Winter Reading Fun

December Reading Connections

December Reading Connections
Please click the links below to find ideas to motivate your child to read at home.

Reading Connection K-2nd December 2017

Reading Connection 3rd-5th December 2017

November Reading Connections

November Reading Connections
Please click the following links for ideas to motivate your child to read at home.

Reading Connection K-2nd November 2017

Reading Connection 3rd-5th November 2017

October Reading Connections

October Reading Connections
Please click the following links to find ideas to help motivate your child to read at home.

Reading Connection K-2nd October 2017

Reading Connection 3rd-5th October 2017

Title I/LAP Fall News

Conferences are coming fast!

We really value our connections with the families of our students. We appreciate your time and dedication. Family involvement is vital to our students' success.

Our Title I/LAP Coordinator, Katie Pickrell, makes every effort to attend as many conferences as possible which have been scheduled with teachers. At the conference, you will be updated on your child's progress and reading assessment information, as well as challenges or successes we are seeing as we work with students in our reading support program. 

If you would like to schedule a separate conference with our Title I/LAP Coordinator, please call (360) 629-1270 or email Katie Pickrell at kpickrell@stanwood.wednet.edu.

We look forward to partnering with our amazing families to help our students achieve success in reading!

Annual Title I/LAP Parent Meeting

Hello families!

You are invited to join us at our Annual Title I/LAP Parent Meeting on Wednesday, October 25th in the Twin City Library from 9:15-10:00.

Come to enjoy some coffee, juice and treats and learn about the Title I/LAP program at Twin City and how we are helping your child achieve success in reading! There will be fun activities for the kids while the adults learn about the Reading Support Program at our school.

If you cannot attend, I'm happy to schedule a meeting with you at your convenience to provide information about our program and what you can do to support your child with reading at home.

We hope to see you there!

Compact

𝖍ello families, teachers and students! 

Please click on the attached link to view the Parent-Teacher Compact demonstrating our shared responsibilities to support our students as they learn. A copy of this compact was sent home with each student participating in the Title I/LAP program. If you would like to add specific ways to support our students, please feel free to write them on the lines provided. Additional copies of the compact are available in the Title I/LAP Office in room 36 at Twin City Elementary.  

Thank you so much for your dedication and commitment to our students!

 
Parent-Teacher Compact

Parent-Teacher-Student Compact 2017-2018 School Year

Welcome Back from the Title I/LAP Team!

Hello students, families, teachers and community members!  Welcome back to another exciting year at Twin City Elementary School! Our teachers and staff have been working hard to set up our learning spaces and learning more about helping our students learn and thrive in our school.



Along with our teachers, our Title I/LAP staff, and all other adults in the building have been learning how to help our students create a peaceful, happy, healthy and productive learning environment at Twin City using the PAX program. Our students and staff discuss and set up a PAX Vision for how we would like our learning environments to operate, and we work toward those goals everyday. Ask your child how he or she is working hard to be a PAX Leader each day!

We are very excited about the reading intervention curriculum our district is using with our students who need additional support in reading. We are using two levels of Really Great Reading phonics-based intervention curriculums: BLAST! for our primary students and HD Word for our intermediate students. Both programs help students understand phonics, explicitly teach strategies for decoding unknown words, and involve great materials that kids are excited to use, such as magnetic letters, sylla-boards to study multi-syllabic words, and high-interest, engaging activities to practice what they are learning. Our staff has been trained, and we are excited to use these programs with our students!

Stay tuned for further blog posts, information, and ideas for supporting your child at home. We are so excited to work with our families and help our students succeed! Thanks for reading our blog!

Test Taking Tips

Test Taking Tips for Parents

Please click the links below to access ideas and strategies to help your child with reading, math, and science at home.

Reading Connection, May 2017 - Beginning Edition

Reading Connection, May 2017 - Advanced Edition

Math & Science Connection, May 2017

April School-Home Connections

April Beginning Reading Connection Click here to access the April Beginning Reading Connection to learn how to support students in grades K-2 with reading.

April Advanced Reading Connection Click here to access the April Advanced Reading Connection to learn how to support students in grades 3-5 with reading.

April Math and Science Connection Click here to access the April Math and Science Connection to learn how to support students in grades K-5 with science and mathematics.

Parent Advisory Council Meeting and Celebration of Learning

Please join us for a Parent Advisory Council meeting and celebration of learning for our Title I/LAP students and families. There will be refreshments to enjoy while you learn more ways to help your child at home, have the opportunity to give us feedback on the Title I/LAP program at Twin City, and celebrate your child's hard work and accomplishments in reading! We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, March 30th from 3:00-4:00 PM.

If you cannot make it, but would still like to get the information presented, or would like an opportunity to give feedback, Katie Pickrell will be happy to schedule a time and day that work for you. Please email kpickrell@stanwood.wednet.edu or call the school at (360) 629-1270 to schedule another time.

March School-Home Connections

March Reading Connection Beginning Edition click here to view the Beginning rRading Connection for K-2 students

March Reading Connection Advanced Edition click here to view the Advanced Reading Connection for 3-5

March Math and Science Connection click here to view the Math and Science Connection

Read Across America at Twin City!

Guess what Tigers! We are going on a reading road trip! 

Our students are going to see how far our reading can take us! Each minute you read is worth one mile. We are going to compete with other classes to see who can read the most on our reading road trip map.

You will get a packet with information and sheet of Reading Mileage Tickets. Fill out your name and your teacher's name and then, simply write the date you completed 20 minutes of reading. Once you have finished 60 minutes of reading time, cut out and turn in your ticket to the library. Your teacher will have additional tickets if you need them.

Each week, fabulous prizes will be drawn for each grade level from the tickets you turn in. We will also track your classroom's reading mileage across our Reading Road Trip map!

Watch this quick video for information about our Reading Road Trip event at Twin City from March 24th to April 21st

https://flipgrid.com/ReadAcrossAmerica 

Happy reading, Tigers!

February School Home Connections

February Math and Science Connection

February Reading Connection Beginning Edition

February Reading Connection Intermediate Edition