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Letter from
the Editor W
inter break and the end of the second quarter are al-
ready upon us! It’s hard to believe how fast time flies!
November was a busy month with lots of exciting news to report
on, with everything from fundraisers to stellar performances from
Oakridge’s many clubs, activities, and sports teams.
With one national holiday past and the remainder of the holiday
season before us, it’s timely to reflect on and be thankful for the
privileges we have. I feel especially privileged to be an Oakridge
teacher. I am convinced that Oakridge students, teachers, and
faculty members are some of the best and brightest around, and
I feel fortunate to work for and with such a fantastic group of
individuals.
I could go on with my praise and gratitude, but that would de-
tract from the impressive work that the newsletter students have
produced here.
Go Bulldogs!
Josh Vet
Editor of OMS Bulldog Bulletin
Follow Us Online!
November-December 2015 Volume 1, Issue 2
Inside this issue:
Calendar of Events 2-5
Fundraisers 3
Midterm Schedule 5
Scholar Bowl 6
Debate Team 7
MathCounts &
Orchestra
8
And even more!
Oakridge Bulldog Bulletin
Twitter: @OMS_Bulldogs (http://twitter.com/oms_bulldogs)
School Website: http://www.collierschools.com/oms
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/CollierSchools
District Website: http://www.collierschools.net
CCPS Mobile App: Search for it on
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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2
All-County
Band Auditions
3
4 5 6
Straight A
Breakfast
8th grade
Band Night @
GCHS
7
Orchestra Ens.
Festival @
FGCU 10 am
8 9
First Scholar
Bowl Match vs.
GGM @ OMS
10
Veterans Day
Celebration
11
NO SCHOOL
12 13
14
15 16
1st day of
Session 2 After
School
Enrichment
Program
17 18 19
Orchestra
Concert @
6:30
20
Scholar Bowl
Match @
Community
School
21
22 23
24
25
26
27
28
29 30
November 2015
For more information, check out www.collierschools.com/oms and http://www.collierschools.net/
Volume 1, Issue 2
No School—Fall Break
The Salvation Army Canned
Food Drive was sponsored by
Jodi Virzi and the student gov-
ernment at Oakridge Middle
School this year. Cans were col-
lected through student home-
rooms from October 5 through
October 23. Volunteers from
student government collected
and counted cans weekly, work-
ing hard to manage the gener-
osity of Oakridge’s students and
teachers. By the end of the
competition, OMS donated over
1,700 cans and packaged foods
to the Salvation Army. Home-
rooms competed against one
another to collect the most
cans, and the competition was
close! The winning homeroom
for 6th grade was Ms. Walker’s;
for 7th grade, Ms. Wright’s; and
for 8th grade, Mr. Howell’s
homeroom. Each homeroom
receives a dress-down day on
December 16, when students
will be able to dress in CCPS
Dress Code. The Student Gov-
ernment thanks all students and
teachers who participated in the
Canned Food Drive for their
generosity!
Macy’s “Letters to Santa” Fundraiser
Now through the end of the
year, homeroom teachers will
collect Box Tops from students,
which will help us earn money
for an end-of-year PBS event!
Students who bring in the most
Box Tops in the school will have
the change to win rewards! Help
Oakridge earn up to $1000 for a
great year-end PBS event!
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Volume 1, Issue 2 Oakridge Bulldog Bulletin
Canned Food Drive
Page 4
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1
Distribution of
Interim Report
Cards
2 3 4
OMS Science
Fair
5
CCPS 5K @
MLK
Administrative
Center,
7:30 AM
6 7
Holiday Chorus
Concert @
Vanderbilt
Country Club
7 PM
8
Band Concert
@ OMS
Beg/Int: 6:00
Jazz/Adv: 7:00
9 10 11
6th and 7th
grade
“December to
Remember”
Social 4:00—
5:30
12
13 14
15
16
17
Early Dismissal
Chorus
Concert
@ 6:30 PM
18
Early Dismissal
PBS day
Midterms
Make-ups
19
Winter Break
20
Winter Break
21
Winter Break
22
Winter Break
23
Winter Break
24
Winter Break
25
Winter Break
26
Winter Break
27
Winter Break
28
Winter Break
29
Winter Break
30
Winter Break
31
Winter Break
December 2015
For more information, check out www.collierschools.com/oms and http://www.collierschools.net/
Volume 1, Issue 2
Midterms Week: 14th-18th, Schedule on p. 5
Midterm periods last 90 minutes, after which students will attend classes for the remainder of
the day. Midterms will count for 5-10% of the quarter grade, depending on the grade and
class level of the student. Thursday and Friday of Midterm week are half-days.
