Hello Families,
Just reminder to be ready for our field trip to SFMoMA on Monday, 2/26 at 8:30am. Please remember a packed lunch and water bottles. (Keep gum, candy, and glass containers at home.) We’ll leave TBS around 9am and aim to be back at school by 3pm. Please dress comfortably and considering the weather in SF.

Also, Temescalians’ 1,000 Projects are due on Wednesday, 2/28! Please remember to fill out the green sheet and bring it in with your project!
We invite families to come from 8:35 – 9:00am on Friday, 3/1 to see K-3 100 Collections and 1,000 Projects. If Temescalians would like to view collections from other classes, please accompany them and enjoy the collections from other classes together!

We started a new unit in math focusing on telling time and fractions. Practice telling time to the hour, half hour, and quarter hour with your Temescalian.

Our new writing project to come up with New Year’s resolutions incorporates the use of transitions between each resolution. Look for these New Year’s resolutions up on the wall soon!

Our Friendship Week was a fun filled one, with thoughtful acts of kindness and focus on a Secret Pal. We hope that with the Secret Pals, Temescalians got to know a classmate better than they did before! In class, we talked about different kinds of love: love between friends, love between family members, love for a team, and romantic love. They are all different, and all good types of love. We shared some of that love with notes to faculty and staff.

Passing out Valentines and enjoying them!

We challenged the kids to make the tallest tower of paper hearts when given a sheet of construction paper, glue stick, one pair of scissors, and one rule. Kids decided if they wanted to be paired up or work solo. They learned that the width of each heart matters, the width of foundation of the tower was also important. Building on each others’ suggestions with kind words was a key component to those working in pairs. Try this experiment at home with your Temescalian!

To round out our week of Secret Pals, we spent time to write appreciations for our Secret Pal. We decorated cookies for each Temescalian and Secret Pal. Thanks to Naomi and Bubbie for baking the dairy free cookies, making dairy free frosting, and joining us to decorate them! We read the appreciations and Temescalians could choose if they wanted other kids to guess who their Secret Pal was, or to just reveal it, and they got to share the cookie they decorated with the Secret Pals. It was a sweet moment of community building and appreciations.

We have had two of our five sessions with an instructor from Freight & Salvage. We are learning basic percussion. This session, we learned about a Nigerian call and response. We first used our bodies to practice the rhythm before using instruments.

We got to see a video by Yeti that featured a skate camp that one of our Temescalians participates in. (Her part comes in around 2 minutes)
YETI Power Pink Collection | Color Inspired By True Events (youtube.com)

We also celebrated a Temescalian’s birthday!

Upcoming Events

February
26 – Field trip to SFMoMA
28 – 1,000 Projects are due

March
1 – Families welcomed into K-3 classes to see 100 collections/1,000s Projects
14 & 15 – Parent Teacher conferences (No school, childcare available)