TLC Charter Chatter
A weekly newsletter written to parents of the TLC
State testing for all students begins next week in the high school. All juniors will be tested during the days Monday and Tuesday. The following week, students in all grades in Discovery will be tested. Finally the last week in May the Primary students in grades 3 and 4 will be tested. These tests are a measure of student growth and progress and are important indicators of school success.
Parents can help with testing results as well. Please look at the following suggested sites.
In a recent letter from the state, we were encouraged to have parents of English Language Learners as well as other students to use this information to help prepare their students for testing.
Using these websites, families can become involved in their child’s progress and:
- Learn more about the performance areas in each subject and grade.
- See sample test questions.
- Prepare for parent-teacher conferences with a useful downloadable guide.
- Access high-quality resources to support learning at home.
Starting Smarter for the CAASPP can be found at https://ca.startingsmarter.org/, and Starting Smarter for the ELPAC athttps://elpac.startingsmarter.org/.
Lunch Menu for this week…. YUM!
Lunch Menu – Week May 6 – 10
Mon. – Pizza
Tues – Chicken Taquitos
Wed -Chicken Wrap
Thurs – No Meat Spaghetti
Fri – Beef Hot Dog
Personal Days for Next School Year 2019/2020
VERY IMPORTANT CHANGE for our upcoming 2019/2020 school year Beginning August 5, 2019, we are reducing personal/family days for students from 10 days down to 7 days. Allowing 7 days is still much higher than what the district schools allow and we feel 7 days is more beneficial for the school and for each students’ education.
Spring Play
Millennium High school is proud to announce the spring musical, Into the Woods. This production marks our high schools tenth year of performing musicals and this revival performance celebrates the return of the very first musical the drama department put on. Please mark your calendars and plan on attending this anniversary production of Into the Woods, opening on Thursday, May 9th at 7pm, additional performance on Friday, May 10th at 7pm and two performances on Saturday May 9th at 2pm and 7pm. Thank you for supporting the arts!
Pre-school, TK and PCS Spring Pictures and 8th Grade Promotion Pictures are on April 9, 2019
Flyers coming home soon.
All PreK, TK, PCS and 8th Grade Promotion Picture Packets Must Be Returned to teachers or office by May 10, 2019!
TK
It was a great week back in TK!
During Science, we learned about the life cycles of the butterfly and bumblebee. We completed art projects that demonstrated the process from egg to larva to pupa to adult. We read a silly story about an impatient caterpillar who couldn’t wait to become a butterfly. Plus, we participated in a cut-and-paste related to bumblebee facts!
We also reviewed all of our math and language concepts from earlier in the school year, and, we are happy to report, absolutely no regression since Spring Break! Our students have grown dramatically, and have made great strides in reading and mental math! We are SO proud of them!
Initial Phase
Don’t forget to collect pledges for the jog-a-thon! It will come up quick when we get back from spring break!
Parents will be charged a late fee as stated in our PCS Handbook of $10 for all late Primary students that are picked up after PCS carline is over (3:35pm). Please pay Kay or Angie in the office and your child will be sent to the office. Cash or checks only.
Phase One:
The Phase One teachers would like to thank all of the parents and families that donated eggs to our classroom egg hunts. This is a yearly tradition that the students absolutely LOVE and it would not be possible without your donation.
Jog-a-Thon envelopes were sent home on Monday. This is a really fun and easy fundraiser so remember to get those pledges!
Phase Two:
Welcome back! We hope everyone had a relaxing spring break. Our phase 2 students have state testing coming up soon…May 20th will begin our two weeks of standardized testing. Please note that we will test from 8:30-12:30 every day so please make sure your child is on time!
This week we started our Gold Rush unit…it was such an exciting time in our California history and our students are loving this subject! Some classes even did a “cookie mining” simulation where they purchased “land” (cookies!) and mining supplies (toothpicks). It was a great lesson in just how hard it was to strike it rich!
Discovery Middle School ⅚
-Important Announcements-
Discovery Yearbook Sales:
We are coming up on that time of the year when it is time to start ordering yearbooks.
