The Dolphin’s Tale

The bi-weekly principal’s newsletter of

Travilah Elementary School

Susan J. Shenk, Principal

Issue #7

December 7, 2018

Upcoming Events

December

10 7:00pm 4th & 5th grade Chorus and Advanced Band Winter

Concert

12 - Grade 1 Mad Science – Light, Color, Actions

13 -

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Mrs. Shafer’s class to Seneca Schoolhouse Museum

Grade 2 Mad Science – Super Structures

14 - Grade 5 to Frost for Band Concert

20 - Mrs. Knoblach’s class to Seneca Schoolhouse Museum

21 - Last day prior to Winter Break – Full day of school!

School Spirit Day! Wear Travilahwear or blue!

January

2 - School Resumes!

9 7:00pm World Culture Night Rehearsal

10 - Grade 2 to Imagination Stage - Cinderella

11 -

7:00pm

Read-A-Thon Kickoff

World Culture Night

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7-8:30pm

Author Visit – Kerry Sherry

Read-A-Thon PJ Party

17 - Grade 4 to White House

21 - Holiday – Schools and Offices closed – MLK Jr.’s

Birthday

25 1:20pm

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Early Release Day

Read-A-Thon Ends

School Spirit Day! Wear Travilahwear or blue!

28 - Professional Day – No School for students

30 7:00pm Beginning Band Concert

School Contact

Phone: 240-740-4300 Attendance Line: 240-740-4290

School Fax: 240-740-4298

Visit the Travilah Elementary School website for additional information about the school. Visit the PTA website to get involved with the PTA and see all before and after school

activities!

Principal’s Writing Wall

Each week students’ writing is displayed on the Principal’s Writing Wall. All

students will be featured at least once during the year. The following students’

work was highlighted during the week of November 26, 2018.

GRADE 2

Mrs. Facine’s class – Aarush Aggarwal, Abigail Beason, Sri Eadala, Joey Kelley, Audrey Liu Mrs. Koval’s class – Vincent Geeng, Catherine Hogan, Divyesh Malledi, Chelsea Owen, Tanatswa Zvada Mrs. Jarczynski’s class – Miriam Akli, Catherine Hall, AJ Kessler, Udai Singh

GRADE 3

Mrs. Bowman’s class – Alyssa Corbin, Aislin Deng, Danny Murphy, Sarayu Penchala, Emma Toothaker Mrs. Chidakel’s class – Neela Krishnan, Lulie Naude, Sasha Rosenman, Caleb Van Grack, Julie Woo Mrs. Perel’s class – Rachel Coapstick, Katherine Jeffers, Ansh Singh, Arya Subramanian, Deborah Zhu

The Season of Giving

Thank you to those of you who helped to make our

Dollars for Turkeys Drive such a success. We raised

$1480.00 for the families at Summit Hall Elementary School. This enabled us to purchase enough

Giant Food gift cards to help 25 families enjoy a Thanksgiving meal. What a generous community

and a wonderful lesson in sharing for our students. We have started collecting coats for our annual

Winter Coat Drive. This project will continue through January 31, 2019. The need is great for

new or like-new, clean winter coats in both children’s and adult’s sizes. New warm socks, hats,

scarves and gloves are also needed in children’s sizes. Donations may be deposited in the marked

boxes located in the foyer outside of the office. All donated items will be delivered to the Linkages

to Learning office at Summit Hall Elementary School and distributed to the students and their

families. Travilah Elementary School is also a collection site for Toys for Tots. Donations of new,

unwrapped toys and games may be dropped off in the foyer outside of the school office. The toys

will be picked up by Mr. Abbott, MCPS bus driver and transported to a Marine Corps depot for

distribution. Please consider giving your support to the U.S. Marine Corps’ worthy cause of

providing toys to children this holiday season.

Colder Weather and Jackets

Please make sure to put your child’s name in his/her winter coat, hat, and gloves. We

have many jackets that look the same, and we want to make sure your child actually

has his/her own coat. Also, if the coat is misplaced, we can easily return it to the

proper owner. Thanks for your help with this issue! If you are missing a jacket,

please stop by the lost and found.

Lost and Found There are many coats, hats, and gloves in our Lost and Found. Please remind

your students to check the Lost and Found in the cafeteria. Any items unclaimed

in Lost and Found on December 21st will be donated to Summit Hall ES over

Winter Break.

P.E. CLASS OF THE WEEK

Week of November 26, 2018 Congratulations to Mrs. Chidakel’s class! Week of December 3, 2018 Congratulations to Mrs. Tassiello’s class!

P.E. LEADER OF THE WEEK

Week of November 26, 2018 Congratulations to Ella Johnson in Mrs. Shafer ’s class! Week of December 3, 2018 Congratulations to Ashen Abeywarna in Mrs. Rivera ’s class!

Playground Superstars

WEEKS OF NOVEMBER 5-26, 2018

Grade 5: Blake Briskman, Chloe Ayissi-Etoh, Kaysah Kusow,

Caroline Min, Jillian Nalibotsky, Alex Grainger, Rick Guo,

Mackenzie Noble, Anthony Hall, Michelle Liu, Nandini Ranganathan

Grade 4: Landon Pape, Gabriel Gorbach, Jae Peak, Abigail Lee, Linda Wang, Myra Boppana,

Audrey Wang, Hannah Goren, Neeki Naderi, Ashrita Khetan

Grade 3: Alisia Yan, Elise Shakarji, Ansh Singh, Chris Ngako, T.J. Saavedra, Aislin Deng

Grade 2: Ella Wu, Ellie Dorfman, Vincent Geeng, Miriam Akli, Sarah Erkan, Dale Chao-Gowdy,

Eve Browne

Grade 1: Yesutor Agbelie, Sofia Ovanesov, Andrew Vasiltsov, Sofia Encarnacion, Naumi Naderi,

Evan Zhang, Tristan Davis-Astrada, Aiden Zhao, Andy Saavedra, Shaunak Shenolikar,

Nickolas Nishnianidze

Kindergarten: Amiya Brunner, Enzo Shamounki, Carmelo Encarnacion

Special Dolphin Tales Thank You to

Michael Cao and family for keeping our outside sign up to date! Chunhada Corbin for being a wonderful Copy Queen!

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If you have any comments or questions, please email Mrs. Shenk at

Susan_Shenk@mcpsmd.org