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Español 4

Posted by Ava Olsen in Spanish 4 - Manuel - E on
Yo no puedo esperar para empezar el año en Español 4, porque es una diferencia enorme para hablar español durante las horas de escuela otra vez. Espero que va a ser muy divertido, y una experiencia buena para todos.

(Señorita Manuel, no me deja comentar en su post. Yo tuve que hacer un post nuevo. Lo siento!)
-Ava

Boys Soccer Opens With Victory Over E&S!

Posted by Christopher Lehmann on
Congratulations to the boys soccer team, who played very well in their first game of the season beating E&S 6-1. With Captain Jeff Schwartz scoring 2 goals, and Tomy Fleurine adding another in the first 5 minutes of the game, the team decided to play the rest of the game focusing on defense. Jhonas Dunakin did an amazing job at keeper, stopping 4 shots that looked to surely be goals, and 19 in total. Max Amar-Olkus scored his first goal for SLA as did Freshmen Jason Greene and Matt Willson. Owen Grzywinski, James Prell, Ethan Reese, Willy Willson, and Estefan Carrillo anchored a stout defense, although it looked like Willy wanted to be out on the ice again at times; as did Jacob Lotkowski, who in a great hustle play earned a very questionable yellow card. Ilker Erkut had 2 assists with William Derry, Alejandro Garcia, and Quinn Grzyzinski adding one each. Congratulations again to the boys soccer team.

Imaged Laptops and Roll Out 13-14

Posted by Marcie Hull on

Laptop Imaged 

- Follow these steps

• Login - turn on the computer

• User Name -  Student Account 13-14

• Pass code - it is blank, press the return key without typing anything in the password field


Laptop not in the cart 

- Follow there steps

This means your name is on the list below and you did not hand in materials or pay laptop insurance for last school year. You must hand in your material or pay the laptop insurance. Laptop insurance is $75.00 and a check can be made out to Science Leadership Academy or cash can both be given to your advisor. You will not receive your laptop until you have completed these steps.

  1. pay or hand back materials
  2. have your advisor email Ms. Hull stating that you have completed the steps
  3. Ms. Hull will contact you about picking up your laptop


Name on the list below and you had your laptop over the summer - Follow these steps

  1. Bring your laptop to Ms. Hull immediately, in room 301


Everyone who handed in a charger will get it back the first day regardless if they owe for materials or insurance. 

Monday & Tuesday, September 9-10th: First Two Days of School Schedule

Posted by Caitlin Thompson on
Welcome back!  

The following is the class schedule for Monday, September 9th.​  Please report to your advisory by 8:15am.  

8:15 - 10:05 Advisory

10:10 - 10:55 A

11:00 - 11:45 X

11:50 - 12:35 Y

12:40 - 1:25 B

1:30 - 2:15 C

2:20 - 3:05 D



Tuesday, September 10th

8:15 - 9:00 E

9:05 - 9:45 Advisory: Paperwork/Money Collection

9:50 - 10:50 A

10:55 - 11:55 Y

11:55 - 12:55 X

1:00 - 2:00 B

2:05 - 3:05 C

Help SLA & Get a Lunch @ Summer Institute

Posted by Marcie Hull on
As a fundraiser to reduce the cost of the Junior prom and to help send SLA students to Liverpool England we will be selling lunches.The cost  will be $6  a day or if you pre pay for the 3 days it will be $15.  Lunch includes a sandwich, snack and drink. Please send in cash with students on the 1st day of the institute.  You can click the following link http://tinyurl.com/slalunch to preorder and lunches will be sent to your student's advisor.

contact: Mr. Bey - mbey@scienceleadership.org

Help SLA & Get Lunch @ Summer Institute

Posted by Marcie Hull on
As a fundraiser to reduce the cost of the Junior prom and to help send SLA students to Liverpool England we will be selling lunches.The cost  will be $6  a day or if you pre pay for the 3 days it will be $15.  Lunch includes a sandwich, snack and drink. Please send in cash with students on the 1st day of the institute.  You can click the following link http://tinyurl.com/slalunch to preorder and lunches will be sent to your student's advisor.

Art Q4

Posted by Dylan McKeon in Art - Freshman - Hull on

Inquiry: I used Inquiry to ask myself what the element should look like.
​Research: I used research by searching for information about our elements. I used this information to help come up with a design for our project.
Collaboration: I used collaboration to seek help from my classmates and teacher on how to make the project.
Presentation: I used presentation to make my project look nice by matting it and also presented my varous ideas to the teacher.
Reflection: I used reflection to tell others of our project and show our prints on the SLA blog.

