Spirit Week At Oakland Spirit Week to show school spirit and to celebrate our students and school! There was Crazy Hair day, Inside Out Day, Pajama Day, Twin Day, and Crazy Blue and White Day! Each class participated and student council members from the DVD Yearbook committee went around each day to take pictures. Some of the best outfits were found in the ECE and Kindergarten classes! Spirit week was a fun and festive way to celebrate our learning community!

Student Council’s Heifer International Committee is working diligently to raise money for an Ark to send to countries around the world! Heifer International is an organization committed to ending world hunger and building stronger communities in Africa, Asia, South and Central America and Eastern Europe. By sending goats, chickens, cows, water buffalo, geese, and rabbits to families in poor villages we can change a family’s economic situation! For example a young girl named Beatrice was very poor living in Uganda, but with the donation of a goat her family was able to provide nourishing milk for Beatrice and her brothers and sisters. Plus they were able to sell the milk and pay for young Beatrice to go to school! Now that their goat has two baby goats they are able to sell one goat and that provided enough money to buy Beatrice’s whole family a new house!!! We hope to raise $1,000 enough for lots of goats, cows, chickens, water buffalos, geese, and rabbits! If you’d like to make a donation call Mrs. Damon at 720.424.5123 to get in touch with the Heifer International Committee of Student Council! Or to buy an animal and change the life of a family on your own go to www.heifer.org today!

Valentine Sale Student Council ran the Valentine sale for Oakland students this week selling pencils, valentine bracelets, Valen-grams, stampers, and such! The students raised enough money to host the Sweet on Reading Cupcake Party for students with the most Accelerated Quizzes passed!
Mrs. Damon poses with the Student Council Members from left; Shounice, Jamella, Mrs. Damon, Joanna, Diana, Sashay, and Robert! They raised the funds to host the Cupcake Social for readers! Great Job!!!

Sweet on Reading Cupcake Celebration Oakland is celebrating a Sweet On Reading Cupcake Celebration for students who have read the most books and passed the Accelerated Reader Quizzes! Students will feast on all the cupcakes and pick out their free Reading is FUNdamental books to read at home! Great job! Mrs. Reese Oakland’s AR Fairy with Oakland’s excellent readers at the Cupcake Social!

The Invitees were:

5th Young – Cindy Le and Elisha Wesley 5th Vera – Rolando Acosta-Flores and Ulises Guevara-Ibarra passed 5th Koralewski – Arturo Martinez Adame 26 and Cesar Morales- Ruiz 25

4th Dollaghan –Vater Flakes Erika Lozano

4th Martinez – Jahla Brown Joselio Iboa-Cruz 33

3rd Masias – Osvaldo Acedvedo-Avila and Paul Uribe-Mendoza 3rd Short – Juana Jara-Garcia and Fatima Pena 3rd Gates – Juan Montoya-Ramos Karen Paz

2nd Roger – Amber Mosley and Ramon Romer-Ochoa 2nd Price – David Ramirez and Max Moreno 2nd Hall – Pharo Bones , Austyn Vong, and Jose Rodriguez

1st Dennis – Joseph Short 1st Schlessman – Abraham Guevara-Ibarra and Randy Rojas-Flores 1st Miller – Anthony Joseph Moore

Greene – Issac Chavez-Medina and Austin Owens

Ohmert – Mariah Gorhamin Kindergarten and Christian Estrada

Valentine Parties Oakland loves a great party! Mrs. Dennis’s class loves to learn and loves to celebrate Valentine’s Day! They are full of happiness and sweets! - Robert Salgado Valentine’s Day is one of the most memorable days in elementary school! Creating memories is alot of fun like decorating your Valentine Box in Mrs. Masias’s class! This teacher gets a kick out of making the most of every holiday! Student competed for the most creative Valentine Box! She thanks all the guest judges who visited the class and judged the boxes!

The 1st place winner today was Antonio Salazar with his love bug buggie!

2nd place went to Paul Uribe with his Spongebob Love Box

and 3rd place went to Osvaldo Acevedo with his Flutter bug!

