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Fernway School
An IB Candidate
School
Fernway School“Welcome to the Fernway Family”
– One of five K-4 Buildings: Boulevard, Fernway, Mercer, Lomond, Onaway
– Built in 1927– 15 Classrooms, 3 per grade level– Over 350 students – 37 staff members
The Mission of the Schools
The District will nurture, educate, and graduate
students who are civic-minded
and prepared to make ethical decisions;
who are confident, competent communicators,
skillful in problem solving, capable of creative thinking;
who have a career motivation and a knowledge of our
global and multicultural society.
Our Mission: Civic-minded, ethical students
• Student Mediation• Student Group on Race
Relations (SGORR) makes annual visits to the 4th grade
• Family Service Projects
Our Mission: Confident, competent communicators
• Curriculum centered on effective and varied expression
• Readers Theater• Reading groups• Writers Workshop• Kindergarten Journaling• Performances
Our Mission:Skilled Problem Solvers
• Curriculum-centered problem solving
• Chess Club• Enrichment Programs • International Baccalaureate
programme• Successmaker computer program• Science Lab field trips
Our Mission:Creative Thinkers• Curriculum centered on
creative outcomes of learning
• Music and Art classes• Art Club• 3rd grade Musical • 4th grade Poetry Play
Our Mission:Career Motivated Students
• Scientist in the schools
• Parent career visits and volunteerism
Our Mission:Global and Multicultural Knowledge
• Mandarin Chinese taught weekly
• International mindedness a focus of IB
The Mission of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IB)
“The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right."
Transdisciplinary Themes • Who we are• Where we are in place and time• How we express ourselves• How the world works• How we organize ourselves• Sharing the planet
Learner attitudes and attributes
Attribute of the week:
Inquirers!
I am curious. I ask questions. I enjoy learning
new things about my world.
Some of our essential agreements
Some of our wonder walls
Featured Country:
• The first Australians were a people known today as Aborigines. The Aborigines may have lived in Australia for as long as 50,000 years.
• Australia has more kangaroos than people.
Resources:
Australia• Australia is the only country that is also a continent.
• Australia is often called “Down Under.” This is because the land lies entirely within the Southern Hemisphere, the half of Earth that lies south of the equator.
Previous Kindergarten IB UnitWho We AreNew places, New Faces!
Central Idea: People find out more about themselves and others by trying new things and making new friends.
Previous Kindergarten IB UnitHow We Organize Ourselves
Helpers and Tools
Central Idea: People use signs and tools to communicate, organize and stay safe.
Previous Kindergarten IB UnitSharing the Planet
Peace, peeps!
Central Idea: Conflicts can be solved peacefully.
Current Kindergarten IB UnitHow We Express Ourselves
Story Time
Central Idea: Stories help people discover and show their ideas and feelings.
Previous 1st Grade IB Unit
Who We AreDude!
Central Idea: People build relationships with families, friends and within communities.
Previous 1st Grade IB Unit
Sharing the PlanetKeep Living Things Alive
Central Idea: Living things survive in habitats that people can protect.
Previous1st Grade IB Unit
How We Organize OurselvesDo You Really Need That?
Central Idea: Each person fulfills his/her needs and wants by selecting different goods and services.
Current 1st Grade IB Unit
How the World Works
Matter? It Matters!
Central Idea: Liquids and solids can change temperature, shape, and direction.
Previous 2nd grade IB UnitWho We AreChoices!
Central Idea: People make choices in various settings and their actions have a consequence.
Previous 2nd grade IB UnitHow We Organize OurselvesMoney Matters
Central Idea: People use money in ways that have a powerful impact on the world.
Previous 2nd grade IB UnitHow the World WorksChange, Change, Change!
Central Idea: Many events in the natural world occur with predictable change.
Current 2nd grade IB UnitSharing the Planet
The Power of Habitats
Central Idea: Living things impact the environment in which they live. The environment also impacts living things.
Previous 3rd Grade IB Unit
How We Organize OurselvesTEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More
Central Idea: Members if communities collaborate to establish and implement organizational systems.
Previous 3rd Grade IB Unit
Where We Are in Time and PlaceCulture Club
Central Idea:Cultures exhibit both change and continuity across time and place.
Previous 3rd Grade IB Unit
Who We AreProblem? No Problem!
Central Idea:People develop and acquire skills to solve problems.
Current 3rd Grade IB Unit
How We Express Ourselves
Tell Me Your Story!
Central Idea:People have always been and will always be storytellers.
Previous 4th Grade IB Unit
Who We AreInvestigate, Innovate!
Central Idea: Technology and innovations impact people’s well-being.
Previous 4th Grade IB Unit
How We Express OurselvesDigging for Information
Central Idea: Artifacts provide evidence about the events that happen in history.
Previous 4th Grade IB Unit
Where We Are in Time & PlaceMoving On!
Central Idea: People immigrate and migrate because of challenges and opportunities.
Current 4th Grade IB Unit
How We Organize Ourselves
Justice For All!
Central Idea: Decisions promote or denyequal opportunities and social justice.
Inquiry ~ a driving force to our learning!
Action
Fernway School…
changing the world one action
at a time!
February Birthdays
Alexis Akins Anna Dillenbeck Emma Khayat Samuel PeronLissan Aklog Marissa Garrett-Morris Peter Khayat Hannah PerssonTyerra Brooks William Glasper Maeve Lipman Kaden PulleyCaroline Connell Megan Hahnenberg Liam MacGilvray Colin RichardLucy Dale Cody Head Tre Martin Sam SmolskyCameron Dial Taylor Hollis Rayvon Penney Jackson Wiebe
Upcoming and recent fieldtrips!• 2/4 - Hassell – Planetarium• 2/4 - Paskewitz – North Chagrin• 2/6 - Berggrun - North Chagrin• 2/7 - Harden – Planetarium• 2/7 - Paskewitz – Art Museum• 2/13 - Hayduk – Planetarium• 2/13 - Lewis – North Chagrin• 2/13 - Berggrun – Art Museum• 2/14 - Hassell – Art Museum
Fernway Important Dates!
•2/7 Grade 4 Mixer for Girls 6:30pm Woodbury•2/9 Pancake Breakfast 8:00am•2/13 Grade 4 Mixer for Boys 6:30pm Woodbury•2/14 Valentine’s Day Activities 2:30pm•2/18 Presidents’ Day (School closed)•2/21 Professional Day (No classes)•2/22 Conference Day (No classes)•2/28 Grade 3 Musical
$6 per person – all you can eat
(kids 4 & under eat free)Pancakes, sausage, fruit, juice
& coffee
50/50 raffle & door prizes
Dancing with Damon from 9-11 am
Bring a friend AND a nonperishable food item to benefit the Cleveland Food
Bank
PTO News!ABC School Donation Program
Support Fernway School While You Shop!
Sign up for a Heinen’s Preferred Customer Card and register for the Tasteful Rewards program.
Select (or reselect) FERNWAY as the school of choice at www.heinensrewards.com!
Heinen’s will make a donation of 1% of your purchase to PTO.
PTO News!
Earn box tops for Fernway by shopping online!
Target, Gap, Crate & Barrel, and hundreds of other online retailers offer box tops with every purchase when you shop
through the Box Tops Marketplace.
Sign up to support Fernway at www.btfe.com
PTO News!Show Your Fernway Spirit!Fernway car magnets now
available!
Want another way to show your Fernway pride?
Fernway car magnets are now available for $2.
The magnets will be available for purchase at PTO events, along with your favorite Fernway spirit
wear.
Front Back
$10 kids $12 adults
Kindergarten
1st Grade
2nd Grade
3rd Grade
4th Grade