Springboro Schools May 2011 Newsletter

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S pringboroCommunity Schools

NEWSLETTER

Where Children Come First

Weekly report to the Community mAy 20, 2011

No, these students are not littering the Five Points West gym.These students, along with other 5th graders in Mrs. Kellners physicaleducation classes spent time reading food labels in a relay situationto determine the quality of various foods. The students were verysurprised to nd so much sugar, sugar substitutes, and additives inso many of the foods examined. They also learned that the longer the ingredient list, the less healthy the food.

Five Points Students Learn aboutHealthy Eating

SHS Students Earn NationalMerit Scholars Honors

Congrats to the following 13 juniors on being named Na-tional Merit Commended Scholars. Only 50,000 studentsout of 1.5 million nationally who took the P.S.A.T. in Oc-tober 2010 are awarded this distinction. The students areRyan Andrew; Michelle Blum; Rachael Bowman; KatherineChrisman; Jacob Crosen; Matthew Delbridge; Robert Horn-ing; Jaimee Jones; Patrick Kunnenin; Evan Knudsen; Ray-mundo Marcelo; William Thackery; and Audrey Winzeler.16,000 students will go on to be named semi- nalists. Great

Job and Good Luck!!!

Junior High Students Competedin the District 13 Solo & Ensemble

ContestCongratulations to the Springboro Junior High choistudents who competed in the District 13 Solo &Ensemble Contest Saturday, April 16th. Receivina rating of Excellent (a two) for their solos wer

Natalie Kallas and Megan Kibby. Those studentreceiving an Outstanding Superior rating (a onewere: Sydney Breyer, Caroline Chester, XandrDaigle, Madeline Durbin, Caroline EddingtonSydney Haskins, Ann Hill, Isabel Houser, Chloe Ittel, Ishani Kejriwal, Beth Metcalf, Katy Presler andLauren Ridley. Congratulations to all for the hardwork and ne performances.

THIS WEEKS FLYERS

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Five Points West students were able to raise $8474.70 for theAmerican Heart Association through the Jump Rope for Heart& Hoops for Heart events held during their physical education

classes. From left to right the top contributors are PrestonZumbrun, Juan Magana, Anna Vena, Rachel Mescher & ClaireSnider. Super job Five Points West students!

Five Points West Students RaiseMoney for Hoops for Heart

Springboro Destination Imagination Teams Advance to Global DITournament

Springboro has a rich and competitive history in the Destination Imagination (DI) competitions. DI is an edu-cational program designed to foster creative and critical thinking. Student teams from kindergarten through highschool solve open-ended Challenges and present the solutions at Regional, State and Global Tournaments.

Springboro sends 175 students to the Regional competition each year, with many more on waiting lists for aspot on a team. This year ve teams from that original group advanced to the State level with two moving on tothe Global level.

Challenges change every year, but the focus ranges from technical to theatrical to improv. This year a middleschool team (Katie Karnosh, Carolyn Karnosh, Natalie Majors, Julia Koenig, Lillian Haerr, Laina Jackson, RachelRose) advanced through all levels of competition. They solved the Verses! Foiled Again Challenge. The focus isarchitectural design, engineering and theatre arts.

The team of seven girls had to build a structure weighing 20 grams or less that was made only of aluminiumfoil, wood and glue. They then had to test the structure to see how much weight it could hold before collapsing.They also had to present a story about a character that is foiled. The story had to integrate both a team writtenverse, as well as a published verse.

At the Regional tournament their structure held 385 pounds before they ran out of time. At the state level itcollapsed at 240 pounds but they took best in the state in the Instant Challenge portion of the program to still earnenough points overall to advance to Globals.

Also moving to the internation level is the high school team composed of team members Jake Shouse, NatashaMenrisky, Raymundo Marcelo, Kat LaClede, Jared Wensyel, Laura Webendorfer and Emma Sum. They will jointhe Karnosh team in competing against teams from Brazil, China, Trinidad, Scotland and many other countries aswell as the top nishers in every state of the US.

The high school team competed in the Triple Take Road Show challenge. The intent of this challenge is for

the team to use different story telling methods to adapt a story to t three different pretend audiences. The team must portray two different travel methods that are used to move between pretend audiences. A team-created TechnicalSpectacle adds special effects.

