Tiger TALES Volume 3 Issue 2

January 2011 Tiger TALES Volume 3 Issue 2

Inside this issue: Mrs. Schroeder’s Scoop Inside this issue:

Letter from the PTA 2 President

Winter Greetings! SpellingPhysical Bee/GradingEd Bulletin/ Art Infor- 3 mation/CalendarAnnouncements

I hope you and your families had a wonderful holiday break. Rest, relaxation, and refocusing ReflectingMusic/Library/Grading on Reflections 4 Information/Calendar seem to have a way of rejuvenating us all. As we begin the new year, there are many goals and PTA Membership 5 initiatives we will be working toward accomplishing throughout this semester. In fact, some have Yearbook 5 already begun: ClassroomTeacher App/Reflections/ Highlights 6 Volunteer Info

Nurse Marissa’s Notes 7 FOCUS ON LEARNING and EXCELLENCE: Classroom Highlights 7

Each child will do his/her personal best in class and on assessments. Teachers JumpFundraising Rope For Heart 8 will analyze assessment data and differentiate instruction, helping each child PTA Reflections Contest 9 reach his/her highest potential. School Event– Carnival 9

Each child will set individual goals and evaluate them throughout the semester. Welcome New Tigers 10 Box Tops 10 Everyone will do his/her part to help us collectively earn an unprecedented school-wide reward for setting and accomplishing goals! Box Tops 11 PTA Board Members 11 Each child will be tardy-free. Our next round of No Tardy Parties will be on PTA Board Members 12 February 11th and we want 100% attendance! Tiger Spirit 12 Safety is key to excellence. Please follow guidelines for arrival and dismissal, Tiger Spirit/Directory 13 including only parking in the parking lot (not dropping off), and keeping it a Student Council 13 cell-phone free zone. Dad’s Club 14 Dad’s Club 14

Volunteer Opps 15 FOCUS ON BUILDING SCHOOL and FAMILY CONNECTIONS: Photo Gallery 15

Thanks to Student Council, our school mascot has been named. The next time he’s PTA Membership 16 out and about, say hello to “TIGGER,” the Timberwood tiger! Photo Gallery 16 Plans for our 2nd Annual Showcase are well under way. Be on the lookout for Sage 17 information on dinner tickets, Snow White (our staff play) show times, choir performances, the traveling art exhibit, and much more! Yearbook/Cookie Dough 18 Our first Coffee with the princi“PALS” will be held on January 27th at 8:00 a.m. Fundraiser Please join us as we share our school report card and offer a casual time for other ideas and feedback you have for TPES! Timberwood Park Elementary It’s going to be another positive, productive, successful semester. As always, thank you for 26715 S. Glenrose being a part of what makes TPES something to ROAR about! San Antonio, TX 78260

Lauri Schroeder Phone: 830.885.8500 Fax: 830.885.8501

Letter from the PTA Prez

Happy New Year Tigers!

The year of 2010 was filled with many fun activities. Thanks to the energetic dads in Dad’s Club we enjoyed a movie night, pancake breakfast and the bike rodeo. Many students participated in the Reflections Program and several will move on to the next level of judging.

We also would like to report on the tremendous success of the cookie dough fundraiser. We had record- breaking sales which will allow PTA to donate funds towards the school’s wish list. In December, the students who sold over 15 boxes were rewarded with a limo ride and picnic lunch in the park.

Thank you to all of the board members and other parents and grandparents who dedicate countless hours to help make Timberwood Park Elementary the wonderful school that it is. We look forward to many exciting activities in the New Year. Tiger Mart will be back in February and order forms for anytime orders are available on our website. We are gearing up for a super-fun spring carnival this April—watch for details!

If you have any questions, concerns or suggestions please email us: [email protected]. Stay informed on PTA and school happenings by logging on to our website: www.timberwoodparkpta.com. You can follow us on Facebook and Twitter, too!

Toni Mansker President, Timberwood Park PTA

2 Spelling Bee

The annual San Antonio Express News spelling bee was held on December 13. Every classroom in grades 3-5 sent a winner from their room to participate. This year's winner was 4th grader, Dana Hernandez in Mr. Cuda’s 4th grade class. Dana will move on to the San Antonio regional bee in March. Timberwood Park is proud to have Dana represent us in San Antonio. Good luck, Dana!!!

