A Note From Our Administrators...
Happy September! I hope you and your family had a great Labor Day Weekend!
Although the weather is still warm, we’re heading into the cold and flu season! Please continue to help us keep everyone healthy by encouraging your child to wash hands, and continue to monitor symptoms at home. Together, we can keep everyone healthy!
Attendance Matters! Attending school regularly is essential to students gaining the academic, social, and emotional skills they need to thrive. Chronic absence, no matter its cause, has real-life consequences for students. Research shows starting as early as preschool and kindergarten, chronic absence—missing 10% of the academic year—can leave third graders unable to read proficiently, sixth graders struggling with coursework, and high school students off track for graduation.
Regular attendance allows children to benefit from participating in quality early education. Research shows that students who miss too many days of preschool have weaker literacy and numeracy skills entering kindergarten. A habit of attendance IS a school readiness skill. Along with social-emotional and readiness skills, consistent on-time attendance is a habit that lasts.
Your child's safety is important! Please bring some identification with you when picking up your child. Just like our students, sometimes staff also become ill. When a teacher becomes ill, we have substitute teachers that fill in. Unfortunately, they don’t know who you are so you may be asked to provide identification.
Sincerely,
Lamb Caro
Director of Early Childhood
Education
Happy September!
We have had a great first few weeks of school! Your students are settling in and learning the routine, making friends and working hard!
We will be starting our first curriculum study which focuses on the Beginning of the Year and how we do this thing called school! In addition, your teacher will be inviting you to a wonderful program called Ready Rosie which is an app you can load onto your phone or device. This provides you with short videos of ideas on how to work with your child and support their learning at home! You can even send messages to the teacher after you have tried the game/activity about how your child did! SO COOL! You should check it out!
Best,
Amy Gerhard
Assistant Administrator
Thompson Education Equity Council
Are you an adult family, staff, or student member of the TSD Community who is interested in learning about how TSD addresses equity, diversity, and inclusion? If so, sign-up to join the TSD Educational Equity Council (TEEC)! We will host quarterly meetings this school year to increase knowledge of the equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) work throughout TSD.
We are seeking broad and diverse community participation to help us move our work forward in alignment with the TSD Strategic Plan and TSD Board Policies related to Educational Equity (Policy ADB), Equal Educational Opportunities (Policy JB), and Non-Discrimination/Equal Opportunity (Policy AC).
The first meeting of the Thompson Educational Equity Council (TEEC) will be held on October 24, 4:30-5:30 p.m. If you or your TSD student are interested in attending, please complete the sign-up form. We will have pizza!
Social Emotional Learning
10 Reasons We Want To Start The School Year Helping Our Children Build A Strong Emotional Vocabulary
In early childhood we learn so much about our emotions and how to express those emotions. Identifying and naming emotions is the first step in learning this life-long skill. Please click on picture to the right to read an article about building emotional intelligence in our youngest learners.
