Torringford Tigers

Dear Torringford Families,

A huge thank you to all the families who joined us for Parent/Teacher Conferences last month. Your partnership plays a vital role in your child’s academic success. As we move into this last trimester, please don’t hesitate to reach out to your child’s teacher with any questions or concerns.

As flowers bloom and daylight stretches longer, the shift in seasons can bring changes to your child’s school experience, too. Springtime often brings a mix of energy and new challenges for students. As a parent, your support during this time can make a big difference.

Here are five simple tips to help your child stay on track as the school year heads into its final stretch:

1. Encourage Outdoor Learning: Let your child enjoy the spring weather—reading outside or doing math in the park can boost focus and mood.
2. Maintain a Routine: Help your child stick to a balanced schedule of schoolwork, activities, and downtime for less stress and better productivity.
3. Stay Involved: Ask about school and check their work. Showing interest makes a big difference!
4. Promote Healthy Habits: Support good sleep, healthy meals, and hydration to keep your child energized and focused.
5. Celebrate Wins: Recognize achievements, big or small. Positive reinforcement keeps them motivated.

Thank you for your ongoing support of our students and staff—we appreciate you!

In partnership,
Kelly Galullo & Georgia Austin

Torringford Tigers are encouraged to wear RED every Friday in April to promote Autism Acceptance and show our support and acceptance of all students!

Torringford PTO extends a heartfelt THANK YOU to our school community! We're incredibly proud of our readers and grateful for their families' support, which made our fundraiser a success (our students raised over $5,600!).

A special shout out to the following classes and students:

• Mr. Mastrogiovanni's second grade class raised $1,005
• Ms. Rinaldi's third grade class read for the most number of minutes (5,220)

• The following students were our top readers by grade:
• Kindergarten: Michael Burggren (330 minutes)
• First Grade: Adeline Mamrosh (663 minutes)
• Second Grade: Aiden Nelson (585 minutes)
• Third Grade: Hashim Suleman (4,080 minutes)

We will be in touch with your prizes!

In March, 374 Pawsome cards were awarded. Congratulations to the following Torringford Tigers:

We appreciate your partnership in promoting a positive learning environment for all students. Please be sure to celebrate your student when they share with you a PAWSOME award received at school.

To report your student's absence,

please call the school office at 860-489-2300 (option 1)

before 9:00 AM.

If you have any health concerns,

please don't hesitate to reach out to Nurse Allison or Nurse Denise!

Despite the weather and illness, our teachers, families, and students have kept pushing forward, and we appreciate everyone’s hard work; thank you!

If your student is healthy, please encourage regular attendance. Every school day is a chance for learning and connecting with peers and teachers. Please reach out to Georgia Austin or Deb Mordecai with any attendance concerns. For health-related attendance questions, contact Nurse Denise or Nurse Allison.

Let’s work together to prioritize attendance and set our students up for success!

• April 8th: Butter Braid & Cookie Dough Pick-Up (Torringford gym); 5:00PM - 6:30PM
• April17: Early Dismissal (1:30); PLC
• April 18: Good Friday; NO School
• April 21-25: NO School - April Recess
• May 5-9: Staff Appreciation Week
• May 15: Early Dismissal (1:30); PLC
• May 26: Memorial Day - NO School

In Math, we are learning to put numbers in order from 0-10.

We are working on writing and solving equations.

We had a teen number snowball fight! Students threw their “snowballs” while the music played.

When it paused, they read the number on the closest snowball and filled their double ten frame to match.

We are learning about measuring and comparing objects’ weights by using balance scales.

We work with a partner at our vertical thinking boards. Here we were solving story problems and representing our work with manipulatives, numerals, and expressions.

In ELA, we are writing creative fiction books with a beginning, middle, and end. Students love making up their own stories!

We love reading our completed books to our classmates!

Our new unit focuses on writing Informational books. We are learning to teach our readers real facts about a topic.

