First full weeks of school

Welcome Back!

We have a lot of exciting things going on in room 214 and at OCS. Students are doing a great job of being independent middle schoolers. They are opening and closing the locks on their lockers. They developed a new set of class rules and everyone signed his name that he will follow the rules.

In Language Arts Literature classes, students are working with our new writing program called Units of Study. They are working on expressing themselves through their writing. Students are also working sounding out words and constructing words using letter sounds. Each student has a spelling list. He will keep his list in his homework folder. I will not publish it on here, but you may e-mail me if the list is misplaced.

In Math class, we are completing a beginning of the year assessment. Students will then go on to work on his individual math goal for the week. I will let you know when there are tests coming up. Homework will be written in the communication book.

Our science class enjoyed making a mini scientist and cooking play doh last week. This week we will be focusing on science safety. Then we will begin to study astronomy.

5th grade science: please see Mrs. Kimball's blog.