Ocee Elementary Gives to Children's Shelter

Ocee Elementary in Johns Creek celebrates this season of giving with its very own Giving Tree. This Ocee tradition will benefit the Atlanta Children's Shelter and provide much needed items from diapers to books to clothing for families working toward self-reliability. Each student at Ocee will take a leaf from the tree which has a needed item written on it, and replace the leaf with one of their own. The students have written on their leaves what they are thankful for this year.  Ocee Principal Deborah Pernice read "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein to the entire student body to kick off this year's Giving Tree and instill in the students a spirit of giving and caring for others.

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Eleven Cub Scouts Earn Webelos Badge

Pack 699 is sponsored by an Alpharetta church and serves a Johns Creek school.

Eleven members of Den 5 from Cub Scout Pack 699 earned their Webelos badge on April 24. Pack 699 is sponsored by Christ the Shepherd Lutheran Church in Alpharetta and serves Ocee Elementary School in Johns Creek. The new Webelos are, front row from left:  Dylan Rowen, Zachary Plimpton, Ben Hansen, Lucas Moyer, Sam Johnson; back row:  Michael Conti, Matthew Farrington, Jack Andresen, HunterAndresen. Cub Scouts not shown in the photo but who earned the badge are Jack Clark and Jack Walker. The event took place at Ocee Elementary School.    Description:   Eleven members of Den 5 from Cub Scout Pack 699 earned their Webelos badge on April 24, 2012.  

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Rocking Around the Clock at Ocee Elementary

Ocee Elementary teachers recently dressed up in their 50s finest to thank the school's business partners and volunteers for the work they do to support the school. The “rocking” brunch was complete with homemade breakfast, juke boxes, guitars and poodle skirts.

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Cats in the Hats at Ocee Elementary

On Friday, March 2, Ms. Scaccia’ s kindergarten class at Ocee Elementary in Johns Creek celebrated Dr. Seuss’ birthday by dressing up as his famous feline. They even sang a song to the tune of the Adams Family all about the Cat in the Hat.

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Ocee Students Love Reading

Students participating in Ocee Elementary's Accelerated Reader program celebrated their love of reading in February with a special Valentine's promotion in the computer lab.   For several days some 100 students visited the lab each morning before school to take a quiz on books they had read and to earn points toward rewards. Accelerated Reader is a PTA-sponsored reading comprehension enrichment program designed to motivate and increase independent reading throughout the year.  

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Ocee Students Share the Love

At Ocee Elementary, students are celebrating Random Acts of Kindness week. Each student was challenged to do one kind act for someone new on Monday. The students collected more than 800 links for their chain reaction of kindness.

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Ocee Student Wins at Media Festival

Ocee Elementary fifth-grader Ridhi Choragudi has won an “Excellence in Media Production” award for her website creation “Wonders of the World” at the International Media Festival that took place in Florida. Ridhi’s path to the international festival included winning at both the district and state levels.

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