Our spelling skills are really taking of as we continue through our year in kindergarten!

Students get so excited to learn new phonics skills to help them become stronger readers and writers!

Our high-frequency word review took on a fun St. Patrick’s Day twist as we searched for high-frequency word clovers around the classroom.

Leading up to our Hungry Caterpillar field trip, we read and wrote about several Eric Carle stories.

We also learned about the life cycle of a butterfly!

We love our classroom family!

March 27th is National Scribble Spot Day. Students learned about how different colors represent certain feelings and made their own scribble spots.

Our newest play center, “Reading Games”, has been a big hit!

The kids are having so much fun practicing their literacy skills in a hands-on manner.

By following the steps of the engineering design process, students created their own leprechaun traps out of recycled materials.

In kindergarten, we incorporate our learning in a playful manner.

Here is a weather station where we learn vocabulary about weather.

We also played and learned in a dramatic Garden Center where we continued our learning about the effects of weather.

School Spirit days are lots of fun!

We went on a field trip to the Warner Theatre to see The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show!

We celebrated the start of spring by making beautiful butterflies!

Students in Mrs. Monroe’s class have been working hard to figure out the area and perimeter of rectangles and squares in math. Students use colored tiles to build the rectangle. They multiply the length and width of the rectangle to find the area and add up the side lengths to find the perimeter.

Students use the Geoboard on the Bridges Math app to help them create different polygons to play WorkPlaces and create congruent halves of squares. The students really enjoy using the math apps to help them with their learning.

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Partners read a book together to practice their phonics skills and their reading fluency. They take turns reading each page in the book and asking each other questions about what they read.

In reading, students work in small groups to find the message of a story “The Big Game”. After reading the text, they figured out that being a good friend and being honest with each other is more important than winning a game. The story also shows that when we make a mistake, we should be responsible and admit our mistakes so we can make amends.

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in the library book fair! We had a successful event and I can’t wait to buy more books for our library with the money we raised!

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Also, as we near the end of the school year, please look for any library books that may have been misplaced and have your child return them to the library. Reading happens everywhere so it is not uncommon to find library books in unusual places.

April 8th: Butter Braid & Cookie Dough (spring district fundraiser) pick-up in the Torringford gym from 5p - 6:30p.

2024-2025 Yearbooks are on-sale now, CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE!

• If creating custom pages for your student(s), these are due by May 9th.
• Yearbooks purchased prior to May 16th will be distributed to students the week of June 9th, purchases after May 16th will be shipped home.
• COVER CONTEST COMING SOON: third graders will once again have the opportunity to participate in our yearbook cover contest, more information will be shared in the coming weeks.

Staff Appreciation Week this year is May 5th - May 9th, stay tuned for more information on how you can contribute. We are always looking for volunteers to help make this week extra special for Torringford teachers and staff, please reach out via email if you are interested (torringfordpto@gmail.com).

It's time to register your little one for Kindergarten!

Kindergarten is such an exciting milestone, and we want every child in our community to have the opportunity to start their educational journey with us.

Encourage your friends and neighbors to register their 5-year-olds today! Children born on or before September 1st are eligible for Kindergarten. Early registration helps us plan for a successful year ahead and ensures that your child has a spot.

How to register:

• Click here for the English Registration Form
• Click here for the Spanish Registration Form

• Torringford Elementary School
• Vogel-Wetmore Elementary School
• Southwest Elementary School
• Central Registration (Board of Education Building)

Torringford School is a safe and welcoming community where we take care of people and foster positive relationships. Our team spirit supports and acknowledges everyone. Optimists persist to meet challenges with the flexibility and empathy to create healthy, enthusiastic, life-long learners.

Educate. Explore. Inspire.

Email: gaustin@torrington.org
Website: http://torringtontorringford.ss16.sharpschool.com
Location: 800 Charles Street, Torrington, CT, USA
Phone: (860)489-2300
Facebook: facebook.com/TorringfordTigers