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TISA kinder feeling the beat: getting ready for San Geronimo's Feast Day of harvest, togetherness and tradition. See you by the aspen leaf tree house to celebrate with our pueblo classmates Friday afternoon!


Upcoming dates:
October 3 (Monday) -- Mixed Bags fundraiser packets due
October 5 (Wednesday) -- Photo day on Manzanares. Kinder usually goes first. Please feel free to send a change of clothing in case your child wants to change into something more cosy after photos are taken.


Harvest circle songs




Sketching at Youth Art Exhibit in Coronado Hall



TISA's fourth graders' powerful mixed-media piece at the art exhibit: Nine-tailed Coyote


TISA Second grade's colorful animal retablos on display


"Don't dilly-dally, what's the tally?"


More tallying madness


Letter formation: m -- one of the trickiest to write! Can you spot the chocolate chip?


Owen's show-and-tell
We loved seeing Dory and Nemo on a banknote!

Learning resource packet and October calendar were in backpacks on Thursday. Please save the resources to use them through the year. So far we have worked on letters Bb, Mm, Tt.

Homework:
Monday (due Tuesday): bring something that starts with "m"
Tuesday (due Wednesday): complete one book report (the format with the emoticons is in your child's backpack)
Wednesday (due Thursday): Math Book p. 7

Tuesday News -- Sept 27

WALKING FIELD TRIP TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY): 10am 

Taos Select Exhibition
Please email or message me if you'd like to chaperon. If you can't make it tomorrow, the exhibit with our Butterfly Garden is on from September 23 – October 2, 10am-6pm at Guadalupe Parish Gym, 205 Don Fernando St.

KINDER IS INVITED BY GRACEN'S FAMILY TO JOIN THEM ON SAN GERONIMO'S FEAST DAY: Friday at Taos Pueblo

We are invited to be attending San Geronimo's and visit with Gracen's family on Friday. What a wonderful way to celebrate together. If you are planning to attend, please email or message me so we can meet up around 3pm on the north side of the Pueblo where the "Aspen Leaf Tree House" is located, directly underneath. This is where Gracen's family celebrates the feast day and where they plan to see us. I am so grateful for them to embrace us on this unique celebration day of harvest and community. I attached Chenoa's, Gracen's mom's letter with more detailed information here. Thank you for your hospitality, Chenoa and Jaro.

Here is Chenoa and Jaro's personal invitation!

Greetings TISA Kinder Families,

I hope things are going well for you all as we go forth with our school year! We are Chenoa Velarde and Jaro Jackson, parent of Gracen Jackson. As you all know, the Fall season in Taos is an exciting time at Taos Pueblo as we get ready for winter with our harvest celebrations! One of them being San Geronimo Feast Day, which is held every year on September 30^th. I want to extend my welcome to you all by inviting you to join us in our unique celebration of harvest, togetherness, and tradition. There will be ceremonial foot races beginning early on Friday morning starting at 7ish. Later that afternoon, there will be many arts and crafts vendors, food vendors, and cultural activities performed by tribal members during the afternoon. Please be conscious of the strict cell phone usage on this day. We would like to share with our community and continue to provide our visitors with the opportunity to engage in these cultural traditions. Please remember that our Taos Pueblo community view our traditional activities as ceremonial and sacred. We respectfully ask for your cooperation. We welcome our Taos community!

Best,

Chenoa Velarde

Jaro Jackson

*If planning to attend, ask for “Mike Concha Family Residence”. It is located on the North side of the Pueblo where the “Aspen Leaf Tree House” is located, directly underneath. This is where our family celebrates the feast day where we plan to feed family and friends throughout the day. Thanks!

KINDER PIZZA FORM -- Pizza day will be this Thursday. Please email or message me if I missed anything. Remember to still pack snack and a light lunch for your child. Thank you!

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TISA kinder's butterflies take flight at Taos Fall Arts
We challenge you to play "I spy," and get a prize from Jutka:
What's the word on the silver caterpillar's back?


TISA Facilities Meeting: Tuesday, September 27, 4pm
Your opinion is valued! Please respond to the poll questions if you haven't yet by Monday, Sept. 26.
The next Facilities Committee Meeting will be next Tuesday, September 27 at 4pm at the Manzaneres campus with childcare provided until 5:30. Please join/chime in if you can.

Here are the questions that the committee would like to poll parents about in regards to next year's campus:

1. If we can stay at Manzaneres another year and buy more time for funding and construction would you mind waiting a year to move onto the permanent campus?

