Week of October 4-8

Hello Everyone,

We had another great week last week. Students are getting organized with their excel sheets and have started to write daily reflections about their perceptions of the "OH experience" to share on personal blogs.

Here is this week's update:

Things to ask your student about:

• High School: What book did you select to read and write a literary analysis of?
  

• Middle School and Elementary: What did you take away from the field experience with Chef Nelson?
  

PBL update:

• We are starting formal presentations of our PBL work this week. Students will be working with Randy on how to present effectively before the presentations later this week. We also are excited to have several students traveling with Tim to Macon Georgia to present their guided PBL project.
  

Daily Reflective Blogs:

• This week I will be sharing your child's blog address with you to allow you to check in on what they have to say about OH each day.
  

Field Experience Update:

• Our trip to Chef Nelson's was amazing. The students cooked an incredible meal from start to finish including a scrumptious dessert. This week they will be taking the experience and doing either some writing about it or turning it in to a PBL project. What they do with what they experienced on the trip will be their choice with Randy facilitating the process as needed.
  

Testing update:

• We have a few make up ITBS to do this week. Once they are all completed and scored I will be sending your child's scores to you. I am also happy to sit and go over the scores and explain what they mean once all students have completed the testing.
  

Fundraising meetings update:

• The students met Thursday 9/30 to come up with a mission statement to present to the parent fundraising group.
  

• Parents will meet again this Friday 10/8 at Amavida at 9:00am. Our main task at this point is coordination of the "Hall- OH- ween" scarecrow fundraiser.
  

Extra Help/Time:

• Lots of students have taken advantage of coming early and staying late to get extra help. Thank you for taking the time to get your child to school a bit early or picking them up a bit later if they want to take advantage of some extra help.
  

November Calendar Dates:

• We have updated the calendar to add the dates that OH will be closed in November. These dates are: Thursday 11/4, Friday 11/12 and Friday 11/19.

• We have tentatively set 11/14 for a music and design showcase. The students will perform their songs from the Rock and Roll Academy and feature their design work.
  

December travel window:

• Please start making your plans now for travel and field experiences in the three weeks in December. We need to have everything arranged by mid October to be able to plan the students project work and start building background knowledge on their topics.
  

Attitudes of gratitude:

• Thank you to all the parents that came to Chef Nelson's with us (Lettye, Mel, and Paige)!!! Thank you Rhonda for the great "Hall-OH-ween" fundraiser idea to start us raising some money for our trip!!!
  

"Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. "

John Dewey

Alex and Hanna W. we missed you this week and are looking forward to hearing about your adventures away from OH! Mira we cannot wait to see your car!

Amy