May 24, 2010 - Oak Grove School

Weekly Update • May 24, 2010
Best Wishes to Mrs. Doris Finkle who
is retiring after 20 years serving Oak
Grove School. Mrs. Finkle is pictured
here with her grandchildren who
attended her retirement party last
week. We will miss her but are so
excited for her as she embarks on her
new adventure!
Click HERE for our May/June
calendar
Important Dates to Remember
May 25
7:00 pm ~ RAZ Reader Orientation
May 26
5th Grade Civil War Day
9:00 am ~ PTO Meeting
6:30 pm ~ Music Rotation Concert
May 27
K-5 Olympic Day Rescheduled
May 28
Grade 8 Great America
May 31
No School - Memorial Day
June 1
Grade K-7 Picnic Day
Kindergarten’s last day
7:30 pm ~8th Grade Graduation @ LHS
June 2
9:30 am ~ Early Dismissal
Last day of school Grades 1 - 7
June 3
9:00 am ~ Practice Kindergarten
9:00 am ~ Walk in registration 2010/2011
June 4
9:00 am ~ Practice Kindergarten
*Homework Club's last day will be
Tuesday May 26th.*
PTONeWS
Parent Teacher Organization www.ogschool.org
May 24, 2010
A message from our PTO Co-Presidents
Shannon Schweiger & Leigh Foltz
Our final meeting of the year will be this Wednesday, May 26 at 9 a.m. in the Jr. high Teacher’s lounge.
We will be voting on the 2010-2011 Executive Board, slate of all committees and the 2010-2011 budget.
They are available for your review on the PTO web page at ogschool.org. Please try to attend if you
have volunteered your time this year on one of our many committees. As always, all are welcome.
Stock up on your Market Day Favorites Now!
There is only one more Market Day pick-up until fall. Be sure to fill your freezer with your favorites for
summer. Online orders are due Friday, June 11th, or return paper orders to school by June 2nd. Pick up
is Tuesday, June 15th from 4:30-5:30 in the Junior High Cafeteria.
REGISTRATION...
School and PTO Registration for the 2010-2011 school year begins today! Go to ogschool.org.
PTO WILL NOT OFFER WATER NEXT YEAR...
We just want to make everyone aware that water will not be provided in the 2010-2011 PTO lunch
program. Therefore, every student who does not sign up for the Oak Grove milk program will be
responsible for bringing in their own beverage next year to each of the PTO lunch days.
THANK YOU
to all of the parent volunteers who helped with this year’s Variety show! Congratulations to all the
performers for a job well done!
PTO AGENDA
Parent Teacher Organization
www.ogschool.org
Wednesday May 26, 2010
FINAL MEETING FOR YEAR 9:00 AM JUNIOR HIGH TEACHER LOUNGE
I. Call to Order
II. Approval of Minutes
III. Reports of officers
A. Co-Presidents
B. Vice President
C. Treasurer
D. Registrar
IV. Administration Reports
V. Reports of Standing Committees
A. teachers liason
B. variety show
VI. Old Business
A. vote on water refilling station up to $15k (if work is done this summer 2010)
B. vote on request for funds for $400.00 for 8th grade graduation dance
C. Vote on 2010/2011 slate
D. Vote on 2010/2011 budget
E. Vote on 2010/2011 by laws
VII New Business
A. OGSEF (Oak Grove School Education Foundation) presents their vision for 2010/2011 school year. Kim Moody OGSEF /PTO liaison and OGSEF President Martha Watt
BAND NEWS
Congratulations to the Symphonic
Band, Jazz Band and Jazz Combo for
your incredible performances last
week. We are still getting accolades
from students, parents and staff. Thanks for the great music.
Congratulations to Oak Grove Band
alumni on the following awards
given at Wednesday's Spring Band Concert at LHS.
Allie Schafernak: John Philip Sousa Award (nationally recognized).
Allie Schafernak: Orchestra Concerto Contest Winner .
Allie Schafernak, Carrie Huse, Laura Andrew, Elizabeth Ulanday, Michael Garrett,
Kristen King: Outstanding Wind Ensemble players.
Annica Mandeltort, Maddie Mazurek, Roger Michaelides: Outstanding
Symphonic Winds players. Gina Park: Outstanding Freshman Band player.
Many of these players are section leaders and soloists. We are proud of you!
Remaining Band Events:
Eighth grade band members will perform at graduation on June 1st. We will hold
our LAST full eighth grade rehearsal at 11:23 (5th period) on Wednesday, May 26th.
AUDITION TIME CHANGE: The LHS directors will NOW come to Oak Grove
on Wednesday, May 26th, at 11:23 (5th period) to hold auditions for placement
in the LHS bands. DO NOT AUDITION IF YOU HAVE NOT PREPARED THE
IMEA SCALES AND EXCERPTS.
