The quarter ends October 27th, so you will see many larger projects with deadlines in the coming days. After October 27th, we start fresh with missing work, as teachers stop accepting work from the 1st quarter in order to move on.
Clubs at OMS:
Comic books club - Fridays 10/22-11/19 4 PM to 5 PM at the OMS library - to sign up go here
Yearbook club - contact Ms. Touhey for information.
GSA (Gender Sexuality Alliance) meets every Tuesday in Mrs. Ripp’s classroom during lunch. Her email is psripp@oregonsd.net
Homework club runs every Tuesday and Thursday 4 PM to 5 PM - no sign up needed.
Art club (open studio format) will meet after school in room 205 Mondays 4 PM to 5 PM - no sign up needed. See Ms. Touhey for information.
Deutschklub (German Club) starts Tuesday, October 5 from 4 PM - 5 PM (first Tuesday of the month). See Frau Wochenske for information.
Upcoming dates:
Picture re-take October 22nd
End of first Quarter October 27th - grades posted the following week
No school October 28th and 29th
Quick links to help:
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Counselors’ Corner (Severson) | 
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English
(Ripp) | We continue to read aloud The Barren Grounds and reviewing literary terms. Students are working on their summative projects for the unit, which will be due before the quarter ends.
Deadlines: Enriched: Vocab quiz is the 22nd Summative project due the 22nd Read two hours + outside of English
Questions to ask: Did you meet your first reading goal? What is your new reading goal? How is work going on your summative project? What is Indigenous Peoples Day? What are symbols? Conflicts? How do you discuss your evidence in a way to support your claim?
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English
(Gunst) | We are continuing to make progress on our Read Aloud Unit in which we are focused on several key literary terms. Your student will shortly be beginning work on a large, summative assignment focused either The Forgotten Girl or their independent reading text. Additionally, your student turned in their Best Draft of their Narrative writing assignment. Grades for this assignment will be posted in Infinite Campus by the end of the week. Students can continue to make revisions to their paper and raise their grades.
Students are still expected to read at least 20 minutes per day outside of class. |
Geography (Stoller) | We wrapped up our 5 Themes unit this week and will be using this framework all year long as we learn about places and people around the world. Our Edgewood Intern, Ms Pena, had a special lesson about Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Wednesday and from there, we moved into our mapping unit.
Deadlines: Map Lab Station Packet due Wednesday 10/20
Questions: What are the 5 Themes? Which is the most interesting to you and why? What is the controversy about Columbus Day? What do you think? What are 3 kinds of maps you will learn about? What is a map projection? Which is the most accurate and why? |
Geography (Howe) | We wrapped up our 5 Themes unit this week and will be using this framework all year long as we learn about places and people around the world.
Deadlines: Map Lab Station Packet due Wednesday 10/20
Questions: What are the 5 Themes? Which is the most interesting to you and why? What is the controversy about Columbus Day? What do you think? What are 3 kinds of maps you will learn about? What is a map projection? Which is the most accurate and why? |
Math 7 & 8
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Math Algebra (Malloy) |
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Science
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Science
(Krucas) | Nature of Science Test Retakes Due by next week Tuesday 10/19 Microscope parts & functions quiz done in class 10/14 Cell Theory Homework due Monday 10/18
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Literacy Lab (Tanner) | |
Health (Balbach) |
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P.E. (Faulkner/ Fleming/Lund) |
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Spanish (Cognac) | |
Spanish (Landsverk) | Missing homework? This is the last week to get it in! Need help? Email Ms. L or ask during class work time. Ser / Subject Pronouns Quiz on Thursday / Friday this week! Want to retake the other quizzes? Fill out the retake form in Google Classroom.
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German (Wochenske) | |
Bilingual (Lofgren) |
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Orchestra (Black) | Unbelievably proud of our musicians for their learning that was exhibited at our first concert of the year! We will be turning our attention to new music and our first unit on Music Theory. Students will have their first theory assignment due this week in class.
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Band (Seiter, Dorn, Cornale) | Playing Assessment due October 22. Small Group Learning (SGL) Schedule. Interested in Private Lessons? Here’s a list of teachers. Learners can take their instruments and music home to practice anytime, but we ask that all instruments go home for the weekend and come back on Monday’s. Learners can practice band music, rhythms, book materials, and any new techniques they learn in small groups. Google Classroom has all music and recordings available. Performance Schedule for the year can be found here.
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STEAM (Fischer) |
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STEAM (Stansfield) |
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Choir (Rattmann) | Young@Heart reflection questions due 10/10 SQUILT #1 due 10/12 Summative Performance Check due 10/22 Sight Singing Q1 due 10/22
Watch for a Google Form to select your singer’s choir uniform size. Uniform polo shirts will come home in early November. |
Art (Touhey) | This week we are learning about color mixing and watercolor techniques, and using these to paint our Surreal scenes.
Have you seen your learner’s logo project on Artsonia? |
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