 April
2001 |
This month's parent meeting will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 26 in the Team #1 classroom. Our monthly board meeting will immediately follow at 8:30 in Mark's classroom.
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April
Parent/Board Meetings
April
2001
This
month's parent meeting will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, April
26 in the Team #1 classroom. Our monthly board meeting will
immediately follow at 8:30 in Mark's classroom.
2001-2002 School
Year - Spring Open Houses & the
"Lottery"
Our
lottery for new applicants for the 2001-2002 school year will
be held on Monday, April 30. We anticipate accepting a new
class of 25 students in grades 5 & 6, as well as filling in
openings in our upper grades. We will hold 2 open houses this
spring for families interested in Fall 2001 enrollment.
Tuesday, April 17, at 7 p.m. - Focus: Girls and Technology
Thursday, April 19, at 7 p.m. - General Information
Session
Project Block
News...
Teams 3 & 4 are working on a 10 week project on Geology and
Water. Students working in Theresa's room are focused on the
water section of this project. "Glass has continued to fly left and
right in the world of water. We had a expert come to answer all our
deep questions and stimulate our curiosity." In Glenn's room
students are learning about the earth's structure, which has turned
out to be quite tasty! Some of the students chose to use food to
represent their nontechnical interactive diagram. To view some of
the students' work, visit
http://clccharter.org/~glenn/geology/earth.htm
This week students are finishing their first round of "basic
generalist certification" for water and earth. Upon
receiving certification students who have been working in Glenn's
room will move to Theresa's and vice versa. We're expecting great
things to emerge!!
Meanwhile, Teams 1 & 2 have been
hard at work on their Space and Time project. The CLCSA
(Centre Learning Community Space Association) Space History Timeline
will be completed in the next few weeks. The timeline will help
visitors to CLCSA better understand the major events that have
occurred in space science history. It will also serve to provide a
context for these events. When completed, the timeline exhibit will
take up most of the wall space on the second floor and a large
portion of the big room, and it will document space science history
from the Big Bang to the International Space Station. Once finished
with timeline requirements, the students will move on to special
department work at CLCSA. Working in small teams of two or three,
CLCSA "employees" are responsible for developing a special department
which supports the CLCSA mission of space science education and
exploration. For more information on the requirements for chartering
a department, please see Mark's site at
http://clccharter.org/~mark/projects/space/deptprop.htm .
New
Facility
We are
continuing to make progress on our efforts to acquire a new facility
for CLC. Mellon Bank has agreed to work with the CLC to provide
funding for the purchase and our Board has approved a letter of
commitment to allow Mellon to finalize details in regard to
financing. These are exciting times at CLC!
Bagel Monday
The 7th
graders are starting a new fundraising project to raise money for
their class trip next year. Bagels will be available from 7:30 a.m.
to 8:10 a.m. on Mondays beginning 4/9/01 in the Big Room. A regular
bagel without cream cheese will cost $1.00. Cream cheese is an extra
50 cents. There will also be orange juice and milk for 25 cents a
cup. There are no pre-order forms to fill out and no accounts will be
set up for credit purchases.
No School
Reminder
Friday,
April 13, and Friday, April 20 are Act 80 days, so there will be no
school for students on those days. Staff will participate in
professional development and in-service meetings.
Spaghetti
Dinner
The 8th
graders are holding a fundraising dinner on Friday, April 27 to
benefit their class trip fund. Details of the event are on the flyer
included in this Friday's mail folder.
Standardized Test Schedule
Students in
grades 5 and 8 began taking the PSSA's during the week of March 26.
5th and 6th graders will take the SCASD Math Thinking Test April
10-24. CAT V tests for all grade levels will begin April 23. A
comprehensive test schedule can be found though a link on the home
page of our web site.
Green Design
Fair
This free
event is being held on campus in the White Building from 11 to 3 on
Sunday, April 8. Team #2 will have a class project on display from
their Ecology and Sustainability project. Also, several CLC students
will have their art projects on display. For more information on the
fair, please see the flyer in the Friday mail folder.
CLC
Calendar: April 6 Children's Literature Matters
Conference at The Penn Stater April 8 Green Design Fair - 11 a.m. -
3 p.m. Penn State White Building April 13 NO SCHOOL for students
/ Staff Development Day April 17 Open House for new students -
7:00 p.m. Focus: Girls and Technology April 19 Open House for new students -
7:00 p.m. - General
Information Session April 19 Art Block Exhibitions - 2:00
p.m. April 20 NO SCHOOL for students
/ Staff Development Day
(CLC student presentation at 2:30)