We had an awesome week at The Willoughby-Eastlake School of Innovation. We had an incredible visit from Dr. Dan Dickreide, a Nobel Prize Winning doctor from the Cleveland Clinic, we donated and delivered over 2,000 pairs of socks from our 5,000 pair collection, and the student storage cubbies arrived! Our students also ‘clapped’ in 15 veterans who were receiving honor pins for their service to our country! We love staying busy! Thank you for all the support you give the school as we continue to serve the public with our ser- vice projects. The storage cubbies will be online some time this coming week. We will be marking each student cubby with the student’s SOI number. This will be their own personal space for things like book bags, folders, etc. Coats and boots will be kept in the SOI coat room. Each student will get their own hook marked by their SOI number as well. We had a tremendous turnout for conferences with over 90% of families attending! Thank you for taking the time to be a part of your child’s education. #thefutureisbright A message from Mr. Patrick The W-E School of Innovation The Spark Remark Important dates: 11/16 White Day (yes, white and green are switched by design for 11/16-17) 11/17 Green Day 11/18 Blue Day 11/19 Green Day 11/20 White Day SOI PTO Night out at Willough- by Brewing Company 5:30-7:30 pm 11/23 Blue Day W-E SOI PTO Meeting 7:00 pm 11/24 Green Day 11/25 White Day 11/26-11/30 NO SCHOOL Happy Thanksgiving! 12/1 Classes Resume Inside this issue: News you can use 2 Grade 3 page 3 Grade 4 page 4 Grade 5 page 5 Encore and PTO page 6-7 Professional Speakers 8 SOI PICS! 9-13 #WEMATTER Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SOInnovation Follow us on Twitter: @WES_Innovation Contact the office by phone: 440-942-1525 Contact the office by e-mail: [email protected]
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We had an awesome week at The Willoughby-Eastlake School of Innovation. We had an
incredible visit from Dr. Dan Dickreide, a Nobel Prize Winning doctor from the Cleveland
Clinic, we donated and delivered over 2,000 pairs of socks from our 5,000 pair collection,
and the student storage cubbies arrived! Our students also ‘clapped’ in 15 veterans who
were receiving honor pins for their service to our country! We love staying busy! Thank
you for all the support you give the school as we continue to serve the public with our ser-
vice projects.
The storage cubbies will be online some time this coming week. We will be marking each
student cubby with the student’s SOI number. This will be their own personal space for
things like book bags, folders, etc. Coats and boots will be kept in the SOI coat room.
Each student will get their own hook marked by their SOI number as well.
We had a tremendous turnout for conferences with over 90% of families attending! Thank
you for taking the time to be a part of your child’s education. #thefutureisbright
A message from Mr. Patrick
The W-E School of Innovation
The Spark Remark
Important dates:
11/16 White Day (yes, white
and green are switched by
design for 11/16-17)
11/17 Green Day
11/18 Blue Day
11/19 Green Day
11/20 White Day
SOI PTO Night out at Willough-
by Brewing Company
5:30-7:30 pm
11/23 Blue Day
W-E SOI PTO Meeting 7:00 pm
11/24 Green Day
11/25 White Day
11/26-11/30 NO SCHOOL
Happy Thanksgiving!
12/1 Classes Resume
Inside this issue:
News you can use 2
Grade 3 page 3
Grade 4 page 4
Grade 5 page 5
Encore and PTO page 6-7
Professional Speakers 8
SOI PICS! 9-13
#WEMATTER
Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SOInnovation
Over the past 5 years, Willoughby-Eastlake students have partnered with the Cleveland Po
lice Department, District 2 officers to give stockings filled with goodies to children in need
in Cleveland. We have been able to donate 50 - 200 filled stockings each year!
This year, School of Innovation students will have the opportunity to fill a stocking (or two)
using a list of suggested items. Of course, this is an optional activity, but if every student
filled at least 1 stocking we would be able to donate 225 stockings...the most donated in one
year ever! It’s also okay if family members want to help out too!
If you are interested in filling a stocking, please fill out the bottom of the permission slip
form attached to the Spark Remark e-mail, and return it to school. Students will receive their
stocking upon receipt of this form. Filled stocking can be returned to school any time from
now until Dec. 1st.
Thank you for helping us bring joy to children in need!
Girls Scouts Humane Society Service Project
Holiday Stocking Stuffer Service Project
A local Girl Scout Troop is collecting items for the Humane Society. Anything you
could donate would be appreciated! Here is a sample list:
Cat Litter – Clay, Scoopable & Yesterday’s News (We use 1,300 lbs. of litter per week)
Gift cards for: Gas (to fuel our emergency van), Pet Supply Stores, Home Depot, etc.
