Weekly Ticker - October 23, 2016

Week of October 23, 2016

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Save the date for our upcoming Thanksgiving lunches! Parents, you’re invited to join your child for a special lunch in the Dining Hall. Following is the Thanksgiving lunch schedule: Wednesday, November 16—PreK at 10:50 a.m., and 2nd Grade 11:45 a.m.; Thursday, November 17—Kindergarten at 10:50 a.m., 3rd Grade at 11:45 a.m., and 6th Grade at 12:45 p.m.; Friday, November 18—1st Grade at 10:50 a.m., 4th Grade at 11:45 a.m., and 5th Grade at 12:45 p.m.

• Please note, the date of the Dads’ Breakfast is Friday, November 4, 7 a.m. - 8 a.m., not November 7, as stated in the Weekly Ticker last week. We are excited to welcome “back” Coach Clark Humphreys as our guest speaker for the breakfast. Coach Humphreys is the associate head coach for the women’s track and field team at Vanderbilt University. He is also an OHS alumnus, Class of 1988. We hope to see you at the breakfast for a morning of inspiration and fellowship.

• This week, we are excited to welcome three administrators and teachers from our partner schools in Jamaica, Paulette Chedda and Florette Francis from Albion Primary School and Eneka Nesbeth from Ebenezer Primary School. While visiting our school, they will observe numerous classes, teach a few lessons, present to faculty and staff and visit KIPP Kirkpatrick School. We have worked with these schools for more than four years and look forward to strengthening our ongoing partnership.

• Author and illustrator Mike Curato, creator of Little Elliot the Elephant, will visit with students in kindergarten through second grade on Wednesday, November 2. He will share Little Elliot’s newest adventure, Little Elliot, Big Fun. To purchase a copy of this book or any of the other Little Elliot books to be signed by the author, please click HERE to download an order form. Return the completed order form, along with payment, to your child’s teacher by this Friday, October 28.

• Students are invited to wear a Halloween theme shirt to school on Monday, October 31. The Halloween shirt is optional and must be worn with dress code bottoms. PreK students may wear a costume to school on this day. Please send a uniform or a Halloween shirt for a change of clothes. Costumes are not permitted for any other grade.

• Halloween parties for the Lower School will be held on Monday, October 31. If you are planning to bring any treats for the parties, remember that all classrooms are peanut- and nut-free. Please send snacks that do not contain peanuts, peanut butter or any type of nuts and have not been made in a facility processes peanuts or nuts.

WEEKLY CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS

Monday, October 24

Rotation Day H

Girls Basketball Practice, 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., FPC Gym

Musical Theatre Workshop Principals Rehearsal, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m., Choral Hall

Boys Basketball Practice, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m., MBA big gym

Tuesday, October 25

Rotation Day I

Second Generation Breakfast, 7 a.m. - 7:45 a.m., Dining Hall

Kindergarten Field Trip, 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m., Gentry Farms—students should wear their green OHS shirt

3rd Grade Field Trip, 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m., Radnor Lake—students should wear their Round Up T-shirt and jeans

Boys Basketball Practice, 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., FPC Gym

Musical Theatre Workshop Rehearsal, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m., Choral Hall

Wednesday, October 26

Rotation Day LL

5th Grade drop-Off for Nature’s Classroom Retreat, 6:30 a.m., Dining Hall

5th Grade Nature’s Classroom Retreat, all day and overnight

Girls Basketball Practice, 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., FPC Gym

Thursday, October 27

Rotation Day O

5th Grade Nature’s Classroom Retreat, all day and overnight

Early Morning Art, 7:15 a.m. - 7:50 a.m., Lower School Art Room

Boys Basketball Practice, 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., FPC Gym

Girls Basketball Practice, 6 p.m. - 7 p.m., Brentwood Academy Upper School gym

Friday, October 28

Rotation Day A

5th Grade Pickup from Nature’s Classroom, 2:45 p.m., Enrichment Center parking lot