Boulder Oaks Elementary School

Good Evening BOES Families, I hope you all had a great weekend soaking up the sun! Thank you so much for filling out our “Intent to Enroll” form last week and for putting up with all of my pesky emails. :) Almost every single one of our families responded. We have already started the planning for next year and I am really looking forward to as much of a “normal” year as we can possibly have. Last week, I also sent you a form asking for parents to join our PTA board for next year. Unfortunately, we have not had one response. I am truly afraid that our PTA will have to be completely dissolved at the end of this year if we cannot get parents involved. I know that it has been difficult for parents to be engaged in school this year since we have literally not allowed you on campus. However, I am hoping that next year will be much, much different and we will have an opportunity to get BOES back to where it was before COVID. I need your help to do this. Please, please consider taking on a board position next year. Here is the link for the Nomination Form. Our School Site Council meets this Thursday, April 22nd. All are welcome to join us. The Zoom link is below. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9386495394 First-grade orientation is also this Thursday starting at 3:00 (not 2:30 as previously stated). Please encourage anyone that you know that is interested in attending BOES, to join us. Please use this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9386495394 Have a great night and a wonderful week ahead! Jenna Weinert

Good Evening BOES Families, I hope you all had a great weekend soaking up the sun! Thank you so much for filling out our “Intent to Enroll” form last week and for putting up with all of my pesky emails. :) Almost every single one of our families responded. We have already started the planning for next year and I am really looking forward to as much of a “normal” year as we can possibly have. Last week, I also sent you a form asking for parents to join our PTA board for next year. Unfortunately, we have not had one response. I am truly afraid that our PTA will have to be completely dissolved at the end of this year if we cannot get parents involved. I know that it has been difficult for parents to be engaged in school this year since we have literally not allowed you on campus. However, I am hoping that next year will be much, much different and we will have an opportunity to get BOES back to where it was before COVID. I need your help to do this. Please, please consider taking on a board position next year. Here is the link for the Nomination Form. I am thrilled to share that we will have a yearbook this year! Special thanks to Jen Mauer, our PTA president, who is making this happen and has already spent countless hours creating it. This year, yearbooks will be for sale online ONLY. You need to simply click on the Yearbook Link to purchase one. They cost $30 and May 17th is deadline to purchase one this year. Our School Site Council meets this Thursday, April 22nd. All are welcome to join us. The Zoom link is below. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9386495394 First-grade orientation is also this Thursday starting at 3:00 (not 2:30 as previously stated). Please encourage anyone that you know that is interested in attending BOES, to join us. Please use this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9386495394 Sixth-grade orientation for our future Dustdevils going to JMMS takes place on April 28th from 6:00-7:00pm. Please click here for more information from Mr. Currigan about this evening. Have a great night and a wonderful week ahead! Jenna Weinert

JMMS 5th Grade Parent Night April 28th at 6:00pm on Zoom https://www.smore.com/8ryfw

Dear BOES Families, The Boulder Oaks PTA is actively looking for PTA board members for the upcoming 2021-2022 school year. Almost all of our board positions are open and available! It is critical that we have a President, Treasurer, and Secretary in order for our PTA to support all of our students. The wonderful efforts of our PTA have been more difficult to notice this year, since families are not allowed on campus, but they are still a crucial part of our school community. It is more important than ever to build a strong PTA for next year! I am hopeful that things will return to normal and many of our BOES traditions will resume. Our PTA plans and hosts ALL of our fun events, such as Bring Your Parent to Lunch days, Art Nights, Western Days, our annual Fun Run, and many assemblies. Additionally, PTA fundraises for our amazing art docent program, 5th-grade promotion, and supports our teachers with supplies for the classroom. With a fresh start to the 2021-2022 school year, I’m hoping that a group of parents can come together and build a strong PTA that will create new traditions while honoring the traditions of our past. Our kids have been through a lot this past year, and they deserve a school experience that offers them as many extra opportunities as possible. Please read this PTA Election Notice and consider joining the board. Please fill out the PTA Nominating Form and return it by May 21, 2021. Thank you so much for considering taking on this important role! Sincerely, Jenna Weinert

Please join us for an informative meeting on the Shadow Hills Dual Language Program for incoming first grades on April 22nd at 2:15 pm.

