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Tildenville Elementary School, Winter Garden, FL
Monday, February 5, 2018
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Once a year, we ask our parents and guardians to invest a few minutes and take an anonymous school climate survey. This survey is not very long at all but is extremely helpful to us with our ongoing school improvement efforts. If you have a student attending Tildenville, would you please click on the link below and complete at your earliest convenience? Thank you very much for your help.
I hope this finds your February off to a terrific start and thank you so much for looking over our progress. Have a nice weekend!
Agathe Alvarez
Proud Principal
Tildenville Elementary School
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February 2018
** Every Monday and Tuesday is after-school tutoring from 3:30-5:30 PM. Please be in line to pick up by 5:30 PM
2/1 100th Day of School
2/1 WIDA Writing Testing
2/2 Ground Hog Day
2/2 Spanish Spelling Bee 1:30 PM
2/3 Saturday School 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
2/6 NEJHS Meeting
2/7 In House Field Trip-Orisi Dancers
2/9 4th grade field trip to the History Center
2/10 Saturday School
2/10 OCPS Parent Academy - "Jumpstart the Year with a New Mindset"
2/13 NEJHS meeting
2/14 Happy Valentine's Day!
2/15 Magnet Applications Due for incoming Tildenville tigers and outgoing 5th grade to Lakeview Middle School for the Dual Language/World Language program
2/15 Kindergarten Field Trip to the Orlando Rep Theater
2/15 Spanish Honor Society
2/17 NO Saturday School - Enjoy your long weekend!
2/19 No School - Presidents Day!
2/20 K-Kids Meeting
2/23 Florida Turnpike to Visit the 5th graders for STEM project
2/23 3rd grade Field Trip to Sea World
2/24 Saturday School
2/27 Curriculum Night 5:30-6:30 PM
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Special Events & Reminders
National French Contest 2018 - Le Grand Concours 2018
Let's cheer on our Tildenville Tigers as they compete in the Nation French Contest - Le Grand Concours! The test will be held in mid February.
Go TIGERS!
Read Across America Day (March 2)
Dr. Seuss's Read Across America Day is coming up! March 2nd is the big day and we are looking for classroom readers. If you are interested, please contact your child's teacher to schedule a time. All readers must be
ADDitions approved so make sure to fill out the application if needed.
* We are looking for parent volunteers to help label the books in the media center with AR information for the students.
Morning Clubs and Computer Lab
Morning clubs will now include computer lab. Students can receive a ticket to go to the computer lab to work on i-Ready, iStation or take Accelerated Reader tests. Remember clubs are first come, first serve.
Volunteering at Tildenville - Form is Needed - Thank You
Please fill out your
ADDItions volunteer forms now! There are several field trips coming up and you must have your application cleared by OCPS to attend. We would also love to have more volunteers on campus!
Curriculum Night (Feb. 27th)
Curriculum Night celebrating Black History and Literacy 5:30-6:30 PM
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Thank Yous
Thank you to PTA for purchasing books for our students to celebrate Literacy Week. Each of our students will receive a book to take home and read!
Partners in Education and Sheffer Family
Thank you to all our Partners in Education who have donated coupons for our Honor Roll students. Thank you to the Sheffer family for donating all the delicious Krispy Kreme donuts for the Principal's Honor Roll Breakfast!
Parents
Thank you to our awesome parents who worked hard to get a garden bed for our PreK/Kindergarten playground.
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Vital Signs: Tildenville's "Top 5"
The 5 most popular books with our Tigers over the past 30 days . . .
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
by Jeff Kinney
Captain Underpants And The Revolting Revenge of The Radioactive Robo-Boxers by Dav Pilkey
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck by Jeff Kinney
Judy Moody Gets Famous! by Megan McDonald
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney
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Rigor in the Classrooms
Snapshots from across the campus over recent days . . .
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Mrs. Negron's fourth grade students working hard on their reading comprehension skills
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Parts of Literacy Week were conducted in both English & Spanish
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Students have been working hard in art class to finish their weaving projects
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Students of the Month
Congratulations to these Tigers!
TEACHER NAME
Ms. Vela, Karla
Ms. Vela
Mrs. Toledo
Mrs. Gonalez-Florin
Mrs. Head
Ms. Hunter
Dr. Jones
Ms. Mazzone
Ms. Medina
Mrs. Negron
Ms. Mohammad
Mr. Morel
Mrs. Ortiz
Ms. Panet
Mrs. Ramirez
Ms. Romo
Mrs. Rosario
Mrs. Salabarria
Ms. Sanchez
Ms. Sims
Mrs. Suarez
Mrs. Telenda
Ms. Torres
Mrs. Ventura
Mrs. Walker
Mrs. Garcia
Mrs. Musni
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STUDENT FIRST NAME
Temo
Aliyah
Carter
Olivia
Chloe
London
Justin
Aya
Lizette
Edison
Samantha
Aanyah
Ariana
Saira
Ayana
Madison
Samantha
Mason
Dylan
Ethyn
Daniel
Aubrey
Aanyah
Alessandra
Olivia
Arielis
Jennifer
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PTA Update
2018 PTA Legislative Report for the Tildenville community
Did you know PTA is the oldest and largest child advocacy organization in the world? Long before telephones, computers or even women's right to vote, two moms gathered 2,000 parents in Washington, DC, to protest the deaths and injuries of children from the machines of the industrial revolution. We are still speaking out for the education and well-being of children, 120 years later!
