Eagle News
October 2016
Parent Teacher Conferences October 13th & 17th
We hope to have the Parent/Student Report for the 2015-2016 OCCT from the State Department of Education. There will be distribution in the Commons Area. Please bring a form of Identification with you. If they have not arrived, we will sort and send home in the November Friday Folders.
FALL BREAK October 20th-24th
Mark Your Calendar
Friends & Family Day: Dining with Dudes
The theme this month is Dining with Dudes (Dad, Grandpa, Uncles, Step-dads, male mentors, etc). Of course we are not excluding others, but think it important to honor and recognize the Dudes who have positively contributed to the lives our the Summit Students.
Thanks to all the grandparents who came out in September. Our Grandparents Rock!
Kendra Scott Night: OCTOBER 25TH 5:00-8:00PM
6th Grade Costume Dance: Friday, October 28th
The 6th Grade ONLY Costume Dance will end at 4:15pm and students should be picked up no later than 4:30pm The cost of the dance is $5 per student, and concessions will be sold during the dance. (Older Siblings, even if a student at Summit are not allowed to stay with their 6th grade brother or sister at the dance.) Tickets will be sold October 25th-27th through their 5th hour teacher.
Halloween is on Monday, October 31st, but we WILL NOT begin our week with COSTUMES, I'm sure you understand. Additionally, we ask that students not bring large bags of Trick-or-treat candy throughout the week. Thank you.
SUMMIT's Specific Skill Emphasis for the 2016-2017 School Year
The Principal's Advisory Team met to discuss the School-wide Summit Growth Goal for 2016-207 in early September. It has been decided the goal will focus on ELA/Reading Standard 3.3 Summariization & Generalization.
The Rationale for this goal is as follows:
Summarization teaches students how to discern the most important ideas in a text or body of information, how to ignore irrelevant information, and how to integrate the central ideas in a meaningful way. Teaching strategies to summarize improves student understanding of what is read or processed. Summarization strategies can be used in every content area. When students learn to summarize, they become better problem-solvers and critical thinkers.
After discussing our Site Growth Goal during PD Day we discussed the reasons why this is a standard we need to focus on and then there was a small group assignment.
Write a 20 Word G.I.S.T. regarding the discussion we had about the pitfalls or obstacles causing 3.3 Summarization & Generalization to continue to rank as a low performing standard at the state, district, and site level on standardized tests.
Examples of 20 Word G.I.S.T. in small groups during our PD Day are was as follows:
"Summary is difficult-different from retell. Requires students to critically think. Students struggle with differentiating between important and irrelevant information."
"Students struggle with finding the essential elements and confidently being able to restate the information in their own words."
"Students struggle with summarizing and synthesizing relevant information."
"Summit's cross curricular goal is to focus on summarization and to move students beyond memorization, towards CRITICAL THINKING."
"Students struggle with answering the relevant questions of who, what, when, where, why, and how without irrelevant details."
Monthly, I will be sharing with parents things you can implement at home to help encourage the skills at home. Thank you for being an involved parent!
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News from the Library:
On the last Tuesday of every month, students will meet in the library to have lunch, enjoy a tasty treat and discuss any book they have finished reading during the month. We have over 160 students signed up to attend the first Lunch-n-Lit Book Club of the year this Tuesday!
Don’t forget, the Bookaneer Book Fair will run October 11th-18th! All sales go to support our library.
Parent Club!
COOKIE DOUGH & FUNDRAISER PICK-UP....OCTOBER 11TH
35 Students sold 20 Items or More!!! Total raised will be in November's Newsletter, but It was amazing with a reduction of 300 students! You did great and exceeded the expectations!
GO PARENTS!!!
ADDITIONAL THANKS!!!
Thanks to the following contributors this year for your generous financial donations!
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