Happy Halloween!

So, who's ready for Halloween this week?  I have all my candy ready to hand out at the house. . .as Paul feels we need to have lots of candy!  Always a crazy week when Halloween falls during the school week. . .but we will push through and cross our fingers for not too much craziness!  Make sure and sign up for the TCE Spooky Potluck so we can all enjoy some yummy treats on Tuesday!  I have already been excited this weekend with the cooler weather making chicken tortilla soup and now pot roast and thinking about making some pumpkin bread. . .yes, I get just a little excited about cooking during the fall!  Enjoy your weekend!

Week of:  Oct. 30th-Nov. 3rd, 2017

Monday-  STEM Planning Day 2nd and 3rd (sweats for the teams and coaches) - Kristan's room

Tuesday - Jeans/Sweats Day - Any shirt (and feel free to add crazy hat/headband/wig)
TCE Spooky Potluck - Lounge

Wednesday - Jeans and College/Sports shirt
Faculty Meeting - Library 3:15

Thursday -  Hruby/Berumen Meets with Teams
PTO Meeting 8:15 - Location TBD
Classroom Management Framework Training (great training for anyone wanting to attend)- TCE 4:00-5:00

Friday - Jeans Day - Any shirt
Texan Town
5th Grade Health Expo - during day

Important Reminders

Super Teacher

The district is giving out Super Teacher awards again this year. I had not put this in my blog earlier, since the district was pushing it out.  However,  you can still nominate an educator to receive this award, by filling out the following link! 

Click here to nominate! 

Due date:  this Monday, October 30th 

There will also be other opportunities this year to nominate if you happen to miss this time!

Teacher of the Year

I sent out an email with all of the info for nominating our TCE Teacher of the Year!  Please remember that the due date for nominations will be this Friday, November 3rd!  See me if you have questions or a nomination!  

TCE Spooky Potluck

We decided to move our potluck to this Tuesday, October 31st, since we had the STEM planning day for 2nd/3rd on Monday.  Please click on the following link to sign up for what you would like to bring so we can have a yummy treat on Halloween!

Click here to sign-up!

Bias Video and Post

Remember to please view the following video and post on the padlet below if you have not done so!  This is one we had from last year, but I would like for all new people to TCE and anyone who hasn't watched and posted to do so by October 31st!
Click here to view video!
Click here for the Padlet!

Cultural Plunge
Keep in the back of your mind some ideas you may have for your cultural plunge this year.  You can go back and look at last week's blog post or discuss with other TCE members to think about what you might choose to do!

"Who made you happy this week?"

Shout Out Your Happiness!

Lisa, Tina, Kristan, Candace - WOW!! First Grade had a wonderful experience with Pumpkin Catapult Challenge! You all made learning so much fun! What great little Engineers we have! Thank you all so much!! Lorri & Courtney

Laura - What would I do without you??? you are always so kind to help with anything that I ask! Thank you for all the supplies, arranging subs,and just listening to me!. You are the BEST!!! Lorri B.

Tina- Thank you for all your help with Global Read Aloud! I am so glad that you took the time to share with me Flip Grid. I am loving this app!! Thank you for always giving me new experiences with technology.

^{Kristan, Thank you so much for taking the time to help with 5th grades Colonial Williamsburg Stations! You are the BEST! Meredith, Casey, and Rachel}

^{Casey Wagner & Candace, THANK YOU, thank you, thank you for being so selfless and asking me if I needed help while I was out sick with Lydia. I didn't even have to ask! So blown away by your generosity! Love you ladies! –Mary}

^{Meredith and Rachel, I loved getting to do the Colonial Williamsburg Stations with each of you! Casey}

^{Candace, Thank you for meeting with us to touch base about activities and extensions in the classroom. We appreciate all of the resources you provided! 5th Grade}

^{Teachers, Thank you for all the hard work in getting data ready and sitting in so many meetings as we go through this first big batch of dyslexia evals. I appreciate everyone's flexibility when I have to shift the MLI schedule to get evals done/add new kids to my case load. Stay flexible with me...it'll get a little worse before it gets better! :) Love and appreciate you ALL!  -Mary}

^{TCE's support makes me happy! I have very much enjoyed meeting all of the administration and teachers at TCE this week and I cannot be more thankful for everyone making my time here so enjoyable! Special thanks to Dianne for being the best classroom partner! –Schuyler}

^{Mike, I appreciate you covering my morning duty when I had a consent meeting! You're such a great team player! –Mary}

