Sunday, May 22, 2022

5/23-5/27

Dear Blue Oaks Families,

It is hard to believe this is the last Community Connection for the school year. I can’t thank you all enough for your patience, grace and welcoming me. We have all learned and grown together this year and I can only imagine all of the great things we will accomplish in years to come. I have loved getting to know your students and seeing them everyday put a smile on my face. I hope you all have an enjoyable summer and I will see you next year! Below are some important dates for this week. Don't forget the students are dismissed at 1:43 this week.

Thank you,

Mrs. Cumbra

Monday : 23	PLC release: 1:43 Character Trait Pizza Lunch!
Tuesday : 24	Early Release Day 1:43 School-wide yearbook signing 9-10 2nd grade snail races 11:00-11:30 5th grade luncheon
Wednesday: 25	Early Release Day 1:43 5th grade field trip- SUNSPLASH! 4th grade field trip- Veteran’s park Kinder field trip/ End of year party- Blue Oaks Park
Thursday: 26	Early Release Day 1:43 1st grade- End of Year Party- Blue Oaks park 5th Promotion TK party Last Day!

Ms. Andi!

It is with great pleasure to introduce Blue Oak’s new school secretary, Ms. Andi. She has worked in the district as a COVID tracer and comes with a tremendous amount of customer service experience. We are excited to have her join our staff.

Our school day for the 2022-23 school year will begin at 7:45.

The dismissal time for TK: 11:07, Kindergarten - 12:47, and 1st- 5th - 2:03.

Early release day will be on Wednesdays

Wednesday Dismissal: TK dismissal will be 11:07, Kindergarten 12:47 and 1st- 5th is 12:50.

The following students were selected for the caring character trait and are invited to have a pizza lunch on Monday!

Penders - Melody and Andrew

DiBlasio- Carter and Sharlize

Kracke - Penny and William

Murphy - Milana and Ali

1st

Maglinte- Kiara and Mason

Leeth- Weston and Ailyn

Gibbs - Trinity and Emmanuel

1/2/3

Matoba- Nathan and Sam

2nd

Tavernetti - Heela and Nyomi

Sasaki - Chloe and Desmond

DeRosa- Jasmine and Isla

3rd

Rue- Mikey and Dillon and Lemar

Parr- Kai, Dima and Gauri

Hennessy- Maya, Carly and Zylar

4th

Weiss - Isaac, Sophia and Avery

Wall - Lilyana, Brooklyn and Jack Ward

Eldred-Cole

4th/5th

Hernandez - Abby, Dalton, Maddux and James

5th

Fregeau- Bradley and Eon

O’Connor - Ethan, Averie and Landon Kracke

Pierce- Julianne, Jonathan, and Kai

Lost and Found

Please make sure that all clothing, playground balls, lunch boxes and other items brought to school are clearly marked with your child’s name. We accumulate a vast assortment of misplaced property during the school year. The Lost and Found is located in and behind the rear, west door to the multi-use room. You are welcome to check it during school hours. All abandoned items in the Lost and Found are donated to charitable organizations at various times during the school year.

As a Reminder- Pick Up/Drop Off

Traffic in and around Blue Oaks School presents the number one

safety hazard to children and adults!

We request your cooperation.

Speed Limit- It is very important to drive slow when picking up or dropping off your student. Many families are driving fast through the crosswalks, causing students and families to be alarmed. Please be respectful of all our students and community and drive slow!

SUPERVISION- Supervision doesn't start until 8:25. We ask that you do not drop off your student before 8:25. Please plan accordingly so that your child can be at school at 8:25 or after.

The WEST PARKING LOT - in front of the Kindergarten wing - is designated for drop-off and pick-up of transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, first and second grade students by private vehicle, only. Watch for children! Children may not go into parking lots unless they are with an adult. All students entering the west side parking lot must use the crosswalk on Halesworth. DO NOT stop or park your vehicle except in a designated parking spot. Remain in your car when at the yellow curb and pull all the way up to the end of the yellow curb.

The DROP-OFF/PICK-UP AREA in front of the Multi-Use Room is for school buses and daycare agencies only. Please do not drop off or pick up students on Horncastle Ave. There is no supervision.

The EAST PARKING LOT – in front of the Adventure Club and the upper grades playground is designated for drop-off and pick-up of third, fourth and fifth grade students by private vehicle, only. There is no crosswalk in this parking lot. Children may not cross or enter the parking lot unless accompanied by an adult. DO NOT stop or park your vehicle except in a designated parking spot. Remain in your car when at the yellow curb.

NEVER LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE UNATTENDED IN THE DROP-OFF/PICK-UP ZONES.

If you wish to park your car, kindly pull into a designated parking space.

Thank you for respecting the privacy and property rights of residents on streets adjacent to school.

We request that you walk your child/children to school whenever possible to cut down on traffic and pollution, promote healthy life habits and enhance the safety of all.

WALK TO SCHOOL WEDNESDAY!

