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Home Teller Elementary Office Phone: (720) 424-3585 School Hours: 8:55AM-3:45PM Morning playground supervision begins at 8:45AM. |
May 2009 Tellergram
From the Principal….. MARK YOUR CALENDARS!Popsicles in the Park June 24, 6:30pm in Congress Park REGISTRATION will be on Tuesday August 4, 6:00am-2:00pm and Wednesday, August 5, 11:00AM-7:00PM Lemonade Social, Friday August 14, 5:00-6:00PM First Day of School is Wednesday, August 19, 2008 Kaleidoscope Corner RegistrationRegistration for Kaleidoscope Corner is next week! Returning families can register Tuesday, May 5 3:30-6:30pm @ Teller. New families can register Tuesday, May 12 3:30-6:30pm @ Teller. A $60 fee for one child/$75 per family is required to register your child(ren). Please also bring a list of people with address, and phone numbers who are permitted to pick-up your child, as well as numbers and addresses for doctors and dentists. In addition, you will be able to register for Kaleidescope for the 5 early release days for an additional non-refundable deposit of $75. The registration form will for 2009-10 school year be available on the website May 1. Kaleidoscope.dpsk12.org Reminder to All ParentsPlease remember to call the office at 303-333-4285 if your student will be absent for any reason.Also, if your child will arrive to their classroom after the 9:00am bell, even one minute, they must come to the office to check in and to receive a tardy pass. Thank you very much for your cooperation.  Denver PaloozaHOW CAN YOU HELP???Buy tickets, sell tickets to friends, get the word out! Donate or solicit an item for silent auction (gift certificate preferred) Donate item for bake sale Donate a bottle of wine for the famous Wall of Wine – bring to Teller’s office or Sarah Kinzer’s (1025 St. Paul St) VOLUNTEER FOR A SHIFT TO HELP AT THE EVENT Please send a message from our Contact page if you can help the night of the event. State your preference on times and duty if you have one. Shifts Bake Sale 3:30-5 Beer Sales 5-6:30 Wall of Wine 6:30-8 T-shirt Sales 8-9:30 Tickets 9:30-11 Dinner and a Play!“Although the last, not least!”“Mend your speech a little, Lest it may mar your fortunes.” Recognize these famous lines? They are from this year’s Shakespeare play…King Lear. Come to dinner and a play! May 5, 2009. The play starts at 7:00 pm, a spaghetti dinner will be served 5:00-6:30. Menu Spaghetti and Meatballs Salad Garlic Bread Dessert Beverage Cost: $6.00 adults, $4.00 children For many years now, Challenge students 3rd-5th have performed an abridged (shortened) but authentic (no words added or changed) version of a Shakespeare play for students, parents and friends. Please come and plan to enjoy our talented thespians. They work very hard and do an incredible job! The book fair will be at Teller May 5-8…including during King Lear Cast & Crew are pleased to announce that we will again be on stage for the Denver Shakespeare Festival on Friday, May 8 at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. We have been assigned a stage and performance times. We will perform each of 5 scenes from King Lear. The stage is called “The Curtain”, (which, ironically, has no curtain!) It is one of the first stages when you enter the DCPA from 14th Street. Here are our times: 10:51 Act 3, Scene 2 King rants in the storm 11:07 Act 3, Scene 7 Gloucester’s Eyes 11:22 Singers 11:54 Act 1, Scene 1 Beginning-Cordelia is disowned 12:24 Act 5, Scene 3 End- King dies after his daughters and his fool all die 1:00 Act 2, Scene 2 Kent is put into the stocks A Reminder to Parents: We need your help in making sure your child has appropriate behaviors when you bring them to after-school events or activities. Children should follow the day time school safety rules for evening activities. For your child’s safety, here are a few behaviors to keep an eye on: Walk in the school lunchroom and halls. (Please take them outside if they need to let off energy) Watch that they don’t climb or walk on the half wall in the ramp area outside the auditorium. Swinging upside down on banisters or railings can result in serious accidents. Roller blade shoes scuff and mark the floors. In addition, they are a safety hazard. Thank you for enforcing good manners with your child to keep them safe at evening events. Browse the Internet Like They Do In SchoolDoes your child want to show you a cool web page they learned about at school? Can't remember how to get to it? The same home page that it is on all the library computers can be accessed from an internet computer at home or at a public library. Just type http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/teller in your web browser.School SuppliesPTA will once again be selling bundled school supplies during registration time in August. If you don’t want to hassle with fighting over that last pack of pencils, let us do it! The profits from the sales go to the PTA. What a deal! Look for more information