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FOR T WAY NE COMM UNI TY SC HOOLS

T OWLES T IGERS

September 1, 2011

[email protected] 467-4303

FOR T WAY NE COMM UNI TY SC HOOLS

PRINCIPAL TALK -M R S . M U L L I N S

T OWLES T IGERS

November

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NOVEMBER’S UPCOMING EVENTS:

11/6— Hearing Screening, Grades 1, 4, 7

11/7—FWCS Show Case @

Northrop High School,

11am-2pm1

11/9—PTA Mtg @ Bunche

6:30pm

11/12—Real Men Read

with 6-9 Cluster @ 9:30am

11/11—Veterans Day

Program. Bunche Ks

Visit @ 12:45pm

11/12—Language Arts

Montessori Education

Night for Bunche &

Towles Families at

Bunche @ 6:30pm

11/13—3rd grade Fitness Challenge at IPFW for

only students that signed up.

11/14—Blood Drive, small gym

8am-12pm

11/16—MCTEACHER

NIGHT, 5-8pm, Coliseum & State

11/20— New Tech Hunger Games Party

11/26– 11/27—

Thanksgiving

Break- NO

SCHOOL

12/4 PTA Movie and

Pizza Night @ Towles, 6-8pm

12/7—Carnival Meeting @ Towles 6:30, Media

Center

It’s hard to believe that the second quarter is al-

ready in full swing. We had a great turn out for

Student Led Conferences last week. A BIG thanks

to the PTA for providing a delicious meal for the

staff on Wednesday night. It was awesome! If you

have not joined PTA please consider it. PTA does

so much for our schools. We have a small, but

strong group of parents that do a lot.

November is also full of lots of events as we

start basketball seasons for boys and girls middle

school and 4th/5th graders. Cheerleading will also

start this week.

Our annual Veterans Day Program will be held

on November 11th at 12:45. Bunche kindergarten-

ers will be visiting and performing during the pro-

gram. Invitations for Veterans will be sent home

soon. During the program, we will ask Veterans to

share their branch of service and years in the mili-

tary. We will have a luncheon for Veterans and

their families in the Media Center starting at

11:30.

This time of year gets very busy with Thanksgiv-

ing and the holidays coming up. Please take time

to be thankful for what we all have and encourage

your student to earn some of their service learning

hours by donating their time to a local agency that

needs help or to a neighbor that might want some

support. This is our time to give back to the com-

munity.

PTA Needs your support.

Please join!

$10.00 Memberships

Thank you to all of our staff and families who participated in taking a tag from our Family Giving

Tree. Each year we adopt a family or families who could use a little extra help around the Holiday

Season. If you took a tag from the tree this year, please remember to bring in your donated item(s)

along with the tag to the main office by December 1st, 2015. If you forgot to write down your name,

phone number, and the number on your tag - please contact Mrs. Smith at 260-467-4300. This is

to ensure that we will have enough time to collect all donations/purchase needed items, wrap gifts,

and distribute items to the family before Christmas.

Tags from the Giving Tree went very quickly this year!!! If you were unable to get one in time, but

would still like to help out, here are some ideas of some items that we still need:

Wrapping paper

Bows & decorations for wrapping

Tape for wrapping gifts

Gift Labels

Snacks for students volunteering to wrap gifts

Please contact Mrs. Smith at 260-467-4300 if you would like to help. Thanks for your generosity!

CASE MANAGER . . .M R S . S M I T H

“One test of the correctness

of educational procedure is

the happiness of the child.”

by Maria Montessori

POPCORN FRIDAYS

Nov. 6– cheese

Nov. 13– regular

Nov. 20—caramel

Thank you parent

Volunteers!

WORD OF

THE WEEK:

Week of Nov. 2:

Gratitude

Week of Nov. 9:

Share & Generosity

Week of Nov. 16:

Kindness

Week of Nov. 23:

Promise

Week of Nov. 30:

Self-awareness

MEDIA CENTER...Mr. Diederich

I would like to thank the PTA volunteers for helping me with the Book Fair. It

would be impossible to have a successful book fair without their help. Once

again the book fair was busy and outperformed expectations.