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Junior College Prep Day - Monday, June 17

Posted by Marcie Hull on

Advisory Room Assignments

Room 506-Ames

Room 504- Baird+Menasion

Room 520- Garvey

Room 502-HullenBerg

Room 521- Miles

Room 501- Kay+Hirschfield


Advisory..........8:15 - 8:30 am

Session 1........8:35 - 9:25 am

Session 2 .......9:30 - 10:20 am

Session 3.....10:25 - 11:15 am

Session 4.....11:20 - 12:10 pm

Linoleum Printing Germanium

Posted by Bella Mezzaroba in Art - Freshman - Hull on
Inquiry 

I talked to Ms. Dunda about my element in order to learn more about it. I hadn't even known about germanium until this project. She explained to me some of the scientific aspects.

Research

I researched the origins of germanium using multiple resources. I knew nothing about it until I was assigned the element and went on my own to research.

Collaboration 

I collaborated with Ms. Hull because my design was slightly complicated. She explained to me a way for me to easily determine the difference between negative and positive space.

Presentation 

I made 3 prints with my stamp and matted 2 of them. I used the colors silver and red which usually appear in the actual crest of Germany.

Reflection
I enjoyed this project immensely. I'd never done linoleum prints before and really enjoyed learning about them.
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SLA Families Go To Harrisburg

Posted by Christopher Lehmann on
[Post Written by SLA Parent Sarah Stuart]

The SLA kids were awesome yesterday.  Leo Levy, Jordan McLaughlin, Mia Weathers-Fowler, Amy Chen, Goldie Robins and Taylor Thomas were articulate, powerful and magnificent.  They worked so hard and did SLA proud.

SLA parents were also amazing.  Anne Bigler, Arden Kass, Liz Hersh, Laura Schwingel, and Denise Larabee came through in each and every way.  Anne and Arden especially did a heavy lift in pulling together the letters excerpts, designing the posters and producing the "program" of our press event.  The event would NOT have happened without them.

It's an honor to be associated with such dedicated students and parents!  

Thank you to everyone at SLA who made yesterday possible!

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Media Footage: Metro Philly

KYW News

Philly Magazine

CBS 3

Patriot News (Mia Weathers is quoted towards the end of this story)

Inquirer

Politic365

NBC10

Humanities Final Portfolio 2013

Posted by Alisha Rothwell in World History - Block on

One of SLA’s core values are to be able to reflect on the work you have done. This year I done this have more than your fingers and toes can count, projects that I am proud to call mine. But as a struggling student there are also work  which is not good, but it  have helped me get to the good ones. I have jumped from poetry to sweatshops nearly everything in the past months of working with Mr.Block. The best part of it I didn’t write for a grade I wrote to express what I was feeling.


One day I wrote a journal entry answering a question that was always going threw my head. On the board of our english journal read “​Why do humans so often treat each others badly? And ....  What different thing change this cycle of negative behavior towards others.”  As a child growing up in the 90’s generation I have to deal with those who judge others a lot. I always wonder why something that someone else is doing affects someone else. The kids I have to grow up with leaves me with questions I do not even know if there is an answer to. Something I was raised around is “Sticks and stones may break your bone, but words will never hurt.”  I had a mouth full of things to write down for this journal! One of the ones I loved. (To read everything I wrote you can click here (English Journal 6 ) )


Thew out this year I have learned a general understanding that can make my life easier. The grades you receive never reflect your intelligence, It reflects your work ethic. To me this means that I have way more understanding on something I just don’t express it. I maybe one of the nerves writes I know. I have that general understanding on a topic, but sometimes I don’t always know how to express it. As I grow and I reach my college education level I now know I need to express myself a little more. For my younger cousins and or any other younger person I would love to them to know


I would never imagining learning so much from a teacher who teaching me two different subjects. Mr. Block is my wonderful history and english teacher.  Mr.Block has help me open my eyes in the world in such ways you wouldn't believe it. This has left me with not only understandings on the world but on my own work. As a student who has had a tough time in english and history I would never expect there is not only a fun way to learn but also an understanding way. I knew about the wonderful work Mr.Block has done because of one of his former students, but boy she didn’t inform me about this.


Here is some links to my work https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1Vb-

https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1c7s1rJmnZNQzDfwLSu0b_4R33WxZO6tGiBiTmdaEzlo/editMPiK2Q4eMqxk9HRoYKfzCUEmoL-Q-GN1P1pp2yrE/edit

Elementary, My Dear Students.

Posted by Elizabeth Vellozzi in Art - Freshman - Hull on
My element, Antimony, is very interesting. One thing that I found the most interesting was, ancient Egyptians used Antimony in their eye makeup. Also, when antimony is heated, it admits a silvery dust. This dust is described as a magically silver color. So for my project I decided to combine the two. I designed a tile with the Egyptian god of Magic on it. It was also very lucky that this god in particular is always depicted with very eccentric eye makeup designs.
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