Book Fair and Reading Night at Onondaga Road

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OR will host a PTA sponsored Scholastic Book Fair next week, Monday, 10/24 through Wednesday, 10/25.

These classes will visit the book fair on Monday:

Mrs. Hudson
Mrs. Marchesani
Mrs. Welch
Mrs. Schulz
Ms. Tschernjawski

All other classes will visit the book fair during their library classes on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Everyone is welcome to come to the book fair during our Reading Night 5:30-7:00 Wednesday evening.  Also, visit the story teller, Jim McCarthy in the gym.  Please look for the Reading Night flyer that came home with your child for details of the evening event!

October News and Boos!

We’re getting there… Take a look at the progress of our new cafeteria!  Before long we will be dining here for breakfast and lunch.  You can see that the room is painted and the contractors are in the process of laying floor tiles.  Our new furniture is in the storage trailer waiting to be put in place soon.

Wednesday, October 19 is Unity Day.  Please wear orange to show that you stand up against bullying!  We will have special guest readers from the West Genesee High School R2D2 Club visiting OR to read to our students, and we will have our monthly R2D2 assembly on Unity Day.

Our annual Scholastic Book Fair, sponsored by OR PTA, will be held October 24, 25 and 26 during the school day.  Students will visit the book fair during their library classes (Thursday library classes will visit on Monday that week), and students are also welcome to return to the book fair Wednesday evening, October 26 during Reading Night.  Watch for details to come home on flyers with the children.

Halloween is spooking around the corner!  The Halloween parade will be held at 2:00 on Monday, Halloween Day, October 31.  Please remember that scary, violent costumes are not appropriate and not permitted for school, and weapons are NOT permitted in school as Halloween props.  Let’s keep the day enjoyable and SAFE for everyone.  A detailed letter about Halloween will be sent home with all students.

Mark your calendar:

• Wednesday, October 19 – Unity Day (Wear orange!)
• Monday – Wednesday, October 24-26 – Scholastic Book Fair in school
• Wednesday, October 26 – Reading Night 5:30-7:00 p.m.
• Friday, October 28 – Annual PTA Cherrydale Fund Raiser begins and runs through November 10
• Monday, October 31 – Halloween Parade, 2:00 p.m.

Looking ahead:

• Wednesday, November 2 is school picture make-up day.  If your child was absent or needs pictures retaken, this is the day.
• If you have yet to schedule a parent-teacher conference, please contact your child’s teacher.  Conference days are scheduled for Monday, November 21 and Tuesday, November 22.  These days are half-days for students, 11:30 dismissal.

Onondaga Road First Week Notes

We finished our first September week of the new school year, and what a week it has been!  The students were so excited to see all of the changes that have been made to our building.  It looks great, and sparkly clean!  The new library is a big hit, and a well-deserved addition for our children.  Soon we'll be dining in our new cafeteria, and we'll welcome that building-wide central air conditioning, too! 

Thank you to all who were able to attend our Curriculum Night on Thursday evening.  It's been a warm week here at school, as you may have experienced on that warm night, but hopefully your time here was informative for you and you were able to get a feel for how your child's day will run.  

Please join us next week for our first PTA meeting on Tuesday night, September 13, 6:30 p.m. in our new library.  This will be a time for us to plan several fun events for our children.

I've attached several pictures from our first school week... Enjoy! 

Welcome Back to Onondaga Road

Welcome to Onondaga Road for the 2016-17 school year!

You will be pleasantly amazed at our newly renovated building!  A lot of hard work has gone into this project, and we’re ready to invite our children back to school.  We have a beautiful new library, several newly painted classrooms, new classroom cabinetry, a bright new main-entrance hallway, new bathrooms in every classroom, and more to come…The next phase will be the completion of our new cafeteria, so we are looking forward to that, too. 

Here are some important dates for your calendar as we get this year started:

• Tuesday, September 6 – First day of school!  This is a full day, 9:00-3:20.
• Thursday, September 8 – Curriculum / Meet the Teachers Night – 6:00-7:30 – Please see the flyer that comes home with your child on the first day of school explaining details for this Curriculum Night.
• Tuesday, September 12 – PTA Meeting in the library, 6:30
• Wednesday, September 28 – School Picture Day
• Thursday, September 29 – Half-day for students, 11:30 dismissal

Last year our school’s Shared Decision Making Team (SDMT), in close collaboration with our Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), sought input from you, our Onondaga Road families, for feedback regarding many after school events and enrichment activities for our students.  Thank you for the feedback!  We received over 100 responses to our questionnaire, and we are using that information to help plan and guide our PTA and school sponsored events.  You will notice on the school calendar several activities already in the works (Reading Night, Scholastic Book Fair, Enrichment Day, Family Picnic, etc.).  Our first PTA meeting will be a great time to plan these events, but we can’t do it without YOU!  Please consider attending our PTA meeting on Tuesday, September 13 at 6:30 p.m. in our new library to learn more!

We look forward to seeing our smiling children on Tuesday, September 6.  Rest up – it’s going to be a busy, productive year of learning and growing!