OIAIS HS Weekly Newsletter

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10/7 - 10/31 - Boo Gram Sale, During Lunch

10/8 - Make Up Picture Day

10/10 - $1.00 Favorite Band T-Shirt Day, Uniform Bottoms Apply

10/14-10-18 - Fall Break

10/21 - Coffee Chat

10/24 - Fire Drill

10/25 - PSAT All Juniors at OIAIS High School 8am-12pm

10/26 - Used Uniform Sale - Junior High Gym/Ramada 8am-12pm

10/29 - West-Mec Parent Information Night - Lecture Hall A 6pm-7pm

10/30 - Retesting for Hearing & Vision

10/31 - $1.00 Spooky Fall T-shirt Day, Uniform Bottoms Apply

11/1 - IB TEST REGISTRATION DEADLINE! 2025 IB DP Test Registration

11/4 - $1.00 - Beast Mode - Chloe Schneider Day, Wear Animal Print and/or Show where you SHOW your Beast mode.

11/7 - Scholar ASU Tempe College Visit

12/4 - Scholar ASU West College Visit

If your scholar will be participating in the DP Exam season in May 2025 and you missed the meeting, please watch this important informational meeting video regarding registration, payment and examination preparation!

DP Testing Registration Information

2025 IB DP Test Registration

If you would like to participate in the Veteran's Day Parade at the OI Campus, please fill out the following registration information.

Veterans Day Registration:

https://form.jotform.com/233035927458058

If you are interested in participating in the Turkey Trot event, please see the registration link and promotional video below.

Turkey Trot

Registration:https://www.jotform.com/form/232917901002043

Promo Video: https://tinyurl.com/25k8t7nj

Research is an important component in every aspect of our lives. When we are deciding what car to buy, where to live or deciding our career path, research guides that process. Our scholars are asked to do academic research often but always in a real world context and learn how to use resources that will serve them both in school and in their personal life. Here are a couple of examples:

In our high school Algebra 1 class, scholars worked last week on a project where they researched about the cost of keeping an animal in the zoo including how much that specific animal eats per day and the other associated costs (vaccinations, cleaning supplies, landscape etc). They used the gathered information to write equations and inequalities and they also calculated the ticket price for the zoo in order to breakeven.

Our Environmental Systems and Societies students are researching the energy choices of two contrasting societies and evaluating for energy security concerns.

This week we want to introduce families to the idea of IB key concepts. Every unit your scholar studies will have one key concept that is a focus for discovery and connection. A concept is a “big idea” - a principle or notion that is enduring, the significance of which goes beyond particular origins, subject matter or a place in time (Wiggins and McTighe 1998).Teaching through concepts encourages teachers to work across national and cultural boundaries. Concepts promote a broad approach to learning that can encompass many ways of thinking, inspire a variety of experiences, and open doors to exciting and highly relevant interdisciplinary learning. There are 16 Key Concepts that can be used in all the academic areas. This allows scholars to see how the idea of form can be discussed in Math and Art, how that idea is both similar and different. In our examples here, you can see how the Key Concept of Relationships is used in both PE and Biology.

In 9th grade Biology, We are in our "Form" unit and have been exploring classification of organisms. Our key concept is relationships. We just learned how to use cladograms, which are visual tools used to depict the relationships between different organisms allowing our "scholar scientists" to group organisms based on shared characteristics and common ancestry. Scholars first learned to read them and are now creating their own cladograms. Here is an example:

Y4 Math is also studying relationships:

This week Scholars were able to create and graph equations and inequalities in two variables to represent relationships between quantities. Scholars worked collaboratively to analyze the relationships between two variables.

Want to join our PopUp Shop?

The Odyssey Preparatory Academy loves to support our Buckeye community and small businesses. Do you or your family have a hair bow making business or a jewelry business? Are you a baker or a candle stick maker? If so, you might want to be a vendor at our holiday PopUp Shop? Click on the link for more info. Event date-December 13th, 2024.

https://forms.gle/sxFgtaYudhbDSQzA7

Teresa Zoellick
Apache Campus Events Coordinator
The Odyssey Preparatory Academy

WANT TO BE PROACTIVE WITH ATTENDANCE?! Or just get help making up work on a Friday?

September 6th will be our first Friday Attendance Compliance Day.

The Session will be held on 9/6/2024 in Mrs. Thunhorst's Classroom. Check in with the front office before proceeding to the classroom. If you will be attending, please complete the following form.

