From Inside the Tiger's Den
November 3, 2023
Good Afternoon Templeton Families,
We hope this message finds you safe and well! We also hope last week’s conferences were extremely helpful and productive for you and your family! There are a lot of reasons to be excited about what’s going on here at Templeton! Please stop by school today to visit our Book Fair and to participate in the Fall Festival! A big thank you to Jodie Tatafu & Alex Ubiadas for leading our Book Fair and to Amy Allen for doing the same for our Fall Festival! This is a ton of work, and it does so much for everyone who’s part of the Templeton community! We really hope to see you there!
With a new month comes new classwide awards that honor our students when they’re doing the right thing! These awards include The Golden Shoe Award (best behaved classroom in the hallway), The Golden Whistle Award (best behaved class at recess), The Golden Lunch Boat Award (best behaved class at lunch) and The Golden Broom Award (cleanest classroom). Finally, we’re also giving The Golden Plunger Award to the grade level with the cleanest neighborhood and the cleanest bathroom. We also have the classrooms with the highest attendance rates and those classrooms with the highest average number of iReady lessons passed in September. The winners are below!
Attendance is important for all learners! School success goes hand-in-hand with good attendance! Did you know:
- Starting in preschool and kindergarten, too many absences can cause children to fall behind in school.
- Missing 10%, or about 2 days each month, over the course of a school year can make it harder to learn to read.
- Students can still fall behind if they miss just 1 or 2 days every few weeks.
- Being late to school may lead to poor attendance.
- Absences and tardiness can affect the whole classroom if the teacher has to slow down learning to help children catch up.
Attending school regularly helps children feel better about school and themselves. Good attendance will help children do well in high school, college, and at work. We'll see you at school!
Templeton’s Ambassador program is a leadership opportunity for every 5th grade student at our school. Interested students complete an application that requires an essay as well as signatures of support from their teachers and administrators.
Currently, we have over 50 students participating. You may have seen them around school helping in the parking lot, cafeteria and with buses. They also made signs promoting tonight's Fall Festival. We encourage our Ambassadors to wear their orange shirts every week so people know who they are. We’ll be accepting additional applications in January, so if you have an interested 5th grader who didn’t participate this fall, they’ll get their chance very soon.
In addition to the day-to-day opportunities, our Ambassadors are very motivated to build a positive culture at Templeton! After reviewing last year’s school climate survey results at our last meeting, our ambassadors were united in wanting everyone to feel safe and like they belong. Like our teachers, the Ambassadors are strongly against bullying of any kind. They have started the process of making Templeton a No Place for Hate school to ensure every student feels supported, and they are creating an anti-bullying tool. By the spring of 2024, Templeton Elementary will be a No Place for Hate school thanks to our 5th grade Ambassadors' leadership and initiative.
The adults who primarily support the program are Michelle Massar (Templeton’s Associate Principal), Taylor Downs (5th Grade Teacher) and Caitln Brown (Family Partnership Advocate). DeeAnn Albaugh (Multilingual Learner Teacher) Sonia Lulay (Instructional Coach) and Rory Moore (Principal) are also supporting the group.
We hope you will join us tonight for the Fall Festival from 5-7 pm. We are offering bus shuttles for families needing transportation. The shuttle will run for the duration of the event, and the first pick-up times of the evening are listed below:
Pick Up:
4:30pm Rise Church Parking Lot 10445 SW Canterbury Ln
4:40 pm Tigard Methodist Parking Lot, 9845 SW Walnut Pl
4:50 pm Brightwater Apartments, 16100 SW 108th Ave
The Book Fair has been absolute successes thanks to Amy, Jodie, Becca and their teams, as well as all of you volunteering, helping and bringing your students to participate! The Book Fair will also run during tonight's Fall Festival!
Yearbook order forms have been sent home. Yearbooks will be $25 per book this year. Please send your order forms in before winter break. You can pay cash, check or credit card by way of PayPal. Please return your forms to your teacher or the front office.
If you would like to pay by PayPal link please use this link: paypal.me/templetonpso
This is not the same link that is listed on the yearbook form. If you already paid through the link listed on the form, do not fret; we will still receive your money. The link on the order form is for our donations and doesn't allow you to leave notes for you to list your student's name and teacher. If you have already paid through the giving fund, please send an email to Tracey Naegle at president@templeton-pso.org to submit your student's name and teacher. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Please join us at our next TSO meeting the 3rd Wednesday of this month, November 21, at 7 pm!
The TTSD Caring Closet helps hundreds of families each year.
We need your help to keep it stocked! Please see flyers for more information about specific needed items. Please call to schedule a time to drop off the items: 503-603-1576. Thank you!
Here is a way to request information about community resources and/or apply for assistance during the holiday season. Please fill out the form below or reach out directly to Caitlin Brown at cbrown2@ttsd.k12.or.us or 503-431-4888.
English form
Español formulario
If your family would like to support Templeton families during the holiday season, we would be extremely grateful! If you are interested in making monetary or other donations to Templeton families this year, please directly email Caitlin Brown at cbrown2@ttsd.k12.or.us or call 503-431-4888.
All Smiles Community Oral Health will be providing free dental screenings, sealants, and fluoride at your child’s school the week of November 27. Healthy teeth are important to your child’s overall health. A dental screening is a quick look inside your child’s mouth to check the overall health of their teeth. Dental sealants are protective coatings put on the back teeth to prevent cavities, and fluoride is a vitamin that is brushed on the teeth to make teeth stronger and prevent cavities. Click this link to sign the permission form for your child online.
Picture Retake Day will be Tuesday, November 28. Please let your student’s teacher or the office know if you would like school pictures retaken. Online orders for retakes start November 7. Visit https://www.dorianstudio.com or call (800) 826-3535 for more information.
Oregon Department of Education School Profile
The Oregon Department of Education has released the At-A-Glance School and District Profiles for the 2022-23 school year. You can review the profile for Templeton on our website.
