Blog in Review

We want to thank each and every one of you for your contributions, patience, and commitment to our "Go Green" initiative in turning our communications paperless this year.  While we know the transition has been challenging at times, we hope that you are learning to navigate and benefit from this timely and engaging form of communication.  Here are some statistics from our first year of blogging:

37, 257 - Total Page Views (as of 8:00 am today!)

118 - Total Posts
148- Pictures of students & projects

32 - Twigs
3 - Owl Tribunes
1 - Olive Branch

3 - videos

11 - Countries Reading our Blog (including Brazil, Australia, and Russia!)

28% - Page Views on an iPhone

54% - Page Views using Safari as their web browser

Again, thank you for a great year in transition.  We will continue to use this data and your feedback to enhance our home/school communication!

Get Tagged - Summer Reading Program at OMS

Students can earn a special Summer Reading Rocks guitar tag to add to their carabiner if they read five books over the summer.  Two of the books must be ones from the special District 25 librarians' list of recommended books (listed in the brochure or found on the OMS homepage under summer reading) and three can be the students' free choice selections.  They need to fill out the back of the brochure where it asks for titles and authors of the five books.  Then, they should return this form to the LMC in the fall to receive their special guitar tag.

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Field Day 2013

Thank you Mrs. Pusateri, the Field Day committee, all of the parent volunteers, and Mother Nature for making this a spectacular Field Day!!!!

Internet Safety Lessons from LMC

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During LMC, the fifth graders learned about Internet Safety by completing an online training module from the website called Budd:e.  Then, they worked in groups to create presentations using the online tool Prezi.  Their presentations were created for the purpose of teaching third graders about Internet Safety topics.  Some of the topics that they presented included choosing safe usernames and passwords,  identifying scams and spam, protecting computers against viruses, identifying secure websites, deciding what photos should be kept private or could be shared on the web, learning about copyright laws , and more.  Each fifth grade class then presented the Prezis to a third grade classroom.  The third graders were pretested and post-tested on their knowledge of Internet Safety.  Their knowledge greatly increased as a result of viewing the presentations!  For example, before the presentation, only 41% of third graders knew how to protect their computers from viruses, yet afterwards,  76% knew how.  Before the presentation only 50% could pick out an example of the safest username, but afterwards 93% could do so.  After the presentation, 92% of third graders could write a safe password.