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Your Community Brief from Tangelo Park Elementary School
Together We Achieve the Extraordinary!
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Hey . . . I miss you! |
I hope this week's message finds you safe and in good health. We have now entered the 3rd week of Distance Learning and I would like to review several important reminders with our community. Thank you very much for your attention.
Tiger Scholars
Tiger Scholars, your teacher is extremely concerned about you and your educational Distance Learning experiences. Please be sure to visit our school website for detail information at [email protected]
NEW!! Grab-and-Go Meals Available for Weekends
Starting Friday, April 10th all students at the Grab and Go distribution will receive additional meals for the weekend: 3 breakfast and 3 lunches per child.
Virtual Learning - OCPS Canvas Launchpad Courses
While you are participating in at-home learning activities, the expectation is that you're logging onto your grade level Canvas courses daily for Reading, Writing, Social Studies, Math, Science, Health and all Special Area Courses such as Art, Music, and P.E. You should be working on each weekly assigned module lessons created by your Grade Level and Special Area Teachers.
Assignments are due on Fridays
Parents and students, your teacher is expecting you to complete and submit each assignment no later than Friday of each week. We understand that in our current situation life may get in the way, but in this case, please communicate any delays to your child's teacher.
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| One of our Tigers connected and learning online this past week! |
NEW!! P.E. Activity Log
Coach Waller and Coach Santiago have created a Physical Education Activity Logs. Week 1 and Week 2 are now located within your P.E Canvas Course and on our school website.
When visiting our school website, you may click on Faculty and Staff and then Special Areas to find the Physical Education Activity Logs for Week 1 and Week 2 with learning instructions.
Please complete these tasks and then:
1) Return all assignments via Canvas
2) Take a screenshot/picture with your cell phone of the Activity Log
3) Email the screenshot/picture it to [email protected] or [email protected]
Problems in Getting to Your Learning Module Lessons
If you do not know how to access the Online Canvas Virtual Learning Module Lessons created by your Grade Level and Special Area teachers, please follow these steps:
1) Go to Launchpad.ocps.net
2) Input your Student Id# as your Username
3) Input your birthday as your Password (Please type in your 4-digit year, month, and day- if you have a single digit month or day include a zero.)
Distance Learning Attendance
Your daily attendance is based on you logging into your assigned Online Virtual Canvas Courses and/or attending the teacher Office Hour/Virtual Lesson Sessions. Teachers have times that you can meet with them and participate in the sessions. Please email your teacher for additional information - teacher emails.
** In addition, PLEASE BE SURE TO ACCEPT THE ART, MUSIC, AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION CANVAS COURSE INVITATIONS. Your Special Area teachers also created meaningful lessons for you as well on Canvas at Launchpad.ocps.net
"SMART PHONES and OCPS Canvas Work Together"
If you or your student have a SMART PHONE and would like to participate in the OCPS Canvas Virtual Learning you can by typing: https://launchpad.classlink.com/home
Include your username and password. If another box pops up, please input your Student ID# as username and birthday as password in the search engine of your cell phone.
Learning Packets (Please remember to turn in "To-Be-Graded" assignments)
If you selected the Learning Packets as your daily learning experience for each subject area, it is extremely important that you turn in your "To-Be-Graded" Learning Packet pages.
Parents and students, if you opted for Learning Packets, please ONLY send the specific "To-Be-Graded" pages to your teacher (PLEASE SEE INFORMATION BELOW).
Please visit the home page of our school website in order to know which pages within your Learning Packet you should ONLY return to your teacher. We are highly encouraging parents and students to use their cellphones to take screen shots/pictures of the "To-Be-Graded" Learning Packet pages (you can find these pages on the main page of our school website.) and then emailing these pages to your teacher's email address, Class Dojo, Remind, or upload to Canvas Upload, etc.
Tracking Daily Attendance
Daily attendance is very important. Parents and students, we ask that you please sign-in daily by either texting, emailing, Class Dojo your teacher with your name and stating that you are present and working on your packet for that day. This should be done daily Monday - Friday of each week; just as if we were at school.
ALL Weekly Learning Packets are mailed by the School District
The school district is mailing out weekly Learning Packets for ALL students attending Tangelo Park Elementary. If you have not received a weekly Learning Packet and your mailing address has changed, please visit the main page of our school website and click on the link titled Learning Packet Mailing Request to update your mailing address.
If you any questions or concerns, please contact the school at 407-354-2630.
Thank You for Cooperation!!
Parents and students, we realize that these expectations may seem challenging but we appreciate your flexibility, patience, and cooperation. It is also our responsibility to be passionate and supportive to meet your needs.
Thank you very much for working collaboratively to ensure that we continue to support our Tangelo Park Tigers and community.
Sincerely,
Principal Black
Pictured at the very top of this issue: We had an amazing time participating in last week's Virtual Spirit Week. There are additional pictures featured on out Tangelo Park Facebook.
