The Eagle Express
Soar to Success - September 2021
2021-2022 School Year Off to a Great Start!
Gena Carpenter
TALLY PTO NEWS
Please Join Us For PTO Meetings
All parents are welcome. Please feel free to bring your lunch. PTO Meeting Dates are listed below:
- September 14th - PTO/Title I Meeting
- October 12th
- November 9th
- December 14th
- January 11th
- February 8th
- March 8th
- April 12th
- May 10th
We look forward to seeing you there!
PTO Provides Fiesta Lunch for Teachers
Tally T-Shirts and Sweatshirts
Tally Spirit Night at Raising Cane's
Raising Cane's donates a portion of the proceeds directly back to benefit Tally students, so we look forward to seeing you there!
Wednesday, Sep 15, 2021, 04:30 PM
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers, Junction Highway, Kerrville, TX, USA
TALLY'S AMAZING ARTISTS
Upcoming Events
* Sept. 14th - PTO Meeting – 12:00
* Sept. 14th–16th - 4th & 5th Grade Honor Choir Tryouts 3:15-3:45
* Sept. 15th - Lifetouch Fall Group & Individual Photos
* Sept. 15th - Raising Cane’s Spirit Night
* Sept. 17th - Posting of New Honor Choir Members
* Sept. 20th - 4th&5th Grade Student Council Applications and Posters Due
* Sept. 21st - Honor Choir Rehearsal 3:15 – 3:55pm
* Sept. 22nd - 5th Grade Student Council speeches @ 2:15
* Sept. 23rd - 4th Grade Student Council speeches @ 2:15
* Sept. 24th - First Six Weeks End
* Sept. 28th - Honor Choir Rehearsal 3:15 – 3:55pm
* Oct. 1st - Awards Assembly K – 2 @ 8:15 – 9:00, 3rd – 5th @ 9:15 – 10:00
KPSF Blesses Tally Teachers
KPSF started Tally teachers' year off in a BIG way by presenting Innovative Teaching Grants to 18 recipients totaling $26,774!!! WOW!!! We cannot even begin to tell KPSF how much we appreciate how they support KISD students. These funds will go directly to benefit our Tally students and give them new opportunities for learning in their classroom. Thank you KPSF for partnering with our teachers to invest in the future of our Tally students.
College Changes Lives Program
Reading aloud to your child strengthens reading skills
Even if your child already knows how to read, it’s helpful for you to continue reading aloud to him.
Reading aloud gives your child valuable quality time with you— and it exposes them to ideas, concepts and vocabulary they might not get otherwise. Each time you read together, you add to their storehouse of knowledge and strengthen their reading comprehension skills.
To boost your child’s vocabulary skills as you read, define the words they don’t know. Then ask if they can think of words that have a similar or opposite meaning.
From time to time, see if your child can figure out the meaning of an unknown word by how it’s used in a sentence. Give examples of how the word might be used in other contexts. For example, note how the word sign can be a noun (Look at the stop sign) or a verb (Please sign your name here).
As you read, you can also help your child strengthen other skills, such as:
- Listening and speaking. After you’ve read a passage, have your child tell you what they heard. Ask specific questions—What did this character do? Where did he do it? How did it make him/her feel?
- Memory. Don’t just start reading where you left off in a book the night before. First ask your child to recall where you were in the story.
- Word recognition. Stop reading periodically. Ask your child to read a sentence or two to you. Help them sound out new words. Then have them read the sentences again.
Reprinted with permission from the September 2019 issue of Parents make the difference!® (Elementary School Edition) newsletter. Copyright © 2019 The Parent Institute®, a division of PaperClip Media, Inc.