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The School of Innovation Elementary School Spark Remark
03-08-2019
Upcoming Events03/11 WHITE DAY
03/12 BLUE DAY
03/13 GREEN DAY
03/14 WHITE DAY
03/15 BLUE DAY
03/18 GREEN DAY
03/19 WHITE DAY
03/20 BLUE DAY
03/21 GREEN DAY
03/22 WHITE DAY
SPRING BREAK 03/23-03/31
04/01 Classes Resume
On a daily basis we see acts of kindness and respect at the School of Innovation. A student joining a peer who is sitting alone at lunch. A noon aide finding a lost book for a child who is upset. Kids making random positive messages to give to our custodians. A middle schoolers (that’s right, a teenager) writing an anonymous note of thanks to a teacher! SOI is a special place and our students, staff, and families continue to amaze us every day!
Have a great weekend!
SOI ELEMENTARY YEARBOOK SALE SOI Elementary School yearbook order forms were distributed to students. The cost of the yearbook is $12.00 and is due no later than March 23. Don’t miss the window to purchase this memory!
REMINDER FROM THE CLINIC Two reminder from the clinic:1. Students may not carry medicine with them or in
their book bags. This is dangerous for many reasons. Please bring medications that need to be taken during the day to the office, fill out the proper paperwork, and the clinic will receive and administer the medications to students.
2. Students should not be texting parents from school requesting to go home due to illness. The proper procedure is to visit the clinic and let our medical care professional determine if a child needs to go home. This is happening too frequently. Please follow our school protocol.
Thank you!
SOI PTO FAMILY BOWLING EVENT
PTO CALENDAR OF EVENTS
03/10/19 Bowling Day at Wickliffe Lanes
03/12/19 PTO General Membership Meeting 6:30 pm
03/19/19 SOI USA Skate Night 6-8:30 pm
04/03/19 Marco’s Pizza Night (8th grade box night)
04/09/19 PTO General Membership Meeting 6:30 pm
CAMP INVENTIONCamp Invention is returning to the School of Innovation SUPERCHARGED style this
summer! Unmask your child’s creativity this summer in the all-new Camp Invention program, Supercharged, where children transform their wild imaginations into epic creations. Campers in grades 1-6 will code robots and use collaboration and creative
problem solving during hands-on, STEM activities. Camp will be held at the School of Innovation June 3-7 from 9:00-3:30. The cost of camp is $230. Middle school students can participate as Leaders-in-Training for $130. If you register before March 22 you
can use the promo code INNOVATE25 to save $25 for campers only.
For more information or to register, please visit
https://inventnow-web.ungerboeck.com/programsearch/moreinfo.aspx?event=23893
or contact [email protected] or [email protected]
SCHOLARSHIP WINNERSWe had over 20 students submit essays for the Camp Invention Scholarship contest!
Thank you to all of the students that participated and showed some excellent writing skills! The winners for middle school will be announced next week.
3rd Grade- Stefani Szokan
4th Grade- Isabelle Thomas
5th Grade- Jack Federici
All students that participated will be coming home with some cool Camp Invention prizes! A GIANT THANK YOU to SOI PTO for supporting our students and helping us to
expand the number of scholarships that we can offer our SOI students!
UPDATE: We have earned an additional $392.50 towards our goal.
Elementary students received a special dinosaur collection sheet last week. If they return them according to the directions, they will earn a flexi dinosaur made in our Fab Lab. Last school year, we earned $483.80 for our school from Box Tops!. This school year, our goal is to earn $1,000.00. Our first semester check was for $511.00. With your continued help, we can reach the mark! For more information on Box Tops, including a list of participating products, go to BTFE.com. Be sure to sign up as a member (it’s free!) so you can check out our school’s earnings details and get access to coupons and bonus offers. Thanks for your [email protected]**Box Tops can be sent in at any time during the school year.September: grades 3 & 8 Total raised by both grades is $205.10October: grades 4 & 7 Total raised by both grades is $239.00December: Grades 5 & 6 raised a total of $188.90 !
Elementary School Dinosaur Challenge
THIRD GRADE HAPPENINGS Updated 3/7/19
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
● After Spring Break Mrs. Kozak will be taking over when Mrs. Reed is on maternity leave. This will be a nice transition since she was here at the start of the school year as well.
● Pink kindness challenge charts were due on March 8th, but will be accepted on Monday the 11th.
● End of the 3rd quarter is March 13. Report cards will be emailed by March 22.
MATH with Mrs. Wadsworth
All math groups are working on geometry. We are studying shapes, angles and lines. We are learning how to use protractors which is fun too. Reviewing this at home is a good idea- we will be taking an assessment on these concepts soon. Next up (for most of the rest of the school year) will be fractions. Looking forward for a change in topics - it will be a lot of fun hands-on activities. We hope to get into the FabLab to create some fraction related “stuff”! :)
DISCOVERY with Mrs. Reed
We spent the week wrapping up our study of government by taking a look back at our big question- What if we had no government? Students wrote an argumentative paragraph on which government department they believe is essential and should survive a shutdown.Economics is the last social studies concept this year and we can’t wait to make some connections to the Lemonade War novel the students have been reading in literacy.
LITERACY with Mrs. Rosciszewski/Mrs. Kothera
We began our new novel study using The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies. Some of the skills we have practiced using this novel are: main idea & key details, point of view, compare/contrast, character traits, figurative language, and cause & effect. After we read a new chapter I am posting audio of the chapter in google classroom. If your child is absent, feel free to have them listen to any chapters that have been posted. You are also welcome to listen to chapters together if you would like to have conversations about the book, but please do not have your child complete any of the assignments at home. We are continuing to write opinion/persuasive pieces to practice supporting our opinions with reasons and evidence.
