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825 N. BROADWAY ST, SANTA ANA. CA. 92701
WWW.OCEAA.ORG
Winter 2015 Edition
Vol. 11 No. 2
Times The
Administration Report
Welcome back to school! I hope you enjoyed time with your families during the Thanksgiving break. December is a busy time for learning at OCEAA. We also have two important parent involvement activities this month that you should be aware of: Parent School Climate Survey We are conducting a parent survey to help us continue developing long and short term plans for OCEAA. Please take time to complete the survey online. Our goal is 100% participation and your support is greatly appreciated! If you do not have internet access at home, Mr. Felix will be available on December 9th and 16th from 8:00am-8:45am and 2:00pm-2:30pm to help you in the computer lab. We also have a limited number of paper copies available in the office of the main building. Please return completed paper copies of the survey to the main office receptionist, Ms. Rosalinda Vargas. School Site Council Orientation meetings were held on Monday, December 7th, and the next step is voting. Please return your ballot to the BALLOT BOX in the front office (Main campus or Annex) by December 16th, 2015. The results will be tallied on December 17th. Thank you for all the support you provide our school community! Your involvement is very important to OCEAA’s future success. ~ Kristin Collins - Director
Inside This Issue:
Administration Report 1-2
Facilities Update 3
FSO Update 3
Arts Update 4-6
KEDS Update 7
Library Update 8
Notices 8
Fundraising 9
Important Dates 10
Happy Holidays to all our
ORCA families from the
OCEAA Staff!
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Parent School Climate Survey, 2015-2016 The purpose of this survey is to obtain parent perceptions of student behavior and attitudes, school programs and policies, and the overall school climate as they relate to student well-being and learning. It deals with such issues as truancy, safety, harassment, substance use, school connectedness, and learning supports. The survey is a companion to the California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS), and the California School Climate Survey (CSCS) for staff. Instructions for Accessing the Survey 1. If you have more than one child at this school, please complete one survey for each child. 2. Access the login page for the survey using the following URL: URL: http://surveys.wested.org/csps/YD933DG?lang=en 3. Use the following school code and click the Take Survey button: School Code (case sensitive): GQ93MA 4. If you do not have internet access at home, Mr. Felix will be available on December 9th and 16th from 8:00am - 8:45am and 2:00pm - 2:30pm to help you in the computer lab.
California Healthy Kids Survey
Students in 5th-8th grades are being asked to be a part of our school’s California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS), sponsored by the California Department of Education. This is a very important survey that will help promote better health and well-being among our youth, improve the school learning environment, and combat problems such as drug abuse and violence. Your child does not have to take the survey. Participation is voluntary and requires your permission.
Survey Content: The survey gathers information on developmental supports provided to youth; school connectedness and barriers to learning, as well as behaviors such as physical activity and nutritional habits; alcohol, tobacco and other drug use; and school safety.
You may examine the questionnaire in the school office, on our website or click the links below:
Elementary (5th-6th): http://www.oceaa.org/Resources/Survey_2015-16_Elem.pdf
Middle School (7th-8th): http://www.oceaa.org/Resources/Survey_2015-16_MS_eng.pdf
Lopez ~ Grade 1 / grado 1 Jiminez ~ Grade 1 / grado 1
FSO Update
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Facilities Update
Construction at the TK/Kindergarten Annex is nearly complete. You may have noticed the new purple shade canopy that has recently been placed in the playground. The canopy was the last item needed to receive the final Occupancy Permit from the City of Santa Ana, which had already been approved.
OCEAA will build a new play structure and pour rubber on the black top around the structure to keep our little ORCAS safe. The new play structure is scheduled to go up during Winter Break.
We are looking forward to seeing all our TK and Kinder students enjoying their completed playground when we come back in January!
What a fantastic Fall Festival! Princesses, pirates, dinosaurs and dancing skeletons - just a few of the truly amazing array of costumes we saw attend our 11th Annual Fall Festival on Friday October 30th. Everyone came to eat, play, dance and have fun, and everyone did just that! Congratulations to all the winners of the games, the Costume Parade and the Cake Walk and a huge thank you to all the volunteers who made this event possible. A special thank you to Chef Sean & his staff who, as usual, prepared a delicious dinner and to the FSO Leadership Team who organized the event.