The 6-9 cluster will have “The Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad

Wolf” read to them. The story follows the exploits

of the three little pigs as they build their homes

out of bricks, sticks, and straw. The somewhat

bad wolf is not your grandparents’ “big bad wolf.”

He is simply looking for something to eat and all

of the restaurants in town are closed. He is

shocked when he realizes he has the power to

knock down poorly constructed abodes. The stu-

dents will be learning about fairy tales and fables during this lesson.

The 9-12 cluster recently completed their parts of

book project, where they had to make their own book.

Over the next month the students will be working on

using the FWCS databases. The first database we will

focus on is CultureGrams. This database is used for re-

searching countries and their culture. You can also use

CultureGrams to search for state information. This is a

great resource for students to use at home. When log-

ging in from home you will need the username

(fortwayne) and password (culture).

PHYSICAL EDUCATION . . .M R . Q & M R . R E Y N O L D S

provide lifelong physical and social health while having fun

6-9- Locomotor movements - walk-ing, galloping, sliding, jumping, and hopping. Non-locomotor movements – balance, twisting, bridging, and bending. Equipment Manipulations – bounce and catch a ball with two hands, tossing, kicking a ball.

Social Interactions – Sharing, respect of self and others, co-operation, exhibits physically active lifestyle, participation, and understanding the bene-fits of physical activity, partici-pates in physical activity out-side of school setting. 9-12 Locomotor movement – travel-ing in a variety of directions and patterns, dodging and fleeing.

Non-locomotor – transfer weight from one body part to another. Equipment manipulation – strike, dribble, catch, and kick a moving object. Social Integration – demonstrates appropriate behaviors in the class-room, cooperation in group activi-ties, understands the value of equipment, and demonstrates concerns for others, exhibits physi-

cally active lifestyle, participates in physical activities outside of school that are interesting, engaging, and personally enjoyable. MS Volleyball / Fitness unit As the warm months come to an end, I encourage you to get your child(ren) outside and take ad-vantage of the beautiful fall weather that is upon us.

Fall is finally in place and the leaves are turning colors, which means it’s getting cooler out-doors and our time is getting limited outdoors. That being said, it hasn’t stopped our gym-nasium from being filled with bodies in motion, many smiles and children who continue to learn about working and play-ing together. Mr. Reynolds (student teacher) has spent the month of October focusing on the concepts of basic locomotor skills movement. Mr. Reynolds has provided opportunities to give your child a positive PE ex-perience and to help him/her gain an appreciation of the im-portance of staying active. He has really enjoyed and has grown through this whole teaching experience here at Towles. During his final month of November, Mr. Reynolds will continue his growth experience by incorporating words like ap-preciation and gratitude as it relates to PE, which will work well with Thanksgiving coming up. As the first quarter has passed, we hope your child will have experiences in individual, team, and group activities that place an emphasis on participation, PE literacy, cooperation, and success through personal goals. We both want to remind you that our focus in PE here at Towles is to exercise daily to

MUSIC…MRS . THORSON

FORT WAYNE

COMMUNITY SCHOOLS Dr. Wendy Robinson,

Superintendent

Towles Montessori

Elementary & New

Tech Middle School

Tamara Mullins, Principal

Tim Captain, New Tech Director

420 East Paulding Road

Fort Wayne, IN 46816

Phone: 467.4300 • Fax: 467.4364

www.fortwayneschools.org

TOWLES Mission

Statement

Towles Montessori Elementary & New Tech Middle School, through the Montessori & New Tech philosophies, develops peaceful world-class citizens who have an intrinsic love of learning and a desire for academic excellence.

FWCS Mission

statement

Fort Wayne Community Schools educates all students to high standards enabling them to

become productive, responsible citizens.

Fwcs Vision

statement

Fort Wayne Community Schools will be the school system of

choice and a source of

community pride.

Non-discrimination statement: In accordance with federal law and U.S. Department of Agricul-ture policy, this institution is prohibited from dis-

criminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability.

November came upon us quickly! The 6 to 9 and 9

to 12 classes are studying Patriotic music for the

month of November. Students will learn about the

National Anthem, Yankee Doodle, America the Beauti-

ful, and America and the history behind these songs.

