Reminder

Friday, March 11 and Monday, March 14, will be 1/2 days. The students will be dismissed at 12:30. There will be no lunch served either day. The teachers will remain at school for professional development.

Come on Spring!

We were teased last week with our two warm days in a row. As a result, the students in room 214 are really anxious to change the decorations to present a more Spring-like atmosphere. We will be working on these decorations, but will make decorations in a way that correspond to NJCCCS and IEP goals. We look forward to any visitors who might like to partake in our warm atmosphere!

Finally a full week!

We are so happy to finally be without a snow day here at OCS!!!

The next few weeks will find us working on improving our writing skills. This is an important form of communication and a vital life skill.

We will continue to work on phonemic awareness and applying learned strategies while reading new or difficult words. Students will be reading novels over the next few weeks. Some will read The Island Book One: Shipwreck.

In math class, we are working toward multiplication and division for some and more advance addition and subraction for others. Also, there are some students working to understand what it means to add and subtract numbers.

Back to school!

We are back! The students are doing a wonderful job getting back into the school routine. We are working hard with new challenging spelling words in class. Expect to see spelling homework each night.

We are studying money in math class. Each student is working at his or her own level. Some students are making change, working on percentages, and budgeting. Others are working on counting all coins. While others are working on identifying coin values and adding pennies and nickels.

In science class, students are learing about designing structures. They are already experts at building with Legos. Now we will use other building materials and decide how to design a building that is sturdy.

Happy Holidays!

I wanted to take a moment to thank my fantastic students and their families for a great four months of school! I hope you all enjoy time with family over the break and have fun ringing in the new year! See you on January 3, 2011!!!

Mrs. P.

Next week

I know the kids are getting excited for the big holiday break. However, we all must do our best to keep on learning through Thursday. We have full days of school Monday-Wednesday. We will have a 1/2 day on Thursday and no school until January 3, 2011!

Winter Concert

The students have been practicing in their music classes and at other times during today, Friday, and next Wednesday for the Winter Concert. They are all very excited to participate. Students should arrive at the school at 5:30 Wednesday evening. The concert will begin promptly at 6:00 PM. I will be at the school to assist students. I look forward to seeing everyone there and especially watching the students perform!!!