HELP for HOBBY in HOUSTON

Lunch Time Rewards

The lunchroom is a very busy place with many students moving about.  While this is a time for the children to relax and talk with their classmates there are still many expectations that they need to follow.  When the students do an excellent job following lunchroom expectations they can earn a "red apple.  Four red apples equals a lunchtime reward.  The most common lunchtime reward is viewing a movie on the large screen.  All movies shown during the school day are rated "G" and are on an approved school movie licensing list.  Typically, the students earn a reward 3 to 4 times a month.  Other rewards include listening to music from Kidz Bop by our in house "DJ" Mr. DeMarco or free choice seating.  If we do offer a free choice seating day, usually only 2 or 3 times a year, please know that we take every precaution to ensure a safe lunchroom environment for our students with allergies.

ABC/25 Foundation Membership

Please consider becoming a member of ABC/25, a wonderful program that supports D25 schools. When 25% of a school’s families become members, the school is awarded a $2,500 grant. Families may join by donating $40 or more. Donations are TAX-DEDUCTIBLE. One family membership counts towards ALL schools your children attend (if D25 staff with children in D25, it will count towards the school you work and the schools your children attend.) Our membership incentive grant was used for last year to purchase picnic tables for the courtyard and flexible furniture for the hallway outside of our LMC. Membership money is also used towards the funding of teacher grants. Please use the following link to become a member!

ABC/25 Foundation Membership Form

One Book, One School

At our Curriculum Night, we showed the following video announcing an exciting new reading event at OMS, One Book, One School. Please take a moment to hear more about this event from our LMC Director, Nancy Brown...

Monday = Picture Day

Don't forget to have your child wear their favorite outfit (or the outfit you pick out for them) on Monday, September 18th for Picture Day!

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The Olive Twig September 15, 2017

