News and Reminders

Math ~ Chapter 5 TEST on Tuesday, October 30.

Field Trip ~ Our first field trip is scheduled for Thursday, November 29. We will leave the school at 9:30 and return by 12:30. We will be going to the Museum of Arts and Sciences. Students and attending parents will need a sack lunch and drink. Field trip permission slips are in your child's Signed Paper folder. Please complete the front and back and return in by Wednesday, October 31. The sooner we have all the permission forms, the sooner we can finalize travel arrangements and get that information turned in to the front office.


Reading ~  We have finished the first 5 chapters of The Magician's Nephew and the children really seem to be enjoying it. They are busy trying to figure out the connections to parts of the Chronicles of Narnia that they know. Now that we have a good understanding of most of the main characters, we will move a little more quickly and do some reading at home. I hope to cover chapters 6-9 next week. Question sheet over chapters 4-6 on Tuesday.  

Edline ~ We hope you are regularly checking your child's grades using Edline.  Here is a pretty quick way to get to the grades:

• Login with your username and password
• In the column on the left, click "My Content"
• Click "Private Reports"
• In the pull down menu, select your child's name
• Click on "view" to see the grades so far this quarter

You will notice in the top left corner of each subject a quarterly average and a yearly average. If you have any questions, please let us know or contact Paula Douthit in the front office at paula.douthit@tattnall.org

Quick notes~

One-Act Play performance ~ Trojan Hall ~ Saturday at 7:00 ~ $3.00

Discount Cards are coming ~ more details on the way

Elementary soccer registration deadline ~ Thursday, October 1

News and Reminders

School Picture orders are due Tuesday, October 23. Re-takes are on Wednesday, October 24.

Test Alert:
     Language~ Ch. 4,5, & 29 on Friday, Oct. 26th
     Math~ Ch. 5 on Tuesday, Oct. 30th

Homecoming Week!

Click below to go to a slideshow of some of the week's activities and dress-up days!

News and Reminders

Next week is HOMECOMING!!

Listed below are the themes and other events/information for each day. We would love to have 100% participation for the dress-ups! Students not participating in dress-up days must be in uniform. 

Monday, October 15- Blast From the Past Day

Tuesday, October 16-Hunters and Hillbillies

(no weapons :)

Wednesday, October 17- College & Career Day

Half-day dismissal for ALL students

Powder Puff Game Jr. vs. Sr. 7:00 Admission to the 

game is 1 canned food item or a $1 donation to be

given to a local food bank.

Thursday, October 18- Character Day

11:30 4th Grade picnic (Please send a lunch, drink, and a towel or blanket)

1:30-2:00- School Wide “Tame the Lions” Parade on the track and crowning of the Homecoming King (You are invited!)

2:00-3:15- On-campus community service for students in grades 7-12.

Friday, October 19 – Tattnall Day- (Blue, Gold, or Homecoming t-shirts)

         1:30 ~ Athletic Complex Elementary Pep Rally. 

         2:00 ~ All school Pep Rally~ You are invited! 

                     We will leave the Pep Rally to 

                     dismiss at our regular time.

During the week of Homecoming, as a community service project, Elementary Student Council will collect used clothes, shoes, books, CDs, DVDs, and VHS tapes. Collection boxes will be placed on the elementary sidewalk.  As an incentive, each time a student brings in a donation, he/she will receive a ticket.  At the end of the week, student council will draw tickets for door prizes! Donated items will be distributed to families in the Pleasant Hill area of Macon by The Strong Tower Fellowship Mission. 

The Band of Gold is selling Indian River Fruit to help raise funds for their Disney trip in March.  Orders may be placed with a Band of Gold member or in Mrs. Cheek’s office.  Orders will be taken through the end of October.  The fruit will be delivered the week before Thanksgiving break! These make great gifts for the holidays and are perfect for holiday cooking and eating as well!

 

A limited number of 2011-2012 yearbooks are still available for purchase.  See Ms. Dykes in Room 110 or Mrs. Cheek.  Books are $60.

The Magician's Nephew

Big news in Reading today! We are putting away our reading book for a few weeks because we are beginning The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis.  This book is part of the Chronicles of Narnia series and chronologically, it is first. Many of the curious things about Narnia, for instance, a lamp post in the forest, are explained in this book. A few other things to know...

• Each student will have his/her own copy of the book. The cost of the book was included in the Elementary Fee at the beginning of the year.
• Students will be writing and making notes in their books using colored pencils. Most of this we will do in class.
• This is their textbook and must be brought to school daily. It would be good for students to reread what was read in class each day, but please do not read ahead! We are making important predictions using textual clues about what we think will happen and it's hard to predict when you know what is going to happen. 
• Students will be writing brief summaries for most of the chapters (4-5 sentences) which will be modeled in class.
• After every 3 or 4 chapters, students will have a question sheet to complete for a grade. It will count as a daily grade, and I will let them know ahead of time when those are coming up in class.

I hope you get a chance to read along with your son or daughter. The Magician's Nephew is such a wonderful book!