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*Monday, May 23
Terra Nova/EOG testing began
*Tonight,
Tuesday, May 24
Vision Committee
meeting
6:00 p.m.
at the school
*Monday, May 30
Memorial Day Holiday
School Closed
*Tuesday, May 31
Board of Directors Meeting
6:30 p.m.
at the school
*Friday, June 3
Talent Show
9:00 a.m.
*Monday, June 6
Upper level
(grades 5-8)
Field Day
8:30 -11:30 a.m.
at Park Rd. Park
*Tuesday, June 7
Lower level
(grades K-4)
Field Day
8:30 - 11:30 a.m.
at Park Rd. Park
*PTO Family Fund questions?
Contact:
Suzanne Huffman
*Lunch Order questions?
Contact:
Mark Huffman
*Clip and send in
*We are a nut-free school for 2010-2011. Questions? Call the office.
*PTO meetings are held monthly. The next meeting Will be Friday, June 3 following the talent show. All are welcome! |
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Every hour makes a difference! It is vital that we track these hours. Record your time on the sheet at the school or send your hours to mrscholarsacademy@
gmail.com. |
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The Eagle's Nest Update... | |
...is a bimonthly e-newsletter that relies on YOUR submissions.
The next newsletter will be distributed on Monday, June 6. |
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The Eagle's Nest Update
Newsletter of Metrolina Regional Scholars' Academy
A Charter School Serving Highly Gifted Students
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Two weeks of testing began yesterday. Watch What's New on the school website for current updates about events happening during the last three busy weeks of school.
We have three classes for the first week of the summer program, June 20 - 24;
AM - At the Computer, grades 2 - 5
PM - Awesome Art - grades 4 - 8
All Day = Robotics Engineering - grades 6 - 8.
If you registered for any other class, you will receive a refund during the next couple of weeks. There are still openings in these classes if you wish to reallocate your registration to one of these.
For the earth, Marie Peine, Ph.D., Director |
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Field Day - Information From Coach Z
A very exciting time of the year is rapidly approaching... FIELD DAY! This year's field days will take place at Park Road Park located at 6220 Park Road. Coming from school, you would make a left onto Tyvola and a right onto Park Road. On Park Road, make your first right into Park Road Park and the field will be right in front of you. We will be using softball field #4 (by the pond and picnic bench areas). Upper level (grades 5-8) field day will take place on Monday, June 6th from 8:30 until 11:30 a.m. Lower level (grades K-4) field day will take place on Tuesday, June 7th from 8:30 until 11:30 a.m. We are in need of parent volunteers from all classes to help run our stations that the children will rotate through. Please contact your room parent if you are interested in volunteering for the morning. All parent volunteers need to report to field at 8:00 a.m. for directions on the stations.
All students need to be dropped off at Park Road at 8:15 a.m. Please do not take your child to the school first. Students will meet their teachers at the softball field at 8:15. For students that attend before care, we will provide transportation to get them to the park. All students will need to bring a bag lunch. We will provide transportation to get the children back to school following field day where they will finish the school day. You can pick up your child like normal at dismissal time. All students will need to dress comfortably for participation and the heat, please apply sunblock before coming to field day, hats are encouraged, and all students MUST wear sneakers to reduce the risk of injury and for better performance. If you should have any questions regarding field days, please do not hesitate to contact Noelle Zagorski at nzagorski@scholarsacademy.org.
Tennis Update
Our tennis season has come to an end. The tennis team finished at great season with 5 wins and 2 losses. Thanks for the hard work and dedication of Coach Brian Granger and our athletes! I would like to also congratulate Elissa Scherer and Naveen Paul who are made tennis All-Conference this year! Way to go athletes! |
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Letter From The Board Of Directors
Dear Scholars' Parents and Friends:
The Board of Directors is accepting nominations for new members. Pursuant to Section 2.4 of the Scholars' Academy Bylaws, anyone notified of the annual meeting "may nominate a person to be a director by delivering adequate information concerning that person's qualifications as a potential director, and a letter signed by such person agreeing to serve as a director if elected, to the Board of Directors no later than 30 days prior to such annual meeting."
The annual meeting is currently scheduled for June 28, 2011. Accordingly, we must receive a completed nomination form for each nominee no later than 5:00 p.m., Monday, May 30, 2011. Nomination forms are available on the Board of Directors page on the school website.
If you have further questions regarding applications for the Board, please contact Brad Chatigny at brad.chatigny@mac.com.
Sincerely,
The Board of Directors |
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Bravo, Scholars!
Kenny Keefner (Mrs. Smith, 4th grade) has earned a position on the lacrosse All-Star team for Mecklenburg County Youth Lacrosse League. Out of hundreds of boys that tried out, Kenny was selected as a starting attack man. The MYL All Star Team is a tournament travel team playing in two tournaments this summer. The first tournament is in Charlotte, at Elon Park astro turf fields on June 4 and 5.
Congratulations to Scholars' students who were recently recognized by the Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP). National Recognition - Auston Li. State Recognition - Auston Li, Megan Brickner, Apolonaire Brown, Nadia Ekezue, Lawson Gage, Alice Liu, Kyle Mitchell, Charlotte Szentesi-Thomas, Rajan Tayal, and Sofia Triana.
Duke TIP is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving academically gifted and talented youth. As a world leader in gifted and talented education, Duke TIP works with students, their families, and educators to identify, recognize, challenge, engage, and help students reach their highest potential.
