Wingspan October 2010
October 1, 2010
St. John’s Episcopal School 5401 N. Brookline Oklahoma City, OK 73112
Visit our website at www.stjohnsokc.com Phone 943-8583
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your mind.” This is the greatest and first commandment. And a
second is like it: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
October 2010 Colossians Ch. 3,V. 16
Mission StatementThe mission of St. John’s School is to provide an excellent, well-rounded education, set in the Episcopal tradition, which instills a lifelong love of learning and achievement with a lasting habit of caring and contribution to the community. School Board of TrusteesRev. David Stock – Rector Ben Oglesby Ben Hanneman Wanda Ross Kaye Nelson – Head of School Drew Miller Dr. C.K. Khoury Patricia Riden Noel Walker – President Scott Sproat Tish Adams Jackie Gross Nick Tant Brigett Foster Carrie Martin |
Message from The Head Of School
I am so happy to see October!! I look forward to cooler weather, decorating for Halloween, and celebrating a famous person’s birthday. We have had 1 busy month with more to follow. Be sure to keep your October calendar handy, this month promises to be a busy one as well.
AT HOME HABITS LEAD TO SCHOOL SUCCESS
1. Establish sleep routines
2. Have him/her clean out backpack daily
3. Keep a class schedule handy
4. Get organized
5. Practice manners
6. Answer questions (encourage your child to ask questions of you and his teacher)
7. Read together
8. Play school
9. Make a study spot
10. Attendance matters—as your child begins to move up in grades, she’ll also start to become more independent. But it’s not the time to relax about attendance. Children who don’t attend school regularly fall behind and score lower on tests. They can have a hard time making and keeping friends. A recent study of the nation’s 4th graders showed that almost one in four had been absent from school 3 or more days in the last month. Let your child and her teachers know that you know attendance counts!
(The Parent Institute)
Thank you,
Kaye Nelson, Head of School
Upcoming Events
Friday, October 1st Out of Uniform Day
Wednesday, October 6th PTO 5:15 in Art Room
Thursday, October 7th SHARE 8:45 fundraiser kickoff
Friday, October 8th ADA Walk money is due
Tuesday, October 12th Nino’s Night
Saturday, October 16th Fall Carnival
Monday, October 18th End of Fundraiser
Tuesday, October 19th Picture Retakes Johnnie’s Night
Spirit Wear Day
Wednesday, October 20th Out of Uniform Day – Bedlam Dress
– Wear Red or Orange for the OU/OSU game
SHARE 8:45 w/ Officer Tant
Thursday & Friday October 21st & 22nd Fall Break – No School
Monday, October 25th No School – Parent Teacher Conferences
Red Ribbon Week
Tuesday, October 26th Wear Red Day
Saturday, October 30th Official Trick or Treat Night in OKC
Sunday, October 31st Halloween
Birthdays 
October 3rd – Susan Abel October 21st – Terran Knowlton
October 6th – Jaylee Jorns October 22nd – Grae McGinnis
October 9th – Father David October 27th – Dylan Marshall
October 12th –Kaye Nelson October 29th – Fran Bishop
October 13th –Martha Smith
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Diabetes Walk last Tuesday!! Money from the event needs to be in by Friday, October the 8th. Thanks again for your support!!
Girl Scout News!
Troop 756 will be camping this weekend up near Stillwater, at Camp Sylvia Stapley. The girls will be hiking, cooking outdoors, doing team-building games, an astronomy lesson and star-gazing, and doing a pocket knife safety class.
Please support our Girl Scouts during their October Nut and Candy fund raiser! See R2 or any Girl Scout for details. 
Middle School News!
The sixth grade has been working hard this year. We’ve completed a big science unit on maps, with fun compass activities and topography. In math we’re reviewing negative and positive integers, and multi-step multiplication and division. The class has read The Magician’s Nephew in literature, and is halfway through The Giver. The students have very good literary analysis skills! Spelling, vocabulary, and poetry are well under way in language arts, and history class finds us struggling with the problems of a new nation, and exploring the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase with Lewis and Clark.. Book reports are due on Thursday. Go sixth grade!
The eighth grade began the year in history learning about the ancient stone age and river valley civilizations, and has now progressed to the grandeur of Egypt and Mesopotamia. In literature we have read Creation Mythology and are reading Egyptian Mythology to correlate with the history. In algebra, multi-step equations and operations began the year. Science finds us learning Newton’s Laws, with accompanying lab activities on force, momentum, and motion. Spelling, vocabulary, and poetry round out language arts. Eighth grade, you rock!
Both classes enjoyed their recent field trip to the Oklahoma Wildlife Expo out at the Lazy E Arena! We hope to make this an annual tradition.
Sixth and Eighth are taking astronomy as an elective this semester. Thus far we’ve read about eclipses, seasons, planetary rotation and revolution, phases of the moon, and human space travel. Videos from NASA have enhanced the study of our Earth-Moon unit. We’ll be taking two field trips with this class later this semester.
PTO Newsletter
Sept 23
- Make sure you get signed up to work your class booth at the carnival. If you don’t come inside, please contact your homeroom mom to sign you up.
- Please bring a bag of candy to donate for the carnival.
- We will begin preselling tickets for the carnival in Oct. Get your tickets early, so you don’t have to wait in line.
Library Cards 
I have been the part-time librarian at St. John’s for several years. Many grades come in regularly to select books. Every child from first grade up has his or her own school library card number, and may check out books when I am available.
I am hoping that our kids also get a public library card and use it regularly. Oklahoma County Metropolitan Library System is great! There is no minimum age for a child’s card. The parent or guardian must bring in two forms of ID, one with a current Okla. County address.
So, make a trip with your child to the library so they can begin a lifetime journey and love of reading.
Carol Wolf (school librarian)