HOOT#33!

WOW! The school year is coming to a fast and exciting end! This is our last newsletter for the year!

I am packing up the classroom this week.
Please bring any / all  boxes (from Supersave, Smith's, CID's, any source you can think of) to help move to the Manzanares campus.

Tickles, our gecko friend is looking for a summer home. If any of you could take care of him, please let me know! (Some years a couple families split up the time helping with that.)

Monday (tomorrow) afternoon we will be having Field Day at Eco Park from 1 to 3 pm. Pick-up will be at the regular time at school, or you can take your child home from the Eco Park after the activities. Please check with your child about having tennis shoes, water, and sunscreen for field day. There will be lots of relay races! Feel free to join in the fun, if you like.

We will be going to the park this week -- maybe every day! Please check in with me in the morning about times, if you wish.

Spirit Week!
Monday - TISA Dragon Day- wear orange & green to show your TISA pride!
Tuesday - Superhero Day- dress like your favorite superhero! 
Wednesday - Wacky Hair or Hat Day- wear your favorite crazy hat or do your hair extra wacky!
Thursday - Aloha Day- Say farewell to a great school year and hello to summer! Hawaiian, beach & summer attire!

I am attaching a summer reading list to this newsletter via email.
I would also like to share your favorite books, educational apps and web links. Please send them to me and I will compile them in an email to share.
My favorite site for audio books is https://archive.org/
I recommend that you start a summer journal/sketchbook/scrapbook with your child for those precious memories!


Photos from a fun field trip to Ghost Ranch with first grade last Thursday

Thank you so much, Amy, Carolyn, Erica and ​Don for sharing your photos!

bone casting


T-rex tooth


Exploring paleontology


Tinwork


Playtime and picnic


Friends







Thank you for sharing your precious child! Wishing you all a blissful summer!

HOOT#32

Last week was jam-packed with activities.

TISA Glam Trash! Wow! That's one fabulous way to make recycling glamorous! Thanks to Megan Avina for rocking that festival!

Explora's last workshop was last Monday: "Mirrors."

Lots of sensory fun making play dough with Edemia and CoolAid!



The last Art Club was last Tuesday! Till we meet again next year!



MONDAY and WEDNESDAY: Weather permitting we'll go to the park (Filemon Sanchez or Eco Park) a couple times this week (plan on leaving at 1:00, but that might change, depending on the weather).

WEDNESDAY: Cubby clean-up: your child's belongings will be going home.

THURSDAY: field trip  to Ghost Ranch!
Please fill out field trip form
Chaperons:  Carolyn, Heather, Alexandra, Lisa, Emily, Jessica/Mike
Check list (your child will create it at school and share it with you). It will include items such as tennis shoes, sunscreen/sun hat, sack lunch (double the regular dose of food AND lots of water), layered clothing (wind/rain), an extra T-shirt and pair of pants, fingerknitting yarn. I suggest that you pack it all into one backpack/tote bag.
Thursday is also pizza day (children will get their pizza after field trip).

Have a great week!

HOOT#31

You are like no other -- a Mother
Hope you are having a Sunday filled with the delights of love!

School education surveys:
If you haven't done so yet, please return the survey and place in purple folder on top of cubbies. It's your chance to voice your opinion in an easy-peasy way!
Nice napkin holder from end-of-year celebration -- waiting for its rightful owner in class

International Folk Art Museum
The field trip to explore Asian traditions was fun! The children got to create their own personal emas, (Japanese-style wooden plaques to express a wish that they have). Thank you for joining us as chaperons! We look forward to our last field trip with you on May 19th to Ghost Ranch!











Angelina and Aurora got to celebrate their birthdays together this week! That was super-special!




PLEASE BRING:
boxes (for campus move) and recyclables (for Glam Trash)




Homework:
We'll be exploring the following letter combinations: oo, ee
We'll be having lots of outdoor activities and movement, but please help carry the torch of learning all the way through the end of the year!

Free art education programming through this summer all over Santa Fe!



And remember, ART is the HEART of TISA!

HOOT#30

HAPPY MAY! Wow! This is what it looked like yesterday morning...

Well, let's move onto warmer waters..
The kinder show was great fun to watch! Please feel free to email me photos / footage to share on the blog.







The children created a character study before their show. Here are a few to share. Please send in your/your child's guess for the characters (all from the piggies and wolves play). If you enter your guess, you might win a prize!











Dr Seuss book : we had fun autographing each other's Dr Seuss dictionaries. If your child would like to collect more autographs (from classmates who were absent or from teachers), have him/her bring the book in this week.









Collaborative Art for Arbor Day -- Long Live the Trees!





















THIS WEEK IN KINDER:
Monday, May 2 -- Going to the park around 1:00pm -- Miss Jutka will be gone in the afternoon. The children will be with Debra Mason.
Wednesday May 4 -- field trip to International Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe
Please fill out field trip form on Monday/Tuesday

FURTHER EVENTS IN MAY:
DIBELS -- last session: May 10-11
GlamTrash -- think dragons / princesses / knights in shining armor -- bring your recycle stuff to kinder (anything and everything from old socks, cardboard, straws, milk jugs, bubble wrap).
May 19: Field trip to Ghost Ranch (chaperons: Carolyn, Heather, Alexandra, Lisa).

Art Club Update:
THERE WILL BE NO ART CLUB during the last two weeks of school (May 17 and May 24).

Homework:
Worksheets will be printed for you by Tuesday morning. We'll be working on 3D shapes in math.
Math homework this week: have your child hunt for a different 3D shape to bring to school each day. (Shapes that were brought for homework will go home on Thursday.)
Math game: "trash/garbage" (card game played with a regular deck that you can learn on Youtube if your child doesnt' know it yet).