Hello Boulder Oaks Families, I hope that you all had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed the beautiful spring weather. It was fun to see so many soccer and baseball pictures on Facebook over the weekend. Today is also a very happy day in the Weinert household as both of my own children returned to face-to-face instruction in San Diego Unified. Ella will finish up her senior year at Patrick Henry and Caleb will complete 8th grade at Pershing Middle School. YAY!!! :) Last Friday, I sent home a communication asking you to fill out a form indicating if your student would be returning to BOES next year. It is extremely important that all of our families fill out this form by this Friday, April 16th so that we can plan staffing for next year. So far I have received 189 responses. Exactly 300 more to go! Here is the link if you have not already filled it out: BOES Intent to Enroll Form Our Phase 3 learning model continues to be a success! On May 17th, we will return five days a week if all goes as planned. The district is also in the process of planning summer learning and enrichment opportunities for our students. Please stay tuned for more information. We are excited to tentatively be planning for in-person 5th-grade promotion ceremonies which will take place on Wednesday, June 9th. Each class will be graduating separately, guests will be limited and the ceremonies will take place on the field. 1st Grade Orientation takes place on Thursday, April 22nd from 2:30-3:00 via Zoom. If you know of anyone that is interested in sending their student to BOES next year, please pass this information along. Anyone is welcome to attend. Thank you!! As a reminder, the earliest that the students can be dropped off at is 8:25. We do not have supervision before that time. Thank you for all you do and for your endless amounts of support. Have a great week! Jenna Weinert

Hello Boulder Oaks Families, Happy Friday! We are in the midst of actively planning for the 2021-2022 school year and are excited to be planning for a full return including five days a week and a full day. As you can imagine, fluctuations in enrollment can impact staffing. We are asking each family to fill out this SURVEY by Friday, April 16th. Please fill out a new survey for each of your BOES students. Thank you and have a great weekend! Jenna Weinert

Hello Boulder Oaks Parents, I hope that you all had a great spring break and that everyone is well-rested and ready for a very busy remainder of the school year. On March 15th, we began Phase 3 of our Return to School plan and could not be happier with how well that first week went. It was so wonderful to see the two cohorts come together as one. The teachers spent a lot of the time that week reviewing protocols, reestablishing expectations, and leading their classes through community-building activities to build their class cultures. For me, the best part of the week was being out on the playground and seeing the two cohorts playing together like no time had passed and they were together all along. As expected, the most challenging part of the first week of Phase 3 was drop-off and pick-up. On Monday, it took us 60 minutes to exit all of the cars at pick-up (the rain did not help!) but we were down to 40 minutes the rest of the week. Remember, you are welcome to park and walk up to the front of the school to get your child. Please just make sure that you check in with me or Mrs. Darcey so we can add your name to the list. Also, please remember to NOT turn left out of the parking lot as it has the potential to back up traffic in the parking lot which does not let the lines move along. Thank you for your patience!!! It is VERY MUCH appreciated! We have been fortunate to hire a full-time Title 1 aide that will be with us for the remainder of the year. With her support, we are able to offer some tutoring spots on Wednesdays and in the afternoons on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, or Fridays. If you are interested in your student having some extra support, please call the school office at 619-445-8676. These 30-minute sessions can take place over Zoom or face-to-face and can have up to two students in each session. This week our PTA will meet over Zoom from 5:30-6:30. Please use the link below. We are actively looking for PTA members to fill our board for next year. If you are interested, please join us! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9386495394 As a reminder, please make sure that your child’s Chromebook is fully charged before coming to school the next day, and please be sure you send a water bottle each day with your student. Lastly, we are in need of water bottle donations. We are down to our last two cases and as the weather is getting warmer, we are going through them quickly. Thank you! As always, thank you for everything that you do to support our school. Have a great week! Jenna Weinert

Hello BOES Families, I hope you are enjoying spring break and this beautiful weather! As a reminder, Monday, April 5 is a student day. It was originally scheduled to be a non-student day and a professional growth day for teachers. Due to COVID, it was changed to offer an additional student day. We look forward to seeing all of our students on Monday. Stay safe and healthy! Thank you! Jenna Weinert

In-person learning going strong!

We are hiring!

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WE CAN"T WAIT FOR TOMORROW!