Will continue next year!

If you live too far to walk, we encourage you to park in the surrounding neighborhood and walk in from there. Two student council representatives will be manning each gate to pass out stickers to those students who participated in Walk to School Wednesday. We look forward to seeing our Bears put on their walking shoes and help to create a cleaner environment.

Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

What is PBIS?

School-wide PBIS is a multi-tiered framework to make schools more effective places. It establishes a social culture and the behavior supports needed to improve social, emotional, behavioral, and academic outcomes for all students. PBIS is flexible enough to support student, family, and community needs.

Second Step

Second Step is our evidence-based social emotional curriculum that all our classes use on a daily basis to help teach empathy and problem-solving skills in a holistic integrated way. For the next 10 weeks, all our students will be focusing on problem solving. Please check in with your student and be sure to ask them what they are learning and help them role play and practice. The more practice they get, the better they will be. Here is a video that you can watch and review.

Problem Solver Steps

TK:Joining in with Play, Saying the Problem, Thinking of Solutions, Speaking Assertively. *Transitioning to Kindergarten: Learning in K, Riding the K bus, Making New Friends in Kindergarten

K: Inviting to Play, Fair Ways to Play, Having Fun w/Our Friends Handling Having Things Taken Away, Handling Name-Calling, Reviewing Second Step Skills

1: Solving Prob, Part 1, Solving Prob, Part 2, Fair Ways to Play,20. Inviting to Join in, Handling Name-Calling, Reviewing SS Skills

2: Solving Prob, Part 1, Solving Prob, Part2, Taking Responsibility, Responding to Playground Exclusion, Playing Fairly on Playground, Reviewing SS Skills

3: Solving Prob, Part1, Solving Prob, Part2, Solving Classroom Problems,Solving Peer Exclusion Problems, Dealing with Neg. Peer Pressure, Reviewing SS Skills

4: Solving Prob, Part1, Solving Prob, Part2, Making a Plan,Solving Playground Problems, Taking Resp. for Your Actions, Dealing with Peer Pressure, Reviewing SS Skills

5: Solving Prob, Part1, Solving Prob, Part2, Making a Plan,Seeking Help, Dealing with Gossip, Dealing with Peer Pressure, Reviewing SS Skills

Here are some posters that are displayed in each classroom to help support and teach students emotional regulation.

What's New in RCSD?

Click on the links below to learn about what is new in the Roseville City School District.

Vaccine Verification and COVID Information

If you are vaccinated, please bring in your vaccine card and show it to our secretaries. They DO NOT need a copy or make a copy. They simply need to see it. This only needs to be done one time. We will mark you cleared in our system and you are not required to show this again.
If you are NOT vaccinated and you would like to continue to volunteer as a Category I or Category II volunteer, you MUST show proof of a negative COVID test within 6 days of being on campus. Our school secretaries will ask for proof of this requirement upon you signing in.
COVID Reminders: As more students are getting vaccinated, please know that you can show their vaccination card to the office ladies and they will enter the information into powerschool. You can either email a photocopy of the card or just come in.

Positive Case Isolation Changes

At this time this change only applies to individuals who are positive for COVID-19.

Per CDPH’s updated guidelines, positive cases can reduce the number of days they must isolate (both staff and students, regardless of vaccination status) from 10 days to 5 days if all the following are TRUE:

At least 24-hours have passed since the resolution of fever without the use of fever-reducing medications; AND
They take and provide RCSD with a COVID-19 test (antigen recommended) on or after Day 5 and it comes back NEGATIVE; AND
They will continue to wear a well-fitting mask around others for a total of 10 days, especially in indoor settings.

Types of Tests Accepted

In light of recommendations from the state and CDC to use antigen tests and coupled with the difficulty finding tests, RCSD will also be moving to allow for at-home testing.

We will accept the at-home test results with attestation for the following situations:

A negative test to return early to work; or
A negative test to clear symptomatic illness that is not COVID-19; or
A positive test to utilize RCSD COVID leave.

Individuals will use the District-provided form to provide verification of a positive or negative medically supervised or self-attested at-home test. If an individual uses an at-home test, they will be asked to complete an attestation that indicates the test was taken by the isolated or quarantined individual.

2021-2022 Bell Schedule

RCSD Website

Blue Oaks Website

MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS/AGENCIES/RESOURCES

Sunday, May 15, 2022

5/16-5/20

Dear Blue Oaks Families,

This past week was another fun one filled with pioneers, plays and performances oh my.... We finished the week with a fun basketball game with our 5th graders versus staff and CAASPP testing is officially complete.

To wrap up the year, the students are able to earn an orange colored Bear Hug throughout the day and at the end of the day, each teacher has a drawing and the students are able to earn a smelly pencil. Keep encouraging your student(s) to be safe, respectful and responsible.

We have our final character concert on Friday where we will celebrate our students that have demonstrated the caring character trait and our final walk to school is Wednesday. In the next two weeks, please come to check with lost and found as any left over clothes will be donated.

