Timber Wolf Times

Dear Trailside Families,

Dear Parents and Guardians,

As we begin the second quarter of the school year, we are making some adjustments to mask breaks. We will be going to two mask breaks each day instead of having one every block. We are finding that the frequent disruptions each block is impacting instruction. In conferring with other schools, we also found that many schools do not have mask breaks except for lunch and recess. We will continue to monitor and make adjustments if necessary.

In our efforts to increase parent communication between home and school, we have developed a pathway for parents and/or students to ask questions of our team. If you have questions regarding anything from learning to school process and practices, please click on the following form. We will publish questions and answers each week in the parent newsletter.

As shared, this form (https://forms.gle/E1JzqWbHTbsgNA4v8)

Thank you for your continued support of our commitment to provide a safe and caring learning environment for our students.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Beichler

Our TMS students are excited to serve a spaghetti dinner in honor of our Veterans on Wednesday, November 10th! Won't you consider joining us in celebration of Veterans Day? ALL TMS families and staff are encouraged to attend regardless of whether or not you have served in the military. Due to COVID restrictions, seating is limited to 240 guests. Please RSVP today! We are still in need of a few student and adult volunteers for this event. If interested, please click here to sign up.

If you have any questions, please contact Kristi Vaughan at president@trailsidemiddleschoolpta.org.

A great big thank you to you all for all your support, help, and suggestions as we kick off the Green Team this year.

Did you know that bottle caps and lids can not be recycled? The Green Team, PTA, and TMS Art Department have joined forces to collect and reuse these items. Start saving those caps now, a friendly grade level competition will be announced soon! We will need 1000’s of caps for the Art Department to create a mural reusing caps that can not be recycled.

If anyone has any clear plastic tubs with lids you would be willing to donate, please let us know! Amy.santos@lcps.org

Mrs. Amy Santos

TechED 7th & 8th

Trailside Middle School

Do you like making vehicles, putting together structures, writing, painting, acting, singing, or solving problems? Do you like answering puzzling questions and creating funny and creative plays? Join Odyssey of the Mind! There something for everyone! Millions of students around the world have fun participating in this program, learning to think on their feet to solve spontaneous verbal and hands-on problems and collaborating in a team to solve exciting long-term problems without parental assistance. There are no wrong answers here. In fact, the creative and unique answers are often the best! For more information about Odyssey of the Mind, please visit http://www.odysseyofthemind.com or contact Jen Reif at

odyssey@trailsidemiddleschoolpta.org or 703-409-0568. Ready to register? Please complete the registration form HERE .

SignUpGenius: https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/8050b49adab2aabfd0-toydrive1

GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/toy-drive-2021?utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer

Thanks!

Stone Bridge DECA Toy Drive Team

Ana Burlacu, Riley Jackman, & Megan Simanowith

“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

Email: bridget.beichler@lcps.org
Website: https://www.lcps.org/Trailside
Location: 20325 Claiborne Parkway, Ashburn, VA, USA
Phone: 571 252 2280
Twitter: @TrailsideMiddleSchool

Registration for this year’s Step Up Loudoun Youth Competition (SULYC) has been open for about a month, and I wanted to take a minute to thank you for your time and efforts in encouraging students to participate. Some of you have arranged to show our short video about SULYC during your morning announcements. Thank you and please consider showing the video (attached) a few more times to help spread the word.

Trailside has purchased the premium features of Pear Deck again this school year. This tool allows teachers to provide a more interactive learning experience for students. Teachers can transform existing Google Slides, PowerPoint Presentations or PDFs into interactive presentations, or choose to build presentations from scratch. Additionally, there are options for formative assessments, discussion prompts, diagnostics, or exit tickets. You can learn more about this software here: https://www.peardeck.com/active-learning

Pear Deck is designed for use in schools and is currently used at many LCPS schools, and they are committed to the highest standards of protection for student data and personally identifiable information (“PII”) at all times. Their Privacy Policy can be found here: https://github.com/peardeck/policies/blob/master/privacy-policy.md

Please complete the following Permission Click form to indicate whether or not you give permission for your child(ren)’s teachers to use this learning tool with them: https://permission.click/MX1Jp/us

Late Bell: 8:35 AM (students are tardy if arriving after the bell and will need to report to the main office for a tardy pass)

Dismissal: 3:23 PM

Trailside Middle School participates in the National PTA Reflections Program and as parents and guardians, you’re in a great position to encourage your kids to reflect on the theme, create an original work and be recognized. The theme for the 2021 program is "I can change the world by ..." which is such a great theme! Adults can't help the students with entries, but they can ENCOURAGE and SUPPORT them. As a student, thinking about how they can change the world is such a worthy challenge. There are six categories available to choose from (and they can enter more than one) - dance choreography, film production, literature, music composition, photography, and visual arts. In an effort to provide an inclusive program, students who identify as having a disability and may receive services under IDEA or ADA: Section 504 may enter in the Special Artist Division or grade division most closely aligned to their functional abilities.

The PTA website has all of the rules for all of the categories posted here - https://tmspta.ptboard.com/school/cm?mid=4270

Submissions are due 11/8 and instructions are on the Reflections page linked above. Gwen Meehan is the POC and can be reached at reflections@trailsidemiddleschoolpta.org if you have any questions.

Thank you so much for supporting our students and their expression of ideas through the arts!!!