November 2014 Thank you to all the parents and students that made time to come to our “progress conversations” on October 23rd. Discussions between students-parents-teachers around learning are vitally important. I appreciate the efforts parents made to ensure their child was in attendance for these conversations. Our “artist in the school” residency is underway at the school. Our resident this year is KC Adams who specializes in the visual arts—specifically clay pottery. Each class will spend about 2 hours with KC, learning the basic of pottery and building their own creation. Her last day at TES will be November 14th. Welcome to our 2 newest staff members: Carli Conway and Stacie Tait. Carli has been hired to teach grade 6 Math and ELA. Stacie is our new guidance counselor, and will be teaching some early years math as well. We are very excited to have them join our team, and are looking forward to their contributions to our school community. Thank you to Mrs.Makowski, Ms.Groenweg, and all of the TEPAC volunteers that helped make our book fair a huge success. I believe the goal of this event is to expose families to a wide variety of materials they can use to increase their child’s literacy. It was refreshing to see so many families connecting around books, graphic novels, magazines, etc. This is a primary goal for our school—to help students develop literacy skills that will allow them to be successful in life. This starts at home, and is built on in school. Please take the time to develop literacy skills with your child at home. It doesn’t take a lot of time, and the benefits will last a lifetime. Manitoba Education has developed an excellent resource to help assist parents: “Helping your child learn to read”. It can be downloaded at: http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/docs/parents/learn/read.html For upcoming school events, staff listing, calendar, etc please check out our website http://www.isd21.mb.ca/te/ and follow us on Twitter—@teulonk6 Have a great November. Tim Lee Reminder: There is no school on Monday and Tuesday November 10 and 11 If your child is absent or away on vacation please call the school office at 204886-2620 to inform the secretary. TES has a supply of these great cleaning cloths for sale. Each cloth costs $5.00. These cloths allow you to clean windows, mirrors, fixtures etc. with no chemicals or harsh cleaners….just hot water and no rinsing! If you would like to purchase, please send the correct amount of money in an envelope with your name and student’s classroom and the cloths will be sent home. Thank you to everyone who contributed to The TES Terry Fox campaign. A total of $576.00 was raised by the students this year! The public is welcome to attend the Remembrance Day Service at 10:50 am the collegiate on Friday Lifetouch retake photo day in Friday November 7 at 9:00 am 2:30 PM Early Dismissal November 19 Christmas Concert time will be upon us before long. Mrs. Holod is asking for volunteers to help with costuming, sets. etc. If you can volunteer some time to help out please contact Mrs. Holod at [email protected] or leave a message at the office. The concert this year is on December 17th at the Teulon Hall. Pizza Hot Lunch is November 26 and 27. Cheques made payable to TEPAC 2013-2014 Yearbooks are available in the office at $20 each………………. KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION Monday, November 24th to Friday, November 28th, 2014 INTERLAKE SCHOOL DIVISION requests that all parents who plan to register their child for a kindergarten program in the next school year visit their local school during normal school hours of Kindergarten Registration Week. Kindergarten programs are offered at Teulon, Balmoral, Stony Mountain, Rosser, Argyle, Warren, Woodlands and École R.W. (Bobby) Bend School in Stonewall. Argyle School offers a divisional Multi-level Learning program with all day Kindergarten every day. Please contact the Argyle School Principal (204-467-2683) for details regarding this program. French Immersion Kindergarten will be offered at École R. W. Bobby Bend School. Bus transportation for the French Immersion program will only be available in the Stonewall catchment area (those schools that feed Stonewall Collegiate). Students would be able to meet existing bus routes. A transportation grant of $375.00 is available to students who are outside the Stonewall Collegiate catchment area. Children who will reach their fifth birthday by December 31st, 2015 are eligible to attend Kindergarten. A document providing proof of age is required. Please pass this information on to anyone you know who has a child eligible for Kindergarten in 2015-2016 TEPAC News Members at Large Angie Dzuba Debbie Kiel Jennifer Dion Amanda Anderson Christina Mills Denise Lowe Committees Executive Committee Angie Dzuba - Fun Lunch Chair Chairperson-Daisy Perez Shannon McGill and Christina Mills - Fun Lunch Co-Chair Vice-Chairperso-Andrew Carlson Tracy Thibodeau - Fundraising Chair Secretary-Erin Park Sabrina Reed - Volunteer Chair Treasurer-Michelle Mott Daisy Perez - Yearbook Chair The next meeting will be held on November 4th at 6:00 in the TES library. As always, it is open to all parents and guardians. Hope to see you there! [email protected] Did you know……….. School fees help pay for art projects brought home. Field trips at the end of the year. Have you paid your school fees? ‘TIS THE SEASON TO BUY GIFT CARDS… Watch for our gift card fundraiser coming home soon! Here are just a few of the gift cards that will be available: All you have to do is buy gift cards at face value from FundScrip participating retailers and a percentage of every gift card purchased will be contributed to our school! Proceeds to the local fight against cancer. Entry fees: *Youth 14 & Under $80.00 *18 & Under Open $100.00 *50/50 Draws *Awesome Silent Auction *Draw to the Button Cash Format Pay per Win for Both Categories Alan Campbell: 886-7121 Jim Hardy: 886-2125 Miss Groeneweg and Mrs.. Makowski are very happy to report that once again the Scholastic Book Fair was a record success . A portion of all sales supports new book purchases for our school library. This year’s total for the library is $2259.07. That is a lot of new books! Thank you to all those who purchased books and a huge thank you to the members of TEPAC who assisted in setting up, running and cleaning up the Book Fair. Congratulations to the following winners of the various Book Fair draws: TEPAC $20.00 gift cards– E Bogart and K Harasymko-Ledarney Scholastic Family Event—L Hurd and KP Library Draws K—M Trippier  Gr. 1—L Chartrand  Gr. 2—B Zeller  Gr. 3—A Bochek  Gr. 4—J Shelest  Gr. 5—R Daniels-Webb  Gr. 6—J Inglis Please Remember: As the temperatures continue to drop, your children need to be properly dressed for the weather. Unless the wind-chill exceeds the Divisional guidelines, the children go out for walking in the morning and for activity times in the morning and afternoon. Please ensure that your child is properly dressed for the weather conditions with toque, mitts, neck warmer, boots, ski pants and warm jacket. A neck warmer is preferable to a scarf. If your child is wearing a scarf please tuck it inside their jacket.