Oakbrook Elementary School

September 11th , 2018 oes.ddtwo.org Phone: 821-1165 Issue 1

Kim Boutin Principal

OUR MISSION: Oakbrook Elementary strives to provide students with the skills necessary to be college and career ready with relationships, rigor and relevance.

Rachel Mahaffey, Assistant Principal

The Grizzly Times

Principals Corner:

We are off to a wonderful start to the year at Oakbrook Elementary School! We have loved meeting all of our new families, as well as welcoming back our returning ones. My name is Kimberly Boutin and I am the Principal of OES. This year marks my 2nd year as principal and 13th year at OES. Our mission statement is “Oakbrook Elementary School strives to provide every student with the skills necessary to be college and career ready with rigor, relevance and relationships.” Along with an amazing staff, we practice the core values of OES each and every day. B elieve you will E nourage each other A ccept the challenges R emember kindness S trive for success It is going to be an amazing year here at OES. We look forward to watching our children grow!

Welcome to our new OES Staff! Kristen Broderick Sarah Pertuset Ali Graham Anna Weatherford Jeanne Mitchum Caroline Whatley Amber Pomranky We are Beary happy to have you!

OES would like to say thank you to our wonderful community partners who donated school supplies, lunch, and their time! We are so grateful for all of their support! It takes a village! Ashley Cagle/ Trademark Properties

Barkin BBQ Riverbluff Church Hands Of Christ Ministry

Gifted Screening Notification Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade Students Referrals for testing for the GATE (Gifted and Talented Educa-tion) program will be accepted until September 27th. Contact your child’s teacher to request a “Permission to Test” form. Return the completed form to the school. Testing will take place between October 14th – November 1st Students will take the OLSAT (aptitude test) The screening process is multi-faceted and many students re-quire several rounds of testing, therefore, final results of the screening process may not be available until May 2020. Notificación de Detección de Dotados Estudiantes de tercer, cuarto y quinto grados Referidos para la prueba para el Programa GATE (Educación de talentosos y dotados) se aceptarán hasta el 27 de septiembre. Póngase en contacto con la maestra o el maestro de GATE en la escuela de su hijo(a) para solicitar un formulario de "Permiso para examinar". Devuelva el formulario a la escuela. La prueba se llevará a cabo entre el 14 de octubre – 1 de noviembre. Los estudiantes tomarán el OLSAT (prueba El proceso de selección es multifacético y muchos estudiantes requieren varias rondas de pruebas, por lo tanto, los resultados finales del proceso de proyección no estén disponibles hasta mayo de 2020.

Parents for safety, please make sure you use the car rider line when dropping your children off in the morning, Also as a reminder our OES instructional day starts at 7:15am. If you arrive after that please sign your child in at the front office.

*Fine Arts Rotation 1*

September 9th

*Fine Arts Rotation 2*

September 16th

Fine Arts Rotation 3*

September 23rd

Please support our wonderful Business Partners: ABC Trophies, Ashley Cagle Trademark-Properties, Barkin BBQ, Chick-fil-A, Chili’s, CiCi’s Pizza, , Gilligan’s, Ident-A-Kid, Integrated Wellness, Jersey Mike’s, Kickin Chicken, Oakbrook Orthodontics, Papa John’s, Popeye’s, Publix, Robert Beebe, Sonic, State Farm (Mark Ensly), Swasty Orthodontics, The Gold Club at Westcott Plantation, Mary Kay, Heavens Best Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning, Riverbluff Church, Stars & Strikes,

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Lunch Menu 9/12 Beef ta-co, black beans, Span-ish rice, peach cup 9/13Hawaiian/ cheese pizza, green beans, sal-ad, fruit 9/16 Chicken Parm steamed veggies, fruit 9/17 Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, watermelon 9/18 Hamburger, fries, veggie cup, fruit 9/19 Asian Chicken, fried rice, Asian veggie blend, strawberry-banana cup 9/20 Pepperoni pizza, lima beans, side salad, fruit 9/23 Chicken ring nug-gets, potato smiles, green peas, fruit 9/24 Cheeseburger, broccoli, salad, fruit 9/25 Chicken egg roll, Italian Flatbread, green beans, apple

Looking Ahead

9/10 Popcorn Day 9//10 Picture Day-K4, 1, 2, 4 9/11 Picture Day– K5, 3, 5 9/13 Real Men Read 9/18 Interims Go Home 9/19 Open House 6-7:30pm 9/27 Dads on Duty @ 6:40am 9/30 Moms on Monday @ 6:40am

Parents of Walkers with Pets Please be sure to stop before the bike racks if you have a pet with you when arriving to school or leaving in the afternoon. We would like to avoid any potential allergy issues as well as any fears children may have with pets. We greatly appreciate your help with this situation.

Calling All Academic Lanyards! 3rd, 4th, & 5th grade OES students that were here last year took home a black and red academic lanyard with a gold paw. This lanyard needs to come back to school so we can be sure to add more pins to it this year! Replacement lanyards can be pur-chased for $3.00 from their home-room teachers if you have lost yours.

Tech Tip

Bridge the Digital Divide: Find

Low-Cost Internet Service and Com-

puters in Your Area

Visit this website to look for possible

ways to get connected at home and

get access to digital literacy and ed-

ucational content. https://www.everyoneon.org/find-

offers [Excerpt from “5 Ways to Get

the Internet When You Can't Afford

It” posted by Common Sense Media] Here are two more ideas that you

can explore and use to connect to

broadband Internet:

1. Public libraries: You can access

broadband Internet in many public

libraries. Call the Dorchester County >

Summerville Library (on Old Trolley

Road) (843) 871-5075 or visit https://

dorchesterlibrarysc.org/locations/

summerville/ for more information.

2. Places with Wi-Fi: Most food chains

and stores offer free access for those

who use or consume their services. In

some places there are time con-

straints.

***Attention Parents *** Please join our Oakbrook Elementary PTA Facebook page and our Oakbrook Elementary School Family & Community Facebook page!

Reading Tip Try to read to your child every day. Aim for 10-15 minutes of bed-time reading for a peaceful end of the day. Bring along a book, and read during a sibling’s sports practice. Or curl up together with a book when you get home from work.

PTA Reflections *The Reflections program theme this year is

"Look Within". Here is a video with more infor-mation. https://youtu.be/XjoCIjwKzUo.

We look forward to many entries!!