March 7–13, 2024
Current School News
Current School News
March 7–13, 2024
A Thought To Savor
"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work."
– C.S. Lewis
Bible Reading Plan – Cantabile Entry Song
Cantabile Prayers
The Oaks Acorn has gone online! This student led newspaper is now available under the Parent tab.
All School
Mid-term Grades Now Available on Jupiter
Mid-term grades are up to date and available to view on Jupiter. Grades may be viewed on the first screen ("To-Do") in Jupiter. Click on the individual class/subject to see details of those grades.
Lands' End Sale – Penny Logos!
March 8–15 – get the school's logo applied for a penny
Lands' End website – School Number: 900069105
Code: PENNYLOGO
Sale Flyer
Mother & Daughter Tea - Sat., Mar. 9 [8:30–10:30am] *Bring a tea cup & wear your tea party attire!
All Oaks grandmothers, mothers, and daughters are invited to attend The Oaks' annual Mother & Daughter Tea on Saturday, March 9 from 8:30 to 10:30am in the Great Hall. Wear your tea party attire and bring your own tea cup to use for the morning. We are looking forward to a lovely event. If you are willing and able to help with this event, please sign up on The Mother & Daughter Tea Volunteer Sheet.
Open House - Tues., Mar. 12 [9–11am] *RSVP online
Our final open house of the year is just around the corner on Tuesday, March 12. Invite interested friends and family to come learn about The Oaks at this event. To RSVP, please use the Open House RSVP Form or call the school office at 509-536-5955 for more information.
Parent/Teacher Conferences - Mar. 20–22
*sign-ups available online now!
March '24 Parent/Teacher Conference Sign-ups
Spring Parent/Teacher Conferences are just around the corner. This is a great opportunity to partner with your child's teacher as you seek to raise your child in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Grammar School conferences are mandatory for all families and are scheduled for Thursday & Friday, March 21 & 22. Sixth grade conferences follow the Logic & Rhetoric School schedule.
Logic & Rhetoric School conferences are highly encouraged and are scheduled for Wednesday evening & throughout Thursday & Friday, March 20–22. Conferences in the Logic & Rhetoric School are done in a group format where parents will meet with multiple teachers at one time. We ask that families sign up for no more than 3 teachers for each student so that all families have an opportunity to conference with teachers. Please let the office know if you need to meet with more than 3 teachers.
To sign up for conferences please select the desired time under each of your child's teachers' tabs. Please contact the school office if you need any assistance.
No School - Thurs. & Fri., Mar. 21 & 22
There will be no school on Thursday March 21 or Friday March 22 so that parents and teachers have the opportunity to conference with one another.
Conservatory: Ballet & Primary Strings Classes Accepting New Registrations!
The Oaks Conservatory has lots of ongoing lessons and classes and is frequently introducing new options. Be sure to check the Conservatory website for the most recent offerings. At this time the current Ballet and Primary Strings classes have space available and are accepting new students. So, if your child is interested in joining in, be sure to register today!
First Semester Honor Roll
Congratulations to those Oaks students who made the Honor Roll for the 1st Semester of the 2023-24 school year!
Honor Roll - 1st Semester
Pizza Lunch Volunteer Sign-up
The hot lunch crew is seeking volunteers to help serve pizza on Fridays. If you are willing and available, please sign up.
