Dear Families,

If you haven't done so already, please sign up for family conferences. Conferences will be held on March 4th and 5th from 3:30 - 7:00 pm and on March 6th from 11:30 - 3:30 pm. Please contact your child's teachers for more information. If you'd like me to attend please let me know. We can't wait to see you there!

Other important approaching dates in March:

No School - March 6 & 7

Spring Break - March 17 - 21

Save the date!

Thursday, March 27th from 5:45 - 7:00 pm will be our all school music program at Thompson Valley High School. More details to come soon!

All the best,

Karen Hanford

Principal

Truscott Elementary School

Spanish Dual Language Immersion

karen.hanford@tsd.org

970-613-6902

3-6 Book fair/ fería de libros-See hours in an article below

4 4th Grade FACE Concert

4 and 5 Family conferences/Conferencias familiares 3:30 - 7:30 p.m.

6 No school-Teacher work day/No hay escuela- Dia de trabajo de maestros

7 No school-Family conferences/No hay escuela- conferencias de familias

11 Lego Robotics 3:15 - 4:15 pm

11 Garden Club 3:15 - 4:30 pm

12 Destination Imagination 3:14 - 4:45 pm

12 Yoga 3:45 PM

13 Cat in the Hat Experience-in the Gym 8:30 am to 10:00 am

17-21 No school-Spring break/No hay escuela vacaciones de primavera

25 Class picture day/ Dia de fotos del salon

25 Lego Robotics 3:15 - 4:15 pm

25 Garden Club 3:15 - 4:30 pm

27 All school musical Thompson Valley High School / Musical escolar en Thompson Valley High School a las 6:00 PM

28 4th grade-Brainy Field Trip 9:00 - 2:00 pm

Join us for the Spring Book Fair during Family Conferences! It will be set up a little different this time, down near the library!

Hours of Operation:

Tuesday, March 4 3:30pm-6:30pm

Wednesday, March 5 3:30pm-6:30pm

Thursday, March 6 11:30am-2:30pm

Can't make it in person or want to create an e-wallet for your student? Visit our host site at https://www.scholastic.com/bf/truscottelementaryschool

Kate Penley

Library/Media

Truscott Elementary School

"I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a book."

-JK Rowling

The Cat in the Hat experience will be coming to Truscott in honor of Dr. Suess's Birthday for our students on March 13. Brandon Harrington with Finding Your Light (@findyourlightnoco) will be coming to read the book with our students and he will be dressed as the Cat in the Hat! Some of you may have heard/seen that he also did this in December at schools as The Grinch. www.findyourlightnoco.com

Brandon will have a slightly different "experience" for the different ages of students so here will be the schedule for the time Brandon is here. We will be in the gym.
K-1 8:30-8:55
(5 minute transition)
2-3 9:00-9:25
(5 minute transition)
4-5 9:30-9:55

If you want to attend this event. You will need to check in at the office. Please bring a photo ID and hold it up in front of you and we will get you checked in.

Dear Families,

If you need to update/review your student contacts, please follow the directions located on the Thompson School District website at www.tsd.org/family/infinite-campus/help/updating-contacts. Please note that as a parent/guardian you will be able to completely review your student information, household details, emergency contacts and more by completing the Annual Family Check In which will open on March 3, 2025.

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Please take some time and read these dares and complete some as a family. I will put a new family dare in each weekly newsletter. I challenge you to complete these. Please email when you complete them and share with me something positive that happened from your dare. I will randomly choose a reply and share it in our weekly update. (I will list the comment but but not list the person or family name)

Michelle Mueller

Truscott School Secretary

Dear Thompson School District Stakeholders:

As you may know, the Thompson School District Board of Education has begun searching for our next Superintendent of Schools to follow Dr. Schaffer when he leaves us at the end of the current school year.

The Board has hired McPherson & Jacobson, a national school superintendent search firm, to assist us in finding the most qualified candidates available. As part of this important work, the Board has asked our search consultants to gather information and comments from stakeholders. So we would very much appreciate it if you would take just a couple of minutes to answer a few questions through an anonymous online survey. You can access the superintendent search survey by clicking this link. The survey will remain open through March 12, 2025.

Thank you for your support,
Thompson School District

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Estimados interesados del Distrito Escolar de Thompson:

Como saben, la Junta de Educación de Thompson ha comenzado la búsqueda de nuestro próximo superintendente de escuelas para suceder al Dr. Schaffer cuando nos deje al final del presente año escolar.

La Junta ha contratado a McPherson & Jacobson, una firma nacional de búsqueda de superintendentes escolares, para ayudarnos a encontrar los candidatos más calificados disponibles. Como parte de este importante trabajo, la Junta ha pedido a nuestros consultores de búsqueda que recopilen información y comentarios de los interesados, por lo que agradeceríamos mucho si pudieran tomarse solo unos minutos para responder a algunas preguntas a través de una encuesta en línea anónima. Puede acceder a la encuesta de búsqueda de superintendente haciendo clic en este enlace. La encuesta permanecerá abierta hasta el 12 de marzo de 2025.

Gracias,
Thompson School District

Student Leadership has met and they planned out spirit days for the school year. Here are the days from Please have your child dress up in the following themes, if they would like to.

3/5 Highlighter Day- neon / Dia resaltador -néon

3/14 Student dress like Teacher/Teacher dress like Student Day- Estudiantes visten como maestros/ maestros visten como estudiantes

3/28 Decade Day - Vistete como tu década favorita

Who and what is Student Leadership?

• We are learning to be leaders in our school and community

• We are decision makers and planners of events

• We are service project managers for our school and community

• We are PRIDE at all times

Being a leader at Truscott is an important responsibility! Therefore, to be able to participate in Student Leadership students must meet the following:

• Be in 3nd through 5th Grade

• Be a model student (have no discipline referrals in current year)

• Consistently show PRIDE in class, specials, halls, and all areas of the building

• Be a hard-worker

• Get along well with others

• Be able to attend monthly meetings after school until 4:30 PM on the first Tuesday of each month

• Be able to attend special meetings and activities during lunch or after school as needed

• Be able to communicate to your class and other classes about Student Leadership projects.

Each week I will feature one of our community partners. We are grateful for all they do for us.

Grace Community Church provides us with mentors who volunteer and come into our school on a weekly basis.

Information from their website-

Kids Hope USA is a national, non-profit organization that facilitates mentoring relationships with at-risk children through a church-school partnership. It has nearly 1,000 church-school partnerships in 34 states across the U.S. with over 15,000 mentor-student relationships existing within these partnerships.

Grace Community Church

240 Barberry Place,

Loveland, CO 80537

970-593-0473

grace@gracecomm.org

https://www.gracechurch.org/

We are here to help you! If you are in need of support, please contact your classroom teachers, Mrs. Mueller, Mr. Bessey or Mrs. Hanford. As a team, we will work to find the answers to your questions and help the best that we can. Please email us at

todd.bessey@tsd.org, karen.hanford@tsd.org, or

Email: michelle.mueller@tsd.org
Website:https://tes.tsd.org
Location: 211 West 6th Street, Loveland, CO, USA
Phone: 970-613-6900
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/truscottelementaryschool/
Twitter: @ourschool