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What's Happening in Ross Schools? |
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Weekly Activities
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Ross High School
| From: Ross High School Contact: Brian Martin @ (513) 868-4506 3601 Hamilton Cleves Road Hamilton, Ohio 45013 Date: 1/30/12 RE: What’s Happening at Ross High School _____________________________________________________________________________ TECH POSITIONS Anyone interested in working on a technical or lobby position for the winter play, there will be a brief meeting after school on Tuesday in Room 105. If you have questions or cannot make it, please see Mr. Smith. WINTER PLAY Attention all cast members of the winter play. The rehearsal schedule for this week is posted outside Room 105. All rehearsals this week are in the PAC. Band Contest Results Several members of the Ross band department participated at the OMEA solo and ensemble contest this weekend. Earning Superior ratings were: Alison Dougherty, Brian Woodruff, Josh Koons, Zach Wurzelbacher, Celeste Bulach, Curstin Colebank, Joey Kohlman, Josh Love, Eric Henggeler, the Trumpet Trio, the Saxophone quartet, and both Percussion ensembles. Earning excellent ratings were: Austin Baldwin, Clay Stevens, John Dougherty, Ben Shaffer, Katie Steelman, Josh Lierer, and both woodwind trios. Blood Drive Registration for the February 17th blood drive will take place during all lunch shifts Jan 30-Feb 3. Stop by the table to sign up and pick up your permission slips. Remember--all RHS students must have parental permission for the Blood Drive. Prom Meeting Junior class members-at-large and any other juniors interested in helping to plan prom please attend a short informational meeting Tuesday Jan. 31 in room 257 at 2:15. EXTRA SENIOR T-SHIRTS FOR SALE Seniors, if you have seen the awesome senior t-shirt that everyone is wearing that PTO sold and you would like to buy one, we have a few extra in the main office that can be purchased for $15.00 each. Please see Mrs. Roberts or Mrs. Korb if you are interested. Coming up this week at Ross High School… 30 Vocal Music Boosters Meeting @ 7:00 PM 4 & 5 6th Annual Vocal Music Boosters Antique Show |
Ross Middle School
| Ross Middle What’s Happening Congratulations to our RMS Rambotics teams for their performance at the iSpace District FIRST LEGO League Tournament this past Saturday. LEGO Busters, Metal Chihuahuas, and Ross Technix competed in robot design & performance, research, and core values against 21 top teams from the Cincinnati area. The LEGO Busters won the Robot Programming Award, and the Metal Chihuahuas received an invitation to advance to the FLL State Championship. Week of January 23, 2012: Teens for Jeans collection sponsored by The Change continues. M 1/23 PFK staff luncheon. BBK – Norwood – Home. GBK – Norwood – Away. Vocal boosters meeting. T 1/24 Fire drill 10:00 am. W 1/25 GBK – Mt. Healthy – RMS. TH 1/26 Special education department meeting. BBK – Mt. Healthy – Away. F 1/27 2nd quarter report cards sent home. PIE awards for 2nd quarter. Week of January 30, 2012: Student Council “Sweet Treat Gram” sale. Teens for Jeans collection sponsored by The Change continues. M 1/30 GBK – Harrison – Away. BBK – Harrison – RMS. Vocal boosters meeting. T 1/31 BLC meeting 7:20 am. School board meeting at district office. W 2/1 GBK – Talawanda – Away. BBK – Talawanda – RMS. The Change after school meeting 2:45-3:45. TH 2/2 Special education department meeting. Groundhog Day. F 2/3 Popcorn lunch. Antique show set-up after school SA 2/4 GBK & BBK FAVC tournaments. Vocal boosters antique show. SU 2/5 Vocal boosters antique show. |
Elda Elementary
| Elda Elementary For the Week of January 23, 2012 Building News: Tuesday: Market Day 5-6 PM Friday: Report cards distributed Kindergarten News: Theme: Polar Animals Long Vowels Reading - main idea Writer's Workshop Zooming in on small moments Sight Words Personal word walls Addition Roll and Record Making Shapes Shape Comparisons First grade News: First graders are jumping into Unit 5 in our Everyday Math program and learning all about place value to the hundreds place. They have experienced the counting of our days in school with "straws" on our calendar boards, and look forward to the Hundredth Day of school, which will take place on February 6th! They have begun to see how the bundling of "ones", produces a "ten", and soon will see it takes ten bundles of "tens" to produce a "hundred". They also work with flats, rods, and cubes to make big numbers. Ask your favorite first grader what these are! Reading groups are meeting daily to help students on their level to continue to progress as readers! As the complexity of the texts increases, students are enjoying books with more information. This will serve as a catalyst into our non-fiction writing that will occur this quarter. Second Grade News: Second graders are practicing two digit subtraction strategies in math. We are using base ten blocks as models to help us with this skill. We are also beginning to explore arrays. We are beginning to look at informational and explanatory texts as we prepare for our next unit of writing. In reading and science