Dear Families,

As we continue in the winter season, it’s important that your contact information in the Parent Portal is updated to receive any communications regarding school closures, school delays, or other school emergencies. Please add emergency contacts to your child’s profile also in case you are unable to pick up your child if school is closed early. This resource will help clarify the process to update your Parent Portal:

Information to assist families in updating their children’s contact information in the Parent Portal.

With this week being Valentine's Day and Truscott being in Loveland, I think it is important for you all to know how much our staff loves your children and family! As a team, we are grateful each day to be a part of such a caring community, where are students are able to learn academics in two languages, and also how to be good humans. Each day your children are challenged, supported and loved. Thank you for your partnership! Together, let's continue to make Truscott the very best, loving community for your children!!

All the best,

Karen Hanford

Principal

Truscott Elementary School

Spanish Dual Language Immersion

karen.hanford@tsd.org

970-613-6902

10 Dance Club 3:15 - 4:15 pm

11 Yoga 3:45 PM

11 Lego Robotics 3:15 - 4:15 pm

11 Yoga 3:45 PM

12 Destination Imagination 3:15 - 4:45 pm

17 No school-President's Day/No hay escuela-Día de presidentes

18 No school-Staff professional day/No hay escuela-Jornada profesional del personal

19 Destination Imagination 3:15 - 4:45 pm

20 - 21 5th Grade Field Trip to Calwood

24 Dance Club 3:15 - 4:15 pm

25 Lego Robotics 3:15 - 4:15 pm

26 Destination Imagination 3:15 - 4:45 pm

27 Yoga 3:45 - 4:45

Mountain View Unified Basketball vs Loveland First Responders game on Wednesday, February 26 at 6:30pm. We would love to pack the stands! The district EDI team is providing free pizza for students.

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

Truscott All School Musical

March 27th

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Thompson Valley High School

1669 Eagle Dr

Loveland, CO 80537, USA

Truscott Talent Show

May 22nd in the afternoon

In the Truscott gym, parents are allowed to attend.

The talent show is open to all grades, we will have an informal “audition” to make sure all the acts are school appropriate. Please keep your performance to under 4 minutes. Students may sing, dance, do gymnastics, put on a short dramatic reading or play, it's really up to your student! This is voluntary and all students do not have to participate but if your student has a talent they would like to showcase please encourage them to start thinking and preparing something! If you have any questions please contact me, Sara McCallum, at sara.mccallum@tsd.org.

Sara McCallum, DMA

Music Teacher

BF Kitchen Elementary

Truscott Elementary

• Raisins are made from grapes that have dried in the sun for two to three weeks. A quarter cup of raisins in your lunch can count as 1 of your 5 servings. • What color are carrots? Did you know that they can be purple, red, black and white? • Take a look at your fist. One serving size of fruit or veggies is the size of your fist, so it's different for each person. • Having fresh fruit or vegetables as a snack will help you stay full longer. They give you longer lasting energy than sugary and salty snacks. • Make a goal to try a new fruit or vegetable every week. You might find that you love kiwi or avocados. After you share one of these points, say, "Eat a rainbow of 5 fruits and veggies today!"

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.

2/14 Favorite outfit-ropa favorito

2/21 Future interests (passions, hobbies,careers) - Intereses futuros (pasiones, aficiones, carreras profesionales)

2/28 Scrabble Day (pin a letter on your shirt)- make words throughout the day /Día del Scrabble (colócate una letra en la camiseta)- crea palabras a lo largo del día

• Lego Robotics is for 4th & 5th graders.
• Lego robotics programming can help kids develop critical thinking, coding, and design skills. It can also help them learn how to solve real-world problems.
• Students follow the FIRST Core Values: Teamwork (we are stronger when we work together), Inclusion (We embrace our differences), Innovation (We apply what we learn to improve our world), Fun (we enjoy and celebrate what we do), Discovery (We explore new skills & ideas) Impact (we use creativity and persistence to solve problems).
• Students will be part of a competition among all the elementary schools from the district during Spring.

Daniel Garcia

4th Grade Spanish Teacher

daniel.garcia@tsd.org

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

Each fall LC Real Estate offers to buy coats and boots for our families who fill out the google survey we send out in the late fall.

We appreciate them so very much for buying coats and boots for our students.

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