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Number of the Week
99%
Last week's attendance rate for all three grades and the teachers. Well done Knights!
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13700 Narcoossee Road
Orlando, FL 32832
(407) 858-5522
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 Boys & Girls Soccer
Our soccer teams will square off in a very important competition this Wednesday vs. Innovation Middle School. We are hoping for a strong turnout from the community to cheer on our Knights at home!
Permission Form
We need all of our KNIGHT parents to visit
parentaccess.ocps.net to complete the Parent Technology Media and Information Consent Form this week.
The Parent Technology Media and Information Consent Form must be completed electronically by all parents/guardians annually in all schools. Each form provides parents and legal guardians with the right to make important decisions involving how your student can use available technology resources, how the district uses available media of your student, and what personal identifiable information is released about your student.
Parents, please note that without your consent on these forms your student cannot be featured in our school yearbook and or weekly advertisements of school events and accolades. Therefore, parents we are asking that you please access the Progressbook home page at
https://parentaccess.ocps.net to complete these short forms. Thank you for your attention.
In KNIGHTS Honor,
Stephanie R. Jackson, M. Ed.
Principal, Lake Nona Middle School
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 August 28 - School Pictures (Gym)
August 29 -
Chipotle Spirit Night
August 30 - Soccer vs. Innovation Middle School - 5:00-7:00 pm
September 4 - Labor Day - Holiday
September 5 - Soccer vs Hunter's Creek - Away
September 6 - Soccer vs Meadow Woods - Away
September 7 - DC Parent meeting - Cafeteria - 6:15-7:15 PM
September 11 - Thespian meeting - 4:05 - 5:30 PM
September 12 - SAC & PTSA - Media Center -5:30-7:00 & 7:00-8:00 PM
September 13 - Soccer vs Walker - Away
September 18 & 19 - Challenge Day
September 18 - Soccer vs South Creek - Home
September 21 - PSAT Parent Information Night (6:00pm, Cafeteria)
* SAT Practice - Khan Academy (info. flyer)
http://files.constantcontact.com/c7d77aab001/83ef0cb3-5592-4e49-b724-e3ff727cf912.pdf
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The moon raced across the continental United States from Oregon to South Carolina, earning this event its nickname as The Great American Eclipse on August 21, 2017. Our school was prepared for this extraordinary event with safety procedures for our teachers and eclipse glasses for every student. Our Knights will be in college during the next total solar eclipse on
April 8, 2024.
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LNMS is Now a Hero School
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Knight
Rigor
in the Classroom
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Sixth Grade World History with Ms. Jaques
Students were engaged in a kinesthetic learning activity in Ms. Jaques' classroom (6th grade World History) where they were each given a date card and had to arrange themselves in chronological order to create a human timeline. This helped to facilitate their understanding of how events are placed on a timeline, the ascending and descending order of events and identifying which side was BC and AD.
Social Studies with Mr. Rivera
Mr. Rivera dresses the part of a Homeland Security Department Immigration Officer as his students identify a scenario in arriving at the Orlando International Airport. The students had to pick a pathway a person must follow according to the naturalization and citizenship requirements that they have learned in class. The simulation scenario required the students to pass Mr. Rivera's check point at the airport using what the students had learned about the legal means of becoming a U.S. citizen.
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Orange County Public Schools will administer the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT 8/9) to all 8th grade students on October 11, 2017.
The PSAT 8/9 is a test that will help students and their teachers figure out what they need to work on most so that students are ready for college when they graduate from high school. It tests the same skills and knowledge as the SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, and PSAT 10, in a way that makes sense for the student's grade level. The PSAT 8/9 establishes a baseline measurement of our students' college and career readiness as they prepare to enter high school. It also gives our students a chance to preview the SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, and PSAT 10 and connect to AP courses.
Lake Nona Middle School will host a
PSAT Parent Night on Thursday, September 21, 2017, beginning at 6:00 pm in the cafeteria. We look forward to seeing you on September 21 to receive valuable information about the resources available to ensure our students have a successful testing experience.
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Please see the attached files for our 2017-2018 Lake Nona Knights boys and girls soccer team rosters. These young student-athletes fought hard over the course of 4 days of tryouts in both the heat and in pouring down rain!
