The Tiger's Roar!  
Tildenville Elementary School, Winter Garden, FL
"A National Magnet School of Distinction"
Friday, March 6, 2020
    

I hope this edition finds your month off to a great start! Next week is only a four-day school week for our Tigers as there is no school on Friday, March 13. The following week they will have off for spring break.

ACOVID 19 (Coronavirus) Information 
Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) is in constant communication with the Florida Department of Health regarding the spread of COVID-19. OCPS is taking the threat of a COVID-19 outbreak seriously and is dedicated to ensuring proper protocols are in place to protect our staff and students.
 
The CDC and The Florida Department of Health are your best source of information about the disease:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html

2020 Parent Survey Closes Shortly
Our annual Parent Survey will be closing at the end of next week. The survey is completely anonymous to ensure privacy so if you have a student at Tildenville and still have not taken it, kindly do so today. We rely on parents' opinions for our school improvement efforts.


Volunteers Needed!
Just below you will find requests of our school community for help with two important upcoming special events: 1) Field Day on March 12; and 2) FSA testing proctors during April & May. If you can donate a little of your time it would be of great benefit to our teachers and students. Thank you!

I hope you enjoy looking over some of our highlights and successes from recent weeks. Have a great weekend and please do not forget to turn your clocks ahead 1 hour Sunday for Daylight Savings Time.

In Tiger Pride,

Agathe Alvarez 
Proud Principal
Tildenville Elementary School

Pictured very top: Thank you Vanessa Chulak for all your volunteer time at Tildenville Elementary! We LOVE our parent volunteers!

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Upcoming March Events
 
3/7 Saturday School 8:30am
3/8 Daylight Savings Time Begins
3/9 Modern Woodsmen Contest
3/9 Tutoring
3/9 VPK
3/9 FSA Parent Proctor Training
3/10 Tutoring
3/10 SAC 4pm
3/11 Dual Language Spring Orientation 6pm
3/12 Field Day - Volunteers Needed (See below)
3/12 End of Third Marking Period
3/12 NEHS Meeting
3/12 Kids Beach Club
3/13 Teacher Workday/Student Holiday
3/16-3/20 Spring Break
3/23 Begin Fourth Period
3/26 Spanish Honor Society Meeting
3/26 Kids Beach Club
3/27 School Tour 9:30am 
 
SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT: PTA & READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY
   
Thank you PTA for purchasing a book for every child! We are very appreciative of all that you do! (Please see below for other recent examples of our PTA's generous support.)
 
Volunteers Needed for Field Day (Thursday, March 12) 
   
We are looking for volunteers for field day! Please sign up using this link!

https://ocps.samaritan.com/recruiter/index.php?class=OppSearchResults&recruiterID=503&orgid=1624&udf734=Volunteers&type=all

2020 FSA Testing - Proctors Needed
We will need some help with the administration of the state assessments beginning in April. 
 
Testing update FSA proctor volunteers that will be needed:
  • April 1st- 14 proctors needed
  • April 2nd- 5 proctors needed
  • May 4th- 9 proctors needed
  • May 5th-9 proctors needed
  • May 7th- 14 proctors needed
  • May 8th- 14 proctors needed
  • May 11th- 5 proctors needed
  • May 12th- 5 proctors needed
To be a proctor you must:
  1. Attend face to face training in the media center on March 9th from 9-10.  
  2. Complete the Test Security Training online and send Julie Hager the certificate:  https://tdmsecurity.s3us-east-2.amazonaws.com/Test%20Security%202019-20/story_html5.html
  3. Fill out the google survey https://forms.gle/NyVWmC1bT7jNCV3X9 for the days you are able to proctor.  
Read Across America
Thank you Lakeview Middle School Dual Language students for reading to our Tigers for Read Across America!     
 

PTA Spirit Night  
PTA held a Spirit Night at Gymnastics USA! 


PTA's Donuts with Dad  
Donuts with Dad was a HUGE success! Thank you to Lawyers Title Network for sponsoring this event! 
   

Black History Night Program at Tildenville!  
Awesome job students!   
 

Classroom Spotlight  
Ms. Crawford's kindergarteners working on digraphs. 
    

Youth Arts Month 
   
Amazing job 5th grade students from Garcia's and Ortiz's class! They worked to create a banner inspired by artworks from Dutch Master Vincent van Gogh!

This banner (front & back) will represent our school for the Youths Arts Month. Below is the information. If you're walking around downtown Orlando in March be sure to keep an eye out for our banner!


Thank you to Mrs. McDuffie and Mrs. Mosby for helping out with Cricuts and Coffee! 
  
We have everything cut out and ready to be hung up! If you would like to come help finish off this project please contact Julie Hager at 31313@ocps.net


Tildenville in the News! 
   
Thank you to the Florida Turnpike for once again supporting our Tildenville Tigers! We greatly appreciate all that you do for us!

Elementary school students learn about engineering using chocolate! (Click on picture to watch through Channel 6 News.)


Tiger Pen Pals
Fifth grade students enjoyed receiving their pen pal letters from Hunter's Creek Elementary!  
   

Closing Images of the Week . . .    
Mrs. Black's 2nd grade class learning about matter - gas.     
 


Leadership Team


Principal, Agathe Alvarez Agathe.Alvarez@ocps.net
CRT/Dual Language Program Coordinator, Julie Hager Julie.ClemonsHager@ocps.net
ESE, Regan Trampe Regan.Trampe@ocps.net
Guidance Counselor, Maisha Wilder Maisha.Wilder@ocps.net
Instructional Coach, LaQuanda Fedrick LaQuanda.Fedrick@ocps.net ยท        
 
 

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