in the August registration packet.From the Lunchroom:All charges with the lunchroom manager are due as soon as possible. The deadline to have all charges paid is Monday, May 4th. After May 4th charging will no longer be allowed, so be sure to send money with your child. Students without money will receive and alternative lunch. Thank you in advance for pre-paying or sending lunch money with your students.If your child receives free lunch, the charges were probably incurred before your child was approved for free lunch and they still must be paid. Thank you, Lunchroom Manager, Melanie Hinkson Cleo Parker Robinson Dance CompanyCleo Parker Robinson Dance Company conducted a workshop with our first graders. Enjoying showing off their new moves are Gabriella DesForges, Nada Tolba, Gabriel Huichapa, Eduardo Torres & Zoe McGuire. Wellness at Teller The Teller Wellness Team is working with the DPS Wellness Team to build a program to help our community live healthy by making good food choices and exercising. Ms. Chris, Ms. Barton, Ms. Sullivan and Jen Stier kicked off this year with an assessment of the school’s wellness and developed a plan to improve the community’s practices and habits. The plan includes rewarding children for setting and meeting goals that challenge their running endurance; demonstrating preparation of healthy foods to families and spending some time enjoying them together; preparing a healthy snack in each class room each month using foods parents donate; and increasing our P.E. resource to deliver at least 25 min/day of P.E. instruction to all students by school year 2010-11. Stay tuned for ways your can get involved in the fall! Young AuthorsWinnersWe are pleased to announce that Teller’s Young Authors Awards are being given to third-grader Joshua Capra, who wrote Children’s Issues, and .Kandrick Pacheco-Fluker, who wrote Barack Obama A-Z (pictured below)  Each year, every DPS elementary school can participate in the Young Author’s Celebration. Awarded Books are selected from work the students have done at school. The selections are wonderful, creative works that we are very proud to have represent Teller students’ accomplishments in writing. This year’s Young Authors’ conference is on May 14th, 8:30-11:00. Student classroom assignmentsfor the next school year will be sent to parents around August 1st along with the dates for registration and other information.Do we have your current address? To ensure that you receive important school information, please update your address with the office staff if it has changed. Everyday MathDear Parents and GuardiansAs many of you may know, your children (along with all other DPS students) study Everyday Math in their classrooms. This math program may be a little different than the way many of us were taught in the past; however, this does not mean Everyday Math is too hard for anyone to comprehend. EM is a spiral math program that introduces students to each math concept several times over their school careers. Through this approach, EM hopes to build a better understanding of concepts, rather than just rote memorization of facts and procedures. Although some of you may be unfamiliar with the techniques used in Everyday Math, there are many helpful resources available to you and your children right at home! A great tool available to you and your child is the Everyday Math Games website. This site offers a plethora of grade-appropriate games that support your child’s learning. Most of our students at Teller have been exposed to EM Games, and know how to use the site. To access the site, your child has a small card with both his/her login and password printed on it. Also, on the EM Games site you and your child have access to the SRB (Student Reference Book) that you students use in class. This is a fantastic way to help your child at home if he/she has any questions you do not know how to answer. At school, your child accesses EM Games through an icon on the computer desktops, or through the bookmarks page, ikeepbookmarks. Also, at home you can access the site through the DPS website at www.dpsk12.org, click on “Parents and Students” on top menu. On the next page, click “EMGames” on the right side. If you do not have a computer at home, have no fear, the EMGames website can be accessed at any library with internet access. Have your child join the summer reading program through DPL toplay EMGames, and his or her summer will be educational and fun! Palooza Fridays!Build the Excitement: EveryFriday, wear a t-shirt from a prior year’s TellerPalooza event. DPS Foundation Gala Teller’s P.E.Aces greeted guests at the DPS Foundation Gala- a fundraiser for Denver Public Schools- on April 22. Pictured from left to right are (back) Coco Hindelmann, Quinn Yawger, Principal Jennifer Barton, Emily Trautwein, DPS Superintendent Tom Boasberg (bottom) Katie Foust, Karl Whitman, Alexander Troxler and Emma Buckwalter.
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