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MCPS
The PTA and TPES are excited to announce our second annual Reada-thon!
Readathon, noun. 1. An event during which people read books in order to raise money for
a school or charity.
ORIGIN: read + marathon; compare telethon, walkathon
How many minutes can you read in a month?
Students receive reading calendars and record the minutes they read, or are read to, each day. Every week we will add up the minutes the whole school read, and together students will win prizes like extra recess and popcorn par-ties.
Family and friends sponsor students
Like in a charity marathon, when runners are "sponsored" for every mile they run, we sponsor students for every minute they read. In addition to their read-ing calendar, students will have a pledge form where, for example, a grand-parent will pledge to donate a penny for every minute the student reads.
A better kind of fundraiser
The Readathon replaces past Spring fundraisers where families were asked to sell items—like candy or lawn waste bags—to family and friends. A Reada-thon encourages kids to get lost in a book, and supportive adults feel good about encouraging a child's love of reading without having to purchase any-thing they do not need.
Tallies every Friday
Reading calendars are kept in students' Dolphin Folders, and on each Friday in March the PTA will record all the minutes read by all students. When mile-stone minutes are hit, all students will get prizes like extra recess.
Dr. Seuss Kick-off, Dress-up Days, Rewards, and Musical Grand Finale
March is going to be awesome. Teachers will kick off the Readathon on Feb-ruary 27th with an assembly featuring a dramatic reading of Dr. Seuss. On Monday, March 2, students and staff will dress like a Seuss character for Dr. Seuss's birthday. Friday, March 13 will be pajama day, and students can bring in a well-loved bedtime book. Friday, March 20, dress like a story-book character! Friday, March 26, wear your finest mustache. On Monday, March 30 when all the minutes have been tallied, Principal Gadsden and teachers will wow students with a Grand Finale performance—details under wraps.
February 20, 2015
Vol ume XI I I , I ssue X
When dropping off your child
at school in the morning,
please limit your stay to the
hugs & kisses area right in
front of the main doors.
Children have to walk to
their classrooms by them-
selves to avoid excessive
traffic of adults in the
building.
C A L E N D A R N O T E S
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February 27— Readathon
Kick-off Assembly
— Early Release,
Dismissal at 1PM
March 4 & 5—2nd grade
Play in TPMS 6:30 PM
March 8 — Spring forward,
change your clocks!
March 11 — Science Inquiry
Night
March 20 — Principal’s Cof-
fee
March 26—Children’s Hospi-
tal Blood Drive (call Ms. Paz
for an appt.)
March 27 — Last day to
place your Honeybaked
Ham orders
— Professional day
for Teachers, NO SCHOOL
Stay in touch…
subscribe to the TPES PTA
listserv!
Send an email to;
to register.
Cold Weather is here…
As the weather gets colder more and more students are bringing in jackets, coats, hats, scarves, gloves and sweat-shirts to stay warm.
Please make sure that your student's first and last name are written on the clothing item, so the item can easily be returned if misplaced.
March 8th
Feel free to stop by our
Lost & Found
treasure chest...it is overflowing
with many
unclaimed items.
Returned Check Fee
Schools, offices and departments are permitted to charge indi-viduals and others who issue a check to the school or system if that check is returned to Montgomery County Public schools
(MCPS) or Takoma Park E.S. (TPES). Common reasons for returns are insuffi-cient funds or closed bank accounts. The amount of the charge is consistent across MCPS and is set by the chief financial office. The returned check fee is $25. The fee is to cover charges to TPES by our bank as well as the time for collection and handling of the replacement check fee in specific cases where the fee would cause hardship, however, we do not have the option to elect not to charge the fee in other cases,
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Student Transfer Application
Season Scheduled
COSA (Change of School Assignment)
From February 2 through April 1, 2015
Calling in Sick… Please let the school office staff know if your child will not be in school or will arrive late be-cause he or she is sick or has a doctor’s appoint-ment. This saves us many phone calls. You can give call or send an email to both email addresses; [email protected] and [email protected]
Students are permitted to bring in goodies to be shared with classmates on their birthdays. Given the current demands of the curriculum, we cannot have birthday parties for students (NO balloons, candles, party favors, hats, etc.). However, parents must arrange with the classroom teacher an appro-priate time when treats can be shared with the class. It is the parent’s responsibility to make arrangements with the teacher to identify a date and time to honor a child’s birthday. Non-MCPS children are not permitted in the classrooms. In the event that a non-MCPS child must accompany you, teachers can arrange for the celebra-tion to be held in a common area of the building, like the Atrium or the All Purpose Room.
