I hope all of you are enjoying your three day weekend, thought this pic might sum it up for us! You deserve these three days as each of you have truly worked so hard making this first two weeks amazing for our learners, families and one another! Enjoy your mini break and looking forward to rolling on into September and seeing the fabulous learning that will happen for our kiddos each day!
Week of: September 4th-8th, 2017
Monday- No School - Labor Day!
Wednesday - Jeans Day - Wear any College Shirt/Military Shirt to help promote our future of learning for kids!
STEM Planning All Day (Music, Art, and PE)- Kristan's Room
Faculty Meeting - 3:15
Thursday - Picture Day - Individual (AM)
PTO Meeting - 8:15am
Kelly Out (AM)
Friday - Jeans Day - any shirt
Therapy Dogs
Important Reminders
TCE Back to School Potluck
We are going to have our 1st potluck for the year on Tuesday, September 5th! This way you can pick up a little something to make, etc. this weekend! We will alternate beginning of the week and end of the week luncheons during each month throughout the year! Upcoming: October - TCE Spooky Potluck, November - Office Staff Thanksgiving Feast (provided by us)
Here is the link for everyone to sign up for this next Tuesday!
After School Dismissal
Everything has been going very smoothly with dismissals after school! If you could please continue making sure that you are helping to get everyone in their cars in the afternoon by opening doors, motioning for cars to move up and making sure all of your kiddos are standing where they should be and not wandering off to the side to talk to friends, etc. Keeping this consistency will help us with our structure that we set for the year and I appreciate all that you have been doing so far!
Texan Town
Please make sure and bring any charts, documents, etc. with you to our faculty meeting this week for feedback on Texan Town jobs/clubs. We will be using this feedback to go forward with setting up our jobs/clubs and will have these set by September 8th. I will send out a Google Doc within our faculty meeting for our staff brainstorming that will be complete by Friday, September 8th. I am holding off until then, so we can analyze our data collected from our kiddos. Then Casey Wagner (who is greatness) will be setting up our form for voting for our kiddos which will happen on Monday, September 11th and our 1st Texan Town will be on Friday, September 15th!
Compliance Training
Don't forget about finishing up the compliance training modules in Schoology. Scroll back to the past blogs if you need more info!
Goal Setting
Don't forget we still can't enter in our goals yet into Eduphoria! We learned more about the transition at our principal's meeting and will be updating you more on this at our faculty meeting this week!
Posting Curriculum Night Presentations
I know many of you may already be planning on doing this, but please make sure you have sent out the Curriculum Night Presentations in your team blog as well as have it posted on your Google Site for reference for our parents for this year.
"Who made you happy this week?"
Shout Out Your Happiness!
Kasey Kemp, Thank you for covering our classes for a couple
of minutes when a parent meeting ran long---it was so great to know we could
rely on your help! Renee and Meredith
Casey Wagner,Thank you for the yummy Tiff's Treats! You
rock! - Meredith and Renee
Candace, Thank you for your help getting our GTi kiddos
started on their first extension! It's so great to have you to help! - Kasey
and Renee
Dianne, Thank you SO much for all your help with our
friends! You are amazing and we are so lucky to have you at TCE! <3 Morgan
Tracy, thank you for prepping all our Oobleck materials! The
kids LOVED it!! Thanks, Ashlin
Catherine- you are SO sweet to make all of our labels for
our Reading and Writing journals and our Grammar Talks folders. Thanks for helping
us out- Heather and Tracy
Kelly and Kristan: Thank you for getting everything ready
for student council. Our kiddos are so excited!!!
Annelise- Thank you so much for the safety patrol talk with
our 5th graders. They are ready to start patrolling the streets of Town Center
car loop! :)
Annelise- Thank you for being our clicker at Curriculum
Night! We couldn't have done it without you! :)
Angie: Thank you for the shorts days! We appreciate
everything you do for us and our kiddos. -5th Grade
Candace- Thank you so much for pulling our learners and
getting them started on their first extension of the year. We are so excited to
see what this school year brings! - 5th Grade
Coach Erickson for helping 2nd grade set up the screen for
Curriculum night! ~Beth P.
Lisa thank you for helping me with my goals for ELL
learners~ Beth
Kristin- Thanks for reading to my classes! They loved having
you read to them!!! ~Beth
Catherine, Thank you for creating our 3-act task slides!! My
kids loved trying it out today :) -Ashlin
Sherri and Sue for always being lovely in the office!
Heather & Tracy - You guys have made this an amazing
year for me already! I am so thankful that you guys! I love sharing kids with
you guys :) Love y'all! - Dianne Johnston
Tina- Thank you for helping with the cases for the ipads! I
appreciate you always willing to help me with technology needs!! Thank you -
Lorri Brehm
Courtney - Thank you for your great idea on kids making
subitizing cards. It was a huge success!! Lorri B.
Angie, Lisa, and Kate thank you for helping to finalize the
final robotics teams! I am so excited about our two teams this year!
I want to send a HUGE thank you to Lisa Hansen! Thank you
for covering my duty 2 days this due to ARD meetings! You are the best!
Laura, Sherri, Sue, Kelly, Annelise and Angie! Thank you
from the bottom of my heart! I can't not express my gratitude enough to you
all! Thank you for your patience and support! I could not do this without you
all!
Huge shout out to the Donut Fairy who blessed the lounge
this morning and made it a true FRIYAY!
Thank you to everyone for an amazing curriculum night! To those who shared in the presentations. .
.thank you! To those who greeted and
welcomed. . .thank you! I appreciate
everything you all do to make night’s like these informative and
welcoming! - Angie
Erin C-Loving working beside you this year in the library!
Thank you for all your help this week! Especially for helping organize the
Macbook cords and distributing them to grade levels! We're all so lucky to have
you in the TCE Fam! –Tina
Mike--Thank you for fixing our iPad stand! You totally saved
the day! –Tina
Last shout out ... Thanks to my specials team! What a great
group of peeps to be with!! Also, I want to thank the teachers of the students
on my caseload! This week has not been easy with some of our challenges. I am
so very impressed with the acceptance and desire for their success! Town Center
is such a special place to be! I love you all so much!
Angie--Thank you for being a true mentor and thought partner
for me as I learn how to navigate this exciting and completely unpredictable
new role! ---Tina
Thank you to Coach Julie and Patrick for making it through
Friday, you guys make teamwork easy!!!
Dianne, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! You have been a
wonderful advocate for our friends in kindergarten and your support and
encouragement are GREATLY appreciated!! Love ya! Marie and Lori
Kelly, thank you for getting our blog and duty schedule
together for us! We love you! Marie, Julie, and Lori
Lori, Your calm voice and patience is so appreciated with
our new kindergarteners as we explore the best times to be with our peers and
meet the needs of the learners. Anne
September Birthdays
Sue Kane - 5th
Martha Cruz - 20th
Dianne Johnston- 24th
Video Connections
I came across these video connections. . . one about happiness that focuses on Harvard research showing what truly makes people maintain happiness in their lives. Also, another video by Simon Sinek (who we watched our first week back about finding our why) focusing on millennials, relationships and some of the factors affecting our world today. Thought these were both thought provoking especially when thinking how we as educators approach learning and making connections with our learners!
Final Quotes for the Week
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