To my amazing BOES families, Your weekly update is one day earlier this week as I wanted to make sure that you read it before we officially begin Phase 3 tomorrow. I have thought a lot about what I would say to you in this email. I am overwhelmed with emotion just at the thought of knowing that almost all of our students will once again be together again tomorrow morning. Over the past few days, I went back and read some of the emails I sent you last spring starting with the one I sent you on March 14th, 2020. I so clearly remember getting up that Saturday morning and composing that email with tears in my eyes. I strongly felt the need to keep us all connected even if we could not be with each other. In that email, I refer to just being apart for four weeks. I had no idea that four weeks would turn into exactly one year! As I read through the letters that I sent you, there were two reoccurring themes in almost every communication: pride and gratefulness. On this 365th day, those two emotions still overcome me when I reflect on what our school family has accomplished together. The pride I feel for our staff, for our parents, and, most of all, our students is enormous. We accomplished what we thought would be impossible. Our teachers and staff learned how to teach in ways they had never imagined in just days. Our students quickly adapted to new ways of learning and continued to show up and never complained. And our parents became teachers overnight and sacrificed greatly to have their children at home. Through it all, you as parents have never left our side. You continued to support us no matter what hurdle was thrown at all of us I will never be able to thank you enough for that unwavering support. I hope that as you drop your child off tomorrow, that you are filled with these same two emotions- pride for your child and yourself for persevering and making it through the last year and grateful that we are finally able to be back together again. This week our teachers will be taking the time to build their classroom cultures as the two cohorts merge together. They will spend time teaching social-emotional lessons and ensuring that our students have a seamless transition. I am looking forward to twice as much laughter filling our halls!! As I have shared before, our greatest challenge will be drop-off and pick-up. Please try to adhere to your assigned drop-off and pick-up time which remains exactly as it was before. Please also gather up as much patience as possible before you get into the lines - you are going to need it! :) We will need your help getting the kids in and out of the car as quickly as possible. Remember that you can park and walk to drop off and pick up your student if you feel the pick-up line does not work for you. Thank you in advance for your understanding and support! This Wednesday, all of our students will be attending a Virtual Assembly through our grant with Community Matters. The Waking Up Courage Assembly introduces students to language and skills they can use to prevent and stop bullying. The Waking Up Courage Assembly is a powerful, student-centered experience that enlists, unites, and empowers students to take a stand and speak up when they see bullying and violence among their peers. This presentation delivers a compelling and consistent message to all students that bullying is never tolerated, and silence isn’t either. It introduces them to youth-friendly language and skills they can use to safely and effectively defuse, deescalate and stop bullying behavior. Look for the Zoom link in your student’s Google Classroom. Here are the assembly times: Assembly #1- 10-10:30am - 1st and 2nd grade Assembly #2- 11-11:30am - 3rd grade Assembly #3- 12-12:30pm - 4th and 5th grade As a reminder, our students are to wear a facial covering at all times when on campus except when eating, drinking, or playing outside. Please help us by reminding your child of this important rule. Now that we are in Phase 3, there is not the flexibility of toggling back and forth between face-to-face induction and distance learning unless a student is quarantined due to anything COVID-related. Our face-to-face students are expected to be at school all four days unless there is an illness or a medical appointment. Attendance will be taken as normal. If your student is out for any reason, you need to call the school office. Illnesses and medical appointments will be excused absences but all other absences will be unexcused regardless of work completion. Attendance will also be taken on Wednesdays and will be based on work completion. Lastly, this is the final week before our spring break. There has been so much buzz around March 15th that we have not had the usual spring break anticipation and excitement. But, it is upon us and our schools will be closed March 22nd - April 2nd. Enjoy the rest of your day and I will see you all tomorrow when we are back TOGETHER AGAIN!!! With immense gratitude and pride, Jenna Weinert

Congratulations to the Joan MacQueen Middle School Engineering team who won the Core Values award at the First Lego League Robotics Team and placed 3rd in Robot Games. They were one of four teams to advance to the SoCal Championship Tournament on April 10th. @SanDiegoCOE

Two days until ALL students are together once again on campus!

We can't wait to see all of our students together again! Monday, March 15 begins Phase Three!

Phase Three begins March 15! We can't wait!

Phase Three Update!

CAL Fire COVID Testing for tomorrow, Wednesday, March 10th at JMMS has been canceled due to expected rain.