There will be no school for Winter Break from December 21-January 5th. Have a great break! See you all back on January 6, 2025!
This week 5th grade learned to play dreidels! We talked about Chanukah, Menorahs, Gelt, and Dreidels! We had an absolute blast learning our new game while celebrating different holidays in the classroom! ✡️
Lakewood Staff participated in Tinseltoots Reindeer Games today with students cheering them on! Congratulations to the winning team, Ms. Sommers and Mr. Albright!
Some of Santa’s elves came to AEA to leave Mr. Curtin a Christmas surprise!
Happy Holidays from the 1st and 2nd grade teachers at AEA Strongsville!🎄🎁🎅🏻
AEA Lakewood’s Elf showed up Monday morning to greet students and has been sighted in several locations. Students participated in a naming competition and our winners won Snowman Poop from our Elf, newly named, Tinseltoots Jinglesyth! Where will Tinseltoots show up next?!
Senior Spotlight: Ismail Seawright
Favorite Quote: "Always be positive and don't worry about a thing."
Favorite Class: Science
Advice for Freshman: stay organized, stay out of trouble and pay attention.
Shoutout: Mr. Lisi
Plans after Graduation: I will join the military police
Senior Spotlight: Tylor Crayton
Favorite Class: English
Advice for Freshman: Don't procrastinate, do what you have to and build your future in your free time.
Plans after Graduation: Going to trade school to grow my landscaping business to fund having apartments/real estate.
On Friday, members of the North Coast Men's Chorus visited our Lakewood campus. Along with lots of holiday cheer and leading carols, they brought gift cards along with personalized handwritten cards for each student. The NCMC appreciates AEA-Lakewood and came to share some of their love and the message that each of our students are special. Thank you, NCMC!!!!
Unfortunately, the parents night out event set for 12.6.24 has been postponed. If you had signed up you will be contacted by the school.
Last week Mrs. Banka and the student council organized a Thanksgiving feast for the Middle and High School students at Strongsville. It was a wonderful event! We hope everyone enjoyed their break!
Senior Spotlight: Rain Boehnlein
Favorite Quote: "we gon'be okay."
Favorite Class: Z's Art Class
Advice for Freshman: "keep a cool head, ask for help when you need it."
Shoutouts: Felix, Maddi, Bonnie, Ash
Plans after Graduation: I might work for a year or go straight to Tri-C.
AEA’s 3-5 youth leadership team has been hard at work learning about respect and optimism. They have also taught the K-2 students about what they are learning, and helped collect donations for the Strongsville Food Bank! Way to go!
There will be no school from November 27th to December 1st. See you all back on Monday, December 2nd!
This month has been all about optimism at AEA! During their counseling lessons with Ms. Onderak, the elementary students explored the concept of a growth mindset and learned different strategies to promote positive thinking!
Senior Spotlight: Ollie Croft
Favorite Quote: "No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're too busy thinking bad things about themselves."
Favorite Class: Art
Advice for Freshman: Don't take what people say seriously, it won't matter in a few years. You're gonna make it.
Shoutouts: Jax, Noah and Alany
Plans after Graduation: become a starving artist.
Calling all parents! Drop your child off at AEA Strongsville and grab dinner or do some shopping on Friday, December 6th from 5:45-8:00pm. AEA will provide dinner and snacks as well as games and winter crafts. The cost is $20 per child ($10 for each additional sibling). This event is for current AEA STRONGSVILLE enrolled students only in grades K-4 and is limited to 40 children. You must RSVP using the sign up genius code below and payment must be given to the office by December 3rd. Walk-ins to the event will not be permitted to stay.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090F45A5AD20A3FE3-53244106-parents
Congratulations to our Staff of the Month winners for November! We are grateful for all our AEA staff members but an extra shoutout goes to Ms. Paulic from the Strongsville Campus and Mr. Rader from the Lakewood Campus this month!
No school for students Friday, November 22, 2024 due to Professional Development for staff. See you all Monday!
Parent-Teacher Conferences are coming up! Contact the school your student attends if you have questions about conferences. We look forward to seeing you there!
Join AEA Wednesday, November 20th from 4-8pm, for dinner at Chipotle! The Chipotle in Lakewood has generously agreed to donate 25% of their sales to AEA. You can order online and pick-up in person using the code ET8NNHP or show the flyer in-person at the restaurant. We hope you'll enjoy some good food and do some good for AEA.
