On Friday, March 28th, O.A. Thorp Scholastic Academy was excited to have Mark Mitchell from the Chicago Yacht Club speak with our sixth grade students. He presented on the geological, ecological, and physical history of inland seas, especially Lake…
Happy 85th Birthday to my mom, Barbara Grahn. :-D Reading: Through chapter 10 in Watsons Go to Birmingham Humanities: Wax Museum: memorize your 1 1/2-2 minute speech Room 211 - read through chapter 10 in Watsons secret…
In Kindergarten - Third Grade we continue our exploration of “Monarch Award Books” that we will be voting on in the next few months. For the last couple of weeks we read I Wanna New Room by Karen Kaufman Orloff, and…
January 31, 2014 Dear Parents, Due to the snowstorm expected this Saturday, February 1st, our Saturday Success School will be postponed for next Saturday, February 8th. There will not be any Saturday School or Saturday Detention this Saturday as…
Room 210 and Room 212 read the book Holes by Louis Sachar. Their final assessment is to design a game that can be played by other classmates. We will not have a big band singing for our game day…
We are busy reading for the annual CPS Battle of the Books! We have 18 brave and industrious 4th, 5th & 6th grade readers that are devouring books from this year’s list of 21 highly acclaimed titles. The online competition…