Grading Information Mark Your Calendar

Your student will be given an alphabetical grade for Specials January 13— Fun Family Fitness night @ 5:30 p.m. classes. In Gradespeed, you might see a numerical grade. The January 17— School Holiday relationship bwtween them is listed below. January 21— Report cards go home

February 3— Showcase on Timberwood Park @ 6:00 p.m. “E” 90% to 100% “S” 80% to 89% February 5— Parent/Community Summit “N” 70% to 79% February 11— No Tardy Party “U” 60% to 69% February 17— PTA General Meeting @ 6:30 p.m.

February 21— School Holiday We will encourage the Timberwood Park PATH OF THE TIGER February 24— Picture Day ROARS in helping our students achieve excellence. March 14-18— Spring Break R- Respectful April 9— School Carnival O– On-Target April 14— PTA General Meeting @ 6:30 p.m. A– Actively Involved April 22— School Holiday R– Responsible S– Safe and Self Controlled May 27— Last day of school, early release

3 Reflecting on Reflections

Thank you to all the students who participated in the 2010 Reflections Program! This year's theme was "Together We Can". Each entry was creative, beautiful and really "reflected" individual student's talent. The following students received recognition for their efforts.

Literature Award of Excellence—Jezell Shows, 3rd

Visual Arts Award of Excellence—Mei Jurek, 2nd Award of Excellence—Brooke Salgado, 4th Overall Best Interpretation—Brooke Salgado, 4th Award of Excellence—Leaha Scott, 5th Award of Merit—Tatiana Herrera, 1st Award of Merit—Hannah Smith, 4th Refection contest winners Award of Merit—Autumn Young, 3rd Honorable Mention—Gabby Aguilar, 3rd Honorable Mention—David Garstecki, 3rd Honorable Mention—Kristina Hernandez, 1st Honorable Mention—Kristina Hernandez, 1st Honorable Mention—Sarah Salgado, 3rd Honorable Mention—Madison Suarez, 3rd

Photography Award of Excellence—Hannah Smith, 4th Award of Merit—Sophie Gilbert, 5th Honorable Mention—Sarah Salgado, 3rd

Honorable Mention—Andrew Smith, 3rd Together We Can Run for Cancer by Brooke Salgado, 4th

Untitled by Autumn Young, 3rd We Are All In This Together by Leaha Scott, 5th Together We Can Clean Up Our World by Mei Jurek, 2nd

4 PTA Membership

A ROAR goes out to the winners of our membership contest. The winning classes were visited by the Timberwood Park Tiger. During the visit, the Tiger also passed out peppermint smencils to the class. The winners of each grade are:

Kindergarten- Heinze 1st grade- Lisman 2nd grade- Villarreal 3rd grade- Stults 4th grade- Dawson and Cooper tie 5th grade- Rouse

Thank you for joining TPES PTA. If you haven't become a PTA member for this school year, you can still sign up! Forms are located on the PTA website: www.timberwoodparkpta.com.

2nd grade winners, Villarreal, with TIGGER! 3rd grade winners, Stults, with TIGGER!

Timberwood Park would like to give a huge shout out to Double Dave’s Pizza for continuously supporting our school! Your generosity is much appreciated!