March Pizza Friday Volunteer Sign-up
HELPFUL LINKS:
Attendance/Tardy Policy (effective 2/5/24)
2023-24 Volunteer Sign-up
Parking Lot Flow
YEARBOOK PHOTOS (E-mail): 23-24-yearbook@yogile.com
YEARBOOK PHOTOS (Upload): Jupiter –> Materials –> School Office –> Yearbook Photos
Upcoming Dates
October 8
- Grand Tour Meeting (11th Grade) [7–9pm]
October 9
- Weekly Formal Uniform Day
- Ladies' Prayer [8:30–9:15am]
- Cantabile [3pm]
October 12
- Cantabile [8:15am]
- College Financial Aid Scholarship Meeting [7-8:30pm]
October 13
- College Brown Bag Lunch - Seattle Pacific University [12:35-1:00pm]
October 14
- Mid-Term Grades Posted [8am]
- Cantabile [3pm]
October 15
- PSAT Test [8:30–11:30am]
- SAT Test [12:30–3:30pm]
October 14–16
- Parent/Teacher Conferences
October 15–16
- No School
October 19
- Cantabile [8:15am]
October 20
- College Brown Bag Lunch - Hillsdale College [12:35-1:00pm]
October 21
- College Brown Bag Lunch - Eastern Washington University [12:35-1:00pm]
October 23
- Weekly Formal Uniform Day
- Ladies' Prayer [8:30–9:15am]
- Cantabile [3pm]
- Family Night [4pm]
October 24
- MCL Jr High Volleyball Tournament
- Annual Fall Friends of The Oaks Event [5–8pm]
October 26
- Cantabile [8:15am]
October 29
- College Brown Bag Lunch - Whitworth University [12:35-1:00pm]
October 30
- Half-day [8:30am–12:15pm]
- Grandparents' Day
- Weekly Formal Uniform Day
- Cantabile [12pm]
- Family Night/Senior Night [4pm]
October 31
- MCL JV Volleyball Tournament
November 2
- Cantabile [8:15am]
November 3
- College Brown Bag Lunch - Washington State University [12:35-1:00pm]
November 6
- Weekly Formal Uniform Day
- Ladies' Prayer [8:30–9:15am]
- Cantabile [3pm]
November 6-7
- MCL Boys Soccer Tournament
- MCL Varsity Volleyball Tournament
November 9
- Cantabile [8:15am]
November 10
- College Brown Bag Lunch - Gonzaga University [12:35-1:00pm]
November 11
- High School Boys & Girls Basketball Begins
November 12
- College Brown Bag Lunch - University of Idaho [12:35-1:00pm]
November 12-13
- NW ACCS Administrators Conference
November 13
- Weekly Formal Uniform Day
- Ladies' Prayer [8:30–9:15am]
- Cantabile [3pm]
- Talent Show [6:30pm]
Grammar School
Please refer to your child's Weekly Letter for class specific information.
Silverwood Read 2 Ride Program
*Updated Due Date - Mon., Mar. 25
Silverwood Theme Park is once again offering Oaks students the opportunity to participate in their Read 2 Ride program and earn a ticket for free admission just by reading. The below information was sent home with your child before mid-winter break. *Please note that the due date has been updated to Monday, March 25.
Silverwood Read 2 Ride Program Information
Speech Meet
This year's Grammar School Classroom Speech Meets will be taking place March 19 and 20. Students should have their pieces memorized by Tuesday, March 12. The qualifying students will then present their speeches to the entire Grammar School at the Speech Meet Assembly.
Memorization Due:
Tuesday, March 12
Classroom Speech Meet:
Tuesday–Wednesday, March 19–20
*All speeches will take place in the Choir Room
TUESDAY, MARCH 19
8:45am – 1st Grade
9:45am – 2nd Grade
11:00am – 3rd Grade
1:00pm – 4th Grade
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20
8:45am – 5th Grade
10:45am – 6th Grade
*Grammar School lunch will take place in classrooms these two days
Speech Meet Assembly:
Tuesday, April 2
*Parents and guests are welcome to join us in the Great Hall at 1pm to enjoy the presentations and congratulate our finalists.
Secondary Siblings Attending Speeches:
*Parent note due 1 day prior
Parents who would like their secondary child to attend a grammar sibling's speech must turn in a note to the secondary teacher(s) whose class(es) they will be leaving at least one day prior to the speech. Please note that notes will not be accepted the day of. Notes are required for both the classroom speech meets and the speech assembly.