Picture Day Monday, September 18 Student pictures will be taken this Monday, September 18th! Order forms came home the first week of school. Have you seen all of the backgrounds available? Please visit www.ordercp.com to view all 100 options! Please note: Yearbooks are not included with picture packages and will be ordered separately later in the school year. Please contact Nina Shamoon with any questions.   PTA Fair & Meeting Thursday, September 21 at 7 pm Please join us for our first PTA General meeting.  Everyone is welcome.  We will be highlighting several of our 2017/2018 fundraisers and programs as well as voting on our budget. We are excited to showcase and promote our various clubs and committees.  If you would like to learn more about all of the exciting opportunities your kids will have over the coming school year, please join us.  Many committees will have tables set up with information to help you learn about their programs.   LMC Volunteers Needed Consider volunteering in the Library Media Center (LMC)! We have several spots still available. Monday - 9:00AM-10:30AM or 1:15PM-3:30PM Tuesday - 10:30AM-12:10PM or 1:15PM-3:30PM Wednesday – 9:00AM-10:30AM, 10:30AM-12:10PM or 1:15PM-3:30PM Thursday – 10:30AM-12:10PM or 1:15PM-3:30PM Friday - 10:30AM-12:10PM The commitment can be either every week or every other depending on your availability. If you are interested, please contact Nina Shamoon.   PTA Volunteer Opportunities There are many more volunteer opportunities at school! Please CLICK HERE to fill out the Volunteer Form and see all of the opportunities.   Reflections Art Contest What? - Reflections is a PTA sponsored arts program that invites children to participate using their creative talents. There are six different categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography, and Visual Arts. When? - Submissions are due in to Olive by November 3rd. Who? - All students from Pre-K through 12th grade may enter as many pieces as they would like. Click Here for more information. Contact Kim Hemmingeror Leena Joshi with questions.  More details coming soon!   Artspiration Monday, October 2 6-7:30PM - South Middle School Artspiration - An Instagram Inspired PTA Reflections Kick-Off Event. Mini-workshops hosted by experts in the arts! Leave with ideas for your own reflections project to submit at your school! All ages, K-8 are invited. October 2 from 6-7:30pm at South Middle School. They are also looking for volunteers to help with the event. Click here to volunteer. Click here for more information.   WHOOO'S WHO? House Hop Saturday, October 14 6th Annual Progressive Dinner We hope you can join us at this awesome PTA Annual Event! Swoop from house to house as you enjoy an evening of laughter, hors d'oeuvers and drinks while you meet and reconnect with fellow Olive-Mary Stitt Parents. If you have not attended before, we start by having you meet us at the school for house assignments, then off to your first house at 7:00pm to enjoy and at 9:00pm you travel to your second house. This is one of Olive PTA's biggest fundraisers and a great time is had by all! Click here for the sign up form. Please return it with a check to the Olive office. Contact Jen Ortman or Melissa Teuscher if you have questions.   OMS Owls Salute Community Helpers Olive PTA promotes good character and kindness with monthly service initiatives. This September, OMS Owls will salute our Community Helpers. Our community is enriched by the caring efforts of many. This week during recess, your child had the opportunity to sign thank you cards for these everyday heroes. These special helpers will be honored later this month. Continue to follow the Olive Branch and Twig for more details.   Update on School Supplies We are still working with the vendor to receive the missing school supplies. The vendor is hopeful that we should have them by the end of the month. We apologize for the delay and doing everything we can to get the missing supplies.   Order Your Spirit Wear Today! Our OMS school spirit wear sale is here! Please use this link: https://www.headsupapparel.com/collections/oms-2017 or visit www.headsupapparel.com and enter in Olive to check out all of this year's styles and order online. Sale ends on Sunday, Sept 24th. If you have any questions, please contact Becky Hany or Liz McDonnell.   Ecology Club Coming Soon! Calling all 3rd to 5th grade students: You are invited to join the OMS Ecology Club! We are an active, fun group that meets once a month. Our first meeting will be in early October. Stay tuned for the exact date! Permission slip required (forthcoming). Submit your student's completed permission form before the first meeting to the OMS front office. Questions: Contact Regan Sonnabend or Megan Hill. We'll have a table at the PTA Fair on September 21 so stop on by!   Chess Club Starting Soon! Olive students in grades K-5 who are interested in chess are invited to join the Chess Club. All levels are welcome — from beginner to experienced player (we’ll teach you the rules!). Chess Club will meet throughout the school year. Each meeting is an independent lesson; attend as many as you can. Look for the sign up in the coming weeks. Contact Stephanie Jennrich or Jennifer Faley for more information or questions.   Have you Joined the PTA? Please click here to join the PTA.  Your membership helps support all of the wonderful activities and programs your children will participate in this school year!  There is no time commitment required for parents, everything is voluntary.   Twig Submission Form Does your club or committee want to promote or share something in the Twig? Please CLICK HERE to submit your information by the Wednesday at 12 pm prior to the Fridayyou would like it to run. Thank you!   Amazon Smile Calling all Amazon.com shoppers! Please consider supporting the PTA and start shopping at www.Smile.Amazon.com and .5% of your purchases will be contributed to the Olive-Mary Stitt PTA. Click here to learn more about Amazon Smile.   OMS PTA Calendar All PTA events will be posted on the Olive school calendar. Please click here for a link to the calendar.  It can also be found on the home page of the Olive PTA website.   2017/2018 PTA Budget The preliminary 2017/2018 PTA Budget is posted in the Commons at school. We will be voting on it at the September 21st PTA meeting. Upcoming Events 9/18 - Picture Day 9/20 - 5th Grade Band parent meeting, 7:00 - 8:00pm 9/21 - PTA Fair & Meeting, 7:00pm 10/2 - PTA Reflections, 6:00-7:30pm 10/3 - New Family Activity Night Important Links OMS CALENDAR DISTRICT 25 E-FLYERS TWIG SUBMISSION FORM OMS BLOGSPOT CONTACT THE PTA JOIN THE PTA   CONNECT WITH US Friend us on Facebook OMS PTA Website Forward to a Friend  friend on Facebook | read our blog | forward to a friend | OMS blogspot

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Help for Hobby in Houston

During Curriculum Night, Mrs. FitzPatrick shared that OMS and TMS are joining together to help the students and staff at Hobby Elementary School in Houston, Texas.  We are in the process of planning and will be sharing important details on how you can help soon!