5 Highlights From the Classroom

Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade

Kinder is gearing up for our giant 100th First graders have been amazing learners this As we flew through the second 9 weeks we day celebration! Students will bring in past nine weeks! We enjoy learning our learned many new spelling skills such word their own 100th day collections, and we phonics rules through poetry and games. families and prefixes. In reading we read a will count to 100 in a variety of ways! You can find us role playing, retelling, read- variety of texts and genres. We have develop We will also learn what we look like when ing to self, and exploring many different vocabulary skills through meaningful and con- we are 100 years old and what we would genres on any given day. What fun it was to crete experiences. Our knowledge has increase do with $100. make butter, taste homemade wheat in the area of main idea and supporting detail. bread and observe the stages of grinding This has facilitate the students' ability to form a In February we will continue exploring wheat after our "Little Red Hen" story. During summary. The use of graphic organizer has friendship and also learn about Presi- December, we wrote several personal narra- also help us to gain and increase the concept dent’s Day. In math, we will begin work- tives. We know that good writers have to of comparing and contrasting. Our students ing on addition. learn to organize their thoughts, reread and were introduced to our GREAT strategies and Thank you for your continuous support! edit their writing. We love sharing our jour- how to use them in paragraphs to prove their nals with our classmates. First graders love answers. Our ideas have been flowing in writ- the hands-on approach we take to introduce ing while researching bats to create a bro- and practice our math skills. We are becom- chure. We have explored persuasive writing as ing amazing mathematicians with great num- well as writing from different perspective. In ber sense through the Singapore math daily math we worked on place value to the hun- activities. First graders enjoyed several sci- dredths place and adding 3-digit number with ence experiments this past nine weeks, the and without regrouping as well working with last being the infamous "mentos in the coke" money. Our focus in science was learning blast off. We are excited and ready for the about physical science topics. In social stud- New Year of new learning... next up, a Jan ies we identified the significance of Thanksgiv- Brett author study, sporting our stripes in the ing while studying part of our country's his- math CBA, and our 100th day outreach activi- tory. We have been so busy enjoying these ties. The first grade teachers would like to nine weeks it is hard to believe that we have give a special roar of thanks to all of our started the last half of this school year! room moms, volunteers and families for their continued support of all we do. You are fantastic!!

Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Welcome back to school! We hope you We hope you enjoyed your holidays and your We will continue to study Earth Science by ex- had a relaxing holiday. It is hard to be- top -secret gift. The students enjoyed work- ploring the following concepts: weather, the lieve half the year has passed us. This has ing on the holiday books and did a magnifi- sun, the Earth and the moon. We will also start been an amazing year so far and we are cent job. In Reading and Writing Workshop, a new phase of our homework later this month- very grateful for all the work you have put students will continue writing personal narra- Take Home Labs! Details will be sent home in with your students. Please continue to tives, focusing on specific moments. The Daily with your child with the first assignment keep it up. During this stretch, the stu- 5 allows the students to work independently dents will be challenged in various ways. or in small groups focusing on strategies and In Social Studies, we will be studying “The Please carry on reading every day with specific skills. Young United States.” We will be learning your student. This will help improve read- We have been busy beavers finding points on about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, ing comprehension and fluency. Students number lines that included whole numbers, Lewis and Clark and the War of 1812. who do not read regularly tend to have a fractions, and decimals! We will move onto harder time with comprehension than two of the students’ favorite units: geometry students who immerse theirselves in read- In January, we will begin a fun unit on geome- and measurement. ing. Reading is the foundation for compre- try that will have students building shapes, hension in all subjects. We are currently studying the changes that angles, and lines. We’ll investigate two and occur to our earth’s surface. three dimensional shapes, play Polygon Bingo and end the unit with a Mac project. Students We just took a mini field trip around the will also receive an extra credit project for the school and found places where erosion, third nine weeks. Our next CBA will be a re- weathering, and deposition has occurred. We leased TAKS test on January 31. will identify our

Earth’s renewable and nonrenewable re- In Reading, our focus will be on making connec- sources and examine properties of soils. tions across multiple texts through thematic In social studies we are looking forward to links and character analysis. Our expressive narrative writing will be imaginative and organ- studying the causes and effects of the ized as we include clearly defined plot and point Texas Revolution! of view. The use of adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases will make our writing even better!

Individually we ROCK, Collectively we ROAR!

6 Nurse’s Notes

Hello Tiger Friends and Family!

There are some key health practices that I would like to stress in order to help ensure all of our students, staff and families remain sick-free. These are school-wide policies set in place in order to provide a safe and healthy environment for your child; please adhere to these policies, as you have indicated acknowledgement of them by signing your CISD School Handbook.

*No medications (either over-the-counter or prescribed) are allowed in his/her possession on school grounds. This includes cough drops, chewable Tylenol, and inhalers. *All medications must be brought into the school by an adult and in its original container or Rx bottle. *I am more than happy to administer any medications for your child; please see me for the proper medication permission request forms available. They are also available for you online at [email protected]. *Do not send your child to school if he/she has had a temperature of 100.4 or more within 24 hours and you have had to medicate them with a fever-reducer to bring their temperature down.

