Town Center Tidbits : Happy Valentine's Day!

This is always a fun and busy week with Valentine's Day parties mid-week! I love this time of year as it is so much fun to see the excitement on our kiddos faces when they open up their valentines! As we have fun and enjoy this time with our kiddos, please remember to be on the lookout for treats that may cause any issues for our kiddos with allergies. Also, please make sure ensure any visitors you have during our party day are wearing their name badge and make sure any of your personal items are locked up/put away such as purses, phones, or things of value since we have many people coming in and out on this day. Looking forward to another wonderful week at TCE and in celebration of Valentine's Day and how much I appreciate and love all of you. . .enjoy a week of jeans with sweats on Friday! And. . .don't forget the office staff is treating you to a special luncheon "Spuds of Love" on Friday!

Week of: February 12th-16th, 2018

Goal Setting Meetings all week

Monday- Jeans Day - Any shirt!

Angie Out All day (district - digital portfolios)

Coaches Meeting - 8:00 - Kristan's Room

TELPAS Calibrations - 3:15pm - Library

Tuesday - Jeans Day - Any shirt!

Angie Out -AM - Principal Meeting

Wednesday - Jeans Day - Any shirt!

Valentine's Day and Valentine's Day Parties

No after school meeting!

Thursday - Jeans Day - Any shirt!

Coaches Meetings with Teams

Annelise Out (AM AP Meeting)

Calibration Training Make Up

Friday - Jeans Day/Sweats - Any shirt!
Texan Town

Spuds of Love Luncheon

Therapy Dogs

Important Reminders

CISD Professional Learning Day - Feb. 19th

From CISD: Educators MUST register for their session(s) in Eduphoria no later than Wednesday, February 14 at 5:00 (the registration window will close at this time). (Having educators register for their session(s) helps the facilitators to know how many participants in which to plan.)

A few things to note regarding the schedule:

Staff at CHS and CHS-9 must select one of the sessions of Growth Mindset to attend. There are 4 sessions as indicated on the schedule. Attendance at one of these sessions is mandatory
K-12 Fine Arts and PE must attend the UbD session as shown on the schedule (this is a full day)
6-12 CTE and iExplore must attend the UbD session as shown on the schedule (this is a full day)
LSSP, SLP, Related Services, and SpEd Resource educators: your session is for a full day as shown on the schedule
Elementary/Secondary educators (if not listed above) have choice between Math – ELAR – Social Studies – Science - EL sessions as shown on schedule. The afternoon will be at home campus processing morning sessions — a protocol for this will be sent to campus principals on February 15th.

Engineering Extravaganza Night

It's that time to start getting our ideas down and ready to go for our annual family night coming up on Thursday, February 22nd (5:00-7:oopm). I am attaching a link, so we can get our stations brainstormed. This year, if we could please have no more than 3-4 people per station.

Remember, you don't have to stay with your team, you can branch out and partner with others on the campus! Try your best to think of some new and exciting ideas, as we try to keep this event fresh with new STEM family challenges!

Please remember that we have lots of resources already with our maker space tools as well as in our innovation station upstairs, so check there before placing an order!

If you need to purchase materials, please make sure Laura knows what you need by this Friday, Feb. 9th! (if you didn't let her know, make sure you do so by Monday, Feb. 12th!)

Click here to sign up with your group!

Reminder: Final Product for Cultural Plunge

A short presentation using some kind of technology to share out your experience (individual or with partner). Could be something where you use pictures, quotes, expressions, thoughts, etc. You may be creative in how you share out!

Click here to sign up for a slot!

"Who made you happy this week?"

Shout Out Your Happiness!

Sue, Thank you for saving the day! I am so happy you have a sewing kit tucked away! - Casey

Lisa, You are the only person I would let help me sew my leggings up! You are truly the best! - Casey

Laura and Jenna, thank you so much for coming to my rescue when my car wouldn’t start! Y’all saved the day! –Kate

Love having you on the specials team, Julie. We rocked move and groove this past Friday. Your organizational skills are a great asset to our team!

-Patrick

Casey, thank you so much for taking my tutoring kids when I was sick! You are the best! –Kate

Morgan, thank you for printing my plans and making copies for me when I was sick! I don’t know what I would do without you! –Kate

Lorri, You are such a very dear friend. Thank you for spoiling us with bagels on STEM planning day and warm chocolate chip cookies every Friday morning! Also, thank you for sharing activities with us that you find for kinder that you think we might need!!! Thank you for staying one step ahead reminding us when things are due and for helping us study for our test even though you had already studied! Lorri, none of the kind things you do for us go unnoticed!!! We love you so much!!!

Lori, Kelly, Marie and Julie

Thank you everyone for being patient with all my requests this week with enrollment verification and yearbook proofs! Lots of bits of paper! Thank you, Laura

Thank you Julie for handling all the jump rope queries we send your way! Laura and Sherri

Patrick, Katie and Angie thank you all for always coming out to watch our robotics teams compete . The kids loved seeing you there! Thank you for taking time out of your weekends to support and put smiles on the faces of the TCE robotics teams! ❤TCE Robotics Coaches

Erin--Thank you so much for helping keep our library up and running this week! You are amazing and I'm so thankful that I get to work with you this year! I cannot begin to convey how much I appreciate you and all that you do for our campus! –Tina

Candace--Thanks for taking the lead on our Olympics project! I can't wait to see all the "fun with flags" you and our super sweet learners had this week! Looking forward to hosting a great week of STEM challenges with you!

Ashlin--Thank you so much for always being so thoughtful and compassionate! I appreciate you helping me out this week when I found myself in a bind. I hope you had a very special birthday weekend! –Tina

Laura--you are a MUNIS queen! Thank you...once again...for always being so willing to help me double check my work within this dreadful program! HA! I am so grateful for your patience, extensive troubleshooting knowledge and compassion when I repeatedly have issues trying to close out those stinky PO's! ---Tina

Courtney-

Thank you for making all the fun activities for math stations next week! I really appreciate how much you share with me! I love ❤working with you! Thanks a bunch!

Lorri B.

Rachel- Thanks so much for the Chick fil A breakfast!!! That made my day :)

-Megan

Casey, thank you for helping complete all the orders for Texan Treats! I couldn't have filled all our popcorn orders without you! Sherri

Thank you Kristan and Lisa for helping out in the office this week when both Annelise and I were out! Appreciate you both always willing to lend a hand! - Angie

Thank you Kristan for helping to get the faculty meeting going with everything and facilitating! - Angie

Thank you Katie Tonemah and Lauren Torti for sharing out at the meeting for our Cultural Celebration committee! - Angie

Thank you April for presenting at the faculty meeting and for all you do for our campus!! - Angie

Thank you to all of our garden helpers and grade levels who helped to make sure all onions and potatoes were planted! I truly appreciate everyone stepping in to help with these fun learning projects for our kids! - Angie

February Birthdays

Star Primera – 2nd

Julie Fidler – 7th

Ashlin Bowman – 10th

Heather Judd - 16th

Rachel Lim – 17th

Anne Lawler – 23rd

Curriculum Connection:

Kindness and Empathy

Since it is Valentine's Day this week as well as we are promoting random acts of kindness, check out the videos and resources below!

A video that I thought you might like to watch on kindness. . .you could also have your kiddos watch and reflect on the actions of others. Might want to pause before the end as there is a bible verse referenced if using with your kiddos!