Sunday, March 4, 2018

Spring Break. . .One Week Away!



Week of:  March 5th-9th, 2018

TELPAS window 
Book Fair All Week!

Monday- Jeans Day - Any shirt!

Tuesday - Class Pics - Staff Picture - 7:15am (no jeans)
Angie Out (AM)
Books and Buddies - Donuts

Wednesday - Jeans Day - Any shirt!
Books and Buddies - Donuts
Faculty Meeting - Location TBD

Thursday - Jeans Day-Any shirt, Nice Outfit - Open House
Annelise Out (AM)
Open House - 5:30-7:00pm
TCE Mi Cocina Night Fundraiser - if you like swing by or pick up food and let them know you are supporting TCE, so a percentage of profit goes back to school!

Friday - Jeans Day/Sweats Day - Any shirt!
TELPAS Writing Samples due to Annelise
Spirit Rally - Kinder and 1st Perform
Shamrock Shuffle - All Day

Important Reminders
Class Pics Schedule
Times are approximate.  We will let you know if there are any changes.  Please show up to the cafeteria at your specified time. 
TCE Staff pic will be at 7:20!

4A/4B 8:00-8:10

4C/4D 8:10-8:20

4E/3A 8:20-8:30

3B/3C 8:30-8:40

3D/3E 8:40-8:50

5A/5B 8:50-9:00

5C/5D 9:00-9:10

5E/K1 9:10-9:20

K2/K3 9:20-9:30

K4/1A 9:30-9:40

1B/1C 9:40-9:50

1D/2A 9:50-10:00

2B/2C 10:00-10:10

2D/2E 10:10-10:30

Hallway Displays and Digital Showcase
Don't forget to be working on getting our hallway/classroom displays ready to go for Open House.  This should include paper based examples such as journals, writing samples, etc. as well as digital presentations/products.  Also, please make sure you are finding ways in which to showcase digital portfolios as well as tools such as See Saw that you have used this year for sharing learning.  

Engineering Showcase Night Photos
I would love for us to gather all of our photos from the event, so we can make sure and share these with our families through our website and our front digital display at the entrance of the school. Click on the following link (Google Folder) and download any cool pics you took!
Click here to add pics!


"Who made you happy this week?"
Shout Out Your Happiness!

Candace - Thank you for allowing Hydro Hippos club, come present to 1A & 1B. They did great! Our kids asked them a lot of interesting questions! Sweet Girls!

Courtney -
Thank you for helping my classes with 30 hands app. Your explanation to 1A & 1B was easy for them to understand. They are having a lot of fun with 30 Hands.
Lorri B.

Lorri - Thank you so much for going out to get extra supplies for us on Engineering Night when we ran out!!! You saved the day! Thanks for being willing to run to the store in the rain! -Lauren, Kim, Courtney, & Grace

Candace Coffee
Thank you Candace for sharing a wonderful lesson with the ozobots to our sweet kinders. We love all the technology you share with us!
Marie and Kelly

Thank you Tina and Candace for inviting kinder to the stem challenges winter olympics. Our learners had a wonderful time.
Marie and Kelly

Thank you Lorri for providing us with delicious chocolate cake and always warm chocolate cookies. We love you! Marie, Kelly, Julie and Lori

Lauren, Lorri, Kim, and all my A Hall family- thank you so much for all your love and hugs and support this week! You have been so helpful and kind with everything with my sweet mama. It has been such a blessing to come take care of her knowing that everything at school is taken care of. I love my people. <3 Courtney

Thank you Kristan, Candace, Brooke, Lisa, Tina and 2nd Grade for an amazing STEM planning day! We love any opportunity we get to work with each of you :) .
-Third Grade

Thank you to our Kinder-3rd grade teams for another great STEM planning day!  Also a huge shout out to all of our coaches for helping out with these days for planning lesson design!  - Angie

Thank you to Mike, Julie, Patrick and Beth for all of your efforts on Friday to make our Jump Rope for Heart event a success!  I appreciate your team work and how you put so many efforts into helping our learners have fun during these special days!  - Angie

Laura, Thank you for all your help in coordinating buses and field trip deposit! We are so grateful for all your help. You are WONDERFUL :) -Third Grade

Tina and Fifth grade helpers and Third grade helpers - Thank you, thank you and thank you for helping our little learners at the Book Fair Preview!!!!!! Kinder

Catherine! You are so incredible at Digital Breakouts!! Thank you for always being willing to share resources you've created :) –Ashlin

Patrick - thank you for having eagle eyes! You made Mattie's day by finding her very special necklace! Kelly B.
Renee - A BIG THANK YOU to your Texan Town Club for creating our QR codes that lead to our google sites!!! Wow!!! Your team is amazing!!!! Kinder

Julie. Thanks for all your work on jump rope for heart! You deserve a patio and a glass of your favorite beverage this weekend! – Mike

Patrick and Beth. Thanks for being awesome and so adaptable during the jump rope fun today! You two are the best!

Thanks so much to my team for helping out with everything while I am out! And a special shout out to Sudeshna! I know my kiddos are in good hands! Love, Renee

March Birthdays
Finished up all of February birthday folks, so moving on to March!

Kelly Burks - 8th
Elliot Pitchford - 15th
Sherri Kingsley - 16th
Beth Parker - 17th
Mike Erickson - 19th
Meredith Schaaf - 20th
Megan McGraw - 26th
Lorri Brehm - 30th

Curriculum Connection - Digital Portfolios (Evidence of Learning)
As we continue our journey of digital portfolios as a campus and district, here are a few resources to remind us of how they can be beneficial for our learners and you as an educator, as well as one district's story with digital portfolios.  Also, there is a link to a company that I would like you to explore as well as think about the benefits you have seen with using See Saw with your learners.  




Bulb - Looking at this the company as an option for digital portfolios, you can sign up for a free trial to see what you think.  They are coming out with an app this summer!

Final Quotes
As we head into Spring Break, make sure you are taking care of you and give yourself time to relax (not just during your week off).  Also, if you are like me. . .I have a hard time unplugging at times from the world of technology.  Take some steps to ensure you are unplugging at times and enjoying all that the world has to offer.  




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