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A Message from Virginia                                                                     Jan. 24, 2020

The Power of Positive Attention

How to use it (instead of negative attention) to change behavior

Katherine Martinelli

When kids are misbehaving, it is natural for parents and educators to want to correct them, pointing out — sometimes not too calmly — what they are doing wrong. Though this may seem like common sense, it can actually backfire.

Experts have found that giving kids positive rather than negative attention is much more effective in changing behavior. Research shows that praise for behavior you want to encourage gets more results than calling out things you want them to stop doing.

So what do we mean by positive attention? And how is focusing on the positive, instead of the negative, different from “looking the other way” and letting kids off the hook when they misbehave?

What is positive attention?

It’s easy to respond harshly when kids are doing something they’re not supposed to and not react at all when they’re doing what we expect of them. Positive attention requires a lens shift in which we call out kids for good behavior and ignore (at least in the moment) the not-so-good.

The idea is that for children, parental attention is so powerful that whatever behavior we pay attention to will increase, even if we’re telling them to stop.

Essentially, rather than chiding them for what they’re doing wrong we want to catch kids doing right. It’s a simple shift, but one that goes against centuries of parenting norms and takes some practice before it becomes second nature.

How to implement positive attention

So what does this look like in practice? Positive attention can take many forms, including verbal praise, hugs, kisses, high fives or rewards. It may look different for a three-year-old than it does for a teen, but the basic idea is the same.

The key, explains Lindsay Gerber, PsyD, a clinical psychologist at the Child Mind Institute, is being as descriptive and specific as possible in your praise so that children know exactly what behavior they should replicate. Experts sometimes call this giving “labeled praise.”

Instead of saying “great job!” or “I love how you’re doing that,” try to spell out exactly what they are doing well. For example, you could say “I love how you are sharing your crayons with your sibling” or “it’s awesome that you finished your homework before asking to use your tablet.” No matter their age, letting kids know that you appreciate their behavior will make them feel good, and when they know exactly what they are being praised for they will be more likely to do it again in the future.

But what about bad behavior?

This is the part that may be the most challenging. If a child is behaving in a way that is unsafe for themselves or others, then, of course, an adult should intervene. Otherwise, do your best to ignore the behavior then provide positive attention when they stop. Child behavior experts call this “active ignoring.” By withdrawing your attention, you are sending the message that acting out is not the way for them to get what they want. You reinforce this message when, as soon as you see them calming themselves down or obeying an instruction, you do give them your attention.

Just because you are ignoring a behavior in the moment doesn’t mean that you don’t ever address it or that you are pandering to your child; quite the opposite. “When you’re seeing a behavior that you want to decrease, that’s really not the time to interact with the kid,” says Dr. Gerber. “That’s a time to take a deep breath, notice it, maybe gently try to redirect them to something else or actively ignore it.”

Redirecting them can be anything from asking if they want a snack to pointing out something fun coming up on the family calendar. Later, when things have calmed down, you can circle back around to talk about it.

 

 

Personal Days for this School Year 2019/2020

VERY IMPORTANT Information for our current 2019/2020 school year beginning August 5, 2019, we have reduced 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.

 

 

It’s that time again. THE 14TH ANNUAL TRACY LEARNING CENTER CRAB FEED – FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Tickets to the February 1, 2020 Tracy Learning Center Crab Feed are on sale now!

Tickets are $55.00 per person, or a table of eight is $440.00. Table reservations include pre-assigned seating and your name or company name prominently displayed on your table.

The doors of the Portuguese Hall will open at 6:00 p.m. for a no-host cocktail hour. Your delicious crab dinner served with salad, pasta and bread will begin at 7:00 p.m.

Through so much generosity we have amazing raffle baskets and silent auction items.  Then put on your dancing shoes and hit the dance floor until 12:00 a.m.

 

Please let me know if you can kindly donate to our DESSERT AUCTION.

 

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Donna Baker (209) 321-9157 via text or donna@donnabaker.com

 

Please let me know if you would like to volunteer for this awesome event. We are also looking for a new committee chair that would like to shadow Tom and Donna through all aspects of this community building event. Their daughter Ally will be graduating this year whereby they will kindly step down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch Menu Week of JAN. 27 – 31, 2020

Mon – Pizza

Tues – No meat spaghetti

Wed – Chicken Strips

Thurs – Orange Chicken

Fri -Grilled Cheese Sandwich

 

 

 

Don’t forget to click the STAR after scanning and enter your student’s classroom number for credit.

 

 

NOW HIRING:  Spring 2020 Head Athletic Coaches-

Boys Volleyball:  https://www.edjoin.org/Home/DistrictJobPosting/1228598

 

 

TLC Preschool: Art Show and Silent Auction!

TLC preschool will have its annual art show on February 21, 2020 6:30-8:00. More details to come home soon!

Our students are learning all about primary and secondary colors.  Our teachers have been busy teaching students how to paint with primary colors and how to mix them to make secondary colors. Students will use this new knowledge to recreate art just as Eric Carle did in some of our favorite books!  

 

 

 

Initial Phase

Today kicks off our Read-A-Thon! It will run through January 31st! This is a great fundraiser for our school and it is so easy to track minutes! Please see the information sheet in green folders for additional information on how to log your students reading minutes!

Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching, Valentine cards are already out in stores! Students will be able to bring in 66 valentines with the “to” section left blank. A treat can be included with the valentine card. If you have any questions about this please email p2@tracylc.net.

This week in TK, we learned all about Martin Luther King Jr.

First, we learned all about how Martin Luther King grew up.  Did you know he skipped two years of high school and started college early??

Then, we learned how he told everyone that we should all be treated equally.  The students were able to make hats sharing what their dreams are for the future.  Such great ideas!

Lastly, we looked at a brown and white egg and asked what the differences were.  Once we cracked the eggs, we could see that we may look different on the outside but are the same on the inside.  They enjoyed seeing those eggs crack!

 Phase One:

Phase 1 students are super excited about the Read-A-Thon! It started today and will go through January 31st.  We were lucky to have had the Falcon “Cheer Readers” (Cheerleaders) come read to our students this morning and we have already logged minutes!! This will surely help our students reach their AR goals while helping to raise money for our school.  Check your student’s green folder for more information.  

This week phase 1 students learned about Martin Luther King Jr. Many of our SWOs mirror what he believed in.  We are proud to be teaching our students important character traits alongside our curriculum.

Thank you to all those students who brought in recyclables to help our Phase 2 students with their next project: a new equipment container.

Have a great weekend and remember – READ, READ, READ!

Phase Two:   

The Primary Read-a-Thon starts today!! It will run from January 24-January 31.  Please see your child’s log-in page in their green folder today.  This is a great fundraiser for our school!

Back in October, our 4th grade leadership students worked VERY hard to sell candy grams.  They decided to use the money to purchase new playground and field equipment for the whole school!  On Friday we were able to finally enjoy all of our new jump ropes, scoops, frisbees, soccer balls, dodge balls and 4 square balls!  This month our leadership students are collecting recyclables to earn money for a new equipment cart.  We are so glad to see that our students love to give back to our school community!

Primary Parents:  This will be the last chance to order spirit wear this school year!  Please go to selectspiritwear.com to place your order by January 31.  Orders will arrive by the end of February.  

 

 

 

 

Discovery Middle School 5-6

Upcoming ⅚ Dates:

February 17: NO SCHOOL – Presidents’ Day

An update from PE:

Students are Enjoying “Week 3” of their “Third Rotation” of the learning and playing different types of “Fitness/Nutritional Activities” for the “Nutritional Unit“ in PE and the major components of why Fitness and Nutrition go hand in hand.

Coach Williams’ Class this week is introducing  “Olympic Handball ,” Coach P.’s Class “Soft Tennis” and Coach Levand’s Class “Speedball!” It is our goal here at DCS to teach our PE Students that being flexible due to the weather and still being able to learn and participate in fun new things is never an issue!!!!

Also, as a quick friendly reminder, please remind students that they should be bring warm clothing such as sweatpants, sweatshirts and an extra pair of socks are important. Please let your students know that they should still 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 Falcon PE Staff


Mrs. Zuniga’s Math:

Varsity: Our class took our decimal unit test Friday. We begin moving into prime numbers and start looking at concepts of fractions. This will include LCM and GCF, which means students need to know their multiplication tables at this point to have an easier time with these concepts.

Scholastic: Our class completed Unit 4 and are now beginning to look at our fraction unit. We are starting with prime, composite and divisibility rules. The students will also be creating a fraction kit within the next week to use as a hands on and visual manipulative for fractions.

Honors: Our class is getting close to ending our current unit. Students are practicing solving and graphing inequalities.

Mrs. Nijjar’s Math:

Varsity: This week students spent time learning about greatest common factor (GCF) and explored different strategies to do the same. In the coming weeks, students will be taking the quiz and will be learning about least common multiple (LCM).

Scholastic: In this week, students learned to add, subtract and multiply integers. In the coming weeks, students will be completing the unit by learning about dividing integers and reviewing the concepts.

Honors:  In this week, students learned about finding slope, y-intercept, and slope-intercept form for the given linear equations, and plotted the linear equations on a graph. In the coming weeks, students will be taking a quiz for Unit-4 and will further learn to solve linear equations.

All my students started working on part-2 of the SWO Lifelong Learner project. The students are encouraged to do research at home and complete the graphic organizer by January 31st.


Ms. Rodieck’s Language Arts and Humanities:

Scholastic and Honors finished Fever 1793 – we survived the epidemic.  Now we are taking the Final and completing the Newspaper Project.