This year you can order your yearbooks online at –
https://dcsyearbook.picaboo.com/
The password is ‘yearbook’.
When you order online, you get free pages to customize at the end of your own yearbook.
This does not include Eighth Grade Dedications – they are separate.
Paper order forms will be going out after Spring Break, including Eighth Grade Dedication forms.
Yearbooks are $48.00 to pre-order online.
Thank you
Questions? Please contact Ms. Rodieck (lrodieck@tracylc.net)
⅚ Upcoming Dates to Know:
May 4th- Mock Trial at SJCOE in Stockton
May 8-9: DCS 5th Grade Science State Testing
May 13-May 17: DCS LA/Math State Testing
May 10: DCS Jog-A-Thon
A Note from your PE Department:
Hiiii Everyone & Welcome Back from “Spring Break!” :)) Our “DCS Annual Jog-A-Thon” is on next Friday, May 10th, & our Students “Pledge Forms” are Due May 7th, whether they collected Jog-A-Thon Pledges or not!!!! Please feel free to help your students to collect money for DCS by taking advantage of posting their pledge form on “Social Media” as we too are parents have done this for our children to help raise money for their schools!!!! 😉
Also, as a quick friendly reminder as the weather is getting hot, 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!!!!
Thank You!!! 🙂
Your Dedicated DCS PE Staff
LA/Humanities with Ms. Rodieck:
Save the Date – A Transformative Night – The 1960’s Museum
This week the students started their Dedicated DCS Student SWO Project. This project include the creation of a Museum Exhibit to be put on display the evening of Wednesday May 29th. We are asking the students to be here that evening and invite friends and family to come and check out all the great museum displays. Their project proposal is due Monday, May 6th. The completed project will be due Wednesday, May 29th. Scrapbooks will be due Friday June 7th and needs to include pictures of the event. If you have questions about this please contact Ms. Rodieck at lrodieck@tracylc.net.
Ms. Rodieck’s Language Arts and Humanities
Students in Varsity are continuing to read Shooting the Moon while Scholastic and Honors have started Full Cicada Moon. All groups have transitions from reading and studying poetry to writing our own. After State Testing we will work on creating our own Poetry Anthologies including publishing our own poetry and writing essays about some of our favorite poems. We are also continuing to learn about Music of the 60’s and learning that not all music is rock and roll, but how rock and roll did influence other types of music. All students have also been given their second Book Club Book with the book report form. Check agendas for due dates.
Math Mrs. Zuniga’s classes:
Varsity: Our class is working on test prep for state testing the week of May 13. We have been looking at geometry with shapes and measurements. As well as reviewing operations of fractions and decimals.
Scholastic: Our class is working on test prep for state testing the week of May 13. We have been looking at exponents and order of operations. As well as reviewing operations of fractions and decimals. Next week we will begin looking at graphing and measurements to prepare for state testing.
Honors: Our class is working on test prep for state testing the week of May 13. We have been looking at inequalities, unit rates, and proportions. As well as reviewing operations of fractions and decimals. Next week we will begin looking at graphing and measurements to prepare for state testing. Our class will also be practicing our formulas once again.
Note: Students will not have any homework during state testing week. Students need rest and a good breakfast to get them started for test days.
Math with Ms. T
All 3 classes have been working really hard learning how to use the state testing platform and electronic tools they will be using on the computer during state testing week. I know we are going to do great! Practice tests are available at:
http://www.caaspp.org/practice-and-training/index.html
**Select Student and login as a guest
Note: Students will not have any homework during state testing week. Students need rest and a good breakfast to get them started for test days.
Ms. Christensen LA/Humanities class:
Honors/Scholastic: This week in LA we worked on inference with a reading passage, reviewed our capitalization rules, learned about appositives, and direct/indirect clauses. We also practiced diagramming indirect objects.
Varsity: We worked on inference passage in small groups, watched videos on appositives and clauses and discussed. Reviewed diagramming compound subjects/predicates and capitalization.
Writing: Each group chose a community issue as the focus for their project. They are writing a lyrical poem which relates to their community issue. We also did an activity looking at keeping our details focused on the topic of our paragraph/story.
