TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS CHRONICLE
VOL. 4 NO. 10
PRINCIPAL'S CORNER
WEEK ENDING IN 10/15/2021
Dear OSES Families,
Thank you for another wonderful week at Orlando Science!
Picture retake day is coming up next week on the 19th. If you did not get your picture taken on picture day, you can take it on this day. Please be sure to be in uniform.
Grades K-5 will be taking their growth monitoring assessment next week. We wish everyone good luck!
The OSHS UNICEF Club is holding a Trunk or Treat for all OSS students grades K through 12. The event will take place on Thursday, October 28th, 2021 from 5pm to 7pm in the Building 1 & 2 parking lot. Please see below for more information.
Be sure to vote below for your favorite fall door in our school's door decorating contest! Winners will be chosen on the 20th.
Hope you enjoy this week's newsletter and have a wonderful weekend!
Mr. Singleton, Principal
SCHOOL NEWS AND UPCOMING EVENTS
OCTOBER CALENDAR
TRUNK OR TREAT
The OSHS UNICEF Club is holding a Trunk or Treat for all OSS students grades K through 12. The event will take place on Thursday, October 28th, 2021 from 5pm to 7pm in the Building 1 & 2 parking lot. There will be decorated cars for trick or treating, a raffle, games, food, and so much more. Proceeds will go to UNICEF’s WASH efforts in Haiti.
Tickets are $5 for participating students and includes all of the games and trick-or-treating. Food, raffle tickets and snacks will be available for additional purchase. Supervising adults and children under 5 are FREE. TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE on 10/22.
Any form of Halloween donations are highly appreciated by the club. If you would like to donate any items for the event, please use the sign-up genius link below. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D45ABAC2EA7FCC43-unicef
We are so excited for you all to join us for a whole lot of SPOOK-tacular fun!
BOOK FAIR
NEXT WEEK FOR LUNCH
FALL DOOR DECORATING CONTEST
Please see the link below to vote for the door decorating contest for building 1 & 2.
The link will close Wednesday the 20th and winners will be announced.
THIS WEEK IN GRADES K-6
KINDERGARTEN
This week in Kindergarten we got a little “Batty” and explored creatures at night!!! We learned how bats are still animals and drink milk. They also have fingers and thumbs. We also learned that they drop down to help them fly!!!
Finally we had a great time finishing our AR Parties and glowed our way to success!!!
FIRST
SECOND
THIRD
FOURTH
This week in fourth grade we determined differences between chemical and physical changes. In Mr. Nemcik’s class, students mixed steel wool, baking soda, and vinegar to observe that changes in color, smell, and temperature were indicators of chemical change. Mrs. Ferguson and Mr. Nemcik’s classes rounded decimals to the tenths and hundredths. We will use this knowledge to complete a real world challenge next week. All classes completed Drop Everything and Write on Monday as we begin preparing for this year’s FSA writing test.
FIFTH
SIXTH
In Turkish, Students have finished chapter 3 and they have worked with a partner to create their flipgrid recording video. I got amazing works from my students and please see the link below for one example.
We also had a guest speaker two weeks ago in our class. She is an artist who can perform cultural art; water marbling. students got a chance to learn more about Ebru (water marbling) and they have created their own art.
https://flipgrid.com/s/hSyyxCQ-5mFy
In Dawkins’ Math, students are celebrating Global Math Week by creating Math is… posters. Students are continuing to write their own word problems (relevant to sixth-grade life) for adding, subtracting, multiplying decimals. Presentations will begin soon. Standards for extending the number line will be covered over the next few weeks.
In World History, the students have been exploring Ancient Egypt! We’re beginning with the Old Kingdom and mythology!
Physical Education:
We have started the 2nd quarter with the Flag Football unit. The students taught each other how to throw a ball with a “Spiral.” We also did some math problems with the throwing and catching football skills.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the sixth-grade choir has put together a performance of a song in Spanish and English about the coquí, a small frog native to Puerto Rico. Link to the video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15hu8Q0kobX1MouXjoXjbZ-IxIPOmJS91/view?usp=sharing
In our 6th grade general music class, we competed in the Pitch Olympics this week. Students competed in teams to complete a variety of games and activities using their music reading and playing skills.
SPECIALS
This week in Computer Science, kindergarten students learnt how to use arrows on keyboard. First and second graders made a Robot using shapes in
Microsoft Word. 3rd-5th graders started to work on Coding and they worked on Code.org to complete an hour of code activity.
DROP EVERYTHING AND WRITE
CHARACTER OF THE MONTH
CONTESTS AND CHALLENGES
GLOBAL MATH PROJECT
This week is Global Math Week. Here are some ways you can celebrate as a family:
Create Math Is posters – please email your poster to Mrs. Trujillo.
Create a comic, story, or joke about math so they can be shared with the Natural Math website and Dr. Maria, the creator of Math Storytelling Day.
Your family may attend one of the live Zoom sessions about Exploding Dots in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Girls in 3rd – 6th grade may sign up for the Girls Math Competition. It will be online this year.
Children in 1st-12th may sign up for the Math Kangaroo Competition. There is an online option as well as in person option (AM and PM) this year. It will be held at Orlando Science Elementary for the in-person option.
Your family can explore the Exploding Dots islands.
As a family, work on the Code Breaker.
Play a math game on Legends of Learning. Please email Mrs. Trujillo for your child’s username and password.
Play games or work on math fact fluency on Sumdog.
Play math games on Go Math.
CLUBS AND AFTERSCHOOL ACTIVITIES
CLUBS
Hello families!
Please remember that you should not arrive on campus before clubs dismiss. Even coming 5 minutes early causes backups in our dismissal process.
- Building 1 (grades K-3) - clubs dismiss at 3:40 during the week and 2:40 on Wednesday
- Building 2 (grades 4-6)- clubs dismiss at 3:30 during the week and 2:30 on Wednesday
For club requests please email Ms. Gardella at Courtney.gardella@orlandoscience.org
Thank you so much for all of your support and we hope that you child enjoys clubs this year!
PARENT INFORMATION CORNER
AFTERCARE
If you have any questions regarding aftercare, please email Jessica.Rosario@orlandoscience.org.
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