The 9 to 12 students will continue Re-

corder Karate and testing for

belts. Fourth and Fifth graders need to

earn 4 belts and Sixth graders need to

earn 5 belts for the 9 weeks.

The 3rd

grade students are also working on

the first 3 notes on the recorder and learn-

ing simple songs like Hot Cross Buns and

Mary Had a Little Lamb.

ART CORNER . . .MRS . TOY

Elementary students have just started using the computers and the Os-mo for one of their TAB (Teaching for Artistic Behavior) Choices. The students have learned about Line, Shapes, Space & Forms during our study of the Elements of Art. Next we will start to learn about Color and Value.

The first period middle school class has been very busy continuing to work on their Milk Carton Constructions for the Made by Milk Contest. There will be a chance for online voting between November 20-December 11 to help win the People’s Choice category. More infor-mation will be sent home closer to that date. Advanced art students just finished creating Agamographs. These are artworks that are made up of three different images that when you rotate from side to side you can see all three images. They are currently working on building their Art Portfolios. Towards the end of the semester they will meet with guest evaluators to have a portfolio review to discuss their artwork.

Art club has started and we have been experimenting with many different projects. We have used our new cameras, made marbled paper using shaving cream and food coloring and worked on some painting projects.

SPANISH . . .M R S . S A N C H E Z

Las noticias de la clase de español (News from Spanish)

Vocabulary and Grammar - We are reviewing greetings, colors, numbers and calendar, using oral and writ-

ing activities at every grade level. Practicing spelling with new vocabulary, along with writing sentences

and paragraphs all in Spanish are more goals to accomplish for my students this month.

Our new vocabulary topics are: Los deportes (sports) and La casa

(House). We have been using technology in class (computer quiz-

zes etc.) to reinforce all of these vocabulary words that we are

learning.

Culture - The Spanish Country Report (6th grade) and The culture

of Mexico (5th grade) projects by small groups are starting their

presentations this week with excellent results!

Buen trabajo estudiantes!

Remember Spanish is fun let’s give it a try!

Sra. Sanchez

WE KEEP FUNDRAISING EASY!!

1. Clip BoxTops for Education

2. Save Campbell’s Soup Labels

3. Visit krogercommunityrewards.com, register your plus card #, and choose us!

4. Participate in our Sponsorship Fundraiser by collecting donations.

**RETURN ALL LABELS AND BOXTOPS TO YOUR CHILD’S SCHOOL**

We are still in need of Wednesday parent volunteers to help make materials for the classrooms!

If you can cut, run a copy machine, and laminate,

WE NEED YOU!

Please contact the Main Office if you have questions.

New Tech News...

Towles New Tech is looking for parent volunteers! If you are interested in volunteering on Tuesday

and Wednesday mornings at 8 AM, please contact Tia McFarthing at

[email protected].

Hunger Games premieres on November 20th! Our annual Hunger Games party will

be on Friday, November 20th. Details will be sent home via backpack mail and

Peachjar soon. We will need parent volunteers to transport students from the party

location to the Carmike Movie Theater at Jefferson Point. Please contact Angie Grier

[email protected] to sign up as a driver for the party.

8th

Grade Language Arts / Social Studies will have two employees from the History Center at our

school on Monday, November 9th

, to judge window displays that have a chance to be displayed at

the Center in December. This is for the 8th

grade project, “Gazing Through the Window of War”.

Culturally Responsive—Positive Behavior Incentive System

The CR-PBIS team looks at school-wide data each month to help make decisions.

We are excited to report that our discipline referrals have been reduced by over 50%

for this time of year compared to last school year! This month please see below to

review our School Wide Expectations with your student(s).

Towles Elementary School-Wide Expectations

TRUST

We TRUST Towles students to…

Be Safe & Peaceful

Keep Our School Bully-Free

Be on Time to All Activities

RESPECT

At Towles, students show RESPECT by:

Tracking the Speaker

Practicing Grace & Courtesy

RESPONSIBILITY

Towles Students are RESPONSIBLE

for:

Restoring all Areas

Maintaining Learning Position

Following Procedures

Walking with Purpose