"Find Your Voice"
January 26, 2019
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Welcome back
to High School Highlights; a weekly wrap-up of events, designed especially for high school parents and students at Summit Academy, to help keep you in the know.
It's a busy time in the high school! As you read through the events and articles, should you have any questions, please feel free to contact the high school.
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- 2/2: Mother/Daughter Brunch at ZEGGS 11:00 a.m.
- 2/2: Social Event: Girl's Lock-In 5 PM - 9 a.m.
- 2/6: Sr. Parent Meeting:
~6:30-7:15 Graduation Information and Ordering
~ 7:15-8:00 Post-graduation program discussion
- 2/9: Social Event: Boys Lock-In 5 PM - 9 a.m.
- 2/15: NO SCHOOL
- 2/22: Parent/Student Conferences
- 2/25: NO SCHOOL
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Please mark your calendars for Wednesday evening, February 6 at 6:30 and join us in the Library for a Senior Parent Meeting. The first part of the meeting will be dedicated to all things related to graduation. Balfour will be here to take your orders for caps and gowns, as well as invitations, and we will be happy to answer any questions you may have regarding graduation day. (You will receive packets from Balfour prior to this to look through.) The second part of the meeting will begin about 7:15 and will be for any parents who wish to stay and talk about the
possibility
of Summit High School having a post-graduate program next year. It will be a "town hall meeting" format. At this point, we are interested in finding out how many families are interested in a program and what your needs may be. We would appreciate this evening being parents only. Thank you!
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In order to support the needs of a group of parents with early work schedules, free before school services were begun for high school students in the fall of 2018. The safety of our students is always our priority, including knowing where they are at all times, should there be an emergency. Ms. Hoagland, Ms. Miller and Ms. Beach take turns opening the High School early to accommodate these students. Attached is our formal Before School Drop-Off Policy.
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Social Event: Girls Ground Hog's Day Lock In
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The Girls Lock In is scheduled for Saturday, February 2, from 5:00 PM until 9 a.m.
Drop off and pick up will be at the Sierra House at Summit Academy and the cost is $10 per student. Each girl will need to wear comfortable clothes and shoes, bring their sleeping bag and pillow, pajamas and toothbrush and a snack to share. Pizza will be provided in the evening and a light breakfast in the morning. Parent chaperones are welcome. Please RSVP to sbeach@summit-academy.org. There is also a sign-up sheet on the bulletin board in the High School. For any student that would like to come for the evening, but not stay overnight, arrangements may be made through Susan Beach.
Looking forward to a great evening with the girls of Summit High School!
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- Math: The class is working hard practicing conversions. Ask them what the butterfly method and the oval method is!
- Literacy: Vocab Unit 9 Assessment 1/29. Completed and edited 20-min descriptive short stories with visuals. Great job!
- Economics: Thank you, parents, for your responses to our Planning Committee letters and emails. The class ("Student Board") continues to plan for our business venture.
- Biology: Wrapping up our unit on plants. Review and assessment this week.
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- Math: Students are working on square roots, exponents, ratios, and integers. They continue to work on playlists.
- Literacy: Students are working on informational reading, identifying parts of speech, key projects and are finishing their novel study on Dracula next week.
- American Govt: Students are learning about the acquisition of the Western States and Hawaii from the Native Americans, Native American Culture, and Alaska.
- Science: Students are learning about rocks, volcanoes and the formation of the earth. I expect to do a rock study lab and a volcano study lab in the next few weeks.
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- School to Work: Excellent feedback from intern positions for our 12th graders, so well done to all of them. The 9th grade will begin Career Education visits tomorrow, and they are all excited to find out what it is like to work in a movie theatre!
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- Math: Practice measuring and making angles using a protractor, recognizing types of angles within various shapes, reviewing order of operations and using PEMDAS.
- Literacy: Writing our Bio Poem, distinguishing between similes and metaphors and locating them in poems, reading "The Fall of Freddie the Leaf, Leo Buscaglia and writing a free verse poem about Freddie. Next week: personification.
- Health: Reviewing Chapter 7/Human Development and developing test questions from material in chapter. Next week: test on Tuesday; then, DNA investigation.
- Practical Living: Jobs completed recycling collected; web investigation for a planned camping trip and the cost involved; and, delicious dish/fudge prepared by Emily.
- Physical Science: Learning about Newton's Three Laws of Motion and applying those principles in a lab. Next week - gravity and chapter review.
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- Math: Next week we will finish our unit ton time; test on Thursday.
- Literacy: Silent reading/journal in class each day. Next week we will write a compare/contrast essay using the creation myths we read.
- Spanish 1: We continue to review descriptive words. Next week, vocabulary for schedules, time, and using the verb tener.
- Spanish 2: Our new unit next week will focus on asking questions and building on our vocabulary for food related items.
- Senior Seminar: Next week we continue to practice filling out forms and understanding what they ask for. Students have a weekend challenge to do a household chore and prepare something to eat at home this weekend.
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As always, please let us know if there is anything we can do for you!
Your High School Team ~
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