The Cardinal Connection

January 23rd-27th: Springboard Semester Break (No SpringBoard during this time)

January 25th: End of Term Day Records Day/Professional Development Day (No school for students)

January 25th: Principal Chit-Chat @6PM (virtual)

January 25th: PTA Camp Fair Planning Meeting @ 8:15 PM (weekly through early March)

January 26th: Open House @6PM (in-person)

January 30th: PTA ECE (Early Childhood Education) @6 PM

February 1st: PTA Communications Committee Meeting 7:30 PM

February 7th: LSAT Meeting at 4:30 PM

February 7th: PTA Advocacy/Facilities Committee Meeting @ 5:30 PM

February 10th: Indoor Movie Night

February 14th: PTA General Body Meeting at 6 PM

February 17th: Black History Month Presentation

February 20th-24th: Winter Break No School For Students and Teachers

February 27th: PTA Events and Fundraising Committee Meeting @6 PM

Cardinal Families,

Join us on Wednesday, January 25th at 6 PM for our virtual Princiap Chit Chat. All are welcome to join. We hope to see you there. Use this link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEscOGoqTIoGNV86G2wIqKYNqXP5UOP2fDR to register and join us.

• Camp Fair Planning – Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 8:15 pm (weekly through early March)

• ECE (Early Childhood Education) – Monday, Jan. 30, at 6 p.m.

• Communications – Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 7:30 p.m.

• Advocacy/Facilities – Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 5:30 p.m
  

• ECE (Early Childhood Education) – Monday, Jan. 30, at 6 p.m.

• Events and Fundraising – Monday, Feb. 27, at 6 p.m.

• Upper Grades – TBD

All are welcome to participate in committees. If you would like to attend one of the committee meetings, please email jowilsonpta@gmail.com.

J.O. Wilson will be hosting in-person open houses for prospective families in the coming months, with the first one scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 26, at 6 p.m.

Attendees will get to:

• Meet Principal Brunson, as well as other administrators and teachers

• Learn about the incredible programming offered

• Tour the school

• Get answers to their questions

Come SOAR with us! J.O. Wilson ES will be hosting open house dates on the following dates listed below.

• January 26, 2023, at 6 PM
• February 9, 2023, at 10 AM
• March 16, 2023, at 6 PM
• April 13, 2023, at 10 AM

Please register to attend at: https://SOARwithJO.eventbrite.com

**Though face masks are not required/mandated we strongly encourage all participants to wear a face mask if possible.**

As we look ahead to Valentine’s Day, show our teachers some love by purchasing items from the 2022 J.O. Wilson Classroom Teacher Wishlist. Please support our teachers with the items they need to engage our students in fun and enriching activities.

Pack your blankets and get comfy for an indoor movie screening! Doors open at 6 p.m. and the movie screening starts at 6:30 p.m. Movie TBD. Closed captions will be provided. Refreshments (pizza, popcorn, snacks and drinks) will be available for purchase.

The PTA will also be selling swag – get your J.O. Wilson Cardinals school spirit gear while it lasts!

We will need volunteers to assist with set-up, concession/swag sales, and clean-up. Please sign-up here.

Families of girls in grades K-3 are invited to join our Girl Scout Troop start-up!

When: Wednesdays, Feb. 1, 8, 15 & March 1 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Learn about the GS Promise and Law, do crafts, sing songs, and learn all about being a Girl Scout!

Parents are invited to attend as well! For more information and to sign up, contact Annette Rollins, membership specialist, at 202-274-3321 or arollins@gscnc.org The membership fee is $25.

Use this link to sign-up, pay the fee or request financial assistance. In the search box, type J.O. Wilson and click +sign to create a family account.

After a three-year hiatus, the PTA is bringing the in-person DC Camp Fair back to J.O. on Saturday, March 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

We want everyone to know how much we love J.O. Wilson! Join the “I Love J.O.” campaign by recording a short video featuring you or your Cardinal telling us why you love J.O. Wilson, and send it to Mr. Bellamy at Sean.Bellamy@k12.dc.gov. Don’t want to make a video? Send pictures of your Cardinal engaged in school or school-sponsored activities to jowilsonpta@gmail.com.

Videos and photos will be used on the school’s website and social media platforms.

Mosaic Theater Company at Atlas Performing Arts Center on H Street is seeking current and former residents of the H Street Corridor to interview for plays they are writing for the H Street Oral History Project.

The interviews will focus on the protests in 1968 following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the summer 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. This work will culminate in spring 2023 through a week-long festival, where all three plays will premiere as staged readings. All interviews and plays will be archived in the DC Public Library oral history collections.

If you are a former or current H Street corridor resident and would like to be interviewed, please contact HStreetOH@mosaictheater.org or fill out the form here https://mosaictheater.org/h-street-oral-history.

Interviewees will receive a stipend.