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Team Oakhurst!

I hope everyone had an amazing Spring Break and found time to relax and enjoy the time. Thank you for sending pics of you sharpening your saw! See pics below.

Kelly

Together is how we grow!!

I am sad to share that our former OES student, Charlie Sutherland, passed away over spring break. He was currently a senior at Osceola. Many of our staff kids were friends of his. This is such a sad time. If you would like to talk with someone about your grief, please reach out to Alexis or Sarah. We are not announcing this to our students, but if a student mentions this, please let Alexis and Sarah know. We are thinking of Charlie and his family.

The evaluation process has changed for support staff. It is now all on-line. Please see the info below with training that you can take to learn more about this. I will begin support evaluations the week of 3/11.

Registration for Summer Bridge starts March 19, 2024

Dates: June 3 - 27

Grades: Students entering kindergarten through fourth-grade

Days: Monday - Thursday
Hours: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Bus Times: Coming soon

Summer Bridge Locations: Anona, Bardmoor, Bay Point, Bear Creek, Belleair, Blanton, Campbell Park, Dunedin, Eisenhower, Fairmount Park, Fuguitt, Garrison Jones, Gulfport, High Point, Jamerson, Kings Highway, Lakewood, Lealman Ave., Maximo, McMullen Booth, Melrose, Midtown, Mount Vernon, New Heights, Pinellas Central, Pinellas Park, Ponce de Leon, Plumb, Ridgecrest, Sawgrass Lake, Seminole, Seventy-Fourth St., Sexton, Skycrest, Tarpon Springs, Walsingham, Westgate and Woodlawn Elementary Schools.

Oakhurst's feeder pattern is Anona Elementary School, however students can enroll at any of the locations listed above. Summer Bridge assignments are made at the child’s current or designated school.

Please see the document below to reference to numerous professional development opportunities taking place during the second semester!

(3) Andy Agastra – Ms. King

(1) Sophia Bittner – Mr. Edwards

(1) Autumn Tess – Mr. Edwards

(4) Noah Colbert – Weingart

(4) Aria Herman – Weingart

• Reminder to let the office know if a student has a change for dismissal.

• Staff children must be supervised. Please do not allow them to be on campus where you are not with them. Thank you.

• Teachers, please do not post pictures of students on your personal social media accounts. Thank you.
  

• Reminder that on Tuesdays and Thursdays we do not have a nurse. This past Thursday we saw 16 recess injuries. Each injury we have to log in, help the student, and call parents. After break, each injury will be sent back with an injury report to be filled out by the witnessing teacher. Remember, not all bumps require a visit to the clinic. As a reminder we cannot touch splinters, pull out prickly things, give out cream for dry skin, etc. Thanks for working with us.

• If you ever hear an all-call that states to ring in the office if you have an extra child in your room, that means to look for a missing child. It happens rarely, but if so, we need everyone's help. Please look out your doors, windows, hallways, etc. When we locate the child, we will go back on and say that we have located the extra child. All primary students should be traveling with a partner. If you ever see a child that looks too young to be by themselves, please escort them to the office. Please make sure that you are counting your students and know how many students you have at all times. Thank you for keeping our Mustangs safe!

Assessments this Week:

DreamBox Expectations:

Kindergarten - 110 lessons

Grades 1-2 - 130 lessons

Grades 3-5 - 260 lessons

Attachments:

March 2024 Academic Calendar

Please email any KUDOS to Kelly! I would love to recognize all of the greatness that is happening behind the scenes at our school!

• Thank you to my Oakhurst family for all the encouragement and prayers after my car accident. Thank you to all the staff and families who stopped by the accident scene to check on us. Also thank you for the text messages over the weekend. Big thank you to Janet Nickse for watching my class so I could run my son home and Michaelene Stanifer for driving me after school to get a rental car. I can't thank you all enough for all the support!

• Thank you to Janet Nickse for helping with set up for Literacy Night and Kristina Patterson and Michaelene Stanifer for helping to run Glow Bingo. Love, Margo M.

