JUNE
2009 |
June 2
Alma Flor Ada visits Oyster/Adams
June 3
DCPS Celebracion "Alma Flor Ada" de la Poesia in Spanish
June 5
"Parent Celebration"
9AM Oyster
June 8-10
Summer Reading Book Fair: Oyster Campus
June 10th
LSRT Meeting
June 11th
8th Grade Promotion Ceremony
June 15th
Last Day of School!
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MESSAGE FROM PRINCIPAL LIANG AGUIRRE
June 5, 2009
Dear Parents:
I'm delighted to announce the City Council and the Chancellor have reached a compromise regarding the projected enrollment for next year.
As a result, all schools will have their full budgets restored for 2009-2010! We are moving forward with the recruitment and hiring of all of our anticipated positions for next year.
Thank you to all who have brought in your enrollment forms. This good news does not mean to stop enrolling-we must still prove our projected student count in a timely manner. All enrollment forms are due to by June 15.
As we enter the last full week of school, please remember to scour your house for library books, classroom books, textbooks and other odds and ends that look like they could belong to the school. We will be placing orders soon for next year's curricular materials and do not want to spend any of our precious funds on unnecessary items. Thank you for your assistance.
Enjoy the weekend,
-Monica Liang Aguirre
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NEWS & REMINDERS |
June 5, 2009
Summer
Reading is Around the Corner! From Ms. Kleinmann: We all
know that the brain is a muscle and must be exercised even in the Summer.
Reading MUST NOT stop in June and resume in September, That is why this year,
like every year, each O/A student will be required to read 4 books over the
summer; 2 in Spanish and 2 in English (middle school requirements may vary).
During the week of June 8th, my assistant Sra. Fuentes and I, will be handing
out our traditional SR packets. These packets include a letter of introduction,
age appropriate SUGGESTED reading lists, and 4 book report forms, 2 in English
and 2 in Spanish. We also encourage the kids to join the DC Public Library's
Summer Reading Club (happening in all branches). Those that do and bring proof
to me in September will be eligible for a raffle of 20 gift certificates to
Politics and Prose bookstore. IN ORDER
TO SUPPORT THIS VITAL SCHOOL-WIDE REQUIREMENT AND PROVIDE ACCESS TO QUALITY
BOOKS IN SPANISH WE WILL BE HAVING A SMALL BILINGUAL SUMMER READING
BOOK FAIR IN OYSTER'S MAIN HALLWAY
ON JUNE 8TH-10TH FROM 3:00 UNTIL
6:30 PM. WITH BOOKS FOR PK
TO MIDDLE SCHOOL. SEE YOU THERE!
Oyster-Adams Agua = Paz BUCKET WALK FOR WATER
2009
Join us for Agua=Paz's Walk For
Water on FRIDAY JUNE 12TH at 5:00. The walk, where club
members and other supporters will walk around the track holding large
buckets of water to duplicate the difficult journeys taken each day by
children of developing countries, will take place at the new track at
Adams. A potluck picnic will begin immediately after the walk until 7 pm. - Anyone is eligible to walk, including parents,
siblings, etc.
- Supporters are encouraged to gather pledges for
their commitment to "walk" while holding on to a gallon container of
water. Click here for the pledge sheet in English & Spanish and don't forget to BRING YOUR BUCKETS!
- Agua = Paz teeshirts will be available for sale
next week for $20.
Agua=Paz is an Oyster-Adams Service
Learning Club that has partnered with the Emmanual
Mongalo School
in Nicaragua,
a community desperate for water, sanitation and hygiene education. Our
year has been amazing, educational and fun. Our club members have
written letters to their peers in Nicaragua; attended and presented at Youth Leadership
Conference at the World Bank; attended presentations at National Geographic;
met with Jan Eliasson, former Swedish Ambassador and Special Envoy to Darfur,
Sudan; met with the Amigos de las Americas program; and
through our Wear a Hat for Water, Day raised $630 towards our goal of
$1,600.
Dramatic Performance: Several fourth- through eighth-grade students have been working hard to produce a play based on the novels Number the Stars and The Diary of Anne Frank. The performance will take place in the Intermediate Campus auditorium on Monday, June 8, at 5:30pm. Please join us in celebrating their hard work! Songs to Sing, Songs to Play. Ms.Zvi, our music teacher, invites everyone to come: June 11, 2:00 PM, Oyster cafeteria.
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UPDATES
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Update from Assistant Principal Ibis Villegas
June 5, 2009
A Time of Celebration for Hispanics/Latinos
2009 is a very joyful year for Hispanics/Latinos in our
country. It is a time when a US
President has publicly acknowledged the academic accomplishments of
Hispanic/Latino judge Sonia Sotomayor by nominating her to the US Supreme
Court. Her nomination brings Hispanics/Latinos, once again, to the forefront of
our national awareness. From my perspective as an educator, we might finally
have a Hispanic/Latina Supreme Court Justice with the potential
to be a positive role model for countless Hispanic/Latina girls.