#helpforhobbyinhouston
#owlsforothers
#kindnessrocksatoms

Open House October 26th

It was recently brought to our attention that our calendars were not synching correctly and Open House was listed on the wrong date.  We apologize for this error and would like to confirm that our Olive-Mary Stitt Open House will be on October 26th, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm.  

Bike Safety on School Grounds

We love that many of our families walk and/or bike to school.  With Bike Rodeo right around the corner for our 3rd graders and new to Olive 4th and 5th grade students we thought it would be a great time to review the bicycle guidelines found on page 29 of the Parent/Student Handbook.  During arrival and dismissal many people have been riding their bikes on the sidewalk, grass, and passing walkers, along Olive Street to and from Arlington Heights Road.  This is a very crowded walkway. Please help us to keep everyone safe by being extra cautious when biking along Olive Street.

All bicycles should be walked on school property which includes the sidewalk along the loading zone, blacktop, and front plaza.

Thank you for helping us to keep our Owls and their families safe!

Parent/Student Handbook

Curriculum Night - Specials Presentation

ART - MUSIC - PE - LMC

If you were unable to view the presentation by our Specials Area Teachers on Curriculum Night please take a few moments to review their slideshow.  They highlighted a lot of the wonderful skills they teach!  Check out the images as there might be one of your child!

Specials Class Overviews

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The Olive Twig September 8, 2017