Our next book will be Frankenstein.  This was the High School Novel for the theme of Health and Wellness.  We will not be reading Mary Shelly’s version, instead an illustrated classic version.  Parts of the Mary Shelly version will be read to the class (parts that are not in the version we are reading).

Varsity is continuing to read Fever 1793.  We are going a bit slower since we are doing stations three days a week.  In our small groups we are reading short articles or stories at our reading level and focusing on Comprehension Skills.  We are also spending more time in class learning how to answer essay test questions.  Ask your son or daughter what is means to “Go APE over Essay Questions.”  

Language Arts with Mr. Harding:

We have survived the Fever, and we are now ready to tackle end-of-novel tasks. We have an exam, and an essay, but we also have a Movie poster Project! Please check Google Classroom for updates!

“Compositions are the blending of unequal things.” Our goal as a class is to learn how to blend and create meaning. It is composition time.

Social Studies with Mr. Bird and Mr. McCarthy:

This week we started off with a quiz about Ancient Greece on Tuesday.  Students were quizzed on the four different types of government that were practiced.  Continuing on with Ancient Greece, Students are learning about the two major City-States, Athens and Sparta.  Next Week Students should expect a quiz towards the end. Below is a class reviewing what life was like if you lived in Athens around 400 B.C.E.

Science with Ms. Diaz:

Greetings scientists! This week, we learned about the constellations Leo, Lyra, Pisces and Scorpius. We also had group practice quizzes on the constellations of Cygnus, Gemini, Canis Major, Aquarius, Aquila and Aries. Our Moon Project continues, and so far we have tracked the moon for 19 days, observing how it changes over time. We also created our own constellations and wrote a myth pertaining to it. Next week, we will start working on the Moon Project lab report and go over the theories about the solar system held by famous Greek scientists.

Last but not least, come one and come all to check out the DCS science blog site at: www.tlcdiscoverychannel.weebly.com. Read all about the Top 5 Fastest Dinosaurs (RJ Thomas) and how Spongebob is a Cannibal (Vanesa Madera). Prepare to be SCIENCED!

Awesomely interesting announcements

Upcoming Deadlines:

  • Constellations Quiz Pt. 1—> Jan 28th
  • Constellations Quiz Pt. 2—> Feb 4th
  • Solar Systems Test—> Feb 12th
  • Moon Project Reports due—> Feb 14th
  • Please don’t forget to check Google classroom and/or the science class website regularly with your student
    Google Classroom Hon/Scholastic code→ jp9wlua
    Google Classroom Varsity code→ 8d4s9b
    Science class website:
     https://diazdoesscience.weebly.com 

Mission to Mars:

  • The next payment is due Feb. 4th. Your balance needs to be paid in FULL. Please check your account to stay up to date.
  • Please check your email and let me know if you would like to take a bus with us from TLC to SFO. If we have enough of an interest, I can arrange bus transportation.

Rube Goldberg:

  • Drop-in practices M-Th 4-5pm

Science Olympiad

  • Parent permission forms and list of events have been handed out. Permission forms and top 5 choices of events are due Monday, Jan. 27th

Stay curious & keep exploring!!!

 

 

 

Discovery Middle School 7th-8th

Nest Certificate Winners for Week 21:

Winner of Amazon Giftcard in Nest Certificate Drawing (Dec):

A Note from Mrs. Cerezo:

Notice to Parents of students in the Varsity 2 class:

A letter has been sent home this week to inform you that starting Week 22, students in this class will begin to be reintroduced to having homework (this may look like: reviewing notes, making flashcards for terminology, annotating their notes, finishing up an assignment not completed in class, etc). Students will be expected to record their homework in their agenda, complete it at home, and it may be checked for a grade in each class. Please be on the lookout for this letter as it explains in detail the methodology behind reintroducing homework to this class in hopes that it will help to increase their sense of accountability and performance in class. Please feel free to contact me at acerezo@tracylc.net with any comments or concerns. Thank you.

School Improvement Committee Invitation!

The School Improvement Committee is a new aspect of our DCS team this year. This Committee is comprised of students, staff members, the DCS Team Leads, parents, Mrs. Woods, Mrs. Stewart, and a TLC Boardmember (Mr. Murray). We meet roughly once a month to discuss the DCS Action Plan and the overall progress of our school. We would love to welcome new members! If you are at all interested in joining or attending a meeting to find out more about DCS then please contact myself, acerezo@tracylc.net for more information. 

Technology with Ms. Ferguson:

1-22-20

Trimester two of technology is well underway! Over the last couple of weeks, the students have finished up the units on internet safety/cyberbullying and have also made their way through a unit on finding reliable sources of information online and how to look out for inaccurate information or “fake news” as well as how to use keywords to find the information that they are looking for.  The students built a newsletter and researched a news source that they had an interest in.

This week the students are working on a Google Docs Challenge where they are given a set of instructions to follow and if all instructions are followed correctly will build a Google Doc using many of the skills that they have already learned.  This may be challenging for some students because there are a few new skills in the instructions and some students may have difficulty remembering some of the skills required of them.

Next week the class will be moving on to inventions and begin a project where they will be developing their own app.

Physical Education:

Students are Enjoying “Week 3” of their “Third Rotation” of the learning and playing different types of “Fitness/Nutritional Activities” for the “Nutritional Unit“ in PE and the major components of why Fitness and Nutrition go hand in hand.

Coach Williams’ Class this week is introducing  “Olympic Handball ,” Coach P.’s Class “Soft Tennis” and Coach Levand’s Class “Speedball!” It is our goal here at DCS to teach our PE Students that being flexible due to the weather and still being able to learn and participate in fun new things is never an issue!!!!

Also, as a quick friendly reminder, please remind students that they should bring warm clothing such as sweatpants, sweatshirts and an extra pair of socks are important. Please let your students know that they still 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 Falcon PE Staff

Ms. Polo Spanish Jan-Feb 2020

Lectura Readings D: Dado and E: Elote Read aloud in class. Students are responsible for the 37 vocabulary words we highlighted from those readings. They must know them in Spanish and in English.

This will become 1st oral test, either D or E. We will do Alphabet worksheet with 30 vocabulary words. Some are new, many are not. They are responsible for all 30 alfabetos and all 30 palabras (words) as vocabulario. That will be oral test #2 for unit 4. Also all the days of the week and months of the year are part of this month’s unit. 7 days of the week, 2 have accents, none are capitalized in Spanish. Months of the year, none are capitalized and none have accents. Also students will be able to write their birthday in Spanish, day, date, month, and year in a complete sentence. And number 0-31 will be reviewed as it will be needed when going over the calendar this unit. We will then move on to F and G lectura readings and pull vocabulary from those 2 readings for Unit 5. One of those will be chosen by each child to be read aloud and 1st oral test for unit 5.

Music Exploration with Mr. Dougherty:

DCS music classes have been busy working on a “Music, Media, and Technology” unit. In this unit, students created for news headlines and used iPads to compose underscore music. Students read these headlines with the music they composed playing in the background to create their own newscast. Below is a sampling of the project.

The end of the trimester concert will be on March 4 (Wednesday). The performance will take place in the gym during the school day. Stay tuned for more information.


 

 

 

 

Millennium High School

YEARBOOK ORDERS and SENIOR DEDICATION AD ORDERS NOW OPEN!

Yearbooks are on sale now! Yearbooks are $75. Now is the perfect time to order a 2019-20 yearbook for your student. We look forward to yearbook delivery day, May 15th. Orders are open through April 11th. Click HERE to go to our convenient online order center! Or you may go to yearbookordercenter.com and enter code 21362. You may also pay by cash, check, or card in the front office or by contacting Miss Lamanna, blamanna@tracylc.net

Senior Dedication ads in the yearbook are available and can include photos alongside a personal message to your son, daughter, or teammate. There are a limited number of pages available, so act quickly. The deadline to place an ad is 3/15/20. Credit cards accepted! If you have any questions, please direct them to blamanna@tracylc.net.

Speech and Debate

This weekend, our team attended one of the most competitive collegiate invitationals of the year, James Logan MLK Invitational in Union City. There were 113 schools from nine states in attendance, comprising 1,578 entries.

All of the nine students who attended finished in the top 30 of their events. Lucy Lamanna advanced to Quarter-Finals (top 24) and Semi-Finals (top 12) before being eliminated in the Semi-Final round. A picture of her with her Semi-Finalist trophy is attached. We are so proud of our students for setting a new team record in attendance and rankings at this prestigious event!

Last Saturday, 1/11, our students competed in regular league tournament in Buhach Colony, where they competed against 20 schools across 250 entries. Here are our students who finished in the top ten from our league tournament.