2. If the Manzaneres campus is not an option, would you be willing to move to another location (if it exists) or would you want to move to the permanent campus on Toalne by Fall of 2017 instead, even if your student may be in portable classrooms? (see explanation below)

3. Would you like to move to the permanent campus on Toalne by Fall of 2017 no matter what the construction of the facilities?

Pizza day kick-off: Thursday, Sept 29 (Please remember to pack a snack, even if your child ordered pizza.)
Please note: to ease the pain of last-minute headaches, the pizza money in kindergarten will be due the week BEFORE.  I will do my best to post a monthly reminder for you. I recommend prepaying for a few months ahead (or for the whole year, if you can think/budget that far!) Kinder will be accepting pizza money ONLY in the designated envelope beginning the week before through TUESDAY morning. Believe me, this is in everyone's best interest! It will save teachers and children many a crocodile tear to follow the guidelines.

TAOS FALL ARTS EXHIBITION
Check out our Butterfly Garden art at the Taos Fall Arts
http://www.taosfallarts.com/calendar.html
Tracey (Timothy's mom) had a brilliant idea of making the children's artwork into cards. I would love any leads on that!

Paseo 
TISA kinder's collaborative pendulum art will be exhibited in Twirl's courtyard! What a feast for the eyes!
TISA middle school will be at  site #5 at the PASEO headed by Megan Bowers Avina, the magnificent TISA teacher.
Go here: https://paseoproject.org/map-of-installations/ and here https://paseoproject.org/portfolio/the-illuminator/
It's all on TISA's Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/Taos-Integrated-School-of-the-Arts-977221702303884/?fref=ts&ref=br_tf



SEPT 30: San Geronimo's: SAVE THE DATE! Sharing this celebration with our Pueblo friends, Gracen and Winterfox would be extraordinary. I look forward to getting together with you all at the Pueblo to celebrate. Stay tuned for details!



Fall Equinox with Abbigale Lyman reading Milo's cool books about space

Skywriting (letter and number formation)


Circle work with "red caps"

    
Writing workshop in action!


Math: Monster Squeeze number game

A perfect walk: off to the library


The steeper the better! Sunset Park


Playing with new World College friends from four continents. Changing the way we look at the globe one game at a time.

Homework:
Monday: read a book from cover to cover to family/friend/stuffed animal/doll/dog (.....)
Tuesday (due Wednesday): bring a thing that has 2 or more letter "b"s in its name (e.g. bubble)

This week's homework "winner" for the longest word was Paris with  supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!=34 letters????!!!

Wednesday (due Thursday): Math book p. 6

Snack + Show-and-tell (Please encourage your child to remind me when it's their day!)
Monday: Gracen
Tuesday: Owen (Got the snack! Just bring your show-and-tell!)
Wednesday: Paris
The children love to have a small late afternoon snack to look forward to! Something to keep that learning momentum going! Thank you for your support with that!

Monday Catch-up

Hi All,

Just a few things to catch up on...

Lexia is our reading program that I sent home student usernames and passwords for. I understand that you are not able to get on from home.

Unfortunately every computer I work on is under TISA's server, but here is what might work:

go to / click on:   ttp://www.lexiacore5.com/?SiteID=2493-4445-3443-4725

Then you might need to type in my username: jutka@tisataos.org (=my school email account)

Your child's username is their first name (with lowercase letters only) and the password for every student is lexia (all lowercase).

Hope this helps.

If not, please let me know so I can contact Lexia's support line.

Pizza Thursday is NEXT Thursday! If you already brought your child's pizza money in, I will certainly have it saved for next week. However, please pack them a hearty lunch for THIS Thursday! Thanks!

I apologize about the confusion regarding snacks for this week. Let's start with Gracen next Monday. I think we'll be fine until then with what we have in stock.

We are going to the library tomorrow (Tuesday) at 10:45. Children will need to bring their library card to take a book home.

Finally, please read the questions from the Facilities Committee below. They would like to know what you think regarding the transition to TISA's new campus. I will be happy to hear from you and clarify further.

"Here are the questions that we would like to poll parents' opinions about in regards to next year's campus:

1. If we can stay at Manzaneres another year and buy more time for funding and construction would you mind waiting a year to move onto the permanent campus?

2. If the Manzaneres campus is not an option, would you be willing to move to another location (if it exists) or would you want to move to the permanent campus on Toalne by Fall of 2017 instead, even if your student may be in portable classrooms? (see explanation below)

3. Would you like to move to the permanent campus on Toalne by Fall of 2017 no matter what the construction of the facilities?"

