Town Center Tidbits : March 2018

Week of: April 2nd-6th, 2018

Summative Conference Window Opens
Monday- Have a Marvelous Monday!

Tuesday - Have a Terrific Tuesday!

Wednesday - Jeans Day - Any shirt!
Faculty Meeting - 3:15 - Library
PTO Meeting - 6:00pm

Thursday - Kelly Out (AM)
First Grade Field Trip
Sky Ranch Chaperone Meeting

Friday - Jeans Day - Any shirt!
Texan Town

Important Reminders

Field Day and Kick Off - Grade Level Songs
We are gearing up for another fun-filled field day in May. . .yes, trying to be a little ahead of the game, since I will be back and forth from Admin to TCE even more starting this month. Our theme this year is a pirate theme, so be thinking of a fun song (doesn't have to be pirate) to kick off our field day! Remember this is just a short little dance/song your kiddos can do to get pumped up about the day! More info to come on field day, but wanted to get this out there!

Save the Date!

Cultural Plunges

"Create Your Own Recordings

with Screencast-O-Matic"

For sharing out our cultural plunges this year, we are going to move to trying an online sharing by using screencasts and then integrate a Twitter chat as well to discuss, collaborate, ask questions and share insight. This will also allow us to cancel our face to face meetings for TLC on Wed. April 18th and Wed. May 9th.

Click above or here for video!

Please watch the video below if you have never made a screencast before. You (your group) will be using this tool (Screencast-O-Matic or another screencasting tool) to capture and share out your cultural plunge presentation so it can then be watched online. We will be storing these video recordings in a Cultural Plunge Folder within our TCE Schoology Course. Due Date: Monday, April 30th to have everything uploaded into Schoology!

So, if you haven't done your cultural plunge yet, please get that going, so you will be ready for these next steps!

"Who made you happy this week?"

Shout Out Your Happiness!

Thank you to everyone that was able to come out on Monday, as well as the texts, calls and emails as I transition to my new role! Love you all so much!! - Angie

Thank you to everyone for helping to make our first Cultural Celebration Night a huge success! A special thank you to Laura for getting any materials ordered and Kasey and Kristan for helping to get our stations labeled and cafeteria set up and ready! Also, Patrick and Savita for getting our performers ready to go! I appreciate all of you and seeing our families on this night made my heart so happy!! - Angie

Kristan and Kasey - You all put so much time and effort into making sure all the logistics of cultural night were worked out! Thankful for your organization skills!

Thank you to Kristan, Brooke, and all of the DLC’s that helped make our fractions digital breakout happen! We appreciate you! - Renee and Kasey

Renee, thank you for sending your sweet friends to us all week to help with our google sites!!! They were darling and so appreciated!! Love the kinder team

Marie, thank you for organizing our Korean moms for cultural night. We had a blast!!! Julie, Kelly, and Lori

Annelise - thank you for all you are doing to help keep everything running smoothly! You are the best!

Lisa, thank you for all you have done to help me out! You always know exactly what to do to take something off of someone’s plate or be supportive. Love you! Kelly

Thank you Lorri for taking my lunch duty so I can eat with my team. You are always thinking of others. Love you!

Thank you Laura for always providing the teachers what they need. You are so supportive and gracious! Love you so much! Marie

Sherri! Thank you for laminating for us! We love you! Marie and Kelli

Patrick Miller, you did such an amazing job making cultural night a success, thank you, you are the best!!

Julie Fiddler, thank you so much for the help with the Henna hands!!

Lisa and Kristan, thank you both for taking care of my day care bus duties, when I was out of town. I appreciate your friendship and willingness to help me out!!

Shout out to Kristan and Kasey for getting everything organized and set up for Culture Night! Loved the signs and decor! –Marly

Shout out to Patrick for organizing all of the performances for Cultural Night! They were the highlight of the night! –Marly

Kelly Burks! You are always there for just what I need like trying to figure out the sound and writing my first letter of recommendation. Thank you for always helping me through it when I don’t know how to do things! –Marly

Heather, Thanks for teaching us how to play all of the games in our station! Loved playing with you and your family. -Marly

April Birthdays

Julie McCullough - 20th

Morgan Peccarelli - 22nd

Patti Radcliffe - 26th

Final Quotes

Well, it has been a crazy few days for me and I'm sure it is going to stay that way for while. So, you will see me running here, there and everywhere for a bit, but please know you can still get hold of me if you need me for anything. Just shoot me an email or a text as I want to make sure you know that I am here for you for needs. . .just not as easy to grab on some days! Since we have a busy, short week and our Cultural Night as well, feel free to wear jeans this week! We can look forward to our three day weekend coming up and of course. . .gotta love springtime and this beautiful weather!

Week of: March 26th-30th, 2018

Monday- Jeans Day - Any shirt!

TCE Potluck - Lounge

Angie's New Position Up for Final Approval by school board - Small Reception Admin building, everyone is invited if you want to swing by that evening (no obligation) - 7:00PM

Tuesday - Jeans Day - Any shirt!

