October Message from Mrs. Sooklal Assistant Principal

Dearest Parents,

October is National Bullying

Prevention Month. We at Sky

Academy are stepping up

awareness and for students to

step up against bullying. As a

school we are promoting "Just

say Hello” campaign. This is for

students to reach out to others

and let them know they matter

by just greeting them and saying

hello. We are collecting bottle

caps to have several benches

made to promote compassion

and caring for others.

We as your child’s educators

continue to maintain a culture of

acceptance, tolerance and re-

spect for all people. With your

help and support we can make a

difference. The simple act of

saying hello, not being afraid to

say "that's not cool” empowers

students to do the right thing

and with our leadership and

example we can establish a

positive and nurturing learning

environment for all.

I have added a clip from the FLDOE

website. Please feel free to check

out this site for helpful ideas and a

better understanding about what we

can do as parents, students and

educators.

What is bullying?

Bullying happens when someone

hurts or scares another person on

purpose. The person being bullied

has a hard time defending himself or

herself. Usually, bullying happens

over and over.

Sometimes bullying is easy to notice,

such as with hitting or name calling,

and other times it’s hard to see, like

with leaving a person out or saying

mean things behind someone’s back.

Both boys and girls bully, and both

boys and girls get bullied. Bullying is

not fair, and it hurts.

Discuss with children how to deal

with bullying:

• Tell your parents or other trusted

adults. They can help stop the bully-

ing.

If you are bullied at school, tell

your teacher, or school Administra-

tion.

Telling is not tattling.

• Don’t fight back. Don’t try to bully

those who bully you.

• Try not to show anger or fear.

Students who bully like to see that

they can upset you.

• Calmly tell the student to stop…or

say nothing and then walk away.

Report to parents or school.

• Use humor, if this is easy for you to

do. (For example, if a student makes

fun of your clothing, laugh and say,

“Yeah, I think this shirt is kind of

funny-looking, too.”)

• Try to avoid situations in which

bullying is likely to happen.

You might want to:

• Avoid areas of the school where

there are not many students or

teachers around.

A special recognition goes to our Flag football team and our Volleyball teams who are doing an excellent job this year.

Please continue to stress the importance of Execu-tive Function and staying ORGANIZED to your SKY student. We want to always keep our lines of communication open, so please do not hesitate to call us or e mail us at anytime. I sin-cerely THANK YOU for allowing us the pleasure of working with your students and being a part of our SKY FAMILY!!!

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• Make sure you aren’t alone in

the bathroom

or locker room.

• Sit near the front of the bus.

• Don’t bring expensive things or

lots of money to school.

• Sit with a group of friends at

lunch.

• Take a different route through

hallways or walk with friends or a

teacher to your classes.

On October 21, we will ask

students to add something or-

ange to their uniform to support

“Unity Day” awareness on bully-

ing.

Please do not hesitate to call

Administration with any con-

cerns.

Always lead by example at

home. Teach your children

acceptance and tolerance of all

people .

Greetings, Parents! Principal, Steve Smith

Greetings parents, I wanted to share with you how pleased we are with our students. Many of our students are going above and beyond to keep SKY Academy a special place. All of our students have finished their (Beginning of the Year) DATA col-lection for Physical Education. All students will be setting goals for their (Middle of the Year) DATA!

All students have also taken the FAIR reading test and teachers are going over results with stu-dents. We have a few different events planned for the month of October so please take a look at our calendar.

8th grade Language Arts in October covers Unit 2: the thrill of horror. 8th graders will be writing scary stories, creating PowerPoint presentations about their favorite monsters, and will be decorating the 2nd story hallway with scary and gruesome posters they create in class. 8th grade will make sure all of SKY will be in the Halloween spirit.

In math class, the 6th grade is wrap-ping up Factors and Multiples, and diving into Decimals and Fractions. Advanced Math is beginning Algebra by learning about parts of expressions and the different algebraic properties. Keep up with us on http://www.teacherweb.com/FL/SKYAcademy/Gaudreau!

Parent Reminders

It is in the best interest of all students to be here by 7:40 AM. If a student is late every day they miss out on im-portant information at the

beginning of their first class.

Students must be in class by 7:40. After 7:45 bell they are marked tardy. After 5 tardy there will be a notice sent home and a possible Adminis-trative meeting. We under-stand everyone is on a time schedule and it is your respon-sibility to adjust accordingly.

All car riders must be dropped off and picked up at the cafete-ria at arrival and dismissal.

More whole grains

Less sodium

At SKY Academy, I am very proud to say we EXCEED these standards and the majority of our meals are freshly prepared by our very talented Chef Dino. When my children went to school, they did not have a “Chef Dino,” and daily I packed their lunch. But although nutritious, if my children had been able to eat the “SKY menu,” I would have let them eat at school.

Research shows that school lunches offer more variety and thus are more nutritious than most packed lunches. When I make “lunch rounds” at both SKYs, the students that pack their lunch will even admit the school lunch is probably more nutritious.

This month a few featured items include:

It’s A Great New Day for School Lunches

Each month, me and Chef Dino will share with you some “Nutritious Bites” for you and your family to “chew” on! We hope that you are enjoying the new school year and SKY Academy.

