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Community Brief from Endeavor Elementary
"We Rise by Lifting Others"
Thursday, October 1, 2020
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Families, please mark your calendars for Endeavor's Virtual Open House that will be taking place from October 13, 2020 to October 16, 2020. I invite you to see first-hand the wonderful instruction occurring in our classrooms and the creative way our Launched teachers are delivering instruction in today's unique educational environment. Our Navigators and teachers will be so proud to showcase their hard work!
Researchers agree that parental involvement is a crucial component in academic success. Your support is invaluable and a predictor of student growth. I trust you will take the opportunity to speak to your child's teacher during our upcoming conferences regarding standards based instruction, learning scales, learning targets and grades that are aligned to standards. I invite you to visit cpalms.org for a complete list of grade level standards in reading, mathematics, science and social studies. Understanding student expectations and where children are preforming on learning scales helps teachers customize lessons to meet every child's academic needs.
Be well and thank you for your continued support!
Mr. Knappins
Proud Principal
Endeavor Elementary School
Pictured very top: "Chatty Third Graders" (Student Social and Emotional Well-Being)
Orange County Public Schools has embarked on a three-year plan with the goal to utilize social and emotional learning skills to support academics. Pictured here, Ms. Lizardi's students are engaged in a social emotional learning lesson on mindfulness and coping strategies. One of this year's targets is to understand the connection between conative and cognitive instructional strategies.
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Content and Upcoming Events
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Albert Einstein dropped by last month to work with some of our kindergarten Navigators on an experiment! Please see their story below.
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Navi's Gator Snapshots
Engaged and Invested Community
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G. Good Manners
A. Always Attentive
T. Taking Responsibility
O. On Time & On Task
R. Respect Everyone
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Navigators On Time & On Task
High Expectations for Student Learning
Ms. Cuadrado and Ms. Vegas work with our aspiring broadcasters to prepare the daily morning news. Thank you for keeping us informed.
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PTA
Engaged and Invested Community
This year's first PTA sponsored event is a Spirit Week at Chick-fil-A. Please mention Endeavor Elementary and a portion of the proceeds from October 19, 2020 to October 23, 2020 will be donated to our school. Your support and participation will be greatly appreciated!
PTA is hard at work planning future events. Please look for information relayed via students.
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Wall to Wall
High Quality Team Members
Mr. Riberon, Endeavor's new art teacher, is putting his talents to good use and the art room is getting a new look. He is painting a mural and his muse is our beloved mascot Navi G.A.T.O.R. Everyone is looking forward to seeing it completed. Creating a beautiful environment that sparks the imagination is one of our primary goals.
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Up, Up and Away
Positive Climate and Safe Environment
This year's theme of "We Rise by Lifting Others" is prevalent through-out our campus and it is even being incorporated into lessons. Yearly themes create excitement and ensures that participants gather around a common idea.
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Blended Instruction
Positive Climate and Safe Environment
Launched students are center stage in Ms. Giraldo's class where she has creatively used technological resources to place her students at the front of the room facing their classmates ensuring successful interaction.
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| Close-up, on-line pictures of students learning from home (left) with the screen positioned in front of the other on-campus students (right) while Ms. Giraldo's instruction is underway.
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Mobile Donut Shop
Positive Climate and Safe Environment
Face-to-Face and Launched teachers working from school received a sweet surprise as the leadership team paid them a visit with a sweet treat. It was the perfect pick-me-up as we continue to rise by lifting others! |
Ding Dong
High Quality Team Members
Teaming up with parents, Ms. Khazar surprised all her students with a visit to their homes. Not having met their teacher in person, Navigators had to take a second look before they could place her. Ms. Khazar has since decorated her door with the pictures she took of her students with the hopes they will be passing through the threshold before too long. Students will surely feel welcomed! |
It Separates High Expectations for Student Learning - Big Idea 9: Changes in Matter SC.5.P.8.2 Investigate and identify materials that will dissolve in water and those that will not and identify the conditions that will speed up or slow down the dissolving process.