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National Assistant Principals Week (April 6-10)
Thank you Mr. Gomes! You are a true asset to the Tiger Family!
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Media Center Spotlight
Daily K-2 Storytime with Mrs. Hastings - Media Specialist
Please join Mrs. Hastings each morning for a Virtual Read Aloud! She also shares the AR Quiz Number and ends each story with a lesson to learn!
Students and parents, please click the following link to access Mrs. Hastings' Story Time Canvas Course: https://ocps.instructure.com/courses/1013763/pages/k-2-storytime
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| Mrs. Hastings conducting one of her morning read alouds with the students online this past week. |
** Thank you to Mrs. Hastings for your daily dedication and commitment to impacting literacy and reading comprehension during this period of distance learning.
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AR Open to K-5
All students in K-5 can read grade level appropriate books and take Accelerated Reader (AR) Quizzes too!
Students are ROCKING their AR quizzes by going to their LaunchPad. Students use student ID and ID Number as their password 4 Digit Year, Month, and Day. (Include a zero if the month and day is a single digit)
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DID YOU KNOW???
Our Media Center has all kinds of materials available to use: Reference Sources, Biographies, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Magazines and Maps. We are always looking to add great books to our collection. If you have a book you would like to suggest please let us know!
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| This is a simple screenshot taken from Mrs.Hasting's video taken at the 2.22 minute mark. Here she is explaining how to access AR books plus how there is a info. provided about each book for students and parents such as the book's grade level fit and the book's AR point value. |
COMMUNITY FOOTNOTE: Mrs. Hastings did a super job with the short video above. It is not long and moves at a pace quite suitable for our students. Our parents might want to take a look as well. It is VERY EASY to access ebooks online and it really takes no time to learn how to do this if you watch this 4 minute video . . .
worth a look and you will be amazed at the books a student can access online!!
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Chess Club
Weekly online tournaments every TUESDAY at 4pm
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ADVANTAGE: Orange County Public Schools!
Worldwide School Closures as of Monday, April 13
As of Monday, over 1.57 billion students are at home as they have seen their schools closed due to the COVID-19 coronavirus. Hundreds of U.S. counties and scores of nations around the world cannot offer distance learning to keep their students' education progressing with 1/4 of the school year left undone. While it is not a perfect situation, we are so fortunate to be part of a school district that can keep our students engaged academically until this crisis has passed. We thank all of our Tangelo Park families for their daily support and understanding as we refine the process.
* Please click here or on the chart to view the day-by-day growth in students displaced from their schools through April 13 due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
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Resources
Please click on images or links for information
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NEW!!!
Beginning April 10, Friday Grab-and-Go meals include meals for the three day weekend. Meals are available for pick-up between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., Monday through Friday, in the car loop of each school site. Friday Grab-and-Go meals will include three days worth of meals.
Students are no longer required to be present to receive the meals. Parents must provide the names of students for whom they are picking up meals. District staff will record names and distribute the meals directly to parents in their vehicles (drive-thru service).
Students walking and/or riding a bike to the school can also pick up meals. Based on recommendations from our federal and state leaders, all meals should be taken home to eat.
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Florida Blue is offering a free Bilingual 24 helpline to any Floridian, insured or not, for support in managing feelings of stress, anxiety, grief or fear related to the virus.
The phone number is: 833-848-1762
Here is the link with more information: https://www.floridablue.com/blog/support-line
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Aunt Bertha
Aunt Bertha is a search engine where families can search for free or reduced cost services like medical care, food, job training, and more. Search is based on zip code and results are available in a variety of languages.
Screenshot of "Aunt Bertha's" opening page for Tangelo Park's zip code indicating 1,966 nearby programs of many types ranging from food and housing to financial and legal services.
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Closing Images of the Week . . .
Spotlight on Ms. Feacher's 1st grade class!
My first Zoom Virtual Classroom was on fire the other morning! It was so good to see my kids. There were 11/17 of my digital learners and their parents present. I didn't get a picture of them all, but below are a few.
I'm looking forward to our reading lesson on Thursday.
~ Ms. Feacher
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This Week's Motivational Moment!
THE WAY TO THE TOP
A group of elementary school students from a central Florida school were in Washington, D.C. on a field trip with some of their teachers and parent chaperones. On the morning they arrived to see the Washington Monument they heard an announcement. A guide said, "Ladies and gentlemen, there is currently a two-hour wait to ride the elevator to the top of the monument." The guide then paused a moment, smiled, and added, "However, there is
no wait should you desire to take the stairs."
This story reveals something about success. In truth, there are no elevators to the top. If you want to make it there, you've got to take a long series of steps. How many steps you're willing to take - and how long you're willing to keep climbing - determines how high you will go.
Be safe, follow all precautions, and keep up with your classwork this week Tigers. You can do it and remember . . . I, your teachers, and the whole staff misses you very much.
Mrs. Black, Principal
Tangelo Park Elementary School
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
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with any questions.
EEOC Statement
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