TLC Newsletter for the week of October 7th

Charter Chatter

A weekly newsletter written to parents of the Tracy Learning Center

                 

Oct. 11, 2013                                                                                        Vol. 10 No.10

Virginia Stewart

I would like to share a letter I received this week complementing several of our TLC Students. Letters like these make me very proud of our students here at the Tracy Learning Center.

Virginia,

I am writing on behalf of the Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library to communicate a message of thanks to some of your students and staff. This past April, I had reached out to a few local high school art teachers for some help in promoting an art project that the library was working on to coincide with the public library's annual One Book, One San Joaquin community Reading program. Your art instructor, Matthew Young responded to my appeal, and helped me get several of your high school's art students to participate in our community project. Those students’ names are Gabby Ramirez; Estefania Torres; Jen Pereira; Matthew Leal; Ericka Dominguez; Rheagan Higbe; Savannah Saleymah; Serena Cho; Brittany Montejano; and Jacob Bracna-Gonzalez. These awesome kids, spent their summer, and part of this school year volunteering their time in support of the library and I just wanted to write to you to communicate the library's deep and sincere appreciation.

The program was titled "Reading Meets Art: My Ideal Bookshelf" and profiled 35 members of our community, ranging from community leaders, to heads of organizations, to the everyday library users. The library asked these subjects to identify their 10-15 favorite books and then asked them to write a few paragraphs about why they enjoyed those selections. From this set of books and write-ups we needed 35 artists to paint/render these bookshelves for the public to visualize. This is where your student's and Mr. Young helped out the library. They spent their time and efforts to paint the favorite books for people that they didn't even know. Each of them jumped at the chance to participate, and received little in return. The concept was borrowed from a book called "My Ideal Bookshelf," and we borrowed the concept to take a county spin on it.

Our One Book program just ended a week ago, and am now wanting to thank a few key people that helped us make this program a success. I'm attaching a few links from a blog we used to announce the program, as well as a few mentions of the program we have in the Stockton Record newspaper, and library web pages. We just thought you'd get a kick out of seeing what wonderful things your teens were doing this summer.

A huge thank you to the young, talented, and civic minded teenagers you have in your school that went forward with a community project with no thought of recognition for themselves and a special thank you to Matthew Young who facilitated the process on behalf of the library. You should be proud.

I'm attaching articles that you may read if you wish about the art program to illustrate the larger impact this had on literacy in our community.

http://ssjcplibrary.blogspot.com/2013/08/book-bucket-list-my-ideal-bookshelf.html

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20131002/A_INTERACT/310020302&emailAFriend=1

http://www.ssjcpl.org/news/programs/oneBookOSJ.html

http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/429965/8d96dd9b83/1590500819/c47ae7c084/

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130911/A_NEWS0803/309110321&emailAFriend=1

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130906/A_LIFE/309060303&emailAFriend=1



John Esquivel, Library Assistant II
Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library
Tracy Branch Library
20 E. Eaton Ave., Tracy, CA 95376
209-831-4255
john.esquivel@stocktongov.com
www.stockton.lib.ca.us

Misc. Announcements

Next Parent Council Meeting

Thurs. Oct. 17 4:15 in P5

Picture Re-takes

Lifetouch will be taking pictures on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013 morning for any students who were absent on the previous picture days or for any students who were dissatisfied with their previously purchased pictures. Please bring your packet of pictures to return them and have new photos taken. Picture Order Forms are available in the school office.

Hearing Van

The Hearing Van was here on Tuesday, Oct. 8 and tested K. 1. 2. 5. 8 and 10^th Grade Students. We were very fortunate to have Mrs. Camacho, a parent volunteer, to oversee this very busy process. Hearing retest for any absent students will be on Oct. 23, 2013. Results will only be sent home to students who failed this hearing exam.

