Thank you to all for the generous donations we received for holiday help. With your support, we were able to help brighten the holidays for 26 of our Tawanka families (41 children in total)! We could not have done it without our Tawanka community coming together and we are forever grateful.

From all of us at Tawanka, we wish you and your families a safe, healthy & happy holiday season and a very Happy New Year! Please stay safe!

Kindergarten registration is now open for online applications for the 2021-2022 school year.

To be eligible for Kindergarten, students must be 5 years old on or before September 1st, 2021.

It is recommended to register early! Here is a link to the website to complete your registration or for more information:

Please remember to send your child in with a water bottle daily and label with your child's name. There is no access to water fountains. However, there are bottle filling stations if a student needs to refill their water bottle.

The Tawanka PTO has been generously providing bottled water just in case a student forgets (THANK YOU, PTO!), but we are going through cases at an alarming rate.

There is a very limited number of reusable Tawanka water bottles available for purchase in the front office. First come, first serve. $5 per bottle - CASH ONLY

Holiday schedule changes:

• Wednesday, December 23: 11:00am - 1:00pm. No pick-up on 12/25
• Wednesday, December 30: 11:00am - 1:00pm. No pick-up on 1/1
• Normal Friday pick-ups will resume for the week of January 8.

I graduated the police academy from Temple University in 2009. I briefly worked part-time in Tullytown Borough, and I was hired by the Lower Southampton Township Police Department on February 1, 2010. During my time with the department I was assigned to the patrol division. I am also a firearms instructor, active shooter response instructor, and I am assigned to the regional SWAT team that covers Lower Southampton Township. The township and school district worked together to establish the position of School Resource Officer (SRO) in the beginning of 2019. Interested members from the department were interviewed by representatives from both the police department and the school district. I was selected, and I have been the SRO for Lower Southampton Township since April 2019. I have attended both basic SRO and advanced SRO training which was over 60 hours of training to prepare me for this position. I have been married for five years, and we have a German Shepherd named Bernie. I have trained Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for the past six years.

Mrs. Wendling's First grade class was lucky to have Officer Joe come in and teach the kids how the primary colors mix to create the secondary colors. They read the book Mouse Paint and created three silly mice. Their feet are in puddles that are the primary colors and their fur is colored in with the secondary colors.

Congratulations to the first winners of the iReady trophies!

Kindergarten has been busy decorating and preparing for their annual Gingerbread Day that will take place on December 22.

All Holiday Shop orders should have been delivered by Wednesday, December 16th. If you have not received your order, please reach out to the PTO either through the Tawanka PTO Facebook post regarding these deliveries, or via email at tawankapto@gmail.com.

Thank you to those who supported the PTO on the Dine to Donate night at Texas Roadhouse on Tuesday, December 8th! We appreciate it!

Our Next PTO Meeting will be held on Wednesday January 6, 2021 at 10 am.

A link for the meeting will be sent out via email prior to the meeting.