Hello TSMS Families,
Oops! I thought I pressed 'send' on this in the afternoon. Sorry for the late night delivery. Hope you're keeping warm.
Here's the news of the week:
EARLY DISMISSAL...
Tomorrow Wednesday, January 13 is the next Early Dismissal day for professional development. Students will be dismissed at 1:45pm after lunch. As always on Early Dismissal days, there will be NO After School. If you would like your child to stay at school until 3:25pm, please contact Shirley at slee at tsmsonline or 347-563-5303.
AFTER SCHOOL WINTER SESSION...
The Add/Drop period for the Winter Session of After School has begun, with two new clubs: Yearbook and Literary Journal. This time we have shortened the registration form AND created a brand-new online sign-up option for your After School signing-up convenience! Just go to www.tinyurl.com/tsmsafter to register your child. We also handed out a paper version this morning in Advisory-- though there is one mistake on the paper schedule: Yearbook will meet on Thursdays from 3:30 to 4:30pm (not on Fridays). If we do not hear from you during Add/Drop week, we will assume that your child will be keeping their Fall Session schedule. Yearbook, Literary Journal and Theater will not begin until next week, but everything else is still in action right now. Let me know if you have any questions.
MLK...
Next Monday, January 18 is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. All schools will be closed citywide.
PTA...
Next Wednesday, January 20 at 6pm is the next PTA meeting. On the agenda is Navigating the Emotional Lives of Middle Schoolers, a conversation facilitated by our Co-Dean of Students, Adam Weinstock. If you are on the PTA mailing list, you will have gotten a more in-depth agenda of the workshop. Sounds great. (By the way, if you are not on the PTA mailing list and would like to be, you can opt-in by sending me an email). Hope you'll join us.
PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE SOLVED...
Next Wednesday, January 20 from 4:30 to 6:30pm, the TSMS Future Problem Solving team will be taking on their Qualifying Problem. FPS teams (working in groups of 4) are given a page-long scenario that takes place generally about 30-50 years from now. Our teams then have 2 hours in a closed room to: come up with 16 challenges presented by this scenario, identify an underlying problem, come up with 16 solutions to that problem, analyze their solutions based on their own generated criteria, and fully develop an action plan based on the best solution that emerges. Intense. The topic this round is Orphaned Children. Top teams from all around New York will be invited to the NY State Bowl to compete for the right to represent the state at the International FPS Conference in June.
6TH GRADE OVERNIGHT...
Permission slips have gone home for the 6th grade overnight trip to Frost Valley in upstate New York from Thursday, January 28 to Friday, January 29. You can submit your contribution toward trip costs online at tsmsonline.org/donate.php or handed in to your child's advisor.
B-BALL...
The boys' and girls' basketball seasons are on. As a reminder, TSMS students can attend home games by signing up with Shirley on the days of the games (up to a max of 30 kids). Parents and guardians are welcome at home and away games.
Wednesday, Jan 13, doubleheader vs 140 (home game). Girls' game will start at 4pm and boys' at 5pm.
That's it for now.
All best,
Devan