Humanities: We did Quizlet Live to review the art unit we completed before the break. We started our art in politics unit.
DCS 7- 8
⅞ Upcoming Dates to Know:
Discovery Yearbook Sales:
We are coming up on that time of the year when it is time to start ordering yearbooks.
This year you can order your yearbooks online at –
https://dcsyearbook.picaboo.com/
The password is ‘yearbook’.
When you order online, you get free pages to customize at the end of your own yearbook.
This does not include Eighth Grade Dedications – they are separate.
Paper order forms will be going out after Spring Break, including Eighth Grade Dedication forms.
Yearbooks are $48.00 to pre-order online.
Thank you
Questions? Please contact Ms. Rodieck (lrodieck@tracylc.net)
Note:VERY IMPORTANT CHANGE for our upcoming 2019/2020 school year Beginning August 5, 2019, we are reducing personal/family days for students from 10 days down to 7 days. Allowing 7 days is still much higher than what the district schools allow and we feel 7 days is more beneficial for the school and for each students’ education.
Wednesday May 8th– 8th Grade Parent Activities meeting: Please come to this meeting from 5:30 to 6:30 in D12 to learn about all 8th grade promotional activities! See you there!
7th-8th State Testing is May 20th-24th. A notice will be sent home with reminders
May 6-10th is Teacher Appreciation Week!
MAY 10TH is PE’s Annual Jog-a-Thon
Language Arts: Cerezo
Welcome back! We hit the ground running this week! Students were assigned an essay that asks them to analyze the second chapter of our class novel. This essay has several due dates and we will be workshopping it throughout the time.
Each class has read quite a bit this week and students are starting to be able to see how each of the chapters in our novel fit together. It is exciting to watch them piece together the clues.
All classes also participated in a practice test for our upcoming state testing. State Testing will take place the week of May 20th for 7th and 8th graders. A flyer is being sent home with gentle reminders to ensure our students’ success.
Math:
Varsity- Doing practice and teaching for state testing ; may 20th- 24th
Honors- Doing practice and teaching for state testing ; may 20th- 24th
Scholastic-Doing practice and teaching for state testing; may 20th-24th
Technology with Ms. Ferguson
This week all technology classes have been working on a slide show called “Moving Away”. The students are working with a partner to choose 4 states that they think they would like to move to, and answering certain research questions about each state, and creating charts to compare the average annual salary and home cost in each state.
This project will be turned in by the end of the class period on Friday, and each class will also be taking a typing test on Friday to check if their words per minute have improved!
Physical Education:
Hiiii Everyone & Welcome Back from “Spring Break!” :)) Our “DCS Annual Jog-A-Thon” is on next Friday, May 10th, & our Students “Pledge Forms” are Due May 7th, whether they collected Jog-A-Thon Pledges or not!!!! Please feel free to help your students to collect money for DCS by taking advantage of posting their pledge form on “Social Media” as we too are parents have done this for our children to help raise money for their schools!!!! 😉
Also, as a quick friendly reminder as the weather is getting hot, 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!!!!
Thank You!!! 🙂
A Note from Ms. T:
On April 27th, eleven ⅞ students went to compete in Math Olympiad. Shout outs to Team 1 who placed 5th out of 36 competing teams! I enjoyed spending Saturday with you and am proud that you continue your love of math!
Millennium High School
TLC/ Millennium High School recently entered into an agreement with Interquest Detection Canines, Inc., to provide trained detection canines to conduct random, unannounced inspections of all campus locations in the district.
These canines are trained to detect the presence of illicit drugs, alcohol, and gunpowder-based items. Campus buildings, parking lots, and grounds will be randomly inspected for prohibited items. If detected and found, the administration will initiate the appropriate disciplinary action.
These canines are non-aggressive retrieving breeds such as golden and labrador retrievers. They are trained to discriminate specific “scents” of contraband items and indicate the area where the scent is detected. Interquest provides service to over 1,200 public school districts across the nation.
With the recent publicity concerning the dramatic increase in teenage drug use, Tracy Learning Center / Millennium High School is taking every reasonable precaution to insure a safe and healthy learning environment for all concerned.
