Tiger Squad

Tigersquad Nes for All

Please remember those dirt samples for Monday, November 28th!  Also, if anyone has access to the small plastic cups, sometimes called contiment cups, portion cups - they are also used in hospitals to dispense dosages of medicine - Tigersquad could use 50 of them for an upcoming experiment!  Thank you!

Tigersquad

     Yes, we want you to go play in the dirt........actually, we'd like you to bring a dirt sample to school.  S.N.O.O.P.ers, here's your mission:  Please collect a small sample of dirt.  Please bring your dirt sample (about 1/2 cup) to school in a clean, clear jar (plastic would be best) on Monday, November 28th. We'll continue our S.N.O.O.P.S. experiment theme using everyone's dirt samples.  If you are traveling over the Thanksgiving holiday, a dirt sample from another area would be awesome!

TigerSquad News for All

Thank you to everyone for all the wonderful support of TigerSquad's "Where in the USA is the TigerSquad Bear?"A very special thank you is sent to Benjamin Goldenthal (former TigerSquad member) for playing the part of our Tritt Tiger!  Additionally, we'd like to thank Birgit Wardrop for coordinating all of the many volunteers that are needed for this incredible production.  Hopefully, our rehearsal helpers:  Meagan Cicciarelli, Laurie Breathnach, Connie Sholl, Kip Hornsby, Tara Riddle, Lori Shapiro and Kirstin Baillie, are now rested!  Our gorgeous backdrop and props were designed by Dawn Cone, Nikki Collier and Cynthia Holland. We appreciate the sound system operator, Amy Crandall.  Our awesome program was prepared by Leslie Ann and Jason Dunn.  Lastly, a warm thank you to our accompanist, Maryann Tyler and musical director, Laurie Towle.  To all of the parents who created the absolutely amazing costumes, thank you, thank you, thank you!  With much admiration, we thank the wonderful students of our TigerSquad Family for sharing time and talent creating an evening we'll always treasure!

Kleimon's Commentary

Thank you, once again, for a fabulous Open House!  As mentioned earlier, I'll draw names out of the hat for the Driftwood chaperones on Monday. If you DID NOT sign up at Open House, please let me know if you'd like your name put into the drawing. After the drawing, I'll send an email, so if you would like to be reconsidered for the Wahsega chaperone drawing, please let me know prior to Tuesday's drawing.

Typical homework:

Monday - Math, Spelling Sort, and Science

Tuesday - Math, Target/Wal-Mart assignments

Wednesday - Math and Science

Thursday - Math, study Spelling, and Social Studies

Friday - Parent Journal (due Monday) and Social Studies (due the next Thursday)

Next week, we'll continue our study of decimal place value.  On Friday, we'll have our first graded assignment, on page 21.  Each Monday and Wednesday morning, students will also complete ADD.  During Writers' Workshop, students will continue to take their SOS writing through the process of self-editing, peer editing, and finally publishing on Friday. Spelling Sort #2 will be introduced on Monday and the test will be on Friday.  Each Monday and Wednesday, we'll study Science concepts.  This week, we're continuing with Lesson #1, Georgia Landforms.  Thursday/Friday will be our Social Studies days.  We're looking into the causes of the Civil War.  On Wednesday, we'll have our Media Center Orientation, followed by an opportunity for students to check out books. Our Tigersquad Regions Unit begins this Monday.

Tigersquad News

Welcome back to Tigersquad!! We are excited about taking our "train trip" across the USA and our traveling bears project. Following, find the answers to some questions about the project. Keep reading to see our NEW WAHSEGA dates (due to a testing scheduling conflict).

1 - Yes, bears may go overseas, as well as, the USA.

2 - We need the first destination's address by this Friday. If you choose, you may make a schedule of the addresses and include it in the box. Some people prefer this, so that they know where the bear is at all times, but it is not mandatory. Sometimes bears do not make it back to Tritt (on time or at all), so you might want to track it.

3- On Thursday your child will be writing a letter explaining to the bear's recipient exactly what to do upon receiving the bear and about mailing it to the next destination. The children will glue the letter in the front of a journal (provided by the teachers) and the journal goes in the box with the bear.

4 - The letter will also ask the recipient to write a postcard to your child (Tritt's address will be included), so that we can hear about all the exciting places the bears are traveling. During Family we will have the students mark a map learning all about the USA.

 5 - Please send the bear in a tennis shoe or daddy size shoe box. We will be adding the journal to the box with the bear and often people like to add souvenirs along the way. Also remember the brown paper to wrap it in.

6 - After the students wrap and address the bears this Friday at our Bon Voyage party, the bear will come back home, and you all will mail the bear (hopefully, this weekend).

Our new Wahsega dates are Sept. 15-17. We are aware that this backs up to our week off. We will return by 2:30, so that you all may begin any vacations you have planned (and so can we)! If you interested in being a chaperone at Wahsega send in a note to your child's teacher. As always, we will put the names in a hat and pull if we receive more requests than we can take.

Thanks to all the moms that served Road Trip Soup today! It was a big success. Be sure and ask your child how his/her soup tasted AND the meaning of the project.

Kleimon's Commentary

Welcome to 2010-2011 Tigersquad Family's Fifth Grade!  I'm looking forward to seeing the many familiar, as well as new faces in our family.  Please mark your calendars for a few important dates:

Tuesday, August 3rd - 3:-30 - 5:30 Tritt's PTA and TTF Social

Wednesday, August 4th - Meet & Greet - 1:15 - 1:45

PLEASE NOTE:   Open House has been changed to Thursday, August 12 at 6:00 PM

My suggested supply list can be found on the Tritt website.  Enjoy these remaining days of summer!

Smile!!!!!!!!

AT Home on the Range

Welcome back to school!  I am looking forward to an exciting 2010-2011!!

In case you might be curious about my school supply list, here is my suggested list of items:

• One 1 1/2" or 2" binder
• Checking pen, any color
• Wide-ruled looseleaf notebook paper
• One set of dividers - please do not write on them
• Zippered pencil case
• #2 pencils
• One ruler with both inches and centimeters
• One pocket folder
• Two dry erase markers - green, black, or blue
• One spiral (70 pages is fine)
• One composition notebook
• One box of tissues
• One roll of paper towels

Your child might also benefit from having his/her own scissors, glue stick, and colored pencils or markers.

Please do not purchase trapper keepers, white-out, or pencil boxes.  We have a limited amount of space.

If your child could have these items by Friday, August 6, that would be very helpful.