiss cake rolls (France). We learned how to say "Merry Christmas" in each country, too.

We continue to go through the alphabet again, this time working on decoding and encoding words.  We are now building words with short a, i, and o.  We have been working on matching words to pictures, writing words to go with a picture, and reading books that focus on our skills being taught.  We began reading different versions of the Gingerbread Boy and are focusing on retelling the stories as well as comparing them to each other. In math, we finished our unit on 2D shapes.  

Our class was sent an elf and the elf will be giving the students ideas on ways to show kindness.  We came up with names and voted. Candy Cane was the winning name. Each day, the students will look for Candy Cane and draw a picture of where he is in the room and what he is doing.  We will work together to write a sentence, too.  Last week, Candy Cane was reading books with "friends" and he was sad at student behavior (many of the class were not being very good listeners.)  

A look ahead: 

   Monday Dec 9th: we will visit the library for the Santa Shop. Please send in the envelope sent home if you would like your child to shop.

    We will add the words: look, into, good 

    We will add the letters: c and k (and be introduced to  when a word should start with a c or a k)

    We will begin Unit 6 in math

    We will continue learning about Holidays around the world along with wants and needs

    We will read some more fun Gingerbread story versions.

Have a wonderful week! Thank you for all of your support in the education of your students.  

Just a reminder to pick-up your wreaths/poinsettias from MS Room 155 (across from the band room) TOMORROW from 4-7pm. You may enter the school from the breezeway or the MS Main entrance - either will work! Please be patient as we have 4 volunteers to get through so if the line is long, please give our volunteers patience!

(AWAY) Game Day Checklist!

🔹Bus leaves at 3:45pm. 

🔹 Both grades will be getting ready in the UPSTAIRS bathroom and need to be ready and outside the bathroom by 3:40!

🔹Things you will need: shoes, socks, briefs, skirt, shell, sleeves, warm-ups(including team hoodie), and cheer bow

🔹Your hair needs to be all the way up or half up. You can have your bangs down, but it needs to be out of your face! If you continually play with your hair I will be asking you to have it all completely out of your face and pulled back for the next game. 

🔹If you are not cheering you need to still be in uniform. This means you need to be in your sleeves, shell, team hoodie or warm up jacket(if you’re cold), your briefs, skirt and/or warm up pants, and your hair needs to still be up. Your stomach is to never show!

🔹7th grade game will start at 5:00 pm at Oak Harbor Intermediate 

🔹also please remember to bring the least amount of items you can due to little space in the seats!

WOW! Where did this week go??? We were so busy that I did not get many pictures, sorry! Lots happening and lots of assessing as we near the end of the 1st Semester! 😳

We spent the week talking about 2D shapes in our Math unit. We continued working on composing simple sentences. Introduced a few new sight words, practiced CVC words, began our Gingerbread Literature Unit, Needs & Wants and Holidays Around the World. We learned about traditions in Australia,Italy & France. Best part was I told the kids we were flying there. Several were a bit scared- “But Mrs. Maguire, I’ve never been on a plane, my parents may get mad, and will we be back in time for me to get on the bus?”😆

I think several were a bit disappointed that it was just a video of a plane taking off. 😬

We also celebrated day 60 with Liza as our Countdown Hero! 

Specials next week: 

M-Music

T-STEM

W-Library- WE VISIT SANTA SHOP!!!

TH- Music

F-Gym

We are still in need of A LOT of Foodie Fun sign-ups. Please consider signing up for even 1 item to help with our Holiday Celebrations. 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0C44A5A72DA7FB6-53566705-december

Thank you for sending in stocking for your child and beginning to send in items to fill them with. I will continue to collect all the items and fill their stocking on Dec 19th. 

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Attached is a digital copy of our weekly newsletter. Please see your email for additional information. Have a great week!

We had an amazing group of students audition this year. Over half of our cast will be making their debut on Lakes stage and will be joining our veterans as together we become The Addams Family! We are so exited to be working together to put on what will be one of the best shows on Lakes stage! 

....will be posted momentarily.

Here's a look at the week's happenings.  Reminders for the Winter Party are in student mailboxes to come home on Monday.  Thank you for all who signed up to send in something. 

Monday - Gym (remember to wear tennis shoes)

Tuesday - Library, PTO Santa Shop shopping day

Wednesday - Art, math test

Thursday - Music

Friday - STEM, spelling test

Next Week - 12/16 - No spelling words

12/19 Polar Express Centers

12/20 Polar Express movie, Winter party

Before the cast list is posted I just wanted to say that you all really did an amazing job. There were so many fantastic auditions and this years show is going to be amazing. Please remember that these are your cast mates, not your competition. Read over the flowchart that is attached to this message before the cast list is finally posted. It is ok to be happy, upset, angry, or confused. But we need to make sure we deal with those emotions in a healthy way as to not harm others. 

The cast list will be posted in about an hour (or maybe more) but sometime tonight.