A huge shout out and THANK YOU to my assistant coach, KYLE JOHNSON for always having my back and working with me so well through the many difficult decisions we had to make!
Please try to attend next Wednesday afternoon for our first and IMPORTANT match of the season against Innovation Middle School! The girls will play first, then the boys! Both matches should be fun and exciting to watch!
~ Coach Hall
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Robotics - First Lego League Teams
Tomorrow's innovators practice imaginative thinking and teamwork. Guided by adult Coaches, FIRST LEGO League teams research a real-world problem such as food safety, recycling, energy, etc., and are challenged to develop a solution. They also must design, build, program a robot using LEGO MINDSTORMS® technology, then compete on a table-top playing field.
It all adds up to tons of fun while they learn to apply science, technology, engineering, and math concepts (STEM), plus a big dose of imagination, to solve a problem. Along their discovery journey, they develop critical thinking and team-building skills, basic STEM applications, and even presentation skills, as they must present their solutions with a dash of creativity to judges. They also practice the Program's signature Core Values.
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Welcome to another fantastic school year!
The LNMS Media Center is open and ready for business. I am excited to begin my third year here as the media specialist for your wonderful children and I look forward to bringing them exciting books and engaging programs to enrich their time here at school.
~ Sharon Powers
And we are off to a great start with the SSYRA Reward Card Program!
This wall board illustrates how many students (footballs) have completed reading the SSYRA books (of 15 possible book titles - please see below)
We already have 11 students who have earned their reward card by reading and passing a test on three of this year's Sunshine State Young Readers Award books! Congratulations to:
6th Grade:
- Haywood, Kyra
- Kalidindi, Arya
- Torres, Liliana
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7th Grade:
- Batlemento, Sam
- Chhabra, Arnav
- Hunter, Emma
- Sahadeo, Chandani
- Wieckowski, Grace
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8th Grade:
- Higgins, Madison
- Perkins, Malachi
- Williams, Cadence
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SSYRA Book Spotlight of the Week:
Framed by James Ponti
So far, my favorite SSYRA book on this year's list. The sequel just came out this past week and I am dying to get a copy of it! And it doesn't hurt that Mr. Ponti is a local author, living right over in Maitland, working for the Golf Channel and his wife works for OCPS!
 So you're only halfway through your homework and the Director of the FBI keeps texting you for help...What do you do? Save your grade? Or save the country?
If you're Florian Bates, you figure out a way to do both.
Florian is twelve years old and has just moved to Washington. He's learning his way around using TOAST, which stands for the Theory of All Small Things. It's a technique he invented to solve life's little mysteries such as: where to sit on the on the first day of school, or which Chinese restaurant has the best eggrolls.
But when he teaches it to his new friend Margaret, they uncover a mystery that isn't little. In fact, it's HUGE, and it involves the National Gallery, the FBI, and a notorious crime syndicate known as EEL.
Can Florian decipher the clues and finish his homework in time to help the FBI solve the case?
(Review from Google)
* It's your one stop shop to all OCPS digital resources, including textbooks.
* Students sign in with their ID number as the username, and their password is the password they create at school.
* If students still have not created accounts at school, they will not be able to log in at home. If this pertains to your student, they can come to the media center in the morning before school for assistance.
* Textbooks:
Social Studies - Magraw-Hill Connect Ed
Language Arts -Springboard
Math-My HRW (HMH)
Science-Think Central (HMH) - all Fusion Science
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Weekly Success Indicators
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Leading indicators that impact our Knight's achievement in the classroom . . .
Indicator
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Week ended Aug. 18
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Week ended Aug. 25
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Classroom walk-throughs by members of the admin. team
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173
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NA
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ProgressBook logins by our Knight families
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380
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450
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Teacher attendance rate
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99%
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99%
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Student attendance - 6th gr.
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99%
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99%
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Student attendance - 7th gr.
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99%
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99%
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Student attendance - 8th gr.
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99%
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99%
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On-time bus arrivals - AM
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90%
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90%
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On-time bus arrivals - PM
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80%
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90%
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