Gray Stone Day School is proud to announce that Eldon Zacek, a Scholars' Academy alumnus, has been chosen as the Albemarle Optimist Club's "Boy of the Year" based on outstanding academic, athletic and civic achievement. Each Stanly County high school nominated one senior boy and one senior girl for this prestigious competition. Congratulations to Eldon!
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Help Out And Eat Free Pizza
Do you love to work outside and are you interested in keeping our school looking nice? If so, we need you!
We especially need help from now until the school hires an outside service. The yard is still growing! We need help mowing, trimming, and weeding.
The next work day is scheduled for this Saturday, May 28 at 9:00 a.m. The PTO will provide pizza and drinks for volunteers!
If you can help, contact Nilgun Trogdon at rayandnilgun@carolina.rr.com or 704-258-8833.
Children are welcome! |
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Book Sale This Week, Library Reminder
Book Sale - Be There!
Don't forget the PTO sponsored Barnes and Noble Book Sale on Thursday, May 26 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.at the Morrison Store (4020 Sharon Rd). Reminders will go out via email this week.
If your child is interested in participating in the poetry reading from 5:00 to 6:00 on the night of the book sale, please email your child's teacher. Poems must be the original work of the student and any Scholars' Academy student/alumnus is welcome to participate.
Library Books - Please Return!
If you have "borrowed" a book from the Scholars' Academy library, now is the time to return it. We are nearing the end of our cataloging project and need all of our books back in the Media Center for labeling and filing. Please place any books in the donation boxes by the entrance to the Media Center. It is tempting, but PLEASE do not take any books off the shelves during the last few weeks of school. We need the books physically in the library so that we can finish our cataloging and filing. |
Scholars' To Be Model Green School
The Scholars' Academy will be developing a new program this summer to be implemented in the fall. The USGBC Green Schools committee here in Charlotte has a goal to "Adopt a School" this year. They have agreed to use our school to help develop a sustainable road map on how to be more environmentally friendly. This will be an e-published document that other schools can then use to help themselves start the greening process!  What is the Adopt-a-School program?It's an opportunity to create a plan of steps, programs, and protocols for living sustainable WITHIN the school and get volunteers from the USGBC to help implement and hopefully fund the projects. We have gone through the process to work on getting our building LEED certified, but how we teach the kids about being sustainable and living sustainable on a daily basis in the school (and at home) will allow the kids to take this with them into the community. PROGRAMS LIKE: no waste lunches, recycling + reuse + repurpose, composting, gardens for the kids to grow food for homeless, green cleaning, monitoring energy use, Science projects , Creative Reuse projects by kids ( $500 weekly grants available), Earth club, and more. The program is only limited to our imagination, but having a cohesive PLAN in place will allow us to not only move forward as a group, but foster opportunities for kids and parents to really get involved.
If you are interested in participating in the core team to develop the program or you just want to volunteer, please contact Shana Paschal at SPaschal@littleonline.com. |
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Books For Biblioteca Punta Banco
Let's "Bust the Bag" and fill a bag will Spanish or Spanish/English bilingual books for the Biblioteca Punta Banco, located in the remote village of Punta Banco in Costa Rica. Mrs. York's class will be collecting books after spring break until the end of the school year.
Also, monetary donations are greatly appreciated! Thank you for your support! |
Snack Cart Schedule Reminder
Please remember to bring in individually wrapped snacks to Mr. Yodice's classroom in your designated month. Snacks can be home made or store bought, remember - no nuts. Proceeds will go toward the 8th grade trip to Washington, D.C.
The schedule is as follows: May - Rhodes & Metcalf |
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Science Olympiad Teams Compete
The Scholars Academy Science Olympiad Team represented our school Saturday May 22 at the county tournament at UNCC. This was our first year in competition and we had a great time as well as some winners. We had two teams, Varsity and JV. Team members and winners are listed below.
Varsity members
Varun Satenapalli
Jivin Barve
Cy Pair
Amelia Probst
Caroline Greiner
Susanna Greiner
Dylan Yang
Navami Jain
Angeline Lynch
Jeffrey Vincent
JV members
Rhea Bhagia
Anuraag Ashar
Kaylee Schwanke
Olivia Probst
Alan Xie
Tanisha Paul
Ronak Bhagia
Vittal Bhat
Mihir Patwardhan
David Scott
Varsity
Dylan Yang/Jeffrey Vincent - 2nd place(out of 33) for First in Flight
Caroline Greiner - 2nd place (out of 33) for Backyard Botony
Navami Jain / Susanna Greiner - 5th place (out of 33) for Egg Drop
Junior Varsity
Alan Xie/Mihir Patwardhan - 1st place (out of 27) for SkyQuest
Ronak Bhagia/Vittal Bhat - 2nd place (out of 27) for First in Flight
Rhea Bhagia/Kaylee Schwanke - 2nd place (out of 27) for Describe It, Build It
Olivia Probst/Kaylee Schwanke - 3rd place (out of 27) for Interdependence Day
Alan Xie/Mihir Patwardhan - 4th place (out of 27) for All Charged Up
Ronak Bhagia/Mihir Patwardhan - 4th place (out of 27) for Bone and Brawn
Rhea Bhagia/Anuraag Ashar - 6th place (out of 27) for Animal Adaptations
Vittal Bhat/David Scott - 6th place (out of 27) for Secret Structures
The JV team won 6th place out of 27 teams. Congratulations!
Thanks to the Pair family for help with the rockets and the doughnuts, to Kathryn Thomas from Discovery Place and to Dr. Peine for school support.
Attention parents of 2nd, 3rd and 4th graders. If you are interested in helping with next year's team. Please contact Rebecca Greiner rgreiner@bellsouth.net for more information.
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