This is a CISD Policy endorsed by our Superintendent of Schools Dr. Marc Walker. “It is important that your child is fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medications before returning to school because he/she can continue to be contagious up to 24 hours after a fever resolves. It is important you follow this rule to help prevent the spread of the flu/illness to other students and staff. Along with being fever-free, your child should also be ready to learn and feel well enough to participate in class.”

Winter is here!!! Please send your child to school in warm winter clothing that allows them to play during recess without being exposed to the elements. Chap Stick in their coat pockets will help with the chapped lips, too.

Parents of younger tiger cubs... having an extra set of under clothes and pants zip locked in their backpack continues to be a tremendous help for me and your child during school hours.

Finally, ask your child what we’ve been learning in school with our health care bear Fuzzy Wuzzy. He’s a great pal who helps Nurse Marisa promote healthy habits for well-being and success!

Your TPES school nurse, Marisa Gonzalez, RN

7 TIMBERWOOD PARK joins the San Antonio Spurs in the Fight Against Heart Disease and Stroke!

Between January 18TH and February 9th, Timberwood Park students and thousands of students across the country will JUMP ROPE FOR HEART and have an opportunity to be a HEART HERO! Each child will learn that there are many ways to be a Heart Hero: making decisions to protect their healthy hearts from disease; helping people who don’t have healthy hearts by raising money for the American Heart Associa- tion; and helping our school get new PE Equipment so that we can keep on making fitness fun!

This year the San Antonio Spurs and the Rampage are BIG Supporters of the American Heart Association and they have two great opportunities for your student::

-Donate $50 and get a FREE Ticket to the Jump Rope for Heart Spurs Game on Friday, March 11th against the Sacra- mento Kings! After the game your student can take a Free-Throw Shot on the Court! Parents and siblings can purchase additional tickets starting at just $20! -Donate $25 and get a FREE Ticket to the Jump Rope for Heart Rampage game (choose March 20 or April 10) and Ice Skate on the rink before the game! Parents and siblings can purchase additional tickets for just $10!

Timberwood Park is proud to be an American Heart Association School Partner. Together we strive to teach all our students the importance of life-long fitness, healthy habits and to help others whenever they can. Our hope is that your student will carry this message through our community by telling friends and family members what they are learning in PE Class about their hearts and, if you choose to participate in the fundraiser, asking them to support their participation in Jump Rope for Heart. Our school’s goal is to raise $4,000.

Important Dates: ∗ Donation Envelopes are due on: FEBRUARY 9, 2011 ∗ National Wear Red Day kicking off Heart Awareness Month: Friday, Feb. 4th ∗ Spurs Game: Friday, March 11 ∗ Rampage Games: Sunday, March 20 or Sunday, April 10

Thank you for supporting your child, your school and the American Heart Association! To learn your personal risk for Heart Disease and Stroke and how to make small lifestyle changes that yield big results, take the free assessment at: mylifecheck.heart.org.

8 A Carnival is Coming!

Planning has begun! And a date has been set! Mark your cal- endars for April 9th, 2011 and plan on being part of all the FUN!

This year's PTA Event Fundraiser will be a Spring Carnival -- games, bake walk, entertain- ment, parades, music, and much, much more! The carnival theme will be FIESTA! and all events will be held at the school. Check our website often for updates and all the details! We would love to have you VOLUNTEER to work with one of our planning Committees. Ideas and suggestions are welcome - this will be a HUGE event so we are looking for plenty of parents to help make everything go smoothly. If you are interested in helping plan the Carnival, please contact Joey Fleming at [email protected].

9 Box Tops Wanted!

Are you throwing money away?

Collecting Box Tops has paid off big for Timberwood Park Elementary!! We have already received a check for over $1400 from those little Box Tops your little ones have been collecting. Congratulations.

In addition to our poster recognition, each month our Top Tiger receives a free kid’s meal at Chick Fil-A on Blanco Road. Starting in January, our top class per grade level will get extra recess. Our top class overall will get a special day (pajama day, read-in day, game day, etc) of their choice each month. Our top teacher reward each month will be a volunteer to cover recess duty for the teacher so he/she can have recess/lunch back-to-back. Every teacher deserves a treat like that.

