the school of innovation middle school spark remark
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Upcoming Events03/19 USA SOI Skate Night 6:00-8:30
03/22 Middle School Junior Achievement visit (all morning) with special guests from US Bank
03/25-03/29 SPRING BREAKNO SCHOOL
04/01 Classes Resume
04/03 LAST Marco’s Pizza Night (8th grade box night)
04/09 PTO General Meeting @ SOI 6:30 pm
04/19-04/22 EASTER BREAKNO SCHOOL
04/25 7th grade to Downtown Cleveland for Junior Achievement Career Exhibition
The School of Innovation Middle School Spark Remark
03-15-2019
AIR State Testing will be administered at SOI in April. The complete schedule will be released to all families next week so you can all plan accordingly. If you find you will be out of town for any portion of the testing, please let a coach know. We may be able to have your student take the test earlier in the testing window.
Students have been particularly absent- minded lately in regards to chromebook chargers and having chromebooks charged up and ready to use. Please remind your middle school child to have their chromebook charged and their charger labeled (if at school) or they will receive the assignment on good old-fashioned paper!
USA SKATE NIGHTOn Tuesday, March 19th, SOI will have its last USA SKATE NIGHT of the school year. Please join your friends (and bring some if you like) and enjoy free give-a-ways, request your favorite songs, and skate on the newly refinished skate surface! 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm. See you there!
PTO EVENTS
03/19/19 USA Skate Night at USA Skate 6-8:30 pm
04/03/19 Marco’s Pizza Night (8th grade box night)
04/09/19 PTO General Assembly Meeting 6:30 pm
05/17/19 End of Year Picnic at Daniel’s Park 6-8 pm
W-E School of Innovation PTO Officers
President: Erin SikoraVice-President: Craig RoweTreasurer: Hannah OrehCommunication Secretary Christine BradyRecording Secretary Dr. Stephen Atkins
Thank you for your willingness to volunteer and support our students!
http://www.wesoipto.org
W-E SOI PTO
SOI MS YEARBOOK ON SALE NOW This week SOI Middle School yearbook order forms were distributed to students. The cost of the yearbook is $13.00 and is due no later than March 22. Don’t miss the window to purchase this memory!
Tickets for Shrek the Musical are now on sale on the North High Website!
Wednesday, April 24 @7pmFriday, April 26 @ 7pm
Saturday, April 27 @ 2pmSaturday, April 27 @7pmSunday, April 28 @8pm.
Student Council Monthly Themes & Events:March: Choose Kind Middle school student will take part in kindness challenges throughout the month. They will also have opportunities to wear their t-shirt to school.
April: Middle School Dance April 26th from 6-8 at South. Student Council will be in charge of planning the dance. They will survey students to determine the theme and some music requests.
CAMP INVENTION
Camp 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: Students have requested that I make dinosaurs available for the rest of this school year. I will begin collecting for next year’s submissions.
We earned $955.00 this school year!
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.
THANK YOU!
Sixth GradeCapstone 2
Invent Our Future!
Math - Wernet: For the past week we’ve been solving simple algebra equations using our four basic operations.Wernet/Zampini: With Coach Wernet we are working on statistics and displays of stats. With Mrs. Zampini, we are continuing our study of Geometry and looking at 3D figures.Zampini: Pre-Algebra: We are looking at plane geometry this week and next. We will be moving into Formulaic Geometry next.
ELA - We took on the hot topic of “SNOW DAYS” - to have or not to have, that is the question! After reading a series of articles providing information about each side, we collected the most compelling “evidence” and composed multi-paragraph argument essays. It will be exciting to see which side presents the strongest claims during our “Great Debate!”
*New material - Poetry study!
*Reminder - The first book response of the quarter is DUE FRIDAY, March 22nd!
Welcome to the 4th Quarter! Our new theme is “Invent Our Future.” We will be looking at how people
have created communities and invented new technologies to enhance their world. Each of us is an inventor waiting for our inspiration!
