Nov.

Nov 19th

Elementary hosted a Movie Day on Friday, November 16 as one of the Monster’s Fundraisers. Students paid $1 and saw Megamind on the Smart board in the ballroom. Thank you to meg Oeder. Stuednets arso received popcorn and a drink. A good time was had by all.

Elementary K-3 students had their dance on Wednesday, October 31, 2012. It was our second fundraiser for the Monster’s game and we raised $37. Thank you to Mr. Humphries for doing the music and Miss Tasha and Miss Penny for all of their hard work.

Oct.

• Michelle Snowden and I were nominated by former VSH students to receive teacher recognition awards on October 24, 2012 at the Saint Martin De Porres High School 7th annual Teacher Recognition Reception. 

• K-3 Elementary had their first fundraiser on Friday, 10/12/12 to send our students to the Monster’s Game. The students in a game day in the afternoon, which included, musical chairs, the parachute, hula hoop contests, board games and duck duck goose. We were able to raise $40 with our very first fundraiser. The next fundraiser will be a dance. 

• Varsity Boy’s Basketball Update: I went to a meeting Saturday morning with the coaches of our league. Our first game will be February 2. This year we will be having a banquet and a longer season with 10 games plus playoffs. We will be starting practices after winter break. Looking forward to a great season.

Sep.

7th graders created anemometers...scientific tools to determine wind speed and are conducting wind speed investigations in different locations outside the school building. (Submitted by Ms. 

Beer)

June

June 4,

• The 5th graders are giving presentations on their states. They have done some research, and created PowerPoint presentations. 

We are looking forward to seeing what we have created on the “big screen”!!

Mrs. Oeder

• Congratulations to the valedictorian and the salutatorian that came from home instruction department.  

• 6.1.12 9th Grade Cedar Point Trip based on math and science roller coaster exploration

May

May 11th,

• In completion of the Service Learning Project, Mrs. Hicks’ class donated approximately, fifteen pounds of canned foods and five crates of children’s and adult clothing to the Circle for Re-Entry Ohio-Cleveland’s UMADAOP Program.  The students periodically brought in children and adult clothing and canned goods for pick up by the Program Director.
• Ms. Henderson and Mr. Hendersons class will be participating in the Geography Fair this year. We also have two graduating senior this year.
• This week kindergarten learned about worms and butterflies. We created our own worm habitat for the worms, which is displayed outside our classroom.

May 3rd,

• The senior class is hosting a Pie the Principal fundraiser on Friday May 4th at 1pm $3 for 1 pie and $5 for 2 the targets are Mr. Anderson, Mr. Ray and Dr. S.
• The senior breakfast is May 11th from 9am to 11am staff and senior government will be cooking the breakfast.
• The seniors will also recognize those staff members that have support them and helped them to reach this goal all staff who have worked with any of the graduating seniors are encouraged to stop by or stay if possible.
• This was a great week. The whole High school division worked on a math project which is called “Tessellation and the Geometry seen in architecture, nature, and art”. All our students were exited about the project and put their best effort into it. Part of the project was to pick a picture emphasizing geometry in art, architecture or nature, and make a geographic description on each picture. I am proud to state that all our students did a good job. Summer Smith was the first one to finish the project with 100 % accuracy and won a prize for her outstanding work.
• Kindergarten and First Grade celebrated earth day this week, by going out front and picking up trash in the school yard. 

April.

Apr 23rd,

• Friday is the last Boot Camp day for middle school! The students are ready for the OAA’s.
• Happy Birthday to Ms. Shvonne on her 26th Birthday April 25, 2012. 
• OAA Pep Rally gets students MOTIVATED with guest speaker Dr. Shane K. Floyd PhD

Apr 3rd,

• High school students filled out job applications for the Cleveland Botanical Garden, Wendy’s, Dairy Farms, Daves and Taco Bell.  Students also worked on creating resumes.  All staff helped with applications, references and writing recommendation forms.    
• Junior High had a great bake sale! Thank You
• Junior High made muffins in the new life skills room. They loved it!
• Last, Junior High finished there second rotation of OAA Boot Camp!
• “We have a student who is graduating this year who has been dealing with some very serious family issues. She has overcome abuse, and homelessness she was taken in by a family member who is now fighting for her life.  She has maintained straight A’s since she enrolled and is going to college in the fall.  I am asking that we help to make she senior year special by donating any money that you have to offer so that she can cover her senior activities.  One of our high school students has already donated the money to cover her prom ticket.  Please see Mrs. Hunter, Ms. Michelle or Ms. Shvonne to turn in your donations. Thank You Due to the sensitive nature of the situation I have left out her name”. –Submitted by Mrs. Hunter
• This week in Mrs. Goldin's kindergarten class, we are busy learning about different farm animals. We are watching a related video and playing charades. We also made fun cow crafts that we displayed in the hallway for everyone to enjoy.  We are continuing to learn about different community workers and we have been busy making a map of a community with the 1st graders and Mr. Sowers' kindergarten class. 

Thanks, 

Leah Goldin

Mar.