Beginning on December 1st, National Junior Honor Society will be pre-selling candy canes of all colors and flavors for students to purchase for their friends, teachers, administrators, etc. to celebrate the upcom-ing holiday season. Candy canes will be sold in the mornings from 8:30- 9:00. Additionally, representatives from National Junior Honor Society will be coming in to homerooms on Fridays to pre-sale. Candy Canes will be sold for $1 each and all monies collected will be donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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Volume 1, Issue 2 Oakridge Bulldog Bulletin
Monday 14 Tuesday 15 Wednesday 16 Thursday 17 Friday 18
Period 1 Midterm
Periods 2 & 5 Midterms
Periods 3 & 6 Midterms
Periods 4 & 7 Midterms
Midterm Make-ups
Canes for a Cause
Midterms
Page 6
Volume 1, Issue 2
Scholar Bowl
Page 6
Volume 1, Issue 2
6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade
Michael Cope Devin Baer Kamdyn Atkinson
Victoria Culver Lara Ergun Evan Cohen
Charles Jaikaran Mia Ginsberg Lance Miller
Nathan Kim Jack Valenti Paridon Szittai
Kayla Weinrich
Emily Zhou
OMS won its first practice Scholar Bowl match on Monday, October 9th, in the Oakridge Middle School Media Center. They com-peted against a very good team from Golden Gate Middle. In the end, Oakridge triumphed, with the final score OMS 76 – GGM 56. OMS did a great job of answering questions and representing the middle school.
In their second match, Oakridge beat Community School, 75 to 68. Oakridge was behind by 9 points after the first round; however, the team was not discouraged. They were only down by 1 point after round 2. After a strong finish and emerged victorious!
The Scholar Bowl program is designed to recognize and challenge Collier County’s academically talented middle and high school students. The students answer rigorous questions about mathematics, science, language arts, social studies, humanities, fine arts, foreign languages, and current events. Not only are students answering questions, but they are also learning life-long skills such as teamwork, leadership, responsibility, self-advocacy, good sportsmanship, and collaboration. An important aspect about scholar bowl is the community partnerships that are created. Our program offers various opportunities for volunteers to support the children by moderating, judging, scoring, or timing at the middle and high school matches. The students get to know these community members, and the community members get to be inspired by our students.
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Oakridge Bulldog Bulletin
Tesla’s Attic
After tragedy strikes his family, Nick moves into a new house. While looking into the attic, a toaster hits him on the head. All this stuff in the attic is junk and Nick holds a garage sale to earn some money from it. Then things start to go wrong; all these objects are in-scribed with the same initials, and they all start acting strangely for their new owners. Strange men show up and want to buy all the objects Nick sold. Why would they want the junk? Nick goes on a journey to find all the objects and get them back to discover why these strange men want them so bad.
6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade
Bladen Hopkin Cody Camp Andrew Meador
Brianna Barrantes Emily Zhou Angie Hobdari
Brianna Tourino Jada Dougherty Dorian Galvez
Carter Sickels Jillian Torres Evan Cohen
Charles Jaikaran Joey Lennon Grace Price
Chloe Pereyra Kennedy Eaton Jacob Schuchard
Cindy Leon Marina Ploeg Kamdyn Atknson
Donna Preston Mia Ginsberg Kyle Catino
Gabby English Rachel Gopman Mackenzie Meador
Gabby Toledo Sabian Saliasi Matthew Castanino
Isabella Rojas Sasha Davin Nyah Anglade
Jeremiah Paul Taylor Kerskie Paridon Szittai
Julianna Perez
Leah Stoltz
Maggie Platten
Osei Allen
Debate Team
On October 22, Debate Team won both their debates against East Na-ples and Cypress Palm.
Paridon Szittai, Taylor Kerskie, Jacob Schuchard, Kamdyn Atknson, Ra-chel Gopman, and Chloe Pereyra participated in the debate.
