Great night swearing in the new PTA Board (pictured left-to-right: President Sarah Matthews, Vice President Latasha Davis, Treasurer Ashley Ellis, and Secretary Phylicia Burford) at Oak Glen! Looking forward to a productive and collaborative year. If you have not yet signed up, don't forget to do so!
Mrs. Nye's 4th graders at Oak Glen enjoying the weather and "playing" Place Value Roll. Ssshhh...don't let them know it's actually learning!
Oak Glen PTA Back to School Bash
Tressor taught a new rounding trick in Mrs. Larson's 3rd grade math class. Hold a balloon string and open your fingers. If all five open and the balloon floats up, round up! If it stays in your hand, round down!
So proud of Keeli Ford, a 1st grader in Mrs. Berridge's class at Oak Glen, who did something "So Good We Couldn't Ignore" and received our first #Kindness bracelet of the year! Keeli wants to keep what she did a secret, but it was truly thoughtful and helped someone in need! She did what she did because it's the right thing to do, not for recognition. That's a true Oak Glen Grizzly!
Ms. Bown's 5th graders at Oak Glen are sharpening their inference skills - a Common Core State Standard - by discussing what is shared from the "Me Bag" of a classmate!
Walking through the halls at Oak Glen, you'd hear laughter coming from Mrs. Berridge's 1st grade class. Walking in, you'd see groups playing educational math games and having a blast with each other! Learning is allowed to be fun!
Mrs. Fry's and Mrs. Joria's fourth graders at Oak Glen take their learning outside! Place value on the playground!
Ariah Downey, a 5th grader in Mrs. Osman's class at Oak Glen, is So Good We Can't Ignore Her! Ariah befriended a new student who was nervous, making her feel right at home in our Grizzly Den!
Mr. White held a Family Night at Oak Glen to explain the Zones of Regulation, various sensory strategies, techniques available at school and home, and having a growth mindset.
Oak Glen Grizzly staff ending our first week of the 2019-2020 school year! All sporting our "So Good They Can't Ignore Us" shirts and copies of "Relentless" by Hamish Brewer! Get ready, we're taking over and changing the world!
Oak Glen third grader Dimarco Patterson is one of our first recipients of "Students Who Did Something So Good We Can't Ignore!" Dimarco is in Mrs. Larson's class and voluntarily stepped out while playing Four Square to support positive relationships with his fellow students. Great character - that's a true OG Grizzly!
So proud of our Oak Glen Grizzlies who displayed their talents at our annual Grizzly Talent Showcase! The entire performance will be on YouTube soon!
After Oak Glen 1st graders read "The Stone Garden" and "Cody's Adventure", they brought life to our grounds by decorating it with their painted rocks!
Ms. White's 3rd graders went digging for dinosaur bones, classified them, and rebuilt them! Looks like Oak Glen has some future archeologists!
Oak Glen Jamboree! Bad weather didn't stop the teamwork and fun for all!
Yesterday Oak Glen's Girls on the Run ran their practice 5k and had their parents join in! Can't wait for our race June 9!
Oak Glen loved having Mr. White's class host their parents to come in and make balloon plants based on Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm!
Mrs. Fry's 4th graders at Oak Glen love taking their reading circles outside of class! Rainy days call for improvisation (and alternative seating)!
Mrs. Ores' 2nd graders at Oak Glen are all smiles as they learn in their Geometry Math Stations!
Mrs. Forsyth's 2nd graders at Oak Glen completed their Water Cycle projects!
Thank you Kiwanis for not only reading to our Oak Glen Kindergarteners but also providing everyone with a book!
Mark your calendars for this Friday March 22nd and invite your family and friends! Come out and support our young entrepreneurs in their business endeavors. There is a wide variety of food and novelty items being sold. All products sold are under 5.00!
Oak Glen's Strategic Games Club flexes their brain muscles while having fun! Thank you Mrs. Cialdella and Ms. Bown for facilitating a great club for our students!
For each practice Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) question correct, Oak Glen students had that many chances to get a pie in 3rd Grade Teacher Mrs. Larson's face! Even Principal Mr. Earnshaw and 1st Grade Teacher Mrs. Annicks got in on the fun!
Mrs. Robins' first graders at Oak Glen get up and move to learn their consonant blends!
Oak Glen's first Girls on the Run practice! We're so excited to finally have this program happening here!
Mrs. Cialdella's 5th grade class at Oak Glen testing their math equations with catapults!
Oak Glen Family Peace Maker's Night was another success!
So cool to visit our 4th grade Wax Museum in honor of African American History month!
Oak Glen Grizzlies showing support for Rare Disease Day!
Oak Glen Grizzlies put on an amazing assembly for Black History Month! We even had a special performance from Moya Dance Troupe! Thank you Mrs. Ellis for all your hard work organizing, Mr. Corrie for MC'ing, and Mr. Ferguson for filming!
Oak Glen 1st graders finished their Cinderella unit by being cordially invited to the Royal Ball!
Oak Glen Elementary School 2nd graders had some STEM fun in Mrs.Forsyth's class, and 3rd graders hosted a book tasting!
1st graders channelled George Washington today by writing with feathers.
Oak Glen Principal Mr. Earnshaw was able to hang out with Mrs. Nye & Mrs. Smith's fourth graders during Mrs. DiGrispino's Art class learning about the Chinese New Year and making our own Chinese lanterns!
Mrs. Kmetz and Mrs. Nieckula at Oak Glen recently had students move out of district. They had a snow day today and Skyped in to visit and tell us all about their new school!
Oak Glen Principal Mr. Earnshaw's favorite PBIS reward is when students choose to read to him!
Oak Glen 3rd & 4th graders did an amazing job with their Holiday Concert on on Thursday, December 13!
Mrs. Ores' 2nd graders practicing spelling by writing with candy canes!
Oak Glen's Kindness Club hard at work! Thanks Mrs. DiGrispino for your dedication to our students & hard work!
Mrs. Nye's 4th graders planning out how to re-tile a bathroom floor!
Also, learning doesn't stop during bathroom breaks at Oak Glen! Mrs. Robins' 1st graders at our Words While We Wait board!
Mr. Earnshaw teaching Mrs. Fortin's kindergarteners about the True Story of the Three Little Pigs!
Oak Glen 3rd graders turning problem solving in math to a tasty, hands on activity!
Oak Glen Peer Mediators!
Twin day at Oak Glen!
Oak Glen Elementary hosted a Silly Safari for fundraiser winners, Mr. Earnshaw kept up his end of the bargain by kissing an alligator and boa constrictor, and 3rd graders participated in a Dia de Los Muertos themed escape room!
Oak Glen Peer Mediators!
Oak Glen 3rd graders collaborate to prove the teacher has the wrong answer (Mrs. Shireman put the wrong one up on purpose), and 1st graders learning about Aurora Borealis prior to making their own sketch in art!
Oak Glen staff collaborating on the Power of Words activity at our Opening Day Institute!
Oak Glen staff collaborating across grade levels regarding PARCC results.
