Principal’s Message

September 14, 2020

Good Afternoon OES Families,

We have only a few items of business today. First of all, thank you to all of our families that turned in your library and home reading books this summer. We are still missing around 100 of our home reading library books. We are just about to get our Home Reading program going, but we are missing so many books. Will you please look around your home to see if you have a home reading book that you could return to us? The cost to replace a home reading book is $10 per book.

If your child has a home reading book that was not returned, it will result in a delay of when they will be able to take home another book from our Library.

We appreciate all of your help.

Our PTA Reflections program is upon us. The deadline to submit your project is October 13th, 2020. Please see the attached flyers for more information.

2020 Reflections Poster (1)_0.pdf

Instructions for Reflections online.pdf

The following dates are a heads up for events that will be coming:

October 7-8 -Parent Teacher Conferences, more information will be coming

October 13th – Deadline for Reflections

October 13th – 14th – School Picture Day

October 15th – 19th Fall Break

October 20th – 23rd – Red Ribbon Week

Thank you for all of your support and help.

Have a wonderful week!

September 11, 2020 

September 11th is Patriot Day and a National Day of Service and Remembrance. We would like to pay tribute and give thanks to our currant and local first responders as well as the individuals lost and injured in the attacks, first responders, and the many who have risen in service to defend freedom.  

Thank you.

We would like to  inform you that beginning Monday, all students enrolled at Orem Elementary – both in person and online will receive a free lunch if the student chooses to eat school lunch.  Please see attached flyer for more information. 

Free Lunch September 2020 (1).pdf

If you feel that your family would qualify for free and reduced meals, please go to the following link to fill out an application.  If you do qualify, when the funding ends for the free meals, you won’t have a lapse/or be charged for your child to participate in meal programs that our school offers. 

Students who are online and/or Kindergarten students can pick up their breakfast meals from 7:30am – 7:55am or from 8:45am – 9:15am.  

Online students/Kindergarteners can pick up their lunches from 10:20am – 10:35am.  This will be served in a grab and go manner.

The following message is from our wonderful PTA:

Please get online and order your masks and lanyards soon. They are being delivered this week so this is your last chance to pre-order them. We will be distributing them next week and if there are any left over we will sell those as well. More details on distribution will come early next week. If you come to our PTA meeting Monday, 10am in the gym you can pick up your pre-ordered masks and lanyards. 

There are only 3 weeks left to pre-order your yearbooks at the early-bird price. All orders for the aforementioned products and any donations you would like to make may be done on the website:  https://oremelememtary.new.memberhub.store/store

 Thanks!

Also, the PTA is still looking for Room Parents and volunteers for classes.  If you are interested please contact Delaina Whimpey at: [email protected]

Have a great weekend. 

September 9, 2020

I hope you all had a great Labor Day Weekend.  I just wanted to remind everyone that the microwave in the school cafeteria is not available for use.  Please don’t send microwavable lunches with your students.  

Our PTA Meeting will be next Monday, Sept. 14, 2020 @ 10:00am in the gym.  Our SCC meeting has been scheduled for Monday, September 21, 2020 @ 10:00am.  Thank you to all of our wonderful volunteers and community members who help make Orem Elementary the great school that it is. 

The following is some community information from Hope 4 Utah and the UTsafe App:

September_Wellness_Newsletter_for_Parents.01.pdf

September 2020 Newsletter.pdf

Have a Great Afternoon!

September 6, 2020

I am sending this out Sunday, because we will be celebrating Labor Day tomorrow – and there is no school on Monday.

We hope that you have a wonderful, safe weekend. 

The following is community information:

Orem Elementary is now working with Hive Collective – Real Estate Company.  Here is a message from them:

We’re super excited to start working with Orem Elementary! We’ve already put together a basic website here: https://www.hivecollective.io/oremelem. This is hosted on our website, and we welcome your input on the page. Please see attached flyer. 

orem-elementary.pdf

Community Information:

UPLIFT FAMILIES CONFERENCE

First Lady Herbert and the Uplift Families Conference announces their special televised conference this year. It will air on Channel 2 on September 19 at 6:00 PM. Please see the attached flyer. Here is a short video about the event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7nYSYOuWx4

2020 TIPS Parenting Conference Promo.pdf

Here is some information from the Utah Parent Center:

Parent Night

Thursday, September 24, 2020

6:30-8:00 pm via Zoom

The Foundations of the IEP and Q&A

Start off the new school year with an overview of the foundations of the IEP including:

IEP process

Key members of the IEP team

Key components of the IEP

Communicating with the IEP team     

The presentation will be followed by a Q&A with the parent consultant from the Utah Parent Center and a representative from Alpine School District Special Education Department. Please email questions to [email protected] by September 20. Questions can also be asked via the chat box during the presentation. 

Registration required, register at https://bit.ly/32Puiw1

Maria Wiscombe

Alpine District Parent Consultant

Utah Parent Center

www.utahparentcenter.org

Office:  801-318-1959

Spanish Speaking: 801-272-1067

Once again, have a wonderfully long, safe weekend.