The Tiger Stripes

Dear Families and Community,

We have one more week in our Kindness Campaign, and we will be celebrating the culmination on Friday, March 1st with some school-wide game time! Students and staff have been sharing feedback that they'd like to do more mixing and mingling across grade levels, so we're going to try something new. Most of the day will be normal, but we will shorten our specials schedule during the day so that there is a chunk of time at the end of the day for students to play games with kids in different grade levels. (Students already have designated buddy classes, but we are going to mix it up even further with this event.) If your student has an easy-to-play beloved game s/he would like to bring on Friday, please feel free to send it! No electronics, please.

I would personally like to thank our 5th grade Leadership Team for their amazing work during the Kindness Campaign. Their ideas and school spirit have brought so much energy and enthusiasm to our building. During this final week, kids will be decorating shoes with personal art and kindness messages for the final theme, Step up for Kindness. And don't forget this Friday's Spirit Day: Silly or Mismatched Sock Day!

My best,

Wendy ❤️

Thanks for your incredible generosity during our McKinney Vento Drive! We are in the final push and are still accepting the following items for one more week:

Quarters for laundry

Laundry detergent (pods preferred)/Dryer sheets

Deodorant

Soft toothbrushes and toothpaste

Shaving cream

Hair brushes and hair products

Bar soaps + body wash

Shampoo + conditioner

Socks for women + children (they have an excess of men's socks)

Toilet paper

Paper towels

Thank you so much for your support of this important cause!

It is such an exciting time to be a 5th grader! 5th grade "Fly-ups" are this week. Students are headed over to Tumwater Middle School on Wednesday morning (approximately 9:30) this week to learn more about the middle school experience. Families, if you are interested, don't forget that Tumwater is hosting an informational evening on Thursday, February 29th from 6:30-8:00pm. Here again is the document from Tumwater with all of the fly-up information.

BSD Math Placement Testing for 5th Grade Families

About 9 out of 10 BSD students will be enrolled in “Math 6/7” for math next year. If you would like your student evaluated to determine whether “Math 7/8" or “Alg/Geo/Stats 1” would be appropriate instead, please see the BSD Math Placement Testing site to request testing.

All testing will take place in May at your student’s school during their school day. There will be no testing for current students after May. If you have any questions, please refer to the FAQ on the BSD Math Placement Testing site.

This Friday, March 1st, Bingo Night is back at Terra Linda! This year it will be a fundraiser for the current fourth grade class to raise money for their fifth grade graduation celebration! (No ticket purchase necessary.) Come to school ready for a night of fun for the whole family! In addition to BINGO announced by TL staff, there will be other activities available--food, face painting, and a silent auction! Purchases are CASH ONLY, but auction items may be purchased with credit cards! (Bingo cards are 25 cents each, food items vary from $1-$4, and face painting is $5.) Hope to see you there!

Do you have a student who is ready for Kindergarten? Do you have family or neighbors who do? Please help us spread the word that Terra Linda is enrolling students now for Kindergarten for the 2024-2025 school year. Students must be at least five years of age on or before September 1, 2019, per state statute. To attend Terra Linda, they must live within the attendance boundary of our school. We invite you to register early, as this assists us in confirming enrollment for staffing purposes.

Click here to enroll online. Paper enrollment forms are available in our office. Please call if you have any questions at all!

The Beaverton School District is currently engaged in an Elementary LA / ELP curriculum adoption. A Curriculum Adoption Committee is created for the purpose of providing instructional resource recommendations to the Beaverton School District School Board. The committee has met several times since December and will continue through the Spring of 2024.

Community members are invited to follow the work of the Adoption Committee on the LA / ELP webpage The page contains meeting session notes, links to resources and the opportunity to input comments and ask questions.

Our BEF matching grant, which will provide light covers and multiple sets of noise-reducing headphones, has been funded! We partnered with Beaverton Education Foundation to raise money for these items, and once we reached $500 in donations, it was doubled with a match from BEF.

We are so grateful to our generous Terra Linda community, as well as the Beaverton Education Foundation, for this opportunity to provide a more calming atmosphere and create a better learning environment for all. Thank you!

February

28 - PTC Meeting, 6:30pm

March

1 - 4th Grade Fundraiser, BINGO Night, 6-8pm

20 - PTC Meeting, 6:30pm

25-29 SCHOOL CLOSED – Spring Break

Please, during drop-off and pick-up:

• Observe all stop signs.

• Please remember that the speed limit on campus is 10 miles per hour.

• Drop students off at the yellow line only. (If you let them out sooner, it is a safety issue and interferes with the flow.)

• If you require Terra Linda staff assistance with your student, please pull all the way up past the yellow line.

BSD students are given a public library card through BSD’s partnership with Washington County Cooperative Library Services (WCCLS).

New students enrolled between October 2022 and October 2023 received cards in the mail from November-December. Students with cards from previous school years can continue to use them. The cards have been renewed.

With the Student Library Card, students can:

• Check out up to five print books or audiobooks from any WCCLS library without any overdue fines

• Borrow ebooks in Sora from BSD and the public library (directions)

• Access Homework Help

• Access additional digital content

For more details about these cards, please see the BSD webpage about the partnership. Public Library Locations: Map and Hours

Thanks to our community's generous support of our food and hygiene drive, we have been able to collect remaining items and create Terra Linda's first Food and Hygiene pantry.

We hope to sustain this pantry throughout the school year for Terra Linda families.

We will gladly continue to accept food and hygiene donations to support our families. If you have items you would like to donate, please send them to school with your students or drop them off in the office.

Any families who would like to "shop" in our pantry, please call or stop by the office.

Once again, thank you for your continued support and generosity!

Flu vaccines are now available for all district students at the Merlo Station Campus School-based Health Center. See attached flyer for details.

Flu shot flyer - English

Flu shot flyer - Spanish