News from the Nest

February

Children's Dental Health Month

American Heart Month

Black History Month

2: Groundhog's Day

4: Robotics Competition

6-10: Student Council Soup Drive

6-10: School Counseling Week

7-24: CogAT Grades K & 2

8-9: Kindergarten Round-Up

13-24: Popcorn Fundraiser to Benefit Kindergarten Graduation

13: PTO Meeting @ 2:45 in library

14: Valentine's Day parties @ 1:30

20: Presidents' Day: No school or weather make-up day

23: Science Fair Grades 3-5

24: PTO Mother Son Event; 6-9

February is Children's Dental Health Month! To celebrate, EVERY Oak Hill Student will get a new toothbrush and toothpaste compliments of the Indiana Department of Education and the American Dental Association's GIVE KIDS A SMILE program. Items will be delivered to classrooms starting on 2/1. Thank you to Nurse Meredith for requesting our participation in this program!

You can order yearbooks online with the following information:

Order deadline February 10, 2023

Cost $16.00

www.inter-state.com/order

and enter code: 75858F

Valentine's Day parties will take place on Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at 1:30 p.m.

Your child's teacher will contact you if they are in need of treats or volunteers. If your child's teacher requests treats, please ensure they are individually wrapped and store-bought. This is for student safety and allergies.

If you are asked to volunteer in a classroom, you will need to bring your ID to check in and ensure you have a background check on file. If you are selected to volunteer, please arrive when your teacher requests you to.

PARKING: You may park in the overflow parking in the old middle school lot if our front and side lots are full. Please do not park in the bus lanes in the north lot and please do not park along the drive in the front of the school. We have buses that enter both our north lot and in front of our school. It is also imperative that volunteers leave the building at 2:00 p.m. This is to ensure our parking lots are clear for students dismissing (which begins at 2:10 for our transfer students). Please enter through Door 1 to check in for volunteering.

All students will be required to go outside for recess unless they have a note from their parents requesting that they be permitted to stay in because of a recent illness. If a child is to stay in for more than three days, a note from the child’s doctor stating the reason for the restriction is required.

During the winter months, parents should ensure their children are properly dressed to play outside in cold weather and in the snow. Students will go outside for recess if the temperature is above 10 degrees with the wind chill factored in. The weather station at

Lowell Middle School is used to determine the air temperature and wind speed. This information can be accessed by going to weatherbug.com.

If there is any snow on the ground, students should wear snow boots to recess. High-top tennis shoes, hiking boots, or shoes that would be worn for the remainder of the day, leave students with wet feet if alternative footwear is not available. We encourage students to not wear snow boots for the entire day. Students without snow boots will be required to play on the blacktop areas.

This is the time of year when bad weather can impede road conditions. It is helpful to remind parents of our process and where to receive communication:

Cancellations:

• The decision to delay or cancel school has to be made no later than 5:30 a.m. due to bus routes.
  
• A decision to delay or cancel school is posted on the school corporation website (https://www.tricreek.k12.in.us/) and communicated to the Emergency Closing Center (WGN 720 AM, WBBM 780 AM, CBS channel 2, NBC channel 5, ABC channel 7, FOX 32, WGN-TV, and CLTV), WJOB 1230 AM, WLTH 1370 AM, WLJE 105.5 FM, WZVN 107.1 FM, and WAKE 1500 AM. An automated telephone call is also placed to each Tri-Creek family.
• If school is canceled, we may use an alternative date to make up the day as shown on the district calendar.

Early Dismissal

• Please ensure your child's emergency plan is updated with the office. If we dismiss early, we follow the Emergency Form filled out at the beginning of the school year.
• If school is dismissed early due to weather, be sure your child has a key to get into the house or is aware of an alternate plan to stay with a neighbor. You will receive a phone message from the district if the school were going to be dismissed early. Due to the limited number of phone lines in the office, we ask families to listen to the phone message before calling the school to help keep phone lines open.
  

FOG DELAY/INCLEMENT WEATHER SCHEDULE:

• Two Hour Delay: Bus schedules run two hours later than normal.
• Student drop-off at Door 7 begins 9:30 a.m. with gates opening at 9:20 a.m.
• School begins at 10:00 a.m.

There are times that a change in transportation is necessary. In order to ensure we have time to appropriately communicate any changes, please follow the guidelines listed below:

1. Please send in a note to your child's teacher communicating any transportation changes.

2. If there are permanent changes to transportation, please contact the school office at 696-9285.

3. If you are calling the day of a transportation change, please try to call as early in the day as possible and not after 1:30 p.m. We have early transfer buses and late calls may impact our ability to get your child to their appropriate place.

