1 Important Dates Schools Closed for Students and Teachers. MSEA Convention October 17, 2014 Fall Fest October 30, 2014 End of First Quarter October 31, 2014 2 Hour Early Dismissal October 31, 2014 Teacher Planning No School November 3, 2014 In this issue: Primary News Primary Gallery 2-7 Intermediate 8-11 Counslesor’s Corner 12 PT, Adaptive PE, Music 13 14 Student Work Gatherings 15-16 17-18 Vision Health News 19 20 Aquatices, Riding 21 Principal’s Note Student of the Month 22 23 Can Food Drive Tanglewood is once again participating in the Maryland Food Bank Can Food Drive. Please send in or bring a non- perishable item for our school donation between October 13th and October 31st. Parent Drop Offs and Hall Passes As a reminder, families dropping off their students may use the Kiss and Ride Lane from 7:30 to 7:50. After 7:50, families must enter the building to sign in their students. Our classes have made hall passes for their students to support independence and transition. All parents are asked to allow their student to use the hall pass to find the classroom. Classroom staff will come to the office to provide supervision to assist students in getting to class on their own. We thank you for supporting this initiative! Tanglewood Regional School 833 Woodyard Road Clinton, MD 20753 October, 2014 Volume 1, Issue 3 Tanglewood Times
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Important Dates
Schools Closed for Students
and Teachers.
MSEA Convention
October 17, 2014
Fall Fest
October 30, 2014
End of First Quarter
October 31, 2014
2 Hour Early Dismissal
October 31, 2014
Teacher Planning
No School
November 3, 2014
In this issue:
Primary News
Primary Gallery
2-7
Intermediate
8-11
Counslesor’s
Corner
12
PT, Adaptive PE,
Music
13
14
Student Work
Gatherings
15-16
17-18
Vision
Health News
19
20
Aquatices,
Riding
21
Principal’s Note
Student of the
Month
22
23
Can Food Drive
Tanglewood is once aga in part ic ipat ing
in the Mary land Food Bank Can Food
Drive . P lease send in or br ing a non -
per ishable i tem for our school donat ion
between October 13th and October
31st .
Parent Drop Offs and Hall Passes
As a reminder, families dropping off their students may use the
Kiss and Ride Lane from 7:30 to 7:50. After 7:50, families must
enter the building to sign in their students.
Our classes have made hall passes for their students to
support independence and transition. All parents are asked to
allow their student to use the hall pass to find the classroom.
Classroom staff will come to the office to provide supervision
to assist students in getting to class on their own.
We thank you for supporting this initiative!
Tanglewood Regional School 833 Woodyard Road Clinton, MD 20753
October, 2014 Volume 1, Issue 3
Tanglewood Times
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Room 2
Dondrea Bethea, Joe Dee Paras, Debbie Baragas
During the month of October, we will be going out into the community, until Arts Partners begins. We are going to Melwood Center, Barnes & Noble Book Store, St. Charles Mall, Cosco Nature Center, and Allen Pond/Opportunity Park in Bowie. During the month of September our students have begun to work on their academic, social, communication and motor skills. They are working hard to increase their skills. Michelle has been doing a good job at increasing her skills at matching her shapes (circle, square, triangle) and numbers (1,2,3). Gerardo is doing a good job at being able to turn the pages of his reading book with minimal prompts. Sophia Morales is doing a good job at being able to using her stander while she is using a switch to play music. Traeshawn is doing a good job at learning how to make choices and identify items during his academic activities. We are looking for more improvements during the month of October.
Room 6
Ginger Li, Mr. George Natonick Brian Fletcher, Paulette Anderson
Greetings parents of Room 6! We can't believe the first whole month of this school year has already passed. It has been an exciting, fun-filled month. Toward the end of September, we got to welcome a new student into our room, Jamez. Jamez is full of spunk, personality, and always has a lot to say! He fits right in! Welcome, Jamez! The student of the month in September was Jalen! Yay, Jalen! Thank you for being such a kind, young boy and always getting along with everyone. You sure know how to make all of us laugh! Melwood came to Tanglewood and the Room 6 boys got to participate in a special activity with them in the horticultural room. JaQuez had a great time playing with the beans. He enjoyed sifting the beans through his fingers and did a great job gluing them onto board to create his own artwork! Brenden also enjoyed playing with the beans and sticks while creating his own artwork! Brenden was laughing the entire time and was fully engaged during the activity. We have also been able to go out into the community for our community based instructional trips! Our class is having a blast and all of the students do an amazing job while out in the community. While out on our of our community trips, Jalen verbally said aloud, "Eat! Eat! Eat!" and pointed to his lunch bag while we were walking in the store. Also, Jayden has been doing an amazing job using the menu out at restaurants and physically pointing to what he wants exactly in order to communicate with us his needs. We look forward to another great month in October!
