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Weekly Schedule10/30WHITE DAY
10/31 BLUE DAYMS Halloween Party in amES Halloween Party in pm
11/01 GREEN DAYConferences 3:30-6:30 pm
11/02 BLUE DAYSOI Marco’s Pizza Night (4th grade Box Night)
11/03 GREEN DAY
A Message from Mr. PatrickHere are a two items I would like to address to all families at The W-E School of Innovation:
● Students can not text home that they aren’t feeling well and request to be picked up. If a student is ill they need to see the SOI nurse, who will decided if a parent should be contacted.
● Absences/tardies/vacations days are becoming an issue. This year HB 410 went into effect. This is a state law that changes ‘days missed’ from school to an ‘hours based’ way of counting student seat time. Vacations, doctor visits, and tardies add up to missed seat time, and at SOI, with all the group activities and real-world speakers, it is nearly impossible to ‘make things up’ for a child who misses a stretch of time. PLEASE try to limit days missed throughout the year so we can continue to provide your student with an amazing experience at SOI!
The School of Innovation Spark Remark
10-27-2017
Upcoming Levy UpdateWilloughby-Eastlake City Schools will place a Substitute Levy on the ballot on November 7th , Issue 7. This levy will replace an Emergency Levy and will NOT INCREASE YOUR TAXES. Please visit our website WESchools.org for complete details regarding Issue 7. The funds from this issue are used for the maintenance of facilities and classroom instruction. Please remember to vote on November 7th.
W-E SOI Parent-Teacher Organization
W-E School of Innovation PTO OfficersPresident: Erin SikoraVice-President: Craig RoweTreasurer: Hannah OrehCommunic. Secretary Christine BradyRecording Secretary Dr. Stephen Atkins
Thank you for your willingness to volunteer and support our students!http://www.wesoipto.org
Spirit Wear LinkPTO SpiritWear Online
The W-E School of Innovation PTO has a link that allows you to buy SOI Spirit Wear! Just click here: http://www.wesoipto.org/spiritwear.cfm
There are t-shirts, uniform polos, sweatshirts, pullovers, winter hats and jackets! You must order your gear by November 17th in order to have it for the holidays.
7th Grade Athletics UpdateIn order to participate in a winter sport, athletes must have a physical.
OHSAA Physical Form Link
Important Dates for MS Athletics
EMS Wrestling: Conditioning: 11/8 an 11/10 (3:30-5:15 pm)(study tables until 4:00) Practice: Begins on 11/13 (3:30-5:45 pm)(study table until 4:00)
WWMS Wrestling: Pre-Season Open Mats: 10/26 (3:30-5:00 pm) WWMS, 10/30 (3:15-5:00 pm) WWMS, 11/2 (4-6pm) North HS, 11/6 (3:15-5:00) WWMSOfficial Practice: 11/10 (3:15-5:30 pm) at WWMS
WMS Wrestling: Parent Meeting: 11/2 @ 6pmConditioning: 11/7 (3-4 pm), 11/8 (3-4 pm), 11/9 (3-4 pm)Official practice start date: 11/10 (3:15-5:15 pm)
Winter Middle School Sports Information Link
Crayola Marker Recycle EffortThe School of Innovation is teaming up with Crayola to
recycle used markers and dry erase markers to make fuel. For more information go to:http://www.crayola.com/colorcycle.aspx
The Crayon InitiativeThe School of Innovation is also teaming up with The Crayon Initiative to recycle old crayons. This nonprofit will remanufacture the old crayons and donate them back to schools, hospitals, arts programs and other child organizations Just send used crayons in to school and we will do the rest!
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THIS AND THAT
● Socktober is here! ● Vision screenings will begin next week.● Student pictures were placed in your child’s mailbox yesterday. Remember retake day is
November 16.● Conferences- Students are working on a presentation for your parent-teacher
conference. Please do not take a peek at this presentation in google classroom before your conference.