Angie Out Principal Meeting (AM)

Wednesday - Jeans Day - Any TCE shirt!

After school Meeting - Library - 3:15 (Giving feedback to HR for new TCE principal)

Cultural Celebration Night 5:30-7:00pm

Thursday - Jeans Day - Any shirt!

Coaches meet with K-5 teams - Conference Times

Friday - Holiday! Enjoy your 3 Day Weekend!

Important Reminders

TCE Potluck - Monday 26th

Don't forget to sign up for our potluck this Monday! Fun time to try out a new or favorite old recipe! :)

Click here to sign up!

Cultural Celebration Night -

Wednesday, March 28th (5:30-7:00pm)

Make sure you have signed up to help for a station!!

Here is the brainstorming link to see what our committee had discussed and feel free to add ideas, etc.

Click here for brainstorming link!

Here is the sign-up that we have going so far for people to bring in their favorite family dish. This can also be something brought in from a restaurant if they don't want to cook! If we could all bring in some kind of a dish from each of our staff, that would also be great! I am going to blast out this info again to parents as well as if K-5 teachers you could make sure and add this to your blogs!

Click here to sign up for traditional dish!

Here is the sign-up for stations, please remember it would be great to have parents helping to lead/support these activities to make it more authentic toward our cultures. I know Kinder and 1st have reached out to some of their Korean families in order to work together on some activities. Once again, three to four staff members per station are fine. Then the gym will have performances which is another area we will need at least one or two staff members. Also, the cafeteria, we will need a few staff members and parents to help with the food. I am attaching a few documents for review:

Click here for link!

Save the Date!

Cultural Plunges

Please make sure you are getting your cultural plunge completed and see the Curriculum Connection in the blog for this week for more info on how we will share our plunge with others!

"Who made you happy this week?"

Shout Out Your Happiness!

Katie- Thank you so very very very very much for helping me fix the copier!!!! It seemed “unfixable” and you came into the copy room and had that magical touch!!!! You were so sweet and patient!!! Love, Julie

Grace - Thank you so much with all your technology help for 1st grade google sites and 30 hands projects. So glad to have you working and learning with our First Grade students. You are always so eager to help with projects, students, and anything that comes up! You’re the best!

Lorri

Kim, Courtney, Lauren, Grace -

Thank you all very much for all the hard work getting our hallways, Google Sites, QR Codes, and 30 Hands projects ready for Open House. Everything looked Great! I love working with you all! We have a wonderful Team!

Love,

Lorri B.

Lisa Hansen - Thank you for your help with my EL's Monitoring updates. I appreciate your time and patience you took from your day to help me complete.

Thank you!

Lorri B.

Kristan, Lisa and Laura thank you for helping all of the staff with getting the Reading Street textbooks and guided books moved and relocated to a new spot. This is so awesome and I know everyone will appreciate the extra space in their team closets! Annelise

Laura, thank you for the impending tutorials on Munis. lol Annelise

Kristan, thank you for all of your help with pulling information for our referrals. You are a rock star that shreds that guitar! Annelise

Kelly, you are the testing guru. Thank you for taking care of all the kids by organizing them into their best testing environment. You work so hard to make sure it is just right. You have done an amazing job with TELPAS and STAAR. Annelise

Teachers, thank you for getting your testing accommodations in tip top shape. You all have been amazingly organized in ensuring that they are getting exactly what they need to have all necessary tools documented. Way to go! Annelise

Huge shout out to all of our coaches and team leaders who have been helping to communicate, lead collaborations and be out go to for questions throughout the year! Appreciate all that you do each day!! - Angie

Shout out to our specials team for all of their thoughts, focus and hard work on their STEM planning day! - Angie

Shout out to Kristan Hruby for helping out with our Red and Black awards this week! We appreciate you stepping in and taking the lead on this! - Angie

A big thanks again to our office staff who is helping to keep everything running smoothly when I am pulled off campus for the transition! I appreciate you all so much and love y'all! - Angie

Curriculum Connection -

"Create Your Own Recordings

with Screencast-O-Matic"

For sharing out our cultural plunges this year, we are going to move to trying an online sharing by using screencasts and then integrate a Twitter chat as well to discuss, collaborate, ask questions and share insight. I will have more of a timeline for our Twitter Chat by the end of this week. This will also allow us to cancel our face to face meetings for TLC on Wed. April 18th and Wed. May 9th.

Please watch the video below if you have never made a screencast before. You (your group) will be using this tool (Screencast-O-Matic or another screencasting tool) to capture and share out your cultural plunge presentation so it can then be watched online. We will be storing these video recordings in a Cultural Plunge Folder within our TCE Schoology Course. I will have the due date for downloading as well by the end of this week. (it will be sometime toward the end of April)

So, if you haven't done your cultural plunge yet, please get that going, so you will be ready for these next steps!

Click above or here for video!