Clipping Box Tops has its benefits. Each Box Top is worth 10 cents. Don’t throw away money! Collect your Box Tops and turn them in to your teacher with your child’s name and he or she could be our next Top Tiger.

Lastly, HEB periodically offers a Box Top bundle deal. Most recently, when you bought any 10 participating Box Tops products, you received a 50 Bonus Box Top (usually processed at the register). Imagine this...if each TPES family participated, the school could earn over $2,500! It’s an easy way to help out our school!

Rebecca Savage Box Tops Coordinator

Be sure to check out our website at Www.timberwoodparkpta.com!

You can also become a fan of our Timberwood Park Facebook page! Www.facebook.com/TimberwoodparkPTA

The Timberwood Park PTA would sincerely like to thank the wonderful people at Tesoro Corporation for generously printing our Newsletters at no cost to our organization. Words cannot begin to express how grateful we are for your time and effort! Thank you.

10 2010—2011 PTA Board Members

Toni Mansker—President Karen Mikus—Spirit Items Kristen Eberle—1st VP Lease Jackson—Co Spirit Items Crystal Scott—2nd VP Lisa Pattison/Jennifer Spencer—Workroom Carol Young—Secretary Jeanne Salgado—Arts in Education Jerri Halford—Treasurer Sally McDonald—Newsletter Tanya Taylor—Parliamentarian Judy Marburger—Scholarship Shelley Giesecke—Historian/Website Wendi Klein—Staff Appreciation Robin Nowak—PTA Council Rep Rebecca Savage—Box Tops Anne Viera—Membership Wendy Nix—Programs/Co Historian Reynae Herrera—Directory Rick Mesa—Dad’s Club Joey Fleming—Fundraising/Events Kaleigh Dillman—Yearbook Jennifer May—Fundraising/Events Rachal Fries – Yearbook Cindy Myles—Fundraising/Sales Christy Kreth—Room Parent Coordinator Dayna Shaffer—Hospitality Julia Hedgpeth—Volunteer Coordinator

11 Tiger Spirit Photos

Cuff bracelets, Paw Power charm, If you have photographs from dog tags, window clings & more! Timberwood Park school events, we would love to see them! Go to www.timberwoodparkpta.com and follow instructions to upload your photos. We are still looking for fun photos to use in the yearbook. Thank you!

Showcase on Timberwood Park Elementary School

Coming in February!

Join us for a spaghetti dinner and see what We have everything that you need TPES is doing above and beyond the regular to show your Tiger Spirit! To order school curriculum. This event will invite you to experience what the students get to use every- any of our store items, download the day. Come see what makes Timberwood Park order form from Elementary School unique! www.timberwoodparkpta.com, fill it out, and send the order form in an envelope with a check to your student's teacher. We try to fill orders every Friday and will send your purchase home with your student.

12 Student Council Kicks Off!

Timberwood Park Elementary initiated it’s first Student Council this year! Elections took place in the Fall and the newly elected team didn’t waste anytime getting things rolling. Members have already held a face painting fundraiser as well as gathered much needed dog and cat supplies to support the Animal Friends Shelter on Borgfeld Road. Thank you to the families that supported out dog walk at the shelter back in December. Way to go!

Officers: President—Tegan Richter, 5th Vice President—Jackson Hathaway, 5th Treasurer—Anjelica Rios, 5th Secretary—Caitie Mansker, 5th

Members: Hope Schievelbein, 5th Rey Noll, 5th Carly Dugosh, 5th Maddie Gonzalez, 5th Brighton Torbert, 5th Alyssa Marin, 4th Jack Mobley, 4th Casey Casselberry, 4th William Luriete, 4th Corey McElroy, 4th Hannah Sill, 4th Kenny Flores, 3rd Kate Myles, 3rd Kelsey Nix, 3rd Luna Baker, 3rd James Savage, 3rd Perri Olsen, 3rd

Advisors: Jill Moran Kim Loner Jennifer Diaz

13 Dad’s Club On Monday, November 22, we hosted our 3rd Annual Bike Rodeo. With over 200 participants and over 20 volunteers, a good time was had by all. The volunteers assisted in inspecting over 200 bikes and assisting the participants through the 5 stations of the bike rodeo. Each bike rider received a participant ribbon and a free kid’s meal at Olive Garden. In addition to the school age participants, 15 teachers tested their bike riding skills in hopes of winning the ability to wear jeans for a whole week. In the end, Principal Lauri Schroeder declared all 15 teachers winners, making them all eligible for a free week of jeans.

