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Welcome to Oak Forest Elementary! For some of you, this is your first year with our amazing school and everything feels strange. Don’t worry, even the fifth grade parents feel a little off this year. The good news is that you are part of an awesome school with dedicated leadership, teachers, staffers, PTA members and […]

1. Website! Familiarize yourself with our Website! This will be your HUB for ongoing school information and purchasing of merchandise and supplies! www.oakforestpta.com 2. Join the PTA – visit our website and becoming a voting member of OFE PTA – click on our membership tab. https://shop.oakforestpta.com/collections/pta-membership 3. Visit the Bobcat Store! Order your OFE swag

Remember when you were a kid and it was August, and it was time to buy school supplies? Your mom probably took you to a store like Winn’s or Eckerd’s, and you probably had a list that sounded like this: Crayons Pencils Spiral Glue Paste Scissors Supply box Lunch box: choices for lunch box, were

So spring break is done and school is feeling like it’s winding down, but it’s not May, so you can’t totally check out (yet) and you still have to make lunches, check homework folders and pretend that the metric system is not only real, but also a good idea. So you may be feeling a

Maybe my favorite thing about the auction, is the actual auction itself. I mean, who doesn’t love an auctioneer? Do I hear a thousand, thou thou thou, do I hear a thousand? And the guy we usually use is so distinctly Texan in the way he talks, I just love it. I feel like I’m

Note: if you are easily offended or lack a sense of humor, kindly stop reading now. We are getting lots of questions about the auction, but oddly enough, most of them are focused on one topic-what should I wear??? And I think that is because the theme is Bourbon Street Bash. When I questioned the

As you might can tell, we have our major fundraiser coming up, which we count on every year to help bring quality programming to the school. Geez. That last sentence sounded like NPR telethon week. At the auction, there are many things you can bid on, through the live and silent auctions. At the silent

So if you have been mildly paying attention, you either learned in the fall or already knew, that our FunRun money goes to our PTA operating budget, which pays to run all the programs and events the PTA puts on for the calendar year. So why do we have this auction? The auction funds special

Greetings from the land of the First-Day-Back-in-January hangover. All those nights of going to bed at midnight, sleeping in till 10, eating breakfast at 11, lunch at 3 and supper at 8, then staying up to work on our thousand piece puzzle and watch Christmas movies, repeat the cycle of sloth and gluttony until Saturday