TFS Hawks Happenings-2024-2025

This week, third and fourth graders participated in our first showcase of learning for the year. Showcase of Learning is an opportunity for the UA team to offer a special course in an area of passion outside of our normal curriculum and for students to have a voice and choice. Students are presented the course offerings through a Google Site we create and rank their first, second and third choices using a Google Form. If they didn't get their first pick this time, we noted it to make sure they do next time.

Courses that were offered during the first showcase were: Origami, Team Building, Beads and Friendship Bracelets, Scratch (learning to code), Yoga, and Mindful Art (Artmaking and Mindfulness combined).

Dear TFS Families,

The entire Hawks team wishes all of our families a wonderful Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving break. Thank you to those families who let me know in advance that they were traveling.

Special Education PD

This week our special educators, reading teachers and title one teachers participated in AimsWeb training. AIMSWeb is a learning tool that helps us monitor student progress for students in intervention and/or receiving special education services. AIMSWeb is a nationally normed, skills based progress monitoring assessment for both reading and math.

Special Thanks to our PTTF and volunteers

Saturday's Craft Fair was very well attended and very organized thanks to our PTTF and school volunteers. Desert Dash was especially fun! Thanks to our PTTF Board and all of our volunteers.

Key Dates

• Wednesday, 12/4 - Title I Open House - Rm 29/31 - 3:30-4:30

• Thursday, 12/5 - School Assembly- 9:00-9:50 - Wear school spirit shirts

• Friday, 12/6 - Term 1 Ends

• Wednesday, 12/11 - Early Release Day - Dismissal starts at 12:15

• Thursday, 12/19 - Classroom Holiday parties - 1:30

• Friday, 12/20 - Report Cards posted

• Holiday Break 12/23 - 1/2/2025

Happy Thanksgiving TFS Families

Belong, Believe, Be Your Best

Julie and Brooke

Many families have asked, how can I support my child at home? Lets focus on reading first

1) Based on the i-ready and acadience reports, identify what domain/areas in the report or what you learned from your child's teacher, on what skills is your child learning or still struggling to learn?

2)Remember the elements of reading based on Scarborough's Rope (see below)

3) In the last Hawks Happenings, we focused on home supports for the phonological awareness (sounds) (including phonemic awareness) skills of the reading rope (This is why we teach Heggerty K-1)

4) In this Hawks, we will focus on the home supports to how to build your child's phonics and sight word skills under word recognition (This is why we teach Fundations K-3)

Research indicates that systematic and explicit plonics instruction is effective for all children. Fundations provides a systematic and explicit approach to reading and spelling with phonics

Assistant Principal: Brooke Ross

Email: julie.deluca@sau26.org
Website: https://www.sau26.org/Domain/541
Location: 134 Camp Sargent Road, Merrimack, NH, USA
Phone: (603) 889-1577
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TFSHawks