SCHOOL YEAR CALENDAR
2009-2010
Veteran's Day NO SCHOOL
13th-
Repord Cards issued
OCA cocktail party
17th-
OCC Board mtg.
6:00 Oyster campus
23rd-
OA LSRT mtg.
6:00 Adams campus
26th & 27th-
Thanksgiving
NO SCHOOL DECEMBER
5th-6th & 12th-13th
Christmas Tree Sale
Oyster blacktop
7th- Parent Conference Day 12:00 pm-7:00 pm NO SCHOOL
7th- 14th-
Bilingual Book Fair, Oyster cafeteria
15th-
OCC Board mtg.
6:00 Adams campus
16th-
OA LSRT mtg.
6:00 Oyster campus
Dec.21-Jan.1 Winter Break NO SCHOOL
4th- Students return to school
15th-
NO SCHOOL for students (prof. dev.)
18th- Martin Luther King Jr. NO SCHOOL
19th-
OCC Board mtg.
6:00 Oyster campus
22nd- Early Dismissal 12:15 pm End of second term
27th-
OA LSRT mtg.
6:00 Adams campus
12th-
NO SCHOOL for students (prof. dev.)
15th-
President's Day NO SCHOOL
16th-
OCC Board mtg.
6:00 Adams campus
24th-
OA LSRT mtg.
6:00 Oyster campus
1st-
Parent Conference Day
12:00 pm-7:00 pm
NO SCHOOL
16th-
OCC Board mtg.
6:00 Oyster campus
17th-
OA LSRT mtg.
6:00 Adams campus
19th- NO SCHOOL for students (prof. dev.) 26th- Early Dismissal 12:15 pm *End of third term Mar. 29-Apr. 5
Spring Break
NO SCHOOL
6th-
Students return to school 16th- Emancipation Day NO SCHOOL
19th-
Report Cards issued
20th-
OCC Board mtg.
6:00 Adams campus
28th-
OA LSRT mtg.
6:00 Oyster campus
MAY
17th-
Parent Conference Day 12:00 pm-7:00 pm NO SCHOOL
18th-
OCC Board mtg.
6:00 Oyster campus
26th-
OA LSRT mtg.
6:00 Adams campus
31st-
Memorial Day NO SCHOOL
JUNE
16th-
OA LSRT mtg.
6:00 Oyster campus
18th-
Early Dismissal 12:15 pm Last Day for students End of fourth term |
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A Message from Assistant Principal Ibis Villegas
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Community Action Moment at Primary
Something beautiful happened during last Friday's
bake sale after school. A little girl was quietly standing near the bake sale
crying because she didn't have any money. I walked over to see why she was
crying and saw a third grader standing
in front of her, his arm extended, with a dollar bill in his hand.
I asked the
little girl, "Why are you crying?" She said, "Because I don't have any money."
I said to the boy, "Its ok" (you don't have to give her your own dollar). He
kept his arm extended and replied, "I want to help".
His demeanor impressed me as so sincere and full of
good will. This was a living example of our Community Actions...in action!
The respective parents came quickly upon the scene and the situation was
happily resolved. It was great to witness this "Community Action Moment" at
Oyster-Adams.
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DUE TO PRINTING DELAYS AT DCPS,
REPORT CARDS WILL NOT BE SENT HOME TODAY.
THEY WILL BE SENT HOME ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16.
WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE
NEXT
WEEK (November 16-20)
Tuesday:
- 6:00PM: OCC Board meeting in the Primary Campus
Cafeteria
COMING UP: Monday, November 30:- Bilingual
Book Fair Planning Meeting on Monday, November 30th at 6pm in the
Primary Campus Library. Pizza will be
provided.
IMPACT AID
FORMS: Past Due! We
are still missing many IMPACT AID Form that were due this past Wednesday.
Please make sure to turn the form in on Monday.
Each year, DCPS applies for Impact Aid funds from the US Department of
Education for additional assistance. In
order to qualify for funding, 100% of surveys must be returned. All information on the survey is
confidential.
What is a "wish list" and
why should I care?
Each year, Oyster-Adams teachers at all grade levels fill out "wish
lists" of the books available for purchase at the Bilingual Book Fair that they
would like to have in their classrooms. You can help stock your child's
classroom with wonderful new books in both Spanish and English by buying books
from these wish lists. The wish lists will be posted at the book fair
which runs from Monday, December 7 through Sunday, December 13 at the primary
campus. Don't miss a great opportunity to put books directly into the
hands of your child and his/her friends!
Attention Dog Lovers! Animal Rescue League Event. The Washington Animal Rescue
League is holding a Bark for Books event on Sunday, November 22nd
from 1:30pm to 3:00pm. Contact Humane Educator Debbie Duel at (202) 726-2556,
ext 247 or go to www.warl.org
for more information. The Rescue League is located at 71 Oglethorpe Street,
N.W. Washington, DC 20011
Primary Campus Specifics
Student
Council begins at the Primary Campus. Congratulations are extended to each Student Council
representative in grades 1-3. Elected students must excel academically, be
responsible, show leadership qualities, be a global thinker and a model school
citizen. There are two Student Council reps per classroom. Meetings will be
held on Fridays from 12:15-12:45. Each year, Student Council representatives
volunteer to campaign for President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary.
The student body in grades 1-3 will listen to campaign speeches on Monday,
November 16 at 8:40am. Elections will take place on Tuesday, November 17th.