Thank you for your support.

See you tomorrow.

Jutka

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TISA kinder butterfly emerging from paper for the Taos Open Art Show                                        

                                                                             
Hello Amazing Kindergarten Families,

September is brimming with creativity, momentum and learning opportunities for all! Please mark your calendars!

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Friday - tomorrow! - 9/16 - 5:30pm: TISA Stakeholders Meeting -- Kit Carson Electric Board Room -- 118 Cruz Alta

We know you care about your student(s) and their home-away-from-home at TISA. We want everyone to have the opportunity to give input and feel included in the process of creating our permanent campus. Everyone is invited. Please attend and spread the word.

And remember to fill out the three question survey to provide input about what you would like to see at TISA. We will follow up with the results to this survey at the Stakeholders Facilities Meeting. Follow this link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JGK2B97

meeting: New Campus Discussion -- 5:30

Saturday -- 9/17 - 4-6pm: Glam Trash Fashion Show -- See you there!
Glam trash is an amazing display of local creativity. The event was the brainchild of Nicole Cowalski, TISA's very cool first grade teacher herself!

September 17, 2016 -- This Saturday! 

Sunday -- 9/18 - 1pm: Ice Cream Social on TISA's new campus! DREAM COME TRUE!

TISA is very excited to announce that we have completed the purchase of the land (4.69 acres) located at 118 Toalne for our school's permanent location between LaPosta and Toalne Rd., behind and adjacent to Nusenda Credit Union. 

Please bring the entire family and join us in celebrating this milestone in TISA's development this coming Sunday.

What:   Ice Cream Social provided by TISA PTA
When:  Sunday, 9/18 -- 1:00 - 2:30 PM
Where:  Parking is in the dirt lot at the corner of LaPosta and Zia.

Presenters to include TISA Governing Council President, Jill Cline, TISA Governing Council Member, Judge Ernie Ortega, and Alix Henry of Henry Architects who has worked with us on various aspects of our development.  In addition, Governing Council Member, and Chair of the TISA Facilities Committee, Johanna DiBiase, will be in attendance with drawings from our Master Plan and will be available to answer your questions.  You will have an opportunity to volunteer for the Facilities Committee or other committees on that day as well. 

Sept 20 -- Pizza money due ($2 per slice) -- topping choices: cheese or pepperoni 

Sept 20 -- Field Trip: Library -- We loved our first visit! We can all check out 2 books! (If your child would like to take their book home, they will need to bring their library card)

Sept 23 - 24: PASEO -- https://paseoproject.org/

TISA kinder's collaborative pendulum painting with be displayed at Twirl 

TISA's middle school is also participating!

Protest with Light -- a.k.a. The Illuminator
Teacher: Megan Bowers Avina -- TISA's magnificent fourth grade teacher
Topic: Using light projections as a means of political expression, environmental transformation, and public discourse.

Sept 24 - Oct2: Taos Fall Arts Festival -- TISA Kinder will be displaying their magical butterfly garden multi-media creation

Sept 29 -- First Fundraiser Packets Due -- Kinder Families, let's make it a success!

Hi TISA Parents, Friends & Family! It's fundraising time again! Mixed Bag Designs is helping TISA reach ourfundraising goals this year. Seller packets are going home soon - make sure to check those backpacks if you haven't seen it yet. We're offering colorful totes, accessories, kitchenware and gift wrap - there's something for everyone in these catalogs.

 TISA PTA is also offering amazing prizes! The top 5 TISA sellers will each receive a $20 gift card to Twirl! But that's not all... every student that sells 5 items or more will get their name in the drawing for a FAMILY DINNER & MOVIE NIGHT!A family 4-pack of tickets to Storyteller Cinema  AND  - A $50 gift card to 5 Star BurgersOut of town friends & family can shop online and have orders shipped directly to them.  So ANYONE around the country can support our fundraiser!  We will receive 50% of every catalog sale, and 40% of every online sale. Clink on the link down below to be sent directly to our online fundraising page.Packets will be due to your teacher by Thursday, September 29th.Thank you,TISA PTA 

Homework: 

Take your child's water bottle home for a thourough cleanup!

