Tawanka Times
May 26, 2023
REMIMDER - MONDAY, MAY 29TH - No School





Summer Reading
Summer is just around the corner and Neshaminy has all your summer reading needs covered! Join us this summer as we embark on an adventure to "Find the Treasure in Reading" with Neshaminy's Summer Reading program! All readers from K-4 are welcome and encouraged to participate. To find out more and get early access to our summer reading lists and resources, please join us for a virtual presentation on Monday, June 5th at 6:30pm on Zoom. Click here to register today!

Title I Spring Parent Meeting
Thank you to the parents who joined us this past Monday for our Title I Spring Meeting! At this meeting, we reviewed some basic information about our Title I program, discussed improvements to our Parent and Family Engagement Policy and our Home-School Compact, and looked at Tawanka's testing data from the 2022-2023 school year. If you were unable to make the meeting but want to learn more about Title I at Tawanka, please click here to view the slides from the meeting. For more information on Tawanka's schoolwide testing performance and progress toward our Title I goal for the 2022-2023 school year, please click here.
NSD Parent and Family Engagement Survey
Please take a few minutes to respond to the survey below so that we can gather information to continuously improve our Parent and Family Engagement Policy. This information will be used to help us evaluate our current policy and to inform the future development of parent and family engagement activities. Click here to complete the survey.

Ms. Conway's Class
Tawanka children are learning and practicing eye-foot coordination while playing kickball games in gym this week.

Ms. Neff's Class
The boys and girls in Mrs. Neff's Kindergarten class filled their Button Jar for remembering to raise their hands and show Tawanka Eagle expectations. As their reward, they voted to eat lunch outside at the kindergarten playground. What a fun memory to take with them as they head to first grade!

Ms. Trotta's Class
We are engineers! Students in Miss Trotta's class worked together to help Danny the Duck! His pond was filled with trash. Students worked together to create something to remove the trash from the pond. Everyone worked hard and created something to help Danny in the pond. Great work my engineers!


Ms. Fedele and Ms. Wells Classes
Mrs. Fedele and Ms. Wells had the most participants sign up for the Sunset Challenge and were rewarded with an extra P.E. period.


Ms. Atwater's Class

Mrs. Phillips' Class
Mrs. Phillips' class put on a Readers' Theater for the rest of the second grade using their weekly reading story, "When It Rains". It was a success!


Mrs. Sylvester's Class

Mrs. Tryon's Class
The students in Mrs. Tryon’s class made perfectly symmetrical butterflies. They drew half of the butterfly, traced it with a crayon, then transferred the image to the other side of the paper by rubbing the image with a wooden block. Making sure to color the design symmetrically as well. The result… some beautiful butterflies!


Mr. Finkel's Class
Mr. Finkel's class made their own 2D/3D obstacle course race while calculating area and perimeter.

Ms. McHugh's Class
As a math extension activity, the fourth grade students got together with their buddy class to measure and graph their heights.