On Tuesday, January 23rd 111 students, teachers and parents from twenty Orange County schools took the PTA bus to Tallahassee to advocate for public schools, representing YOU, our PTA membership.
Your PTA membership alone adds power to the ten PTA volunteers who influence policy every day of session at the Florida Capitol.
Follow what's affecting our children:
Receive PTA updates of the Florida Legislative session by signing up for Voter Voice
https://floridapta.org/voter-voice-legislative/
Find your elected officials here:
https://floridapta.org/voter-voice-legislative/
Next month: watch for updates regarding the 2018 election and the 2018 Constitutional Revision Committee.
All of this affects YOU. Please send me your questions or concerns - and Thank You for your interest!
Wendy Birket
Legislative Chair
Tildenville Elementary School PTA
[email protected]
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Dual Language
Updates by grade level for our parents
Students recently received a garden bed of their own in their playground (above)! Students got right to work planting flowers that will attract butterflies. Thank you to our parents who made this happen and for
Mrs. Vela for taking on this new project with her students.
Kindergarten Dual Language
In
Science we are working with: Day and Night (el cielo de dia y de noche).
Vocabulary
: El sol, El cielo, la luna, la noche, las nubes y las estrellas.
New topic: Big Idea 14: Organization and Development of Living things
Vocabulary: The senses including eyes (ojos), nose (nariz), taste (saborear), fingers (dedos), sight (vista), smell (oler), ears (oidos) touch(tacto)
In
Reading we are working with Silabas Va, ve, vi, vo , vu; Personajes (characters); Sequence (secuencia); and Setting( lugar, escenario). We are also learning new vocabulary!
2nd Grade Dual Language
In second grade the unit is continuing. The expectation is for students to be able to:
talk about pets and other animals, describe animal characteristics such as size, color and body parts by comparing and contrasting, say what animals eat, and how animals and people move (run, swim, walk, fly, and etc.)
3rd Grade Dual Language
Working on unit 2 ?Cómo Vivimos? DESCUBRE ARGENTINA, Las Personas en Comunidad, La ropa y la moda, Lugares de la Comunidad!
4th Grade Dual Language
Students will talk about pets by describing what they look like and what they eat; discuss farm animals and their care by imagining that they visit a farm in Costa Rica; recognize the role animals play in literature by reading a fable; and describe some zoo animals by imagining that they visit a zoo in Costa Rica.
5th Grade Dual Language
In Spanish, we are working on our grammar skills by practicing using present and past tense verbs in a sentence. We will soon be working on using identifying and using adverbs.
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Gifted Classes
Science experiments
STEM - Rocket Experiment
Third through 5th grade gifted classes are blasting off with designs and builds of water bottle rockets with parachutes! This is a STEM completion activity from the ESO (Elementary Science Olympiad). Data sheets will have each teams' maximum "hang time" and will be compared to determine which teams performed the best.
Above and then just below:
Third through fifth grade gifted classes are seen here blasting off with designs and builds of water bottle rockets with parachutes!
STEM - Mystery Powders
We will also be doing several other STEM ESO activities including "mystery powders." In this event they will be given 6 known powders (flour, sugar, salt, corn starch, white sand and baking soda). They first run and record characteristics analysis of each of the known powders. The competition is to identify those powders in containers labeled only A-F. Finally, they must identify mixed powders.
STEM -Solar Energy
Another science event addresses solar energy. Students will make their own photometers (light reading devices made from wax with a sheet of aluminum foil sandwiched in) in a competition of design to find the best reflectors between two controlled light sources.
STEM - Understanding the "Scientific Method"
We've also been learning the Scientific Method for experiments with all gifted classes. First we ran a test of bubble gum. They created their own hypothesis on what would happen to the weight of the bubble gum after chewing for 2 minutes. The measured the bubble gum before and after chewing. They then compared the results with their hypothesis. The next test was, of course, a change in the variable: sugar free gum. A fun, but productive series of experiments!
Fifth grade students writing up their results following the scientific method
STEM = Science Technology Engineering Mathematics
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Saturday School
We are on a roll in Saturday School! Students have been building houses, making sand, writing comic books and so much more. Every week that Saturday School students attend, their name goes in a drawing to win a bike at the end of the 8 weeks. Saturday School starts at 9:00AM!
Saturday School students were putting their math skills to the test by building a house using perimeter and area.
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Testing
WIDA testing for LY students will continue through the month of February. Students taking this assessment recieved a parent letter several weeks ago. FSA testing is not to far off ! A parent letter will come home in the next few weeks with information regarding those assessments.
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Computer Program Help Sheet
We have reached the mid point in the school year and our Tigers are working hard! We are reposting the computer programs available to our Tildenville students. If you have any trouble accessing any of the programs please contact your child's teacher for help. Thank you for your support with our Tigers!
Tildenville Computer Programs
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Parting Shots of the Week . . .
The pineapples 5th grade planted in the garden two years ago have finally started to bloom!
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[email protected]
with any questions.
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