The Oakland Family Grows Each Year Here at Oakland we consider ourselves a family of teachers, students, and staff! We honor all that life brings as our staff celebrates two new additions to their families and to ours! Ms. Roger at 2nd grade teacher had a special visit from her little hero Andre Joseph Roger who is eight months old! Andre enjoyed the Valentine’s celebration with his mommy’s 2nd grade class who couldn’t wait to visit with their teacher’s new baby! With proud grandparents behind them, we can’t wait to have little Andre Joseph attend Oakland Elementary in a few years!

That wasn’t the only little one born to Oakland staff this year! Mrs. Damon-Jackson Oakland’s school librarian welcomed little Saydee Rose Georgia Jackson to her family and she celebrated her first Valentine’s as well with her proud momma!

Jahla Brown a fourth grade student at Oakland Elementary has recently obtained great reading status and has been inducted into the new Accelerated Reader Hall of Fame. On January 18, 2007 Jahla became the first student to reach 25 AR points and read 143, 646 words. A month later, Jahla is still excelling as she has reached 43.1 AR points, taken 48 quizzes, and read 250, 351 words to date. Way-to-Go Jahla! In an interview, Jahla stated, “I have always loved reading…even before I could read words, I loved to look at pictures.”

Ms. Dollaghan’s class makes a CSAP cheer

Ms. Dollaghan’s class wrote a lovely CSAP cheer for students in third grade who are taking the CSAP it goes: WE ARE SMART WE ARE BRIGHT WE’LL SOAR THROUGH CSAP WE’LL WIN THE FIGHT

CHALLENGE US. TEST US WE DON’T CARE WE’RE OAKLAND EAGLES WE’LL GET THERE

WE WILL SOAR WE WILL FLY WE’RE OAKLAND EAGLES WE’LL TOUCH THE SKY!

CHALLENGE US, TEST US WE DON’T CARE WE’RE OAKLAND EAGLES WE’LL GET THERE!

November Kids Care Grant Recipient Oakland Elementary School, Denver Public School District Teacher: Ernestina Masias Post-News Community congratulates Oakland Elementary School on being selected as November’s Kids Care grant recipient. Their $500 grant will support their work with Project Angel Heart, which includes personalizing 591 food delivery bags for Project Angel Heart’s clients. The students will decorate the bags using digital photos, handwritten words of encouragement, poetry and auto-biographies. Project Angel Heart provides home-delivered, nutritious meals to individuals living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. Participating Students: Osvaldo Acevedo Esmeralda Huizar Michael Parras Javel Brown Uriel Iboa Erika Pasilla Jessica Carmona Sarah Llanas Selena Perez Jonathan Castaneda Jose Lopez David Reeves Ivan Chavez Shacarionne Lucas Deandre Shorts Grisel Dominguez Frederick Lyons Paul Uribe Erik Gamboa Tynejah Miles Abril Villicana Martin Garcia Indira Monnar Marjon Wright Terrell Hall Jessica Ornelas Congratulations Oakland Elementary! Thanks for being Kids who Care. Math Challenge with Ms. Richardson and Mrs. Dennis’s class It is all about math with Mrs. Dennis’s class! This first grade has been doing an amazing job with the math challenge!

Mrs. Dennis is one of Oakland’s finest teachers and her class proves it everyday with their great participation and hard work! She is also pictured with her best math students, Alexis below!

Ortiz to Nature and History Museum It was with the big screen! They sat and learned about dolphins and how dolphins live and how smart they are! They learned they dolphins have big families and they learned about a dolphin named JoJo that was sick. The dolphin was getting better! It was an amazing time! -Robert Salgado, 5th grade reporter interviewing Mrs. Ortiz’s ECE class

D. Hall has a visit from Botanic Gardens It was all about plants! The kids got to put soil and pot plants and take the plants home! They learned about corn, trees, potato plants, strawberry plants, banana trees, and coconut trees. They learned about what trees need to be and stay healthy! As well as about what plants and fruits provide vitamins!

-Jamella, 5th Grade reporter interviewing Ms. Halls class