Ready to present!I just got back from a fun afternoon of watching what I call the "OH magic" happen with our community. This afternoon many of the students and parents gathered to build our very own scarecrOH for our scarecrOH lane fundraiser. The theme that they decided on was a corpse bride and she was looking pretty great by the time I left.
It is so nice to be working with a group of students and parents that pull together in so many ways. I am constantly blown away by the "OH magic!"
Here is this week's update:
Things to ask your student about:
- High School: Which side of the hybrid car argument did you chose for your paper and why?
- Middle School: What is your current social studies PBL?
- Elementary: What has playing the game Spore helped you learn this past week in science, social studies and language arts?
- Four middle school students defended their learning about tarantulas this past Friday and if you were there you know that they set the bar very high for future students to present. I was so impressed not only by their presenting skills but also by the variety of their presentation. This group of students held on to the audience's attention from start to finish and proved that they knew their stuff when it came to their science standards. BRAVO!!!
- This Thursday Nathan will be presenting his Great Depression project.
- Next group up for presenting will be the high school students and their hybrid car project.
- 10th and some 11th grade students will be taking the PSAT this Wednesday at South Walton High School.
- Please let me know ASAP if your student will be traveling to Costa Rica with us. We need to let the tour company know numbers.
- I am still planning on sharing your child's blog address with you. High school has added a new post to their blog focused on their weekly literary reflections.
- High school has submitted some ideas for a field experience and I will be working on getting something together for them in the next few weeks.
- We have one more make up exam to administer and once that is complete I will work on compiling scores to send home.
- The students met Thursday 10/7 with Tim to work on tweaking the mission statement and think about ideas for ScarecrOH lane. They will meet again 10/14 at 8:00am.
- Parents will meet this Friday 10/15 at Amavida at 9:00am. This meeting will focus on deciding on and making a timeline for the rest of the year's fundraisers. If you were suppose to be following up on an idea please be prepared with information to share at this meeting.
- Remember that we are here to help if you feel like your student is getting behind or you need help understanding anything. Please let us know if you feel like there is something that your child (or you) needs.
- This is the week that we need to know what your tentative December plans are. Please send me an email letting me know what your child's schedule will be and where they are traveling during those weeks. This will allow us to start personalizing project work for their December trips.
- Thank you to Mason, Hannah B., Mitchell, Davis and Alyssa for a phenomenal tarantula project!! You have set the bar high!! Thank you Amy and George Corchis for donating the first ScarecrOH for our students to decorate!!!Thank you to Denise for getting so many lovely accessories for our corpse bride, she looks marvelous! Thank you Lettye for being our "back up plan" for our scarecrOH building on Sunday!!!
"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."
— Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
Alyssa, feel better soon! Leah we hope that you knee heals quickly!
Amy
— Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
Alyssa, feel better soon! Leah we hope that you knee heals quickly!
Amy
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