3/10/23

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Hello TLA Families!

Cheers to another great week of learning... and breakfast! This week we celebrated National School Breakfast Week. Each day our kitchen staff treated our scholars to fun and new breakfast items to explore. They went above and beyond with tasty recipes and an exciting display. A record number of scholars ate breakfast this week. Please continue to encourage your scholars to eat a balanced and filling breakfast to kick start there day and get their brains off and running! Enjoy your weekend.

Now, let's go be great.

Tavi Riddle - Principal, K4-5th

Priscilla El-Amin - Principal, 6th - 12th

As parents you are essential partners in helping ensure TLA provides scholars with the tools and skills necessary to have happy, choice-filled lives. Please join us at our upcoming PLC meeting March 21st. This month's meeting is scheduled for 6:00 - 7:00 pm. We want to ensure the meeting times accommodate the majority of parents interested in participating in PLC.

Thursday, March 16th is a dress down day. Scholars may dress in college wear or dress for their future career. Regular dress down day expectations should be followed. No leggings, ripped jeans, sweatpants, or slides (Crocs). Shoes must be closed toe and heel.

The following K4 scholars in Ms. Samuelson's and Ms. Ramos' classroom can write numbers 1-10 with consistency to create addition equations relating to the two groupings of items being added together.

• Hayden Moller
• Javnault Griffin
• Edith Ehlers
• Nia Walker
• Quest Riddle
• Saoirse Weyker
• Owen Kerrivan
• Hugo Perez Nevarez
• Noble Kellogg
• Riley Brannon

3rd grade scholars are receiving daily cursive instruction. They are making fabulous growth in their cursive skills. TLA believes this is an important skill and will continue to teach cursive in 3rd grade every year.

Scholars in 3rd grade learned how to write a summary while they were reading a story about taekwondo. They also got to have a little fun while learning a few moves.

As we prepare for state testing, it is important to recognize that this can indeed be a source of

added stress for scholars. Tests can naturally be stressful, but the added focus and attention

that comes with state testing can create an even greater sense of pressure. As a school, we

want to do our best to help support our scholars who might be experiencing some test anxiety

by giving some suggestions to our families on things they can do at home that can help. Here

are a few helpful tips for supporting your scholar:

1) In any stressful situation, whether it be in competition, at work, or with tests, deep

breathing is a great way to help calm one’s nerves. Remind your child to visualize

something that is calming to them, and then practice taking slow deep breaths. A great

strategy to help with this is called 5 Finger Breathing. Scholars start at the base of their

thumb and trace a finger up while inhaling, then slowly trace down their thumb while

exhaling. Then move on to your fingers, repeating the breathing pattern. See the images

below to help!

2) Another strategy you could talk about at home is what educational psychologist Dr.

Michele Borba calls the 1+3+10 Strategy. Dr. Borba teaches students that when they feel

like they are getting tense, they should 1 stop and tell themselves: “Be calm,” then take 3

deep slow breaths, then count slowly to 10.

3) Don’t underestimate a good night's rest. The simple reminder to get to bed a little earlier

the night before can do a lot of good to help reduce one’s stress level.

4) Remind your child that feeling anxious is normal! Anytime in life when we have

something important on the horizon it is normal for us to feel nervous about it.

Sometimes students can compound their anxiety if they think that feeling nervous is

abnormal.

Perhaps the most important thing to remind your child is that once that test starts, just “try

their best and forget the rest!” It can be helpful to remind them that the primary function of

state tests is to give feedback to their teachers and school. State tests help us determine what

areas we can continue to improve in our instruction, as well as help us identify the learning

needs of individual scholars.

We only have 4 days left in quarter 3. It closes on March, 16th. Scholars should ensure they are completing any missing work and putting their best into final projects and tests. Be sure to check your child's Skyward account for missing assignments.

This month we are learning the virtue of HONESTY. “Honesty is living truthfully in your words, actions, and thoughts.” Telling the truth takes a lot of courage, especially when a child is afraid of punishment. When your scholar comes to you with the truth, please reward them with praise. This reaction will help your scholar feel great about their honesty, particularly in situations where a lie would have been easier. Thank you TLA families for helping teach our scholars about HONESTY.

This Monday we start the R.O.A.R. system. R.O.A.R. stands for Responsible, On task, Accountable and Respectful. We have created an individual reward system for every scholar that is following the high expectations that TLA has set. 6th-10th grade scholars will receive a lanyard and a punch card on Monday. Scholars will earn R.O.A.R. punches in which they may exchange for items from Mr. Cieplewski (every Thursday). Our scholars have come up with great ideas for items in the shop and the 300 punch “big prize”!!

We know that there are days when children don’t always feel their best. Sometimes it can be tough to know when to keep your child home from school or not, so here are some helpful guidelines.

If you have questions or concerns about your child’s attendance, we are here to help! Please reach out to the School Social Worker, Mrs. Nitz, at (608) 690-5158 or jennifer.nitz@tlabeloit.com

Our Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) field trip, that was canceled due to snow, was rescheduled this week. Middle and high school scholars interested in STEAM visited Beloit College's Center for Entrepreneurship. They were give a tour of the building and then tasked with working in teams to problem solve, engineer, and design. One task was to develop a game that they could market to families, if they lost electricity. Each group was given a gallon size bag of supplies and had five minutes to engineer a game.

