Please help your child with the routine of bringing home their weekly reflections in their folder on Friday, and returning it on Monday with a note from a grown up. The notes should be specific and encouraging and be addressed to the student. The purpose is to celebrate their learning and goal setting, and to help […]
Hi, you have probably seen me around campus but aren’t quite sure who I am or what I do, so I thought that a blog post would be a great opportunity to fill you all in! My name is Susan Winesmith and I’m the EdTech Specialist here at TBS. I work closely with our IT […]
We started this week with a look at Christopher Columbus. While many around the country celebrate the explorer that Christopher Columbus was, there has not been the same emphasis on the people who were originally here “in 1492 when Columbus sailed across the ocean blue.” In Temescal Creek, we talked about the other side of […]
Thank you to all of the grown ups that took the time to meet with us during parent-teacher conferences last Thursday and Friday. We enjoyed connecting and partnering with you and learned even more about your children. Teaming up is the best way to help each students bloom and thrive in third grade and conferences were a […]
The K5 Faculty (and by extension, the whole school) is elevating our focus on the skills of active listening. When sharing, collaborating or communicating in any form, listening is the complement to speaking, and is also critical to the healthy development of perspective-taking and empathy. Skillful listening allows students to see and support others effectively, […]
It is hard to believe that our Temescalian community has been together for 5 weeks already! This week started out as a scorcher but cooled down in time to bid September goodbye and welcome October! As we continue to build community in Temescal Creek, we talk about tools that we use to support ourselves and […]
