February 19: Community-wide Black Heritage Month Celebration at Primary Campus

Freedom Celebration:

Join us on Friday the 29th at the Primary Campus at 9:30AM as our students celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Thank you to the Pan-African Heritage Committee for organizing this event. Due to the ABT performance at Adams, the Intermediate Campus will hold its event next week. More information to come.

The American Ballet Theater comes to Adams!

For the second year in a row, the ABT will work with 6th graders all next weeks as part of The Make a Ballet Tour. All week, professional dancers and designers from New York City will work with our students to produce a ballet - Romeo and Juliet - that will be performed here at school on Friday afternoon at 1:45PM.

Family Literacy Night!

-POSTPONED UNTIL THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4th

Show your school spirit!

In the next two weeks, two of our Oyster-Adams basketball teams will have their final home games of the season. Wear our school colors (blue and yellow) and come out and cheer! Our 4th & 5th grade girls' team is undefeated!

Tuesday 1/26: 4th & 5th grade boys play at 3:45
Tuesday 2/2 and Wednesday 2/3: 4th & 5th grade girls play at 3:45

Self-Defense for Women at Oyster Adams. Don't forget to come to the first-ever self-defense demo for women will take place 12:30pm - 1:30 pm on Saturday January 30th at the Oyster Adams Primary Campus! Bring a friend!

Do you have announcements? We've put the "Community Bulletin Board" section back in this Weekly Bulletin so that families and members of the community have another way to share information with each other. Postings for this space are limited to free or very low-cost events, services or products that support the mission of our school. Please send your notice IN ENGLISH AND IN SPANISH to wendy.jacobson@verizon.net by 4:00 p.m. on Thursdays.

Pilot of Parenting Program (PESA) to begin in February: Oyster-Adams is launching a pilot of a parent involvement program called PESA (Parent Expectations Support Achievement). This program, originating from California, will be piloted with the help of Escuela Bolivia in Arlington, VA and is generously supported by the OCC.

We will be piloting this program in Spanish only and are looking for parents who are committed to participating in the 6-week program, either as participants or participants who are training to be future facilitators. The course is offered free of charge but parents are asked to purchase the book at a cost of $30. Full scholarships for book purchase are available. For more information and to register, please submit his registration form. 20 seats are available.

Important Message about boxtops. We need to collect as many boxtops as possible by Febuary 28, 2010. Our fundraising goal for this year is $500. A special thanks to all the dedicated teachers and families for remembering to check whether the products you buy have boxtops. You can go to boxtops4education.com to see a list of all products and to print out collection sheets.