Mar 27th,

• On Friday afternoon, the third grade students met with Mr. Seti Richardson, Director, Circle for Re-entry Ohio.  The purpose of his visit was to introduce Mr. Richardson and explain his organization to the third grade. This year’s third grade class has chosen the Circle for Re-entry Ohio Program as their Service Learning Project and met with Mr. Richardson to inform him of their interest and give him the first of many donations generated by their class.   (Picture with Ms. Michelle)

• The Senior Class will be selling T-shirts and hoodie to help cover the cost of prom.  The seniors will have a hoodie with their signatures on the back staff who would like to order one of these they will be available for order at $35.00 each.  There will also be a T-shirt that will be available to anyone including non graduating students this T-shirt will have “Be the change you want to see in the world” a quote by Gaudi with VSH by it this will cost $15.00.  I will take orders between now and April 17th at the latest.  Please help support our students. – submitted by Mrs. Hunter

• Enrollment is happy to update us on out current enrollment count: 

We are at 383

Center-245

Home-88

ROC-50

• Ms Goldin's KDG had THREE days of perfect attendance: no absences or tardies!

Mrs.Hunter reported that “Ms. Shvonne Welch gave me some helpful hand outs that can help teachers to determine if the negative behavior they experience in the class room falls under the mental health category, the cards do not cover every possibility but it is a very good tool to have and it gives an Idea about when to email me to request that I do a classroom observation so that we can begin to correctly put support services in place.  I do not have enough for everyone (only 9) so please e-mail me and I will give you one, if you feel that this is a tool that you will use often for occasional concerns you can always email me to request I or Ms. Carla to observe the student in question”.  – submitted by Mrs. Hunter LSW

Mar 15th,

• Mrs Oeders class collected the most box tops and got free frosty floats donated by Wendy’s.
• Every Thursday Ms. Illana Friedman does a healthy snack recipe with some of her students. They create the snack, the kids help put the ingredients together and have discussion, then the kids take the snack to three different staff members  to taste, etc, the kids ask questions, explain what they did and why and the staff can ask questions as well. This activity is helpful to the students because it allows them to step out of their shell a bit, get some socialization in and language skills with conversation, repetition of tasks and sequencing of directions. The kids get excited to share what they did and also try new things. This week we made Turkey and cheese wraps with lettuce and mayo added too. Some of the students enjoyed the snack some did not, all of the staff members enjoyed it…so they said. Ms Friedman 
• Mark Ashford and James Jones had perfect attendance this week in the High School Self-Contained Classroom.
• 6 students applied for summer jobs with the Cleveland Botanical Gardens. – Ms. Patricia Henderson. 
• Mr Sowers' Kdg class once AGAIN has FIVE DAYS of perfect attendance with NO absences and NO tardies!

Mar 5th,

Mrs. Cain celebrated Dr. Suess’s birthday today by making green eggs and ham with her students.  

Feb.

Feb 27th,

Josh Sowers KDG class had PERFECT ATTENDANCE ALL WEEK:
no tardies or absences this week! YAY!!

Feb 13th,

Attendance Happenings:

• Ms Hicks' 3rd grade class had two days of perfect attendance and no unexcused absences this week.
• Ms Goldin's KDG class has no unexcused absences this week.
• Mr Sowers' KDG class had FIVE DAYS in a row of PERFECT attendance: no absences or tardies!
• Ms Glusauskas' 2nd grade class has no unexcused absences this week.
• Ms Hicks' 3rd grade class had two days of perfect attendance this week.
• Ms Monske's 7th grade class had one day of perfect attendance and no unexcused absences this week.

Have a great week,

Vivian Garfunkel

Jan.

Jan 27th,

• Junior High displayed all other there beautiful art work. They truly make Miss Monske proud!
• Delon Carouthers, Kaelah Chisholm, and Nathifa Mujahid will be taking the SAT’s this Saturday.  Those three and Daejamoni Love, Brittnay Hammond and Nakia Hutchinson will be taking the ACT Feb 11th.  I am also offering ACT and OGT tutoring Monday-Thursday afterschool 3-4:30

Nov '11

November 3

Eleven students in Elem and Middle School have PERFECT attendance since the start of school: NO absences, NO TARDIES!! 

November 11

The following students have been present and on time EVERY DAY this week!

LEYSER:

GLUSAUSKAS:

CAIN:

HICKS:

CALLAHAN:

OEDER:

KESSLER:

MONSKE:

ALL STUDENTS IN MONSKE'S ROOM HAVE BEEN PRESENT AND ON TIME EVERY DAY THIS WEEK!!

HUMPHRIES:

WEAVER:

Oct '11

October 28

We are having a raffle in 4 weeks for Box Tops! Each student got a chart, in which they have to post a box top (12 in total). As you hand in a completed chart, the student’s name will be entered into a raffle. The prize this month is a gift basket sponsored by Key Bank. Please encourage your students!

Café Assistance to the Rescue

• Students from High School have been helping hands to the school cafeteria staff in the lunch room. This service duty has helped students realize the importance of team work. Plus, it helps make the time for the staff members more effective. This project has been a rewarding service experience for the VSH students and staff.

• Reading Big Words is Easy with High School Giants! High School students helped with elementary service project based on reading. Students from the High School worked together to read books to the young students of Virtual Schoolhouse. This was a great role model experience for youth of VSH.