The Tiger Stripes

Dear Families and Community,

Our Kindness Campaign is off to a terrific start! It was such a treat to see the ways our staff and students thanked and honored Mrs. Wenz during National School Counseling Week last week. Kids worked on positive sticky notes for an interactive bulletin board so they could create affirming messages for our community to give and take (see below). Our students are also really leaning in to our daily Kindness Calendar challenges.

This week, we are focusing on Kindness in our School! This year for our kindness drive, Terra Linda will be supporting the McKinney-Vento program. Our 5th grade Leadership Team is teaching our student body about McKinney Vento and kicking off our Kindness Drive during Tiger TV in order to prepare for next week's theme, Kindness in our Community.

The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act is a law that ensures the educational rights and protections of children who are experiencing homelessness.

The McKinney-Vento program in Beaverton serves students and families all over the Beaverton School District including students of the Terra Linda Community.

Starting this Tuesday, February 13th, we are collecting the following new and unused items to support McKinney-Vento:

Quarters for Laundry

Laundry Detergent (Pods preferred)/Dryer Sheets

Deodorant

Soft toothbrushes and toothpaste

Shaving Cream

Hair brushes and hair products

Bar soaps + body wash

Shampoo + conditioner

Socks for women + children (they have an excess of men's socks)

Toilet Paper

Paper Towels

If you are able, please send any of these items to school with your students.

Thank you so much for your generosity and support of this important cause!

Don't forget these upcoming Spirit Days!

• Friday, 2/16 - Terra Linda Spirit Wear or School Colors Day

• Friday, 2/23 - "Workout your problems with kindness" Workout/Sportswear Day

• Friday, 3/1 - “Step up for Kindness" Silly Sock Day

My best,

Wendy ❤️

We are grateful to be elevating friendship, inclusivity and kindness through our Kindness Campaign and will continue to do so year-round in our everyday actions with one another and through our district adopted Kindness In The Classroom curriculum.

Thanks to our awesome and generous PTC, we welcomed Greg Bennick to our school this morning to share messages about kindness with our students. Greg used his sense his humor and juggling tricks to highlight his core messages about kindness:

• Be kind!
• Say yes (when people ask you to join).
• It's up to you (you can make people feel great).
• Teamwork (pay attention to others)
• Practice every day (like Greg has practiced his juggling).

The students enjoyed it very much! Thanks, PTC!!

Do you have a student who is ready for Kindergarten? Do you have family or neighbors who do? Please help us spread the word that Terra Linda is enrolling students now for Kindergarten for the 2024-2025 school year. Students must be at least five years of age on or before September 1, 2019, per state statute. To attend Terra Linda, they must live within the attendance boundary of our school. We invite you to register early, as this assists us in confirming enrollment for staffing purposes.

Click here to enroll online. Paper enrollment forms are available in our office. Please call if you have any questions at all!

Join us next week as we celebrate the big yellow school bus! During Love the Bus week we invite parents, students, and staff to take a moment to thank the 270 bus drivers that safely transport 28,000 students to our Beaverton schools daily.

Elementary students are encouraged to create a card and show appreciation for their bus driver during the week. On Thursday, 2/15, all elementary students who ride their school bus will also receive a prize! For more information and to download a card template visit https://www.beaverton.k12.or.us/safe-routes.

The Beaverton School District is currently engaged in an Elementary LA / ELP curriculum adoption. A Curriculum Adoption Committee is created for the purpose of providing instructional resource recommendations to the Beaverton School District School Board. The committee has met several times since December and will continue through the Spring of 2024.

Community members are invited to follow the work of the Adoption Committee on the LA / ELP webpage The page contains meeting session notes, links to resources and the opportunity to input comments and ask questions.

Our BEF matching grant, which will provide light covers and multiple sets of noise-reducing headphones, has been funded! We partnered with Beaverton Education Foundation to raise money for these items, and once we reached $500 in donations, it was doubled with a match from BEF.

We are so grateful to our generous Terra Linda community, as well as the Beaverton Education Foundation, for this opportunity to provide a more calming atmosphere and create a better learning environment for all. Thank you!

February

16 - PTC Merchandise Order Deadline

19 - President's Day Holiday - No School

20 - Professional Development Day - No School

28 - PTC Meeting, 6:30pm

Please, during drop-off and pick-up:

• Observe all stop signs.

• Please remember that the speed limit on campus is 10 miles per hour.

• Drop students off at the yellow line only. (If you let them out sooner, it is a safety issue and interferes with the flow.)

• If you require Terra Linda staff assistance with your student, please pull all the way up past the yellow line.

BSD students are given a public library card through BSD’s partnership with Washington County Cooperative Library Services (WCCLS).

New students enrolled between October 2022 and October 2023 received cards in the mail from November-December. Students with cards from previous school years can continue to use them. The cards have been renewed.

With the Student Library Card, students can:

• Check out up to five print books or audiobooks from any WCCLS library without any overdue fines

• Borrow ebooks in Sora from BSD and the public library (directions)

• Access Homework Help

• Access additional digital content

For more details about these cards, please see the BSD webpage about the partnership. Public Library Locations: Map and Hours

Thanks to our community's generous support of our food and hygiene drive, we have been able to collect remaining items and create Terra Linda's first Food and Hygiene pantry.

We hope to sustain this pantry throughout the school year for Terra Linda families.

We will gladly continue to accept food and hygiene donations to support our families. If you have items you would like to donate, please send them to school with your students or drop them off in the office.

Any families who would like to "shop" in our pantry, please call or stop by the office.

Once again, thank you for your continued support and generosity!

Flu vaccines are now available for all district students at the Merlo Station Campus School-based Health Center. See attached flyer for details.

Flu shot flyer - English

Flu shot flyer - Spanish