Please try to limit daily calls to update transportation. This creates the potential for error by the adults who monitor where students go when changes are made daily.

We appreciate your help in ensuring that our students are transferred home safely.

Oak Hill Student Council will be sponsoring a soup drive the week of February 6-10, 2023. This soup drive will benefit the Community Help Network. This organization provides us, and many other schools, with our Buddy Bag program. Let's give back to them! Send in any canned soup during this week. Thank you for your continued support of our philanthropic activities.

It is time to think about Kindergarten registration for the Fall of 2023 on Feb. 8-9! Click the link below for more information! If you know of anyone who has a child turning 5 on or before August 1, 2023 please share this information with them! Thank you! Click here to read more information.

In Physical Education class this week, we have been playing a game called Cannonball. Teams are on boats (2 scooters with mats on top of them)

*Captains are throwing balls at other teams’ boats to knock off cones. If they are successful in this, they get to put the cone on their boat. Students are working on throwing for accuracy at a target. They are also working on teamwork, pulling, pushing, collecting and gathering. This game is a great cardiovascular game that also works out their hamstrings and gluteus maximus muscles for the motor person who pushes the captain around. Students love this game!

In addition to playing recorders and learning more complex rhythms, our 5th-grade students have learned about the instrument families available to them when they join LMS as 6th graders next year. They watched the LMS band and choirs perform on Jan. 24 and completed instrument try-outs for band on Jan. 26. Fifth-grae parents, be on the lookout for more information from LMS in the upcoming months!

The art room has been a busy place in 2023! We are working on winter, neon, and 3D art right now. Our annual art show will be May 4th and Ms. Schutz is already planning. Please follow the Oak Hill art program on Instagram at @oakhillartists. Check out some of our current projects below!

Kindergarten parents, mark your calendars! We are holding our first ever Kindergarten graduation this year on May 24, 2023. More information will be forthcoming in the upcoming months.

To ALL Cardinal families:

In order to assist with the cost of graduation, we are excited to announce a fundraiser from LaBraid Fundraising! The fundraiser will take place Feb. 13-24, 2023.

Orders will be delivered on March 20, 2023. Please be prepared to pick up your order on March 20 from 2:45-4:00 by entering Door 9.

Order forms will be coming home to all students or you can order online by clicking here. When you order online, please enter your child's name. This will assist in grouping orders for pick-up on March 20. Thank you so much for your support!

Congratulations to our Oak Hill Science Bowl team! They placed FOURTH in the state in the orange class for the 2023 Indiana Academic Science Bowl! We are so proud!
Allison Kahler
Amelia Oresik
Bailey Osburn
Maverick Alexander
Ashlynn Taylor
Mason Rakoczy
Jaxson Hinson
Jackson Denton
Athena Fry
Katie Richardson
Lily Morningstar
Benji Ohm
Coaches:
Amanda Montez
Brandie Burns

Throughout January, all of our kindergarten classes learned about penguins. We watched videos, read nonfiction and fiction books to gather all of our information for our books. We are working on sentence writing, spelling, spacing, punctuation and capitalization during the third quarter of kindergarten. Combining all of that we created a penguin book that was put together with the help of our 5th-grade peer mentors. Then we got to go down to a 5th grade classroom and share our books with them! This is such a fun way to wrap up our unit on penguins!

We are excited to celebrate our February staff and teacher of the month! Mrs. Blackman, first grade teacher and Mrs. Munjas, secretary have been selected for their contribution to Oak Hill. Thank you both! We are lucky to have you!

Pie in the Face!
On February 10, we will be doing Pie in the Face to honor one student from each class who had the highest amount of donations from the fall fundraiser!
The student with the highest donations from each room will get to throw a pie in the face of any staff member that has volunteered. Some staff may not get any pie, some (probably me) will get many pies thrown at them!

The following staff will be in the firing lane:

Brandie Muha

Teresa Patrevito

Sam Gill

Alyson Bird

Emily Schaefer

Robyn Plonczynski

Nicole Nigh

Karen Deal

Amanda Montez

Brandie Burns

Rebecca Antczak

Kellie Tully

See the attached picture for a list of students who will be throwing pie from each class. This event is for students and staff only. Be on the lookout for photos from that day! Congratulations to our students who had the most donations from their class!

Email: bmuha@tricreek.k12.in.us
Website: https://oh.tricreek.k12.in.us/
Location: 425 S. Nicholas St., Lowell, IN 46356
Phone: (219) 696-9285
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ohecardinals