Rahßeøkyehe´:ßuø 13, 2011 (October)

Niagara Wheatfield District Tuscarora Indian School

Skarure? Ekwehewe Yerihedya?ta

Elizabeth Corieri (formerly Carr), Yekujderisne

Office and Community News

October 13, 2011

Upcoming Events

Tuscarora Study Club/Late Bus has started

ETMS/SHS STUDY CLUB in Mrs. Gilbert’s office – late bus

available – more info call 215-3652

EVENING STUDY CLUB FOR ETMS/SHS students is Mon/Wed 6-8

in our Computer Room

Oct 28 - No School for students

PLEASE STOP FOR BUS’S FLASHING

LIGHTS!!! PLEASE REMEMBER YOU MUST STOP WHEN A

BUS IS STOPPED AND THE LIGHTS ARE

FLASHING. DO NOT PASS THE BUS

STUDENTS ARE UNLOADING AND MAY

BE CROSSING THE ROAD. PLEASE KEEP

OUR CHILDREN SAFE AND DO YOUR PART BY STOPPING.

DROP OFF TIMES: Please do not drop students off at school

until 9:00 AM.

BUS PASSES: Must be sent in with your child in the morning. The office gets busy at the end of the day, please do not call in bus passes unless it is an emergency.

Evening Bead Class has started: Beginners with Dorene Rickard on Tuesdays 6:30-8:30pm

Advanced with Rosie Hill on Wednesdays 6-8pm

TUSCARORA NATION COMMUNITY FAIR

Saturday, October 22 **At the New Tuscarora Nation House**

12:30 pm Booths open

4:00 pm Art Unveiling Ceremony:

Artwork by Erwin Printup Jr.

Donated by the Lewiston Council on the Arts

5:00 – 6:30 pm Turkey Dinner

$6/Adult $4/Senior $2/under 12

7:00 pm Auction

*items for auction are greatly appreciated*

To reserve a booth, call Joanne Kirkland – 297-4575

DATE CHANGE 5-6 TUSCARORA MEN (AGE 30+) NEEDED: To re-enact the 1812 Taking of Lewiston, meet at the New Building 7PM on Thursday, October 19th, 2011 for more

information call 609-0747.

Syracuse University – A Presentation on the

Haudenosaunee Promise, Thursday, October 27,

2011, 10:00am at the Tuscarora Nation House

The community is invited to meet Tammy Bluewolf-

Kennedy, the new SU Native American Liaison as well

as one of the Admissions Counselors in the Office of

Undergraduate Admissions. Tammy is Oneida, Wolf

Clan, and from the Oneida Territory here in New York.

Tammy will be traveling to our Haudenosaunee

Territories presenting information sessions regarding

our Haudenosaunee Promise Scholarship as well as the

other Native specific support services and resources

available at SU. She works closely with these

programs developing, supporting and improving them

in ways that will best benefit our Indigenous students

and communities. SU is very committed to increasing

its Indigenous student population. SU’s

Haudenosaunee Promise Scholarship provides an

outstanding opportunity for eligible Haudenosaunee

people to gain an education and bring their newfound

knowledge and skills back to their home communities.

Please pass the word. Call Jamie Gilbert with questions,

215-3652

HOLY FAMILY PARISH (Chapel) 5180 Chew Road

Sunday Mass: 10am – Everyone Welcome. Religious Education Classes @ the Church: Sunday after Mass: (11am – 12noon) PreK – 7th Grade Wednesday Evening: (7pm-8pm) 8-12th Grade CANCELLATION NOTICE: Fonda Pilgrimage, due to flooding in area. Baptism in October. Pot Luck following Mass – October 23 Food Sign-up Sheet in the front entrance of the church. Think of families for Thanksgiving & Christmas Holiday Baskets

Tuscarora Baptist Awana Clubs Upcoming Events: 10/18 Bring a Real Friend Night 10/25 Harvest Open House –join us for Cider & Donuts 7:30. Clubbers can dress up as a BIBLE character, nothing scary. 11/8 Grand Prix Night – Grades 3 and up will make cars to race on the track. Winners go on to WNY Grand Prix in Grand Island on November 19. Race kits $1 available October 18.

TUSCARORA HOME SCHOOL COUNCIL NEWS: Officers: President Patty Hummel Vice President June Egeland

Secretary Emily Cramer Treasurer Erin Chapman

It’s great to see new faces and willing helpers at our meetings. Our Christmas Bazaar is approaching – remember many hands lighten the load. Come to our next meeting we could really use your help!

NEXT MEETING IS Thurs. 10/20/11 AT 4:00 EVERYONE WELCOME. WE NEED YOUR HELP FOR OUR BIGGEST FUNDRAISER OF THE YEAR: THE CHRISTMAS BAZAAR ON SATURDAY, DEC. 3RD.