Social Studies - We have moved on from our study of the MICE countries to researching types of governments. Next week we will be jigsawing and sharing our research with our classmates.
Science - We are preparing ourselves to complete Earthworm dissections next week. After Spring break we will finish life science and move into Physics.
Important Dates:March 19-21 Dissections
March 23-31 Spring BreakApril 9 & 11: ELA AIR testing
April 18 & 25: Math AIR testingApril 19-22: Easter Break
May 3: Invention Convention
Voting on the verbiage of our problem statement: “How can we as…”
Students brainstorm ideas.
It starts with an idea.
Collaborating on solvable problems in our world.
Mr. Schindler explains how his invention started as an idea, became a prototype, and is heading to market.
News and UpdatesGreece & Italy PBL Share Out: Tuesday March 19th from 10:00 to 11:30 (Rooms D/E)
All parents and/or relatives are welcome to attend!
MathMath 7:In Chapter 1, we have been working with tables, graphs, and ordered pairs. We are finding constant rates of change and slope. Finally, we will finish the chapter by looking at direct variation. Next, we will begin our study of geometry!
Pre-Algebra:Last week we finished our study of equations and inequalities. We have since moved on to studying probability. We began with the probability of simple events, such as rolling a 4 or 6 on a number cube and so forth. We are also studying the difference between theoretical and experimental probability. We use these theoretical probabilities to help predict what to expect given a certain number of trials in our experiments of flipping a coin, rolling dice, and spinning spinners.
Math 8:Students learned how to reflect, rotate, translate and dilate a figure on the coordinate plane. They are able to perform these transformations without graphing. Students also demonstrated master of performing a sequence of multiple transformations. Next week, they will be working with finding the volume of 3D figures.
Algebra I:Students know four ways to find the solutions of a quadratic function: quadratic formula, finding the roots, completing the square, and factoring. They also can predict the number of solutions by using the discriminant. Now students are learning how to use a table to determine if a function is linear, exponential, or quadratic.
ELA Argumentative reading passages and writing were still the focus of these last few weeks. Students completed a “research challenge” to visually represent their assigned section of the argumentative essay. After the presentations students played a Kahoot review game. This week students are applying their knowledge of the argumentative essay by completing the district 3rd quarter writing assessment. The prompt required students to support their stance on dancing competitions based off of 2 reading passages.
Social Studies We are studying Christianity this chapter and how
the Roman Empire played a role in the spread of its beliefs. We began the chapter by learning about Judaism in the Roman Empire, before we delve deeper and study what is generally agreed to be known about Jesus of Nazareth and the growth of Christianity. We analyze the five main events that helped steer the development of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Lastly, we studied how Christianity organized itself in the early church.
ScienceStudents are learning about weather. Students made a snowstorm, tornado and a rainstorm in a bottle. They also made a cloud in a bottle and a thunderstorm in a plastic shoebox. Students learned about weather instruments, fronts, and pressure system. They also can determine the difference between weather and climate. Next students will be exploring the concept of climate change.
PBL/Engineering We are ready to wrap up our latest PBL!!! Students are currently finalizing their presentations for our presentation of learning session on TUESDAY MARCH 19th from 10:00 to 11:30am in rooms D/E. Students working with Coach Legerski on vein finders are making progress on the electrical component. Some groups have fully functioning lights right now!
8th GRADE
ELAStudents have been concentrating on persuasive writing for the past 2 weeks. Our focus is on renewable energy and which would be the most appropriate for Northeast Ohio. This is a connection to our Solar & Wind PBL which we have just started. The focus on this paper is persuasive techniques, audience, organization, editing and revising.
SOCIAL STUDIES● Students will be taking their District
S.L.O Test this month. ● Students are working in centers to work
on Jacksonian Era.Listed below are the stations students have been working on:
●Station #1: Nearpod on Spoils System.●Station #2: Postcard on Indian Removal
Act and Trail of Tears.●Station #3: Password on the National
Bank and Tariff of Abominations.●Station #4: Table on American System.