                                                                                                          

                                                     

                     

PCS/DCS Lunch Menu Week Oct. 14- Oct. 18 Mon. –   Pizza Tues. –Chicken Taquitos Wed  – Chicken Patti Sandwich Thurs. –Chicken Corn Dog Fri. –  Hot Dog

Primary Charter

PE

We want to recognize some students that earned shoe tokens this week for
following our PE motto "Respect and Responsibility" Robert Utely, Theodore
Nguyen, Zachariah Quay, Crystal Conner, Lauren Pante,Tania Nayyar, Collin
Credo, Katherine Moreno, Anthony Maita, Brandon Locke, Vernon Real, Jessica
Jfouf, Marisol Rodriguez, Zurisad Silva-Gonzalez, Jayme Aguon, and Cameron
Williams .

The students pictured above have earned their first "Strong Paw" award in
PE for perform 15 perfect push-ups


Students not pictured in the photos above also earned their strong paw:
Devin Coates and  Collin Lang.

Miss K.V. And I are very proud of how our PCS students take pride in their
health and are improving their fitness levels. Keep up the hard work!

Gold PCS

Golden Highlights:

           

Red Ribbon Week is right around the corner. This year Red Ribbon Week is October 28-November 1. Our theme this year is "Band Against Bullying." Students have been discussing bullying in their classrooms and creating posters. Check out some of their posters around the campus.

This year's Halloween parade will be Thursday, October 31st at 9:00 on the field. Parents are welcome to attend this event.

We will be having a canned food drive in November. Each classroom will be collecting a canned food item to donate for the holidays. Information about his fundraiser will be coming soon.

      The weather is starting to get colder, be sure to send your student to school with a jacket!

      Jackets should be labeled with your students’ name.

      

      Morning carline starts at 7:45. There are not teachers at morning carline until 7:45. Please do not drop your child off and leave before 7:45 in the morning as they will be unsupervised until 7:45.

It’s that time of the year again…students at the Tracy Learning Center can make a difference on “National Make a Difference Day”. As part of a school-wide project, TLC will be participating in a donation project to help the McHenry House of Tracy-Family Shelter. Our goal is to provide much needed household supplies to the seven families awaiting help at the McHenry House.

Primary Gold has been asked to collect  single rolls of toilet paper. Students can bring them to their homeroom teacher. Collections will start Monday, October 21st and end Friday, October 25th.

Sapphire PCS

The Sapphire Team had a fabulous week!

The student leadership team had their second meeting of the year; they are planning an event for the entire school and we can’t wait to see how exciting it is!

P1 read Duck for President   this week, we then voted and have been busy graphing the results of the election during Math.  The students are engaged in reading and get better at it with every week that passes.

P6 had their first AR party; this was for those students who reached their goal for reading in the last 6 weeks.  They have retested and will have a new AR goal coming home on Monday.  

P5 has been working on factors. We have learned how to find the prime factors using a factor tree ladder. We have worked on finding the greatest common factor (GCF). This will be useful when we move to fractions.

Since the month of October is National Anti- Bullying month; we have been discussing Bullying and how our school has no tolerance for it, you will see many wonderful posters on campus that the students have made. Please ask your child about our discussions.

Please remember that there is NO supervision before 7:45 in front of the school.

Please make sure that you layer the clothing your child wears each day to school, as our mornings are getting chilly, and LABEL their clothing with their name.

Did you know that Study club is every day of the week, except Wednesday; this is a great place for your child to come and get homework completed with a teachers help.

PCS ART

This week in Art:  The K/1’s practiced their cutting and gluing skills while finishing their Apple Art project. The 2/3’s used the Element of Art, Texture, to make lots of painted paper.  What fun we had! We read the book “Pie in the Sky” by Lois Ehlert and began making paper collages using the painted paper. In 4^th grade Multicultural Art, we finished the Rainsticks and learned about the next country in our travels – Haiti.

DISCOVERY

DCS 5^th/6^th

Garnet:

Be on the lookout for information about the Garnet Eagle Lakes field trip planned for November 15. We will need volunteers and drivers to make this trip possible. Interested parents can contact Mrs. Wallace for more information.

