• Monday is the Last Day of School: Monday, June 18 is a scheduled half-day. School ends at 12:00. Report Cards and OTA Awards will be handed out on the last day of school or mailed home.
• Wednesday is Field Day: Mr Jones is putting together a day of outdoor events scheduled to begin at 9:30 (after morning math) on Wednesday. All students should wear outdoor ed uniforms and sports shoes.
• Middle School Final Exams Week: 8th graders are taking exit exams this week in Math (6 Step Equation Exam, Algebra Final, Percentages Final, Calculator Exam), Music (posting a final VideoSong performance on the piano), Science (Zingy Science Final), and History/Language Arts (posting completed projects on their online Learning Journals (aka Blogs). 7th graders have similar exit exams and all are working very hard. 
• MAP Testing this week. Mr. Major and computer guru Thiago Batista have upgraded the entire OTA computer network and the Measures of Academic Progress testing is going very smoothly. Teachers and Parents will have detailed picture of all incoming students progress in reading, language arts, math and (for upper grades) science.
• Fifth Grade Mock Trial Today: Fifth graders are dressing for court today as they head to the Mock Trial Room to make their case before a visiting judge. The Mock Trial Program was a success and we’d like to thank OTA Parent-Volunteers: Brett M. Weaver, Craig Gillooly, Jennifer Lonack, Paul M Bowers, Larry Sidiropoulos, Richard Wright, and Jennifer Britt for making it possible.
• Our Friends at the Mainly Mozart Festival have again made free tickets available for OTA students, parents, and teachers. Click to reserve tickets for:→ Tonight (Peter and the Wolf), Thursday (Mozart & Mendelsohn), and Saturday (Pachebel’s Canon, Mozart, Handel). We hope all OTA families will try to attend a concert this summer. Thanks to Mark Burgess and Tyler Hewes for giving OTA students the opportunity to hear the world’s best musicians live.
• Traffic Safety Reminders: to keep our kids and families safe in our narrow traffic corridor we ask you to please use crosswalks and please do not park to pick up your children unless you have an appointment. Officer Tim has reminded us that Jaywalking tickets are $115.
• Biking for Brains/Wounded Warrior Rally- OTA students rallied on the field last week to welcome Mr Lehr back from his successful ride. The project raised over $26,000 for the Wounded Warrior Project.

Finally please read parking enforcement warning below the jump….

Also please note that the parking enforcement has started giving $48 tickets to cars that do not curb their wheels on San Diego Ave (that’s right, the flat street in front of the school). We sent 7th grade students out to measure the grade and they found it to be less than 3%–which means no requirement to curb your wheels by law. But rather than fight the ticket you may want to curb your wheels.