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ARE YOU GETTING READY FOR LAPS FOR LEARNING?
Laps for Learning is Next Weekend!
Laps For Learning, Olde Creek's biggest fundraiser, is Sat. Sept 22, 2018. Check-in will begin at 7:30 AM and the event will start at 8 AM. More information about the event is available at http://oldecreekpta.org/laps-for-learning/ Join the fun as students are cheered on by parents and staff as they walk/run the 5k loop around the school.
Online registration is available at the link below:
http://oldecreekpta.org/laps-for-learning-registration/
Calling All Volunteers!
Laps for Learning is only a couple of weeks away and as always we need many volunteers to make this event a success! This is a very fun event for the whole family and Olde Creek's biggest fundraiser. Please consider signing up to volunteer in one of the following areas. Thank you!
Volunteers Needed – please sign up here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a044ea8ad2ca20-laps
Olde Creek Bears Care Community Outreach Program
Olde Creek Elementary is pleased to kick off the second year of our Olde Creek Bears Care Community Outreach Program! The primary focus of Bears Care is to provide weekend food provisions to students in need in our school community. These students typically receive free or reduced priced meals during school days, which for many are the only meals they may receive.
To make this program successful, WE NEED YOUR HELP! We will be requesting food donations on a weekly basis through Sign-Up Genius. Food donations can be dropped off at Olde Creek's Front Office during regular office hours. Food bags will then be packed on Fridays for students to take home for weekend food support. For this week, we are pre-collecting food items to stock up our food pantry while this year's list and number of families are being finalized. If you are interested in donating food items this week, please click the link below to sign-up. Thank you!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508054AA9AF2CA0F49-olde26
SPIRIT WEAR SALE - Order Deadline is September 17
Show your Olde Creek pride with some awesome spirit wear. Order online using the link below. All orders need to be submitted by September 17. Thanks for your support!
https://oces18.itemorder.com/sale
3 Hour Early Dismissal - Wednesday, September 19
This is a reminder that we will have a 3 hour Early Dismissal on September 19. The Olde Creek dismissal process will begin at 12:15 PM and we will modify our lunch schedule on this day. Please contact your child’s teacher if you are planning to join us for lunch that day.
Veterans Day at Olde Creek
Calling all Active Duty, Reserve, and Veteran members of our Armed Forces. Olde Creek would like to invite our community’s military family members to speak with students and share their experiences on the morning of Monday, November 12th to recognize Veterans Day. We are very proud to have so many military family members in our school community and we want our students and staff to have an opportunity to make a connection with all of you.
On the morning of November 12 from 8:30 - 9:30, we will host a brief reception for our military family members. This will be followed by the opportunity to visit a classroom to share a little bit about themselves and their service to our country.
If you or a family member is interested in participating in this special event at our school, please click on the link and fill out the survey below by October 5th. Please contact the Olde Creek main office with any questions.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPqS8ts7hRv7OfYbhekmfw8m_3hcr2VC-VoTvl-slxWLhgyA/viewform?usp=sf_link
Expertise Survey
At Olde Creek, one of our goals we have is for the educational opportunities that we provide for the students to be authentically connected to the world around us. We aspire to prepare our students to be able to positively impact the world they will enter in the future. One of the instructional delivery methods we use to help foster these real-world connections is an approach called Project-Based Learning (PBL). Our staff has been working diligently in the past year to develop their own capacity to provide these types of engaging learning opportunities. In many of our PBLs, we often try to connect with someone outside of our school who has expertise in the area our students are learning about.
This is where all of you can help us! We are looking for Olde Creek parents and family members who may be interested in speaking with some of our students about their area of expertise. We are looking for engineers, carpenters, authors, entrepreneurs, and much more. If you are interested in speaking with our students about your profession or passion, please complete the survey below. We will share the results with our staff and if our students are completing a project or assignment that aligns with your area of expertise, we will be in touch Thank you for being willing to share your gifts and skills with our school!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdctR4TLcPYXNql4QHuhrpTU2UtEug4sQFDYI9kM3YF6uTS2Q/viewform
Olde Creek Book Drive
Do you have gently used books on your shelves at home that your children have outgrown? If so, consider donating them to Olde Creek during our Used Book Drive. The book drive will begin the night of Back to School Night and run until the end of the OC Book Fair on Tuesday, November 6th. Place donated books in tubs in the main office. Donated books will b used in classroom libraries and cafeteria reading tubs. Questions? Email OC Librarian, Patty Smalley, at pssmalley@fcps.edu.
Advanced Academic Parent Information Meeting - October 17th
Ms. Stobbe, Olde Creek’s Advanced Academic Resource Teacher, will hold a parent information session on Wednesday, October 17th, from 6:00-7:00 pm in the library. At the info session, she will review the levels of service in FCPS for K-6 and give an overview of the referral/screening process. We hope you will be able to join us! If you have questions, please contact Wendy Stobbe, AART, at wmstobbe@fcps.edu. For further information about Advanced Academics in FCPS, click here.
Here are some important dates to keep in mind for this year:
October 11 – AAP Level IV referral forms for new FCPS students due to Ms. Stobbe (grades 3-6). Please contact Ms. Stobbe directly for support with this process.
January 10 – Level IV referral files and optional materials due to Ms. Stobbe (grades 2-6)
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