Timberwolf Times -February 28, 2022

T. Clay Wood - Facts at your Fingertips

From the Desk of Dr. Buchheit

School Wide Focus for March - Habit 6 - Synergize-

"We truly do Everything Better Together as a

Community of Leaders and Learners Achieving Excellence"

Dear Timberwolf Families,

Car Riders - PLEASE DO NOT DROP STUDENTS OFF BEFORE A TEACHER IS PRESENT AND INDICATES IT IS TIME TO DROP OFF STUDENTS. OTHERWISE, THEY ARE STANDING AROUND UNSUPERVISED. WE HAVE HAD SOME ISSUES WITH STUDENT BEHAVIORS. THANK YOU.

It is Read Across America Week this week. Each Day we have a spirit day -

Monday, Feb, 28 - Celebrate today by wearing your favorite hat and bring a book to share with a friend.

Tuesday, March 1 - Wear sunglasses and bring a beach towel. Students will relax on their towels and enjoy some reading time.

Wednesday, March 2 - Wear wacky socks, wacky clothes, or have wacky hair. Wolves out for Literacy right after the announcements.

Thursday, March 3 - Show your school spirit by wearing TCWES Spirit Wear or School Colors (Red, Blue, Gold, Gray) -

Friday, March 4 - Pajama Day - Bring a small stuffed animal and cuddle up and read

Our Next Timberwolf Talk will take place on Friday, March 11, 2022 on ZOOM. We will focus on Anxiety and Test Taking. Please join us for a Timberwolf Talk with our school counselors and our Assistant Principal focused on helping your child deal with everyday academic and social pressures. Our school-based mental health team will provide valuable information on how promote and encourage positive self-image and confidence. Test-anxiety will also be covered.

If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to me at buchhear@pwcs.edu - include Timberwolf Talk in the Subject Line.

Student Transfer Requests - Transfer requests can be made for students in grades 1 through 5 between January 3, 2023- April 30, 2022. Kindergarten transfer requests can be made starting from the first day of Kindergarten registration through 30 days after the kindergarten student registers. Please contact T. Clay Wood Elementary for more information by emailing Mrs. Morton, at MortonTA@pwcs.edu or calling 703.594.3990.

We truly do Everything Better Together as a Community of Leaders and Learners Achieving Excellence.

I hope you all have a wonderful week.

Dr. Andrew Buchheit

Principal

#TimberwolvesROCK

“Because YOU are here, ANYTHING is possible”

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What's Happening at T. Clay Wood during the week of February 28 - March 4, 2022

Read Across America Week - Feb, 28 - March 4, 2022

Monday, February 28, 2022- -Day 2

Read Across America Week - Spirit Day - Celebrate Today by wearing your Favorite Hat
PEP Program (ZOOM)- 4:45pm

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 - Day 3

Read Across America Week - Spirit Day - Wear Sunglasses and Bring a Beach Towel
8:00 - Chorus

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 - Day 4

Read Across America Week - Spirit Day - Wear Wacky Socks, Wacky Clothes or have Wacky Hair

Thursday, March 3, 2022- Day 5

Read Across America Week - Spirit Day - Show your school spirit by wearing T. Clay Wood Spirit Wear or our school colors: Blue, red, gray, and gold
7pm- PTO Meeting

Friday, March 4, 2022- Day 6

Read Across America Week - Spirit Day -Pajama Day

T. Clay Wood Rocks with Kindness

T. Clay Wood Rocks with Kindness! The Service Leadership Team is sponsoring the Kindness Challenge starting January 31st to February 25th. We would like to share 2 of the FUN things planned for the whole school to participate.

1) Students can complete the attached “I can Show Kindness!” sheet. Parents, can use the below board for each child you have attending T. Clay Wood Elementary. It was also emailed out on Jan. 28, 2022. Students must put their first and last name as well as their teacher’s name. Students can color or X out each block as they do each kind activity shown on the “I Can Show Kindness!” sheet. The kindness activities can be completed at school or anywhere in the community. Once they do ALL the activities on the board, they should bring it back to school to give to their classroom teacher so we can add their names to the Kindness Board in the front lobby by the gym. The last day to turn it in is February 25th so you can get your name added to the board.

2) Kindness Chain- For every act of kindness, (it can include the items on the “I Can Show Kindness” sheet or any other kind act not on the sheet) students will be given a strip of construction paper to write down the kind act they did, include their name on it and give it back to their classroom teacher. The strips of construction paper will be provided to them by their classroom teacher. We will then link all the strips to form a chain. Students are challenged to do as many acts of kindness to complete as many strips (chains) so we can make the chain go around the school.