Lilliana Zapien, 9th, Varsity Original Advocacy

Danica Knowlden, 8th, Dramatic Interpretation

Kyle Fisher, 8th, Varsity Original Advocacy

Arianna Billings, 7th, Varsity Original Advocacy

A Ni Clepper, 7th,  Varsity Original Advocacy

Giovanna Chukwuma, 4th, Novice Congressional Debate

Shika Acolatse, 4th, Varsity Original Prose and Poetry

Lucy Lamanna, 4th, Varsity Original Advocacy

Logan Malsack, 3rd, Novice Impromptu

Shika Acolatse, 3rd, Varsity Impromptu

Crysuel Cunanan, 3rd,  Varsity Original Advocacy

Crysuel Cunanan and Eli Galvez, 2nd, Parliamentary Debate

Lucy Lamanna and Logan Malsack, 2nd, Parliamentary Debate

Nicole Engen, 2nd, Varsity National Extemporaneous

Nicole Engen, 2nd, Varsity Impromptu

Nicole Engen, 1st, Varsity Big Questions Debate

Falcon Culture Project

Shika Acolatse

This is Shika, a Ghanaian, second generation student at Millennium. She grew up in various places, ranging from Nebraska to the Bay Area with yearly summer trips to Ghana. Shika treasures her trips to Ghana because she feels as if Ghana is a completely different world. She quotes, “The camaraderie made everyday feel warm and inviting.” One of her favorite traditions goes back to when she went to school in Ghana: the “Our Day” ceremony. On the last day of school, the students wouldn’t have to wear uniforms, and would perform dances, play games, and eat food. Shika grew up eating traditional Ghanian dishes, including jollof rice (mixed with vegetables and meat) and kenkey (pounded cassava eaten with tomato stew or a spicy salsa called shito). Her favorite food is fried plantains, in which she adds, “they are best when they are super ripe!” Shika overcame her parents’ expectation of obtaining a traditional career and plans to pursue her passion in writing and filmmaking. With her drive and hard working personality, we know she can accomplish her biggest aspirations.

This Week in Science…

Students in Integrated Science are studying Astronomy and Cosmology. They learned to measure distances of stars using parallax, they modeled the Big Bang, and they learned about

Students in Environmental Science are learning petroleum chemistry. Petroleum is a mixture of substances that can be separated and manipulated for many different purposes, but it is a finite resource with huge environmental impacts.

Students in Chemistry are learning about chemical bonding and the different properties of ionic and covalent compounds.

Biology has recently delved into the magic of the cell cycle. Why do cells divide? How do they know when to stop dividing?  If they don’t ever stop dividing, what happens ? (hint: cancer. not good)  We also studied how sperm and egg are created in the process called meiosis.

Forensic Science has busied itself in a study of illicit pharmaceuticals, which are of enormous importance to forensics labs. On a creative day, we held a pro vs con debate as to whether specific types of drug felons should be resentenced, or not, according to the guidelines of the new law called AUMA, or 2016’s Prop 64.

Athletics

Interested in donating to the Athletics program to help complete furnishing of the weightroom and equipment purchases:  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=JV4bGcCRYeBxsAoeIm9378Hq0cPdQ5v5cVuYxrIDCxod5qM0FM8eQcBKQ-YhqrA_hGj2tG&fromUL=true&country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

Weekly Schedule (Girls & Boys Soccer, Girls & Boys Basketball): 

Monday 1/27:  JV Boys Soccer @ Laguna Creek, 4:30pm

Tuesday 1/28:  Basketball vs Turlock Christian (5pm/6:30/8pm), Played at West High

Varsity Boys Soccer @ Big Valley Christian, 5pm

Wednesday 1/29:  Varsity Boys Soccer @ Venture Academy, 3pm

Thursday 1/30:  Girls/Boys Varsity Soccer @ Stone Ridge Christian, (3pm/5pm), Played at Castle Field in Atwater

Boys Basketball @ Brookside Christian, (5:30/7pm)

Saturday 2/1:  Varsity Boys Basketball @ Elliot Christian, 8pm, Played at Lodi High

Sports Scores:

Girls Basketball: Falcons 47, Stone Ridge Christian 30

Falcons 43, Linden 40

Girls Soccer:  Falcons 0, Holt Academy 3

Falcons 6, Hughes Academy 0

Varsity Boys Soccer:  Falcons 2, Elliot Christian 1 (FFW)

JV Boys Soccer:  Falcons 3, River City 5

Varsity Boys Basketball:  Falcons 50, Stone Ridge Christian 34

JV Boys Basketball:  Falcons 67, Stone Ridge Christian 22

Meet the Coaches!

 Hi! I am Cleshonda Cook,  aka Coach Cleo.  I’m excited to be part of the coaching staff at Millennium High School. I ran track and cross country all 4 years of high school and 1st year at DeAnza College. I competed in the 1600, 800, 4×100 and long jump. I was no superstar! But I definitely held my own :-).  No one could out work me! I love the individuality yet team aspect of the sport. My passion for coaching comes simply from cheering on my two athlete children (club track brats), being a volunteer parent and coach. I LOVE motivating, and stretching athletes. I am tough, but I don’t ever expect anything that I am not willing to give. You CAN do ANYTHING you put your mind to. That is my motto. I am honored to assist running this blossoming program at MHS, and I am honored to coach your athletes. We ALL have potential and we can realize it together. Let’s GO Falcons.

 

 

NOW HIRING:  Spring 2020 Head Athletic Coaches-

Boys Volleyball:  https://www.edjoin.org/Home/DistrictJobPosting/1228598

Interested in a coaching position not currently posted?  Submit your coaching resume/application here for consideration in future openings:  https://www.edjoin.org/Home/DistrictJobPosting/1143376

Follow Millennium Athletics on Social Media:  

-Instagram- @Millennium_Athletics

-Twitter- @MHS_Falcons

-Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/BalsamoPE

We appreciate your continued support!  FALCON PRIDE!!

 

 

Upcoming Fundraisers for Athletics:

-Mother Son Dance: February 8th, 2020

 

 

COUNSELING, COLLEGE, AND COMMUNITY NEWS!!!

College Board Opportunity Scholarship Presentations

College Board Ambassadors Alondra Camarena (12th Grade) and Tyler Gore (12th Grade) visited Career Education classes last week to share College Board Opportunity Scholarships!  These are wonderful opportunities for our junior and senior students to be eligible for scholarships by completing steps that are helpful (and in some cases required!) along their journey toward college.  For more information, please visit this link:  https://opportunity.collegeboard.org/

9th Grade Presentations

Ms. Moore did presentations for 9th grade Life Skills classes this week regarding community service updates, Fast Track, graduation requirements, and A-G requirements.  Students had wonderful questions!  It is great to know that students are thinking about their futures within and beyond high school!

Hire Me First Breakfast

If you know of a business (Profit or Non Profit) who may be interested in offering an unpaid internship experience for the 2020-2021 school year, we encourage you to attend the upcoming Hire Me First breakfast event to learn more about participating in preparing our youth for the future workforce!

9th Annual TLC’s Got Talent Show – February 13, 2020 – TICKETS ON SALE NOW! $9.00 General Admission. Purchase your tickets from www.atthegrand.org from the MHS Counseling Office, or the TLC Main Office.

 

Millennium High School – Community Service Opportunity-Thursday February 6, 2020

Central School Parent Group is hosting a Valentines Craft Night and is in need of volunteers to help manage craft tables and assist as needed. The event time is 4:30pm-6:30pm. If interested in volunteering please visit the Millennium High School Counseling Office to sign-up.

TLC Charter Chatter

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A Message from Virginia                                                                     Jan. 17, 2020

 

While TLC may not have its own competitive gym (yet), I did want to share a picture sent from our TLC athletic director, Stevi Balsamo.  The school spirit and enthusiasm for our students and their achievements puts a smile on my face.

From seeing the line of students auditioning for Mary Poppins to our fans cheering on the MHS basketball team to the early mornings our Science Olympiad team meets; our students show a real passion for what they do and I am proud to see them venturing beyond the classroom.

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Go Falcons!!

 

Next School Holiday

Monday, Jan. 20, 2020 Martin Luther King Jr.  Day

 

 

Personal Days for this School Year 2019/2020

VERY IMPORTANT Information for our current 2019/2020 school year beginning August 5, 2019, we have reduced 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.

 

 

It’s that time again. THE 14TH ANNUAL TRACY LEARNING CENTER CRAB FEED – FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Tickets to the February 1, 2020 Tracy Learning Center Crab Feed are on sale now!

Tickets are $55.00 per person, or a table of eight is $440.00. Table reservations include pre-assigned seating and your name or company name prominently displayed on your table.

The doors of the Portuguese Hall will open at 6:00 p.m. for a no-host cocktail hour. Your delicious crab dinner served with salad, pasta and bread will begin at 7:00 p.m.

Through so much generosity we have amazing raffle baskets and silent auction items.  Then put on your dancing shoes and hit the dance floor until 12:00 a.m.

 

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Donna Baker (209) 321-9157 via text or donna@donnabaker.com

 

Please let me know if you would like to volunteer for this awesome event. We are also looking for a new committee chair that would like to shadow Tom and Donna through all aspects of this community building event. Their daughter Ally will be graduating this year whereby they will kindly step down.

 

 

 

 

 

Lunch Menu Week of JAN. 19 – 24, 2020

Mon – Holiday

Tues – Pizza

Wed – Turkey Meatball Sandwich

Thurs – Beef or Bean Tostada

Fri – Chicken Corn Dog

 

 

 

Don’t forget to click the STAR after scanning and enter your student’s classroom number for credit.

 

 

NOW HIRING:  Spring 2020 Head Athletic Coaches-

Boys Volleyball:  https://www.edjoin.org/Home/DistrictJobPosting/1228598

 

 

TLC Preschool: Did you know?

  

Did you know our preschool teachers work hard each week creating lessons that are play-based?  The preschool teachers focus on a letter, number, color and shape each week. They use these focus concepts to create fun, interactive lessons that keep students engaged while having fun learning.   This week the students have been focusing on the letter E as in elf, the number 10, the color brown, and the shape triangle.  Students have created group posters with the letter E, sorted the letter E by capital and lowercase, and worked on creating lists of things that start with the E sound, made Christmas decorations with groups of 10, and decorated a triangle-shaped Christmas tree! Phew!.  Who knew so much learning could be masqueraded into fun activities.  Thank you teachers!