● Upcoming field trip- Watch for a permission slip for a local government field trip next week. On Nov 6 third grade will tour several local government buildings.
● Scholastic book orders were distributed today!
MATH with Mrs. Wadsworth
Math 1 and 2 - Multiplication properties and division rules are what we’ve been focusing on this week. Math 3 - Regrouping when adding and subtracting multi-digit problems.
Be careful when reading directions… we took a directions test, and most students did NOT follow do well!
Reminder- Addition and Subtraction Facts Update coming home soon!
LITERACY with Mrs. Rosciszewski
This week we had less time for new concepts due to AIR testing. Students were introduced to Daily Language Review which will provide them with review and practice of various language skills/concepts. This week we practiced capitalization, punctuation, fact/opinion, high frequency word spelling. We also added prefixes to our interactive notebooks and discussed how they can change the meaning of root/base words.
DISCOVERY with Mrs. Reed
Students taught each other about FAST and SLOW land changes this week. Presentations were great, however, some need to work on being a better audience member during a presentation. We used BrainPop Jr. to take a review quiz for both types of land changes and learned a lot about erosion and weathering this week! We are wrapping up our focus on rocks with taking a look at the rock cycle. Ask your child how the rock cycle connects to our focus on ‘changes over time.’
THIRD GRADE HAPPENINGS Updated 10/27/17
4th Grade UpdateUpdated 10/27/17
TECHNOLOGY/ENGINEERING/ PBL
Mrs. Rainieri from ThenDesign Architecture (TDA) came and spoke to the students about their library PBL. She provided the students with design process descriptions and what the company does for budgeting purposes. The students will know look at a short list of carpet, furniture, and casework vendors to design a budget for our new library.
What Are We Learning?
MATH - Students in Mrs. McKito and Ms. Leyde’s math classes are finishing up long division and will be taking the test at the end of next week. They are also working on designing a movie theater. Students in Mrs. Goodrich’s class are working on constructing a cider mill and are working on multiplication. Please review math facts with your child nightly.
SOCIAL STUDIES - In social studies students took an Historic Native American tribes that lived in Ohio. Our continents of the world test will be next week.
SCIENCE - In science the students finished up their brochures based on an ecosystem of their choice (They are due Monday). They also started creating an animal that would be able to survive in their ecosystem.
ELA - The students are really excited about starting their novel Hoot. Ask them about what they have read so far. Also, we learned about using context clues to help us identify unknown words.
Announcements:SOCK-TOBER is here! Please send in any sock donations.! Only 2 days left!
The assignment notebook can be found in Google Classroom under the About tab and it can also now be found in Class Dojo.
Conference start next week. We would like for them to be student-led conferences so please plan on bringing your child with you to conferences.
Students will bring their costume on Tuesday and change before the party.
The BAM FAM SOI 5th Grade 2017-2018
Updated 10/27/17
Important Announcements● A special thank you to all the 5th graders that ran for Student Council! We are looking forward to
what our leaders can do to improve our school!● Permission slips and $7 for The Cleveland Orchestra field trip are due 10/31. ● Our first PBL exhibitions are held at the public libraries. Please ask your child which library their work
is at. Feel free to invite your extended family to view these displays, too! ● Our first conference day is on Wednesday, Nov. 1st. Please check the schedules on Dojo and bring
your child along to your scheduled date/time. Students should bring their Chromebooks to conferences. We look forward to meeting with everyone and discussing the successes in 5th grade!
Science/Social Studies/STEM Science/STEM: The solar system is the focus of our exploration this quarter. Mercury, Venus and Earth were the primary researched planets this week. We will continue exploring the inner planets next week, which will lead us into our next PBL! Our Stem focus involved working with legos to explore rotation and revolution. Additionally, the students completed a Design Challenge to create a shock absorbing spacecraft to land on the moon or Mars.
Social Studies: Students were assigned Simple Booklets on a South American country (Due Nov 13th). We tested on countries of South America.