Six high school scholars participated in the Junior Achievement Titans Business Challenge this week. Scholars competed with students from around Rock County. Teams were tasked with running a simulated company in the mobile phone industry, with success depending on production, pricing, marketing, research and development decisions. Scholars worked together to strategize what step to take next. These scholars are looking forward to competing again next year.

This month our career focus is Healthcare. Scholars interested in healthcare participated in a career panel last week. The learned about medical imagining and working in a lab. Scholars had the opportunity to learn about the different careers in healthcare and ask questions about what the representative does. Once of the representatives was a student at Blackhawk Technical College graduating this year. Scholars were surprised that she already has a job lined up at Beloit Health Systems.

TLA is proud to announce that Ms. Benisch, Director of Career Planning and Partnerships, won the Wisconsin Technology Educations Association Special Recognition award at this year's conference.

The Beloit Public Library has just released their Spring Program Guide. Check it out here so that you don't miss out on their amazing opportunities. Tomorrow they will be hosting their monthly "When I Grow Up" Storytime from 11:00-12:00, featuring being a teacher this month. Free books and lunch is provided.

Do you want to hear tips, tricks, and proven strategies that will help your scholar boost their profile ahead of college. Find out how scholars can crack the code to gain acceptance to these highly sought-after colleges in another exclusive webinar brought to us by our partners at Collegewise.

Topic: Understanding Highly Selective Admissions (What admissions officers look for when reviewing applications, how students can maximize their application, the latest admissions statistics and how it impacts future applicants)
Intended Audience: College-bound scholars and their families
Time: Tuesday, March 28 at 5:00 pm PT / 8:00 pm ET
Format: Free online webinar + live Q&A with experts

Sign Up Now!

Beloit College is offering an intensive foreign language summer program open to rising high school juniors. Scholars would be a part of a community with students from around the country learning a different language such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Russian. For more information click here.

Spring sports are just around the corner. This spring we look forward to hosting baseball, soccer (club), softball, and baseball. To be eligible to participate in a spring sport scholars must be academically eligible, submit all required athletic forms (Skyward), have an up-to-date sports physical, and pay their athletic fees. Mr. Clothier will be emailing all scholars who have signed up for a spring sport. If you did not receive an email, you are not rostered and need to contact Athletic Director Mr. Clothier as soon as possible.

Sport Specific Information:

• Baseball

• Who: 6 - 10th grade scholars

• Where: Practice and Home Games will be held at Leeson’s Park

• Address: 2200 Milwaukee Road - Beloit, WI 53511

• Coaches

• Head Coach - Coach Cieplewski email: robert.cieplewski@tlabeloit.com

• Assistant Coach: Coach Davie email: shane.davie@tlabeloit.com

• When

• Grades 9 and 10 start March 20th and end May 25th.

• Grades 6 - 8 start April 17th and end May 25th.

• Softball

• Who: Any 6 - 10th grade scholars

• Where: Practice and Home Games will be held at Leeson’s Park

• Address: 2200 Milwaukee Road - Beloit, WI 53511

• Coaches

• Head Coach - Coach Swanson email: brianne.swanson@tlabeloit.com

• Assistant Coach: Coach Cole email: hanna.cole@tlabeloit.com

• When

• Grades 9 and 10 start March 20th and end May 25th.

• Grades 6 - 8 start April 17th and end May 25th.

• Track and Field

• Who: 6 - 10th grade scholars

• Where: Practice and Home Games will be held at and around The Lincoln Academy campus.

• Coaches:Head Coach - Flor Finley email: flor.finley@tlabeloit.com

• When

• Grades 9 and 10 start March 20th and end May 25th.

• Grades 6 - 8 start April 17th and end May 25th.

• Soccer Club

• Who: 1st - 10th grade scholars

• Where: Practice and Home Games will be held at Telfer Park

• Address: 2101 Cranston Rd, Beloit, WI 53511

• When: April 19th - May 24th.

• Grades 6-10 meet every Wednesday 4:30 - 6:00

• Grades 1-3 meet every Friday 4:30 - 5:30

• Coaches:

• Head Coach - Coach Cieplewski email: robert.cieplewski@tlabeloit.com

• Assistant Coach: Coach Davie email: shane.davie@tlabeloit.com

• All athletic schedules are available at TLA Athletic Schedules. You can also download the rschooltoday “Activity Scheduler” to get notifications and updates for each team.

March

Career Focus - Healthcare (3/1)

• 3/14 - PI Day Assembly
• 3/16 - Dress Down Day - College Wear or Future Career
• 3/17 - NO SCHOLAR ATTENDANCE - Records Day /Quarter 3 Ends
• 3/21 - PLC Meeting (6:00 - 7:00 pm)
• 3/21 - State Assessments Begin
• 3/27 - 4/28 - Character Virtue - PERSEVERANCE
• 3/30 - Parent/Teacher Conferences & Book Fair
• 3/31 - Parent/Teacher Conferences & Book Fair
• 3/31 - NO SCHOLAR ATTENDANCE