TO-KNOW

• THANK YOU! Words can’t express our thank to Erin Linde for her service as Long-Term Substitute in 2nd grade. She did an awesome job and really became part of our staff. If you get the chance wish her well before her last day on November 1st.

• THANK YOU to everyone that helped with 3rd grade testing. It went very smoothly!

• PTA Announcement: The next END-OF-QUARTER Celebration will be on December 7th at 1:30. Madcap Puppets will be doing a holiday show for the students.

• SDQ: We will only be administering the SDQ one time this year. The window is 10/9-11/10. You will be given 60 minutes to complete the SDQ on 10/16/2017. A letter about the SDQ will be sent to families today. Here is a link to the SDQ questionnaire (Link), Each student should have one questionnaire completed. Here is a link to a Q&A sheet about the SDQ (Link)

• Here is the link to Parent Teacher Conferences (Link). We will be sending this out to parents today.

To support Breast Cancer Awareness in the community, the Oak Hills Local School District is partnering with The Jewish Hospital - Mercy Health Mobile Mammography Unit at 3 school buildings in early November.  The Mobile Mammography Unit is available to all interested persons in the surrounding community.

Delhi Middle School on November 1, 2017 from 7:30 a.m. till 11:00 a.m.

John Foster Dulles School on November 2, 2017 from 7:30 a.m. till 11:00 a.m.       

Oak Hills High School on November 2, 2017 from 12:00 noon till 3:30 p.m.

Call 513-686-3300 today to schedule an appointment at any of the above locations.  Participating insurances are billed.  Financial assistance is available for those who quality.

Click here for additional facts about breast cancer and screenings.

Planning Calendar (Yearly Planning Calendar)

TO-DO

• Complete the SDQ questionnaire (Link) for each student.

• If you have a positive news story that you would like to share let me know. You can also submit the story to Emily buckley for coverage (Link)

TO-READ

If you are inspired, perplexed, or irritated by the weekly reading I’d love to hear about it! Send me an email or grab me in the hallway. Learning never ends!

• Here is an article entitled “How does your instruction Line-up” (Link) .  This article talks about the need to increase the complexity of instruction as students progress through the grade-levels.

• Question:

• Do you think our curriculum maps give us enough guidance?

• Do you think we have enough articulation between grade-levels?