Triumphant
Learning Center
School Hours
Kindergarten: 8:00am - 12:00pm 1st - 8th: 8:00am - 3:45pm Learning Lab: 3:45pm - 4:45pm
Monday, March 8, 2010 3:00 p.m.
Snack Trays (submitted by Parent Board)
Students will be taking the Stanford 9 test this week. The parent board will be assembling snack trays for each classroom to be used during their morning breaks. We will be providing cheese, crackers, ranch dressing, and peanut butter. We are asking for donations of fruit and vegetables from parents. Thank you!
Monday Kindergarten and 1st Grade – Fruit
2nd Grade – Vegetables
Tuesday 3rd Grade – Fruit
4th Grade – Vegetables
Wednesday 5th Grade – Fruit
6th Grade – Vegetables
Thursday 7th Grade – Fruit
8th Grade – Vegetables
Please send whole fruit and veggies with your student on their assigned day. We have parent volunteers who will cut the produce and assemble the trays each day. Thank you so much for your help! The students will love the treat!
If you would like help assemble the trays, please call Polly Gyger at 348-9057.
TLC Shirts
There are new TLC shirts for sale in the office for $15 each. Sizes range from youth small to adult large. All the shirts are black with short sleeves. We also have one adult medium long sleeve shirt in purple from last year. Stop by soon to purchase one of these great shirts and show your TLC spirit!
Kitchen Donations
Parents, thank you for all your donations. During March, we are asking families with last names beginning with I-O to donate. The items we need are listed below. If you can donate something, please drop it off in the office anytime. Thank you!
paper plates
paper bowls
napkins
plastic forks - COMPLETELY OUT!
White Tiger Spirit Days
The White Tiger T-Shirt Contest continues. The chart shows the percentages of students who wore their TLC t-shirts. The kindergarten class is in first place with 92%, and the 7th/8th class in second with 50%.
There will be prizes for each month’s winning classroom and a special party for the winning classroom for the entire year. Every Wednesday is TLC Spirit Day, so wear your TLC t-shirts to show your school spirit.
TLC Yearbook Pictures
Parents and students, do you have any pictures to submit for the yearbook? Please email them to Mrs. Flatt at tlcyearbookpic@hotmail.com.
Library News
The TLC Library needs more AR books for all grades. If you have any books just “collecting dust” on your bookshelves, please consider donating them! We will check their reading levels and give them a new home on our library. If we cannot use them, we will trade on PAPERBACKSWAP.COM, or give them away to our students.
March Events
1: February Book It Calendars due
4: Parent Board Meeting at 3:00 p.m.
4: National Grammar Day
8-11: Stanford 9 Testing, 2nd - 8th
15-18: Spring Break - No School
24: Papa John's Pizza Night
25: Governing Board Meeting at 4:00 p.m.
29: Zoomobile at TLC from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
31: 8th grade trip to Safford High School, 12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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Bashas’ Fund Raising Program
It is now time for Bashas’ Shop & Give program which benefits TLC. The first time you shop at Bashas’ with your Thank You card after September 1, ask the cashier to enter Triumphant Learning Center’s number - 28662. (Bashas’ should also have our number posted at the registers.) You only have to enter the code once, and each time you use your Thank You card at any Bashas’ store 1% of your purchases will be donated to TLC. The program runs from September 1 to April 30.
Family & Friend
If you have family and friends who live outside Safford and shop at their local Bashas’ stores, they can also participate. They simply ask the cashier to enter TLC’s number - 28662. The code only needs to be entered once at any Bashas’ store, and it will work at all Bashas’ stores.
NOTE: If you participated in the program last year, you must ask the cashier to enter TLC’s number again this year.
Bashas’ Update
You can also link your card online at www.bashasshopandgive.com.
Simply type in your Bashas’ Thank You Card number. The next page will ask for your charity, which is TLC #28662. Then you will be asked to fill in your name, phone number, etc. That is it and you are ready to shop!
ARIZONA TAX CREDIT - It is not to early to donate!
We typically receive a bulk of the Arizona Tax Credit donations in December. However, sometimes this is a difficult time of year for many families with Christmas and other expenses. To make donating easier, we have set up a monthly payment plan of only $33 per month from January through December. This adds up to almost $400* for the year. If you would like to donate monthly, simply stop by the school office anytime during the month to drop off your donation. You will receive a receipt for your tax records.
*NOTE: Donations are a maximum of $200 for single or head of household and $400 for couples filing a joint tax return.
Pizza Hut Book It Program
Students in all grades are encouraged to participate in the Book It Reading Program. It should be a fun and enjoyable time to read a book, magazine, Bible, etc. The purposes are to establish a life long reading habit and a joy of reading. Book It reading is extremely important; therefore, please encourage your children and speak about it very positively.
Students (with parental help) will record their minutes on the monthly calendar or other paper if the calendar is lost. The time is totaled and a parent must sign the calendar. Only reading done at home (not during class time) should be recorded, and all of the recording should be done at home.
End of the Year Awards
Triumphant Learning Center runs an expanded version of Pizza Hut’s Book It Program. All TLC students have the opportunity to meet higher reading goals. By doing so, the students can earn special medals, which are given at Awards Night in May. These requirements are listed in the box below.
To be eligible for the end of the year Book It awards, students must read the yearly minimum amount for the White Tiger Club and Gold Teams. (See Below) They must also return a calendar on time every month from September through March with at least 480 minutes read and recorded per month. If any student reads less than 480 minutes or does not return a calendar one month, he/she will not receive a medal at the end of the year.
NOTE: Accelerated Reading Program
Students are not required to read the monthly goal every month to qualify for the end of the year medals, but they must read at least 480 minutes each month. For example, a 6th grade student reads 480 minutes in September, 1150 minutes in October, and 1210 minutes in December. As long as the student reads a total of 5600 minutes during the year and turns in a calendar every month, he or she will receive a Gold Medal on Awards Night.
TLC is expanding the Accelerated Reading Program this school year. Last year, students only had access to a limited number of AR quizzes. This year, students will have access to all AR quizzes because TLC has the online version. Of course, TLC does not have all the corresponding books for the quizzes, but most of the books in the TLC Library and classroom libraries have been tagged for AR. Students may also check out books from the local public libraries, and our families may even have some AR books at home.
To find out if a book has a corresponding AR quiz, just log on to www.arbookfind.com. Type the name of the book into the search box. If it is an AR book, it will show you the reading level, points, and a brief description. There are also two search features if you want to find book titles in a particular reading range.
Book Swapping
Do you have books at home you wish to trade for different ones or AR books? Try Paperbackswap! It is wonderful book trading web site. Just log onto www.paperbackswap.com and join for FREE. There are also several search engines to find specific titles or search your favorite genres. It is a great, yet inexpensive option to acquire more books.
If you think you might like to join Paper Back Swap, you can help TLC at the same time. Just click the PaperBackSwap logo below. When you join, TLC will get one free book!