 

 

Initial Phase

We had a lot of fun this week with our 100th day of school! Time is going by too fast! It is amazing how much these children have grown in such a short time! We celebrated being 100 days smarter by participating in many fun activities. Students made hats with 100 dots, a gumball machine with 100 gumballs, made a tower by stacking 100 cups, used the digits in 100 to create a picture, and practiced counting to 100 by 1s, 5s, and 10s!

Monday, January 20th we will not have school in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

Don’t forget to change out your student’s extra clothes in their backpack to winter clothes.

 

 

 Phase One:

This Week Phase 1 students did an amazing job with their Winter Aimes Testing!!  We are proud of their efforts and progress.  We also had fun celebrating our 100th Day of School.  The necklaces were so creative and they had fun wearing them and sharing them.  In P5, students hypothesized whose necklace would be heavier and then compared them by weighing them.  Then, enjoyed making mini s’mores with 100 marshmallows, chocolate chips, and Graham cereal. P4, students wrote about what they would buy if they had $100 and what they would look like if they were 100 years old. In P3 students did a 100 second challenge and completed lots of different fun activities. In Language Arts students are working on meeting their AR Goal which is due Friday, February 14th.  Please help encourage them to read at home to help them reach their goal.  In Math students are regularly practicing their math facts along with other concepts.  Fluency in math facts is essential for higher math learning.  Flash cards, online apps, games, etc. are a great way to increase math fact fluency.  In Social Studies, students had a lot of fun learning about life “Long Ago.”  Remember this is a 3 day weekend! There will be no school Monday, January 20 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  

 

Phase Two:   

We have lots of exciting school events coming up!  The PCS Read-a-Thon will run from Friday, January 24-January 31st.  This is a great fundraiser for our school!  More information will come home next week.  We also have our annual Crab Feed (a super fun, adults-only event), Mother Son dance and TLC’s Got Talent Show.  We hope you’re able to participate in some of these school events!

This month our 4th grade leadership students are collecting recycling from all the Primary classes.  This week they went around and distributed collection boxes to all classrooms for plastic bottles and cans.  Our leadership students have decided to purchase a new equipment cart for the playground with our recycling money…what a great idea that benefits the whole school!  

 

Discovery Middle School 5-6

Upcoming ⅚ Dates:

January 20: NO SCHOOL – MLK Day

February 17: NO SCHOOL – Presidents’ Day

Top 5 Nest Point Earners:

Amur:

Saker:

Peregrine:

Kestrel:

Mrs. Zuniga’s Math:

Varsity: Our class is finishing our mini decimal unit with dividing decimals. We just finished learning this concept and will begin constant practice and reviewing before we take our unit test.

Scholastic: Our class took our Unit 4 test this week. Next week we will begin our introduction to fractions. 5th grade state testing is full of fraction questions and this unit is very critical to our students for future math courses. 6th graders will use this unit as a review and I will be looking for mastery of this concept.

Honors: Our class took their third quiz focusing on translating and solving equations as well as solving equations from word problems. This quiz is critical in showing me that the students are learning and understanding the math vocabulary that we use everyday. Students learned to pull keywords from the word problems to know what type of equation they need to create and solve.

Mrs. Nijjar’s Math:

Varsity: We started this week by learning about prime numbers and composite numbers. This concept was further reinforced by playing games and participating in discussions. In the coming weeks, students will be learning about prime factorization.

Scholastic: Students this week learned about graphing functions, finding distance on a graph, and adding and subtracting positive and negative integers. In the coming weeks, students will be learning about multiplying and dividing integers.

Honors:  In this week students took the Unit-3 test and started with Unit-4. In the coming weeks students will be learning about finding slope of linear equations and solving linear equations.

**All my students started working on part-2 of the SWO Lifelong Learner project. The students are encouraged to do research at the home and complete the graphic organizer by January 31st.


Ms. Rodieck’s Language Arts and Humanities:

Below are photos of students that were selected to be published in a poetry anthology.  We submitted our poems last fall.  Parents, please go on-line or use the forms sent home, to give permission for your son or daughters poem to be published by 1/23/2020.  You don’t have to buy the book to be published.  Being able to say you are a published author will look good on college applications and resumes.  They can also use this for their Dedicated DCS SWO scrapbook in May.  We will have another opportunity this Spring to enter poems into this contest.

Language Arts with Mr. Harding:

Mr. Harding could not be more proud of the effort and work done by all of his classes. We will finish our novel, Fever, 1793 before the next Charter Chatter. The groans when I tell them we are finished reading for the day are getting stronger as we reach the plot’s climax. It is wonderful teaching a class of students eager to learn. We are also learning about Ancient Greece by studying Aristotle’s appeals, a few common myths, and other very popular Greek themes. Aristotle’s appeals became a mini-lesson on persuasion. We learned about a “Pepsi generation” that wanted to “Be like Mike” before Radio Shack got a call that the 80s wanted their store back. I have warned the students that they may experience the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon after learning about Ancient Greece.

Social Studies with Mr. Bird and Mr. McCarthy:

This week in Social Studies our students have grasped the main concepts of the four types of governments that happened in Ancient Greece.  Students are able to understand the differences and similarities between each system as well as the span of time each system was practiced. Students should be able to explain how democracy developed in Ancient Greece. The quiz will be held next Tuesday. We also watched parts of “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” in class to excite and introduce our students to the next chapter on Ancient Greek Religion and Greco-Persian Wars.

Science with Ms. Diaz:

Discovery Middle School 7th-8th

  • No School on January 20th for MLK Day

Nest Certificate Winners for Week 20:

 

 

A Note from Mrs. Cerezo:

Notice to Parents of students in the Varsity 2 class:

A letter has been sent home this week to inform you that starting Week 22, students in this class will begin to be reintroduced to having homework (this may look like: reviewing notes, making flashcards for terminology, annotating their notes, finishing up an assignment not completed in class, etc). Students will be expected to record their homework in their agenda, complete it at home, and it may be checked for a grade in each class. Please be on the lookout for this letter as it explains in detail the methodology behind reintroducing homework to this class in hopes that it will help to increase their sense of accountability and performance in class. Please feel free to contact me at acerezo@tracylc.net with any comments or concerns. Thank you.

 

 

School Improvement Committee Invitation!

The School Improvement Committee is a new aspect of our DCS team this year. This Committee is comprised of students, staff members, the DCS Team Leads, parents, Mrs. Woods, Mrs. Stewart, and a TLC Boardmember (Mr. Murray). We meet roughly once a month to discuss the DCS Action Plan and the overall progress of our school. We would love to welcome new members! If you are at all interested in joining or attending a meeting to find out more about DCS then please contact myself, acerezo@tracylc.net for more information. 

           

 

 

7th and 8th Grade Science Charter Chatter – Ms. Dominguez

Over the last month, 7th and 8th grade Science has been exploring genetics and how traits can be passed down from parent organisms to their offspring. We have had the opportunity to explore many different topics through the lense of genetics, such as how certain breeds of animals have developed over the years to how genetics play a role in the world of organ transplants.  Our major project for this unit was exploring the development of all of the dog breeds that we see in the world today. Students questioned how it could be possible for all of the breeds we see today – some as unique from one another as chihuahuas and Irish Wolfhounds – to originate from a common wolf ancestor. Using the AKC website, students carried out a research project that allowed them to explore three different breeds to see if they could find any common themes between the breeds that might explain how dogs came to be one of the living world’s most diverse species.

Some of the clues that students were able to pick up on from browsing the AKC website was that all of the dog profiles were grouped by the breed’s purpose. Some breeds were categorized as sporting or hunting breeds, some were noted as working breeds, some for herding, and some were purely intended for companionship. Many of the students to fascinated to see how the group that the breed fell into would hold a lot of insight into the behavior and characteristics of the dogs, and many of them were curious to see what they could find out about their own dogs by looking up their breeds on the website’s profile database. I was very impressed to see how the breed’s group alone was enough to lead many of  the students to the conclusion that maybe we have so many breeds of dogs today because humans wanted to create dogs to meet specific needs, behave a certain way, or look a certain way; so over the years, human intervention in the crossing of dog breeds has contributed to the nearly 350 breeds that we know of today. The uniqueness of each breed is due to genetics and the various that can only come mixing the genetics of two parent organisms to create offspring.

The culminating step of this project was for students to choose two of the three breeds that they researched on the AKC website, and predict what kind of offspring would be produced if these two breeds were crossed with one another. Their final product had to consist of a profile like those they found on the AKC website, and a picture of the hypothetical offspring. To see one of the final projects that was submitted, please see the picture included below.

As we wrap up Life Science for this year, we will be taking one more look at this year’s Academic Pentathlon material to finish up one of the last chapters that focuses on the treatments currently available for cancer patients. We will then be moving on to Earth Science with our first topic being Water.

 

 

 

Social Studies with Ms. Zaca:

Happy New Year to all of our Falcon Parents and Students!

Before we left for break, students read and learned about Europe before the age of the Renaissance. Students read articles, created small projects, watched videos, and discussed different events that led to the Italian Renaissance. We learned about Europe’s Feudal system, how monarchies looked like, the role of religion, the Black Plague, and the desire for the humans that survived the plague to become the best version of themselves.