• A BIG thank you to Grant for getting Gloria, my new printer, working! You are a technology, Guru!!!! - Melissa Gonzales

• I just wanted to share that Mrs. Edwards, Miss Killeen, and Mrs. Cheshire not only ran a fantastic IEP meeting with me, but it was the most thorough IEP with focused goals, I as a parent, have ever received. What a great team my son has, and I am so grateful.

• A special thank you to the PE staff for organizing a special small scale field day for our little and special ones! It was perfect!! - Valerie Bowman

• Kudos to our PE department and all the volunteers who made this Era of field day so awesome! Between karaoke, dance battles, walking the plank, and Superhero selfies we had so much fun that I even got a smiley pic with my kid!!!!! (see below) - Katlyn K.

• Thank you to Ms. Ashley, Ms. Katlyn and Ms. Theresa for loving our kiddos, helping them grow and learn and for keeping our classroom safe and clean! I could not do this without you!! Love you so and appreciate you more than anything! 💙 Emily
  

• Ms. O did an amazing job to include our kids!! They had a ball! - Valerie
  

Please take a look at our DreamBox and Istation Progress below. Continue the conversations with students about logging on and getting their Istation minutes in each week.

If you have north or south crosswalk, please stay until the 2nd bell at 8:45.

Ewald -AM—--Car Circle #1--- Please be ON AM duty by 8:15 and help at cars 1 ,2

McKelvy - PM Duty starts at 2:55 and help at cones 1,2,3

Pratt AM--Car Circle #2--- Please be ON AM duty by 8:15 and help at cars 3,4

Henrion - PM Duty starts at 2:55 and help at cones 4,5

Ruscetta - AM—Car Circle #3--- Please be ON AM duty by 8:15 and help at cones 5, 6

Livingston — PM Duty starts at 2:55 and help at cones 6,7

Cole - AM/North Cross Walk/ Bus Crossing Lane-- Please be ON AM duty by 8:15

Aldana - PM duty starts at 2:55

Young- AM—South Cross Walk Please be ON AM duty by 8:15

Rooney —PM duty starts at 2:55

Debbie —Front Gate Please be ON AM duty by 8:15

Kristina - PM duty starts at 2:55

M. Edwards, Moravick -Café PM

March 11th – March 15th – Spring Break!

T, 3/19

• Michelle Kasprzyk to Media PLC – ½ day in morning

W, 3/20

• National Chip Day Challenge in Lounge

• Tracey Sanders out all day to Behavior Specialist Meeting at Stavros

• Perez to MTSS Training 12:30 – 3:30

Th, 3/21

• Final Grades due to OES by 4:00 pm

• Kelly to Area III Meeting at Seminole El.

• Send Kudos and pics to Kelly via EMAIL!!

• Collaborative Planning with teams during block

• Email Alexis your WOW winners by 11:00am.

F, 3/22

• Mustang Roundup

• Final Grades and comments due to Portal by 4:00 pm

• PTA Staff Luncheon

• WOW Room Celebration

• Model Mustang Meeting in Mrs. LeColst's room 2:10 - 2:40pm

M, 3/25

• Safety Meeting at 8:00 am in conference room

• Technology Meeting via email

• NEHS Meeting in Media Center 3:15 – 4:15
  

T, 3/26

• PLC Focus

• PTA Board Meeting at 5:30
  

• Carwise Awards @ Clearwater HS

W, 3/27

• All Pro Dad 7:30 am in café

Th, 3/28

• OES Battle of the Books 9:00

• Send Kudos and pics to Kelly via EMAIL!!

• Collaborative Planning with teams during block

• Report Cards distributed

F, 3/29

• No school

OAKHURST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

10535 137th Street North Largo, FL 33774727-588-6801

The Vision of Oakhurst Elementary is 100% student success.

The Mission of Oakhurst Elementary School is to educate and inspire each student to reach maximum potential, become lifelong learners and responsible citizens through the Mustang Way.