Monday -- due Tuesday: Draw/bring sg that rhymes with hat/rat/cat/bat/fat/pat  (Tt in FINAL position / "at" family)
Tuesday -- due Wednesday: Math at Home (green booklet): page 6
Wednesday -- due Thursday: Find and cut out a word that has many letters (we are looking for the longest word we can find)

Sign onto Lexia -- see your child's logon info attached
Read 20 minutes daily! Complete reading log and bring it to class
read to a stuffed animal/doll/little brother/sister

Clubs and tutoring update: Games club on Thursdays (3:30-4:30) and tutoring on Wednesdays (3:30-4:30)

Next week's snack help:
Monday: Gracen, Tuesday: Owen, Wednesday: Paris
Thursday: pizza day! Bring money ($2 per slice) in attached envelope by TUESDAY and put it in homework tray please.



The next chapter in kinder entomology: what's the name of this bug?


What does a katydid's leg look like?



 Beanbag Buddies


Catch and count! Beanbag work


My first accordion book: T (tire, tough, teeth) -- 6 pages!



Enrichment with Mr Laire: Animal eyes
Which animal did you draw?


Working with the reading program: Lexia
(Student log-on information in your child's backpack)



Twirl pendulum adventure #2: Painting with the pendulum





















Spirograph station at Twirl



Wow! This is what a pendulum does with paint!



On the giant chair at Twirl


Wheeling around at Twirl


Happy #6 Birthday, Santiago Sergio!


TISA kinder butterflies emerging from paper for the Taos Open Art Show

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Hello Sweet Families,                                              

Here is the newsletter that is coming home in your child's backpack this Thursday. Scroll down for the photos! Have a nice weekend!

HOW TO KEEP IN TOUCH / UPDATES

Jutka’s cell: 779-1952 (Feel free to text me and I will respond as soon as time allows.)

If your call is urgent, please call the office at 758-7755 or the kindergarten room at 758-7755 extension 1010.

email: jutkatisa@gmail.com 

Kinder blog: tisakinder.blogspot.com (This is your hotline. Kinder newsletters and announcements will be published here in "Hoot." I suggest that you bookmark it right now.)

TISA home page: http://tisataos.org/

Follow us on Facebook: TISA on Facebook  at https://www.facebook.com/Taos-Integrated-School-of-the-Arts-977221702303884/?fref=ts

Kinder electronic portfolios are up on TISA’s Google Drive. If you have not received an invitation to view your child’s work, please let me know.

The kinder blog is updated weekly at tisakinder.blogspot.com .

Kindergarten has homework to complete on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (no homework on weekends and on Thursdays). PLEASE CHECK THE BLOG BY MONDAY to get the weekly updates and the homework assignments.

Also, please check your child’s backpack for documents being sent home.

These are the documents that are in your child’s backpack today (Thursday):

·         TWIRL’s field trip form for next Tuesday. – PLEASE RETURN THIS FORM FILLED OUT ON MONDAY

·         September snack and show-and-tell schedule

·         PTA newsletter – PLEASE RETURN ON MONDAY (Sept. 12)

·         MATH AT HOME (Everyday Mathematics student book 1) – PLEASE HANG ON TO THIS COPY AT HOME. Math homework will be often assigned from this text.

TISA Clubs and tutoring

We are currently working with teachers to come up with a schedule of clubs. Please check your email to see which clubs are available to sign up for.
Tutoring in kindergarten will be based on need. You and I will schedule a conference with you if you or I think your child could benefit from tutoring.

Homework:

Do on Monday, due on Tuesday: bring something with 2 syllables

Do on Tuesday, due on Wednesday: create a pattern collage / coloring page with things around your house

Do on Wednesday, due on Thursday: Math at Home – page 4 (pick an activity from that page to do)

Read 20 minutes daily! Complete your reading log and bring it to class when it’s completed.

Please let me know if you would like to have a paper copy of the kinder news. ( I can run one for you without the photos.)

We had a super-dynamic Twirl science workshop at TISA with Kendra Peralta -- Motion Play -- Exploring the pendulum







Pendulum experiments -- journal entry (writing workshop)



Pre-writing artwork (lightning for straight lines, chipmunk hop for curvy lines)




Using straight and curvy lines to build uppercase letters




Alphabet sort



Writing workshop: life cycle of a butterfly



Working with numbers
How many treats gave the caterpillar a stomachache?













Jewels, jewels everywhere! Grouping by tens.

Graphing letters in our names.



Happy Birthday, Tessa! Thank you for the tasty blueberry muffins and grapes!



Show and tell time!  Clover made a Tipi and Tessa brought in her Terrarium. How perfect was that for letter T work!?!