9/30/22

9/30/2022

OCA NEWS AND UPDATES

PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THESE UPCOMING IMPORTANT EVENTS:

October 7
Conference Day - No School

October 10
Columbus Day - No School

October 13
Open House

October 28
Harvest Party and Pie Auction

Our 2022 Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser was a great success! Thank you to everyone to volunteered their their time and resources, and to everyone who sold tickets and attended the dinner.
Special thanks to Mrs. Grabowski for making sauce, to Mrs. Halstead for providing delicious dessert, the PTO for chipping in with setup, and to Mr. Cleveland for his many hours in the kitchen prepping and making meatballs.
We also cannot overlook our students! They are hardworking, polite, and a pleasure to spend time with. We cannot express how impressed we are with the way they came together to make the evening a success.

There are Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes at the main entrance to the school, as well as at Door #3 and Door #5. Please feel free to take and fill as many as you choose.

Parents may contact Mrs. Monser at [email protected] to have shoeboxes sent home with their child.

If you don’t care to do the shopping for a box but would like to participate you have two options:

1. Let our students shop and fill the box(es) for you. Send in the funds you’d like to donate to Mrs. Monser with a note indicating that the money is to be used to fill a shoebox.

2. There is a suggested donation of $10/shoebox to cover the cost of shipping. You may send a donation to cover the cost of shipping of one or more shoeboxes.

Filled shoeboxes and donations need to be brought in to the school on or before November 14th.

Thank you,
10th grade Bible class

SPECIAL LUNCHES NEXT WEEK!

We will be offering spaghetti & meatballs for lunch on Monday. Cost is $3, charged to your lunch account. Teachers will take orders in homeroom.

Pizza Day will be THURSDAY next week, as there is no school on Friday.

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9/23/22

9/23/2022

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PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THESE UPCOMING IMPORTANT EVENTS:

September 23
Encounter Conference Sign-up Deadline

September 29
Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser

October 13
Open House

The deadline to register for Encounter is TODAY!

If your student(s) plan to attend, please complete THIS ONLINE FORM as soon as possible so we can secure lodging and pricing.

Spaghetti Dinner ticket order forms and money are due back by MONDAY! Tickets will be sent home with students on Tuesday.

Seating options: 5pm or 7pm
Take-Out options: 4:30pm pickup or 6:30pm pickup
Adult Meal: $10
Child Meal (12 and under): $5
Gluten Free Meal: $10

This year we are testing an online ticket option, so you could also share the link below to friends and family who would like to purchase tickets online.

Thank you so much for your help with this fundraiser. These events are only ever successful because we have such a supportive community of families. We look forward to dining with you on the 29th!

ORDER TICKETS

Putting together 50 Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes is exhausting!
Please help us get rid of them before the next 50 come!

Our 10th grade Bible class has 50 Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes ready to be picked up and packed for a needy child, and 50 more are on their way. Please feel free to stop in to the school and pick up one or more boxes.

So what do you do once you’ve picked up your boxes? Go to:
https://www.samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/pack-a-shoe-box/

This website has information on what items can be sent in your box, as well as box labels and other information.

If you’d like to track where your box(es) go, you can pay for your shipping($10) online and get a code that will let you follow your shoebox. If you are not a computer person, we will have labels and instruction sheets you may pick up. Please return your filled shoeboxes to OCA on or before November 14th, and let us know which classroom is represented when you drop off your boxes. The class that brings in the most filled shoeboxes will get the opportunity to silly string Mr. Kropp, our PE teacher!

Please consider sending in $10 with your shoebox to cover other costs that Samaritan’s Purse incurs in the process of getting these boxes to their destinations.

Anything but a Backpack Day

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9-16-22

9/19/2022

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OCA NEWS AND UPDATES

PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THESE UPCOMING IMPORTANT EVENTS:

September 20-21
School Picture Days

September 23
Encounter Conference Sign-up Deadline

September 29
Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser

We are asking that parents make monthly/regular deposits to their family's lunch account rather than sending in pizza money each week. We will charge your account when pizza is ordered, and notify you when your balance is low. We receive 20-30 baggies of dollar bills and quarters each week, which is a lot of work to sort and deposit - and sometimes results in errors or missed credits to accounts.
Miss Mary and Mrs. VanDewerker thank you!

Picture Day order forms are going home with students today (1 per family). Everything you need to know is on the form, except:
NO ELEMENTARY PE ON TUESDAY!

Spaghetti Dinner reservation forms are going home with students today. We are not doing physical tickets this year, so please add the names of attendees on the form and select seating and menu options. Forms and money are due back by September 27.

Additional order forms are available in the front office and the elementary hallway.

Seating options: 5pm or 7pm
Take-Out options: 4:30pm pickup or 6:30pm pickup
Adult Meal: $10
Child Meal (12 and under): $5
Gluten Free Meal: $10

This year we are testing an online ticket option, so you could also share the link below to friends and family who would like to purchase "tickets" online.

Thank you so much for your help with this fundraiser. These events are only ever successful because we have such a supportive community of families. We look forward to dining with you on the 29th!

ORDER TICKETS

The Encounter Conference is a yearly regional youth conference for churches and youth ministries. Encounter is a three day conference (Nov 10-12) open to 7th-12th graders. Feedback from OCA students who attended this event last year was overwhelmingly positive, so we plan to take a group again this year.

We estimate the cost for the conference and lodging to be around $150, but this will depend on hotel availability and how many students attend. To help us plan, please let us know by Friday, September 23, if your student(s) plan to attend, by completing THIS ONLINE FORM. We will then provide a firm total cost per student.

Our 10th grade Bible class is organizing an Operation Christmas Child shoebox collection.

If you would like to participate, boxes can be picked up at OCA; however, your own shoebox will work just as well. The filled boxes must be at the school by November 14 to be delivered to the collection site on time.

If you would like to fill your own box, click HERE for more information.

If you would like Operation Christmas Child to fill your box, click HERE.

Our goal is to reach 120 boxes. Thank you for helping us reach this goal!

If you have any questions, you can contact Mrs. Monser at [email protected].


We're sure you've noticed that Main Street is under construction. Please give yourself extra travel time, especially at drop-off time, as delays are inevitable for the duration of this project. The Otego community is grateful that these necessary improvements are being made, and we're sure the workers appreciate our patience.

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