Dear OSES Families,

The first day of Fall is Saturday, September 23rd. OSES, in particular our PE teachers, welcome the cooler weather. That following Thursday night is our Hispanic Heritage Night. Since 2008, this event is our first social event outside school hours. It provides parents, students, and staff an opportunity to come to the campus and meet other parents, staff, and meet some of your student’s friends (both old and new). Our school demographics remain one of the most diverse in the state of Florida, with each major ethnic group represented by approximately 25% of the student body. I’ve met several families that feel this is one of the most important qualities of our school and prepares children for the real world, or even global market.

Another outcome of school diversity is decreased disciplinary issues. “Bullies” typically target students who are different than others; at OSES, it would be hard to find the target among all the differences. Cultural differences do not hinder learning or social interactions, they add welcomed “spice” to the melting pot. Sometimes I wish we didn’t have uniforms to allow cultural expression even more so on campus (don’t tell your student).

While Hispanic Heritage will focus on one group, we hope you join us to celebrate not only Hispanics but the diversity that makes OSES a special place.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength. -Maya Angelou

Michael Singleton

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Mayor Buddy Dyer has officially designated November 4th as Orlando Science Schools Day, a special occasion that calls for celebrations! Join us for our highly anticipated International Festival, an annual event that showcases the rich diversity of our school community.

As the most culturally diverse public school in Florida, we believe it's crucial to honor and appreciate the multitude of cultures represented here. Our festival will be a vibrant feast for the senses, featuring captivating performances, captivating dances, exquisite art displays, interactive exhibits, captivating storytelling sessions, and much more!

To ensure we make this event an unforgettable experience, we kindly request your participation in a quick survey. Your valuable input will help us better prepare and tailor the festival to exceed everyone's expectations. Please submit your responses by September 22nd.

Our community partner and neighbors are hosting a harvest festival

This event promises a fun-filled day for the community.

Bring your family and friends and enjoy a variety of activities, including live music, a community resource fair, sponsor booths, and the Packing District Farmers Market with food vendors and local artisans. For kids, we will have a pumpkin patch, a costume contest, a Lil' Sprout Kids Run, and a Kids Zone with lots of fun activities and games and more. For more details or to register, click on the link.

Join us to celebrate the beauty of the season and bring the community together to build solutions for a better food future and encourage each other to improve our physical health through exercise.

Help bring the community together to build solutions for a better food future.

This is a FREE event. Please RSVP to attend.

https://secure.qgiv.com/event/4rootssproutsprint/page/harvestfestival/

Due to supply issues at the OCPS level, we do not know if hot or cold lunch will be served. Please be prepared to have either lunch until further notice.

Breakfast and Lunch will be FREE for the 2023-2024 school year

If your child has food allergies and will require a special meal from OCPS please click on the link below to fill out the special diet order form

Special Diets for Food Allergies - Orange County Public Schools (ocps.net)

Sixth grade students will be assigned an individual Chromebook this school year. OSES has started handing out Chromebooks to students that have paid the $60 Student Fee via School Pay. We continue to work hard to hand out Chromebooks to students that have paid the fee. If you have not paid, please use the link below. Students will not have the option to use a personal device as it does not include our campus Secure Browser and safety software. Contact Mrs. Carter (Cayce.carter@orlandoscience.org) with any questions.

Chromebook Payment Link (6th ONLY)

All students have participated in the first FAST Progress Monitoring assessment. Student results from PM1 are for informational purposes only. Grades 3-6 received an email with information about how to access the results last Friday. Students in Grades K-2 will receive printed Score Reports today with student Progress Reports. All grade levels must sign and return the teal Acknowledgment of Receipt to homeroom teacher by Friday, September 22nd. Contact Mrs. Carter (Cayce.Carter@orlandoscience.org) with any questions.

This week in social studies students discussed how their feeling can change over the course of the day. Students will also discuss how they feel in different situation within a day. In science students reviewed the 5 senses with different activities for each sense. Students demonstrated what they learned over the course of the unit.

In first grade, we are learning about personal narratives. A personal narrative is a true story about an experience in your life. It has a beginning, middle, and end and uses words like: I, my, me, and we. At the end of the month, we will have our first Drop Everything and Write on a personal narrative. Please help us at home by having your child write about a personal experience in their life.

In Ms. DiNuzzo’s class, we are practicing our personal narratives by writing about our experiences after riding a virtual roller coaster in the classroom. The students were very excited and asked if they could continue to write!

Also, in Ms. DiNuzzo’s class we became engineers to design and build a raft to get the goats across the river from The Three Billy Goats Gruff, one of our Sunshine State Books. Please see the pictures below. Students really enjoyed this in class project.