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Announcements
● The assignment notebook link can be found in Class Dojo weekly.● We will resume Workout Wednesdays AFTER Fun in February● Receive 20% off your first order of Perfectly Imperfect
Produce using the code INNOVATION - this was part of the 4th grade PBL.
MATH
Mrs. Goodrich’s math class has been working on fractions and decimals this past week. We will continue with decimals into next week before moving to geometry. Also, we are closing in on getting all students to the Math Fact MASTER status! Keep studying those facts!!!!
Miss Leyde’s and Mrs. McKito’s classes are working on geometry - identifying quadrilaterals and 3-D shapes.
ELA
Mrs. Goodrich’s class finished “Among the Hidden” this week. We are comparing the laws from the novel to the population laws of China. We will also be working on writing our bio tea papers this week. Miss Leyde’s class is continuing to read the novel ‘City of Ember’. Mrs. McKito’s and Mrs. Kothera’s class started reading “Because of Mr. Terupt.” They just finished up their Black History Month projects. They will also start working on their bio tea writing next week.
Science/Social Studies
In Social Studies, we are learning about life after the American Revolution and some of the immigrant groups that began moving to what will become Ohio.
In Science, the electricity test is next Wednesday. Study guides were given out this week.
PBL
We watched the “Dream Big”: documentary and are starting to get the students to think of inventions they can create themselves. More information will be coming soon.
Here is the link for the 4th grade video discussing Perfectly Imperfect Producehttps://youtu.be/_O5BwJjFnSI
Fourth Grade
The BAM FAMSOI 5th Grade 2018-2019
Updated 3/8/19
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Important Announcements● Link to student assignment and planning document:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wB-oSR1tBGGaILJxKOo3-kD4RkQWT093_NNM_MvQUnE/edit?usp=sharing Daily homework document is shared in Dojo as well.
● Orders for Scholastic Book Orders due by 3/22. Use class code: TK2X3● Save the Dates: Dare Graduation- April 17th at 7:00 at South HS, Genius Hour Presentations- April
10th at 6:30 at SOI. (Invitations to both were sent out this week.)
Science/Social Studies/PBL Social Studies: We tried to crack the CSI Case on the disappearance of the Mayans. Students are working on a mini grid about Ancient Civilizations and a chance to plan some Mexican excursions for Mr. B.Science /PBL: The students have begun designing their sunglasses frames on Corel Draw! We ask that all materials to decorate with are brought in by March 18th. The list is posted in google classroom and a letter was sent home on 3/1. A huge thank you to Dr. Beal, from Lenscrafters, for coming in on Wednesday to teach the kids how the eye bends light and how lenses help people see.Genius Hour: The students have had a lot of time in class to research their topic and take notes. Next week, they should be wrapping up the research portion and begin creating their product and presentation. Materials from home may be brought into school if needed. Students will begin presenting their knowledge the week of April 1st!
ELAAlvord: We have almost finished Book 2 in Echo. The students have focused on how an event affects future events. We also have been writing summaries of fiction and non-fiction text. Please remember, all Connect4 responses are due by 3/13.Bonick: We have been meeting in literature circle groups to discuss SWINDLE. Students have been researching and answering questions for their Genius hour research. McCullough: The students loved reading and finishing up FIsh in a Tree. We will be working on some follow-up activities to correlate with the novel. Additionally, we practiced writing nonfiction summaries and a 5 paragraph essay.
MathAlvord: The students have wrapped up the unit on Measurement. Next we will learn about geometry. The students will find the area, perimeter and volume of different shapes.Accelerated Math (McCullough): We have finished our unit on Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities. Now, we are diving into Statistics! We started with calculating mean this week, and will continue with statistics concepts during the next few weeks. Accelerated Math (Bonick): Reviewed some key 5th grade concepts in Measurement and Data. Began the learning outcomes for 6th grade Statistics and Probability. What makes a good statistical question?
SOI ENCORE PAGE
P.E NEWS The Middle School just finished up a week with Operation Keepsake. The main focus of the week was to get the kids thinking about their future and make smart decisions. We will be back to P.E. next week with our fitness unit.
3rd- 5ht grade: Currently we are in the middle of our fitness unit. The students have been working through fitness stations that focus on the core elements of fitness: Strength, Cardio Endurance, flexibility, and agility. We will be continuing with fitness the next 2 weeks. The 5th grade will be taking their knowledge of fitness from the unit and creating their own workout plan.
Grade 3: The students finished up their patterns and shapes artwork. They are now working on Minecraft Selfies. Look for work on Artsonia!
Grade 4: The students are working on their lucky artwork inspired by Romero Britto. Look for work on Artsonia.
Grade 5: The students have been using Corel Draw on the computers to design their eyeglasses for their current PBL. Look for all their artwork on Artsonia!
MUSIC NEWS
3rd & 4th Grade
We’re back to regular practicing this week. After last week’s review of music reading concepts, I could easily hear the improvement in playing our songs. We will have a concert in early May to showcase what we have been working on. A final date will be announced in the coming week or so.
5th Grade Band
Congratulations to the 5th graders on their concert this past Saturday. They played well and were a respectful audience for the other bands. Good job representing our school!
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Look for all work on ARTSONIA!!!!
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