Events like these cannot be done
without a massive effort so to
everyone who donated to the
Cake Walk, worked a booth, set
up before the event, cleaned up
after the event, helped with a
costume or did any one of the
thousand other things needed
the make a successful Fall
Festival - we thank you!
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Arts Update
Students are busy studying art in their art classes. They are dancing/singing/painting and acting. We are so glad to provide our students with this time to be creative. Our goal is to have them continue to grow in the arts becoming creative and critical thinkers. You can see examples of student artwork around the school or ask your child what they are working on in their music class and they may sing you a song!
Our Rhythms of the World show was a success!
We had a great turn out and students from Kinder, 1st,
6th, 7th and 8th performed. It was a spectacular night of
music and dance. Our students are true performers and we
are so proud. Thank you to all teachers, staff and
volunteers who helped to make this event possible. All
proceeds will benefit the 6th grade Outdoor Science School
field trip. Way to go OCEAA!
DVDs of the show are available for order in the Front Office
and pictures are available for viewing and purchase online
here...https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lypsi3o7x9tvawy/
AAA4pv89bXPuSBd3T83l93RLa?dl=0
Rhythms of the World
Students were invited to showcase their artwork at Main
Place Mall in Orange as a part of their Día de los
Muertos/Halloween event. It was a great opportunity to
share our student work with the community.
Thank you to one of our wonderful community
supporters Yenny Bernal, for assisting us with this event!
Main Place Halloween Art Event
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We are so grateful to our friends at Starbucks for allowing OCEAA to showcase our amazing student art every month during Downtown Santa Ana's First Saturday Art Walk. Please stop by to view the art and let Starbucks know you appreciate their support.
OCEAA Student Art Exhibit at Starbucks ~ 1st Saturday Art Walk
Students created artwork and made an altar that was dedicated to our Artist of the Year, Pablo Picasso. It was a beautiful community event, and quite exciting during the evening when the entire crowd stopped to watch the mysterious light in the sky - later to be revealed as a Navy missile test! Were you there? Did you see it?
Thank you to all of our student artists and volunteers and who took part! We could not participate in any of these wonderful community events without your support. If
you would like to participate in future community art events, please contact our Arts Coordinator Mrs. Erica Vicario:[email protected].
Noche de Altares
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up
~ Picasso
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Attention all art minded parents!
We are in need of a volunteer to help coordinate our monthly
Starbucks exhibit - it's the fun part too!
Our teachers and Arts Coordinator Mrs. Erica Vicario will
gather all the artwork every month and we need YOU to get it
to and from Starbucks...and of
course the fun part, set up the
display! Generally we will have
some of the artists' parents
helping every month as well
so the job is not too big.
Set-up is very flexible - it can
be done 1-2 days before and
art can usually be left up for
the week or so after.
This monthly Starbucks Art Exhibit during Downtown Santa Ana's
1st Saturday Art Walk is a wonderful opportunity for our community to see what OCEAA is all
about and also for our students to get a taste of what it's like to have their art on public exhibit -
to be an actual 'exhibiting artist'.
We don't want to lose this
opportunity but the only way we
can continue to do it is with help -
we need your help!
Please contact Mrs. Erica Vicario;
[email protected] if you would like to help or if you have any questions.
Exhibit Curator Needed
Vu ~ Grade 2 / grado 2 De la Portilla ~ Grade 3 / grado 3
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KEDS Update
On behalf of the entire KEDS staff and students, we thank you for your generosity! Thank you for all the donations from OCEAA staff members, students and families. KEDS students were able to create and donate 11 boxes filled with food along with $25 gift certificates for turkeys/ham to ‘in need’ OCEAA families, enabling them to have a much happier Thanksgiving!
We are having our Winter Performance on December 16th
at 3:00pm featuring the violin, guitar, glee and mariachi
classes in the Garden Grill The performance is open to
everyone.
Winter Performance
KEDS students
created altars in
celebration of Dia
de los Muertos.
Students learned
facts about the
holiday and created
altars to honor the
lives of notable
Latinos.
Dance lessons will begin January 11th, 2016 for grades TK-8th. The classes offered will be Creative
Movement ( TK-K), Intro to ballet (1st- 8th) and Jazz (1st-8th). Check the After School page of the
website for details and registration.
Dance Classes
KEDS Altars
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Library Update
All classes visit our library every
week and story time is a favorite!