Takoma Park
Elementary School 7511 Holly Avenue
Takoma Park, MD 20912
301 650-6414
301 650-6526 fax
Office hours: 8:00 am —5:00 pm
School hours: 8:45 am—3:30 pm
Principal
Assistant Principal
A Note from Mrs. Astrid, Cafeteria Mgr.
DO NOT SEND CASH unless it is in an enve-lope with the proper information. It is very hard to guess who has left money on the Cafeteria
counter.
Low balance letters are sent home periodically. Please keep track of the money in your child’s cafeteria account. The cafeteria manager cannot
allow any child to owe more than $10. If your child owes more than $10, he/she will receive a cheese sandwich instead of a hot meal.
The TPES PTA Read-a-thon is coming!
TPES students will be running a reading race together, March 2 to March 26.
They will win prizes like extra recess, and with your help, raise money for the school!
Read-a-thon Calendar:
Kick-off Assembly ………………..……..February 27
Dr. Seuss's Birthday! ………………...….March 2
Dress in a Seussical way!
Pajama Day! …………………...………….March 13
Bring your favorite bedtime book
In Character Day! …………………..…...March 20
Dress as a favorite character from a book
Mustache Day ………………………..…...March 26
Attention Visitors!
When checking in to our school’s main office, visitors including parents and other community members will have their driver’s license scanned and receive a badge that must be worn while in the school. VMS will allow school staff to know who is in the building during the school day and in the event of an emergency.
We will appreciate your cooperation in the implementation of this system, as our main fo-cus is our school community’s safety.
VMS (Visitor’s
Management
System)
Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss! Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American writer and cartoonist. He was most wide-ly known for his children's books, which he wrote and illustrated under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss. He had used the pen
name Dr. Theophrastus Seuss in college and later used Theo LeSieg and Rosetta Stone.
Geisel published 46 children's books, often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of anapestic meter. His most-celebrated books include the bestselling Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, The Lo-rax, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Fox in Socks, The King's Stilts, Hop on Pop, Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose,Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton Hears a Who!, and How the Grinch Stole Christ-mas!. His works have spawned numerous adaptations, including 11 television specials, four feature films, a Broadway mu-sical and four television series. He won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 for Horton Hatches the Egg and again in 1961 for And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. Geisel also worked as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, most notably for Flit and Standard Oil, and as a political cartoonistfor PM, a New York City newspaper. During World War II, he worked in an animation department of theUnited States Army, where he wrote Design for Death, a film that later won the 1947 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.He was a perfectionist in his work and would sometimes spend up to a year on a book. It was not uncommon for him to throw out 95% of his material until he settled on a theme for his book. For
a writer he was unusual in that he preferred to be paid only after he finished his work rather than in advance.
Geisel's birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative on
reading created by the National Education Association.
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Theodor Robert and Henrietta (Seuss) Geisel. All of his grandparents were German immigrants. His father managed the family brewery and was later appointed to supervise Springfield's public park system by Mayor John A. Denison after the brewery closed because of Prohibition. Mulberry Street in Springfield, made famous in Dr. Seuss' first children's book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street!, is less than a mile southwest of his boyhood home on Fairfield Street. Geisel was raised a Lutheran. Geisel enrolled at Springfield Central High School in 1917 and graduated in 1921. He took an art class as a freshman and later became
manager of the school soccer team.
Though Geisel made a point of not beginning the writing of his stories with a moral in mind, stating that "kids can see a moral coming a mile off," he was not against writing about issues; he said that "there's an inherent moral in any story," and
he remarked that he was "subversive as hell."
Many of Geisel's books express his views on a remarkable variety of social and political issues: The Lorax (1971), about environmentalism and anti-consumerism; "The Sneetches" (1961), about racial equality; The Butter Battle Book (1984), about the arms race; Yertle the Turtle (1958), aboutHitler and anti-authoritarianism; How the Grinch Stole Christ-mas (1957), criticizing the materialism and consumerism of the Christmas season; andHorton Hears a Who! (1954), about
anti-isolationism and internationalism.
Year Film
2000 How the Grinch Stole Christmas
2003 The Cat in the Hat
2008 Horton Hears a Who!
2012 The Lorax