New this year: Dedications! Create a personalized message for your student to be included in the yearbook. Click to download!

Click to Print Yearbook order form

Natalie Holford and Alex Carter, two OTA parent volunteers who are professional photographers, have graciously offered their services this year.  You may visit Natalie Holford’s website at natalieholford.com, password “ota” to preview the candid images!

Student Photos will be available for purchase TODAY and TOMORROW on the field after school.

Credit cards will be taken on the field after school.  You may also print out the oder form and send it with your child.  Please include a check or cash.  $20 for a printed 5×7 unframed picture; $40 for a jpeg.

Below are a few samples of class art auction projects.  These will be available to bid on at the Wine & Dine April 26th.

Students with 2014 Class Art Projects

6th Grade “San Diego Landscape”

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Close-Ups of  2014 Art Auction Projects

5th Grade “Tiger in a Tropical Storm” Bar-Height Mosaic Table (after Henri Rousseau)

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April 25: Grandparents Day (1/2-Day).

9:30 Arrival: Visitors should arrive at 9:30 (not before, thank you!)

Student Guides will be at the front door to escort Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, and Family Friends to the classrooms.

In-Class Activites will vary from grade to grade. Students will interview their guests, display their latest projects, give tours, and more.

Out-of-Class Activities include:

• Food in the Courtyard
• K-3 Math-Piano Lab
• 4-8 Science Lab
  
• Student Art Projects in the Lunchroom
• Orchestra in the Courtyard
  
• ST Math Demonstrations (in K-3 Math-Piano Lab and 4-8 Lab)
• Richard Lederer: the author of more than 40 books about language, history, and humor, including his best-selling Anguished English series and his current books, The Gift of Age, Amazing Words, and Lederer on Language.  Dr. Lederer’s syndicated column, “Lederer on Language,” appears in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States, including the San Diego Union Tribune, and he is a founding co-host of “A Way With Words” on KPBS Public Radio.  He has been named International Punster of the Year and Toastmasters International’s Golden Gavel winner.
• **Richard Lederer Book Signing—upstairs in the Faculty Kitchen— and Presentation (The Lighter Side of Language, featuring his new Monsters Unchained) at 11:00 in the courtyard

All Official Activities End at 11:30  (a great time to take your grandchildren to lunch!).

Remaining Students are Dismissed at 12 noon to allow our OTA Foundation volunteers to set up for the Wine & Dine Spring Gala this Saturday.

Grandparents’ Day is just around the corner (Friday, April 25th), and your child’s photos will be available for purchase!

Natalie Holford and Alex Carter, two OTA parent volunteers who are professional photographers, have graciously offered their services this year.  You may visit Natalie Holford’s website at natalieholford.com, password “ota” to preview the candid images!

*1/2 Day Friday April 11th! It’s the end of Quarter 3.

*Monday is a teacher work day. No school for students!

*Please click the following link to access the registration form: Soccer Sign-Up

World Voices San Diego is offering OTA students a discount – Enroll by March 28th!

World Voices San Diego also has a summer camp and OTA students are being offered a discount if you enroll by April15th!  Click for Summer Camp information

As part of the Wine and Dine Gala fundraiser, photographers will be taking pictures of OTA students.  The pictures will be available to purchase on Grandparent’s Day (April 25) and at the Wine and Dine Gala (April 26).

FREE DRESS DAY on picture day!

• Kindergarten-4th grade: Wednesday, March 19th
• 5th-8th grade: Friday, March 21st

If you do not want your child to be photographed, written notice needs to be provided by today, March 18th, by emailing stephaniegarb@sbcglobal.net.