First Grade enjoyed participating in learning early coding concepts that allowed them to guide a robot through a maze they designed themselves. This was such a fun, hands-on and interactive STEAM activity!
What a fun School Spirit Day at OFRS on January 19th! Pajama Day!
Preparations are underway for the Lunar New Year! Chinese New Year falls on January 22nd and it is the year of the rabbit. The rabbit a symbol of longevity, peace and prosperity.
What was life like in the colonial times? Second graders got a taste of early American games, art and music at our annual Colonial Day.
“Be the peace you wish to see in the world.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
First Grade Students at OFRS choose to write, illustrate and publish books during their free time! We are so proud of them for taking the initiative to express themselves through story telling. All year they have been learning how sentences are constructed and how to write simple stories with characters, setting, a problem, events and a solution. They are really taking off as authors!
One of our Color Run Prizes was lunch with the principal. What a special lunch date I had with these two kindergarten friends! We learned so much about one another and shared lots of smiles. 😋🥪🥤🍏
There are always lots of smiles on CRAZY HAIR DAY!!! 💈👩🏻🦳👨🏽🦰🧒💈
OFRS 5th grade students are writing and producing their own weather reports on extreme weather. The creativity is flowing! 🌪🌀⛈⚡❄
Happy New Year from our fabulous first graders! 🥳
Happy Holidays from Old Farmers Road School!!! ☃ 🕎 🎄❄
Fourth grade students have been studying how the influence of Native American groups, including the Lenni-Lenape culture, is manifested in different regions of New Jersey. Today they were able to explore clothing, tools, animal pelts and other artifacts to deepen their understanding. Thank you to the PTO for providing this presentation.
We sent off our donations to Toys for Tots today. We are proud to share that we have two large bins of happiness to share with those in need in our community. Thank you to the Washington Township Police Department for inviting us to partner with you for this worthy cause. 🧸🪀
Fresh off the OFRS press! Mrs. Garner's Second Grade class published their first class newsletter. Students worked together to write articles communicating classroom happenings with their families. 📰
Our fifth grade mathematicians are hard at work solving word problems in cooperative groups. In this particular problem, students are using fractions to find batting averages and critiquing the batting skills of individual players. The use of baseball stats motivates our students take crack at real-world statistician math skills. ⚾🧢
First Graders at OFRS are measuring with paper clips. They discover how to use objects and nonstandard units to measure distances and make conclusions about why it’s important to use objects of the same size and shape when measuring. We love to see our mathematicians hard at work! 📏🖇📎
OFRS partners with the Washington Twp. Police to collect new and unwrapped gifts to donate to Toys for Tots. Our student leaders help us to organize and prepare the donation. We are proud to announce we are beginning to fill up box number two! 🧸🪀🧒👶🏾
A HUGE Thank You to the OFRS PTO for Adding Some Holiday Cheer to the Teachers' Room!! 🎄
The PTO hosted our Annual Holiday Boutique. Students discovered the joy of of giving to others. Thank you to all of the volunteers who made it such a festive and fun experience! 🎁
Ms. English and her student violinists and trombonists serenaded the OFRS main office with holiday music. What a wonderful surprise and uplifting performance! Thank you for spreading cheer! 🎻🎶 📯
