Technology Campus Chronicle
Vol. 3 No. 21
Principal's Corner
The Week Ending 1/24/20
Dear OSES Technology Campus Families,
Congratulations to the following students who are finalists for the Orange County STEM Fair:
Sarina Shah-Engineering
Rita Bennani Sanchez- Engineering
Anum Ali- Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emily Armao- Plant Sciences
Zara Serrano Diaz-Biomedical & Health Sciences
Moonish Badaloo-Earth & Environmental Sciences
Shrey Trivedi- Earth & Environmental Sciences
Sophia Hosein-Environmental Engineering
Monish Saravana Kumar Divya Sundari-Physics & Astronomy
Shiva Patel- Biomedical & Health Sciences
Sincerely,
Michael Singleton
lost and found!
All lost and found items will be placed at the front desk in building 2 next week. If your child is missing any items, please come in and look at what we have. Any items that aren't claimed by the end of the week will be donated.
The Technology Campus is incredibly thankful for all of our faithful readers, and for that we would like to reward our families. Moving forward we will have a NEWSLETTER QUIZ located under the Principal's corner.
Dress down passes will be rewarded to the students who receive a 100% on the quiz for that week!
We hope that you have fun, and enjoy reading this week's edition! Entries are due the morning of Monday, February 3rd
stem fair
All students at our school are completed a STEM Fair project this year.
Kindergarteners and first graders turned in their trifolds on Monday. The second graders will turn in their trifolds on Monday, January 27th. All of the STEM Fair files are available online: http://bit.ly/stemfair1920. The second grade trifolds will be scored with the checklist. We look forward to seeing all of the projects!
The fourth graders are required to turn in a tri-fold as well as a digital notebook for their experiment. The checklist attached is an example of how a project will be graded. More information may be found in the attached file.
The 4th grade digital books are due on February 3rd. The trifolds are due on February 10th. Please turn the board in to your teacher. Please upload the digital notebook here: http://bit.ly/stemfairnotebooks
Please let me know if you have any questions about the STEM Fair project.
Kindergarten
This week in Kindergarten we took a journey through the galaxies!!! We explored how planets were formed, what they are made of and if there are planets that are habitable. We wrote about life would be like on another planet, how long it would take for us to get to this planet and if aliens are real.
We had a great time jumping through galaxies with space numbers!! We hope to return to our home planet soon!
First Grade
Second Grade
Third Grade
Mrs. Sokoloff’s class has worked very hard on our early explorer project. We are continuing to work on our informative essays with our writing buddies.
Please remember to register for Saturday Leadership Academy
Third grade had an awesome time celebrating our students that made their AR goal on January 10th. The Harry Potter room was a huge success!
Fourth Grade
Fourth Grade has had a productive week this week! Mrs. Michaud’s class has been hard at work comparing literature to multimedia productions, learning about customary measurement conversions, algebraic equations, or the Pythagorean Theorem in Math, classifying minerals in Science, and transportation in post-Reconstruction Florida in Social Studies. In addition, Mrs. Michaud’s class has also started a fun unit on solving Rubik’s cubes in class this week!
Don’t forget, to celebrate having 80 more days until 5th grade, 4th grade is having a 1980s Dress Down Day on Monday (January 27)! We can’t wait to see all of the creative, colorful outfits!
Lastly, invitations for Saturday Leadership Academy were sent out. SLA is a great way to help your child prepare for FSA through a targeted review of tough standards! Please remember to register if you received an invitation for your child.
Fifth Grade
Sixth Grade
In our study of Ancient Greece, we spent time discussing the differences between life in Athens and Sparta. We should wrap up our study of Greece next week!
Congratulations to all our 6th grade students who are finalists for their science fair projects. Their projects were displayed at the Middle School Science Fair Lynx Campus on Thursday, January 23rd.
Student Finalist for the Middle School Science Fair:
Sarina Shah
Rita Bennani Sanchez
Anum Ali
Emily Armao
Zara Serrano Diaz
Moonish Badaloo
Shrey Trivedi
Cole Rasmy
Sophia Hosein
Arav Shah
Monish Saravana Kumar Divya Sundari
Gavin Tucker
Shiva Patel
Their projects will all be displayed at the Technology Campus K-6 School Fair as well on February 28th along with the group class project done by Amira Dyer, Jhanvi Khan and Anuj Parekh.
specials
Calling All Scientist!!!!!!
The Curtis Rising Stars Science Challenge introduces young students to science competitions and helps them develop teamwork skills. The competition is open to students in Grades K–5, K-2 will be on February 1st and 3-5 on February 15th. The competition starts at 9 and ends around 2:30-3.