PRIMARY 1 CLASSES ROOM 2 AND ROOM 6
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PRIMARY 1 CLASSES PRIMARY GALLERY
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PRIMARY 2 CLASSES ROOM 9 AND ROOM 11
Room 9
Fe DeCastroMarcelino, Sharon Evans Johnson, Pat Sellman, Helen Smith
The month of September has come and gone – Summer is officially over!!
Room 9 has a new student, Robert Jackson. He has a bright smile that just lights up a room. Welcome Robert!! We have been very busy with lots of fun-filled activities. We began with a school-wide field trip to the County Fair at the Equestrian Center. It was great to see our students and others from around the county have a great time participating in various games, rides and interacting with Sponge Bob, clowns and more. Thank you to those parents who were able to join us. Our Community Based Instruction (CBI) started with a shopping trip to St. Charles Mall where the students were able to identify objects and colors; Barnes and Noble for Storytime, the students enjoyed listening to the story The Day the Crayons Quit; Watkins Park Nature Center – snakes, turtles and bats – OH MY!!; last, but not least, the students enjoyed going to the movies to watch ‘Dolphin Tale 2’ which was a culminating activity after reading the story on News2You the previous week. The students reviewed the letters of the month ‘A, B,C’; numbers of the month ‘1, 2, 3’; shape of the month ‘Circle’; and, color of the month ‘Red’. The students have been practicing a new skill using their individual schedule. They mark on their schedule when they have finished a task, and are made aware of what is next on their schedule. Kayla does a great job pointing to aquatics on the schedule to let us know she wants to be chosen to go to aquatics -- way to go Kayla!!! In Reading, the students read the following stories on News2You: Dolphin Tale 2, Clownfest, Hispanic Heritage Month, and Broadway Buddies. Kayla and Robert did a great job marking the correct answer on their worksheet with a bingo marker independently. Alexis, Darnell and Maya did a great job touching the correct answer. Zoe did a great job with hand-over-hand activity using tactile symbols.
In Math, Room 9 accepted the Principal’s Math Challenge and created a graph showing the most popular baseball team, Washington Nationals vs. Baltimore Orioles. Washington Nationals won by leaps and bounds. GO NATIONALS!! Special thank you to the parents for your continued support with helping your child with their homework!
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PRIMARY 2 CLASSES ROOM 9
Room 9 Community Based Instruction Moments
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PRIMARY 2 CLASSES ROOM 9 AND ROOM 11
Room 11 Joann Morales, Dee Ann Henderson, Marissa Williams, Dionnah Vicks
Room 11 is soaring off to a great start. The month of September has been so busy. We have been on some very exciting CBI trips to our favorite locations. We are focusing on picking out small items to purchase, or that correlate to our stories that we have been reading in class. For Reading, our stories so far include Broadway Buddies, Clownfest, America’s Song, Dolphin Tale 2, The Apple Pie Tree, and Walter the Baker. In Math we continue to been review numbers and shapes. In Science we have enjoyed visiting with our furry friends Hope & Bob. Their moms Ms. Karen and Ms. Myra come for Therapy Pets. We also have been visiting all of returning Pets in the Science room (Lilly, Rose, Tommy the turtles, Ethel the iguana, Ernie the bearded Dragon, Sally the Snake, George the gecko, Harry the tortoise, Ray-Ray & Tikki the Birds). Not to forget all of the great hands on science activities that were always there to help us learn. Wow!!! We couldn’t have asked for better weather for the PG County Fair. We saw lots of old friends and rode some fun rides. Of course we enjoyed eating the most...funnel cake. Trying new things is always great fun! Everybody is doing a good job but special mention to our Student of the Month, Anthony Clark. We had our first Principal’s Academic Challenge, “Nats Vs. O” Baseball challenge. We sorted, counted and graphed. Rooms 13 and 11 got to eat baseball foods in which we graphed favorite baseball foods. We also read supplemental baseball stories. What a
way to have some fun and learn all at the same time.
It’s that time again ALT-MSA is under way. We are striving to pick the best objectives for everyone for their Alt-MSA Portfolios . We will keep you posted on our progress.
Happy fall season everyone! This month, Room 8 learned so much about America and the people that shaped our nation. We celebrated the birthday of our national anthem - “Star Spangled Banner” the first week of September. We read about Francis Scott Key and his great contribution to America’s song. In the succeeding weeks, we read about the famous presidents of the United States. We learned about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. In case you didn’t notice, these are also the great men you see in our coins and dollar bills. What an informative month! We finally learned the biographies of the men on the penny, nickel, dime and quarter. This month, we also learned 18 sight words and 12 vocabulary words. That’s a great leap for our kids in room 8!
