Please let us know if any scholar will miss days around the last day of school. Learning and teaching will continue through the last day with many final projects due those days.
Huge congratulations to all performing in Seussical the Musical, we cannot wait to see your performances.
Congratulations to our choir and orchestra performers - thank you for enriching our lives with your talents!
Clubs at OMS:
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) meets monthly. Our last meeting will be in May after the Seussical has wrapped up. See Frau Wochenske for information.
Green Team Environmental Club - Contact Mrs. Krucas for more information. Tuesday 4 to 5 PM.
Upcoming dates:
Quick links to help:
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Counselors’ Corner (Severson) | 
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English
(Ripp) | Please look for any books that may be hidden at home. If you would like to donate a lost book to our class, take a look at this wishlist.
We are in the midst of our final unit; logical fallacies and debates. Please ask your scholar questions about the logical fallacies as they will have a test on them next week.
Deadlines: Logical fallacy test Tuesday, May 24th Read 2 hours + outside of English every week Debates ready to go June 3rd Bring back books! Get your late work in
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English
(Gunst) | We are rapidly approaching the end of the year. Your student turned in their Summative Assessment tied to the Creative Writing Unit. As always, students are encouraged to continue to revise their work in order to raise grades. We will be starting our final unit focusing on debate this week.
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Geography (Stoller) | Students explored Europe using the 5 Themes and are now exploring Australia in a variety of ways.
Questions What were 3 new places in Europe that you would want to explore/visit? Why? What are some characteristics of the Northern (Scandinavia) region of Europe? What are 3 major cities in Australia? What surprised you about Australia’s outback? What 2 unique services are centered in Alice Springs, Australia, that serve people living on cattle ranches and mines in the outback?
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Geography (Howe) |
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Math 7 & 8
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Math (Malloy) |
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Science
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Science
(Krucas) | Students are exploring plant structures and functions. This past week they observed seeds, roots, and stems. |
Literacy Lab (Tanner) | |
Health (Balbach) |
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P.E. (Faulkner/ Fleming/Lund) |
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Spanish (Cognac) |
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Spanish (Landsverk) | |
German (Wochenske) | We will complete uur final practice for our written summative task, which takes place next week. Wednesday, May 25 at 4 pm - final deadline for any missing or retake work (except for formative Lerncheck of vocabulary - that deadline is passed). Please make an appointment or notify Frau W of completed work by that time. |
Bilingual (Lofgren) | |
Orchestra (Black) | Congratulations to our orchestra students on a hugely successful concert last week! We have turned our learning to soundscape composition projects for the next two weeks with performances happening in class on May 31 and June 1st and 2nd. Ask your learner to share their creation with you. These compositions are based on text (poem, children’s book, short story, etc). The creative process is alive and well in our orchestra classroom!
Summer School Orchestra is still taking registration! Keep your playing skills up over break :) |
Band (Seiter, Dorn, Cornale) | Summer Music Camp Opportunities Interested in Private Lessons? Here’s a list of teachers. Google Classroom has all music and recordings available. Performance Schedule for the year can be found here. Next concert is May 23. Dress Rehearsal 5/23 10-noon Concert Arrival in all black at 6:30pm, OHS. All students need to bring their instruments and music back the next day.
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STEAM (Fischer) |
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STEAM (Stansfield) |
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Choir (Rattmann) | Final concert of the year was outstanding! Great work everyone! Final project of the year is a Music of My Life compilation. Students look at specific events in their lives and how music was involved. Ask to see their work and how they can “Go for a 4!” Due June 2. June 3 and 6 will be the 2nd Annual Music Dept. kickball tournament. Please have kids wear good running shoes and weather appropriate clothes on those days.
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Art (Touhey) |
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