Thanks for another great year. Please consider a summer band or music camp. You
will make new friends and build and sharpen your music skills. 50th Anniversary Poster Contest
Help Green Oaks celebrate 50 years!
Guidelines: Contest open to students, grades K-8, from
Roundout and Oak Grove School.
Use markers, crayons or watercolors to depict a design to
help our village celebrate. The 81/2 x 11 poster must
contain the phrase, “Village of Green Oaks 50th
Anniversary.”
Awards: 1st, 2nd & 3rd prize recognition and special
recognition awards will be presented at the open house
Sunday, June 13, 2010. 1st prize printed in Green Oaks
newsletter and/or poster reprduced & hung in the Village
Hall.
Deadline: Thursday May 27. Hand in to homeroom
teacher or Mrs. Anderson, the Oak Grove art teacher.
Please print name, grade & home phone number on the back.
ATTENTION 6TH GRADE PARENTS:
The following items need to be donated for 6th grade picnic day:
14 cases of water
210 juice boxes
Snacks: cookies, brownies, rice krispies
To be delivered to Ms. Rades' room on or before Friday, May 28th.
Please call or e-mail Corinne Mattioli and let her know what you will be
donating. (847) 224-2475 or [email protected]
Thank you in advance for whatever you can donate!!
ROTARY READS
The Libertyville Sunrise
Rotary came to read to all
First - Third grade classes
last week. Each Rotary
member tells a little about
their job and how reading
is important to them as
well as how the Rotary
provides service to the
community. The Rotary
also donated $50 worth of
books to each classroom!
Dr. Tony Collins reading to
Mrs. Brown's First Grade
Registration Correction
Your registration packet for next year included a physical exam packet. The letter
states that a physical examination is required for students entering 5th grade. This
is incorrect and the correct grades that are required to have a physical examination
include incoming students in kindergarten, 6th grade and all new students
entering from an out state school. If you have any questions, please call Sandy
Magdalener at 847-367-4120, ext 2011.
K - 4 Gone Wild With Good Character!
K 1 -
Gwen Edgar
Lily Van Dixhorn
2 -
Ryan Garcia
3 -
Bryce Pinsel
4 -
No Nominee
Each week many K-4 students receive a "Gone Wild With
Character" nomination. These are displayed on the wall
across from the Pat Patt gym. The following students names
were randomly picked this week to say the Character Counts
pledge on Monday morning. Congratulations to all the
students who were nominated this past week!
National Writing Consultant
On Friday, Oak Grove School hosted
Kristina Smekens, a well respected
consultant in "6 Traits Writing". In
the morning, Ms. Smekens taught
mini lessons at seven different grade
levels to demonstrate the teaching of
writing. While she taught our
students, teachers and administrators
observed from the back of the room.
After the students went home on
Friday afternoon, Ms. Smekens taught
all of the teachers about the "6 Traits of Writing". She will return on August 18 for a
full day training with the staff to launch the school year with writing. Our teachers
written evaluations indicate that this was a very valuable training experience.
Parents will be learning more about the “6 Traits” as we implement them throughout
the school next year. If you would like to learn more: www.smekenseducation.com
Board of Education News
MASTER FACILITY PLAN
The Board is engaging a architect firm to design a Master Facility Plan for the school. The plan should
be complete within 6 months. At the May Board meeting, the Board voted to suspend plans for the
cafeterias and other renovations until after the facilities plan is completed.
ADMINISTRATIVE RESTRUCTURING PLAN
The Board voted to support the administrator restructuring plan. Although we could continue to
be successful with our current structure, the administration has created an enhanced design for the
school. Even though we will remain one Oak Grove School tied together by our Strategic Plan, our
Curriculum Coordinating Council, Board of Education and Administrative Council, the school will
be divided into three units to serve as schools within a school. Julie Waehner will be principal of the
K-2. Dave Karolewicz will be principal of the 3-5 and Mark Clement principal of the 6-8. Teachers
are all assigned to one of the three "schools". Each school will make recommendations on curriculum
and instructional practices for the children they work with to the CCC. The schools will have a "whole
child" perspective since they will work within their school to design plans for children with special
education, learning support or gifted needs. Ms. Waehner will remain the District Special Education
Coordinator and Mr. Clement the District Gifted Coordinator but the principals will lead the work
with the children in their own schools in this areas. We are excited to begin this new plan in the Fall
and feel it will serve the parents, staff and children.
