Weekly Schedule

01/30 BLUE DAY

01/31 GREEN DAY

02/01 WHITE DAY Workout Wednesday (wear workout clothes)

02/02 BLUE DAY Hat Day

02/03 GREEN DAY Superbowl Sports Day (Wear your favorite sports team clothes)

News and Notes● Congratulations to Zach Kelbach for placing 2nd in the

W-E School District Spelling Bee. Zach was the youngest competitor and we are looking for greatness from him in the future! Way to represent the SPARKS!

● February at SOI will be FUN FEBRUARY. Look for an e-mail with a calendar of FUN events coming early next week!

● The W-E SOI PTO Oscar Night fundraiser is happening soon. More information is on the next page!

● We had visits from St. Vincent DePaul schools (Akron area), and Dublin City Schools (Columbus Area) this week. They were very impressed with our students, staff, and building. STEM means sharing ideas, and SOI is STEM!

The SOI Spark Remark

POPCORN, GET YOUR POPCORN

DATES: February 3, February 10

POPCORN is $0.25 CENTS a bag!

W-E SOI Parent-Teacher OrganizationGENERAL MEMBERSHIP

MEETINGS - all are invited!

First Tuesday each month at 6:30 pm February 7th

March 7thApril 4thMay 2nd

On Saturday, February 18th, 2017, enjoy an adults-only night out while supporting the Willoughby-Eastlake School of Innovation's PTO. Your Night at the Oscars includes dinner, open bar, a reverse raffle and more. Every $50 ticket includes the following: Open bar, beer, wine, and liquor, sit down dinner with salad, rolls, chicken, pasta, vegetables, and dessert, and one reverse raffle ticket

Schedule: 6:00 pm Doors open, 7:00 pm Dinner is served

Throughout the night: 50/50 raffle (You do not need to be present to win), Chinese raffles, Reverse raffle and more!

Purchase all of your tickets today at http://www.wesoipto.org/event.cfm?id=2

Notes from The Office

The 2016-2017 School of Innovation yearbooks are on sale now! The deadline to buy the yearbook is February 17th. Yearbooks will be delivered in May, but you MUST buy them now! A flyer was sent home and a document is attached to the Spark Remark e-mail. Questions? Call Mrs. Igarashi at 440-942-1525.

SOI YEARBOOKS ON SALE NOW!

SOI SWAP SHOPThe School of Innovation SWAP SHOP is currently taking donations from families. If you have gently worn uniform clothes that no longer fit your child, and want to donate them, please wash them, bag the item(s), and send them in with your student. Make sure you put your child’s name on the bag so we can give you credit for when the shop opens up for people to come and pick from the inventory (in a few weeks). Thank you for your support!

THIRD GRADE HAPPENINGSUpdated 1/27/17

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SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES- Inherited vs Acquired Characteristics of Animals and Themselves- Life Cycles of different animals- Tri-Venn diagram comparing and contrasting life cycles

- Responsibilities of citizens- Studying local government

ELA MATH- Reading Skills- Characteristics of poetry and writing an I AM poem- Grammar Skills- Verbs- Writing Skills- Informational Writing- End of unit assessment to track progress

Mrs. R. and Mrs. Wadsworth- Division Strategies- using place value

strategies to help divide- Interpreting remaindersMrs. Reed- Distributive Property- breaking

apart larger numbers to make them easier to work with

- Associative Property- changing the order of numbers to make them easier to multiply

THIS AND THAT- Mark your calendars for our Field Trip on Feb 13. We will be visiting some

local government buildings in the cities of Willoughby and Willoughby Hills. Permission slips will be coming home next week!

- DOJO or EMAIL?? M:any of you have asked, what is the best way to contact our 3rd grade team now that we are using Class Dojo. We ask that you continue to send all three teachers emails when you have a question. If you have a quick dojo question, feel free to use to the chat feature. If your question is about anything else, please email us and be sure to include all 3 team members!

WHAT TO ASK AT HOME...

● What is the difference between an inherited and acquired characteristic? ● What animal are you hoping to use for your upcoming animal report?● What are some of the notes that you found for your animal report?

4th Grade UpdateUpdated 1/27/17

Science/Social Studies TECHNOLOGY/ENGINEERING/ PBL

In social studies, the students are learning about the Northwest Ordinance. They’ve been using the Social Studies Weekly newspaper as a reference.

Heat energy was the focus in science class this week. We learned about the ways to transfer heat through conduction, convection, and radiation. The students enjoyed participating in learning stations that displayed these concepts.