Each DI team begins working in September 1 or 2 days a week to solve their challenge in preparation for theregionals held at Miami University in March. In addition to the obvious fun and friendships formed, DI preparesstudents for the real world. They learn spontaneous idea generation, team work, problem solving, setting an agenda,dealing with con icts and time management. Con dence levels are raised and DI participants often return as youngadults to thank their team manager for helping teach these life skills through the DI program.

Springboro is proud to send these 14 students to celebrate creativity as they compete with the more than7,000 students at the top competition at the University of Tennessee May 25 - 28.


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SHS Art Teacher Selected for National Endowment for the HumanitiesSummer Scholar Program

Debora Blind, Art Teacher at Springboro High School,has been selected for a National Endowment for the Hu-manities (NEH) Summer Scholar opportunity to be held athe Newberry Library in Chicago during July and August of 011. She was selected out of a large eld of applicants as

ne of 16 participants in a seminar titled Envisioning American Maps and Art. This four week opportunity will involveesearch on how cartography and art collectively shapeddeas about space, landscape, natural history, ethnography,ommerce, and politics in the Americas. All participants willnhance their research skills by pursuing individual projects

making use of the Newberrys rich holdings of cartography,geography, art, history, literature, and the history of printingrom the 15th to the 21st centuries. The broad arc of seminar opics will promote the development of skills and insightselevant to a wide range of K-12 curricula, embracing social

tudies, science, mathematics, literature, along with geog-aphy and art.

Debra Blind is pictured at a recent Discover Life In Americas Science Conference where she attended as a guest artistpecializing in specimen illustrations of new to science species found in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Springboro Students Awarded Scholarship for VideoCongratulations to the following students who were awarded scholarships for their Breast Cancer Awareness

video, Awareness is the Answer. The contest is a joint venture between the Breast Cancer Task Force and theBreast Cancer Foundation. The education gained from participation is unmatched by any other organization or institution. This is a value to students, community and women in the ght against Breast Cancer. The recipientsreceived a prize and a certi cate at an awards ceremony on April 17, 2011 at Oakwood High School.

Students from Alter, Centerville, Oakwood, Springboro and Stivers won scholarships worth more than $10,000 collectivelyat the 2010-11 Breast Awareness Video Ceremony, sponsored by the Breast Cancer Task Force Valley and the Breast CancerFoundation.


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Five Points Math Mentors

Fifth grade studentthis year have been giventhe opportunity to be lead

ers for some third gradstudents to help build math

literacy in both grade levels. Many concepts ar

introduced in third gradand built upon as they progress through fourth and fifthgrade. Allowing the fifthgrade students to be mathmentors provides them withthe chance to verbalize concepts they should be mastering as well as introducing or reinforcing conten

to third grade students. Thigives them both unique experiences to

draw back on over different content standards as well asstrengthening leadership skills in the older students.

TeacherPerspective

Student PerspectivesJust recently, the fth grade students helped the third grade students with math! Almost every other week, us fthgrade students will go down to help the third graders with any math topics they need! This past week, we helped themwith fractions. This helps the third graders on tests, and helps the fth graders become good leaders. In the past, wehad helped them with rays, lines, and line segments. I enjoy doing this because its a learning experience for us, aswell as them. I enjoy working with my partner; and I hope we will keep doing it for the rest of the year! Morgan Winzeler (5th Grade)

The 5th graders from Mr. Praters class just got to help third graders from Mrs. Nelson and Mrs. Cohens classes. Wehave been helping them lately on the things they are studying. This week we helped the 3rd graders with fractions.It teaches us leadership skills and it is a review of what we have already learned. To help teach fractions, we took aroll of tape and one or two partners out in the hallway. Each partner had a piece of paper. Using the guided tiles of different colors, we made fractions that they drew. I thought it was really fun. I also think the 3rd graders learned alot. I cant wait until next time! Jordan Diehl (5th grade)