“Spotlight on the Grammy’s”
8th grade dance
"Spotlight on The Grammys " 8th
Grade Graduation Dance was a huge
success! The kids had a blast which
was only made possible by the many
volunteers who helped create,
organize, build, paint, cut, install, bake,
order food , invitations, entertainment
and favors.....it would not have
happened with out all of you ! Special thanks to Anja Valente and
Rhoni Ross-Bast for chairing the event,
Dee Panico & Amy Loumeau and their
team who co-chaired the food, Paula
McGuire and Denise Gaulin who
co-chaired entertainment, Suzanne
Baumruk who created the beautiful
invitations, Helen Ryan and her team
who made the favors, Steve and Julie
Bakus who made the "Rolls Royce"
limo for the entrance, Cyndi Harvey &
Leigh Foltz for co-chairing decorations
and their many elves who worked day
and night on creating such a cool
vision, Maria Luce for
MCing the red carpet,
and Mr. Clement for his
special dance rendition
of YMCA!!!! 5 months of
blood sweat and tears! It
was all worth it once we saw
the kids arrive and enjoy the
evening!
“Spotlight on the Grammy’s”
8th grade dance
Dear Parents,
We, as Technology Teachers, are recommending that students practice their
typing skills over the summer. The school district has purchased a web-based
version of the program Type to Learn 4 that is available to your child from
home. This is the same application that the students have been using at school.
A goal of 20 minutes once a week would be appropriate for most children.
If you are interested, go to http://ttl4.sunburst.com/downloads/ to get the
application as well as the Client Upgrade. You must download both in order
for the program to work. It works on both PCs and MACs. If you need help,
you can download the Quick-Start guide. This has step-by-step directions for
you.
Your child’s username is the same as their login name (year graduating and
last name, ex: “16mccarty” with NO spaces). Everyone has the same
password of “123.” The first time you use the program, you will need the
account code of “100522.”
As a reminder, students should be using the correct finger positioning
whenever they are typing. Typing can be practiced in many forms: writing an
email to a family member, writing a summer journal entry, or writing a story.
Any practice will help improve typing skills.
Enjoy the summer!
Mrs. McCarty
Mrs. Rancine
Mr. Mehnert
Mrs. Rappaport
Mrs. Kaczmar
Oak Grove Athletics
Track and Field State Meet Results
Max Roberts - State Champion!!!!
1st Place in the110 M Hurdles
8th Place in the 800 Meter Run
Kashawn Murphy
25th Place in the Long Jump
Keith Wilson
14th Place in the Long Jump
15th Place in the 200 Meter Dash
Congratulations!
Oak Grove Athletics
(cont.)
Golf
We are very proud of our team this year! Oak Grove Golf team finished 4th
at the Lakeside Conference Golf Tournament! Top scorer for Oak Grove was
Griffin Bruns with a 47!
A special “Thank You” to Mr. Phil Hogan and his daughter, Carrie for all of
their help this year. Your contributions are truly appreciated!
REMINDER:
Scramble Pizza Party:
6th Graders Wednesday, May 26th
4:00 - 7:00 p.m. at Brae
Lock Golf Course
7th & 8th Graders Thursday, May 27th
4:00 - 7:00 p.m. at Brae
Lock Golf Course
~CHESS~
They did it again! Top honors go to the 2 teams of
students playing in the Non-Rated Sections of the 34th
Kumbaya Chess Scholastic Tournament, held on
Saturday, May 22nd at National-Louis University in
Skokie. The K-2 Team students were Nikhil Patel, James
Schmidt and Albert Sterner. The K3-8 Team was Bulat
Schamiloglu, Malcolm Sullivan, and Joseph Welch. Not only did they
take 1st Place team trophies in both sections, but also won top honors
individually. In K-2 Nikhil, in his 1st tournament ever came in 8th, James
took 4th Place individually, and Albert received the 3rd Place individual
trophy. In the K3-8 Section, Malcolm placed 5th, Bulat placed 2nd and
Joseph took the 1st Place individual trophy. They were terrific! We are so
proud of them. Coach Steve was on hand to work with them inbetween
rounds and it was a great day. Each represented the spirit and quality of
all Oak Grove students -- enthusiastic, committed, and full of team spirit!
Junior High Olympic Day
was held last Thursday. The
Elementary Olympic Day will be
held Thursday, May 27. Thank
you to our Physical Education staff
for planning all of the events!
2010 Oak Grove Variety Show!
Click here to view a
video of the Variety
Show!
