 Oak Hill Staff dressed up for Festive Winter Wear Spirit Day.
The Oak Hill Office will close at 4:30pm on Friday, December
15th and will re-open on Tuesday, January 2nd at
8:00am. We wish you a relaxing break with your family and a very happy new
Year!
Dear
Parents,
It was so
wonderful to see many of you during the last couple of weeks for the Strings and
Chorus Concerts as well as volunteering in classrooms with special events! We appreciate all that you do to support our
staff and student body. I would like to
invite your child to slide in to the
New Year and beat those wintertime blues with some Oak Hill Spirit! We have
some easy and fun spirit days planned for the month of January to keep students
and staff feeling positive, healthy and a part of a greater school community. To access the calendar of Spirit Days at Oak
Hill, click here.
You can also see the days listed below in the calendar portion of our
news. We look forward to the fun and ask
that hats not be worn during school with the exception of Thinking Hat Tuesday
on January 23rd. Thank you
for your support!
From the
entire Oak Hill Staff, we wish all of you a safe and joyous Winter Break with
family and friends. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to further support your child’s learning and experience at Oak Hill. My door is always open!
Sincerely,
Holly DeVore, Principal
December 15: Last day of school before winter break (FULL DAY)
December 18- January 1: No
School: Winter Break (Oak Hill Office Closed)
January 2, 2018: Students return to school
January 11: PTA Meeting at 6pm, PTA Game Night in Cafeteria from 6:30-8:30pm
January 12: Parent AAP Level IV Referrals due to the main
office by 4pm
January 15: NO SCHOOL, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
January 19: Geography Bee, 9-10am
January 23: Winter Band Concert in Cafeteria, 7-7:30pm
January 25: End of 2nd Quarter and 2 hour Early
Close
January 26: No School, Teacher Workday
January 29: No School, Staff Development Day
The Oak Hill PTA is pleased to announce that the school
directories have arrived! All PTA member households will receive a directory
(one per household), to be sent home in your child’s Wednesday folder. If you
have more than one child at Oak Hill, the directory likely will be going home
with the YOUNGEST child. If you did not receive a directory and think you
should have, please contact directory@oakhillpta.org.
Directories will also be available for purchase while supplies last, at $10
apiece.
 Oak Hill's Geography Bee final ten.
On Monday a second round of Geography Bee competition
questions was held with Oak Hill’s nineteen class winners. After an hour of
questions the group was narrowed down to the top ten. The
finalists who will be competing in the in-school Geography Bee on January
9th, at 9:00 AM in the cafeteria are: Wyatt Folsom and Michaela Frey
of 4th grade, Visu Chegu, David Garcia, Jason Liu, Archi Marrapuru,
and Keegan Murphy of 5th grade, and Akshat Alok, Thoraia Hussein,
and Sergey Patsuk of 6th grade. Congratulations to all of Oak
Hill’s finalists and best of luck in the Geography Bee!
Oak Hill has two new Girl Scout troops. Troop 56038 is a Daisy troop for girls in K and
1st grade. Troop 56040 is a Brownie troop for 2nd and 3rd graders.
If your daughter is interested in joining you can sign her up at gscnc.org and click join in the upper right hand corner. You can also
contact Hillary Driscoll troop organizer at hillarydriscoll@gmail.com or
Cathleen Murphy at cmurphy@gscnc.org or
703-372-4345 for help joining.
Currently in PE we just finished
our gymnastics unit. This unit focused on the flexibility fitness component. We also were challenging the students to learn new movement patterns that they
are not accustomed to doing.
We are presently working on our
dribbling unit by manipulating an object by hand. This unit will last about 3
weeks. Over the break we encourage the
students to stay active, maybe check your google classroom for an at home
physical activity that could earn your child some extra PE time.
PAWsitive Digital Magazine at
Oak Hill
Would you like to share your
writing or art with the community? Well now you can!
The Oak Hill PTA has started
PAWsitive , our very first digital magazine.We are collecting entries for our
first edition. The theme is Signs of Courage. Please submit your entries to communications@oakhillpta.org
by December 15th to have a chance to be featured in our first edition, coming
out in January.
We can’t wait to put a spotlight
on our authors and artists here at Oak Hill
Winter After school activities
Registration begins at 7am on Friday 12/15 and
ends on Wednesday 1/10.
TUESDAY
Sculpt It (K-6) Max 20
Description: Learn
to sculpt using modeling compounds, wire, wood, aluminum, plastic,
string and/or paper. We'll mold, bend, twist, stretch, balance
while we design each three-dimensional creation.
Sports Camp (3-6) Max 25
Description:
We will have a different sports theme each week and will practice skills
and play modified games.
WEDNESDAY
Zumba (K-5) Max 18
Sports Camp (K-2) Max 25
Coding (2 - 6) Max 18
THURSDAY
Yoga (K-5) Max 14
FRIDAY
Coding (2 - 6) Max 18
Science Olympiad at Oak Hill
Virginia
Science Olympiad (VASO) is a non-profit which seeks to engage and challenge
students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics through various
levels of team-based competitive tournaments in Virginia. For more information,
please visit their website here.
Registration
opens on Jan 8 2018.
Grade
Level: 3rd to 5th
Cost: $30
If you have any questions, please
contact Jaya at j_jaya06@yahoo.com or Raji
at auroji@yahoo.com
GLOBAL Plus classes
GLOBAL Plus Parents, we do hope your child is enjoying
the current 10 week GLOBAL Plus language classes
at Oak Hill Elementary School.
- Registration
for the second 10 week session has started so please take advantage of
the $10 Early Bird discount and register now!
- The
discount will be valid until January
5, 2018.
Classes for the Winter/Spring
session will start after January 18th and students can continue
to strengthen language skills. Teachers will be using new material for this
session.
Parents, please use promo
code GLOBAL10 for the $10 discount and click on the following link:
If you need any assistance, please
do not hesitate to contact GLOBAL PLUS registration office at 703-658-1201,
or by calling the ACE Support line at 703-658-2727 for guidance.
Thank you for supporting the GLOBAL
Plus program. Our goal is to foster the foreign language advantage by
offering a quality language class that provides a positive learning experience
for your child. Thank you for your time.
Math Kangaroo Registration
continues…
If you have missed our
registration deadline for registering for Math Kangaroo, there is still time.
Here are the details . Students
from grades 1 - 6 are eligible to attend. Enroll by clicking this link until
December 15th. Registration fee is $20 (non-refundable).Late enrollment starts
from December 16th until end of this year. Late enrollment fee is $35 (non-refundable). Use our Oak Hill center code VAHERND0003307. The exam date is March 15th 2018
Volunteer Opportunity – Food
Rescue
Be a part of the community who cares for the
neighborhood. Oakhill elementary participates in Food recycling program. The
PTA is looking for volunteers to deliver rescued food to the Neighborhood
resource center. Volunteers are expected to check-in to Oakhill elementary
cafeteria any time on Wednesdays & Fridays and collect the rescued food
items and deliver it to the Cornerstones. Please sign up using this link.
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