Respectfully,
Virginia Stewart
Executive Director
FAST TRACK is Coming Up!
Fast Track is our mandatory summer program for all high school students which gives them the opportunity to take ten credits of a course to remediate or accelerate, and/or to take a college course. The classes for FAST TRACK were discussed with your student during his/her one-on-one counseling session, and schedules were mailed out today. We are not accepting any FAST TRACK schedule change requests at this time.
Field Trip to Cal State East Bay and Las Positas
Thirty-seven of our 10th and 11th grade students joined us for a field trip on Friday to the WACAC College Fair hosted by Cal State East Bay, and to Las Positas College. We had the opportunity to talk with representatives of CSU’s, UC’s, private colleges, and out-of-state colleges by visiting the various booths at the WACAC College Fair. We then toured Cal State East Bay. Next, we visited Las Positas Community College and learned a lot about college costs, transfer programs, and the many student support programs available to students.
College Admission Acceptance Day
We celebrated our College Admission Acceptance day this week and some of our college bound seniors gathered to take their picture wearing their future college campus gear.
This upcoming Monday, May 6th and Tuesday, May 7th is a big test day for all of our students in the high school! Our Juniors will be taking the CA Dept of Education Smarter Balance assessments – It is based on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts/literacy (ELA) and mathematics. College readiness is also measured and we want to stress the importance of these assessments. Other grades will be taking Reading, Language Arts, and Social Studies school-based tests to measure their proficiency, and content knowledge. Please ensure that your child is in school on these days and prepared to test in the morning.
Rotary Club of Tracy Scholarship Luncheon
Eight Millennium students received scholarships between $500-$1,500 from the Rotary Club of Tracy, and were honored at the club’s yearly luncheon celebrating their scholarship recipients. Congratulations to our winners who were selected based on their applications and interviews – Richard Lew, Manal Siddiqui, Madelyn Beckner, Richard Smith, Yuvleen Kaur, Kendall Harrington, Ian Galvez, and Leigh Davis! And a huge thank you to the Tracy Rotary Club for their time and generosity in offering this great opportunity to high school seniors in Tracy!
Delta College – College Early Start Meeting – May 9, 2019
The meeting for Fall 2019 College Early Start will take place on Thursday, May 9 in Room 204 at 12:15PM. Any students that are interested in taking college classes in the Fall must attend this meeting. For any questions, please contact the Millennium High School Counseling Department at (209) 627-8299 or email: mhscounseling@tracylc.net
Several of the service clubs at TLC have joined forces and will have a booth and walking at the upcoming Tracy Relay for Life event located at Lincoln Park from 10am – 10:00pm this Saturday, May 4th. Please come visit our booth to support our fundraising efforts or feel free to copy/paste on the following link to help donate toward this wonderful cause.
http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/?fr_id=91868&pg=team&team_id=2440559
Thank you for all of your support!
Tawn Schaffran – Interact Club
Lauren Moore – CSF Club
Kathy Prescott and Ashley Cerezo – CJSF Club
The City of Tracy is seeking our help! As part of an effort to reassess the City of Tracy’s Mayor’s Community Youth Support Network (MCYSN) Program, the City is launching an outreach campaign to evaluate the current program and service needs of Tracy’s local youth. The MCYSN Program was launched in 2008 to combat youth gang violence and to provide intervention, prevention, and crisis suppression programs for at-risk youth through a network of local service providers. The City has issued a community survey to gather feedback on the types of programs and services needed to help Tracy youth prosper. The public is encouraged to complete the survey, which can be accessed via the City of Tracy website at www.cityoftracy.org. The survey will close on May 6, 2019 at 5:00 p.m.
Direct Survey Links:
School Teacher/Administrator Survey
Free SAT/ACT Practice Test at the Tracy Library
There is an upcoming SAT/ACT Practice on Saturday, May 11, 2019 at 9:00am and an additional practice test in the summer at the Tracy Public Library. Students can register in person or by phone (866-805-7323), first come, first served. All library programs are free.