Charter Chatter
A weekly newsletter written to parents of the TLC
Dec. 14, 2018 Vol 18
| Virginia Stewart |
MHS is moving back Thurs. Dec. 20!
Very Important Info about MHS Carline
All of our High Students and Staff return to the Beverly Campus next Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018.
Our new MHS Carline for dropping off and picking up will be through the front office driveway and cars will line up from East Avenue on to Beverly. MHS students being dropped off should not be in the Primary or DCS line which lines up on Mae.
AM Drop Off –
MHS Parents with siblings in two/three schools go through the high school car line and drop all their children off at the MHS Carline gate. These PCS/DCS students can walk through the MHS Carline gate along the back of the Administrative Building to their designated waiting areas. A staff person will be available to oversee and direct students.
PM Pick Up –
PCS Dismissal – 3:20pm
All PCS students must be picked up at PCS Carline
DCS Dismissal – 3:55pm
DCS students with MHS siblings will walk to the MHS Carline area by way of the Administrative hallway and meet his/her MHS sibling
(MHS student drivers and his/her siblings or MHS walkers should always exit by way of the MHS parking lot gate not the MHS carline gate).
Please note the phone number for the Beverly site for all schools is (209) 290-0511
The current MHS Phone Number (209) 832-6777 will no longer be used.as of Dec. 20, 2018.
Next Holidays
Winter breaks begins on Monday, Dec. 24, 2018 and all students return on Monday, Jan. 7, 2019
TLC Band Performance
6th, 7th, 8th, MHS beginning band, and the MHS marching/concert band will all be performing
The concert will be held on Wednesday, December 19th, 2018
The performance will be held at the Kimball High School Theater located at: 3200 Jaguar Run, Tracy, CA 95377.
Doors to the theater/lobby will open @ 6:40 pm. The actual concert will begin at 7:00 pm.
Please expect the following admission charges at the door.
$10.00 for Adults
$5.00 11-17 years old/Student
Free to children 10 and younger
Parents Club Update
Next PEP Mtg is Monday – Dec. 17, 2018 at 6:30pm in P2
Lunch Menu – Week Dec. 17 – 21
Mon. – Pizza
Tues. – Beef or Bean Nachos
Wed- No Meat Spaghetti
Thurs – Chicken Taquitos
Fri – Turkey, Mashed Potatoes and Gravy, Green Beans and Holiday Cookie
PCS
MUSIC NOTES
I am pleased to be able to invite you to our Primary Winter Music Programs!
TK through 4th grade will be performing in the following holiday programs:
Wednesday, December 19 8:30 am TK performance, at the TK site.
Thursday, December 20 1:00 pm P2 (Kindergarten) Performance -TLC Gym
Thursday, December 20 6:30 pm All Phase 1 & Phase 2 students will be performing – TLC Gym
The evening performance is for grades 1-4. Phase 1 students perform first at 6:30 pm. Phase 2 students will perform directly after the Phase 1 students (approximately 6:50 pm). Phase 1 students need to report to their regular classroom by 6:10 pm. Phase 2 students need to report to their classrooms between 6:10-6:30 pm. The teachers will walk the students to and from the gym. You need to pick your student up in their classroom after their performance. Our gym space is limited. There is no room for the non-performing students to sit in the audience.
If possible, have the students dress in nice clothes. Holiday attire is encouraged, but not mandatory. They may wear Santa hats, Elf hats or small holiday head bands. Please no tall reindeer head bands. Also, the head gear must not play music, have lights or have any movement involved.
The students are encouraged to practice the songs and movements at home. The program songs are now on our website:
TLC Holiday Music (link)
I look forward to showcasing your fabulous children in a fun holiday show!!
Mrs. Watson
TLC Primary Music Director
TK
Our holiday travels became even more interactive this week, as we visited New York, Mexico, France, and Portugal during Science time. We pretended to fly high in the sky on TK Airlines before landing in new places all over the world! In New York, we cuddled-up by the fireplace to read a festive holiday story about St. Nick. We also decorated our very own stockings to hang by the fireplace! In Mexico, we celebrated Los Posadas by breaking open a pinata to reveal fruits, toys and treats. We also completed a poinsettia craft, and decorated a Mexico scrapbook page. In France, we each tasted a delicious yule log cake. Plus, we placed our paper shoes by the fireplace to be filled with a special treat – just like the children in France! The next morning, each pair of shoes had some holiday bubbles inside. Finally, in Portugal, we tasted sweet rice and learned about the three kings. It was a festive holiday week!
Phase 2 students have started to plan out their own missions. They are working in a group to design their buildings, decide where it will be located in California, and how the various buildings will be arranged. They are drawing their layouts and we are impressed with how much thought is being put into them!
We are so proud of our 3rd and 4th graders who worked so hard on making scarves to sell! The First Annual PCS Scarf Sale has been a HUGE hit! All profits will be donated to the Oakland Children’s Hospital. We’d also like to give a BIG thank you to Mrs. Atwood, who organized our scarf committee and took on this great project. Way to go PCS!
DCS
General Updates:
-Next week is the last week of school before Winter Break
-Honors classes will take the PSAT January 23 ( a letter and permission slip is being sent home)
-Spirit Week is next week (students will be bringing home a flier)
-MHS Returns to the home campus on Thursday 12/20!
Language Arts
Cerezo:
All classes are working on their Hamlet final projects.