ELAAlvord: We finished Pax this week! The students seemed to enjoy reading this novel. We explored many reading concepts throughout this book. Our final assignment, in regards to this book, was on theme. I look forward to reading what the students identified as that theme of the book. The students also must have their mysteries complete by Monday. It cannot be longer than 3 pages and must be double spaced. We will peer edit on Monday.Bonick: ELA contract due on Nov 3. We focused on the art of ¨Show Don´t Tell¨ when writing in order to get our own mysteries done by the 3rd. We continued to read and discuss 3 Times Lucky.McCullough: We started the mystery novel, The Westing Game, and have created detective notebooks to keep track of all the clues surrounding the mystery. Also, we continued to write mystery stories, while focusing on personification.
MathAlvord: Next week, we should wrap up division. However, this is a skill we will continue to review all year long. Bonick: We began the Numbers and Fractions path. Adding, subtracting and simplifying fractions! Check out the Decimal Projects...pretty funny to see what they would buy for an apartment with $1,000!McCullough: We finished up ch 5 on Integers and the Coordinate Plane. Now, our focus moves to Rates and Ratios. This week we reviewed GCF and LCM, along with learning about ratios. Keep up the great work!
Sixth Grade
New Beginnings
Happy Birthday!Kylee Neeld (October 29th)
As our new 6th graders entered the world of middle school, we immediately began our first capstone, “New Beginnings.” Over the next few weeks, the SOI 6th grade will be looking at the Ancient River Civilizations of Mesopotamia, India, China and Egypt and exploring their (GRAPES) Government, Religion, Arts & Achievement, Politics, Economics and Social Structures. We will be learning about how and why these civilizations started, how the resources they had influenced them, and how their people formed governments and religions. As we learn about these historical civilizations, we will be reading about utopian and dystopian civilizations. We will be looking at the same GRAPES categories of these fictitious societies and trying to draw parallels. In the end, the students will have learned enough about civilizations to be able to create their own civilization and market it at a Trade Expo.
In Math - Chapter 1 is done! We started prepping for our chapter assessment which will be next week, probably on Wednesday. We will be tackling the 21st Century Test as prep. Please keep up with Khan!In Honors Math: Chapter 1 is complete. We have been doing the 21st Century Test as prep and we will finish that on Monday. Test will be Tuesday. We also are continuing our understanding of algebraic expressions in chapter 5. We will continue to review 6th grade standards using Khan. Students also began working on MakerMinded.Pre-Algebra: This week we continued deepening our understanding of equations. We focused on writing equations to represent problem situations and solving equations with variables on both sides. Currently we are about 60-70% completed with 6th grade Khan.
In Science - We spent the week doing an alternative assessment on Resources, both renewable and nonrenewable. We finished presenting them today. On Monday we begin a mini unit on the Microscope. Question: What do you feel is a good alternate energy source for Lake County?
In Social Studies -We are continuing our studies of Ancient River Civilizations as we researched Ancient Egypt and the life on the Nile. Students did partner reading of lessons 1 and 2 and determined what was the most important information. Question of the Week: How are hieroglyphs similar to modern day texting?
In ELA - Students are working on their first writing competition of the year! The VFW sponsors the Patriot’s Pen essay, and we are thrilled to partner this year with local Post 4358. This is such an amazing opportunity for our students, and I am eager to see their submissions on Monday!*We “summarized” literature circle novels with 20+ plot cards. The groups then worked together and designed structures relating to their novels. These ranged from single story to ten+ stories, and the detail on them was extraordinary! I hope you enjoyed the pictures on Dojo and Twitter! * We took our pronoun part 1 retakes and also completed pronoun part 2 assessments. Retake packets for part 2 are due Wednesday.
7th Grade SOI Sparks
ELAStudents are on (week 4) day 4 of their Google 20 Time research and projects. Please ask your child to tell you about his or her current passion project. Thoughtful cards were created for our veterans and current Navy sailors.Rough outline of informational essays are due on Wednesday.