The
significance of President Obama's selection is far-reaching and includes our
school community. At Oyster Adams we take pride in the diversity of our school.
That diversity becomes quickly apparent to all who visit us. When I conduct a
tour of our school for guests, I commonly state that our cultural richness is
highlighted in that our Spanish-speaking faculty comes from all over the world.
Our faculty includes teachers
from Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spain,
Colombia, Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Ecuador. The beauty of
Oyster-Adams' school culture is that we embrace the linguistic and cultural
differences from each country. Contact enhances tolerance. Tolerance enhances
understanding.
The words of our illustrious visitor, Alma Flor Ada ring
true now, more than ever, given the imminent changing hue of the highest court
in the land:
Latinos
Hispanicos, latinos, hispanos
Vivimos en
los Estados Unidos
Hablamos
español
Somos
dominicanos
Y
venezolanos.
Somos
salvadoreñas
Y
puertorriqueñas.
Somos
colombianos
Y
ecuatorianos.
Somos
uruguayos
Y
paraguayas.
Somos
cubanos
Y
mexicanos,
Mexicoamericanas
Y chicanas.
Y mucho
mas.
Decimos con
orgullo
El nombre
que nos une:
Latino, en
el idioma,
Latina, en
la cultura.
Hispanicos
o
Hispanos,
Siempre
orgullosos
De nuestra herencia latina.
Last chance for Zumba! You are invited...to the fastest-growing alter-school class at
Oyster-Adams! Just in case you haven't heard...just in case you missed the
Zumba fun at the Fiesta...just in case you've missed the Friday fun that takes
place at 6:15 PM in the Primary Campus...you will have one more chance before the
end of the school year. Yes, I'm talking about Zumba. This energetic
dance-based exercise class will end on Friday, June 12th with a
special guest: former Oyster Adams teacher/salsa percussionist Gary Sosias will
come to enchant us with his drumming as we all Zumba to our hearts' content!
This last class represents a dream come true for me...children and their parents
exercising and having fun together to the beat of live drums. It just doesn't
get any better. You will leave with a smile and burn a few calories along the
way. I promise! I want to take a moment to personally thank the many parents
who have joined me in this social experiment I have named FaZumba DC.
Every week I saw how one by one you made a commitment to join the class. One by
one parents came to my office with smiles and positive feedback. This family
exercise format is the only one of its kind in the DC area. What I found was
that sometimes it was the child who motivated the parent, "I want to Zumba!"
and sometimes it was the parent who insisted, "I feel like I'm finally doing
something for myself!" Once we gathered in the cafeteria, our cares were
carried away with the enticing melodies of merengue, salsa and cumbia. Once
again, GRACIAS! Classes will resume next September.
MIDDLE SCHOOL/INTERMEDIATE CAMPUS UPDATES
June 5, 2009
Using our New Parking Lot:
In order to build our wonderful new playground, we lost more than 10 parking
spaces as compared to the old parking lot. You will also notice that almost all
of the spaces are tandem (shared) spaces. We have assigned the spaces to
teachers and other staff and ask that you refrain from parking in the lot
starting at 7 a.m. until most staff have left at 4:30 p.m. If you do park in the
lot after 4:30 p.m., please do not park in such as way as to block another car
from being able to leave. Many teachers stay late and we would like them to be
able to leave easily.
Using our New Playground:
The students are so excited about the new playground! We have noticed that a
lot of students who are not
signed up for an after-school program are staying after school to use the new facilities. Please be aware that students who are
not enrolled in OCA or Parks and Rec are playing unsupervised and at their own risk.
OCC UPDATES
Q: How is it possible that $160,000 could
disappear from the 2010-2011 OCC budget?
A: If we don't get new co-chairs for next year's
Parent Campaign and Auction NOW, that is just what will happen!
We
(the parents of Oyster-Adams) are so grateful to the Auction Committee Chairs:
Hilary Ball, Liz Fallace, Sally Hunsberger, Ayesha Khan, Cherie Parker, Gina
Polidoro, Becky Sachs; and the Parent Campaign Co-Chairs Liz Fallace, Mary Jo
Kelly, Claudia Martin, Marcia Maziarz and Susan Stevenson for raising more than
$160,000 this year for the OCC to spend on all the extras your child will enjoy
next year. (Take a look at next year's budget on the website under "OCC".)