Congratulations to the following students in Ms. DiNuzzo’s class for receiving an Xtra Math Addition and/or Subtraction certificate. Each student received a certificate, trophy, and special reward pencil. Keep up the great work!

I look forward to your child getting the next certificate!

Upcoming Projects in 1st grade:

-Some classes have completed or are currently wrapping up their Timeline Projects

-Our next grade level project will be our Sunshine State Cereal Box Projects. More details will be sent home soon.

Progress Reports were sent home today! Please return the attached AOR forms as soon as possible. This will be a participation grade in OSES Connect.

Next Tuesday, is our first Parent Teacher Conferences, we look forward to seeing everyone soon.

If you have any questions, please contact your child’s teacher. Have a great weekend!

In second grade we learned about different kinds of rocks and how rocks are formed. They were group into 4 groups and each group was given 4 different kinds of rock. They measured using the ruler, identify the textures and size. It was a fun learning activity.

The weeks are flying by and we have accomplished so much so far. We are currently working on a Novel Study called Crenshaw where students are researching the author and learning how to use a dictionary to look up difficult words.

Math has been challenging for some as we are getting to tackle multiplication and division facts.

In Science we are looking into properties of matter and learning about volume, measurement and mass.

We are looking forward to a great school year.

The year is really starting to fly by! Next week, on Thursday, 4th grade will be hosting Parent Teacher Conferences. Invites are going to be sent out by email so keep an eye out for a message from your child’s teacher.

Mr. Mateer’s class is really starting to get settled in. In reading, we’re focusing on improving our comprehension skills with informational texts. We got the chance to read about the science behind sight, animal senses, and even how a dog can help a blind student get through the day.

In math, we’re zooming through multiplication. These kids know their facts! This gives us a chance as a class to focus on word problems and real-world situations.

In science, we’re learning about changes of matter: physical and chemical!

Some important upcoming dates include October 18th which is make up picture day and class picture day. Also, don’t forget to keep an eye out for Progress Reports behind sent home this Friday. Please return the attached AOR forms as soon as possible.

Have a great weekend!

This week in Mrs. Aramayo’s class students are learning about negative numbers. In learning about negative numbers, this students played a game to practice adding integers. To play the game the students draw the number of cards equal to the number of boxes they need to fill for that rounds. Then, the students choose the order that they would like to place the numbers to create the largest sum the student with the largest sum wins!

Currently, in Life Science we are working on Observation, Inference, and Analyzing & Interpreting Data. Students learned how detailed Observation should be with a Mystery Box. They inferred with “fossil prints” from an improvised archeological dig. Analyzing and Interpreting data has been super sweet with using chocolate chip cookies and skittles in our labs. Next week, we will be continuing to analyze data using regular and double stuffed Oreos. We will be comparing the PH levels of Takis and Flaming Hot Cheetos. We are continuing the trend in my STEM Earth and Space Elective. Students have planned and are building an Edible Mars Rover model made with candy. The Rover must have functioning wheels and four science instruments. One of the instruments must function. My Little Einsteins Club members tested Pop rocks with different types of soda, built circuits, and found the Science in Slime. STEM Club is currently building a sustainable hut model on a “deserted Island” that must withstand wind.

This week in the STEM Lab, we used paper to create engineering solutions. (see pics)

We are in need of donations. Please send any of these items if you have them:

Legos- especially mini-figs

dominoes

glue sticks

tissues

wipes

liquid glue

balloons

straws

paper towels

batteries- AA/ AAA/ D

Any help is appreciated.

The school all together has run 2171 miles! Equal to 82 Marathons and 625 Participants! (does not include 6th grade or kindergarten)

Happy Friday!

Each we move through the school year, one goal we have is to continue to foster a sense of trust and safety in the school culture. OSS is a proud National School of Character, where our culture mirrors trust and safety. Character attributes help build an environment where teachers can mold positive learning experiences for all students as they acquire the knowledge needed to become successful.

The positive learning environment always comes from the key idea that we MUST all respect one another!

That means we have……

*respect a person for having a bad day;

*respect a person for having a great day;

*respect a student who studied hard to earn their grade;

*respect the teacher who put a lot of time and planning into their lessons or units;

*respect that we are all Orlando Science Orcas.

*respect yourself and hold yourself accountable

If we can all commit to this, our school culture will continue to be a safe, trustworthy environment where academics and school pride flourish.

Dear families:

Thanks to all of you who were able to make it to the meeting on 9/3 about our upcoming trip to Spain-Madrid and Barcelona - June 20th, 2024. We have just 20 spots available, lock your spot by Sept 15th so you can get $100.00 early enrollment discount. Take into consideration that the sooner you enroll, the less your monthly payment will be… You can definitely join after Sept 15th, just without the discount.