In math, we continued to learn counting, sequencing and comparing of numbers 0-10. We also did an artwork about the hungry crocodile who loves to eat the bigger numbers. It’s so much easier to learn greater and lesser than symbols through fun and exciting way. Also in math, we did the principal’s challenge. This month, we were asked how many ways to interpret the votes collected from teachers about our favorite teams. Our class learned to sort the votes, tally and count, interpret through bar graph and analyze the data. Sounds complicated but…yes! Room 8 did it! Awesome job boys and girls!
In science, we learned the characteristics of living and non-living things. We also classified some objects around us following these two groups. Currently, we are learning about plants, plant parts and characteristics. Next month, we are going to learn why leaves change colors! Does anyone know?! This is going to be exciting!
For CBI last September, we visited Watkin’s Nature Center, Barne’s and Noble, National Harbor and Wegman’s. Children enjoyed the places and the last tail end of the beautiful summer. For the month of October, we will visit places like Ikea, Aviation Museum, Cosco and get ready for this…. CAMP SCHMIDT! This is going to be a month full of fun.
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INTERMEDIATE CLASSES ROOM 8 CLASSROOM AND COMMUNITY
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INTERMEDIATE CLASSES ROOM 8 AND ROOM 13
Room 13 Rosa Ray, Randy Henderson, Gail Best, Antoinette Powe, Jamar Qyanddar
Hello Tanglewood Universe,
Congratulations are in order for the students in Room 13.Daquan has been honored as Student of the
Month. Seun is more independent in the classroom throughout the school day. Jasmin is becoming more
talkative and mingling more sociably with her classmates and the staff. Immanuel is improving in his
handwriting skills and taking time to insert missing letter in his name. Andre is spelling his name in
sequential letter order. . Diana is helpful to the staff and her classmates. A big thanks and appreciation go
out to the parents who are ensuring that their students return homework and are present in class every
day.
The class has had the opportunity to venture out to Charles County this year. They integrated their reading
and math skills at St. Charles Town Center in Waldorf, where they were able to select food from the menu
board at the food court and reviewed math concepts, shapes, colors and shapes utilizing concrete objects
in the mall. Some students socialized and spent some down time relaxing. Another highlight of our CBI
Trips was picking up more books for our classroom library from area Thrift Stores. Last but now least, our
visit to Watkins Park was the best! We enjoyed nature at its best on a fun hayride through the park. All the
students visited with an array of barnyard animals and see the results of vegetation at the end of the
summer season as it began transition into the fall. Boy, we can’t wait to get back on the road again.
We have gotten off to some great firsts at good ‘ole Tanglewood this year with a visit from Melwood. Our
friend, Ms. Shelia Gallagher stopped by to present a slideshow all about the Melwood Horticulture
Program. She also brought woodsy and sweet smelling plants, buds, seeds and weeds for the class to make
a potpourri jar for their families. That was a wonderful activity. The class also celebrated their first Student
of the Month Awards Ceremony. We thank all the parents and guest who came out to support our
awesome endeavors. The students were especially excited to share their first Principal’s Challenge Results
with their peers and other classroom teachers. It was so much fun working on that project.
The students and staff in Room 13 has had a fun filled month and look forward to dig in and gear up for
more challenges next month!
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INTERMEDIATE CLASSES ROOM 13 MOMENTS
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Hello everyone. The school year has gotten off to a great start, and Thanksgiving is just around
the corner.
In Guidance we have started the year off by focusing on school expectations and following school
rules. We discussed the steps to having a good school year:
Being a good listener.
Keeping hands to ourselves.
Staying with the group.
Getting a good night’s sleep.
Eating a healthy breakfast.
And doing our homework.
We have also focused on riding the school bus safely by:
Waiting with our parents.
Letting the aide help us to our seat.
Greeting the driver and our friends.
Sitting in our seat.
Keeping hands and feet to ourselves.
More recently we are focusing on the steps to following directions.
Congratulations to the following students for being chosen as September’s Student of the
Month:
Darnell McCormick
Michelle Ekpenyong
Jalen Smallwood
Nie Jones
Daquan Dyson
Anthony Clark
The category was: Gets Along Well with Others. Keep up the good work!!!
A big Thank You goes out to Ms. Shelia Gallagher, Horticulture Specialist from Mel-
wood, who visited with us on Friday, September 26th. She shared with us slides of the beautiful
green house and planting activities the individuals of Melwood participate in. We are so glad to be
partnering with Melwood again this school year. Once a month they will visit with us here at Tan-
glewood and work on horticulture activities, and we will also have the opportunity to have our
students visit Melwood on Community Based Instruction trips to engage in horticulture activities