Clayton YES! @ Tanglewood

March/April 2015
6:30-8:00
2:00-6:30
Phone: 817.869.5308 [email protected]
Upcoming Events
Clayton YES! @ Tanglewood
Director: Toi Mack-Ellis
Assistant Site Manager: Alicia Ellis
Program Specialist: Hiwillita Brown Mark Garcia
Tammy Cox
Community Service Projects
Recycling
We collect recycle bins around the school every day and we put
them in the recycle bin outside. The school depend on us to
collect the material. If we miss a day or two the teacher start
asking “Are you going to collect recycling today?” We are very
proud of your children’s hard work and dedication to the
community service project.
Camp Fundango@Tanglewood
Open 6:30AM-6:30 PM
Look for email and flyer at the
center
We are going to have three
centers open in Fort Worth one of
which will be Tanglewood and
another which will be North Hi
Mount. The third school will be
announced soon. There will also
be six schools in Keller.
Important Announcement
Parents please make sure you
have signed up in Parent Portal
We also had another community service project that children
participated in as well. We collected material for hygiene kits. The
children did a fabulous job putting them together.
Mission Statement
Hygiene Kits for Homeless
The children, parents and staff brought soap, shampoo,
toothpaste, toothbrushes, shaving lotion etc... To make hygiene kits
for the homeless. We talked about how there are people who do
not homes or cannot afford the basic needs. We made about 75
hygiene kits. Thank you parents for encouraging your children to
bring material to fill our hygiene kits.
To serve communities of North Texas by
providing quality programs that foster the
emotional,
social,
and
educational
development of children, youth and families.
Clayton YES!
1215 Country Club Lane
Ft. Worth, Texas 76112
817-923-9888 Fax: 817-923-9887
www.claytonyes.org
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Classes for March/April
Function Junction-Students use dice to add or multiply using dice to get to twelve. The student
use several die. As a team they roll die to either add to six or multiply to get 12 (depending on
age group). The team to use all their die wins. Students tried get to ten with their team by adding
up their cards.
Art with a Heart- Students discussed recycling. Students were encouraged to recycle and they
discussed how recycling turns waste material into new products. They children created their own
art work out of recycled material. Students created egg ornaments using buttons and sequins.
Students created Mardi Gras mask and plastic cupcake eggs. Students also made journals.
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Young ThespiansChildren have been learning to create a story by taking random
objects out of a bag. A child starts a story with an object they pull
out of the bag and then the next child continues the story using
the random object. The story continues until all objects are used.
The story had to make sense and still have a beginning, middle
and end that was cohesive. The children had a short presentation
collage. The students found three pictures and cut them out and
wrote what the picture meant and presented them. The children
made commercials using a variety bottles. The named what the
bottle as product and created an info commercial that promoted
their product.
The children are also working on a project called one word at a
time. The children are going to create sentences using different
words for magazines and newspaper. The children are dividing
the words in adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and nouns before creating
the sentences.
Each of these lesson are promoting literacy and communication
skills; learning about parts of speech; building vocabulary, building
thought and creative process and learning how to do a
presentation.
Famous Future Writers- The children have been working on the
home row of keys on the computer. We are finding that children
are pecking at the computer and it take them a lot of time to
create writing documents. We are helping children learn home
keys and eventually will work on other keys to help the children
become more proficient in the typing skills. This will help in children
creating 6 week projects as well as help children in writing papers
that they will have to later in their school career.
Educational Websites
Abcya.com-helps with math,
phonics, reading, language
Pbskid.org
Starfall.com-math, phonics,
reading, and language arts
Spellcity.com-test children
on weekly spelling words
TTM-Think Through Math
Worldly Wise.com-helps your
child with wordly wise packet
Quizlet.com-children or
parents can input
information and quizlet will
create test, flash cards etc...
to help your child grasp
concepts
I-satiation
Our Motto
I AM VERY SPECIAL AND UNIQUE. I AM A DESIGNER
ORIGINAL, ONE OF A KIND. OUT OF THE BILLIONS OF
PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, THERE IS ONLY ONE ME. I
WILL STRIVE TO BE THE VERY BEST ME THAT I CAN BE.
I WILL RESPECT MYSELF AND OTHERS.
I WILL
IMPROVE MY LIFE EACH DAY THROUGH MY MIND,
ATTITUDE AND BEHAVIOR.
I HAVE A POSITIVE
PURPOSE AND THE WORLD WILL BE A BETTER PLACE
BECAUSE OF MY LIFE.
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Tanglewood School News
April 20-22 -No Parent Visitors for Lunch
No POPS
No Library Volunteers
April 20
STAAR Testing: 5th Grade Math
April 21
STAAR Testing: 3rd and 4th Grade Math
April 21
Kindergarten Field Trip: Fort Worth Zoo
April 27
Artapalooza! (Tanglewood Spirit Day)
April 29
5th Grade Field Trip: Camp Carter
April 30
PTA General Meeting @5:30 pm in
Auditorium
Gallery Night 6:00-7:00 pm
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