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| Dear Friend of Terraset,
With Thanksgiving less than 24 hours
away its unlikely you have time for anything else right now, so browse
these announcements and mark this email for follow-up! There are a few
things to share here too!
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More Successful Terraset Artists
Winning Designs for Thanksgiving
GRACE Art in the Schools (AIS)
recently conducted a Thanksgiving Card Challenge to design a
Thanksgiving Card for a Reston based construction company called K3.
Two Terraset students were placed in the prizes.
There were 37 entries from eight AIS schools - Armstrong, Boyd
School, Canterbury Woods, Floris, Freedom Hill, Green Hedges,
Greenbriar West, and Terraset. The winning card was designed by
Caitlyn Ling from Greenbriar West. 2nd place was Osman Ahmed (5th Grade) from Terraset. 3rd place was Rodrigo Quinonez (2nd Grade) from Terraset.
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BoxTops Collection
Its participation that counts!
Are you collecting BoxTops? The important thing is to join in.
Whether your child contributes one BoxTop or 100 they still
count as a participant in their class contribution.
Classes with the highest participation rates are rewarded, so get those BoxTops in! |
Reston Girl Scouts Earn Bronze Awards
All have ties to Terraset
Five girls from Girl Scouts Troop
4158 recently earned their Bronze award--the highest award that Junior
Girl Scouts can achieve.
Jessica Klonaris, Erin Bobby, Gisela
Johnson-Harbers and Anna Tignor from Terraset Elementary School and
Maryam Gilanshah from Holton-Arms School (and Terraset alum) organized
summer food drives at local grocery stores to stock Reston Interfaith's
Food Pantry.
While working at the food pantry
last year, they learned that food banks typically have low inventory
during the summer months. Reston Interfaith's emergency food
pantry provides people in need with fresh and nonperishable food.
The girls collected about $1,000 worth of groceries, including diapers
and infant formula which were in very short supply.
Congratulations to all of the girls!
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Tigers on the Town
Its Back!
If you are looking for a fun and easy way to catch up with school friends, then don't miss our next Tigers on the Town night.
We will be going to Chick-Fil-A on Monday December 7th between 5-8pm.
Don't miss this great opportunity to help the school (25% of your
purchase comes back to Terraset) and take a night off cooking!
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Tiger Tales is Back!
Exciting Opportunity to Get Published
Exciting news! Tiger Tales returns!! Last year the school
published its very first literary magazine, Tiger Tales, with
contributions from Terraset students. This year, the process will
start earlier. Submissions will be accepted from November
9th - February 26th by email ( bettina.forman@fcps.edu)
or for younger students, by placing submissions (with help from
teachers and parents) in Bettina Forman's mailbox in the front
office.
 Poems,
songs, very short stories (150 words or less) or essays, written at
home or during writing workshop in school, will be reviewed for
possible publication by fifth and sixth grade student editors.
Faculty advisers will be Heather Dix and Bettina Forman.
Electronic submissions are required from students in grades 3-6 to
make sure that the editing process is smooth. It is expected that
all submissions will have gone through the entire writing process
including editing and revision. Parents can check younger
student's work, and editors will re-type those submissions.
However, if a parent, volunteer or teacher types a younger students'
work, please save it to the server or email to bettina.forman@fcps.edu
Art will be included after the written submissions have been laid
out. Like last year, a publishing party is planned for June
during which the community can meet the authors and get first
editions.
Fifth and sixth graders can apply to be student editors. They
must agree to meet before school at 8:15 am on specific days to be
determined. In order to be considered, future editors must have
strong writing skills, a B or higher in Reading and Writing, an "S" or
better in citizenship grades, submission of student edited text, and
permission from their parents or guardians and their classroom
teacher. Applications are due by November 23rd. Applications will
be placed in the mailboxes of the fifth and sixth grade teachers.
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