OMS Owls Salute Community Helpers Olive PTA promotes good character and kindness with monthly service initiatives. This September, OMS Owls will salute our Community Helpers. Our community is enriched by the caring efforts of many. Next week during recess, your child will have an opportunity to sign thank you cards for these everyday heroes. These special helpers will be honored later this month. Continue to follow the Olive Branch and Twig for more details.   Bike Rodeo Wednesday, September 13 Attention ALL 3rd, 4th and 5th graders. The 2017 Bike Rodeo will be Wednesday, September 13th after school until 4:45 p.m. The rain date will be Wednesday, September 20th. Each year at Olive, we require that all 3rd, 4th and 5th graders who would like to ride their bike to school (and have not participated in the past) participate in the Olive-Mary Stitt PTA Bike Rodeo. This rodeo is an introduction to biking rules and an opportunity for the children’s bikes to be checked for safety. Children may ride their bikes to school on the day of the Bike Rodeo and any day after their successful completion of the Bike Rodeo. Helmets are required for attendance. Please click here for the permission slip. These are due by Tuesday, September 12th. We will also be looking for parent volunteers for the event so please contact Katie Stawicki or Erin Fleming for volunteer opportunities or with questions about the event.   Picture Day Monday, September 18 Mark your calendars and don’t forget to bring your smile! Student pictures will be taken on Monday, September 18th. Order forms came home the first week of school. Have you seen all of the backgrounds available? Please visit www.ordercp.com to view all 100 options! Please note: Yearbooks are not included with picture packages and will be ordered separately later in the school year. Please contact Nina Shamoon with any questions.   PTA Fair & Meeting Thursday, September 21 at 7:00pm Please join us for our first PTA General meeting.  Everyone is welcome.  We will be highlighting several of our 2017/2018 fundraisers and programs as well as voting on our budget. Before the meeting we will be having our PTA Fair.  We are excited to showcase and promote our various clubs and committees.  If you would like to learn more about all of the exciting opportunities your kids will have over the coming school year, please join us.  Many committees will have tables set up with information to help you learn about their programs.   Reflections Art Contest What? - Reflections is a PTA sponsored arts program that invites children to participate using their creative talents. There are six different categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography, and Visual Arts. When? - Submissions are due in to Olive by, November 3rd. Who? - All students from Pre-K through 12th grade may enter as many pieces as they would like. Click Here for more information. Contact Kim Hemmingeror Leena Joshi with questions.  More details coming soon!   Artspiration - October 2 6-7:30PM - South Middle School Artspiration - An Instagram Inspired PTA Reflections Kick-Off Event. Mini-workshops hosted by experts in the arts! Leave with ideas for your own reflections project to submit at your school! All ages, K-8 are invited. October 2 from 6-7:30pm at South Middle School. More information on Twitter- #artspiration #ptareflections #ilptaarts   WHOOO'S WHO? House Hop Saturday, October 14 6th Annual Progressive Dinner We hope you can join us at this awesome PTA Annual Event! Swoop from house to house as you enjoy an evening of laughter, hors d'oeuvers and drinks while you meet and reconnect with fellow Olive-Mary Stitt Parents. If you have not attended before, we start by having you meet us at the school for house assignments, then off to your first house at 7:00pm to enjoy and at 9:00pm you travel to your second house. This is one of Olive PTA's biggest fundraisers and a great time is had by all! Click Here for the sign up form. Please return it with a check to the Olive office. Contact Jen Ortman or Melissa Teucher if you have questions.   Who's got Spirit? Olive has Spirit! Our OMS school spirit wear sale is here! Please use this link: https://www.headsupapparel.com/collections/oms-2017 or visit www.headsupapparel.com and enter in Olive to check out all of this year's styles and order online. Sale ends on Sunday, Sept 24th. If you have any questions, please contact Becky Hany or Liz McDonnell. PTA Volunteer Opportunities Would you like to help out with a program or event at school?  Please click here to fill out the Volunteer Form and see all of the opportunities.   Join the OMS PTA today! Thank you to the over 500 OMS PTA members who have already joined for the 2017-2018 school year! Don't miss out on being a part of the many exciting student, family and staff activities sponsored by the PTA throughout the school year. You will also receive access to our electronic directory app – DirectorySpot – which will allow you and your family to have contact info and class lists for OMS families and staff right on your phone or other electronic device. We hope to have this ready to go later this fall. Stay tuned to the Twig for more updates. Joining the OMS PTA is easy! Go online to https://sd25.revtrak.net/OMS-PTA/#/list Individual Memberships are $10 and Family Memberships are $15 Contact PTA Membership Chair, Kate Halley, with any questions or if you prefer to pay in person.   Box Tops Our annual Box Top challenge will take place from October 16th - 20th. Please start clipping and collecting. Box Tops can be found on items you use everyday from Land o Lakes butter to boxes of Kleenex and everything in between! Each one is worth 10 cents and they add up quickly! Last year we collected almost $1200! That's $1200 that goes right back to our school! Turning items that you buy everyday for your home, into money for our school. Clip away! Click here for more information.   Amazon Smile Calling all Amazon.com shoppers! Please consider supporting the PTA and start shopping at www.Smile.Amazon.com and .5% of your purchases will be contributed to the Olive-Mary Stitt PTA. Smile.Amazon.com offers the same selection and same prices as Amazon.com, so there is no cost to you, and a charitable donation to the PTA is made! AmazonPrime benefits apply. Click here to learn more: "About AmazonSmile". To sign up, it is simple! Log on to Smile.Amazon.com, select "Illinois Congress of Parents and Teachers Olive-Mary Stitt PTA Inc" under charitable organization, and you are set. Thank you for your support!   OMS PTA Calendar All PTA events will be posted on the Olive school calendar. We recommend that you subscribe to it from your home computer or cell phone.  We will make changes and updates on this calendar as club dates and events are confirmed and let you know when any changes have been made. Please click here for a link to the calendar.  It can also be found on the home page of the Olive PTA website.   2017/2018 PTA Budget The preliminary 2017/2018 PTA Budget is posted in the Commons at school. We will be voting on it at the September 21st PTA meeting. Upcoming Events 9/8 - Spirit Wear sales begin      9/11 - OMS Community Helpers Week begins 9/11 - 5th Grade Band lessons begin 9/13 - Bike Rodeo, 3:35 - 4:45pm 9/13 - PTA Committee Chair Workshop 9/18 - Picture Day 9/20 - Bike Rodeo rain date 9/20 - 5th Grade Band parent meeting, 7:00 - 8:00pm 9/21 - PTA Fair & Meeting, 7:00pm   Important Links OMS CALENDAR DISTRICT 25 E-FLYERS TWIG SUBMISSION FORM OMS BLOGSPOT CONTACT THE PTA JOIN THE PTA   CONNECT WITH US Friend us on Facebook OMS PTA Website Forward to a Friend  friend on Facebook | read our blog | forward to a friend | OMS blogspot

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