^{Thank you to Kelly and Kristan for getting our student council ready to share out for Red Ribbon Week!  It was a fun week and our Stu Co leaders represented so well each day!  - Angie}

^{TCE Coaches - Thank you so much for helping support of K/1 learners this week at the Pumpkin Chunkin' design challenge!  I love working alongside all of you and you are the VERY best teammates in the world!  Love, Tina}

^{Angie--Thank you for the awesome new Makerspace tools in the library! Our learners are loving the Toobeez! ❤ Tina}

^{Schuyler and I want to give a huge shout out to the 4th grade team (Marly, Jenna, Heather, Morgan and Kate) for their flexibility, patience and support of our many shared learners. We have made several changes to our new schedules this week. We truly appreciate the joint effort you all provide for helping our learners reach success each and everyday! – Dianne}

^{Patrick,  Thank you for coming on announcements and playing a little Sound of Music for us on your oboe!  You are amazing and we appreciate your help in trying to get Annelise to watch the Sound of Music!  :) - Angie}

^{Kristan, Lisa, and Heather! Thank you all so much for helping plan an amazing writing lesson for my learners! You all are such an inspiration!}

^{Lisa, Thank you so much for always being willing to help with lesson design and sharing tools I can use with my sweet friend! <3 you Morgan}

^{Schuyler, you are ROCKING your first week at TCE. Thank you for being so willing to collaborate. I love working with you! –Marly}

^{Annelise, Kelly, & Kristan - Thank you for such an informative and effective RTI meeting. We appreciate you. -Marly & Jenna}

^{Angie, Thank you for being supportive when I needed to take care of a family emergency this week. I am thankful that you encourage us to always put family first. –Marly}

^{Kristan, Thank you for dropping everything to take care of me on Tuesday. Your support and generosity really makes a difference. :) –Marly}

^{Thank you Star, Virma and Martha for taking the time out of your busy day to show our kinder friends around the kitchen! They had a great time making pumpkin treats! Our friends had so much fun and were amazed at everything you all do! We love you all so much!  Julie, Lori, Kelly, and Marie}

^{Tina, Candace and Kristan, Thank you so much for helping us out with our pumpkin lesson. Our kinder friends love you all so much! We do too!  Marie and Kelly}

^{Megan!  Thank you for helping dismiss my kids on Friday! I LOVE getting to share kids with you :) Ashlin}

^{Logan, Thank you for sharing some of the new SeeSaw updates and tools with me! I am so excited to use them with my learners who need extra support. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Ashlin}

^{Thank you to everyone for another great tour with Waxahachie ISD!  I appreciate you sharing your learning and lesson design with them!  - Angie}

^{Thank you Schuyler! You are the biggest blessing to TCE and myself. I am beyond thankful and impressed with you already! Thank you for hanging in there these first 4 days on being with us! You truly are a ROCKSTAR!  Love ya...Dianne J.}

^{Kelly S- Thank you for being accessible to some of our SPED friends. You are a wonderful resource for us! I appreciate you!}

^{Thank you to our 4th and 5th grade educators for another amazing planning day!  Your focus and dedication to trying new ideas blows me away as well as how well you collaborate within your teams to make a difference for kiddos! - Angie}

^{Thank you Annelise for your organization and continued support to us! I appreciate you so much! TCE is blessed to have you! Love ya, Dianne J.}

^{Tina, Kristan, Lisa, and Candace - Thank you for another amazing STEM activity! The little ones loved the Pumpkin Design Challenge !! Lori and Julie}

^{Thank you to Annelise, Kelly, Kristan, and Mary for coming together to discuss our TCE RTI process with our district reps!  Great discussion as we talked about needs and ways in which we can grow together as a campus and district!  - Angie}

Click here to give a happy shout out!

November Birthdays

Katie Tonemah – 3rd

Marie Sork – 7th

Marina Chicas – 8th 

Beth Dilley – 11th

Annelise Ford – 14th

Laura Fairchild – 24th

Kristan Hruby – 24th

Renee Foroodi – 25th

Curriculum Connection:  
PLN - Professional Learning Network 

As we continue growing together as a campus through our professional learning community, we will start reading about how we can also work on growing and connecting with other educators around the world.  Our book this year, What Connected Educators Do Differently, will help us in our learning journey of establishing, guiding, building and sustaining a professional learning network.  
If you could please read the areas in the book called Connectors 1, 2, and 3 by December 6th.  That should take you through the intro all the way to page 44. Then we will begin some face to face discussion/online discussion as a campus.

Final Quotes