Hi everyone!  We spent this cold week beginning our study of holidays around the world.  On Monday, we visited Australia where it is summer at Christmas time and people go to the beach.  On Wednesday, we visited Italy where children receive gifts from an old woman named La Befana.  Finally, on Friday, we visited France where part of the Christmas festivities include lighting the Eiffel Tower.  For Foodie Fun Friday, we were able to sample a food from each country.  (Thank you so much to Belle's family and Jaxson's family who donated EVERYTHING for this week!). We ate "fairy bread" that is a popular snack for children in Australia.  It is simply butter bread with sprinkles on it, and it seems so odd, but the kids love it every year.  We also ate a piece of panetonne from Italy, that is a bread with fruit pieces in it.  Some kids liked it and some weren't so sure.  While the fruit panetonne is the traditional bread, I have seen a panetonne with chocolate chips in it instead of fruit that kids may enjoy a little more.  We also ate a Little Debbie Swiss Roll, which looks just like the chocolate Buche de Noel cake that they eat in France.  I have attached pictures so you can see these international foods!

Here is some more information for next week:

1. Our class will be shopping the Santa Gift Shop during our library time on Tuesday morning.  if you would like to have your child purchase gifts for Christmas, please make sure to send in his or her money in the envelope that went home this week.  (If you lost the Santa Shop envelope, you can send in money in a clearly marked regular envelope that states who your child is buying for, and how much he or she is allowed to spend.)

2. Next week we will be visiting Mexico, Sweden, and the United States for our holidays around the world unit.  We are still in need of a couple things for next week's Foodie Fun Friday.  If you are interested and able to donate something, please click on the following link for sign up.  Thank you for your support!  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4EADA72EA1FFC61-53566724-december

3. Our last day of school before Winter Break is Friday, December 20th.  School will resume on Monday, January 6th.

4. It is supposed to warm up a bit next week, which may mean we are able to have some outdoor recesses.  Please remember that we will go outside if it is 20 degrees or higher with the windchill.  Students should have a hat/hood, a heavy coat, and gloves so they can dress for the weather.  Please continue to have your child practice zipping his/her coat and putting on gloves independently.

5. We have been having a lot of water bottle spills lately as students are starting to bring disposable water bottles or reusable water bottles with plastic straws (like a Stanley). The disposable water bottles spill because the kids have a hard time screwing the caps back on properly or lose the caps altogether.  The reusable bottles with straws spill when the kids come in and set their backpack down to unpack or at their tables when they are working and get knocked over.  If at all possible, please send your child to school with a water bottle that completely closes and won't leak/spill if knocked over. This has really been a distraction.  Also, the only thing allowed in water bottles is plain water.  Please do not send juice, chocolate milk, or flavor packets to mix into the water. Thank you for your support!

Today in math class students learned how to divide a 4-digit number by a 1-digit number using area model.  Tonight's homework is worksheet 99.

Tomorrow morning players will work in shifts to help cover elementary games being held at the HS. Players have been notified of their shift but if you have questions please reach out to ask. 

After the competition of those games, we will have a short shootaround from 12:30-1:15p in the Fieldhouse. Players will then need to report back to the school at 4p for devotions and bus to Rossford. 

Please see the attached image with a message from Rossford Schools regarding their security and bag policy for events. If there are any questions just ask! 

Just a reminder to pick-up your wreaths/poinsettias from MS Room 155 (across from the band room) TOMORROW from 4-7pm. You may enter the school from the breezeway or the MS Main entrance - either will work! Please be patient as we have 4 volunteers to get through so if the line is long, please give our volunteers patience!

Dear Families,

As we continue our theme of “My Family and Friends”, this week we will explore friends and friendship. We will think about how friends are alike and different and how to make and keep friends.

This week’s Family Connections activities can be found at https://lilypad2.frogstreet.com/public/resouce-detail/d657efc0-ba95-4cfd-9603-682b7a8f3e4d

This week’s storybook, “Yuna and the Paper Cranes” can be found at https://lilypad2.frogstreet.com/public/resouce-detail/2b12a04f-be42-4f1a-8d80-81656722b7d8

Looking forward to an exciting week!

Sincerely,

The Preschool Team

Dear Families,

As we continue our theme of “My Family and Friends”, this week we will explore friends and friendship. We will think about how friends are alike and different and how to make and keep friends.

This week’s Family Connections activities can be found at https://lilypad2.frogstreet.com/public/resouce-detail/d657efc0-ba95-4cfd-9603-682b7a8f3e4d

This week’s storybook, “Yuna and the Paper Cranes” can be found at https://lilypad2.frogstreet.com/public/resouce-detail/2b12a04f-be42-4f1a-8d80-81656722b7d8

Looking forward to an exciting week!

Sincerely,

The Preschool Team

4th quarter has started, please plan rides accordingly if you aren’t attending the game 

See the attached list of callbacks and callback information. The final cast list will be posted on Saturday.

Game is almost over please plan rides accordingly

4th quarter has just started, please plan rides accordingly 

The detergent order pickup scheduled for tomorrow has been bumped up to begin at 10a in the HS parking lot. Also a reminder that tomorrow's delivery is only items from the detergent/soap orders. Cookie dough will be delivered at a later date. 

Auditions are next week (Dec 3rd and 4th)! Make sure you sign up for a time slot, as they are filling up and you may find it hard to get one that meets your schedule. Please see Mr Mahas or Mrs Recker with questions. 

After looking at attendance and seeing the girls that were sent home, I'm having practice end at 4:30 pm. About half the squad is missing so it wouldn't be productive to be here until 5:30. I understand this is late notice, so if anyone isn't able to pick up the girls at this new time tonight, I will be here until everyone has left. 

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