The Tiger's Roar!

After the last bell yesterday we had successfully completed the 3rd quarter of 2021-2022 as there is no school for students today. Today is still a workday for our teachers as they are finalizing student grades. From March 14-18 we will be on spring break with classes resuming on schedule Monday, March 21.

I want to thank everyone that was involved with our 2022 Science Festival and Family Science Night. We have included a number of photos herein for the community because I wanted you to see what a tremendous hit it was. Thank you to all of our dedicated educators, our involved parents, and our Tigers for their time and participation. Of course, a huge amount of credit is due our awesome PTA which worked to make this special day possible. Tildenville's active PTA is one of our school's greatest strengths and I hope that all of our families will get their memberships if they have not yet done so. 

Finally, I am asking our parents & guardians for their help with our 2022 Parent Survey which will be open only for a short while longer. We need at least 20% of our Tildenville families to respond to this short survey to make it useful and we still are not there. The survey is completely anonymous, but we use the combined results for our school improvement. If this applies to your household and you have not taken the survey, would you please do so today? This is a minimal time investment but your feedback will do a great deal of good for our school.

Finally, I wish everyone a safe and relaxing spring break. And please always remember this every morning: No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up, but never give up.

Mrs. Alvarez

Principal

Pictured very top and just below: Science Day was a blast! (Additional pictures further below in this edition.)

If you are interested in a capacity transfer to Tildenville next year please go to https://www.ocps.net/cms/one.aspx?portalId=54703&pageId=197617

Morning Clubs every Tuesday and Thursday. The line does not form until 8:15am. Kids Beach Club is every Thursday at 3pm.

Key dates:

3/11 No school

3/13 Daylight Savings Time begins, set clocks ahead 1 hour

3/14-3/18 Spring Break

3/21 Begin First Marking Period

3/22 NEHS meeting 8am

3/22 West Orange High School students to read to Kgtn. and 1st grade

3/23 Long Wednesday - NO early release

3/30 PTA Spirit Night at Winter Garden Pizza Company

3/31 Conference Night

4/1 FSA Rally

Unfortunately, the 2022-2023 magnet application period, which was open from November 1 – February 15, 2022, has closed. Students will be able, however, to go on the summer waitlist for any magnet programs that still have open seats. As many of the magnet seats have been filled by the lottery, there is no guarantee that any of the magnet programs will have seats available.

Summer waitlist applicants will be added to the bottom of any existing magnet program waitlist generated by our magnet lottery.

In mid-May, we will open the magnet summer waitlist application on our website, www.schoolchoice.ocps.net. The application will be open to Orange County residents who will be entering grades K-10 in the fall. The waitlist application will close on August 1st.

Once a student is on the waitlist, parents/guardians would be contacted via email in the order that the student appears on the wait list, should a seat in the program become available prior to the start of the school year.

Please note that the summer wait list application is time stamped, so the sooner you apply once the application opens, the better your position will be on the wait list.

West Orange Times & Observer (Feb. 18, 2022) - "Tildenville named Magnet School of Distinction. Students in the dual-language program can continue their studies at Lakeview Middle."

April 5th and 6th: 3rd Grade FSA ELA Reading

April 7th: 4th/5th FSA Writing

May 2nd and 3rd: 4th/5th FSA ELA Reading

May 5th and 6th: 3rd-5th FSA Math

May 12th and 13th: 5th Science

All volunteers will need to be trained and will have to come to campus for that. I am looking at the training date to be March 30th at 9:30 AM. The training will last about an hour.

Proctors would assist the classroom teacher with test monitoring during the test sessions. Depending on the assigned test group, time commitments would range from 90 minutes to all school days.

Family members are not allowed to proctor in their child's classroom or any other family member's class.

In addition, if selected to proctor, you will be required to take and pass an online test security course, link will be provided to you after you sign up for the volunteer opportunity.

If you have any questions you can contact Mr. Dolfi at bryan.dolfi@ocps.net. Please also email him with the specific days you are able to volunteer.

