1st grade students in Mrs. Brockway's class were building a space ship out of blocks today. This comes as they are starting their new unit on space this week! How fun!!
over 1 year ago, Oak Crest Elementary School
1st graders building
Using blocks to build space ship
Students working together to build space ship
Putting a person inside the spaceship
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! We wish you and your family a wonderful 2024!!
over 1 year ago, Beach Park District 3
happy new year
Winter Break has started! We wish you all a wonderful time with your families. We will see you back in class on January 8th!
over 1 year ago, Beach Park District 3
winter break
Today was a fun filled day at Oak Crest! 1st graders in Mrs. Albulescu's class did lots of holiday themed activities, and watched a movie! Happy holidays to all, and we will see students back on January 8th, 2024!
over 1 year ago, Oak Crest Elementary School
1st grades doing cup stacking
Picking up m&ms up with chop sticks
Balancing dice on a chopstick
Watching a movie!!
Big news out of first grade! ALL of the students in Mrs. Brockway's class can independently tie their shoes!! Big thank you to Ms. Sara!!!
over 1 year ago, Oak Crest Elementary School
First grade shoe tying
Brockway’s class finishing shoe tying
Today students at Oak Crest got to watch the school musical performance of "The Little Mermaid Jr" by our 4th and 5th grade students. The actors and stage crew did an amazing job, and students and staff had a blast!
over 1 year ago, Oak Crest Elementary School
Performers taking a bow
Students anxiously waiting for play to start
Students bowing after finishing their performance
Students clapping for performers
Kindergarten students got a visit from the Lake County Forest Preserve. They got to learn about reptiles and amphibians, and they even got to see and feel living ones!
over 1 year ago, Oak Crest Elementary School
Students seeing shell of turtle
Students touching snake
Students feeling different textures of animal skin
Students looking at an old salamander
Students feeling eggs and texture
Students sorting amphibians and reptiles
Students feeling snake
Students seeing a salamander
3rd grade students used kahoot to answer comprehension questions about the book they were reading called "The One and Only Ivan".
over 1 year ago, Oak Crest Elementary School
3rd grade students reviewing for book
Answering kahoot questions for book
Students answering comprehension questions for the one and only Ivan
Kindergarten students felt what the earth was made of before it was warm from the "sun", and after to see how the sun warms our earth.
over 1 year ago, Oak Crest Elementary School
Kindergarten feeling earths parts
Kindergarten students sensory earths surface
Earth elements, feeling
Students taking turns feeling elements of earth
Students talking about how the sun warms
The cast and crew of our school musical, The Little Mermaid, went and saw their musical done at another theater today! They also got a picture with the actress that played Ariel!
over 1 year ago, Oak Crest Elementary School
Cast and Crew of School musical seeing Little Mermaid live
Cast and crew of school musical got a photo with Ariel
Student in front of tree at the theater
4th grade students in music worked on drumming to notes on the screen!
over 1 year ago, Oak Crest Elementary School
4th grade music notes
4th grade Students practicing with drum sticks
4th grade students drumming on 5 gallon buckets
January at Zion-Benton Public Library
over 1 year ago, Beach Park District 3
January at Zion-Benton Public Library
January at Zion-Benton Public Library
Kindergarten students had such a fun time in art class coloring today!
over 1 year ago, Oak Crest Elementary School
Kindergarten students having fun in art class
Kindergarten students having fun coloring!!
Today was an exciting at Oak Crest! Students and staff got to see and play on our brand new playground!!! Buzz (the mascot) and staff members modeled expectations for the equipment, then students got to play and explore the new equipment!! Students and staff had so much fun!!
over 1 year ago, Oak Crest Elementary School
Buzz showing playground expectations
Buzz on playground with Turk modeling equipment!
Burns with playground sign
Students waiting to go on playground
Countdown to play ground time
Students and staffing going on playground for the first time!!
Students and staff exploring new equipment
Students and staff enjoying music portion
Students going down slide!
Today was an exciting day at Oak Crest! Students and staff got to see and play on our brand new playground! Buzz (the mascot) and staff modeled expectations for the equipment, then students got to explore and play on the new playground!
over 1 year ago, Oak Crest Elementary School
Burns excited for the opening!
Staff and Buzz modeling expectations
Going over equipment expectations
Staff going down slide and opening playground
Students playing with music equipment
Students going down slide
Students and staff exploring playground
Students enjoying new swings!
Buzz helping kick off our new playground
Students in Ms. Zubeck's class made a snowman craft using their handprint covered in paint, and making each of their fingers snowmen. Students had so much fun creating this!
over 1 year ago, Oak Crest Elementary School
students making snowmen
Kindergarten student making snowman
Winter 1st grade project
Kindergarten student making snowman craft
4th grade students had a blast in gym today doing human bowling! Students got the chance to ride on the scooter, and knock down the bowling bins! They had so much fun!
over 1 year ago, Oak Crest Elementary School
Mr. Smith demonstrating activity
Mr. Smith modeling the expectations
Human bowling with 4th graders!
4th grade students trying human bowling
Forming groups and starting activities
Students making teams and doing human bowling
3rd grade students in Mrs. Johnson's class were working hard with their partners during math! They were working on multi digit addition!
over 1 year ago, Oak Crest Elementary School
3rd grade math
3rd graders working together on their math
3rd grade students doing multi digit addition
Today was our December SIP day assembly! Students and staff had a chance to compete against each other in a series of fun games, and our students of the month were recognized!!
over 1 year ago, Oak Crest Elementary School
November Student of the month 2023
Snowman building with toilet paper
Snowball toss
More snowman building
Teachers vs students snowball toss
2nd grade students in Mrs. McGees' class started their December number corner today! They practiced classifying shapes, counting their sides, and see if they had lines of symmetry!
over 1 year ago, Oak Crest Elementary School
2nd grade intro to number corner for the month
2nd graders counting sides and classifying shapes