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Important Dates
February - Caring and Compassion
Feb 8- MS counselors to visit OHA 5th grade about registration for MS
Feb 10- 5th Grade Open House at Mahtomedi Middle School 6-7:30 PM
Feb 14-16- Kindness Challenge
Feb 15-16- 3rd Grade Virtual Field Trip- Wolf Center
Feb 17- Evening Conferences 4-8 (In-Person)
Feb 18- Conferences 8-4 No school (Phone or Google Meet)
Feb 21- President’s Day No school
Feb 24- Evening Conferences 4-8 (In-Person)
We are joining over 10 million students in over 15 thousand schools, from over 90 countries, creating over 500 million acts of kindness. The actual week is Jan. 24-28 We will be celebrating the entire month of Feb. at OHA! Your child will bring home a Kindness Challenge Chart to track their kind acts.
Families can participate in The Great Kindness Challenge anytime and anywhere. Just like the School Edition, families can sign up for FREE and gain access to a 50-item kindness checklist. There is also an app. Check out this video.
We are starting a new all-school tradition at OHA to celebrate Kindness Day on Feb. 14th. Students may bring in friendship notes, valentines, or small packaged treats to share with their class family and to model kindness. We have notes available for students to complete at home or during WIN time at school. Each student will decorate bags in school to hold the notes and cards. We are asking families NOT to send in a valentine box with their student(s). We are also asking students and staff to wear clothes on Feb. 14 that have kindness messages on them as well.
We will have fun ways to show and celebrate our friendship with everyone in the OHA family and to spread kindness!
Some activities planned include:
All School Zephyr Time- Celebrating kids Caught being Kind
Kindness Stations during lunch
Homerooms will be doing other acts of kindness as well
We are excited to begin this inclusive new tradition at OHA!
Take care of yourself, your family, and each other.
Students are practicing yoga and learning about the 5 components of fitness. They are making personal goals to help with strength, endurance, flexibility, and more.
5th Grade Middle School Open House Feb 10th
Welcome Class of 2029 families!
My name is Jason Miller and I’m the principal at Mahtomedi Middle School.
Mahtomedi Middle School is an engaging, empowering, and empathetic community. We are excited to support your child in their middle school educational journey!
We’d like to invite you to attend our Sixth-Grade open house event on the evening of Thursday, February 10 at 6 pm Mahtomedi Middle School. The open house event is an opportunity for families and fifth-grade students to tour the school, meet some of our sixth-grade teachers, and learn more about our engaging, empathetic, and empowering Middle School program. Watch for more information coming soon.
We look forward to meeting you and having your child join the school community at Mahtomedi Middle School.
Thank you,
Mr. Jason Miller, Principal, Mahtomedi Middle School
Conference's are filling up, don’t forget to sign up.
Feb. 17- (4 PM-8 PM) times for this date will be held in person
Feb. 18- (8 AM-4 PM) times for this date will be held virtually (these meetings will be held by either google meet or google phone call.)
Feb. 24- (4 PM-8 PM) times for this date will be held in person
We will be using our conference scheduling system PTCFast to facilitate appointments. You may schedule conferences from Jan. 27, 2022- Feb. 17, 2022.
To schedule an appointment please use the following link: PTC Fast-OHA.
If you need support in setting up a conference, please contact Beth Hennen-O.H. Anderson 651-407-2333, or beth.hennen@isd832.net and she can set up a conference.
Yearbook Online Orders Start Now
Yearbooks will only be available to order online this year. Click on the image below for a direct link to the order page, you will need the Yearbook ID Code 1366622 to order. Yearbooks are $20 and are available to order now. If you have any questions please contact Becky Peer peerbecky@gmail.com with any questions.
Substitute Teachers and Paras Needed
We are looking for substitute teachers and paras throughout our district. Please sign up at Teachers on Call
Human Rights Club Drive
The Human Rights Awareness club at Mahtomedi High School will be heading this year's supply drive for the Esperanza is Hope organization. This organization works with immigrant families, at-risk youth, and low-income families. Collected items will include: diapers, baby wipes, laundry detergent, personal hygiene items, and school supplies.