Students are first prepared through pre-activities and prompts with their class at school. The experience culminates in the day-long competition at the Orlando Science Center, when students put their STEM skills into practice.
Parents are to stay with their student at the Orlando Science Center during the competition. At the end of the competition, your family will have access to the Science Center for the rest of the day!
We have the ability to have three groups of 4 students per grade level.
The sign up is listed below.
https://www.signupgenius.com/tabs/53174D804AEC3EBC60-curtis
If you have any questions please contact Ms.Coy!
SECME Regional UCF
The following students will be representing Orlando Science at the SECME Regionals on February 15th at UCF: Soha, Mahie, Aidan, Nasser, Sanjana, Zuhair, Braylon, Srihitha, Helena, Dhruv, Nischinth, Jacoby, Parth, Aditya, Caralyn, Rita, Sai, Hamiska, Shiva, Anvesha, Monish, and Samuel. Our teams are competing in Essay/Vision Board, Codecraft, Math, Water Bottle Rocket, Mousetrap Car, Glider, and Banner. We wish them luck and can’t wait to see them compete!
steam night
One lucky student was awarded a gift bag from Microsoft priced at over $75!
math competition winners
Kindergarten: Eshan (1st) Sidh (2nd), Ashar (3rd)
First Grade: Nikhil (1st), Nader (2nd), Ava (3rd),
Second Grade: Giovanna (1st), Alec (2nd), Phinesse (3rd), Donovan (4th)
Third Grade: Kharem (1st), Viviene (1st), Riddhi (2nd), Peyton (3rd), Veronica (4th)
Fourth Grade: Srihitha (1st), Arshee (2nd), Akkaash (3rd)
Fifth Grade: Aditya (1st), Mahie (1st), Jordyn (2nd), Nasser (2nd), Parth (3rd)
Sixth Grade: Shiva (1st), Ricardo (2nd), Jackson (3rd), Merry (4th)
Overall Winners: Aditya and Mahie
staff commendations/staff character of the month
Do you appreciate what staff members do for our students? Would you like to say THANK YOU to a staff member in our school?
We are giving you the best way to do it!
Recognize any staff member(s) by giving them commendations using the following link. These messages can mean the world for a staff member and will help increase motivation.
Ms. Hurley and Mr. Lawrence both go out of their way to make sure that the learning that happens in their classroom is engaging and memorable. They both also are innovative and take on additional challenges in order for their students to the best year possible. Their innovative and positive spirits rub off on all the rest of us and we appreciate their contributions to our school. Orlando Science Schools would like to recognize both of them as the Staff Character of the Month for the month of OCTOBER
Would you like to recognize someone at our school? Please fill out the online form or scan the QR code: http://bit.ly/staffawesome.
Traveling Orca
Our traveling Orca has been slowly making his way around campus. I am hoping that he makes it back to Building 2 next week. Please check out his blog with your class. It is updated weekly. The kids in the club would love to see some comments added to the posts! Make sure you play the Kindness theme song! It’s a catchy little tune 😊
Support Your School
Amazon
A great way to help raise money for Orlando Science Schools is to use the links below when shopping from Amazon or Office Depot/Office Max.
https://smile.amazon.com/ch/20-3366305
http://www.officedepot.com/a/content/back-to-school/5percent/
OSES School Code: 70228302
OSS School Code: 70218341
Important school Reminders/Information
School Pay
Parents can now make FREE online payments for most school expenses online with School Pay. This includes School Lunch and After Care! Simply log into your secure online School Pay Parent Center account and pay for items including after school care fees, club fees, field trips, class fees, student fees and more. The first step is creating your Parent Center Account at schoolpay.com Please go to "Charter Schools" tab and then choose your school name as "Orlando Science Elementary School" to complete the steps for creating your parent account. If you have any problems using the School Pay system please call 1 888-88-MYPAY
Questions about your student’s school pay account can be directed to Ms. Centenera at cristina.centenera@orlandoscience.org
Interested in Volunteering at the OSS Technology campus?
Orlando Science Families interested in volunteering at the OSS Technology Campus during the 2018-2019 School Year MUST be ADDitions approved. Below you will find the link to apply for ADDitions for the 2018-2019 School Year.
Attendance matters
Stella.waton@orlandoscience.org
Taylor.watson@Orlandoscience.org
Please note that in order for an absence to be excused you must turn in proper documentation (i.e a doctors note) to the front desk
If your student is absent on a day that they have club, please remember to email the club teacher so that their absence for club that day is excused.
FORTIFY-FL
For more information, please click on the link below.