Date: Wednesday – August 21, 2013 Important Messages from The Cottage School are attached. Please sign this form indicating their receipt and return to the school with your student tomorrow. Thank You!! Parent Signature________________________________________
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Date: Wednesday – August 21, 2013
Important Messages from The Cottage School are attached. Please sign this form indicating their receipt and return to the school
Can I just say again how happy I am that you are here at TCS this year??? What a great first week! We love having our kids back on campus and feeling their residual energy and enthusiasm. The first few weeks are full of fabulous moments when our students reach out to each other, encourage and welcome new students and generally, be their wonderful selves! I wish I could bottle their warmth and compassion and spread it to other avenues of our larger community! The teaching staff is being very intentional in their pacing and quantity of work during this start up period. I am sure it is no surprise that the majority of our students, even the returning students, bring an enormous amount of anxiety about social situations, academic expectations, and the general beginning of school jitters with them for the first few weeks of school. That anxiety suppresses their ability to attend to the tasks at hand, remember their responsibilities and interact in a consistently calm and positive manner. We want to give them the time to become accustomed to their classes, their peers and their new routine. It is important that our students begin to breathe and settle in before we ask them to hunker down academically. So, do not fret that there is not enough homework. The pace will increase when we believe the students can step up to the increased expectations. The PAC Family Social was fabulous! It is an important time for our families to meet and make connections that will serve them well throughout the school year. I hope you signed up for lots of volunteer options. We really need your help for resources, donors, goodies and opportunities! Our Advancement Department will be sending home information that will help you identify areas you can help. As the school year begins, I would like to encourage you to assist us in creating a calm and healthy environment right from the start. We have been doing this a long time and know what to do to supervise, motivate and guide. However, we cannot be everywhere all the time. We need to rely on you as partners in communication. We need your help in identifying times or situations that create anxiety for your teen. Teens, especially our new students, are not accustomed to our environment and often do not realize that we take inappropriate social interactions very seriously. One reason our new students are so consistently supervised is so that we can be sure they are interacting appropriately and making good decisions. If you are aware of any bullying, intimidation or harassment going on in person, by digital means or in writing, please help us handle it by letting us know. Finding out that a bad situation has been going on for months makes it more difficult to correct and to undo the emotional damage done. On the other hand, if you see or experience things that are going very well, please do the same! Let us know! We focus on the goodness around us, while managing the necessary. The more we know that is positive and creates a calm, nurturing and efficient environment, the better job we can do moving forward. We, too, will be communicating those things that are going well. One of the reasons for the frequent calls to parents is to provide a clear pathway to relate the successes of our teens. What parent doesn’t like to hear how well their teen is doing?
WELCOME TO THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR!
August 21, 2013
Jacque’s Note
THANKS TO FIRST LANDMARK BANK
Since our business model incorporates financial skills in our students’ daily
routine, having actual check books is an essential component. This year we
would like to thank First Landmark Bank for stepping up to sponsor our
check books. First Landmark is the school’s banking partner and we have
enjoyed a very beneficial relationship with them. They also commissioned
the beautiful notecards that depict the Chattahoochee River scene. They
sold the cards at their bank locations and provided us with boxes to sell. All
proceeds have gone to benefit The Cottage School tuition assistance fund.
You can find a picture of the check donation on our website and can
purchase your box of notecards from our main desk in the central office.
Thank You First Landmark Bank!
REGISTRAR ROUND-UP
Family Directories will be sent home with students on August 29th.
The updated Carpool Finder Map – now with cell number as well as email – is available at www.tinyurl.com/tcscarpool.
This year’s TCS Summer Reading Program was all about CHOICE!
ALL READING LOGS ARE DUE BY THURSDAY, AUGUST 22ND.
RETURN THEM TO YOUR LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHER.
If you still need to log your reading time, please use one of the links below: http://www.k12reader.com/reading-logs/RL-RdgTime-Plain.pdf http://www.rsu23.org/RSU_23_School_Department/lms_titleone/LMS_Title_One/Reading_Logs_files/akorn_reading_log.pdf
AND FROM THE COTTAGE SCHOOL For each minute you read, you will receive a TCS point. Earn points to spend at
the Summer Reading Store, opening in August. To receive an EXTRA 50 POINTS per book, complete the Response to Literature that follows.
_____________________________________________________________________________ LEVEL 1 Basic Stated Information
The narrator is…
The setting is…
The protagonist is… _____________________________________________________________________________ LEVEL 2 Key Details
The event that gets the story moving is…
The event that complicates the story is…
An important thing to remember about the protagonist (hero) is… _____________________________________________________________________________ LEVEL 3 Stated Relationships
One event that reminds the character of another is…
The relationship between _____ and _____ is …
The character claims that _____ happened because of _____. _____________________________________________________________________________ LEVEL 4 Simple Implied Relationships
When the character says _________, it suggests…
When the character does ________, it suggests…
This detail (name this “detail”) is a symbol of ________ because… _____________________________________________________________________________ LEVEL 5 Complex Implied Relationships
The changes (in character, setting, or situation) since the beginning of the story have been caused by…
The character has changed from __________ to ___________.
The 2 characters (name them) are similar/different throughout the story because… _____________________________________________________________________________ LEVEL 6 Author’s Generalizations
The problem in the world that the author is focusing on is… The author suggests that when people _________, then the result is…