This week we started our new PBL on health and wellness.. We will be partnering with Lake Health as we explore:Why is it important to establish habits that promote a healthy lifestyle? How can we inform the community and give recommendations for community members to live a healthy lifestyle?

Currently, the students are involved in making a google slides presentation on analyzing, comparing, and researching food labels on products.

ELA MATHMrs. McKito’s class has finished reading folktales and identifying theme during ELA classes. Drama will be the next genre covered in class.

Mrs. Goodrich’s and Mrs. McCullough’s class began reading the novel, The Sign of the Beaver. This historical fiction novel correlates with our Native American unit that we studied. The students are enjoying the book so far!

Mrs. Goodrich’s class continues to study patterns and order of operations. Mrs. McKito’s class has started the chapter on fractions.Mrs. McCullough’s class is almost finished up with Expressions and Patterns. The chapter test will be on Tuesday, Jan. 31st. Fractions will be the next topic.

.What to ask/discuss at home...● What was one interesting fact that you learned about nutrition labels?● What heat energy station did you enjoy the most?

The BAM FAM SOI 5th Grade 2017

STEM News: If you want to participate in this year’s Invention Convention, make sure you have your “Intent To Invent” form turned in ASAP. See Mrs. VanArnhem if you need a form or have questions related to the challenge. Next week in STEM, we are going to take a look at some of the necessary traits of engineers and explore their skills through challenges.

Highlight of the Week: Our Alien Space Lander Mission was a success….in most cases. Some of our aliens perished or definitely got a nasty bump on the head, but ultimately, our student designs were insightful and creative. Students were required to test their designs from 1’ and 2’ off the ground to see if the “aliens” would remain safely inside the lander. Some groups were able to test in the stairwell for a maximum height challenge. The aliens awarded the kids with Tootsie Pops for their outstanding efforts!

Math: Accelerated Math finished rates and ratios Ch. 1 and presented their Budget Bonanza Projects. Myers’ Math Class is learning about fraction Ch. 8 and is working on Contract #4 which is posted in Classroom..ELA: Students began writing their plays as part of our “Out of This World” PBL.. All important elements of dramas must be included, so check out the rubric on Google Classroom under ELA.Social Studies: The kids are continuing their studies of ancient civilizations…..Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas, including a CSI Investigation about what happened to the Mayans. Science: We are studying the planets in our solar system. The Solar System Unit Test is next Thursday.

Next week the students will read class novel or work on comparing viewpoints, present day “Mesopotamia” and learn about the different organelles in a cell.

Moving forward next week:

BirthdaysKenny (Jan. 30);WIll Y & Se’amus (Feb 2)Peter & Vyas (Feb 4)Zoey D (Feb 6); Alex C, Mrs. Zampini (Feb 10);Logan (Feb 15); Mark S (Feb 21); Wyatt & Ella (Feb 23)

For a more complete list of weekly happenings, don’t forget to check ClassDojo for the daily agendas.

Sixth Grade Life Today

● What has been your favorite Newsela article that you have read?

● What crime did your organelle commit?

● What impact did the construction of the Aswan High Dam have on Egypt?

Students are discussing the novel “A Long Walk to Water.” All students will be reading this novel if they aren’t yet!

Artsonia Link: www.artsonia.com

Classes are working on learning how to zentangle.

The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. Almost anyone can use it to create beautiful images. It increases focus and creativity, provides artistic satisfaction along with an increased sense of personal well being.

SOI ENCORE PAGE

Phys Ed

THe 3rd and 4th grades started this week into our month long review of the Ohio Physical Education Standards before we start testing mid March. The students have been working on Standard 1 & 2 and all the benchmarks for movement patterns and using manipulatives to perform fitness movements and skills. The students have been demonstrating these movements within our hockey unit. The 3rd and 4th grade we challenged with a series of stations to practice the standards and the hockey skills of dribbling, passing, and shooting the hockey puck. Movement towards mastery of these skills will continue thru this unit and going forward into 2017.

5th & 6th: Have moved into game play with hockey and are showing great progress with their skills and good sportsmanship. The classes were divided into competitive teams and are working on standards 1, 3, and 4 ( Manipulatives, movement patterns, and personal responsibility/teamwork.

MUSICCONCERTS IN MAY!!!

We have official times and

locations for our spring

concerts:

4th Grade & 6th Grade Band

Monday, May 1

North HS 7:00

3rd & 5th Grade

Tuesday, May 9

.South HS 7:00

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