Oly North Kindergarten is having fun while working on fine motor skills!
Each month, Mrs. Ruppert comes into the
first grade classrooms and teaches a lesson on one of our Spartan skills. This month was about empathy. They watched a short video, talked about empathy and then drew the correct emotions to match their elves’ story.
5th graders have been learning all about computer science this week and were treated with a guest speaker today! A huge thank you to Jeff Hevrin, a data scientist from COUNTRY, who came to share with us and answer all of our questions about coding!!
Practicing for our program!! #penguins #olyspartanpride
Third grade elves delivered “How to Catch an Elf” to the students. Third graders will be building their own traps to catch an elf.
When you are motivated and persevere to do your very best, you can and will do amazing things!
The kids in the RISE room are having snow much fun making crafts!
Students in Mrs. Schroeder’s 2nd grade have been having SNOW much fun writing a snowman story, inviting the snowmen to play and reading snowman books!
Kindergarten students are coding and using collaboration to solve problems. They need to get the monster through the woods to eat strawberries. OSMO has many parts including science, numbers, art, spelling, math, and coding.
We have had 2 ISU students working in our classroom this semester. We wish them well as they continue their journey to becoming elementary teachers.
Miss Slifer’s students are making the room look a lot like Christmas as they work toward their speech and language goals.
200th Birthday for Illinois
Fourth Grade celebrated by singing the state song and creating a pennant timeline.
Welcome to the Sandwich Shack where first graders selected stories from a menu and practiced the skill of retelling.
Kindergarten enjoyed picking popcorn sight words and writing them on their own popcorn piece. Students are excited to share their snack with their parents tonight. Happy sight word reading!
4th-5th grade canned food drive off to a good start! Students are trying to raise 400 food items and $275 to donate to Helping Hands in Stanford and Project Evergreen in Danvers.
Mrs. Loyer’s 2nd graders are learning how to respond to their reading through letter writing. Today we wrote a letter to Mr. Hurley to recommend a new book we read!
The 5th graders at Oly North are helping kindergartners learn how to code with Scratch Jr.
The third graders are under “Elf Watch” this December!
Deck The Halls is tomorrow night from 5:30-7:00 pm at ONE!
New books going on the shelves!! This is just a handful of the new books I was able to purchase for the library with profit from the book fair during Grandparents Day!