As a reminder, due to a change in state legislation, we wanted to continue to inform you of changes to our school day's starting and ending times for the 2022-23 school year. The new law requires that high schools start no earlier than 8:30 am and middle schools no earlier than 8:00 am. The Roseville Joint Union High School District transports RCSD’s bus-riding students; therefore, our schools must start earlier to accommodate the new required start times for the high schools.This means our school day for the 2022-23 school year will begin with all our students starting at 7:45. The dismissal time for TK: 11:07, Kindergarten - 12:47, and 1st- 5th - 2:03. We will still have a PLC early release day that will be on Wednesdays next year, and on that day, TK dismissal will be 11:07, Kindergarten 12:47 and 1st- 5th is 12:50. We understand that this change will potentially impact morning and afternoon routines, and therefore we wanted to make sure you were made aware of this change as soon as possible.

Attending school and on time are huge pieces to student success and with our earlier start time, it may be a challenge for some families to get to school at 7:45. Starting at 7:46, your student will be marked tardy. Attendance letters to address absences and tardies will be sent out next year to help support student academic success. As a reminder, absences are only excused for doctor or dentist appts. or if the student is sick. If your student is absent, please call or email the office and let us know.

Thank you,

Mrs. Cumbra

The following irreplaceable instructional aides have been selected to shine in this week's spotlight; Mason, Cheryl, Keegan, Katrina, and Debbie. These staff members have an extraordinary amount of patience and love for our students. They have each created a strong bond with the students they serve. They are always willing to help out in any situation and are a vital part of our staff and our student success.

Bernhard Museum Living History

The Bernhard Museum visited Blue Oaks last week and recreated the field trip experience for our students. They set up stations to make wooden fruit crates, marble bags, button spinners, and leavings dolls. We also had a fun old fashioned sing-a-long and a Spelling Bee. 3rd graders had so much fun this week learning how the Pioneers lived. Students dressed as pioneers and brought an 1880's style lunch.The students really enjoyed themselves! Thank you to the teachers and parent volunteers that helped make this happen.

Bucket Band

Thank you Ms. Estep for your hard work with our 5th grade students. That was fun to watch! Our students will be preforming for the entire school during our last character concert.

If you are NOT vaccinated and you would like to continue to volunteer as a Category I or Category II volunteer, you MUST show proof of a negative COVID test within 6 days of being on campus. Our school secretaries will ask for proof of this requirement upon you signing in.
Volunteer Online Link: https://www.rcsdk8.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/volunteer_application_-_category_ii_-_fillable._1.pdf
Volunteer Live Scan Link: https://www.rcsdk8.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/request_for_live_scan_form_-_4.2019.pdf
Current TB clearance, (good for four years from the date issued), can be submitted to the school site.
Here is the link to purchase your shirt: https://dadsofgreatstudents.com/general/cotton-short-sleeve-t-shirt.html

As a Reminder- Pick Up/Drop Off

Traffic in and around Blue Oaks School presents the number one

safety hazard to children and adults!

We request your cooperation.

Speed Limit- It is very important to drive slow when picking up or dropping off your student. Many families are driving fast through the crosswalks, causing students and families to be alarmed. Please be respectful of all our students and community and drive slow!

SUPERVISION- Supervision doesn't start until 8:25. We ask that you do not drop off your student before 8:25. Please plan accordingly so that your child can be at school at 8:25 or after.

The WEST PARKING LOT - in front of the Kindergarten wing - is designated for drop-off and pick-up of transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, first and second grade students by private vehicle, only. Watch for children! Children may not go into parking lots unless they are with an adult. All students entering the west side parking lot must use the crosswalk on Halesworth. DO NOT stop or park your vehicle except in a designated parking spot. Remain in your car when at the yellow curb and pull all the way up to the end of the yellow curb.

The DROP-OFF/PICK-UP AREA in front of the Multi-Use Room is for school buses and daycare agencies only. Please do not drop off or pick up students on Horncastle Ave. There is no supervision.

The EAST PARKING LOT – in front of the Adventure Club and the upper grades playground is designated for drop-off and pick-up of third, fourth and fifth grade students by private vehicle, only. There is no crosswalk in this parking lot. Children may not cross or enter the parking lot unless accompanied by an adult. DO NOT stop or park your vehicle except in a designated parking spot. Remain in your car when at the yellow curb.

NEVER LEAVE YOUR VEHICLE UNATTENDED IN THE DROP-OFF/PICK-UP ZONES.

If you wish to park your car, kindly pull into a designated parking space.

Thank you for respecting the privacy and property rights of residents on streets adjacent to school.

We request that you walk your child/children to school whenever possible to cut down on traffic and pollution, promote healthy life habits and enhance the safety of all.

WALK TO SCHOOL WEDNESDAY!

*Next Walk to School: May 18th

Last one for this school year

Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

What is PBIS?

Second Step