Upcoming Assembly. "One Man Show" assembly program for Second and Third Grade
students on Monday, November 16th
at 1:30pm.
Intermediate Campus Specifics
Parking at the Intermediate Campus: As we all
know, parking is very limited near the Intermediate Campus. Unfortunately, we do not have extra spaces in
the parking lot for parents or visitors.
We need parent cooperation! Please do
not park in any spaces before 4:30PM.
Every day we are inconveniencing staff members who cannot park or cannot
leave because there is an unidentified car blocking their way. If you cannot
find parking and are at the school on brief business, please inform the office.
Morning Drop Off. A reminder to please drop off all
students in the front of the building in the mornings. The only students who should be entering the
building through the back are students who ride their bicycles to school. Again, the added traffic of student drop offs
is causing alley back-ups in the morning.
Thank you!
Recycling program to begin FINALLY at Adams! The Adams Campus of Oyster-Adams is
anxious to get started with our recycling program to reduce the impact we're
having on the environment. We have 30 bins that we will place in every
classroom. We have teachers and parents who have committed to support this
effort. We are about to launch this year's student council and would like to
make this the first order of business for them. Please feel free to contact us
if you have any experience and/or contacts with environmental organizations
that can support our efforts to increase students' awareness about recycling.
Agua = Paz Club starts!
Oyster-Adams
will begin its Agua = Paz Club again this year with an orientation on November 17th at 3:30.
We have space for 25 children from the Intermediate Campus, which will be
filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. Click here for enrollment forms which may be turned into the main
office.
For more information, please contact Kathy Fletcher kathy@useless.org
or Liz Fallace at lfmh@aol.com or 202-667-1555
Student council. Sr Girón is working to organize next
week's elections for the Oyster-Adams student's council. He will be talking to
each class about open positions and asking students to organize the elections.
We will let you know the results. Our goal with the student council is to give
students a voice in our everyday life in the Oyster-Adams campus.
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Basketball
practice schedule and information:
- 4/5 Boys
(Coaches Rivers and Brown): Monday
3:30-4:30, Tuesday 3:30-4:30
- 4/5 boys
(Coach Logan): Tuesday 4:30-5:30, Wed 3:30-4:30
- 4/5 girls
(Coaches Hunsberger and Farmer): Thursday 5:00-6:00, Friday
3:30-4:30
- 6-8 boys
(Coaches Cardona, Frett and Smee): Monday 4:30-6:00, Wednesday
4:30-6:00, Thursday 3:30-5:00
- 6-8 girls
(Coaches Harris and Hokesema): Tuesday 5:30-6:30, Friday 4:30-6:00
All practices will be held
in the Adams gym. Home games for 4/5 will be at Adams; the Middle School
home court is still to be determined. The game schedule will be available in
about three weeks and games will override the practice schedule above.
The basketball season will end at the end of February.
Questions can be directed to individual coaches (email addresses listed below)
and/or to the Athletic Director, parent Sally Hunsberger, at sallyhunsberger@juno.comor (202) 286-2693.
Malcolm.rivers@dc.gov
kbrown@umbc.edu
S.Logan@octagonpublishing.com
Mfarmer@dcrcc.org
luiscardo@hotmail.com
kareem_18@yahoo.com (Coach Frett)
bill.smee@slate.com
lfmh@aol.com (Coach Harris)
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November 13, 2009
Hello
Oyster-Adams Community:
About the Directory: You should have received a
copy of the 2009-2010 Family Directory this week. We distributed one per family
through the youngest sibling. If you did not receive your directory, please
check with your child's afternoon teacher for the elementary grades or your
child's homeroom teacher in middle school.
For those children from divided families,
we made every effort to give those students two copies. If you did not receive
a second copy, please leave a note in the school office with your child's name
and class. Many many thanks to parents Phoebe Schlanger and Christina
Garza for their leadership and efforts on the production of the Directory.
Volunteers Needed for By-laws: We are looking for
volunteers to help clean up the OCC's by-laws. The project was begun last year
but needs a core group of committed individuals willing to finish this project.
Please contact Jackie Alvarado if you are interested.
Please remember to be in touch with me,
or PTO Manager (ptomanager.com), to volunteer your time for one of the upcoming
events:
- Next OCC committee meeting is Nov. 17 at
the Primary campus. Draft agenda will be posted on website by Monday
evening.
- Book Fair (December 7-14) - contact Laura
Kleinmann (kleinmannlaura@hotmail.com)
- Christmas Tree Sale (December 5-6 and 12-13) -
contact Karen Smith (ksmith@urban.org)
If you need to contact me: email -- alvaradojay@gmail.com,
cell phone: 443-799-5458
Thanks,
Jackie Alvarado
OCC Co-Chair
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November 13, 2009
NO LSRT NEWS THIS WEEK
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November 13, 2009
NO OCA NEWS THIS WEEK
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OYSTER-ADAMS BILINGUAL SCHOOL
Monica Liang Aguirre, Principal
Ibis Villegas, Assistant Principal
Sandi Baer, Intermediate Campus Coordinator
Oyster Campus (PreK - 3rd Grade)
2801 Calvert Street, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Tel: 202/671-6130
Fax: 202/671-3087
Adams Campus (4th - 8th Grades)
2020 19th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Tel. 202/673-7311
Fax. 202/673-6500
__________________________Email: contactus@oysterbilingualschool.org
Website:
http://oysterbilingual.devis.com/AboutUs/
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