The co-chairs of these fundraisers are moving on, and they are eager to train
their replacements. Next year's efforts will be so much more successful if they
begin now. Fall is too late! Are you willing to help lead one of these
fundraisers? If so, you would be one of the heroes who raises 2/3 of our total
budget. Please contact Marcia Maziarz at maziarzma@gmail.com if you are
interested in helping to lead the Parent Campaign next year. Please contact
Hilary Ball at hilaryball@gmail.com if you are interested in being one of the
Auction Committee chairs who will run that event next year.
Annual Report Translation Update: We promised that it
would be available in both languages this week, and it's coming! Our
able translators are busy andtired at
the end of the school year, just like a lot of you are. While we have
benefitted from almost instantaneous translation of all of our communications
and documents throughout the year, translation takes time and skill, and the
Annual Report is quite a project. We thank you for your patience and
understanding, and we will send you an alert when the Spanish version is ready
and the Annual Report is up on the website.
LSRT UPDATES
[NO LSRT UPDATE THIS WEEK]
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Family Day at Roosevelt Senior High School Free parent workshops, children's activities, food June 6th from 10 am - 2pmclick here for more information
Postings on this bulletin board
are limited to items of interest to the Oyster-Adams community, about free
or low-cost products, services or events that support the mission of our
school. Please send your notice IN ENGLISH AND IN SPANISH to
ana.rodriguez@dc.gov by 4:00 p.m. on Wednesdays.
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NEXT WEEK'S ACTIVITIES
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Week of June 8, 2009
Monday AM
8:40 AM (arrival time) -
Got-A-Book Campaign, primary campus
9:00 -11:00
AM -
OA Idols Auditions (primary campus)
Monday PM
1:00 -2:00 PM 3:30 PM
- 4th, 5th and 6th Grade Reading Tutorials (Mr.
Dixon, Ms. Roling, Mr. Petersen)
- 6th Grade Math Tutoring (Ms. Redd)
- Bilingual summer reading book fair (primary campus main hallway) until 6:30 PM.
5:00 PM
- Maru Co. dance
performance primary campus
5:30 PM - Holocaust-Related Play (Intermediate Campus gym)
Tuesday AM
8:40 AM (arrival time)
- Got-A-Book Campaign, primary campus
3:30 PM - 5th Grade Reading Tutorial (Ms. Roling/Lemus)
- 5th Grade Math Tutoring (Ms. Hainer)
- 6th Grade Math Tutoring (Ms. Redd)
- Middle School CityDance (Room 309)
- Bilingual summer reading book fair (primary campus main hallway) until 6:30 PM.
6:00 PM - 5th Grade Decades Night (Intermediate Campus gym)
Wednesday AM
8:10 AM
- 4th Grade Reading Tutorial (Ms. Fuller)
1:00 - 3:00 PM
3:30 PM
- 4th Grade Math Tutoring (Sr. Bustios)
- 5th Grade Math Tutoring (Ms. Hainer)
- Bilingual summer reading book fair (primary campus main hallway) until 6:30 PM.
Thursday AM
8:00 AM - 5th Grade Class Trip to Harper's Ferry
8:40 AM (arrival time)
- Got-A-Book Campaign, primary campus
3:30 PM - 4th Grade Spanish Tutoring (Sra. Reyes & Sr.
Alfonso)
- HoopEd, primary campus
6:00 PM - 8th Grade Promotion Ceremony (Hilton - Georgetown Room)
Friday AM
7th Grade - Trip to the Zoo 8th Grade - Trip to Six Flags Largo, MD
8:40
AM (arrival time)
- Got-A-Book Campaign, primary campus
Friday PM
3:30 PM - CityDance Performance (Room 309) 4th & 5th and Middle School
- MathCounts for Middle School (Mr. Hunter)
4:30 - 7:30 PM - Aqua = Paz - Walk for Water 2009 (Intermediate Campus field)
6:00 PM
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AFTER-SCHOOL
PROGRAM NEWS
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OCA
June 5, 2009
Tuition was
due on or by June 1; because of the short time left to end of the school year.
Please make checks or money orders payable to OCA.
Session 3,
spring enrichment will end the week of June 1-5. Make up classes the week of
June 8-12.
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OYSTER-ADAMS
BILINGUAL SCHOOL
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Monica Liang Aguirre, Principal
Ibis Villegas, Assistant Principal
Sandi Baer, Intermediate Campus Coordinator
Primary Campus (PreK - 3rd Grade)
2801 Calvert Street, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Tel: 202/671-3111
Fax: 202/671-3087
Intermediate Campus (4th - 8th Grades)
2020 19th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Tel. 202/673-7311
Fax. 202/673-6500
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Email: contactus@oysterbilingualschool.org
Website:
http://oysterbilingual.devis.com/AboutUs/
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