we are studying light and sound. Third Grade News: This week the students are working on the spelling pattern of the prefixes pre- and dis-. The students have been working hard to understand what a prefix is, and how it changes the root word. The students are creating Prefix "Handbooks" to deepen their understanding, and give examples of prefixes and words that have been created using prefixes. This book will then be used as a resource for future lessons involving prefixes. In math, the students are continuing to work with decimals and place value involving decimals. The students have been using base ten blocks, money, and measurement to show place value with decimals. In writing this week, the students have begun writing their introductory opinion piece, "Why I Would Make a Good President." After reading several books about former presidents, and what makes a good president, the students created graphic organizers displaying the qualities a good president should have. They then chose the three most important characteristics, and are going to give examples of how they embody those characteristics/qualities. Fourth Grade News: Miscellaneous: H1N1 reminders, pledge, new quarter AR goals, 8 points, (Th) ipad meetings available, (F) report cards Tech: Pages, Keynote, AR quizzes, Successmaker math, Ladibug, eno board Reading: Students are taking AR quizzes, reading Scholastic stories, reading independently, and reading in groups, working with reading strategies in the Comprehension ToolKit and focusing on fact/opinion, and cause/effect. They are also learning about fiction genres, and are reading fictional stories and books. Writing: Students are being introduced to various kinds of opinion pieces of writing. Language/Spelling: Students are distinguishing facts from opinions, distinguishing between first and third person narration, learning parts of speech. They are working on within word, syllable/affix, and derivational relations in spelling. Math: Students are reviewing with number sentence notation, place value, decimals, and usage. Social Studies: Students are learning about early Ohio as it fought to become a state. Science: Students are continuing to learn about weather through introduction to tornadoes, hurricanes, and forms of weathering. Art: Students are working on Art Show projects and building sculptures until March 22. Music: Students are learning new music and acting out scenes for the spring musical, called "Broadway Beat". Physical Education: Students are playing scooter hockey this week. For the Week of January 30, 2012 Building News: Tuesday: Board meeting at 6:30 Kindergarten Next Week: Theme Penguins and Groundhog's Day Long Vowels Making predictions Number recognition Attribute blocks What's my rule Two digit numbers Writer's Workshop - Editing Penguin habitat Penguin Life Cycle Groundhog's Day |
Morgan Elementary
| - First Graders finished up their first journal in math and took mid year assessments before starting into their new math journals. We started the new unit with name collection boxes and fact families. In writing students are still working on revising their stories by working on how they begin (their lead) and end their stories as well as practicing a strategy called show not tell. In phonics we continue working on learning hunks and chunks and long vowel combinations. We continue to work on spelling mixing both phonics words and sight words to make up our list. In reading we continue to work on making connections to books and holding discussions after we have read them. - 2nd grade: Math: addition and subtraction problem solving and double digit subtraction strategies. Reading: Main idea of nonfiction and context clues. Social Studies: Maps and land forms. Writing: nonfiction sentences and writing informational ABC books and counting books. - 3rd Grade: Social Studies-Globes, Martin Luther King, and Time Lines. Math-Decimals,Multiplication, Place Value. Writing-Pen Pals. Reading-Folk Tales,Dialect,Inferencing,and Vocabulary. Science-Forces and Motion/Simple Machines. - 48 fourth graders who earned 13 or more AR points for the second quarter were treated to special goodies from their teachers this week for their accomplishments. For reviewing skills and practicing for the OAA tests, students have been on the computers using Study Island. In Media this week Mrs. Godbey introduced the Keynote program. Students will be making presentations on the computer with science material in the near future. In class students have been working in groups and with partners doing various experiments about the water cycle and evaporation. After doing the experiments that data is then organized in graphs and put on posters. Number sentences have been the focus in math classes. Students have been deciding if the sentences are true or false using math strategies and also solving them; they also have enjoyed using their math skills to create their own sentences with a group of numbers to get an exact target number. Mrs. Horne's "snow tree" in the classroom is about to come down. Before that happens the students will be asked to estimate how many snowmen there actually are on the tree. Maybe, just maybe, it will be some wanted snow to our area. |