MathThis week in math we have worked on…Algebra 1
● Writing Equations of Lines● Graphing “Murder Mystery”
Pre-Algebra● “The Bank of Blair”● Simple vs. Compound Interest
Math 7● “The Math Cafe”● Discount Percent Situations vs.
Markup Percent Situations
Science
Students have completed their water quality PBL lab reports! Writing the report was a long process however we are very proud of what they have accomplished. Next week students will be sharing what they have learned with our partners, city officials, district administration, parents and the 4th graders!
Humanities
Students are learning about ancient Athenians and Spartans, which will lead them into their next PBL(in the near future).Working on water quality presentations for our community
EngineeringThis week we have built water filter prototypes, tested them, and redesigned. THE DESIGN PROCESS IN ACTION! We have learned much about testing and redesigning prototypes, and many of our designs have worked well. Ask your students about their design. Using a triple beam balance is not
as easy as it looks!
SOI ENCORE PAGE
P.E NEWS
3rd and 4th: This week we started into our
Unit on Soccer. The students practiced their
skills in four different stations ( dribbling,
passing, shooting, and defense). We also
started into some modified game play with
soccer and the rules of the game.
5th: Started Soccer game play with teams
and modified game play inside the gym. Next
week we will finish up our soccer unit and
move onto basketball/volleyball before the
weather changes outside.
6th-7th: Had a successful week with
Operation Keepsake inside the classroom.
The 6th grade will be moving back into the
gym next week to finish our soccer unit and
to start talking about their teaching
assignments for the 2nd quarter.
7th Grade: will be starting into their 9
week Health class next week and parents
can monitor the curriculum and lesson
via my health website.
MUSICUPCOMING CONCERT
Come see our first performance of the year titled
Out of School and Into Nature
November 29th at North High School (NEW DATE)
2 Performance Times:6:30 pm Grade 3, Choir 5 & Band 6
7:30 pm Grade 4 & Band 7
JAZZ BAND STARTING SOON.Beginning in the 2nd Quarter.
For: 7th GradersWe will practice Tuesdays & Thursdays before school.
More information coming soon.
Art and Computer with Mrs. Withrow Crayon update: We have collected 23 pounds. Our goal is a total of 40 pounds. More than halfway there! Please send in any old crayons.
3rd and 4th: The students are working on their “Crankensteins” or “Which Witch” artwork and continued working on code.org Lessons 2-6 for Course D. Pictures have been uploaded to Artsonia! (more info to come for 3rd grade parents)5th grade: Students are working on their “Spooky Trees” and code.org. 6th grade: Students are working on their artwork using oil pastels and water colors. They are also working on their finishing touches for their websites which are due Friday, November 3rd. 7th grades: Students have been adding their finishing touches to their website that are due on Monday. They have also began experimenting with the Game Lab on code.org.
WE FAB LABMeet the Epilog Helix 50 watt Laser!
The Epilog Helix 50 watt Laser is a versatile workhorse for our Fab Lab.. It has many applications.
Students have used it to create bookmarks, coasters, building blocks and many other items.
We have engraved on glass, wood, tshirts, paper, pumpkins and even potato chips! Laser vocabulary you might hear from your child include raster, vector and hairline.
What Are SOI Kids Making?
Grade 3: Students will be engraving the rocks that they brought in as a part of their rock unit in science.
Grade 4: Students are installing and learning to use Tinkercad to get ready for a 3D printing adventure!
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Coach Legerski @mrslegerskiCoach Myers @wefabmobile
The Newest Fab LabDuring the past week and into next week, the coaches have been working hard to open the second Fab Lab at SOI.The Middle School Fab Lab has bigger and more powerful equipment to allow students to continue to develop rapid prototyping skills.We will fill you in on the newest equipment in the next few weeks!