Students also were introduced to the three main Renaissance city-states: Milan, Florence, and Venice. After learning about the differences of each and how each impacted the Renaissance, students took a day trip to the city of Florence with Tour Guide Zaca (Ms. Zaca was feeling a little jet-lagged)! Students “walked” around the different parts of Florence with their tour group and learned about the cultural importance of each towards the rise and power of Florence.

Last week, we began to move on from the Italian Renaissance and head towards the Northern Renaissance. In small groups, students were assigned one of six important northern Renaissance locations, such as London, Gutenberg’s Shop, Paris, the Flemish Region, and Bucklersbury. Groups presented their location to their class and became mini-experts. This past week, students were put into groups again and were assigned an important person of the Renaissance to research.  Using their information, they created posters and hung them around the rooms, for others to have a special meet and greet with out famous Renaissance people. They met Queen Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare, Johannes Gutenberg, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Dante to name a few.

Some suggested study tips:

Social studies can be a challenging class for some students. Unlike math, it is a class that mostly factual memorization. Here are some tips that I have shared through my years here in Discovery that I believe can be useful for all students to use. Some, I’ve even gathered from student suggestions on what has helped them do well on quiz and tests!

STUDY TIPS

-at home, re read the notes/article from the day and start highlighting important facts.

-set aside 10-15 minutes creating notecards for your vocabulary words or about the people you learned. You can use the notecards as flash cards or create a matching game! (Student should be familiar with this from our class!)

-create your own quiz! Sometimes the best way to study is think about how to create questions with the material you learned

-Having another person quiz you at home is also helpful!

-when answering questions on your worksheet using the articles or notes from class, highlight the questions in one color and the answers in a different color.

-When reading the information at home again, sometimes taking your own notes can be helpful too!

Have a wonderful January!


 

 

Millennium High School

YEARBOOK ORDERS and SENIOR DEDICATION AD ORDERS NOW OPEN!

Yearbooks are on sale now! Yearbooks are $75. Now is the perfect time to order a 2019-20 yearbook for your student. We look forward to yearbook delivery day, May 15th. Orders are open through April 11th. Click HERE to go to our convenient online order center! Or you may go to yearbookordercenter.com and enter code 21362. You may also pay by cash, check, or card in the front office or by contacting Miss Lamanna, blamanna@tracylc.net

Senior Dedication ads in the yearbook are available and can include photos alongside a personal message to your son, daughter, or teammate. There are a limited number of pages available, so act quickly. The deadline to place an ad is 3/15/20. Credit cards accepted! If you have any questions, please direct them to blamanna@tracylc.net.

 

 

Math Charter Chatter

Week of 1/13

We are 3 weeks into semester 2 and math has a lot going on. This week we are taking the Davis Test for the second time, marking our halfway point! Students will either have tested on Thursday or Friday of this week. They will get results almost immediately and compare it to the first time they took the test. We are looking for growth toward mastery by the third and final time they take it in May. This is an important test that helps us decide whether or not a student has mastered the subject matter they have been placed in. Your student will get a lot of good information from the report they get on this test which includes strengths and weaknesses.

Mrs. U’s Algebra 2 Class

We are right at the end of our fifth unit and getting ready to take our final exam. We have been working hard at being fully prepared for this test and anticipate a good outcome. We had our creative teaching day this week and our class got to play a jeopardy game that reviewed a lot of material covered overall.

Mrs. U’s Algebra 1A Class

We are in the middle of our third unit in Algebra 1A. This unit covers all about relations and functions. We are learning when a relation is or is not a function, evaluating function, learning about domain and range as well as a new notation they have never seen before called function notation. We have been hitting that last topic pretty hard over the past week and I think we are finally getting comfortable with it. Because this class only covers the first half of Algebra 1, we have lots of time to practice, get up to the board and do activities. This week we got to play math baseball and every student has got to do problems on the board multiple times.

Mrs. U’s Algebra 1B

This class is in the middle of Unit 8. We are working on solving quadratics, one of my personal favorite things to do and teach. I find way too much joy in this part of Algebra. This class only covers the second half of Algebra 1, so we have plenty of time for practice, projects, activities and more. I love teaching this class for this reason. We are always finding ways to support our lessons in a fun way. We do scavenger hunts, partner activities, games, activities that get us out of our seats. This week we got to play BINGO to review solving quadratics by factoring and we will also get to do a cut and paste activity, which allows us to take a break from the normal pencil and paper worksheet.  

Ms. Rios’ Algebra 1 Classes:

This class is nearing the end of Unit 4a. These classes are currently using what they know about Linear relationships to create equations from word problems. At this point, there are so many things to remember but all of my students are doing very well sorting the given information.

Ms. Rios’ Geometry Class:

This class is nearly to the end of Unit 6. This class is using parts of triangles to decide if the triangles are similar or not based on the information given. We started with learning how to find pieces of missing information if we already know the triangles are similar.

Ms. Rios’ Finance Math Classes:

This class is at the end of the Car Buying Unit. These classes had a fun time “buying” a car at my car auction to use for their “Car Project.” We have watched a couple educational videos about the car buying process.

Mr. Creasman’s Math Classes

Math has been picking up the third week into the new semester. In Pre-Calculus we are knee deep in probably the most difficult unit of the year, trigonometry! We have had one quiz since we got back from Christmas break and though this is a hard unit, it can be very rewarding the further we get and the more the math starts to connect on deep levels. All three classes of Pre-Algebra have been chugging along. Right now we are probably in one of the most relatable units of all of basic math: ratios, rates, proportions, and percents.

Mr. Tariku (Geometry)

We just finished Unit 6 (Similar Triangles) and we are getting ready to start Unit 7

 (Polygons & Quadrilaterals). Looking forward to my favorite topic in Geometry which is Right Triangles/Trigonometry. We just took the Davis Diagnostic Exam today for the second time this year and judging by how quickly the students completed the test, I think they did better than the first time. We did Geometry Bingo and Family Feud style words game for creative learning day.

Mrs. Griffin’s Calculus Classes

In this semester, we get to actually apply all that we learned about derivatives and rates of change to real world scenarios. Students finally get to answer that question of “ So when am I going to use this in life?” We are working on tons of word problems that push the students to incorporate the calculus skills that they learned about in class. The students are also trying to put together a field trip where they can utilize their talents, but that is all up to them to show that they can justify the math!

Mrs. Griffin’s Precalculus Class

Just like Mr. Creasman’s precalculus class, we are in the most challenging unit of them all… trigonometry! In this unit, we are learning about the unit circle and how to convert angles from degrees to radians, and how to apply the trig ratios to solve problems. The rest of the year will revolve around this concept so it’s really important that they build a strong foundation right now. I encourage all students to download my app called “CoterminalWhiz” which helps to give students a visual representation of the unit circle that they can use to answer questions. It’s pretty cool to use and extremely helpful, so download it today! Today, our class took the Davis Readiness Test for the 2nd time this year and we hope to see growth in our students.         

                                                                  

Mrs. Griffin’s Algebra 1 Class

Algebra 1 continues this semester by finishing off Unit 4 which is all about linear equations. This class has been in competition with Mr. Shelton’s Algebra 1 class several times to have a battle of the minds game to see who knows their concepts the best. We have yet to win the trophy, but we are not giving up! Today we took the Davis Readiness test again and we hope that all students will show improvement in their scores since the last time we took it back in August. We will continue the semester by moving on to Unit 5 next week which will show us how to use systems of equations to solve problems.

                             

Mr. Shelton’s Algebra 2 Classes

Algebra 2 is continuing to move right along through the units. Today, we started unit 6 and are beginning to work with radical equations. This is a change from our work with polynomials. Polynomials and radical equations are the foundations of mathematics, especially in Algebra 2. It is very fun to watch their minds wrap around these concepts and dare I say watch them enjoy math. Kids are coming to class every day with a great attitude and ready to learn. Tomorrow we are taking the Davis test, and Tuesday we will pick right back up with our radical topic.

Mr. Shelton’s Algebra 1 Class:

The number one word to describe this class is curious. This is a class always filled with minds that are ready to learn and ask questions. We have had a competition with Mrs. Griffin’s class, and we have done well to say the least. What does this class have in common with the 1972 Miami Dolphins? They have never lost. We are wrapping up Linear Equations part 1 with a test next week. And will continue with Linear Equations a bit longer afterwords.

Mr. Shelton’s Algebra 1B:

Quadratics, quadratics, quadratics. This class have been diving deep into the world of quadratics. An Algebra student’s best friend is the quadratic function, which we learned today! We are taking advantage of all the ways to solve quadratics in this class and having a great time while doing so.

Mr. Shelton’s Algebra 1A:

In this class we are all about domain and range. X’s and Y’s. This class has been having a great time with activities and really learning how to read a graph. It has been a great time. I can tell that some are struggling. However all are doing their best to understand the concepts.