Honors and Scholastic classes are working toward memorizing their soliloquies and working with their group to create and reenact their given Hamlet Acts (Acts 1-5). To be presented Wednesday 12/19 and Thursday 12/20
Varsity classes were also given an Act to perform. They will be making paper puppets in their groups, creating scripts, and will perform their Acts Thursday 12/20.
*Honors class students will be bringing home a PSAT informational letter (taking place on January 23) and permission slip this week. Please read, sign, and ask students to return by the end of next week.
Math:
Mr. Singh
Varsity is continuing with the unit 4 Factors, Fractions and Exponents and has completed 4.1 Divisibility and Factors, 4.2 Exponents, 4.3 Prime Factorization and GCF, 4.4 Simplifying Fractions.4.5 solve a Simpler Problem,4.6 Rational Numbers, 4.7 exponents & Multiplication (4.1 to 4.7)
Honors is studying unit 5 Relationships within Triangles and has completed 5.1 Perpendicular and Angle bisector Theorems and continuing 5.2 and 5.3 Point of Concurrency. & 5.4 Segment of a Triangle.
Scholastic has started a new unit 3 on Solving Inequalities and has completed (3.1 Inequalities and their Graphs ,3.2 One step inequalities, 3.3 Two step inequalities, 3.4 Solving Multi-Sep Inequalities, 3.5 Compound Inequalities)
Science:
This week for science, we are on to the second unit of Life Science – Chemistry of Life. Students will be bringing in food items from home to analyze the nutritional facts for proteins, sugars, carbohydrates, and lipids.
Science Olympiad: Team A has been informed of their standing as far as team members. Team B will be posted on Friday, all though the team is still on the waitlist. Students will be informed when the team is moved off of the waitlist.
Physical Education:
DCS PE is it’s first week of the “SWO” for the next two weeks before Christmas Break. Students have been “Creating” their own PE Game in Groups of 4-5 concentrating on using “Cooperative Collaboration” skills with their fellow classmates to achieve their goal of creating a successful game that all of the other students can play in PE. Students will start presenting their projects this Thursday thru Friday in their respective separate classes!!! 5th/6th grade Students will be given a rubric on Friday explaining their expectations for completing the “Scrapbook” portion of the SWO!!! As a heads-up, All 5th/6th Grade Students will need to take 3 pictures outside of showing “Cooperative Collaboration” amongst family members and friends! These pictures will be due Monday December 17th!!!!
Also, as a friendly reminder, please remind students that they should be applying
“Deodorants/Antiperspirants/Baby Powder or Sanitary Wipes” in the morning before they are coming to school and showering daily; as their bodies have already begun puberty even though there may be no signs of it showing physically! Less is More so if we could tell the Gentlemen & Ladies to “Relax on the AXE” or Body Sprays…Much would be appreciated!!!! LOL :))
Technology:
My 7/8 Technology class is currently working on a slideshow about their favorite activity that includes some newly learned skills like adding hyperlinks, embedding YouTube videos, and creating timelines all inside of Google Slides.
MHS
Charter Chatter: December 14, 2018
Very Important Info about MHS Carline
All of our High School Students and Staff return to the Beverly Campus next Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018.
Our new MHS Carline for dropping off and picking up will be through the front office driveway and cars will line up from East Avenue on to Beverly. MHS students being dropped off should not be in the Primary or DCS line which lines up on Mae.
AM Drop Off –
MHS Parents with siblings in two/three schools go through the high school car line and drop all their children off at the MHS Carline gate. These PCS/DCS students can walk through the MHS Carline gate along the back of the Administrative Building to their designated waiting areas. A staff person will be available to oversee and direct students.
(MHS student drivers and his/her siblings or MHS walkers should always exit by way of the MHS parking lot gate not the MHS carline gate).
New Start Time for Millennium High School
Please note as of December 20, 2018, Millennium High School classes will start at 7:55AM. All students must arrive before 7:55AM in order to avoid being marked tardy. The day will end at 4:00PM for Millennium High School.
Reminder: Finals and the Start of Second Semester
Finals have been rescheduled for Monday December 17, Tuesday Dec 18, and Wednesday Dec 19. These will be early release days with school all three days scheduled to be held from 8:15am to 12:30pm at the Corral Hollow Campus. The second semester will begin the remaining two days of that week (Thursday, December 20th and Friday, December 21st) at the Beverly campus before we adjourn for winter break. We will return to school on January 7th. Please make all arrangements for students to be present for finals and the beginning of the second semester.
PSAT Scores Available Next Week
Students who took the PSAT in October can now check their scores online at www.collegeboard.org and should have received and email from College Board with instructions. The Counseling Department will schedule a meeting with students who took the test after paper scores are received to help them interpret those scores and practice for the SAT!
8th Annual TLC’s Got Talent Show-Video Audition Deadline Extended
We have extended our submission deadline to January 7, 2019 and we are still accepting audition videos for this year’s talent show! This year audition video submissions will be required in order to qualify for an in-person audition. Email your audition video to: mhscounseling@tracylc.net and return your participation form to the TLC Main Office or MHS Counseling Office. Please Note: All audition videos and participation forms are now due by Monday January 7, 2019. For any questions, please contact the MHS Counseling Office at 209-627-8299 or email: mhscounseling@tracylc.net
ASL Finals Performance
Not all finals are written, here is a sneak peek which consisted of Mr. Vieira’s American Sign Language students performing sign language renditions of Christmas songs for their final project.