Tiger TALES Volume 3 Issue 2
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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 ClassroomNurse Marissa’s Highlights Notes 7 FOCUS ON LEARNING and EXCELLENCE: 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.