 

 

 

Athletics

Interested in donating to the Athletics program to help complete furnishing of the weightroom and equipment purchases:  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=JV4bGcCRYeBxsAoeIm9378Hq0cPdQ5v5cVuYxrIDCxod5qM0FM8eQcBKQ-YhqrA_hGj2tG&fromUL=true&country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

Weekly Schedule (Girls & Boys Soccer, Girls & Boys Basketball): 

Tuesday 1/21:  Girls Soccer @ Holt Academy, 4pm, Played at Lodi Grape Bowl

Wednesday 1/22:  Girls Basketball @ Linden, 6pm

Thursday 1/23:  Girls Soccer @ Hughes Academy, 3pm, Played at Regional Sports Complex, Field #2

JV Boys Soccer @ River City, 3pm

Friday 1/24:  Basketball @ Venture Academy, (4:30pm/6/7:30pm)

Sports Scores:

Girls Basketball: Falcons 49, Big Valley Christian 33

Falcons 47, Central Catholic 57

Girls Soccer:  Falcons 1, Delta Charter 2

Falcons 5, Able Charter 0

Falcons 0, Venture Academy 1

Varsity Boys Soccer:  Falcons 1, Rio Vista 6

Falcons 3, Stone Ridge Christian 1

Falcons , Venture Academy (POSTPONED due to rain)

JV Boys Soccer:  Falcons 5, Linden 6

Varsity Boys Basketball:  Falcons 53, Elliot Christian 26

Falcons 53, Big Valley Christian 43

JV Boys Basketball:  Falcons 72, Delta Charter 48

Falcons 66, Big Valley Christian 51

Falcons 59, Delta Charter 44

Meet the Coaches!

 My name is Coach Griffin and I am the Head Track & Field coach at Millennium High School. I have been coaching track & field since the 2014-2015 school year and I really enjoy it! I get excited when I have new students try out for track who have never experienced this sport before and I really love it when I have students returning for another year!

Track & field is in my blood and I am honored to coach our students. I ran track when I was in high school and being able to coach this sport gives me great joy. In high school, I participated in the 100m hurdles, the 300m hurdles, relay events, and long jump. Even though I consider myself short (a mere 5’2.5”) I loved running the hurdles and I coach these events as well.

I am surrounded by wonderful volunteer coaches who help and support our athletes to the fullest extent! We make practices happen and we support and encourage our students to never give up, even when the heat of the summer is blazing and our athletes are running in hot conditions or in the dead of winter when they are running out in the cold, we still get it done!

 

 

NOW HIRING:  Spring 2020 Head Athletic Coaches-

Boys Volleyball:  https://www.edjoin.org/Home/DistrictJobPosting/1228598

Interested in a coaching position not currently posted?  Submit your coaching resume/application here for consideration in future openings:  https://www.edjoin.org/Home/DistrictJobPosting/1143376

 

 

Follow Millennium Athletics on Social Media:  

-Instagram- @Millennium_Athletics

-Twitter- @MHS_Falcons

-Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/BalsamoPE

We appreciate your continued support!  FALCON PRIDE!!

 

 

Upcoming Fundraisers for Athletics:

-Mother Son Dance: February 8th, 2020

 

 

 

COUNSELING, COLLEGE, AND COMMUNITY NEWS!!!

Spring Delta College classes begin this week! Monday is a holiday at the Delta College Campus, so classes begin after January 21st, 2020 depending on the day of the week. Students should check their mydeltaportal to confirm their registration and location/start date of their courses this year to start the semester off on the right path!

Spring Internship is in full swing! There are 52 students interning on campus and throughout the community. Thank you to the following businesses that currently have an intern this semester!

Patel Pulliam & Hubli

My Best Friend’s Closet

Allure Salon

New Smile Orthodontics

Boys and Girls Club – Jacobson School Site

Silvercreek Security Academy

Boys and Girls Club – North School

Sutter Tracy Community Hospital – Child and Family Birthing Center

Boys and Girls Club – North School

Sutter Tracy Community Hospital – Same Day Surgery

City of Tracy – City Manager’s Office

Sutter Tracy Community Hospital – Wound Ostomy Continence Dept

City of Tracy Department of Engineering Services

Sutter Tracy Community Hospital Physical Therapy

City of Tracy Developmental Services

TLC Food Services

Community Partnership for Families of San Joaquin

TLC IT Department

Custom Sounds

TLC Primary Music Program

Flower Pavilion

TLC Primary Charter School

Great Beginnings Preschool

Tracy Chiropractic

In Shape Club

Tracy Learning Center Preschool

In Shape Fit Club

Tracy Press

In Shape Sport Club

Tri Valley Orthopedic Specialists

Mane Society Salon

Uneed2

MHS Technical Construction

Vitas Healthcare

 

 

If you know of a business (Profit or Non Profit) who may be interested in offering an unpaid internship experience for the 2020-2021 school year, we encourage you to attend the upcoming Hire Me First breakfast event to learn more about participating in preparing our youth for the future workforce!

9th Annual TLC’s Got Talent Show – February 13, 2020 – TICKETS ON SALE NOW! $9.00 General Admission. Purchase your tickets from www.atthegrand.org from the MHS Counseling Office, or the TLC Main Office.

YOUTH NEEDED TO PARTICIPATE!!! The City of Tracy is currently accepting applications from teens and adults interested in serving on the Youth Advisory Commission (YAC).  The Commission operates in an advisory capacity to the Recreation Division – Youth & Teen Services staff, the Parks and Community Services Commission, the City Council and other community groups on matters relating to youth in Tracy.

 

Members of YAC recommend and assist in the planning and implementation of youth programs and events and host forums on health, safety and recreation. Adult Commissioners will work with teens from all Tracy high schools, as well as City leaders and staff, to implement programs that positively impact the youth of our community.  Adult Commissioners will also mentor the teens as they work with them on subcommittees and special projects. Both adult and teen commissioners attend monthly and scheduled meetings.

 

Youth Advisory Commission meetings take place on the second Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m. at Tracy City Hall, Room 203.

 

Teens between the ages of 14 to 18 and/or attending grades 9-12 in Tracy, as well as adults that live in Tracy, are welcome to apply. Applications may be obtained at the Tracy City Hall, located at 333 Civic Center Plaza, or by visiting www.cityoftracy.org and clicking on the Elected Officials & Policy link. The YAC application deadline is Friday, April 3, 2020.

 

TLC Charter Chatter

TLC Charter Chatter

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A Message from Virginia                                                                     Jan. 10, 2020

Some Research and Considerations to Ponder about Mathematics

At both Discovery and Millennium, we are not satisfied with the level of mastery our students are demonstrating in math.  As we work to find ways to be more successful, I thought it would be good to share this article with you.

(All the comments in parenthesis are my thoughts as I share this article.)

Emerging cognitive and neuroscience research finds that math anxiety is not just a response to poor math performance—in fact, 4 out of 5 students with math anxiety are average-to-high math performers. Rather, math anxiety is linked to higher activity in areas of the brain that relate to fear of failure before a math task, not during it. This fear takes up mental bandwidth during a math task—creating, for example, my feeling suddenly blank and unable to think. In turn, that discomfort tends to make those with math anxiety more reluctant to practice math, which then erodes confidence and skill. In part for that reason, anxiety has been linked to worse long-term performance in math than in other academic subjects like reading.

But unlike reading, seen as a joy and necessity for all children, math too often has been “feared and revered” as a frustrating, boring, mostly irrelevant subject for all but a few elite students with inborn talent.

Children aren’t born fearing math. (IN FACT OUR PRIMARY STUDENTS PERFORM WELL IN MATH)  Their anxiety tends to rise as they age, as they confront more challenging content and “exposure to other people’s negative attitudes to mathematics; to social stereotypes, for example about the general difficulty of mathematics or about supposed gender differences in mathematics,” according to one recent analysis.

Those negative attitudes about math—who is capable and worthy of learning it—have bubbled under the surface of math education debates for more than a century.

In the early 1900s, William Heard Kilpatrick, a protege of John Dewey and one of the originators of U.S. math pedagogy, considered math “harmful rather than helpful to the kind of thinking necessary for ordinary living.” His peer, David Snedden, a highly regarded Teachers College professor and later education commissioner for Massachusetts, similarly called algebra a “nonfunctional and nearly valueless subject for 90 percent of boys and 99 percent of girls.” (HOWEVER GIRLS ARE PERFORMING BETTER IN MATH THAN THE BOYS AT

MILLENNIUM, ALTHOUGH THIS IS STILL BELOW STATE STANDARDS)

This perspective formed the foundation of the progressive approach to math education through the 1950s, although it wasn’t without detractors. In fact, they sparked the creation of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, which with the Mathematical Association of America argued for teaching comprehensive math concepts to “every educated person,” not just those going into highly technical fields like astrophysics or engineering.

Off and on in the decades since, arguments have flared among educators, policymakers, and the public about whether most children will ever need and can even understand algebra, geometry, or trigonometry. It leads to straw man choices between teaching “rigorous higher math”—envisioned as abstract, pure, completely divorced from any connection to students’ lives—or teaching “applied math,” seen as limited to the most low-level, utilitarian concepts, with few attempts to help students see connections among them.

Today, the sense of saving higher math for “math people” still holds some sway in K-12 education. A nationally representative EdWeek Research Center survey of U.S. teachers bears this out: While half of those surveyed believed math instruction should help students understand “deep concepts and structures” and use them to think about the world, 37 percent said that most students’ math instruction should be limited to basic algorithms, with conceptual math taught to “students who show particular ability or interest in entering a math field.” Another 7 percent of teachers viewed math mainly as a college gatekeeper and prioritized teaching math that would help students pass college placement exams like the SAT. 9 (IN OUR SCHOOLS, WE ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO STRIVE TO AT LEAST REACH ALGEBRA 1, GEMOMETRY, AND ALGEGRA TWO.)