SWO (School Wide Outcomes):

 Some students have already completed fantastic scrapbook pages for Cooperative Collaboration.  As a reminder the Cooperative Collaboration PowerPoint and Scrapbook are due Friday, November 1.

Rodieck's Roost:

We are pleased to announce that parents have offered to volunteer for Rodieck's Roost. DCS students may now come to D7 during lunch on Modays and Thursdays for help with homework or to work on projects. This is optional for them and is only possible with the help of parent volunteers. Thank you, parents!

DCS Dance:

The fall dance is after school Wednesday, October 30th. More details to come!

PHSA 7^th and 8^th

^{We have had another great week in PHSA.  Our anti-bullying campaign is underway.  We are proud of the efforts that students have put in to their posters.  It is a  great way to get the message out.}

^{Science Olympiad event sign up forms have been mailed home to parent coaches and hard copies have been past out to our team members.  Please return the forms to Ms. Powers by October 18th.}

^{A friendly reminder to all parents and students.  It is important work is complete and on time.  We do a lot at school but often, work may need to be done at home as well.  Work that is not done or incomplete prevents students from learning and is the reason we put so much emphasis on student work.  Students that do not complete their work suffer and we have consequences in place to prevent that.  If you ever have trouble or have questions, be sure to speak to the teacher.  We love to help!}

MHS

Midterms are over and it’s time to refocus on the 2^nd half of the semester.  Progress report cards were mailed out yesterday.  Please be on the lookout for them.  If you do not receive them in the mail by next week, contact the main office to verify that we have the correct mailing address on file.  As a reminder, we offer a free homework support room on Tues, Wed, and Thurs in room M14 from 4pm – 4:45pm.

On October 24^th, Mrs. Stewart will be conducting a “How to Study” workshop in the homework support room from 4pm – 4:45pm.  Students and parents are welcome!  Additional information was included with the progress reports.   

Thank you to the wonderful visitor we had this week in our Career Education classes: Larry Hite- Business Owner and Marketing.

Community Service

We had our 6^th Annual Community Service fair this week.  It was a success! All MHS students were able to connect with over 27 local non-profit organizations throughout the community.  They learned about current volunteer needs, services, and resources.  Students signed up to volunteer for current and future opportunities.  Ask your student what he or she learned and what organizations they had a chance to meet.

1.       Wicklund Fall Festival- is in need of volunteers to help at their annual fall festival. The Festival is this Saturday, October 12^th, from 9-6pm. If you are interested please show up at 300 E. Legacy Dr. Tracy, CA and ask for Christina Kelly.

2.       Millennium Basketball Homes Games: Ms. Balsamo is looking for help for each of the JV, Varsity Boys and Girls basketball home games. She is looking for students that would be willing to work the snack bars as a on-going opportunity. The hours would be from 4:30-9:30pm. The opportunity will begin starting in November. If you are interested please come see Ms. Lunn in the counseling office.

Upcoming Events

Thank you to the wonderful visitor we had this week in our Career Education classes: Larry Hite- Business Owner and Marketing.

Community Service

1.       Wicklund Fall Festival- is in need of volunteers to help at their annual fall festival. The Festival is this Saturday, October 12^th, from 9-6pm. If you are interested please show up at 300 E. Legacy Dr. Tracy, CA and ask for Christina Kelly.

2.       Millennium Basketball Homes Games: Ms. Balsamo is looking for help for each of the JV, Varsity Boys and Girls basketball home games. She is looking for students that would be willing to work the snack bars as a on-going opportunity. The hours would be from 4:30-9:30pm. The opportunity will begin starting in November. If you are interested please come see Ms. Lunn in the counseling office!

College Info

It’s the last week to sign up to take the  PSAT!!! The PSAT is a great and affordable way to practice taking the SAT. The cost is $15.00 and the test will be on Saturday, October 19^th from 7:30am – 11:30am. Sign up in the Counseling Office.

Senior Info

Counselors visited senior classes this past week to discuss the college application process and important dates and deadlines.  The power point presentation will be available for viewing soon!