Environmental Club took a walk to McPhedran Park for the End-of-Year celebration! This group has accomplished a lot this year to help take care of the community and protect the planet, including:
-raised funds for local animal shelters by selling student-designed tees
-created an Earth Day PSA that was shared with Lincoln students
-teamed up with Pet Project, Inc. to promote adopting instead of shopping by writing pet letters to Santa
-made reusable bags for trick or treating out of old t-shirts, pillow cases, and paper shopping bags
-joined the Energy Action Team and implemented energy-saving resources with kits provided by sponsoring companies
-celebrated Earth Day by hiking and having a picnic at Starved Rock State Park
Making an impact on tomorrow starts TODAY!💙🌎💚
Math Awards at Lincoln School! Congrats to Brody K., Ruby M., Sam F., and Nolan C.!
Perfect Attendance Awards! Congrats to Elliana R., Bailee F., Bruno G., and Kasey C.!
Congratulations to the Spelling Bee winners at Lincoln School!
Third Grade
Champion - Arielle W.
Runner Up - Sam F.
Fourth Grade
Champion - Harper Q.
Runner Up - Bryleigh C.
Fifth Grade
Champion - Lilabeth S.
Runner Up - Lucas S.
Ms. Pearson’s 5th grade and Mrs. Pescetto’s 1st grade classes worked together to build treehouses on Thursday and Friday. They listened to the story “Everything You Need for a Treehouse” first. Then they built one of their own using cardboard scraps, pipe cleaner, tape, glue, scissors, popsicle sticks, construction paper and imagination.
Second Grade Field Trip to the Discovery Museum
Students were able to participate in many hands-on learning activities that revolved around science and play on the massive playground. They had so much fun!
Ms. Coble's class earned a glow day for working hard on their reading and showing growth on their I-Ready Math! The students participated in reading bowling, math ring toss, glow words and much more! It was an awesome day!
Mrs. Rogers’ second grade class enjoyed an ice cream incentive yesterday for their hard work on the end of the year math diagnostic and reading benchmark testing! They each had goals to reach and picked toppings to earn.
Ms. Pearson's fifth grade students presented their Geocity maps today. Students were required to include certain angles, lines, and shapes when planning their cities. Some chose to connect their maps with other classmates!
No school this Monday, May 27th!
Oglesby Summer Sports Camps! Click on the link to sign up by June 3rd!
https://www.ops125.net/documents/washington-school/summer-sports-camps/635785
The 6th Grade Field Trip to Springfield was this week and they had a blast taking in all of the sights that they have been studying for the last few weeks! They went to the Lincoln home, museum and the Oak Ridge Cemetery where Lincoln was laid to rest. They studied Lincoln, Aesop's Fables, Sojourn Truth, Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in ELA, and they studied the broad overview of the Civil War in History with Mrs. Myer.
Don't forget! This Friday, May 24th is a noon dismissal day!
Marnie and Mrs. Roger's second grade students enjoyed the fresh air this morning running and playing ball on the playground!
Congratulations to all of the students who were recognized at the Extracurricuar Awards Banquet last night at Washington School! Special congrats to Landon B. for earning the Brovelli Award and to Aavery V. and Kimora I. for Athletes of the Year!
Ms. Coble and Mrs. Pescetto’s First Grade Classes finished their unit on The History of the Earth with a Dino Day. They measured dinosaurs, studied fossils, sorted words, learned dinosaur names and participated in other activities. In the unit the students learned about the parts of the earth, fossils, dinosaurs, volcanoes and geysers.
Don't forget! This Friday, May 24th is a noon dismissal day!
Online Registration for returning and new students is now open for the 2024-2025 school year! Online registration will be taking place in two phases this year. Click below for detailed information about completing online registration in TeacherEase. https://www.ops125.net/page/registration-2024-25
Tomorrow, Saturday, May 18, 2024 is National Speech Pathologist Day and we want to thank your wonderful speech pathologists at OPS - Mrs. Politsch and Mrs. Day! Thank you so much for all you do for the students and staff at our schools! Enjoy your day!
Fourth Grade Field Trip to the Shedd Aquarium!