Logic & Rhetoric Schools
Spokane Scholars Honorees
The Spokane Scholars competition was founded in 1993 to formally recognize academic excellence among local high school seniors. Over the last three decades, the Spokane Scholars Foundation has recognized more than 3500 scholars and awarded in excess of $1.5 million dollars to students to further their education. Spokane area schools choose six students to be Scholars, one in each discipline (English, Mathematics, Science, Fine Arts, Social Studies, and World Languages), to compete in the annual banquet on April 15. The Spokane Scholars Foundation will select four students in each category to receive a cash award during the event.
Congratulations to The Oaks' 2024 Spokane Scholars:
Isabella Carter, World Languages
Izak Hall, Mathematics
Ethan Reade, Social Studies
MingMei Szymanowski, Science
Almar Tishenko, Fine Arts
Davy Williams, English
ACCS Blakey Prize in Fine Arts Competition
*Entry deadlines: Mar. 8 & Apr. 5
High school students (grades 9–12) from ACCS schools are invited to compete with their peers from other ACCS schools in a national visual arts competition. This competition has four categories–drawing, painting, apparel, and stationery–in which students may enter. For details please visit the ACCS Blakey Prize in Fine Arts Competition website and contact Mr. Trotter if you are interested in submitting an entry.
SAT Test - Thurs., Mar. 21 [9am–12pm]
Oaks students recently had an opportunity to register to take the SAT at The Oaks on Thursday, March 21 from 9:00am to 12:00pm. For those registered, the SAT Practice and Preparation page can provide helpful information on how to set up the Bluebook app on your laptop (a laptop, power cord, and the Bluebook app are required to take the test), as well as how to access a full digital SAT practice test. For those who took the PSAT last October this app is already downloaded on your device. For questions, please contact Mrs. Lynn Gibson and/or reference the SAT Flyer.
Helpful Links:
College & Career Counselor Appointment Scheduling
Going Merry – College Scholarships Website
United States Naval Academy's Summer Seminar
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him, and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- Phillippians 2:5–11
Grammar School
Please refer to your child's Weekly Letter for class specific information.
Silverwood Read 2 Ride Program
*Updated Due Date - Mon., Mar. 25
Silverwood Theme Park is once again offering Oaks students the opportunity to participate in their Read 2 Ride program and earn a ticket for free admission just by reading. The below information was sent home with your child before mid-winter break. *Please note that the due date has been updated to Monday, March 25.
Silverwood Read 2 Ride Program Information
Speech Meet
This year's Grammar School Classroom Speech Meets will be taking place March 19 and 20. Students should have their pieces memorized by Tuesday, March 12. The qualifying students will then present their speeches to the entire Grammar School at the Speech Meet Assembly.
Memorization Due:
Tuesday, March 12
Classroom Speech Meet:
Tuesday–Wednesday, March 19–20
*All speeches will take place in the Choir Room
TUESDAY, MARCH 19
8:45am – 1st Grade
9:45am – 2nd Grade
11:00am – 3rd Grade
1:00pm – 4th Grade
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20
8:45am – 5th Grade
10:45am – 6th Grade
*Grammar School lunch will take place in classrooms these two days
Speech Meet Assembly:
Tuesday, April 2
*Parents and guests are welcome to join us in the Great Hall at 1pm to enjoy the presentations and congratulate our finalists.
Secondary Siblings Attending Speeches:
*Parent note due 1 day prior
Parents who would like their secondary child to attend a grammar sibling's speech must turn in a note to the secondary teacher(s) whose class(es) they will be leaving at least one day prior to the speech. Please note that notes will not be accepted the day of. Notes are required for both the classroom speech meets and the speech assembly.
Logic & Rhetoric Schools
Spokane Scholars Honorees
The Spokane Scholars competition was founded in 1993 to formally recognize academic excellence among local high school seniors. Over the last three decades, the Spokane Scholars Foundation has recognized more than 3500 scholars and awarded in excess of $1.5 million dollars to students to further their education. Spokane area schools choose six students to be Scholars, one in each discipline (English, Mathematics, Science, Fine Arts, Social Studies, and World Languages), to compete in the annual banquet on April 15. The SSF will select four students in each category to receive a cash award during the event.