Babysitting will be provided if you would like to come to the meeting, bring your children and a responsible teen will watch them on the playground or in the gym. We are still selling haircuts to raise money for THSC $10 coupon for a haircut/$5 goes to THSC. Call Patty Hummel if interested at 994-2795. COUPON BOOK FUNDRAISER: We will be selling coupon books from November 1st through November 15th. Price will be $25 for a book and you get one FREE! Watch for information next month. Next month we will start selling Raffle Tickets and 50/50 tickets for the Bazaar. The Grand Prize Raffle Tickets will be $5 each or 5 for $20 for your chance to win your choice of:

1. Motorola XOOM Wifi Tablet w/32GB’s (like an ipad) 2. XBOX 360 & Kinect Bundle w/260GB’s and $100 Walmart gift card 3. $500 Cash

We will still be looking for your donations of baskets for the Basket Auction. There will be 2 separate ticket prices for baskets; those valued up to $75 and a Large Prize Raffle for those items valued over $75. Please consider donating a basket from your family or student. If you frequent a business that might like to donate we have donation request letters available, please ask at the office. Thank you for your help and support with this, it is your support that made this a success last year and we are hoping for your help again this year.

COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARDS! Students: Some colleges/High Schools/Scholarship Recipients ask for Community Service hours – here’s your chance, come and help at the Holiday Bazaar! The THSC will keep track of students and their hours. Community Service Cerificates will be given at the end of the school year or when you need it. See Mrs. Cramer.

2011-2012 TUSCARORA HOME SCHOOL

COUNCIL

Win! Win! Win! Win!

Tuscarora’s annual winter bazaar is Saturday, December 3rd.

We will be having a large item raffle and a 50/50. Don’t miss

out on these great prizes!

(Tickets are attached below)

Money and tickets can be given to the contact person for your

building, or be sent via inter-office mail to Tuscarora Attn:

Angela Jonathan.

Contacts:

West Street : Roseann Heilemann

Errick Road: Dave DiGiacomo

Colonial Village: Michelle Dell

High School: Kristen Wilson

Middle School: Betsy Bissell

$500.00 Cash XBOX 360 & Kinect

Bundle with 250 GB and

$100 Walmart Gift

Card

Motorola XOOM

WiFi Tablet with

Google and 32 GB

Kindergarten News Student of the Week…

Angel

Science – While reading about farm life and animals we have learned that the animals are feed early in the morning before children go to school. Working in the fields or gardens takes up the***. Life on a farm is very busy taking care of animals and plants. We have made cows, goats and pigs. This gave us the opportunity to use our scissor and painting skills.

Math – To compare quantities we sorted Gummi Bears. After we counted how many red, yellow, white, orange and green there were we looked for which color was greater than/less than the others. There are two strategies to compare groups for greater/less than – we can count or match the items.

Reading – We have found looking the picture for clues helps us read the words. We made pointers to follow the words while reading. Please remind us to point to each word when we read to you at home. Some of us went onto RazKids to listen to a farm story and we read the story after listening to it. We have been focusing on the letters Pp and Mm. P is for pumpkin and pigs. M is for moo, mew, muck and me. Some of us are learning the words: the, can. Last week we worked with: has, like, and.

Mrs. Pineda

First Grade News October 13th

Calendar of Events November 10th – Parent /

Teacher Conferences November 11th – No

school November 24 & 25 No

School December 3 - Bazaar

- Please be sure to look inside your child’s

folder each day.

-Everyday your child will bring home a ‘baggie book’. Please read nightly with your child or

listen to them read.

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IMPORTANT NOTES

Please try to practice these sight words with your child at home!

THIS WEEK’S SIGHT WORDS

up, no, by, like, for

NEXT WEEK’S SIGHT WORDS

us, had, was, said, are

ELA Our shared reading this week was a story called The Dippy Dinner Drippers. The family in this story is a group of messy eaters! After reading the story together as a class each student created their own messy shirt and then wrote a menu of foods. We then decided as a class that we needed to write the Dippy family and give them some advice.

Math This week we began talking about Touchpoints. Touchpoints are points on numbers that can help students when adding. We also started to tell number stories using pictures, counters, and cubes. Ex: Sue found 3 pink shells on the beach, she then found 2 brown shells. How many shells does she have now?

STAMINA! 1st graders have been building

up their stamina every day when reading to themselves. We reached our first goal of 10 minutes and had a little

celebration!

4

Writing This week we learned how we can use our ABC chart as a tool when we are writing. The chart can help us find sounds that we might be having a hard time with when sounding out words.

Third Grade News

October 13, 2011 Mrs. Heilemann

Study Club has begun! I

encourage everyone to

attend and get their

homework done.

Austin Edwards.

Austin will be

celebrating his

birthday on October

14.

Library books are due on

Mondays.

Field trip to the

Butterfly Conservatory– Fri.

Oct. 21

Halloween Party Oct.

31- After the parade in our

classroom

ELA News

The children are also writing a personal

narrative essay. They are learning how

to make their stories more interesting

with their word choice and adding juicy

details.

Spelling Notebooks are due today. Unit 5

test is on Friday.

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Congratulations to Aiyana, Connor, Austin,

Sadreene, and Blake for getting their homework

completed and having their planner and reading

log signed each day. GREAT JOB!

