E.A. Young Academy is a not-for-profit, private academy created to generate transformative changes to meet
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of the K-12, gifted, talented, and high ability scholar.
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Vol. 5 Issue 11 - February 11, 2017
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A Look Ahead
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Mark Your Calendar:
Feb 13 FLARES Meeting 8:30
AM @ All About Cha
Feb 14 Cupid's Auction (Please send in donated items!)
Feb 16 Curious Minds Outreach Event 6:00
PM
Feb 20 Presidents' Day Holiday
Feb 21 College Preparation Workshop 6:00-7:30
PM
Feb 24 Spirit Assembly (Dress like a Superhero)
Mar 1 Grades 4-8 Field Investigation: Holocaust Museum
Mar 3 FLARES Meeting
Mar 3 Spring Dance for MS/US Scholars
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Curious Minds - February 16
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Please share our new Curious Minds event with your friends who have preschool and elementary-aged children! More to come! They can register
here!
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College Preparation Workshop
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Please join us Tuesday evening, February 21 at 6:00 for a workshop for parents and scholars looking ahead to college! Register here!
At this workshop, participants will learn:
- What school is the best fit for each scholar
- What is FAFSA, CommonApp, ZeeMee, CCS, Apply Texas, EFC -Calculation, Raise.me and more
- How families in all ranges of income maximize financial aid resources and awards.
- The 5 biggest myths that lead families to believe they won't qualify for financial aid.
- Why families need to understand the government's financial aid formulas and manage them effectively
Pre-registration is required.
This session will be led Michelle Ulloa and Jeremy Breinholt, Certified College Planning Specialists with Clever Pathways. Again, the registration link!
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Firehawk Family Campaign Update
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Thank you all for helping us reach the $75,000 milestone in our Firehawk Family Campaign! The faculty and staff held up their end of the bargain today by challenging the scholars to an all-out silly string war! Our next goal is to reach $100K (and work our way closer to $125k and 100% participation)! The Campaign is about joining together to make a significant impact for our scholars and we hope that each family with make it a philanthropic priority. If you have questions or need materials or ideas for outreach to your network, please contact school administration. Thank you for your continued support!
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K-3 Celebrates 100 Days of School!
Erin Austin, Mimi Turbeville, BA
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The K-3 classes celebrated 100 days of school this week! Mrs. Turbeville and Mrs. Austin had all sorts of enriching activities prepared to help the scholars celebrate! They compiled lists of 100 words (20 nouns, 20 verbs, 20 adjectives, 20 contractions and 20 compound words), built 100-item snack plates and structures with 100 cups! They timed themselves to see how many things they could do in 100 seconds, built and created with sets of 100 Legos or pattern blocks, counted lollipop licks and Starburst chews, etc. etc.! Wow, what fun!
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Sixth Grade Advisory/Science/Social Studies
Brenda Edins, BEd
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Science: Sixth Graders had a "Freaky Friday" preview of their Human Body Systems this week. They prepared an "experience" for their classmates over the systems they are researching. Teams then set up stations for their classmates to try attacking a bacteria with antibodies, matching the major parts of the respiratory system with names, placing the nervous system organs in the correct place, feeding a lamb chop to a Minecraft model and watching the digestive system at work, and using a rubber glove to model the movement of fluids in the lymphatic system.
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Cubby Monitors
Student Article by Raquel G.
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Home is where the heart is; the cubby is where the clutter is. Thankfully, our dutiful Cubby Monitors always have an eye out for a mess. When a scholar's belongings start to escape his or her cubby and infringe on the rest of the classroom, the Cubby Monitor appears and reminds them to keep the environment neat. Keeping organized is a tough job, and getting others to keep organized is sometimes even tougher. Kai P. says that the hardest part of being a Cubby Monitor is getting people to clean up. Cubby Monitor Cade B. jokes, "yelling at people gets the job done." Indeed, all Young scholars know that the Cubby Monitors are a force to be reckoned with! These scholars, besides having the authority to tell others to keep their messes under control, also have the power to go to an authority and have the mess-maker fined Hawkeyes. However, the job leaves a lot of room for generosity and helping others; Kai says that the most fun part of being a Cubby Monitor is that when his peers aren't around, he can help them by cleaning their cubbies himself. All in all, being a Cubby Monitor comes with a substantial amount of responsibility and sway, and I think we're all grateful that the monitors use their power fairly!