SCIENCE ● We wrapped up lessons 5.1-5.3.● Students can:
○ Differentiate the terms mitosis and meiosis; Asexual and Sexual Reproduction.
○ Differentiate Asexual and Sexual Reproduction.
○ Explain how traits are inherited.■ Completed a Trait analysis lab
creating an offspring based on chance.
■ We extracted DNA from a strawberry and observed it under a microscope.
● We started our PBL combing classes with ELA!
Algebra
● Completed the Q3 Benchmark on Thursday● Right now we are in the middle of Chapter
9 and are working with Quadratics Functions. Students are using factoring and methods such as “completing the square” and “vertex form” to find the solutions to quadratics.
● Next quiz will be Wednesday or Thursday of next week!
Geometry● Completed the Q3 Benchmark on Thursday● We are working on Chapter 12 (Circles).
Students are using many properties of triangles and lines to solve problems involving circles.
● Next quiz will be Wednesday or Thursday of next week!
Math 8● Completed the Q3 Benchmark on Friday.● We finished working on the Pythagorean
Theorem and Distance on Wednesday.● We will be working on Translations next
week.● Next quiz will be on Thursday or Friday next
week!
SPANISH
Hola We had a great couple of weeks..
We continued on learning new stories, and comprehending the questions and answering in Spanish with the stories. As well as learning about the different activities the people of Spain do in Tarragona Spain in building Castelles.
See the pictures below:
PBL TIMEIt’s finally here! Our Solar & Wind PBL! Students will have the opportunity to create the fastest solar car or a wind turbine with the strongest output of energy. Teams will compete with each other. The top 5 teams from each category will travel to Cleveland State University, on May 16th, to compete with other schools. More detailed information will follow as we get closer.
Grade 8 is Great!
SOI ENCORE PAGE
P.E NEWS
Middle School Health ( 6th and 7th Grades: The 6th Grade P.E. Classes will be taking a week out of class participating in out Operation Keepsake week. A representative from Operation Keepsake will be meeting with the 6th and 7th grades individually for the next 5 days. The goal of this week is for the students to learn how to develop strong relationships with their peers. Some of the topics that will be discussed will be healthy decision making, risk avoidance, communication and assertiveness skills necessary to develop strong character and relationships. A letter was passed out last week and sent home, with more details on the weeks activities.
Mrs. [email protected]
6th Grade Computers/Art: Students finished up their websites this
past week. We are now ready to start Art for the 4th Quarter!!!
8th grade Art and Design: The students are finishing up their own
Mandala Art and making sure everything is turned in for the end of the quarter. Please remember to save lids. If you could wash and send in we would appreciate it!
MUSIC NEWS
Our Spring Concert will be our final concert of the year. It will be at South on May 9th beginning at 6:30. It will feature:
3rd & 4th Grade on Recorders5th Grade Band6th Grade Band
Writing/Book Club
Writers just finished a narrative in-the-round. Ask them about Agent #7. Next up, a story with a mix-up.
Our group will continue to meet on Wednesdays from 2:45-3:45 in the loft.
DRAMA NEWS!
Students performed the Aristocats play for the Middle School on Friday February 15th. It was a great performance and Coach Royko was very proud of the actors and their hard work! A special THANK YOU goes out to the stage crew and all the supportive family members!
App Creators
8th Grade Unit 1
The app creators are back into pair programming. We are currently developing 2.4 which is an app that collects data about the flu and how many cases. We are now creating and adding to lists and will soon be using databases to store bits of info for a longer term. Don’t forget that documentation.
7th Grade (code.org)
We just started the 4th grading period, so there is a whole new group of 7th graders. We will be game coding using code.org and by the end of the unit (school year), the students will be required to create their own video game.
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