We CAN do this!!!

The "Leader in Me" Corner

Leader in Me Info for March – Habit 6: Synergize

Synergy is not the same as compromise. In a compromise, one plus one equals one and a half at best.

— Dr. Stephen R. Covey

Synergy means “two heads are better than one.” Synergize is the habit of creative cooperation. It is teamwork, open-mindedness, and the adventure of finding new solutions to old problems. But it doesn’t happen on its own. It’s a process, and through that process, people bring all their personal experience and expertise to the table.

Together, they can produce far better results than they could individually. Synergy lets us discover jointly things we are much less likely to discover by ourselves. It is the idea that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. One plus one equals three, or six, or sixty—you name it.

When people begin to interact together genuinely, and they’re open to each other’s influence, they begin to gain new insight. The capability of inventing new approaches is increased exponentially because of differences.

Valuing differences is what really drives synergy. Do you truly value the mental, emotional, and psychological differences among people? Or do you wish everyone would just agree with you so you could all get along? Many people mistake uniformity for unity and sameness for oneness. One word—boring! Differences should be seen as strengths, not weaknesses. They add zest to life.

You know you are synergizing when you:

Have a change of heart.
Feel new energy and excitement.
See things in a new way.
Feel that the relationship has transformed.
End up with an idea or a result that is better than what either of you started with (3rd Alternative).

From: https://www.franklincovey.com/habit-6/

The Top 6 of the week

1.Phones/Smart Watches - Please remind students they should not be using their phones or smart watches to call or text during the school day.

2. Daily Home Screening - Parents/guardians/caregivers are asked to complete this screening each morning prior to a student boarding a school bus or arriving at school. On the Daily Home Screening webpage, they have also included information about how to make decisions about sending a student to school if he/she has been exposed to another person with COVID-19.Questions about the student daily home screening can be directed to Mrs. Ousley, our school nurse.

3. Medicine – All medicine needs to be dropped off by a parent/guardian to our school office. Students are not allowed to bring medicine into the building themselves.

4. Attendance Email - when your student is absent, tardy, has an early dismissal, or a change to their dismissal, please use our attendance email - cwes-timberwolf-attendance@pwcs.edu

5. DISMISSAL

Please note a change to the Parent Handbook - Starting the week of January 3, 2022, if you need to pick up your student early from school, please arrive prior to 3:15pm. Here is the change. Please do not arrive early and ask to pick up your child unless you have an appointment. Instruction continues until students are dismissed. If you need to pick up your child for an appointment, please plan to arrive before 3:15pm. Please park and report to the office. Please do not leave your car unattended in the pickup lane.

Emergency Card - All parents picking up a student from the office must show a photo ID and be listed on the student’s emergency card. Please inform the office beforehand if someone other than the parent is picking up your child from school for dismissal. The emergency card information is only used by school staff in case of an emergency with your student when school staff is not able to get in contact with the parent or guardian. It does not give the individuals listed on the emergency card the right to pick up your children at any time unless the parent or guardian sends in written permission to school informing us that the individual is allowed to pick the student up from school on the specific date.

3:15 pm - If you must pick your student up early, please arrive before 3:15 pm. We will not be able to call students to the office after 3:15 pm until all car riders are picked up. Students called for dismissal after 3:15 pm will be sent to the car rider area and will be brought up after all car riders are dismissed with the supervising teachers. This way we can reduce interruptions to the classrooms, provide continual supervision for all our students and give our focus in the office to dismissing students. Parents coming in after 3:15 pm will be asked to wait in the vestibule outside of the office and once their students are brought up to come in and sign their students out.

6. Purchasing Device Insurance later in the school year

The best time to purchase device insurance is at the beginning of the school year, within the first 30 days of the device being issued. If you wish to purchase device insurance later in the year, you can purchase from Securranty, but the policy will not become active until our Technical Specialist has a chance to inspect your child's device at school and verify that it has no preexisting damage. If our Technical Specialist determines that your device already contains some sort of damage, it may not be eligible for insurance coverage.

What if I purchase insurance, but after visual inspection my device isn't eligible for coverage?

It depends on the reason your device isn't eligible. If we determine that your device isn't eligible because your child damaged it, you will need to pay for the damage. After the device is repaired, you can then activate the insurance policy against future damage to the device. If your device isn't eligible because it has another issue (not caused by your child), we may be able to swap the device out for a different device and activate the policy for the new device. If we are unable to activate your policy, we will work with Securranty to issue you a refund for your purchase since you're unable to activate it.