Please take a moment to read all the bear-tastic events that happened last week and the ones that are coming up! You don’t want to miss any! The last few months are always busy with fun and memory making activities.
This week we celebrate all our students that were selected for the caring characteristic trait and those students will have pizza with me next Thursday during their lunch time. Starting Monday, we will begin CAASPP testing for our 3rd-5th grade students. The first test is for 5th graders only and it is called the California Science Test (CAST). In the following weeks our 3rd- 5th will take math and ELA.
Field trips have also been happening! Our 3rd graders just got back from the Bernard Museum and 1st graders will be heading to the Folsom Zoo and our 2nd graders will be walking the nature preserve.
In a little over a week, on Sunday 4/30/23 from 9 AM - 11 AM the Blue Oaks PTC will be hosting the 13th Annual Pancake Breakfast.
The event should be really fun - from our celebrity pancake flippers (Blue Oaks teachers and staff) flipping delicious pancakes with toppings, music, bucket band performance and last but not least - auction of various themed gift baskets!
We are hereby asking for your assistance with signing up for volunteer shifts leading up to and day of the event.
Below are the links to both buy tickets as well as to choose a volunteer shift.Ticket sales close on Friday, April 21, 2023 at 5 PM, so we may have enough time to get our final count and purchase the appropriate amount of food for the event.
We have to be honest and share that it has been difficult for the PTC to get parent volunteer sign ups this year. To this effect, if we are unsuccessful in filling all the volunteer shifts by 4/21/23, we may need to cancel the event.
Please get your tickets today, and choose one of the fun shifts either before, during or after the event.
Thank you
Edina Bajraktarevic and Vanessa Moyo
Pancake Breakfast Committee Co- Chairs
Link to Purchase tickets:
https://blueoaks-pancake-breakfast.cheddarup.com
Link to Sign up for Volunteering Shifts:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0C4AAEA628A4F58-pancake1
APRIL 21, 2023 - School Sing
Character Trait Concert- CARING Winners
TK/K
Penders - Zaina, Emmry
K
DiBlasio- Olive, Brendan
Matoba - Alyssa, Jovan
Murphy - Luke, Aashvi
1st
Kracke- Ilyas and Kaleb
Leeth- Connor and Charlotte
Gibbs - Drew and Anuhea
1/2/3
Eldred- Roman
2nd
Tavernetti - Elin, Mason
Sasaki - Lily, Rajvi
DeRosa- Jace, Venice
Brown- Mason, Chloe
3rd
Rue- Nathan, Lenae Olivia
Parr- Kai, Chloe, Ben
Hennessy- Ezra, Eliana, Jordyn
4th
Weiss - Sofia Mikey Janelle
Wall - Zaza, Capri, Carly
Homer- Sawyer, Lincoln , Josiah
4/5th
Fregeau- John and Julia
5th
O’Connor - Gunner Haleigh, Niam
Pierce- Hamida, Elyana, Lennox
Hernandez - Nathan, Sammy , Noah
Yearbook on Sale!
Use this link to for more information
Wanted:
Meal Duty Supervisors
Are you interested in being a part of Blue Oaks and have time to spend caring for our students? Consider being a meal duty supervisor. We currently have an opening for 1 hour (11:35-12:35). You will have the opportunity to keep our students safe, teach and reinforce them by being respectful and responsible. Our bears love meeting new adults and can’t wait to build relationships. If you are interested, please apply on edjoin and email me ncumbra@rcsdk8.org.
Here is a link to the job description
PTC Calendar of Events
Apr 30 Blue Oaks Pancake Breakfast & Auction
May 1-5 Teacher/Staff Appreciation Week
May 11 PTC General Meeting
May 22 Final Skate Night @ Roller King
May 29 No School (Memorial Day)
June 5 Minimum Day
June 6 Last Day of School/Minimum Day
Blue Oaks PTC is a fundraising and activity oriented non-profit organization. Our mission is to work toward bettering the educational and social experiences of our children, support the school staff, and connect Blue Oaks families through organizing fun events and activities. We are so excited for this school year and would love for you to join us! Click HERE to join.
Thank you PTC for the water filling stations!
5 New cement picnic tables have been delivered! They replaced our old wood tables.
Attendance is vital for every child every day as lifelong habits are established in the early school years and contribute to student success throughout their school career and beyond. The best way to keep up with your student's curriculum pacing is to ensure they are in class daily and engaging with peers and their teachers.
When students are absent, they miss participating in discovery, student discourse, and the friendships made inside and outside the classroom through play and collaborative learning. Knowledge and understanding are more than being able to complete a worksheet; it is connecting new knowledge with concepts known previously to construct new meaning and sharing explanations of what is learned. Our teachers want to celebrate students and peers attending school in person and gaining knowledge.
Please be reminded that our upcoming vacation days for the remainder of the year are the following and please try and schedule appointments on non-school days and after school.
Monday, May 29, 2023 - Non-School Day/Holiday
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 - Last Day of School (Summer Break: June 7, 2023 - August 9, 2023)
Parents/guardians looking to take their student(s) out on short-term independent study for personal family business (not quarantined) must complete the online form. Paper forms will no longer be available at the office. As a reminder, students may use short-term independent study when they will be gone for a planned absence of a minimum of three (3) days and a maximum of 14 days. If a student takes multiple independent studies, they are limited to a combined total of 14 days each school year. Parents requesting short-term independent study will still need to make their request with at least 5-days’ notice before taking your student(s) out of school to ensure proper notification to their teacher(s) and providing of schoolwork. Thank you.
Interested in being a WATCHDOG, but didn’t make the meeting? That is OK! Here is the link to sign up! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a45afa92da5fa7-watch
Don’t forget to have your TB test up-to- date, fingerprints done and fill out the volunteer category II application.
I encourage you to review the presentation so you can be prepared for your big day! The presentation has the schedule and bear necessities. Did you know you will also get your own bear hugs to pass out and smelly stickers?
Social and Emotional Learning
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 few 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
Office Referral Data
August - 54 office referrals
September- 64 minor office referrals. 40% of those were for defiance, insubordination, and non-compliance in the classroom.
October- 74 office referrals. 33% of those were for defiance, insubordination, and non-compliance in the classroom.
November: 87 office referrals. Classroom is the highest location with defiance, insubordination and non- compliance being the highest for office referrals.
December: 61 office referrals.
January: 79 Office Referrals. Minor defiance in the classroom remains the main cause of office referrals.
February: 116 office referrals. 22 were due to physical aggression
March: 162 referrals. 37 were due to physical aggression
April:
May:
Additional Resources
RCSD Website
Blue Oaks Website
MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS/AGENCIES/RESOURCES
CareSOLACE - provides a free expedited coordination service for students' and families' mental health and wellness support.
RCSD Enrichment Resources - a variety of online essential skills resources (math, English, typing, etc.) for your student to practice throughout the year.
RCSD Sora - free access to thousands of online books through the Placer County library.
tutor.com/rcsd All RCSD students in grades 4-8 have access to tutor.com. Tutor.com is an online tutoring service. Students can get a tutor 24/7 in Math, Science, Social Studies, English, and Foreign Languages. Tutoring sessions take place in their easy-to-use online classroom, which runs in your web browser. Students can navigate to tutor.com/rcsd and log in using their student ID and birthdate (in the form of mm/dd/yyyy).
Tutor.com Information 2022-2023