Click *HERE* to view the following
flyers in the
VIRTUAL BACKPACK
Cook Memorial Library Tween Programs Gr. 4-6 & Summer Programs
Smiling Stars 2010
Backpack Notes
Boys Basketball Camp
Girls 7-12 grade Cross Country Summer Camp
K-12 Cheer & Dance Camps
Krafty Kids & Vidkids Summer Programs
Hidden Knoll Farm Summer Camp
Future Cats K-8 Cheerleading Camp
Kids Day Lake County Discovery Museum
Girls 5-8 Cheer for Libertyville Boys Football
Chicago Botanic Gardens Camp
Beta Club Adopt a Duck
Junior Girl Scout’s Book Collection
Camp Invention
Summer Volleyball Camp
Volleyball Camp - Grades 7, 8 and 9
Camp Jorn / YMCA
3rd-9th Grade Girls Basketball Camp
Libertyville Days Childrens Events
Picolo Soccer Tryout Info
Chicago Storm Summer Soccer Camp/Lib. Sports Complex
GLSA Soccer Info and Tryout Form
Key Lime Cove/United Way Community Days
OAK GROVE SCHOOL
“Best of Class” ifieds
Your place to advertise items for SALE and GIVE-AWAY
FOR SALE: Jogging Stroller, Baby Trend Expedition Single Jogging Stroller. Dark green, good condition $40. Call Anne
847-573-9429.
FOR SALE: Schwinn Lil’ Stardust 16” Girls Bike w/ training wheels, pink & wht, good cond. $30~ Schwinn Fastback
hitchhiker trailer bike 20”, black, exc. cond., only used couple times $35. ~ Call Kathy 847.816.0865
FOR SALE: Bauer Impact 100 hockey skates US13R, CCM Vector ice hockey skates US 2.5, CCM Champion 90 ice
hockey skates size 12, Bauer Vapor ice hockey skates US 4.5, girls white size 1 ice skates, New w/tags Bauer navy
hockey pant men’s small (orig.$100) selling for $50.00. Mongoose Trailer bike $75. Land Of Nod Espresso sleigh crib w/
turtle bumper pad (orig. $1000.00) asking $400.00 or best offer. Smith and Hawkin iron window boxes 4’- $60.00 each.
Wrought iron easel Pub/game table w/marble top $275.00, kids tan velour recliner. Wrought iron antique “Shabby chic”
twin bed $150.00.Antique quilts. Queen embroidered silk duvet w/ matching shams. Designer fabric and trims- all overages ~ Call Kim at (847) 680-9166
FOR SALE: Gorgeous New Bar-Height Game Table. Marble top w/ chess/checker board inlay and four brass-embedded
drink coasters. Medium color wood pedestal base w/ intricate detail. Retails for $800; Selling for $275. Call Julie at 847287-8988 or [email protected].
FOR SALE: Boys Mongoose bike, black, excellent condition, $25. Boys Schwinn Spitfire bike, red, excellent condition,
$25. Kids sized wheels at 20 inches, good for K-4. Both bikes just received a complete tune up. Contact Karen at 224406-7280
FOR SALE: 5 piece youth marshal arts sparring gear.(head, gloves, and foot gear). Make an offer (new=$125) Call Deb
(847-573-8829) Martial arts clothing also available.
FOR SALE: Canadel Solid Wood Kitchen Extension Table, seats 6 (8 w/ leaf), includes 6 chairs, Great cond,
$549.00~Walter Smith recliner $125.00~Cherry Wood Wall Unit/Entertainment Center w/ Lg. Custom fitted Sony TV–
Exc. Cond (76.5” H, 22” D, 96” W) $599.00 ~ Slot Machine $50.00~TV cabinet w/ shelving underneath $100.00~(2)
Boys Sports Lamps, GREAT shape and very eye catching! $25.00 each~Decorative Rooster Lamp $25.00, GREAT shape
~ Contact Karen at 847.680.7573
FOR SALE: Vintage 60-70’s Doll House. All wood construction, ready to be painted/finished. Includes stand and large
tote of doll furniture and accessories. Great condition, can deliver locally if needed as it is too large to fit in most cars.
Asking $200.00. Contact Gary at [email protected] or call 224-234-1641 for pictures or information.
GIVE AWAY: Boys black pants. Perfect for BAND concerts Size 32x32. Worn 3 times, max. Contact Betty @847-5497428.
The Oak Grove PTO is pleased to begin our third year of the “Best of Class” ifieds…the Classified
Ad page exclusively for the OGS community where all PTO members and Oak Grove Staff may advertise their
no-longer-needed items. Ads may be placed “For Sale” or “Give-Away”. All items need to be tangible, no
services please. Each ad will run for two consecutive weeks in the Oak Grove News. The cost to advertise “For
Sale” items is $5.00 for two lines. Give-away items are free! Each line is approximately 21 words. There is a
minimum purchase of 2 lines at the cost of $5.00. You may purchase extra lines in 2-line increments at the same
cost of $5.00. All ads are due to Kathy Blaha via e-mail at ([email protected] ) no later than Noon on
Wednesday for the following Oak Grove News publication. Please put “OGS” in the subject line of your e-mail.
All payments must be by check made payable to Oak Grove PTO and mailed to Kathy Blaha at 31360 Reigate
Lane, Green Oaks, IL 60048. The Oak Grove PTO reserves the right to refuse an ad. Any questions, please e-mail
Kathy Blaha at [email protected].