Week of February
1-5:
Saturday Jan 30th:
- 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 - 2:30 pm on
Saturday January 30th at the Oyster Adams Primary Campus! Bring a friend!
Thursday:
- 6PM: Literacy Night! (Primary Campus)
Friday:
- 9:00AM-10:00AM: Principal's Coffee (Primary
Campus)
- 2:00PM: Freedom March (Intermediate Campus)
Upcoming Events:
February 11: Middle
School Dance "Have a Heart for Haiti"
February 12:
Professional Development Day (No School)
February 17: African Dance Troupe "Coyoba" performs at
Primary Campus.
February 18:
African Dance Troupe "Coyoba" performs at Intermediate Campus
February 19: Community-wide Black Heritage Month
Celebration at Primary Campus
Family Literacy Night!
Ever wonder how you could better-help your child at home
with reading, but not sure what to do?
Do you want to understand what is developmentally appropriate and/or
expected for children at each grade level?
Do you need strategies to help your child progress in Spanish literacy,
but you're not a Spanish speaker? Do you
struggle to get your child to read in Spanish and/or English?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, make sure you
come to Literacy Night next Thursday,
February 4th, from 6-8pm at the primary campus. The event will target literacy issues and
strategies for children Prek-8th Grade.
The event will feature:
- Fair-style information tables with take-aways from
grade level teams and individual teachers to help you better-understand, or
better-help your child
- Read alouds by teachers and special guests
- Bilingual book exchange
Please contact Wendy Reeve or Christina Morado with
questions, of if you'd like to help with set-up. Parent volunteers needed for the book
exchange: wendy.reeve@dc.gov or christina.morado@dc.gov
Children's Book Exchange: We
all have books on our shelves that we no longer read, but they're books. Good books.
We simply can't part with them!
Put your no-longer-read books into the hands of another child, and take
"new" books home with you at the Book Exchange next Thursday, February 4th,
from 6-8pm at the primary campus.
Bring as many books as you want (please, only books
appropriate for Prek-8th grade), then select books to bring home
with you. Your lonely books will love
you for giving them new readers! Books
in Spanish and English are needed. So
get busy, thin out your bookshelves this weekend, bag them up, and bring them
to Literacy Night on Thursday the 4th.
Principal's Coffee: Join Principal
Monica Liang-Aguirre and Assistant Principal Ibis Villegas for an informal
gathering to hear updates and engage in questions and answer. This week we will talk about the 2010-2011
budget. Friday, 9AM-10AM, Oyster.
Enrollment Process for 2010-2011. The DCPS lottery has
officially begun and will run through February 28th. Please read the letter from
Chancellor Rhee regarding enrollment information for next year for your
child:
click here. All parents must return the
"Letter of Intent" by March 19th.
Sra. Tavarez (Intermediate campus art
teacher) has had to take
leave early and will be out for the remainder of the school year. We have indentified an art teacher
substitute, who is going through DCPS processing, and she should begin teaching
in the next week.
Spots still available
for Parenting Program (PESA) to begin in February: 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.
Oyster-Adams
Kindergarten Soccer Team forming! If your kindergartener would like to play
on an Oyster-Adams team as part of the Stoddert soccer league, please contact
Anne-Marie Bairstow, bairstow@pailtonroad.com
202-441-9576. Information about Stoddert soccer is available at www.stoddert.com