Friday Attendance Session RSVP

Come Join the Adventure

Odyssey 2026 Science Trip to Belize~

Departing From: Phoenix

March 14, 2026 - March 21, 2026

TourCenter ID: Sabo-9084

For more information visit the following LINK and use TourCenter ID: Sabo-9084

Day 1 Hello Belize City- Meet your tour director and check into hotel

Day 2 Belize City landmarks - Lamanai Maya ruins full-day excursion

Boat ride along the New River Lagoon, Lamanai ruins guided visit

Day 3 Belize--San Ignacio - Travel to San Ignacio

Maya ruins, canopy zipline & cave tubing excursion

Day 4 Cayo District landmarks - Xunantunich Ruins guided visit

Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve excursion

Day 5 San Ignacio--Ambergris Caye

Belize zoo visit and Travel by water taxi to Ambergris Caye

Day 6 Ambergris Caye

Hol Chan Marine Reserve and Shark Alley snorkeling tour and Secret Beach visit

Optional Mexico Rocks snorkeling tour $95

Day 7 Ambergris Caye - Free time

Day 8 End tour - Travel by water taxi to Belize City

TOUR INCLUDES:

• Round-trip airfare
• 6 overnight stays (7 with extension) in hotels with private bathrooms
• Breakfast & dinner daily
• Lunch daily
• Full-time services of a professional tour director
• Visits to select attractions as per itinerary
• Tour Diary™
• Local Guide and Local Bus Driver tips; see note regarding other important tips
• Note: On arrival day only dinner is provided; on departure day, only breakfast is provided
• Note: Tour cost does not include airline-imposed baggage fees, or fees for any required passport or visa. Optional excursions, optional pre-paid Tour Director and multi-day bus driver tipping, among other individual and group customizations will be listed as separate line items in the total trip cost, if included.

If you missed our previous coffee chat, you can find the recording HERE!

Coffee chat is via zoom every other Monday at 8:00am and at 7:00pm via the following link! ZOOM LINK

COFFEE CHAT DATES

8/19 - 2024-2025 School Year Goals

9/9 - OI Mission Highlights

9/23 - Discussion of Survey Results (#1) & IB Visit Feedback

10/21 - Upcoming District Carnival Event, Parent opportunities for Involvement

11/4 - Love and Logic w/Megan Olson

11/18 - Core Values & Vision

12/2 - Break Blues (preparing for winter break)

1/13 - Glows and Grows

1/27 - Discussion of Survey Results (#2)

2/10 - IB Update w/Kari Hurley - Program Coordinator

2/24 - Preparing for State Testing

3/10 - Teens and Mental Health / Counselors

3/24 - Teacher Talk

4/7 - Glows and Grows from Semester 2

4/21 - Athletic Glows w/ Marylu Lopez & Chris McNelley

5/5 - Goals for 2025-2026 School Year

Hello OI Families,

Yearbooks can be purchased with the link below for $75 each!

Yearbook Store Link

Thanks,

OI Yearbook Staff

If your family is in need of assistance with paying school fees, please complete the following form and submit to Jessica Sabo - jsabo@topamail.com and/or Becky Quigley - bquigley@topamail.com, to be considered for financial assistance.

Financial Assistance Application

Note: Any scholar who will miss a final exam must make arrangements with the teacher prior to finals week to complete the final exam. If a scholar misses a final exam and does not make prior arrangements, they will receive a zero for the exam and it will effect their overall score in the class.

Semester 1 - 9th Through 12th FINAL EXAMS - December 16, 17, 18 & 19, 2024.

Day 1 - Finals

1st Period - 7:40 - 9:50

2nd Period - 9:55 - 12:05

LUNCH - Everyone 12:05 - 12:35

3rd Period - 12:40 - 2:50

Early Dismissal (buses run normal time, we hold kids who ride the bus if not picked up early)

Day 2 - Finals

4th Period/5th Period - 7:40 - 9:50

6th Period - 9:55 - 12:05

Early Dismissal (buses run at 12:05pm)

Day 3 - Finals

7th Period - 7:40 - 9:50

8th Period - 9:55 - 12:05

Early Dismissal (buses run at 12:05pm)

Day 4 - ½ day Schedule

1st period - 7:40 - 8:08 (reflections, self analysis, class survey)

2nd period - 8:10 - 8:38 (reflections, self analysis, class survey)

3rd period - 8:40 - 9:08 (reflections, self analysis, class survey)

4th/5th period - 9:10 - 9:38 (reflections, self analysis, class survey)

6th period - 9:40 - 10:08 (reflections, self analysis, class survey)

7th period - 10:10 - 10:38 (reflections, self analysis, class survey)

8th period - 10:40 - 11:08 (reflections, self analysis, class survey)

Early Dismissal (buses run at 11:08am)

• Math Tutoring (M-Th in Lecture Hall A)

• Spanish Tutoring (M - Quintero, T - Padilla, W - Bishop)

• Chemistry Tutoring (M - Dal Rm A116)

• Biology Tutoring (T - Priji Rm A113, Th - Palanisamy Rm A114)

• ISP/Physics/ESS/Biology Tutoring (W - Autrey - Rm G125)

• Writing Lab (L&L Tutoring) (W - Miller - Rm A120)

Use the following link to visit our high school events calendar for all upcoming sports and important school dates!

OIAIS OFFICIAL SCHOOL EVENTS CALENDAR

Becky Quigley, Co-Principal

Jessica Sabo, Co-Principal