Raven Report: August 25, 2021 |
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The Summit Raven made a grand entrance at Meet the Teacher and the Back to School Bash! Special shout out to SPO for organizing the purchase of our new mascot! |
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Have you seen our new Summit Raven?! Our friendly mascot needs a name! Be sure to submit your suggestion(s) by the end of this week. Just drop your Raven name idea in the blue box located in the lobby. |
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Lunch pricing for the 2021-2022 school year will be a flat fee of $5.50 per lunch. Lunch orders will be taken each morning with attendance. Parents may also order lunch in advance through the Family Portal if they choose.
To order lunch through the Family Portal:
- Login to Family Portal
- Under Student (left menu), select Lunch
- Select your student from the drop down menu at the top of the page
- Select +Create Web Order
- Select the day(s) you wish to order lunch and enter lunch quantity
- Hit Submit Order
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Read Our COVID-19 Response Policy Updates |
Please review our updated COVID-19 response policies linked below. Information on future updates will be shared with families as the situation continues to evolve in the Springfield community.
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August 2021
26: SPO meeting, 9am
26: Volunteer Training, 10am
September 2021
6: NO SCHOOL (Labor Day)
7: SPO Read-a-Thon begins
9: $2 Uniform Buyout Day, Patriots Day Theme
15: Late Start at 9:30am
20: Board of Trustees meeting, 5:30pm
23: $2 Uniform Buyout Day
23: SPO meeting, 9am
24: NO SCHOOL (Teacher Work Day)
27: School Picture Day
27-10/1: Scholastic Book Fair
29: Parent Education with Dr. Brandi Klepper, 6:30-7:30pm
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The Summit invites you to join us on Thursday, September 29th from 6:30-7:30pm for an educational presentation by Dr. Brandi L. Klepper, clinical psychologist.
Dr. Klepper will focus her presentation on adolescent brain development and supportive resources for parents of children about to enter adolescence and middle school.
The presentation will be hosted on campus, and a Zoom option will be available. More information on attending virtually will be shared with families closer to the event date.
To RSVP for this event, please use the Sign Up Genius link below.
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Dr. Brandi L. Klepper is a Missouri licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in children, adolescents and adults who are gifted, talented and/or high achieving. She has had a private psychology practice specializing in gifted and talented individuals since 2002. |
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Seventh and eighth graders are getting settled in at the start of school with Upper School Math Teacher, Mrs. Dawn Eckstein. |
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Middle School Mathematicians |
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Mrs. Eckstein, Summit Upper School Math Teacher, is so excited to get started with the 2021-2022 school year. Top priority for middle school math will be getting to know each other and developing classroom norms. Sixth grade will move into a unit on area, while integrated math students slide into a unit on transformations. The first unit for Algebra I students is statistics, which provides a great opportunity to tell stories with numbers. |
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Welcome to Mrs. Griffin, Lower School Art |
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Mrs. Linda K. Griffin has 39 years of art teaching experience. She has taught wonder years through graduate level classes. Linda received her BSE in art education from Arkansas State University and her MSE in secondary education with an emphasis in art education from Southwest Baptist University. She completed National Board Certification in Art, Early Adolescent through Young Adulthood in 2004. In 2002, she was honored with the title of Missouri Middle School Art Teacher of the year and then Missouri Secondary Art Teacher of the Year a few years later. She taught as an adjunct faculty member at Southwest Baptist University from 1990-2005. She has developed two art products (Color Sculpt and Sidewalk Sticks). She has sponsored numerous international educational student tours over the past years.
Linda has been married for 45 years to her best friend, Dennis Griffin. They have two sons, two daughter-in-laws, and four grandchildren. She enjoys making quilts, working with clay, hiking, biking, swimming, kayaking, gardening, and traveling.
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Summit Early Learners enjoy spending three days a week in Music class with Mrs. Meredith Taylor, Summit Lower School Music Teacher. |
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Lower School Music: Hitting all the High Notes! |
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Mrs. Taylor, The Summit's Lower School Music teacher, is very excited to be making music with lower school Summit learners! Students will sing, move in rhythm, train their ears to differentiate intervals and tonalities, explore the music of many cultures, and hone their critical listening skills. With an emphasis on keyboard skills, students will develop an understanding of scales and chords essential to future musical endeavors.
Mrs. Taylor looks forward to collaborating with other Summit teachers to reinforce topics covered in their classes. For instance, Early Learners will identify sounds made by things they see up in the sky, and fifth grade students might compose songs about plate tectonics and volcanoes.
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Summit fourth graders, Vivien and Estella, practice their relay handoff during the first session of Running Club. |
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Running Club: 2nd-6th Graders |
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During the hottest week of the year, The Summit's Running Club held their first session! Under the direction of Summit parents Angela Tang and Angela Teters, Summit second through sixth graders escaped the heat to practiced drills and relay handoffs inside the building on Tuesday. "I thought the games were really fun to play with each other," said Summit fourth grader Estella M. "Running is something that I like to do. I am looking forward to next week!"
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Summit Girl Scouts had a great time kayaking the James River with 37N Expeditions last weekend! They floated (with and without boats), enjoyed a picnic lunch, learned how to paddle and how to read the river, learned how to get in the boats when they fell into the water, enjoyed some serious water fights, and finished with Andy's frozen custard riverside-style! It was a perfect way to spend a hot, humid Ozarks summer day! |
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Girl Scouts: First Meeting of the Year! |
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The Summit Girl Scouts are hosting their first meeting of the school year this weekend, and all are welcome! If you have a Summit student (Kindergarten and up) interested in learning more about Girl Scouts, contact Summit Troop Leader and Summit Parent, Shelley Beall, for more information!
The Summit Girl Scouts are also looking for a parent interested in co-leading our youngest group, the Daisies (Kindergarten & 1st grade). If you are interested, or would like more information, please contact Shelley Beall.
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Summit Parent Organization |
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Summit students had a blast at the Back to School Bash in the Big Backyard! Thank you to SPO for hosting such a fun community event! |
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First General Meeting of the School Year |
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As a Summit Parent or Guardian, you are a member of the Summit Parent Organization (SPO). SPO was formed in 2007 as a link between parents, faculty, staff, and the Board of Trustees to enhance communication and foster a partnership to create the best learning environment possible.
The first SPO Meeting of 2021-2022 will be held on campus on Thursday, August 26th at 9:00 am. All parents/guardians are welcome to attend. Please RSVP to Rachel Rothwell, SPO President, so we can be sure to have enough chairs for everyone.
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Volunteer Training, Thursday 8/26 at 10:00 am |
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The Summit will be hosting a volunteer training training this Thursday, August 26th immediately following the SPO Meeting.
Volunteer trainings cover all the important information needed to volunteer as a class celebration assistant, chaperone, or driver for school fields trips and events.
Volunteers should bring their driver's license, most recent proof of insurance, and picture of license plate to show up-to-date registration on the day of volunteer training. Volunteers are responsible for the cost of running a background check ($15.25 that will be charged to your family account).
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When you shop on smile.amazon.com, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% fo the purchase price of eligible products to the charitable organization of your choice, The Summit!
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Mabel's Labels are great, adhesive labels for everything: uniform shirts, water bottles, lunch boxes, pencil cases, laptops, etc. They stick and won't come off in the wash! |
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