This month we celebrate National School Lunch week: October 12–16, 2015. There is something to celebrate because new federal nutrition standards were issued in 2012-2013. During the school year 2012-2013, school lunches changed to meet new standards requiring:

Age-appropriate calorie limits

Larger servings of vegetables and fruits

A wider variety of vegetables, including dark green and red/orange vegetables and legumes

Fat-free or 1% milk (flavored milk must be fat-free)

Caesar Bowl: Baked Chicken, Romaine Lettuce, Baked Croutons, Garbanzo Beans, with Caesar dress-ing, apple and milk

Squash Lasagna, fresh Broccoli, whole grain roll, fresh banana, milk

Whole Wheat Cheese Pizza, SKY Café’ salad, fresh cut fruit, and milk

I would like you to come and try a lunch at SKY Café’ during National School Lunch week…or at least encourage your student(s) at SKY to try the lunch one day during that week. At SKY Café’ we believe in the “power of the fork.” We choose foods that have been shown to boost performance, boost health, and even reduce disease.

Good health is wealth,

Dianne and Chef Dino

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Math Facts Ms. Gaudreau

Nutritious Bites Nutritionist Dianne and Chef Dino

Storm News

Language Arts Mr. Wood

The Interact Club is sponsoring a Car Wash on October 10th from 10:00 - Noon. All proceeds will benefit The American Cancer Society.

Interact Club Car Wash Ms. Rapp

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Andrew Gibbons Arayah Harless Ashleigh DeGraff Bri Weimer Carter Owends Chad Kern Ciarra Mayers Conrad Whitehead Donovan Cottillion-Steven Dylan Zayner Ella Opsatnick Emily Horan Emily Leonard

Emily Maitret Emily Weber Eric Beck Eric Del Sol Garrett Plummer Gianna Giordano Hannah Rose Hayden Rose Isabella Schaffer James Davis Jimmy German Jonathan Foster Josie Debernardo

Julianna Tripani Katrina Couch Kristina McLaughlin Kylie Cohn Kylie Raybourn Kylie Robbins Leah Viele Logan Noyes Micaela Hartman Michael Pierre Michelle Whelton Mikaela Bentley Morgan Morse

and is a member of the 1,000+ Career Point Club. Hall of Fame Induction tickets can be purchased at Bogey's restaurant.

Thanks to both Ms. Gaudreau and Mr. Sin-gleton as Volleyball Coaches.

Special thank you to Mr. Fred Sosnoski for

his 3rd year of coaching flag football.

Congratulations to all students who made this year’s Cross Country team!!

Basketball tryouts are October 20th!

JV Volleyball remains undefeated and Varsity remains at the top of the Southern FSCL Confer-ence with a record of 3-1. Playoffs begin October 13th and we expect to play SSAS in the Finals for a repeat of last year. Also, October 6th SKY Eng-lewood comes to SKY Venice for the first ever SKY vs. SKY match. October 15th, Ms. Gaudreau will be inducted into the Venice Sports Hall of Fame as a member of the 2005 State Championship Venice High School Volleyball Team. She is also recognized as a 2004 State Runner Up in Girls Volleyball AND Girls Basketball at Venice. She still holds the all-time assist record for Girls Basketball at VHS,

CORE Values

SKY Athletics

Aftercare Program The aftercare program is offered to the students at SKY Academy for NO CHARGE to families. Aftercare begins after the last bell of the day and ends promptly at 5:45 p.m. REMEMBER: Aftercare has a three strike policy for behavior and picking up students on time. After the third strikes, students will lose the privilege to participate in the program.

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A.E.P.

Academic Enrichment Program (A.E.P.) is provided to students who qualify based off teacher recommendation and/or state testing scores. The program is held after school from 2:40 until 3:30 PM. This program is designed to help facilitate and recover verbal and quantitative skills and standards. SKY policy mandates that students must attend AEP. Student data is assessed after 6 weeks to deter-mine success and continuation in program. There will be no AEP the week of November 2, 3 and 4th.

Congratulations to the following students for earning CORE Values cards!

Natalie Luizza Nathan Gostischa Perry Adamovsky Preston Clark Riley Ayres Stephen Peck Teddy Chace Thomas Shrader Zach Spears

Mark Your Calendar

SKY Academy stands for Strength and Knowledge at the YMCA. The mission of

SKY Academy is to promote pre-adolescent

student achievement through a rigorous infusion of wellness

and fitness strategies into the learning and mastery

of the Florida Career & College Readiness Standards to

enable students to live a healthy and productive life.-

Whether your child is academically gifted or struggling,

physically out of shape or a stellar athlete, his or her

potential will sky rocket at SKY Academy.

7th Gr. Parent/Student Breakfast: Oct. 16

Halloween Dance: October 23

Binder Check Day!: Oct. 23

End of 1st 9 weeks: Oct. 26

No School (Professional Day): Oct. 30

No AEP November 2 –4

Binder Check Day! Nov. 6

Veteran’s Day Tribute: Nov. 11

8th Gr. Parent/Student Breakfast: Nov. 13

Open enrollment has begun at both campuses for the 2016-2017 school year.

Do not wait apply now.

Applications can be submit-ted online at skyatthey.com.

Questions or comments about this newsletter?

Contact: Jennifer Harrison, Registrar

Jennifer.Harrison@sarasotacountyschools.net

Join us for the 2nd annual Taste

of Sky Event

Wednesday October 28, 2015

5:00—6:30 PM

Come and taste delicious and

nutritious bites from local Venice

restaurants.

Chef Dino and his crew will have

special nutritious offerings to

showcase and try.

Mrs. Sooklal’s Parent Question of the Month

Topic: CIVICS

“What has been one long term result of the constitutional protection of free speech?”

A. Fewer Court Cases involving minors. B. Fewer laws limiting minority’s rights.

C. A more accurate election. D. A more informed society

Email the correct answer (must include letter and written answer) to me at

michelle.sooklal@sarasotacountyschools.net