Link to signup for the ADDitions opportunity: https://ocps.samaritan.com/custom/503/opp_details/89176

o  We have Spring Break Week, Monday-Friday March 14^th-18^th, packed full of fantastic programs both virtually and in-person. Elementary aged kids can come learn the art of strategy and adventure with the Let’s Play Chess Camp and Let’s Play D&D Camp offered at the Orlando Public Library. Students can check out the classes offered throughout our branches ranging in topics including design, crafting, and coding to build skills for young minds! Winter Garden will be hosting two events geared towards Women’s History Month, Wonder Women on Wednesday, March 6 at 3:30 PM and A World of Color on Thursday , March 17^th at 4:30 PM.  

o  Visit ocls.info/schoolbreak for more information. Registration for camps and classes is required. 

o  Virtual: Mayor Buddy's Book Club! Wednesday, March 16, 4 p.m. Register online.

o  Come talk about our new book with Mayor Buddy’s Book Club. The next title is The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez by Adrianna Cuevas.

o  Virtual Event: Q&A with Sunshine State Author Adrianna Cuevas! Thursday, April 20, 4 p.m. Register online.

o  Join Orlando Mayor Buddy's Book Club to celebrate the completion of the book, The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, by Adrianna Cuevas! There will be a live Q&A with the author. Recommended for students ages 8-12. Adrianna Cuevas is the author of the Pura Belpre honor book The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, Cuba in My Pocket, and The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto. She is a first-generation Cuban-American originally from Miami, Florida.

Virtual Library cards are issued to all Orange County Public Schools students and educators and provide access to online resources including eBooks, language learning, literature, music, research, science, technology skills, tutoring and test preparation, and career guidance.

·  Little Pim - Short videos and flashcards help children aged 6 months to 6 years learn foreign languages.

·  OverDrive Kids Collection - Large e-book and audiobook collection of popular juvenile fiction and interesting non-fiction titles.

·  TumbleBook Library - Discover elementary school-aged e-books which you can listen to or read.

Middle School

·  Gale in Context: Middle School - Access reference, magazine and multimedia content covering literature, science, social studies, and history. Grades 6-8.

·  TeenBookCloud - Graphic Novels, Enhanced Novels, e-books, classic literature, National Geographic videos and audiobooks for middle and high school students.

In addition, OCLS offers Brainfuse, a virtual tutoring program for K-12 students through the Virtual Library Card.

Schools may begin enrolling children zoned for their schools this week. A waitlist will be used once a VPK class reaches its capacity.

Out-of-zone families may be placed on a waitlist until April 4, 2022.

If space remains available in the program, out-of-zone students may be registered from the waitlist.

Title One schools may give priority to students zoned in any other Title I school this week.

Thank you to the Audubon Society for spending time with our kindergarten students and teaching them about birds!

On February 28, our wonderful PTA brought the Orlando Science Center to Tildenville for an all-day, all-school Science Festival. Our Tigers experienced a day full of amazing hands-on activities and learned about topics such as kinetic energy, space and the universe, engineering, forces and more. Later that same evening, we held Family Science Night featuring special STEM programming created by The Orlando Science Center. As you can see from the pictures, everyone really had a great time. Thank you PTA and to everyone that participated!!

●    Camp Connect: June 27-July 1 (Rising 8^th – 11^th grade)

●    Summer Institute

○    Biology : July 18 – 22 (Rising 11^th – 12^th grade)

○    Computer Science: June 6 – 24 (Rising 9^th – 12^th grade)

○    Competitive Programming: July 10 – 22 (Rising 10^th – 12^th grade)

●    CyberCamp: July 25 – 28 (Rising 9^th – 12^th grade)

●    GLAMPing (Girls Leading and Making Programs): July 25 – 29 (Rising 6^th and 7^th grade girls)

Find more information and any program changes related to current COVID-19 policies by visiting the STEM UCF website. Application deadlines and costs vary among camps so do not waste any time. 

