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Enjoy the View
The students are eager and yet pensive, when they visit the Art Show. They look with wonder at the pieces they created in the fall and winter. It seems that the work represents windows into a time and place that their younger selves once inhabited. We hope you enjoy the view, too!
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Art Show 2013: Revealing the Magic and Mastery of Art
The ROS Art Show illustrates the care with which art teacher extraordinaire Maureen Palmquist reveals the magic and mastery of art to children of all ages. The Red Oaks Art program builds skill sets in the understanding, perception, and utilization of artistic elements, media, and vision. It is also designed to foster confidence, ease and authenticity of self-expression, and compassion that spans cultural and historical dimensions. Please join us tomorrow, Thursday, May 23rd, after school.
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Alumni News: Mikael Jan Receives Morristown-Beard Awards
Congratulations to Red Oaks Alum 8th grader Mikael Jan who received the Headmaster’s Award at Morristown-Beard School yesterday. He also received the National Junior Honors Society Award and Tennis Singles Award for Middle School. The prestigious Headmaster’s Award goes to one boy and one girl in each class for overall performance. In 2011, two ROS alums received the award.
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The Red Oaks School Speedwell Lake Curriculum Featured in Rutgers' “Green Knight Newsletter”
The centerpiece of our middle school science program is the Stewards of Speedwell curriculum. Not only has it been a hit with students and their families, it’s also been an unqualified success within the educational and environmental communities. The current issue of the Green Knight Newsletter, a publication of Rutgers University, features an article, by Red Oaks Middle School science teacher Liz Murphy, about this cutting-edge curriculum.
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Red Oaks Middle School Track & Field Kicks Off
On Tuesday, May 14th, the ROS Middle School Track & Field Team traveled to Bernardsville High School and participated in its first ever track meet against Bernardsville and Harding Middle Schools. And what a fabulous meet it was! Our 4th-6th grade athletes proudly represented our school and gave it their all in every event.
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Our ROS Jumpers are Headed for Motor City!
On Saturday, May 11, Red Oaks Lightning Bolts Jump Rope Team members Anabel Carroll, Meghan Feldman, Alex Grayzel, Jacob Grayzel, Dylan Greifinger, and Madeleine Levinsohn competed at the AAU Maryland Qualifying Tournament and District Championship in Endicott City, Maryland. (Photo Credit: Jeff Grayzel)
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4th Year Math Team Takes 2nd Place at State Competition
Congratulations to our 4th year math team, which took 2nd Place at the Math League state championships held today at Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Monmouth County, in Marlboro, NJ. We are very proud of our competitors and of all of the Red Oaks student mathematicians who participated in Math League this spring!
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Invasive Species Pull at Speedwell Lake
On Saturday, April 13th, twenty-seven Red Oaks Middle School students and many parents gathered at Speedwell Lake to identify and pull out Japanese knotweed, a non-toxic herbaceous perennial, native to eastern Asia, but deemed invasive in parts of Europe and in North America. The students have been studying the ecology of Speedwell Lake with teacher Liz Murphy as part of the ongoing Red Oaks Speedwell Lake Stewardship Project.
Thanks to Kristen Toronto & Liz Murphy for photos.
- Fri 05/24
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School Closed - Memorial Day Weekend
Thru: 5/27/2013
- Tue 05/28
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School Re-opens
- Wed 06/05
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Ms. Cindy and Ms. Erminia's End of Year Class Presentation
Red Oaks School , Cutler Street Campus - Classroom
1:45pm
- Fri 06/07
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Red Oaks Society/Sculpture Unveiling
Cutler Street Campus
6:00pm
- Mon 06/10
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Upper Elementary/Middle School Field Day
Mendham Health & Racquet Club
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Ms. Irene and Ms. Jo-Ann's End of Year Class Presentation
Red Oaks School , Cutler Street Campus - Enrichment Room
10:30am -
Annual 6th Year Dinner
Red Oaks School Speedwell Campus
6:00pm - 8:00pm
- Tue 06/11
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Lower Elementary Field Day
Mendham Health & Racquet Club
9:30am - 2:30pm
- Wed 06/12
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Last Day of School!
- Thu 06/13
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End of Year Celebration
6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Justin Bieber’s Horse
BJ Ward’s poetry workshops are wild rides of imagination and creativity that invite students to think independently, coaxing their own thoughts and impressions into a whirling dance of words and images, a.k.a. poetry. BJ has the unique ability to capture students’ imaginations and relax their literary inhibitions.
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The Little Team with the Big Presence
The Red Oaks Lightning Bolts jump rope team rocked the house at the AAU Maryland Invitational Jump Rope Tournament, in Cooksville, MD, over the weekend of February 2nd. Team members Meghan Feldman, Devon Gogerty, Alexander Grayzel, Jacob Grayzel, and Madeleine Levinsohn attended along with their dedicated and tireless parents, ROS coach Steve Bandler, and their jump rope skills coach, 22-year-old Michaela Rogers.
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Student Presentations of Grant-Winning Science Curriculum before the WRWAC
On the evening of Wednesday, February 6, 2013, students for The Red Oaks Middle School presented their Speedwell Lake and environs observations, research, findings, and future agenda before the Whippany River Watershed Action Committee (WRWAC), at the Morris County Library, as part of their citizen scientists curriculum as stewards of Speedwell Lake.
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Photography Exhibit at Speedwell Campus
Professional photographer and Red Oaks parent, Ira L. Black, has photographed the likes of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and soccer star David Beckham. Since October, Ira’s been the instructor and mentor to the Red Oaks Middle School Media Club, giving his eight students opportunities to use photography to create visual art and integrate it with technology and science.
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Free Family Discussion Groups at Both Campuses
Family Fridays with Dr. Steven Tobias have now launched at both our Cutler and Speedwell Campuses. These are guided, monthly parent discussion groups that support parents, children, and families. They are facilitated by Dr. Steven Tobias, consulting psychologist to The Red Oaks School, director of the Center for Child and Family Development in Morristown, and co-author of the books Emotionally Intelligent Parenting and Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers.
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Speedwell Lake Curriculum Awarded Simon Foundation & Provident Bank Foundation Grants
The Stewards of Speedwell Project is part of a new environmental science curriculum for Upper Elementary/Middle School students, which includes rigorous scientific study with a firm emphasis on civic engagement. This curriculum and its attendant wildlife and botanical curricula have earned Red Oaks William E. Simon Foundation and Provident Bank Foundation grants.
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In-House Open House Middle School
Come see the new facility and learn about the middle school curriculum! Please join Head of School Marilyn Stewart for a Middle School In-House Open House on Thursday, January 17th, at 8:30 a.m. until 10:00 a.m., just after morning drop off at Cutler.
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Family Bingo Night at Red Oaks
Check out the photos of our first (but NOT last) Family Bingo Night held last night at our new Speedwell campus. It was a great evening with many families attending – more than 50 attending!