Math News

Addition of 2 digit numbers, money,

estimating sums, and problem solving are all

part of what students are studying in

Chapter Two.

Mrs. Justiana-Riddle

Sixth Grade October 13, 2011

How interesting it was, while learning

about inferences in ELA that we were able to read the story The Rag Coat by Lauren Mills. We used a strategy that trains our brain why we are making an inference, and what details got us there. As students read, it is important to remain actively involved, engaging in many strategies all at once. This in turn guides us through the reading process. Please make sure your child is reading independently at home. Our next

Independent Reading Project is due

****Wednesday, November 2nd ****.

Currently in Math, sixth grade is able to read and interpret graphs. We’ve looked at 6 different types of graphs and how data is displayed on them. The graphs can show and compare sets of data. Students completed a carousel activity that had them learning the criteria needed for various types of graphs. Students also learned the properties of operations: commutative, associative, identity and distributive. See what they know about each.

FYI October 18 –ETMS Collaboration Day – Students ride MS bus in am

October 27 – Music Field Trip October 28– Staff Development Day – No School for Students

November 9– Grades close November 10 – No School – Parent/Teacher Conferences

November 11 – NO SCHOOL

Words of the Day

archaeologist archaic

archaeophyte archaeozoology

Students should know the spelling,

word parts, and definition.

As students investigate ancient civilizations in Social Studies, we are using a series called History Alive! The Ancient World. We have looked at the beginnings of civilizations in what is known as the “fertile crescent.” Students should be able to tell why that area has that nickname, and what major geographical physical feature is there. Currently we are asking ourselves the question “How do social scientists interpret the past?” What would a social scientist find of ours 20,000 years in the future, and what would they think of us? Just imagine!

U:nè Èønwawe´hraøt Skaru`:rèø (Now we will talk Tuscarora) By Mrs. Bissell /a/ law; /e/ hat; /i/ pizza; /u/ tune; /è/ hint; /ç/ cheese; /t/ do (before a vowel, y, or w), too (elsewhere); /k/ gale (before a vowel, y, or w) kale (elsewhere); /sy/ fish; /ß/ thing; /ø/ (the sound between the syllables in unh-unh); /:/ lengthens the previous syllable.

Çwe:øn, ahskè:nè hèø (Hello, how are you?) Pre-K: We will continue to review the Tuscarora words that we learned from our Akçèhawèh (My Family) unit, but we will also begin to learn about the 9 Clans of the Haudenosaunee. This week we concentrated on the the Air clans: Tawistawis (Snipe), Kaheh (Heron), and Nekanèßnahkhwaø (Hawk). We started with the question, “What is a bird?”

Kindergarten: Our Kanonyok unit is almost complete. This week we discussed the importance of having a moon and stars, and how they light up the night time sky. Yèkwarihuwathaøßeh Kusu:t Ahßèønyeha:ø (We are thankful for Grandmother Moon.) First Grade: We put together our Kanonyok collages this week. Many students can also say the whole Kanonyok all by themselves. We will be starting a new unit next week called, the Skaru:rèø Alphabet. During this unit, we will be introduced to the sounds and symbols that we use when writing our Tuscarora words. Second Grade: We took a brief break for the Marj Printup Memorial Temperance Poster Contest. Once these are complete, we will get back to work. We will continue to work on our personal narratives as we begin the next unit called Skaru:rèø Kayeta:kreø.

Adult language classes Every Monday and Thursday from 7:00-8:30PM.

Nest Program

Every First and Third Saturday from 9:30-11:30AM in Nation Building. (So that means this Saturday, October 15th)

On October 12, 1492 Columbus landed in the Caribbean. His idea was to sail west to

get to the spices and gold of the east. Columbus kept a journal of the journey. He observed that the

indigenous people of the island (present day Haiti/Dominican Republic) “…could all be subjected

and made to do all that one wished.” Columbus wish was to force them to mine for gold or be

killed. This was a very tragic time for the Taino people, fortunately they did survive.

Grades three, four, five, and six all continue to learn the impact of bringing these two old worlds into

permanent contact. It is hard to imagine what Italy would be without the tomato, Belgium without

chocolate, and Ireland without the potato; all three foods were gifts from the ancient world of the

Americas! Below are Taino words that survive in modern English.

Skarù:rè Uhaheh Mrs. Weinholtz

L to R seated: Blake, Connor, Aiyana followed by

Mackenzie, Lily Ann and Romeo all hold their Cultural

Show and Tell item for their classmates.

Romeo told us what he learned

from his Grandma about Tuscarora

raised beadwork. Mackenzie

shared a medicine wheel, Lily Ann

brought in a beautiful rock, Blake

made a tomahawk out of a stick

and rock, while Connor told about

the snownake game this week.

Students have the opportunity to

borrow something from the

classroom to share with everyone.

Aiyana came in early to learn

about Mohawk sweetgrass baskets

to share with her fellow

classmates. Nice job everyone!