Old County Road Elementary School

Kindergarten students in P.E. navigating an obstacle course designed by 5th grade students. Pretty cool!

What a great day for outdoor recess!

Kindergarten enjoying books from their book buckets!

Congratulations to the winners from all four elementary schools of the American Heart Association student postcard contest!

1st graders working on Informational Writing. From these students, Mr. Barrette learned how to make a snowflake from folded paper and discovered some really interesting information about snakes!

The 2020-2021 School Calendar was approved by the School Committee on Monday evening and can be found at https://5il.co/c5fm

Today in Science, 3rd grade students were making and testing out predictions about how water would behave on different surfaces (aluminum foil, wax paper, writing paper, paper towel) when dropped from an eye dropper.

Snow flurries made recess for 2nd grade more fun!

Before the Holiday Break, our 5th grade students were challenged to work together as a team to devise a strategy to successfully stack 6 boxes on top of each other. As you can see, they clearly rose to the challenge!

Due to school being cancelled today, the PTA Holiday Store schedule will be shifted by one day. Please see the attached revised schedule.

NO SCHOOL - Tuesday, December 17th. Road conditions are expected to be most intense through the morning and icy conditions are predicted for the afternoon. Stay safe OCRS families!

There will be a 2 HOUR DELAYED opening of school on Tuesday, 12/3. Please stay safe everyone!

From the President of the Smithfield High School National Honor Society, Caitlin Bessette Thank you for participating in the National Honor Society Care Package Donation Drive! There were 500 items collected at Old County, and over 2,000 items collected overall! I really appreciate all of the donations from students, parents, and faculty! I am attaching photos of all of the items collected at Old County and throughout the district. Thank you again for participating in our donation drive!

This Friday, 11/15, we're going to begin our day by inviting some OCRS family members that are veterans to join us for School Meeting. To honor our visitors, as well as all veterans, we are asking students and staff to wear red, white, and blue to school this Friday.

Reminder, NO SCHOOL this Thursday, 11/14. Elementary teachers have a Professional Development Day and secondary teachers are hosting parent-teacher conferences.

Just a quick reminder that the PTA meeting has been rescheduled for Wednesday, November 13th at 7:00 p.m. The 5th Grade Committee meeting will still take place this Thursday, November 7th at 6:00 p,m.

The 5th graders were "treated" to some Halloween Science with Dr. Paolucci yesterday. Our students learned about physical reactions vs. chemical reactions and fluorescence vs. phosphorescence. However, the biggest hit with the 5th graders was learning about vaporization and combustion!

Hello OCRS families, Just a reminder, 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝘀𝘁, 𝗶𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗳𝘆, 𝗖𝗼𝘇𝘆 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘆 On Friday, all students and staff are invited to wear their most comfortable sweats, flannel, and sweatshirts to school. 𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙣𝙤 𝙥𝙖𝙟𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙨 𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨 (𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡).

Thank you to our friends at Jaswell's Farm for a terrific field trip this morning for our 1st graders. The students learned all about how pumpkins grow ("The Pumpkin Circle"), took a hayride to the pumpkin patch and were able to pick out their very own pumpkin!

𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟯𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗢𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗗𝗮𝘆 All students and staff are invited to wear orange and back clothing to school. Even though we know it's Halloween, 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹. Also, please do not feel the need to purchase anything special.