FROM ZEPHYR TECH
OHA Reminder Memos
E-Learning Days
Our school district will use e-Learning days during the 2021-22 school year during emergency weather closings. We intend to use e-Learning days immediately with our first emergency weather closing.
Check out the O.H. Anderson e-Learning Days Plan
Masks
Please send your child to school each day with a mask. It would also be helpful to have a backup mask in their backpack as well.
Quarantines
When students are in quarantine due to COVID, we have outlined how we will support students both academically and socially emotionally. Please click here for more information.
Dress for Weather
Please make sure you send your child to school each day dressed for the weather as we will have outside recess unless the temperature is below zero. Here are the guidelines for dressing for the weather we use at OHA.
Think the Big 5!!
Jacket or Coat
Hat or Hood
Mittens or Gloves
Snow Pants
Boots
MAEF
PTO
The PTO needs YOU!
We also have several key committee and Board positions that we need to fill as soon as possible so we can continue providing enrichment activities and events and supporting our classrooms and teachers.
PLEASE consider contributing your time and skills to help the PTO! It's a great way to get involved and meet other parents. Contact Shana to discuss available opportunities today at president@mahtomedipto.com!
Calling All 5th Graders Interested in
Middle School Band
Hey 5th Graders, if you're interested in learning more
about Middle School Band and finding out which instrument might be right for you, Ms. Niziolek and the MS Band students have put together a presentation just for you! Click here for more information.
We can't wait to see you at the Middle School!
Ashland Theaters Present "We are Monsters"
Join students from Wildwood and OH Anderson in partnership with Ashland Theater as they perform We Are Monsters.
Great for the entire family! The shows are Saturday, February 12 at 4 pm and Sunday, February 13 at 1 pm.
We Are Monsters is a hilarious new musical that follows human kids into a monster cabaret filled with quirky monster characters. The adventurous humans uncover vegetarian vampires and rock n' roll werewolves, gradually realizing there may be more to these monsters than meets the eye! Most importantly these monsters and kids discover the importance of friendship and celebrating the attributes that make each of us different and unique.
Family Event
Hardwired to Connect: Why Connection Unleashes Learning and Growth:
February 15, 2022 at 6:30pm
Too often we think of resilience as an individual trait that we either have or don’t have. Or we frame it as something that we can just dig for and conjure up when needed. The research, however, paints a very different picture. As the Harvard Center on the Developing Child reminds us, “Resilience requires relationships, not rugged individualism.” We human beings – kids and adults alike – are hardwired to connect. Connection creates a protective buffer around us for life’s hardest moments and gives us the safety and security we need to take academic risks, learn, and grow. Learn why connection matters, what does (and doesn’t) get in the way of connection, and how to create the kind of connected communities kids need to thrive. Click here to register.
Vaccines/Testing Sites
COVID-19 Testing Site Open for Mahtomedi Students & Staff
The test is a Cue COVID-19 test and uses a molecular amplification reaction to detect SARS-CoV-2 that is equivalent to the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test.
Eligibility: Mahtomedi Public Schools staff and students (students who are age 17 and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian).
Appointments: Appointments must be scheduled online at bit.ly/624ctest
Testing Site Hours are 7:40 a.m.- 3:40 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Location: Normandy Park Building (2446 County Road F East, White Bear Lake, MN 55110).
Testing: Once you arrive, wait in your vehicle and text the Google number (651) 317-9638 to be invited in for your appointment. Masks are required to enter the building. Once you enter the building you will be given testing instructions. Results are provided to families via email within 25 minutes. Test results are not shared with the school district. Families should report any positive case results to school nurses. District staff should continue reporting positive case results to Mahtomedi Human Resources.
Transportation Department at trans@isd832.net or 651-407-2431
Celebrate
We would like to invite you to celebrate a teacher or staff member who went over and above or always shines bright. Please fill out a Zephyr Celebration Form. I will deliver the kind wishes to them.
anytime and anywhere. Just like the School Edition, families can 
We will have fun ways to show and celebrate our friendship with everyone in the OHA family and to spread kindness!
have several key committee and Board positions that we need to fill as soon as possible so we can continue providing enrichment activities and events and supporting our classrooms and teachers.
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teacher or staff member who went over and above or always shines bright. Please fill out a 
