The Tiger Stripes

Dear Families and Community,

So many wonderful things are happening here!

Our incredible PTC hosted a delicious soup luncheon for staff last Monday. It was so appreciated and enjoyed by all. Thank you to everyone who contributed and spruced up our staff room to make it feel like a special dining experience. 🙂

Our Kindergarten teachers held "Snackin' and Stories" last Friday, and our families enjoyed refreshments while listening to original stories and seeing the tools and strategies our emerging writers use each day. We were very lucky there was no rain!

The Tiger Trot is THIS FRIDAY, and we are in our final push for fundraising. The kids are excited, and they presented some silly ideas for incentives, which were shared with students during our new "Tiger TV" today. Here is where we landed:

• If the $35,000 school-wide goal is reached, I will dress up in a silly costume for a day. Several staff members will join me!
• If the goal is surpassed by $2,000, in addition to the costumes, we will allow a randomly drawn group of students to fling cooked spaghetti at us during the celebration assembly.
• If we meet a whopping $40,000, in addition to the other two items above, I will also allow randomly drawn students to "turn me into a hot fudge sundae"!

More information below about this much-anticipated event!

We are enjoying your children so much.

Warmly,

Wendy

CogAT screening will take place tomorrow, Tuesday, October 3 for all 3rd Grade students and some 4th and 5th Grade students. (The 4th and 5th Grade students include students who were not in the Beaverton School District last year and 5th grade students whose parents or teacher nominated them to be screened.) This 30-minute test measures students’ learned reasoning abilities through verbal/picture analogies, number analogies and figure matrices.

Currently the main purpose for administering the CogAT is to identify students for TAG in the area of intellectual ability. Students who score at the 97th percentile or above on the CogAT screener will be invited to test with the full version of the CogAT that is used for potential TAG identification. The full version of the CogAT will be given in November. For more information about testing, please contact our TAG facilitator, Zhalih Taefy-Cross.

5th grade families can ask that their student take the CogAT Screener by completing this link.

International Walk + Roll to School Day is October 4th this year. This is a fantastic time for our community to walk + roll to school to encourage healthy habits, build community and increase safety along routes to school.

To celebrate, we will be polling kids on how they get to school on October 4th. We are also given some raffle items from our friends at BSD Safe Routes to School, and we will have a raffle for each grade level. (All students, regardless of travel mode, are eligible to enter the raffle.)

Tiger Trot is almost here! The students have been hard at work fundraising and have the rest of this week to earn their class an extra recess, an ice cream party and/or a pizza party. We are already halfway to our whole school fundraising goal. We announced the silly whole school incentives today. Keep up the fundraising this week!

All students will participate on Friday, October 6th and run/jog/walk with their classes. Grade levels will participate during their regular specials time as follows. The actual running/walking will take place approximately 5-10 minutes after the time indicated:

• Kindergarten 1:30-2:10
• 1st Grade 12:45-1:25
• 2nd Grade 2:25-3:05
• 3rd Grade 9:25-10:05
• 4th Grade 11:25-12:05
• 5th Grade 8:40-9:20
• SRC 10:35-11:15

Families are welcome to attend and cheer on students. We hope to see you there! Please sign in at the office before heading to the track. If you are bringing younger children with you, please do not allow them to use playground equipment, as we don't have liability coverage for visitors during the school day. Please remember to send your child in comfortable shoes for running and bring a water bottle for after the race. (The weather looks warm on Friday.) Go Tigers!

We are excited for another fun season of reading OBOB books at Terra Linda! OBOB (Oregon Battle of the Books) is a reading competition where students in grades 3-5 form teams and compete against peers by answering questions about the books selected for the year. The mission is to encourage and recognize students who enjoy reading, to broaden reading interests, to increase reading comprehension, to promote academic excellence and to promote cooperative learning and teamwork among students. There will be much more information to come soon, but in the meantime, students are encouraged to start reading! Here is the OBOB book list (books selected at the state level not the school level) for this school year.

• Allergic by Megan Wagner Lloyd
• Flor and Miranda Steal the Show by Jennifer Torres
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
• The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
• The List of Things that Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead
• The Lion of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm
• The Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart
• Molly and the Twin Towers: A 9/11 Survival Story by Jessika Fleck
• New From Here by Kelly Yang
• Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac
• Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas
• The Trouble with Chickens by Doreen Cronin
• A True Home by Kallie George
• Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson
• When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller
• Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams

More information coming, but I wanted to let you know that we have secured a bus that will allow us to offer after school opportunities for some of our students, including enrichment options for Grades 4 & 5. In the past, we have used funding from a variety of sources to pay for this, including PTC, a BEF Grant, and our general fund. We are still working on funding sources, but we are tentatively planning to be up and running from December 6-May 15. We are excited about the possibilities and will share more information when it's available.

The Beaverton School District is hosting a job fair at the District Administrative Office (1260 NW Waterhouse Ave.) on Wednesday, October 11 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Specifically, we are hiring Paraeducator II positions; these are aides who support our special education classrooms. Salaries range from $20.61 to $26.40 and include benefits. To learn more about the position, please visit our Careers website.

For safety and success in PE, please have your child wear rubber-soled athletic shoes (i.e. tennis shoes) on days they have PE.

We are on Instagram @terralindatigers and on Facebook at Terra Linda Elementary!

Please label your child's water bottle, lunch box and outerwear before sending them to school! It makes it so much easier for us to return them.

Please do not drop students off on the park side of the school. Our parent drop off area is directly in front of the office. Thank you for observing a slow, safe speed as you maneuver this area.

Here's how you can find out more about BSD's meal charging policy.

You are welcome to use the SchoolCafe account to make online payments to your student’s meal account. There is a SchoolCafe app for phones too!

To apply for meal benefits, please start with a SchoolCafe account. (Local public libraries have free computers for online applications.) Or come to our office for support!

Community Action Head Start now has some classrooms here at Terra Linda. We are currently still enrolling children into our program. If you have children or know of some in your neighborhood ages 3-5 and would like to apply for Head Start, you can do this online at https://caowash.org/programs/early-childhood-development/head-start/.

Head Start and Early Head Start programs offer high-quality early childhood education for children prenatal to age 5 who live in Washington County. These programs provide comprehensive services to enrolled children and their families. These services include health screenings, nutrition, social services, and other family resources based on your family's individual situation. Families whose income is less than 100 percent of the current federal poverty guidelines are prioritized, though all families regardless of income are welcome to apply.

We welcome children with special needs and children who are learning English.

Community Action is also currently recruiting to fill all open Positions. Please check out our openings at https://caowash.org/about_us/careers/working.html.

October

6 Tiger Trot

12 Picture Day

13 NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS - Staff Development Day

16-20 Scholastic Book Fair

18 PTC Meeting, 6:30-8:00 Zoom

20 PTC Evening Event

25 Vision Screening (New date)

27 NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS - Grading Day

Please note a change to the date for STEAM NIGHT in the spring: This event is now on April 26!