Thank you to the Florida Turnpike for another great year of engineering activities! Students learned all that was involved in planning and building a road in Florida. This is a favorite in house field trip every year and we are thankful for the partnership that we have with the Turnpike!

Thank you to all of our Read Across America Readers! The kids from Kindergarten to 5th grade had a blast!

Today, no children's author/illustrator's work is more immediately recognizable worldwide than that of Dr. Seuss. His most popular book,"Green Eggs and Ham," has sold 8 million copies since 1960."Green Eggs and Ham" contains only 50 words, a challenge thrown to the author by his editor, Bennett Cerf.

Tildenville T-Shirts have been restocked. These are great to wear for field trips and also for Spirit Fridays! You can order them on SchoolPay and the t-shirt will be sent home in your child's backpack. SchoolPay Link: https://www.schoolpay.com/parent/payments/groups

Youth sized t-shirts:

Adult sized t-shirts:

We would love to have you join the PTA as an official member! It's only $5.00 for the year! Please use this link to join: https://schoolpay.com/parent/payments/groups

1. Do you own a business? Would your business like to sponsor a school event? Please email us at TildenvillePTA@gmail.com and let us know!

2. Amazon Smile: Holiday Shopping is upon us! Make sure you designate Tildenville Elementary as the beneficiary on your Amazon Smile account and every time you shop on Amazon, the school will receive a portion of your purchase! It's EASY! Here is the link to set it up: smile.amazon.com/ch/65-0140352

3. Box Tops for Education is easier than ever! Just download the Box Tops for Education app to your phone and scan and send your receipts! You can also email digital receipts to: receipts@boxtops4education.com. Be sure to scan or email receipts within 14 days of purchase! Thank you!!

Email: TildenvillePTA@gmail.com

Facebook: Be sure to "like" and follow our Tildenville Elementary PTA Facebook page where we post all of the very latest happenings at the school! https://www.facebook.com/TildenvilleElementarySchoolPTA

Congratulations to our Fuel Up for Dairy Winners!

Thank you to Lakeview Middle School Dual Language 8th graders for spending the afternoon reading with our kids! The students were very excited to have former Tigers reading books to them in English and Spanish. Some were even extra surprised when their big brother or sister was the one in their classroom reading! Great job students! Thank you Senora Ramos for planning this event!

Congratulations to Mrs. Walker's 1st grade class! They wanted to reach their goal of reading 100 books and surprise their parents. They not only read 100 books, but finished off with a grand total of 842 books!!!

Gatorland came to Tildenville Elementary for the 1st grade in-house field trip. Check out all the fun they had!

* Mrs. Siner donated a Mickey Mouse garden statue (along with some gloves and small tools). It’s now next to the first grade building greeting the students as they arrive.

* The students planted 1 bed with watermelon seeds donated by Mrs. Farrant, and one bed of lettuce, cucumbers and carrot seeds. They also planted more tomato plants from the Siner family. Student have planted the milkweed seeds harvested from the milkweed plants donated by Bloom & Grow. (Milkweed is the host plant for Monarch caterpillars/butterflies.)

* We are so thankful for all of the volunteers and organizations that are taking part in our beautiful garden. Our garden and students are being showered with supplies, education, volunteer time and so much more so they can have hands on learning right here at school. The University of Florida is one of our wonderful partners that is working in several classrooms to teach students about nutrition and where our food comes from. Students learn in the classroom and then get hands on experience in the garden. Thank you UF!

Mrs. Agathe Alvarez - Agathe.Alvarez@ocps.net, Principal

Mr. Bryan Dolfi - 49759@ocps.net, Resource Teacher, MTSS Coach

Mrs. Julie Clemons Hager - Julie.Clemonshager@ocps.net, Media Specialist and Dual Language Coordinator

Ms. Christine Pankonin - Christine.Pankonin@ocps.net, Instructional Coach

Ms. Regan Trampe - Regan.Trampe@ocps.net, ESE and CCT Coordinator

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