Bleach, Dish Soap, laundry detergent and dryer sheets
KMR kitten milk replacement, Dog Cages – Portable/Foldable cages
Hair/lint rollers, Paper towels, facial tissue and toilet paper, Canned cat and kitten food
Cat toys or ping pong balls, Kong’s and other safe dog toys, Dog treats and Cat treats
Hand sanitizer and Clorox wipes, Copy paper – both white and colored
AA batteries, Pens, packing tape and heat seal laminating pouches, Bunny toys and treats
Puppy playpens (metal) for mobile adoptions or events, Postage stamps for 1st class mail.
33 gallon size garbage bags and contractor bags, Solid color 2 pocket folders
You can send items in or drop them off at SOI any day in November!
In math our third grade students are learning about equivalent fractions, whole numbers represented as a fraction and applying their knowledge with many contract activities.
On Friday, three of the third grade math clas-ses did a variety of fractions games and rotat-ed through the different activities. If your third grader asks to subtract fractions for din-ner, he or she is probably referring to the piz-za game where they added and subtracted fractions (slices) from their pizza.
Some conversation prompts for you to ask your
child:
“What is your child’s point goal is for their current contract?”
“What do fractions and beads go together?”
“Who are you working with on the next
capstone?”
3rd grade Weekly Update
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The Spark Remark
Kids are getting their 2nd quarter capstone ru-brics soon! We are partnering with Lake Coun-ty Libraries. They are letting us borrow their books to research! Science topics have been condensation, evapo-ration, and the three states of matter
In ELA Informational writing is the hot topic. We practiced researching and writing para-graphs about the cities we live in!
Hot Topics
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The Spark Remark
Fourth graders learned about mixtures and solutions this week. They also ex-perimented with physical and chemical changes. Next week we will be talking about how to add more physical fitness into our day at school. Students will be working to solve the problem about how we can be more fit at school without interrupting our learning . We are relat-ing this to our capstone project next week when we talk about healthy
recipes and cooking them. We also evalu-ated the early Native American diet com-pared to today’s standards. In math, we are finishing up the customary measure-ment chapter this week and next. Students will be moving into the chapter on metric measurement next week. Students are also working on taking notes on their biography books.
Some conversation prompts for you to
ask your child:
“What are examples of chemicals changes?”
“What are Cornell notes and how to we use them?”
“Which Native American tribe did your group make a poster about?” Who is our famous 5th grader who was on Newsdepth?”
Hot Topics
4th grade Weekly Update
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5th grade Weekly Update
The fifth grade students have been working on their presentations for Social Stud-ies. They were asked to research an issue or problem and take a stance for or against their issue or problem. The students have to present their findings to the class with a presentation on Wednesday, November 18th. In Science, the students are continu-ing to learn about the planets.
They had a quiz over the inner and outer planets on Friday. For capstone, students are continuing to work on their slide shows and were given a checklist this week to help them. You can find more information about the capstone on Google Classroom 15-16.
Hot Topics
Some conversation prompts for you to
ask your child:
“What issue or problem are you research-ing?”
“Show me your slides for your Capstones.” “What did you use to represent the dis-
tance of the planets?”
“Who is the famous 5th grader who was on
Newsdepth?”
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Music This week we began a music writing project that is based on can-dy. Parents, please send your child in with candy to use for the pro-ject. There is a document that has been shared with each student through their Google classroom accounts regarding some guidelines to consider on the best kinds of candy for this project. Each student needs 16 small pieces for this project.
W-E SOI PTO UPDATE
Please join us to support our kids at the W-E SOI PTO Fundraiser at Willoughby Brewing Company!
Friday, November 20 from 5:30-7:30 pm. Appetizers, soft drinks, raffle, and more. Kids are welcome too!
Let's jump start the PTO! You can purchase your tickets
at: https://www.picatic.com/wbcevent
Art & Design All students are being introduced to Corel Draw, a program that we use to design projects for the Epilog Laser. The third graders are designing foam stickers. The fourth graders incorporated science into art this week. They read information about why the leaves change colors. They used Cornell Note Taking format to share what they learned. They looked at autumn leaves using a hand lens and a high powered microscope. They were free to choose art materials to create an autumn leaf. Ask them what materials they used to create their leaf. Ask them what the leaf looked like under the microscope.
The fifth graders are designing personalized layered stickers. After students create their stickers in art class, they will be fabricating them on the Epilog Helix Laser. Ask your students if they know the difference between rastering and vectoring!
Professional Speaker Series
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The School of Innovation was blessed to have a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE recipient visit us on Wednes-day. Dr. Dan Dickreide of the Cleveland Clinic and Doctors without Borders stopped by with his wife Kathy to be part of our Professional Speaker Series. Dr. Dickreide is an emergency surgeon at The Cleveland Clinic and also travels all of the world assist the needy and impoverished. His work has taken him to Africa to help villages with water and medical needs, Afghanistan to as-sist the local people during 1990's and other fascinating places. He spoke to our students about the reward in helping others, instead of some of the 'items' people connect to rewards. He also spoke about meeting new people, and how collaborating with others is an important skill that people of all nations need to work on! Thank you Dr. Dickreide for a fascinating presentation!