In many classrooms, the fallout from this debate has surfaced in curriculum and instructional practices that experts say exacerbate math anxiety and strengthen a so-called “fixed” academic mindset—the belief that math skill is innate and cannot be improved through effort. Students who plow through lists of equations unconnected to each other are less likely to understand how their progress builds over time. In classes where students are praised for rapidly churning out the right answer using “approved” methods rather than for solving problems creatively or collaboratively, students tend to compete and judge their own ability only in comparison with how others see them. (IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT JUST BEING ABLE TO CALCULATE IS NOT WHAT MATH IS ABOUT.  ALTHOUGH IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT STUDENTS FULLY MASTER TIMES TABLES AND FRACTIONS TO BE ABLE TO SURVIVE HIGHER LEVEL MATH)

It’s hard to break such a strong, socially ingrained idea as, “math people are different from the rest of us.” It’s also necessary to prepare our children for a world revolving around big data, a world in which economic, political, environmental, and health debates all call for us to understand more than just basic arithmetic. And it would be tragic if the vast majority of children only ever learn to associate math with dread and tedium and never with the beauty of nature’s chaos, or the little eureka moment of understanding why pi describes a circle … or the satisfaction of persevering and finally finding the solution to a math puzzle in your own time, even if it takes two pages of erasures and different approaches.

There aren’t “math people” and “non-math people,” only those who work through the challenging lesson and those who surrender too soon. Helping children understand that math doesn’t define them, but can help them redefine their world, could be key to turning math anxiety into joy.( IT IS ALSO CRITICAL THAT STUDENTS DO THE MATH HOMEWORK ASSIGNED.  TRYING AND LEARNING FROM MISTAKES AND BEING ABLE TO ASK QUESTIONS IS THE WAY TO LEARN.  SAYING, “I COULD NOT OR I DID NOT DO THE MATH HOMEWORK” IS NOT A WAY TO LEARN.)

 

Next School Holiday

Monday, Jan. 20, 2020 Martin Luther King Jr.  Day

 

 

 

Personal Days for this School Year 2019/2020

VERY IMPORTANT Information for our current 2019/2020 school year beginning August 5, 2019, we have reduced 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s that time again. THE 14TH ANNUAL TRACY LEARNING CENTER CRAB FEED – FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Tickets to the February 1, 2020 Tracy Learning Center Crab Feed are on sale now!

Tickets are $55.00 per person, or a table of eight is $440.00. Table reservations include pre-assigned seating and your name or company name prominently displayed on your table.

The doors of the Portuguese Hall will open at 6:00 p.m. for a no-host cocktail hour. Your delicious crab dinner served with salad, pasta and bread will begin at 7:00 p.m.

Through so much generosity we have amazing raffle baskets and silent auction items.  Then put on your dancing shoes and hit the dance floor until 12:00 a.m.

 

Please let me know if you can kindly donate to our DESSERT AUCTION.

Donna Baker (209) 321-9157 via text or donna@donnabaker.com

 

Please let me know if you would like to volunteer for this awesome event. We are also looking for a new committee chair that would like to shadow Tom and Donna through all aspects of this community building event. Their daughter Ally will be graduating this year whereby they will kindly step down.

 

 

Lunch Menu Week of JAN. 13 – 1, 2020

Mon – Pizza

Tues – Chicken Nuggets and Mashed Potatoes

Wed – Beef or Veggie Burger

Thurs – Chili or Cheese Nachos

Fri – Chicken Patty Sandwich

 

 

Don’t forget to click the STAR after scanning and enter your student’s classroom number for credit.

 

 

NOW HIRING:  Spring 2020 Head Athletic Coaches-

Boys Volleyball:  https://www.edjoin.org/Home/DistrictJobPosting/1228598

Co-Ed Golf:  https://www.edjoin.org/Home/DistrictJobPosting/1256489 

 

 


TLC Preschool: Did you know?

  

Did you know our preschool teachers work hard each week creating lessons that are play based?  The preschool teachers focus on a letter, number, color and shape each week. They use these focus concepts to create fun, interactive lessons that keep students engaged while having fun learning.   This week the students have been focusing on the letter E as in elf, the number 10, the color brown, and the shape triangle.  Students have created group posters with the letter E, sorted the letter E by capital and lowercase, and worked on creating lists of things that start with the E sound, made christmas decorations with groups of 10, and decorated a triangle shaped Christmas tree! Phew!.  Who knew so much learning could be masqueraded into fun activities.  Thank you teachers!

 

 

Initial Phase

P2 began studying community helpers and map skills in preparation of our North Pole project. Students should bring their assigned building on Wednesday as we will set up our North Pole Wednesday morning and leave it up to use for classroom activities through Thursday.

Next week, we will do our weekly tests on Thursday because the teachers have many fun activities planned for Friday- including building mini gingerbread houses!

Don’t forget to change out your students extra clothes in their backpack to winter clothes.

 

 

Phase One:

Phase 1 had an exciting week!!  We finished up our letter writing unit and are getting ready for procedural writing.  In Social Studies we learned about Hanukkah from Mrs. Thompson.  We did some fun holiday themed activities in LA and Math.  Phase 1 also recognized SWO earners, and Golden Shoe earners.  We have a great bunch of respectful students!!  Our week ended with a Polar Express Party complete with hot chocolate and treats!  Thank you for all your good wishes and gifts.  Have a safe and wonderful Winter Break!!

 

 

Phase Two:   

Welcome back and happy 2020!  This week our phase 2 students discussed our resolutions and goals for this year.  We also assigned new AR goals that are due on February 14.  Please remember to have your child read for at least 20 minutes every night!  

In social studies our phase 2 classes are learning about our United States government.  All of our language arts books this trimester also focus on important events in our American history.  Some groups are reading about the Civil War and others will be reading about George Washington and the Revolutionary War.  All math groups are currently working on fractions…your child can always practice this skill at home on IXL or Prodigy!      

 

 

Discovery Middle School 5-6

Upcoming ⅚ Dates:

January 16: School Improvement Committee meeting in D12 at 4pm

January 17: Auditions for Mary Poppins Jr. will be held in the gym from 4-6pm (3rd-8th grade welcome!)

January 20: NO SCHOOL – MLK Day

February 17: NO SCHOOL – Presidents’ Day

Mrs. Zuniga’s Math:

*Important Note: All classes have begun their Lifelong Learner SWO this week and have already turned in the first portion. This is an extensive research project that will be presented in March at our DCS College Fair.

Varsity: Our class is finishing our mini decimal unit starting with multiplying decimals. Students are understanding the concept after recently learning how to multiply multi-digit numbers.

Scholastic: Our class is working through Unit 4 and started lesson 7 with multiplying integers. The students are still continuing to practice adding and subtracting integers using the game war. We are moving on to dividing integers and will be reviewing all operations next week.

Honors: Our class took their second quiz on solving equations. We will now move on to translating and solving equations. Students will use their previous knowledge of translating expressions in this next lesson.

Mrs. Nijjar’s Math:

Varsity: This week students reviewed the concepts about decimal addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Students took the unit test for the Decimal Unit. In the coming weeks, students will be learning about prime and composite numbers, along with finding the prime factors for the whole numbers.

Scholastic: We started this week with Unit-4, which introduces the concepts of positive and negative integers. In the coming weeks, students will be learning about adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing integers.

Honors: Students took the quiz related to evaluating functions and finding zeros of the function. In addition, students learned about arithmetic sequences and solved word problems including these concepts. In the coming weeks, students will be taking the Unit test and will start with the fourth unit.

**All of my students started with the Lifelong Learner phase of the SWO project. Students are provided an hour per week in the classroom to work on their SWO assignments. However, students have assignments assigned on google classroom and are encouraged to work on the SWO projects at home.


Ms. Rodieck’s Language Arts and Humanities:

Welcome to 2020!  We started off easy on Monday and then hit the ground running on Tuesday.  

All students were to have turned in their Book Club Book Report Brochure by Monday.  If they have not done so yet – they need to do it for half credit.  They also need to return the books.  They were given their next book and that report is Due Tuesday, February 18, 2020.

Honors and Scholastic are nearly finished reading Fever 1789 and have started their final project.  They were put in cooperative groups to complete a newspaper project.  The project is on Google Classroom and they can work on it at home, in workroom, and in class.

In Humanities we are starting to look at art and listen to music as it relates to our theme Health and Wellness.  We will be talking about artwork that came out of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1900s, but we will NOT be talking about how HIV is transmitted.  The point is to talk about how the Black Plague of the Renaissance Period, Yellow Fever of 1793 (our current book), and the AIDS epidemic are times when rumors abounded and false information was shared that made things worse for people involved.  We will also be talking about Music in the Catholic Church and Funeral Masses as an art form – not about the religion itself.  Music Mondays and Artful Fridays would be good days to ask your son or daughter what they learned about in Humanities that day.  

Language Arts with Mr. Harding:

2020 has started with great enthusiasm for our projects. Our personal symbolic mural project has been completed and turned in. The work is amazing. Some projects tell stories, and we can read along by deciphering the symbols and flow of ideas. Our other project is our novel, Fever, 1793. The story survived the break, and interest is high. As we near the end of the novel, students will write an essay (probably not a critical essay) about the universal themes in the novel. Our discussions are lively and the students’ curiosity brings the story 227 years into the future.

Social Studies with Mr. Bird and Mr. McCarthy:

Welcome to the new year of 2020!  We have kicked off our first week back from break by starting our new unit on Ancient Greece.  Throughout its time, Greece went through cycles of many different types of governments.  In our unit we will explore Monarchy, Oligarchy, Tyranny, and most importantly Democracy.  Students are already becoming familiar with the pro’s and con’s, as well as the similarities and differences between all four.  We are learning all four types of government by recreating each one within our classroom by delegating roles of power (or lack thereof) to our students/citizens.  Students should expect to have a quiz sometime in the middle of next week.