Debate Team is sponsored by Ms. Selden and meets on Wednesdays at 8:00 AM in 3-109.
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MathCounts students competed in their first competition Tuesday, De-
cember 1st, in the Collier County MathCounts competition. In the dis-
trict competition, Oakridge placed third. In the school competition, Ja-
cob Aybar placed first, and Kate Kramer came in second. Congratula-
tions to all our Mathletes!
MathCounts
Florida Orchestra Festival
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Volume 1, Issue 2
The Florida Orchestra Solo/Ensemble MPA Festival took place Saturday,
November 7th, at the Bowers School of Music at FGCU. Ms. Pflieger from
OMS took 21 7th and 8th grade students to perform. All students received
the highest marks possible, “Superior” ratings.
Emelia Anderson Brandon Barrantes
Ian Blake Sarah El-Hafnawy
Lara Ergun Tori Guarino
Angela Huang
John Khalil Kayla Mathai
Victoria Mazza Yadira Mendez
Montana-Rae Pelak Anna Perez Lila Prince
Jeremy Saintyl Brenna Spieth
Vanessa Spinelli Kezia Tan
Sophia Vellozzi Natalie Wakelin Serena Zepeda
6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade
Christian Alvarado Gavin Antonacci Matthew Costantino
Jeanna Boltz Jacob Aybar Steven Dau
Michael Cope Devin Baer Lance Miller
Zayn Dalao Hadi Dalao Paridon Szittai
Gabrielle English Mia Ginsberg
Jack Griffith Joseph Hernandez
Manuel Hernandez Kate Kramer
Erin Ihrig Amaya Metelus
Robert Itu Jack Valenti
Nathan Kim
Zachary Raddani
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Oakridge Bulldog Bulletin
Jordin Tubb had the privilege to in-terview one of our beloved guid-ance counselors, Ms. Pinkerton. During the interview, Jordin discov-ered Ms. Pinkerton was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. Ms. Pinkerton graduated from Ohio Uni-versity in Athens, Ohio, and the Uni-versity of New Hampshire, with a degree in Education. She later re-ceived her Masters in School Coun-seling from the University of Dayton in Ohio.
She originally when to school for Physical Education before changing majors to Biology, afterwards be-coming a classroom Biology teach-er. Growing up, she always knew she wanted to work with kids, and knew she wanted to teach. Later she switched to guidance to help kids with their studies.
When asked about bully-ing and anti-bullying month at Oakridge, Ms. Pinker-ton recom-mended ap-proaching bullying straight-forward, not ignoring the bullying. Instead, she said students should try to resolve, not turn a blind-eye, to it.
Finally, Ms. Pinkerton shared that she believes that even when people don’t think things can change, situ-ations can improve. And that’s what she’s there to help with!
Interview with Guidance Counselor, Ms. Pinkterton
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Oakridge Bulldog Bulletin
Newsletter Staff
This month’s newsletter was pub-lished by the hard work and dedica-tion of the following students:
Devin Baer—Layout, MathCounts
Kyle Catino—Debate
Tessa DiMare—Activities
Amelia Gaudio—Activities
Taylor Kerskie—Debate, Layout
Andrew Lundquist—Layout
Noelle Morey—Scholar Bowl
Marina Ploeg—Layout
Gabe Rivera—Layout
Carter Sickels—Calendar
Kylie Sickels—Activities
Selena Singleton—Interview
Olivia Strom—Calendars, Layout
Jordin Tubb—Interview
and Mr. Vet
On occasion, it may be necessary for a student to leave school during school hours.
If so, please observe the following:
Restrict interruptions of your child’s school day to emergencies only.
Schedule appointments during non-school hours whenever possible.
Students should present a written note with parent signature to the front office.
Sign out takes an authorized parent/guardian signature and picture ID; therefore, a parent/
guardian must come into the building to sign out their child.
Social arrangements should be made prior to coming to school. Last minute requests are restricted
to emergencies only.
CCPS
Oakridge Middle School is committed to providing a safe, stimulating, and positive learning envi-
ronment that inspires each student to obtain intellectual growth consistent with the student's high-
est abilities, and to pursue the development of good character.
Mission Statement
Early Release Reminders
Calling your child in sick? ATTENDANCE LINE:
(239) 377-4831
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