If you were not able to attend the zoom meetings, below you can find a helpful link with the information covered at the meeting, payment plans, what to expect on our tour and how to enroll. If you still have questions or concerns, send me an email or call Passports, Phone Number: 800-332-7277.

You can also Scan the QR Codes from the itinerary attachment to get full details about the trip and how to enroll.

Presentation: 06/20/2024 Madrid and Barcelona

To enroll, go to passports.com and enter the following TOUR ID: IBRAVO-RIVERA2024-3

Please fill out the google form below when you are enrolled with Passports- our travel partner- to send you more info about the trip and our next meeting’s details! 😊

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18iiaeGN1veIWsMX-EnKA5FBVUGnkKHbs3QOjN8_omFk/edit

We will have our first face to face meeting with the enrolled participants the second week of October, where we will get to know each other and discuss fundraisers and other fun activities.

The trip is open for all our OSS families. This is not a school sponsored trip and neither me nor the school will collect any money for it. Every payment plan will be through Passports! .Thanks!

Here is a helpful link with reviews from previous Passports Travelers:

Trustpilot Reviews

Thanks! 😊

Hello families!

Please read carefully for all club reminders:

PICK UP: Please remember that you should not arrive on campus before clubs dismiss. Even coming 5 minutes early causes backups in our dismissal process.

• Building 1 (grades K-3) - clubs dismiss at 3:40 during the week and 2:40 on Wednesday
• Building 2 (grades 4-6)- clubs dismiss at 3:40 during the week and 2:40 on Wednesday

ABSENCES: Remember that 3 or more consecutive absences will result in a removal from the club. If you are missing club because of tutoring or sickness, email the club teacher so it can be excused.

If you want to withdraw from a club, please email alicia.greene@orlandoscience.org.

OSES AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS K -1ST GRADE

OSES AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS 2ND -3RD

OSES AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS 4TH - 6TH

• First, please note that we will be having our second Saturday practice competition tomorrow from 9:00am to 12:00pm at B2 cafeteria. If your child plans to attend these Saturday studies, then please make sure that you pay the one-time fee ($50) via School Pay (if you haven’t paid it yet). Here is the link https://www.schoolpay.com/pay/for/20232024-Saturday-Practice-Math-Competit/Sgzqkw

Please see the reminders about Saturday practice competition at the end of this email.

• Second, please see the attached math competitions calendars and plan accordingly.

• Third, elementary school competition math club fee is $30. If you haven’t paid it yet, please do so ASAP. Here is the link. https://www.schoolpay.com/pay/for/20232024-Elementary-School-Competition-M/SeDe1mA

Important Reminders:

Students should bring their own pencils, folders, and calculators (calculators are required in target round only).

No school uniform is required, casual dress is fine.

Students should bring some snack.

Mask is optional.

Brainfuse offers free online tutoring through the Orange County Library System to ALL students in Orange County Public Schools.

FREE live tutors are available every day from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Using Brainfuse, students can connect with a qualified tutor for expert help in a variety of subjects.

Water Safety and Swimming Locations Near You!

Please click for the "Every Child a Swimmer" website which offers low to no cost scholarships for qualified children. (This list contains learn-to-swim providers in the local area. This list does not constitute an OSES endorsement for any of the providers listed; the list is merely an informational resource for parents/legal guardians.)

According to Section 1003.225, Florida Statutes; beginning with the 2022-2023 school year, each public school shall provide, to a parent who initially enrolls his or her child in the school, information on the important role water safety education courses and swimming lessons play in saving lives. The information must be provided electronically or in hard copy and must include local options for age-appropriate water safety courses and swimming lessons that result in a certificate indicating successful completion, including courses and lessons offered for free or at a reduced price. If the student is 18 years of age or older, or is under the age of 21 and is enrolling in adult education classes, the information must be provided to the student.

Attendance Emails and Notes K-3 - Nicole.Wallace@orlandoscience.org.

Any doctor's notes can be dropped off at the front desk, or sent via email.

Attendance Emails and Notes 4-6 Keily.Molina@orlandoscience.org

Any doctor's notes can be dropped off at the front desk, or via email

Any club openings will be listed on the sign up genius.

We do not currently have a waitlist

In order to help keep our families informed of the latest legislative updates regarding their student's education, a Parent Rights Resources page has been added to the school website.

Recent updates include:

• Internet Safety
• District Health Care Services
• Special Magistrate

The mission of Orlando Science Elementary School (OSES) is to provide a well-rounded education with special emphasis in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), while using research-based and innovative instructional methods in a stimulating learning environment. OSES is committed to the social-emotional learning and character development of all students.