The 11th Annual OFRS Wellness Week will take place February 6-10. This is a fun week of Health and Wellness related activities. All students are invited to make "Safety and Prevention" posters to display in the halls.
OFRS Second Grade students worked with partners to create a restaurant with a menu, a daily schedule, and a floor plan. Today they had the chance to rotate around the room and "buy" from each other's restaurants! 🍽💵
Grade 2 students started a new unit on Civic Leadership. After learning about Martin Luther King, Jr., they decided to use his famous speech to create a special project. We have a dream to make our world a better place!
The 5th Grade "Kindness Reporters" visit a 1st grade health class to teach them about Kindness. The name of the lesson - "You Caught the Kindness Bug". First graders learned what it means to be kind, solved a puzzle, and brainstormed ways to show kindness to others. Our 5th grade leaders are excellent role models! 🐞
The OFRS 5th grade students put on an beautiful performance to showcase both their musical and artistic talents. The orchestra, band and chorus all did an outstanding job. Thank you to Ms. English and Mrs. Bruno for organizing such a wonderful event. 🎶🎺🎨
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. ⚾🧢