Mrs. Brown, our wonderful
librarian and her fabulous student
library assistants read stories to
the younger classes before they
check their books out.
We are still in need of
computer savvy English reading/
writing help in the Library to
in-put books on the computer. If
this is something you would like
to do, please contact our
wonderful librarian, Ms. Dusty
Brown at; [email protected]
The 'Cowardly Lion' (7th Grader Khailup)
reading to Ms. Lopez's 1st Grade class
The Jog-A-Thon is tentatively scheduled for April 8th at Willard Elementary (awaiting approval) as Eddie West Stadium is under construction until June. We will keep you updated as we get closer to the date.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the
Scholastic Book fair last month. We made almost
$2,000 in "Scholastic Dollars" which we will use to
stock the OCEAA library, build teacher classroom
libraries and give as rewards to classrooms that
achieve 100% FSO memberships.
Scholastic Book Fair
Notices
Look for the FSO Membership Drive coming in the new year - Goal 100%!
Parking meters on Sycamore St, are
available except in our Valet Line during the hours
of 7:00am-8:00am or 2:00pm-4:00pm. Parking is
always available in the parking structure.
There is no parking in the lot adjacent to
OCEAA. This lot is for OCSA parking only. The 3
OCEAA spaces are for short business meetings
only.
Please contact the Main
Office if you know of a
place that recycles printer
ink cartridges. The one we
used no longer offers this
service.
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Ongoing Fundraisers
BoxTops Box Tops don’t expire (even if they have an expiration date!) but still, send them in as soon as possible anyway so OCEAA can cash them in! Your child can give your BoxTops to their teacher anytime so keep collecting and send them in....in baggies, on a sheet of paper or however else is easiest for you!
Target RED card Enroll in 'Take Charge of Education' and Target will donate up to 1% of your RED card purchase to OCEAA, if you choose OCEAA as your designated school. Sign up for free and designate OCEAA at: www.target.com/redcard If you're already enrolled, keep using your REDcard and watch the money add up for OCEAA!
Teacher Funding Sites
These sites are always being updated so click the links below or go to the
organization websites and follow the ’search’ prompts for more information.
Did you know you can earn money for our school year round by shopping? By recycling? Every little
bit helps so please participate as much as you can and encourage your family and friends too!
Labiosa ~ Grade 2 / grado 2
Recycling
OCEAA’s Student Leadership Team is working hard recycling all the plastic
and glass bottles on campus. This money is being used to fund Middle School
activities, community outreach and leadership training for the Student
Leadership Team.
Puccini ~ Grade 8 / grado 8
Upcoming Dates to Remember
Twitter www.twitter.com/oceaa
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/
OCEAAcademy
Facebook www.facebook.com/pages/
orange-county-educational-arts-academy
825 N. Broadway St,
Santa Ana. CA. 92701.
Phone: 714 - 558-ARTS (558-2787)
Fax: 714 - 558-2775
E-mail: [email protected]
Newsletter Editor: [email protected]
Contact Us...
OCEAA is a non-profit California public charter school serving approximately 550
TK-8 students located in downtown Santa Ana, across from the Orange County School of the Arts,
between the Artist's Village and the Museum corridor.
The school offers dual-immersion and English-only programs with an arts integrated focus and is
dedicated to nurturing all learners to become creative, critical thinkers by providing
high quality standards-based instruction.
OCEAA Online ~ www.oceaa.org
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Please mark you calendars and check our website for more details!
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot,
others transform a yellow spot into the sun
~ Picasso
December
5 - Student Art Exhibit - Starbucks
8-10 Spanish Book Fair
9 - OCEAA Board Meeting
11 - Coffee Chat
11 - Middle School Dance
14 - ELAC Meeting
16 - Last day for SSC voting
18 - UCI Toy Event (tentative)
21-Jan 8 - Winter Break - No school
January
11 - Classes Resume
11 - ELAC Meeting
13 - FSOLT Meeting
13 - OCEAA Board Meeting
15 - Coffee Chat
25 - Seal of Biliteracy Information
Meeting
27 - Conferences
February
1-8 - Friendship Grams
3 - Conferences
3 - FSOLT Meeting
10 - OCEAA Board Meeting
12-15 Presidents’ Days - No classes
25 - Skate Night
Chavez-Rubio ~ Grade 2 / grado 2