Congratulations to The Oaks' 2024 Spokane Scholars:
Isabella Carter, World Languages
Izak Hall, Mathematics
Ethan Reade, Social Studies
MingMei Szymanowski, Science
Almar Tishenko, Fine Arts
Davy Williams, English
ACCS Blakey Prize in Fine Arts Competition
*Entry deadlines: Mar. 8 & Apr. 5
High school students (grades 9–12) from ACCS schools are invited to compete with their peers from other ACCS schools in a national visual arts competition. This competition has four categories–drawing, painting, apparel, and stationery–in which students may enter. For details please visit the ACCS Blakey Prize in Fine Arts Competition website and contact Mr. Trotter if you are interested in submitting an entry.
SAT Test - Thurs., Mar. 21 [9am–12pm]
Oaks students recently had an opportunity to register to take the SAT at The Oaks on Thursday, March 21 from 9:00am to 12:00pm. For those registered, the SAT Practice and Preparation page can provide helpful information on how to set up the Bluebook app on your laptop (a laptop, power cord, and the Bluebook app are required to take the test), as well as how to access a full digital SAT practice test. For those who took the PSAT last October this app is already downloaded on your device. For questions, please contact Mrs. Lynn Gibson and/or reference the SAT Flyer.
Helpful Links:
College & Career Counselor Appointment Scheduling
Going Merry – College Scholarships Website
United States Naval Academy's Summer Seminar
Upcoming Dates
October 8
- Grand Tour Meeting (11th Grade) [7–9pm]
October 9
- Weekly Formal Uniform Day
- Ladies' Prayer [8:30–9:15am]
- Cantabile [3pm]
October 12
- Cantabile [8:15am]
- College Financial Aid Scholarship Meeting [7-8:30pm]
October 13
- College Brown Bag Lunch - Seattle Pacific University [12:35-1:00pm]
October 14
- Mid-Term Grades Posted [8am]
- Cantabile [3pm]
October 15
- PSAT Test [8:30–11:30am]
- SAT Test [12:30–3:30pm]
October 14–16
- Parent/Teacher Conferences
October 15–16
- No School
October 19
- Cantabile [8:15am]
October 20
- College Brown Bag Lunch - Hillsdale College [12:35-1:00pm]
October 21
- College Brown Bag Lunch - Eastern Washington University [12:35-1:00pm]
October 23
- Weekly Formal Uniform Day
- Ladies' Prayer [8:30–9:15am]
- Cantabile [3pm]
- Family Night [4pm]
October 24
- MCL Jr High Volleyball Tournament
- Annual Fall Friends of The Oaks Event [5–8pm]
October 26
- Cantabile [8:15am]
October 29
- College Brown Bag Lunch - Whitworth University [12:35-1:00pm]
October 30
- Half-day [8:30am–12:15pm]
- Grandparents' Day
- Weekly Formal Uniform Day
- Cantabile [12pm]
- Family Night/Senior Night [4pm]
October 31
- MCL JV Volleyball Tournament
November 2
- Cantabile [8:15am]
November 3
- College Brown Bag Lunch - Washington State University [12:35-1:00pm]
November 6
- Weekly Formal Uniform Day
- Ladies' Prayer [8:30–9:15am]
- Cantabile [3pm]
November 6-7
- MCL Boys Soccer Tournament
- MCL Varsity Volleyball Tournament
November 9
- Cantabile [8:15am]
November 10
- College Brown Bag Lunch - Gonzaga University [12:35-1:00pm]
November 11
- High School Boys & Girls Basketball Begins
November 12
- College Brown Bag Lunch - University of Idaho [12:35-1:00pm]
November 12-13
- NW ACCS Administrators Conference
November 13
- Weekly Formal Uniform Day
- Ladies' Prayer [8:30–9:15am]
- Cantabile [3pm]
- Talent Show [6:30pm]