Science with Ms. Diaz:

 

 

 


Discovery Middle School 7th-8th

  • Auditions for Mary Poppins Jr. will be held at the gym on January 17th from 4-6pm (3rd-8th grade welcome!)
  • School Improvement Meeting January 16th at 4pm in D12
  • No School on January 20th for MLK Day

School Improvement Committee Invitation!

The School Improvement Committee is a new aspect of our DCS team this year. This Committee is comprised of students, staff members, the DCS Team Leads, parents, Mrs. Woods, Mrs. Stewart, and a TLC Boardmember (Mr. Murray). We meet roughly once a month to discuss the DCS Action Plan and the overall progress of our school. We would love to welcome new members! If you are at all interested in joining or attending a meeting to find out more about DCS then please contact myself, acerezo@tracylc.net for more information. 

 

 

Math with Mr. Dhillon

Varsity :- Currently doing mini unit on statistics ( mean, median , mode and MAD and Box and Whiskers plot)

 and then will start with unit 5 Fraction Basics ( prime, composite and divisibility rules, prime factorization, GCF and simplify Fraction )

 and then unit 6 Multiplication and Division with Fractions ( Integers , graphing and function.)  

             

Scholastic :- Currently doing mini unit on statistics ( mean, median , mode and MAD and Box and Whiskers plot)

 and then will continue with unit 4 linear Equation .  4.5 the point slope form , 4.6 parallel and perpendicular lines , linear equation word problems , 4.8 scatter plot , line of best fit and linear regression then will start with unit 5 Systems of Equations and Inequalities and unit 6 Exponents and Exponential Function

Honors :- Currently doing unit 6 Similar Triangles  ( similar triangles and proving triangles similar , parallel lines and proportional parts and Parts of similar triangles)then will start with unit 7 Quadrilaterals ( interior and exterior angles of triangles, parallelogram, rhombus, rectangle , square, trapezoids and kite)

 

 

Mrs. Rapp’s Classes:

In Varsity we are working on Unit 4: Integers, Graphing, and Functions. This unit really shows our students what they need to know for Algebra as integers and graphing are so critical. We will be playing a variety of integer games and doing activities to master integers.

In Scholastic, before the break we took a quiz on the first part of unit 4 and got a 90% average on it. This was outstanding for this class and their highest average yet. Overall, their fall final was good, but due to absences we do not know our final class average yet. We have started working through the second half of Unit 4a on Linear Equations. We are off to a great start. Unit 4 Test is emancipated to be on January 21st.

In Honors we are working on completing a mini unit on the following topics:

Box-and-Whisker Plot

Measures of Central Tendency

Mean Absolute Deviation

This unit will help students understand how to take data and analyze it. We will be using all of this to look at our test scores each unit and see how we did overall as a class. Honors will be quizzing on this unit later this week and next week starting Unit 6 on Similar Triangles.

 

 

 


Millennium High School

YEARBOOK ORDERS and SENIOR DEDICATION AD ORDERS NOW OPEN!

Yearbooks are on sale now! Yearbooks are $75. Now is the perfect time to order a 2019-20 yearbook for your student. We look forward to yearbook delivery day, May 15th. Orders are open through April 11th. Click HERE to go to our convenient online order center! Or you may go to yearbookordercenter.com and enter code 21362. You may also pay by cash, check, or card in the front office or by contacting Miss Lamanna, blamanna@tracylc.net

Senior Dedication ads in the yearbook are available and can include photos alongside a personal message to your son, daughter, or teammate. There are a limited number of pages available, so act quickly. The deadline to place an ad is 3/15/20. Credit cards accepted! If you have any questions, please direct them to blamanna@tracylc.net.

This Week in English….

Charter Chatter-

Happy New Year and Welcome Back!

English One-All English One classes are learning about the life of Julius Caesar and ancient Rome as we prepare to read William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Students will be acting out scenes and memorizing famous monologues and soliloquies.  Along with reading our first play, students continue to diagram, learn vocabulary and work on their writing skills.  

English Two- All classes have  finished the Kite Runner and are excited to start reading William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.  Students are currently learning further information about the author and examining the conflict between Denmark and Norway.  Hamlet focuses on betrayal, revenge, and morality.  We are looking forward to reading our first play of the year!  Along with the play, we are continuing our work with diagramming, vocabulary, and Latin and Greek Roots and Affixes.

English Three- The students continue to read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.  We are enjoying unraveling the mysteries of the book and assigned our Unit Project this week. Along with our reading, we are continuing our work with non-fiction articles, developing our critical thinking and writing skills, and will soon begin work on the Romantic/ Gothic Era literature and authors.

English Four – Students are continuing to read The Road by Cormac McCarthy. This book examines the hope that a father and son still have in a world that is very different from our own. As they seek to survive their post-apocalyptic world, as a class, we continue to study our chosen universal themes of love and power. We will also begin to teach writing strong conclusions by adding them to all of our previous essays from the last semester.

 

 

 

Athletics

Interested in donating to the Athletics program to help complete furnishing of the weightroom and equipment purchases:  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=JV4bGcCRYeBxsAoeIm9378Hq0cPdQ5v5cVuYxrIDCxod5qM0FM8eQcBKQ-YhqrA_hGj2tG&fromUL=true&country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

Weekly Schedule (Girls & Boys Soccer, Girls & Boys Basketball): 

Monday 1/13:  V Boys Soccer @ Rio Vista, 5pm

Tuesday 1/14:  Basketball @ Big Valley Christian, (5pm/6:30pm/8pm)

V Boys Soccer vs Stone Ridge Christian, 6:30pm, Played at Kimball

Wednesday 1/15:  Girls Soccer @ Able Charter, 3:30pm, Played at Regional Sports Complex, Field #2

Thursday 1/16:  V Boys Soccer @ Venture Academy, 3pm, Played at Regional Sports Complex, Field #2

Girls Soccer vs Venture Academy, 6pm, Played at Tracy High

Friday 1/17:  Basketball vs Stone Ridge Christian, (5pm/6:30/8pm), Played at Tracy High

Sports Scores:

Girls Basketball: N/A

Girls Soccer:  Falcons 4, Stone Ridge Christian 0

Falcons 4, Rio Vista 0

Varsity Boys Soccer:  Falcons 3, Edison 6

JV Boys Soccer:  Falcons 0, Edison 12

Varsity Boys Basketball:  Falcons 54, Turlock Christian 36

Falcons 21, Brookside Christian 71

JV Boys Basketball:  Falcons 54, Turlock Christian 68

Falcons 37, Brookside Christian 50

 

 

NOW HIRING:  Spring 2020 Head Athletic Coaches-

Boys Volleyball:  https://www.edjoin.org/Home/DistrictJobPosting/1228598

Co-Ed Golf:  https://www.edjoin.org/Home/DistrictJobPosting/1256489

Interested in a coaching position not currently posted?  Submit your coaching resume/application here for consideration in future openings:  https://www.edjoin.org/Home/DistrictJobPosting/1143376

For donations towards Millennium Athletics in general, you can go here:  https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=JV4bGcCRYeBxsAoeIm9378Hq0cPdQ5v5cVuYxrIDCxod5qM0FM8eQcBKQ-YhqrA_hGj2tG&fromUL=true&country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

Follow Millennium Athletics on Social Media:  

-Instagram- @Millennium_Athletics

-Twitter- @MHS_Falcons

-Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/BalsamoPE

We appreciate your continued support!  FALCON PRIDE!!

 

 

 

Upcoming Fundraisers for Athletics:

-Dine Out at Chili’s:  January 15, 2020.  20% will go toward Athletics

-Mother Son Dance: February 8th, 2020

 

 

 

COUNSELING, COLLEGE, AND COMMUNITY NEWS!!!

Spring Delta College classes begin after January 21st, 2020. Student should check their mydeltaportal to confirm their registration and location/start date of their courses this year to start the semester off on the right path!

 

 

 

9th Annual TLC’s Got Talent Show – February 13, 2020 – TICKETS ON SALE NOW! $9.00 General Admission. Purchase your tickets from www.atthegrand.org from the MHS Counseling Office, or the TLC Main Office.

 

YOUTH NEEDED TO PARTICIPATE!!! The City of Tracy is currently accepting applications from teens and adults interested in serving on the Youth Advisory Commission (YAC).  The Commission operates in an advisory capacity to the Recreation Division – Youth & Teen Services staff, the Parks and Community Services Commission, the City Council and other community groups on matters relating to youth in Tracy.

 

Members of YAC recommend and assist in the planning and implementation of youth programs and events and host forums on health, safety and recreation. Adult Commissioners will work with teens from all Tracy high schools, as well as City leaders and staff, to implement programs that positively impact the youth of our community.  Adult Commissioners will also mentor the teens as they work with them on subcommittees and special projects. Both adult and teen commissioners attend monthly and scheduled meetings.

 

Youth Advisory Commission meetings take place on the second Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m. at Tracy City Hall, Room 203.

 

Teens between the ages of 14 to 18 and/or attending grades 9-12 in Tracy, as well as adults that live in Tracy, are welcome to apply. Applications may be obtained at the Tracy City Hall, located at 333 Civic Center Plaza, or by visiting www.cityoftracy.org and clicking on the Elected Officials & Policy link. The YAC application deadline is Friday, April 3, 2020.