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Math Lab D
Allison Ross, BS MEd
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Scholars completed several theme park-related math scenarios, improved their understanding or negative integers and related operations. This past week, they began designing their own theme parks, complete with rides and admission fees, and will develop corresponding expressions to mathematical situations related to their theme park.
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Spanish
Marilu Rosales, MEd
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Details to come soon about our Spanish presentations for this year. I'm sure you all have heard about the mask madness that has taken over my classroom!! Here are some pictures of some, excited to see how it all comes out!!
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Honors Biology
Carol Raymond, BM BMEd MEd
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The scholars completed their study of Mendelian genetics through the magic of Harry Potter by creating some pretty amazing monsters!
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Algebra II
Carol Raymond, BM BMEd MEd
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The Algebra II students revisited transformations, dilations and combinations of functions recently. Earlier this year, they investigated lines, parabolas and absolute value functions. Now, they added the square root function and circle function. They also completed an experiment with a mirror and multiple meter tapes modeling the combinations of functions, so they actually experienced function combinations in real life.
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AP Research
Carol Raymond, BM BMEd MEd
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If you haven't participated in Raquel's research project yet, please click on this
link! We would greatly appreciate your help! Raquel is very close to her goal number of participants. Once she reaches her goal, she will be able to analyze her data, so please help her reach her goal!
Please consider participating in this study as well: (this is for ADULT friends & families of EAYA - requests for students will also be coming out directly to parents via email.) "I am conducting a study on perceived bias in films due to lenses used and would like to have you take part in it. If you chose to participate, you will be asked to watch a short clip and take a 10-minute survey afterwards. Data collection is on 2/16/17 and 2/21/17 between 12:30 and 5:00pm." If you are interested in participating and can visit the EAYA campus on one of the days listed, please email craymond@eayoungacademy.com and I will forward you the additional information. Thank you for supporting our scholars!
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Computer Science
Evan Fuchs, BS
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The Upper School CompSci students worked hard to complete their mods for the popular game "Don't Starve Together." They created a wide variety of modifications, ranging in scope from teleporting unicorns to Totino's Pizza Rolls. Currently, we are exploring the basics of the Unreal Editor as we work to create interactive 3D game environments. But first, we need bananas.
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Health Promotion
Amy Klein, BS MS
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Please remember to adhere to the school's health and wellness policy: any scholar who has gone home with a temperature of 100 degrees or greater and/or has been prescribed antibiotics must be fever-free and have been on antibiotics for twenty-four hours before returning to school. We have had several students who were unable to participate in HP because they said they had had a fever the day before. Thank you!
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K/1 ELA
Mimi Turbeville, BA
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ELA: We wrapped up our story elements unit this afternoon. As our summative assessment, K1 scholars chose a fairy tale and illustrated the characters, setting, problem, and solution for the story and wrote what lesson it teaches. Then, each scholar presented his or her work to the class. Everyone did a terrific job articulating their ideas!
We also loved sharing our completed journals with our 4/5 buddies!
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K-1 STEM
Mimi Turbeville, BA
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We began our new science unit this, where we will explore
How The World Works.
Our central idea is
Matter has properties that we can observe so we can understand how it changes
. Since this will be an experiment-rich unit, we prefaced our experimenting by learning and posting the steps of the Scientific Method.
Then, it was time to start our first experiment!
Our materials were a glass jar, vinegar and eggs.
Our question: W
hat happens when I put eggs in vinegar?
We each made our own hypothesis.
Krish predicts the eggs will explode!
Cadence thinks the vinegar might harden the eggs.
Ria, Kai and Ryan all wonder if it will turn the eggs into balls.
After we had all written our hypotheses, it was time to EXPERIMENT!
Kai placed the first egg, next Cadence, then Ria. Then, Krish covered them with vinegar and we started to observe!
Next, we recorded our data, like the good scientists we are!
This particular experiment will take several days.
Each afternoon, we will observe and record what we notice.
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Supply Keepers
Student Article by Katarina G.