2010 Bike Rodeo Winners: K: Zach Elgin, Alex Brown, Kayden Friesenhahn, Sabrina Taber, Kailenn Morgan, Alexandra Carver 1st: Trey Correa, Ryan Garcia, Carter Cruz, Brianna Van Pelt, Addison Garcia, Jaci Mesa 2nd: Nico Hernandez, Nathan Shaffer, Matthew Middlebrooks, Jenna Kirk, Lindsay Pattison, Sara Hankosky 3rd: Cason Callis, RJ Carver, Brant Gault, Jezell Shows, Morgan Parks, Rachel Waltman 4th: Grant Pattison, Andy Doyle, Trent Pannkuk, Breana Hernandez, Hannah Gray, Samantha Carter 5th: Blake Halford, Kyle Lux, Mark Cravas, Sophie Gilbert, Jacquelyn Clendening, Caitie Mansker

14 PHOTO GALLERY

1st grade teachers pose as Elves on a Shelf. (L-R) Kathy Lisman, Mrs. Ojeda’s Kindergarten class Holiday Party Shanna Callis, Michelle Newell, Shannon Welsh, Keiba Easterling, Allyson Krieger, and Sharon Cumberland

Mrs. Callis’s 1st grade class Holiday Party Mr. Cuda’s 4th grade class Holiday Party

Mrs. Villarreal’s 2nd grade class Holiday Party <======

Mrs. Stanzione’s 5th grade class Holiday Party ======>

15 PHOTO GALLERY

Student Council Face Painting fundraiser

Dedicated volunteers spend time with the animals

16 PHOTO GALLERY

Students were rewarded with a limo ride and picnic in the park if they sold 15 boxes of cookie dough during the school fundraiser. What fun!

The bike rodeo was a huge success with over 200 students participating.

SAGE Update

The SAGE classes in grade 1-5, culminated their study on volcanoes and earth- quakes with an independent project. They shared their knowledge and projects with classmates in a two hour presentation session in November.

Sherry Metzger G/T Facilitator

17 Order Your Yearbook! ATTENTION TIGERS! BUY NOW BEFORE THE PRICE INCREASES! Yearbooks are now $18 until Jan. 31, 2011 and the price will increase to $20 on orders received after Jan. 31, 2011.

Ordering options: Online with credit card at www.jostensyearbooks.com or send payment to school, cash (exact amount please as we cannot make change) or checks made to TPES PTA

We are also selling Love Lines for $10 until Jan. 31st: Submit a 4x6 index card with your special message and photo of your child to the office in an envelope, attn: yearbook. Love Lines must be print-ready and submitted as a 4x6 horizontal design. Submit by January 31. Contact Kaleigh Dillman @ 210-363-3958 with questions.

Please keep this top portion as a receipt for your records

I paid by Cash $______Check #______$______(Please record amount paid and your check number, payable to TPES PTA) .————————————————————————————————–—————————————————————————— ————- Complete this order form and return to your teacher in an envelope (Attn: Yearbook) if you are not ordering online.

Name of child for in-class delivery ______Parent Name ______Phone Number ______

QTY X Cost Total Yearbook X 18.00

Love Line X 10.00

Grand Total

Cookie Dough Fundraiser

Thank you to all the students, parents and TPES staff for helping to make our Cookie Dough Fundraiser a huge success… what a team! We surpassed our goal of $50,000 and earned a PJ Day for the entire campus. A total of 175 students sold 15 items and earned the Limo Ride to Lunch. Thanks to all the parents who volunteered their time to help out on campus, in the limo, and at the park. Your participation made that day something to ROAR about!!

A very special thank you to Mrs. Henton in the cafeteria, and Mr. Jose for always being there to help with an open heart and smile!

-Cindy Myles