Mr. Praters fth grade students at Five Points Elementary West came into the third grade classrooms to teach mathlessons. The fth graders came in and picked a third grader to teach them about fractions. The fth graders taught usfractions. Our experience with the fth grade students teaching special math lessons was fun and exciting. The lessonwas taught in the hallways at Five Points. The fth graders took one student out in the hallway to work on the oor.We used the tiles to create fractions and used colors to identify them. Some of the third graders were challenged if the basic regular fractions were too simple. Some of the fractions they taught us were improper and equivalent frac-tions. This experience with the fth graders allowed us to see them as positive role models. We were glad they took the time out of their day to help us with math. Working with the fth graders was a fun way to learn math. We think it was a success. Madison Jennings (3rd grade) Alex Bindemann (3rd grade)


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Five Points Eaststaff and invited guests

enjoyed a pre-Easter meal prepared by special

needs students in Christy Stacys SocialCommunication classroom. Egg-cellent hands-on learning

and participation from staff made the event a success.Students in Mrs. Stacys classroom learn by a combina-

tion of verbal direction, sign language, visual cues, match-ing, modeling, and repetition. TheBistro is a unique event that pulls together these learningtechniques and connects them with real life experience. When studentsasked guests what beverage they preferred, they showed them a selectionof pictures of each beverage. Diners made a choice by taking off one of the

pictures and handing it to the student. Students matched that picture choiceto the actual beverage and delivered that beverage to the customer. Earlier in the week students dyed Easter eggs, giving them real-life experience withone-to-one correspondence, math, color recognition, and ne motor skills.

Mrs. Stacy, Intervention Specialist, led the group of students in making brownies and muf ns, helping students learn sequencing and followingsimple directions as well as turn-taking, initiating speech, and introducingnew vocabulary. She used pictures to show what items were needed andin what order they were to be used. Her aides, Sue Schmidt and YvonneFrance, assisted students in understanding the connection between the

picture and the real-life object as well as how to pour and stir ingredients byusing hand-over-hand technique to help model how the task was to be done.

Janice Meiner, Speech Therapist, and student teacher, Kelly Nieberding, helped students make personal invi-tations, incorporating speech and language skills into the project. Mrs. Nieberding also helped in the kitchen theday of the event, assisting students in making macaroni and cheese.

After guests departed students used the skills they have learned from doing afternoon chores every day in theclassroom. They used the vacuum to sweep, cleaned off tables, collected trash, stacked chairs, and washed dishes.Stacys Bistro is more than foodits about teaching students important life skills.

Stacys Bistro - Eggcellent

Hands-On Learning

Mark Your Calendars!

Board of Education Meeting - May 24th

No School on Memorial Day - May 30th

Last Day of School - June 2nd



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To go along with our customs, cultures, and traditionsunit, the 2nd graders at Five Points West Elementary Schoolwere treated to some Mexican dancing. Adelid Rios anddaughter, Andrea, performed for the students and even

pulled a few of them up to dance as well! During the 2week unit the students were exposed to 5 different countriesfrom around the world learning about their language, food,currency, location, and much more!

Name that instrument! The second grade studentsat Five Points West Elementary School enjoyed makingtheir own musical instruments with the help of their musicteacher, Miss Timoshkin, and director of the Universityof Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music PreparatoryDepartment, Amy Dennison. The students learned how totake recyclable trash and turn it into music by finding itemsaround the house that would normally be thrown away.During the workshop the students made chicken cluckers,harmonicas, or egg shaker.

Shake your groove thing! Here second grade studentsfrom Five Points West Elementary School learn how to doMorning Moves; a program taught by our OT/PT teacher,Beth McCormack, which helps the students stimulate andconnect their brain. Students have learned different songsthroughout the year such as Thriller for Halloween andLet it Snow for the winter. The students love taking a

break throughout the day to get up and move around theclassroom. This is a great activity that helps them releasesome of their energy and get ready to learn the next thing.

2nd Graders at Five PointsElementary

Volleyball Program Information

Summer Volleyball Camps for 3rd 6th grade and 7th 10th grade girls (based on grade level in fall of 2011) are plannedor the week of July 18 July 21. The price of the camps has been reduced this year & more court time will be offered! Youan access an informational yer and registration form for the camps on the Districts website under Community Flyers or

you can visit www.springborovolleyball.org for forms and additional information. The registration deadline for the campss July 5th, but early registration is encouraged as space for the camps is limited.

Feel free to email our varsity volleyball coach, Kevin Sedensky, at [email protected] if you haveny questions related to the Springboro Volleyball program.

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Springboro Schools May 2011 Newsletter