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THE LION'S ROAR NEWSLETTER

OAK MIDDLE SCHOOL

May 12, 2019

In this Issue:

LAUSD WEBSITE

Oak Middle School Website

Oak PTA E-mail

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OAK MIDDLE SCHOOL WEEKLY UPDATE

Academics, Athletics, Activities and the Arts

Extraordinary Experiences for Everyone Every Day

SPOTLIGHT ON TEACHING AND LEARNING:

Teaching and learning at Oak this week highlights just some of the many ways our students are engaged in rigorous learning.

ENGINEERING AND DESIGN: Students in Mr. Schiele's Computer Engineering class have worked extremely hard all year long utilizing Design Thinking to develop a real product or invention. They developed a graphic design for a tri-fold display, and made a commercial for their product. These designs are then submitted to the OC Maker Challenge Competition at Chapman University. It is an honor just to be invited by the Industry Judges. Students are chosen from all Orange County Schools 7th grade through Community College. There are no age brackets, so we are competing against high school and college age students. This year we had 28 teams with a total of 96 OAK students accepted to the competition. Awards were held this Saturday and we are especially pleased to CONGRATULATE:

1 ^st Place Level 1 : Sjon Brejtfus and Kento Vasquez for their “CBT – Couch, Bed, Table” d A space-saving, cost-effective, convertible piece of furniture that conveniently turns into a couch, bed, and table with added storage.

1st Place level 2: Innovative Product Camden Keller, Luke Tannourji, and Brady Furr for their “Line Reader” design. The Line Reader helps students with reading disabilities learn to read; it also helps people with vision impairment read more effectively. It includes a sliding door that allows the reader to only see one word at a time.

In Mr. Schiele's class, students in engineering are learning to program robotic arms using VEX coding.

SCIENCE : Students in Mrs. Moushon's science classes are busy designing and constructing solar ovens. The designs will be tested next week as they will have to see if they can actually COOK using their ovens.

THANK YOU GIRL SCOUTS AND PTA : Our thanks goes out to our Oak girl scouts and our PTA for an amazing teacher appreciation week. Thank YOU for making it so very special.

DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW...We are looking for parent volunteers for the CSULB 8th grade party? Please join us for an amazing day honoring our 8th grade students Click here

DID YOU KNOW.... we have "cool" new shirts? These dry fit t-shirts are blue tie-dye and cost only $15. If you would like to purchase a shirt, please stop by the main office. We have shirts already printed and ready to wear.

DID YOU KNOW.....

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Registration is now open for LAEF’s Summer Enrichment Institute!

Sign up now at www.LAEF4kids.org/programs ! The fully accredited Los Alamitos Education Foundation presents the 10 ^th annual Summer Enrichment Institute (SEI), which offers valuable classes to students in grades K-12.

Multi-class discounts are available for the summer – 25% off the second class and 50% off any class thereafter throughout the entire summer ; it is applied to a family or individual student. Class fees increase after May 9.

Join the Summer Enrichment Institute to keep kids learning and engaged this summer! Session 1 is from June 10–21 and Session 2 is from June 24-July 3. Students entering grades 6-12 will be at Oak Middle School ( See Catalog ).

LAEF is offering Summer Sports Camps and Camps in the Arts by Los Al’s Head Coaches and Directors! HIGH SCHOOL FOR CREDIT registration is available online until Wednesday, May 29, 2019.

Catalogs and flyers for all LAEF summer programs can be found at www.LAEF4kids.org/summer . Questions? Email programdirector@LAEF4kids.org or call 562-799-4700 Ext. 80424.

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?

SBAC IN MATH: May 13 and 14

MONDAY, MAY 13 : Intermediate Band performs at Knott's Today

SBAC CONTINUES

TUESDAY, MAY 14 : PTA MEETING 8:00 EXECUTIVE BOARD, 9:00 GENERAL

BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING 6:30 P.M.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 : MODIFIED DAY 2:10 DISMISSAL

OAK/MCAULIFFE TRACK MEET LAHS TRACK AND FIELD

COME OUT AND CHEER ON THE OAK ATHLETES 2:30

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC CONCERT 7:00 P.M. LAHS PAC

THURSDAY, MAY 16 : Family Life instruction begins grade 8 only

Lion Pride Luncheon grade 6

OAK CHOIR SHOW 7:00 P.M. MCGAUGH AUDITORIUM

FRIDAY, MAY 17 : SHOW YOUR SCHOOL PRIDE TODAY

SCHOLARSHIP FIELD TRIP TODAY

OAK CHOIR SHOW 7:00 P.M. MCGAUGH AUDITORIUM

SATURDAY, MAY 18: CHOIR SHOW TODAY MATINEE PERFORMANCE

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

8TH GRADE : KNOTT'S May 21

Family Life instruction 8th grade: begins May 22

Promotion: May 28 3:00 p.m. LAHS track and field

CSULB party for grade 8: May 29

Last day for all students : May 30

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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.