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The supply keepers help keep our school in order. After school, they carefully arrange the supplies in their homerooms and restock anything that needs restocking. A key part of this job is organization. All of the supply keepers are indeed organized and enjoy what they do. Sydney S. says that she cannot pinpoint the best part of being a supply keeper because she likes every moment of it. Staying after school does not seem to be a problem for our tidy scholars, because the task is simple and quick. Every supply keeper recommends this job to any organized person with common sense and a good eye for organization. When these scholars do their job, they feel a sense of fulfillment. Furthermore, there is not much for a scholar to master within this job, so it is fun. For these reasons, they are all looking forward to applying for it again.
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MATHCOUNTS
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The "Fibonachos" and "Acute-tea-PIes" had a great time participating with over 200 other students from all over the Metroplex at the MATHCOUNTS competition last weekend at TCC Fort Worth. Way to go, Mathletes!
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ELA E
Brenda Edins, BEd
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Our ELA group has just complete the first third of our novel,
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys. They have taken the sensory information gathered from the novel about life in a cattle car, and they have written themselves into the story. We are preparing for a field investigation to the Dallas Holocaust Museum on March 1st, where we will see an actual cattle car used to transport Holocaust victims.
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ELA F
Allison Ross, BS MEd
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Scholars just wrapped up their reading of
Animal Farm are ready to discuss this rather disturbing novella! They are also hard at work developing their escape room and can't wait for others to try it out in March.
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4/5 Science
Kerensa Prostek, BS MEd
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In Science class, scholars were creating a DNA ladder from gumdrops and licorice. The scholars had to correctly match up the bases.
The scholars researched a scientist with a partner and create a skit to represent an interview that might have happened a long time ago.
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Seventh Grade Purple Cord Project
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Operation Kindness is in need of paper towels for their facility and care of the animals. So, Ms. Ross' advisory will host a drive to collect paper towel rolls on Monday, February 13! As scholars bring them in, we will build a structure in the library with them for all to see. Help us build our structure and support Operation Kindness!
In addition to our drive, we are in the training process to work at the facility. We can't wait to drop off an abundance of paper towels when we head to the shelter to volunteer!
Thank you for your support!
The mission of Operation Kindness is to care for homeless cats and dogs in a no-kill environment until each is adopted into responsible homes and to advocate humane values and behavior. Their vision is a world where all cats and dogs have loving, responsible, forever homes.
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Seventh Grade Advisory and Science
Allison Ross, BS MEd
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Science: We have been busy studying the major plates of Earth's crust and how they move. An experiment to demonstrate convection currents was a big hit and produced some interesting photos.
Scholars also just completed a Geologic Time project. They had a choice of projects: Moving Mountains - an illustrated time line of at least 6 major tectonic events and the landforms that were changed dramatically during each event, or When on Earth - an illustrated geologic time line naming the major periods of geologic time and the significant events that occurred during each time period.The results were so creative! We had a spinning information wheel, a clay mountain cross-section, a puzzle, a drop down book with hidden pull-out information tabs, an illustrated mountain drawing, a couple of digital presentations, and a 3D game board! Next week, engineering design steps will be used in a culminating project for Science and Social Studies on Biomimicry.
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Upper School Humanities
James Bishop, BA MA
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In Humanities this past Friday, we performed our "Historical TED Talks." The assignment was to develop a TED-style talk as a historical figure and perform it for an audience. Lindsey was Thomas Cromwell, Katarina was Cardinal Richelieu, Quincy was Charles Darwin, Audrey was Susan B. Anthony, and Jonathan was Nikolai Tesla. The AP Humanities class will be doing their TED talks on Monday. More video footage to come, but in the meantime, check out this video of Lindsey G.'s presentation on Thomas Cromwell!
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Performing Arts
Brenda Edins, BEd; Jeremy Edins, BA
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6th grade Performing Arts scholars have completed their auditions for their final production. We will be presenting "The Forgotten Door," based on the children's book by Alexander Key and adapted for stage by Gregory A. Falls. The scholars have learned how difficult casting can be, and they will be strengthening their skills in the production areas of theatre during this production. Our show has several special effects, and the scholars will be hard at work making those happen.
4/5 Performing Arts scholars have been studying the characters in several famous scripts to determine suitability for our class. Our focus has been on "The House At Pooh Corner," "Narnia," and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
The Firehawk Players are ready to cast "The Play that Went Wrong," and Mr. Lyda is in heaven. The set and prop requirements for this production are unique to say the least! We are certain the design/construction team would love assistance!
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