The Lions Roar

THE LION'S ROAR NEWSLETTER

OAK MIDDLE SCHOOL

February 24, 2019

In this Issue:

LAUSD WEBSITE

Oak Middle School Website

Oak PTA E-mail

HEAR US ROAR!

OAK MIDDLE SCHOOL WEEKLY UPDATE

Academics, Athletics, Activities and the Arts

Extraordinary Experiences for Everyone Every Day

Our regular Lion's Roar will continue next Sunday! We are looking forward to seeing everyone back at school on Monday, February 25th.

BREAKFAST PROGRAM WILL BEGIN AT OAK THIS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH.

DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW..... We need your boxtops ? Please make sure you clip and save those for when we return. They are due at the end of February.

DID YOU KNOW...

The Oak Middle School Honorary Service Award committee would like to invite you to nominate the seen and unseen volunteers around our school and community for our PTA Honorary Service awards.

Attached in the link, it's just takes a minute or two to fill out and nominate a stellar Oak volunteer.

Click here

PTA selection criteria to select the nominees:

Honorary Service Award (HSA)-This award recognizes an individual or organization for outstanding service to children and youth in our community, going above and beyond what is asked of them.

Continuing Service Award (CSA)-This award recognizes an individual or organization for ongoing or long-time service to children and youth,

providing support year after year.

Very Special Person Award (VSP)-This award recognizes an individual, group or organization for their service to PTSA. VSP award is an excellent

honor for an individual effort, specific program or task.

Outstanding Teacher Award (OTA)-This award recognizes a teacher for outstanding service to children and youth through our PTSA, school or

community.

Outstanding Administrator Award (OAA)-This award recognizes an administrator for outstanding service to children and youth through our PTSA,

school or community.

Golden Oak Service Award (GOSA)-This award recognizes, an individual who has made significant contributions to the welfare of children and

youth in the school or community. As the most prestigious PTA award in California, the commitment should have expanded to the community and beyond.

Thank you for your continued service to Oak Middle School, we couldn't do it without you!

DID YOU KNOW... Our District Instrumental Music Concert is coming soon?

DID YOU KNOW...... we are looking for parent volunteers to help us with the special end of the year 8th grade activities? If you would like to help Click here

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DID YOU KNOW... You can celebrate a birthday while helping our Oak Middle School Scholarship Club raise money for the McKenna Claire foundation that supports research for Pediatric Cancer?If you would like to post a birthday on our marquee, please click the link and fill out the paperwork. Celebrate Birthdays at Oak click here to print the birthday form

DID YOU KNOW.... Every Friday is Spirit Day at Oak? Please wear your favorite Oak Tee or show your school pride by dressing in our school colors: Blue and Yellow.

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Erin Kominsky

Principal, Oak Middle School

ekominsky@losal.org

WHAT'S HAPPENING AT OAK THIS WEEK?

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25: Welcome Back to all Oak Students

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 : BREAKFAST PROGRAM BEGINS AT OAK.

STEAM fair coaching today after school

The Talk workshop tonight 6:30 p.m.

PTA GENERAL MEETING TONIGHT 6:00 P.M. EXECUTIVE BOARD, 7:00 P.M. GENERAL SESSION

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 : Modified day 2:00 dismissal

Celebrate 14 Oak artists at the Reflections Art Gallery

5:30-8:00 p.m. McAuliffe MPR

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28: Lion Pride recognition lunch

School Site Council meeting 3:30 P.M. MEDIA CENTER

FRIDAY, MARCH 1 : Show your Oak Pride

SATURDAY, MARCH 2: ALL DISTRICT BAND AND ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCE

BAND 1:00, ORCHESTRA 5:00

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Parents we need YOU to join PTA. Our goal is 100% membership for Oak Middle School. Please JOIN TODAY!

Did You Know...?

Oak Families helped Oak PTA raise over $1500 last year by doing these 4 things!!

BoxTops - Save, clip & turn in your BoxTops to the Main Office before the end of September!

Office Depot – When you shop for supplies at Office Depot on Katella, tell them you are from Oak Middle School and they will donate 5% of your total to our school!

Ameci's Pizza - Our local Los Al shop gives Oak $$ back if you to cut out the AMECI CARES ABOUT OUR SCHOOLS icon on the pizza boxes and turn them in to the Office!

Ralph's Grocer - Follow these instructions to get your Ralph's card linked up to save for Oak!

1. Go to www.ralphs.com.

2. Click on Community > Community Rewards (Top center menu).

3. Scroll down the page to Participant >Enroll now

4. If you already have an account, click Sign In.

5. If you are new to Ralphs.com and need to create an account, click on Register (Top right Corner)

6. Do you use your phone number at the register? Call 800-660-9003 to get your REWARDS card number.

7. Once you are logged in, go to My Account (Top right Corner) scroll down to Community Rewards to Find Your Organization and search for OAK MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA (or our number 81838)

8. Under Select Your Organization, select the button next to OAK MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA

9. Click the Save Changes button to save your selection.

10. The City School will appear at the bottom of your Ralphs receipts. Double check the next time you go to the store.

Thank you families for supporting Oak and our PTA!

Oak Middle School PTA Board 2018-2019

President- Marita Frank- marita.frank@gmail.com

Executive Vice President- Monica Graham- cmograham@hotmail.com

Treasurer- Krista Jameson- mskristaj@yahoo.com

VP Ways & Means- Marci Ferguson- baenam@msn.com

VP Parent Ed- Viki Bragg- vlw24@aol.com

VP Legislation- Allison Mohanna- Alison.mohanna@gmail.com

VP Membership- Cindy Welch- jcjwelch@gmail.com

Financial Secretary- Kahmissa Steenhousen- ksteenhausen@gmail.com

Recording Secretary- Christy Croce- croce@mail.com

Historian- Rebecca Brazier- rebeccabrazier@yahoo.com

Parliamentarian- Jodee Flint

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Purchase Oak Spirit A PRIVATE OAK STORE HAS BEEN specifically customized with OUR apparel and discounted pricing. Oak Middle School families will now need a code, assigned here in this email, to enter your Team Store. This privacy code allows CAS to offer your team custom items along with discounted accessory items normally only offered when purchased in one of our retail stores.

The domain name will remain unchanged. casswimshop.com

Enter the : TEAM STORE

Oak Middle School team code is : OAK (case sensitive-all caps)

our CAS customer service number, 714.898.2655, in case anyone should have difficulty signing in.

click here On-line

Gear up to show your school spirit on Fridays!

Oak spirit wear is availbable for purchase or go to casswimshop.com search Oak.