Fifth grade Launched students in Ms. Ricke's/Ms. Weeks' class conducted experiments with paper chromatography, a method for separating parts of a mixture of either a gas or a liquid solution. Using water soluble markers, students were able to follow the scientific process and conduct their own experiments at home.
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Partners in Shine
Positive Environment and Safe Climate
Endeavor would like to extend a warm welcome the newest member of the Navigator Team, Ms. Bonnie White, School Health Assistant. Ms. White will be working closely with Nurse Ellis to ensure that our students stay healthy and that Endeavor continues to remain a safe, germ free learning environment.
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Attention All Inductees Student Social and Emotional Well-Being
For the first marking period of the year, Navi GATOR has said "No House, No Problem" but the time has come to have our first G.A.T.O.R. House Induction Ceremony for all new first through fifth grade students new to Endeavor. Please make your calendars for October 14, 2020 at 1:45 PM. More information will be sent to participating students and their families.
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Learning in the Dark
High Expectations for Student Learning - Big Idea 2: The Characteristics of Scientific Knowledge - Scientific knowledge is based on empirical evidence, and is appropriate for understanding the natural world.
Fifth grade students in Ms. Mann's and Ms. Perez's classroom spent the day learning in the dark during "Glow Day." Imaginations sparked as students conducted experiments and collected data in the shimmering light.
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Officially Navigators
Student Social and Emotional Well-Being
Staff members new to Endeavor were eager to join one of the five GATOR Houses at our school. With great excitement Mr. Carlos Lebron, MTSS Coach, was welcomed into Leadership house; Ms. Bonnie White, School Health Assistant, joined Focus House; Ms. Tracy Hayes, First Grade Teacher, became a member of Vigilant House; and Mr. Bruno Riberon is now part of the Leadership House.
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Running Hot and Cold
High Expectations for Student Learning - LAFS.W.K. 1.1 Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell the reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book.
Kindergarten students were given the following writing prompt: Spending time with family and friends can be a lot of fun! In your opinion, do you think a hot summer day or a cold winter day would be more fun? Give an example of what you would do with our family and friends. Our littlest authors did a great job with terrific details within their pictures!
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Mad Scientist
High Expectations for Student Learning - Big Idea 9: Changes in Matter - Matter can undergo a variety of changes. Matter can be changed physically or chemically.
With the help of Albert Einstein, kindergarten students conducted an experiment to see if ice melted faster in sand or salt. Students made predictions, conducted observations, and collected data before drawing their conclusions.
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SAC and Parents as Partners
Engaged and Invested Community
Shared leadership and community ownership are both crucial to developing and sustaining community schools, the School Advisory Council (SAC) is the infrastructure for those practices in a community school. This dedicated team represents various segments of our community for the purpose of guiding our school towards continuous improvement.
The next SAC meeting is scheduled for October 13, 2020 at 7:30 a.m. This will be a blended meeting where members are invited to attend in person should they feel comfortable while other members attend via Microsoft Teams. Parent as Partners will meet immediately following the SAC meeting.
Mr. Derek Knappins, Principal
Mr. Cruz Diaz, Asst. Principal
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OCPS Parent Academy
Engaged and Invested Community
The Virtual Parent Academy is an extension of the Parent Academy which is a district-wide initiative designed to enhance achievement through the support of community and family involvement. From research, we understand that students achieve more when parents are involved in their child's education. The next virtual workshop will take place on Thursday, December 10, 2020 from 6 - 7 p.m. Participants will learn about options available for school choice and advanced studies for students in Orange County. For electronic registration visit www.ParentAcademy.ocps.net, or call 407.317.3300. The next in-person workshop of the Parent Academy is scheduled for November 7, 2020 at Windermere High School. The topic of discussion will be social and emotional learning. For a full schedule of Parent Academy and Virtual Parent Academy workshops, please visit www.ocps.net and click on the Students and Parents tab.
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Endeavor Elementary School | Mr. Derek Knappins, Principal | 407.251-2560 | EES Website |
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