The Husky Bulletin 10/15/2025

10/15/2025

Just a reminder that there is NO SCHOOL on 10/16 & 10/17. We hope everyone has a nice long break!

Oak View is working towards becoming a MN School of Excellence. This is a prestigious award given to MN schools who take their community through this school improvement process. The schools who are selected are able to claim this status for 7 years. It’s a great way to highlight the amazing work we’re doing at Oak View and to continue to grow and thrive as a community. We’re also using this process to help market our amazing school. Our goal is to have approximately 50-70% of our families complete this survey. Here is a little more about the process and timeline:

Please complete the survey by November 23rd
The team will work to synthesize the information and will submit our application by June 1st, 2026.
We will be awarded the status of MN Schools of Excellence over the summer after we complete the entire process and application.
Families will be informed of our MN Schools of Excellence status over the summer or by September, 2026.
If you have any questions about the MN Schools of Excellence please feel free to reach out to Principal Gibbs at Gibbsr@district279.org or by clicking on this link to learn more about the prestigious award here: https://www.mespa.net/soe

Parent/Teacher conferences are coming up soon. Each student gets one conference(K-5), each conference slot is 20 minutes long. Please be on time to your student(s) conference so we stay on track.

Wednesday October 22nd- 8-9am & 4:40-7:20pm

Tuesday October 28th- 8-9am & 4:40-7:20pm

Thursday October 30th- 8-9am & 4:40-7:20pm

Parent/Guardians can start scheduling in ParentVUE now!

ParentVUE is the ONLY way to schedule conferences.

Scheduling Help

If you need help scheduling, please follow these directions.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1foBlLSkTJaHO1dc2Ss0gCRL2DLHGm6FGFV7v-LYymDY/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.w4xkqpj300i0

ParentVUE Activation Help:

If you do not have a ParentVUE account, please follow these directions to set one up.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FsYLMX5wUKjIqMruC7x2DskxUpAX6zaIRSt1i9prnqI/edit?tab=t.0

Hello Oak View Families!

The Bookfair will soon be here. It's an exciting and fun time for our students to discover new books and find classmates who enjoy those same books. Books bring us together, create conversation and can be a starting point to a great friendship. We have fun events planned for the weeks of the book fair including a book fair preview, coloring contests, and classroom BINGO. If you would like to volunteer for this wonderful event, please sign up here: Sign-Up Genius

Sale dates and time:

Wednesday, Oct 22nd 4:30pm-7:45pm

Tuesday, Oct 28th 4:30pm-7:45pm

Wednesday, Oct 29th recess times

Thursday, Oct 30th 8-9:15am during conferences, 4:30pm-7:45pm, and during recess times

Did you know you can create a Scholastic eWallet? This is a lovely option for students to leave the cash at home and load money into a digital wallet for students to shop at the book fair during recess times. Here is the link to load that eWallet and to learn more about the book fair: Oak View Book Fair

Thank you for supporting your student’s adventure into reading.

Oak View Book Fair committee

Our PTO will once again be hosting the Scholastic Book Fair and providing meals to our teachers during the upcoming Fall conferences. Please take a look at the sign-ups to see how you can volunteer to help with each of these events!

Scholastic Book Fair

Conference Catering

Thank you for your support!

Picture re-take day is on October 23rd. Here is how re-take day works:

If your child was not here on our original date, we will automatically take their picture.
If your child was here but you want their picture re-taken, you MUST fill out this form. If you do not fill out this form your student's picture will not be taken.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvv8S1yVKTXvEJm-ax6RE_pAA_0XGhEJGNM9OhccbEr-6DjA/viewform?usp=header

Grief Group Information

You may already know that the district’s partnership with the Growing Through Grief program concluded at the end of the 2024-2025 school year. Counselors from this program supported students through their grieving process and provided valuable care and resources to so many families and we are very grateful for their expertise and meaningful collaboration. We are also aware of an increase in the need for services like the group experiences they provided. To help meet those needs and to support our students who may be experiencing grief, we will be offering our own Oak View Grief Group that will be starting during the month of October. The group(s) will be co-facilitated by our school counselor and our school social worker and will be held bi-monthly for the 2025-2026 school year.

Who is eligible for the group?

· Any student who has experienced the death of a significant person in their life: parent, sibling, grandparent, friend, or anyone else with whom the student was close.

· The death could have occurred at any time – recently or years ago. (As children mature cognitively, they sometimes revisit the loss and show signs of early grief again).

If you have any questions or concerns or are interested in getting your student(s) involved in this group, please contact Ms. Peterson at PetersonK@district279.org

Warm regards,

Ms. Peterson & Ms. Hahn-Merges

Oak View Elementary School