Families: Your Help is Needed for the Staff Appreciation Luncheon
It's that time of year again!
Staff Appreciation Luncheon | Tuesday, March 13 | 1PM

Each year, the families at the VLUS and Tobin Montessori say "Thank you for all you do" to our staff by having a nice lunch for them in the cafeteria. This yearly event is amazing because of your generosity! Just e-mail Joanna Fischer at [email protected] or [email protected] to let us know what you will be bringing.

Food Needs:
–8 Large Salads
–20 Main Dishes
–15 desserts
Note: Each dish should serve 8-10 people. Paper products & beverages will be provided. Please use disposable containers if possible, with reheating directions attached. Also, it is very helpful if you tell us what ingredients are in the dish...vegan...vegetarian, etc.

Set-Up & Clean-Up Needs:
We really need some help here!! Child care will be provided if you decide you would like to help in the kitchen. 12:15-2:30PM

March is Spirit Month!
Reminder: Spirit Week is now Spirit MONTH!
–Friday, March 2: Crazy/Mismatched Sock Day
Dr. Suess's Fox in Socks
–Friday, March 9: Pajama Day
Wear your coziest pjs & join us at 5PM for Movie Night!
–Friday, March 16: Dress Up Day
Wear you fanciest clothes!
–Friday, March 23: Crazy Hair Day
Make that hair stand up on end!
–Friday, April 13: Tobin Pride Day
Wear your Spirit wear or blue and white! 



Tobin/VLUS Book Fair: March 5-9
New this Year: Open during Tobin Movie Night!

Public Sale Hours:
Monday, March 5: 2-4PM
Tuesday, March 6: 7:30AM-4PM
Wednesday, March 7: 7:30AM-4PM
Thursday, March 8: 7:30AM-4PM
Friday, March 9: 7:30AM-End of MOVIE NIGHT

Volunteers still NEEDED!
Sign up here >> 
Or, email [email protected] to let her know when you can work.

Highlights:
–Amazing books for all grades will be on display for purchase in the Tobin/VLUS Library (3rd floor) from March 5-9.
–A portion of all sales is returned to the library in the form of books and/or cash.
–Students will visit the book fair with their classes during this week and can either buy books directly or fill out the "wish list" to bring home to parents, who may purchase books during public sale hours.

Credit cards, cash, & checks (made out to Friends of Tobin) accepted. NOTE: You may send your child to school with money or come yourself to purchase books. Students will be completing their wish list Mon.-Wed. when they come to library with their class. Teachers will have “wish list bags” of books that you may help purchase for their classrooms.  

Help Needed with Art Show!
We are so excited to announce that on Friday, April 13th we will be host our first annual Tobin School Art Show! This is a huge undertaking, and we hope that you might be interested in volunteering a bit of your time to help us make this a successful event! We are forming an Art Show Committee to help organize our efforts and hope you might join us for our first informational meeting next Tuesday, March 6th from 7:30-7:45AM. We hope to see you there!



Tobin Spirit Wear
Order forms were sent home this week for you to order our new line of Spirit Wear. Visit the website spiritandpride.com; enter school ID number: 152675. Or you can use the order form that was sent home, OR you can call the toll free number 800.854.4452. Orders must be in by March 9th.



Classroom Highlight: Room 283
A volcanic eruption happened in Room 283! The students studied volcanoes and built a model using recycling materials. Then they combined a few ingredients to create an impressive chemical reaction and watched their volcano erupt. The students invited their Room 287 friends and repeated the excited science experiment.

Yin and Lela visited Room 283 to tell us about Chinese New Year and beautiful traditions associated with the celebration.

Ms. Frost was our Guest Reader and read Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes. Thank you Ms. Frost for sharing your love of books with us.



Classroom Highlight: Room 216
What is a favorite project you worked on this year?
Chocolate tasting/writing activity. On National Chocolate Day, September 14th, we go to taste test different types of chocolate. Using our 5 senses we had to describe five different kinds of chocolate/candy (some of us can’t eat chocolate) without knowing what flavor we were eating. First we smelled and looked at the chocolate and wrote down some initial observations. Then we took a tiny bite and we wrote down our initial thought about what type of chocolate this was and what flavor we were tasting. Next we took a larger bite and wrote down more observations like was it smooth, sugary, was their a strong taste to it? Finally we were able to finish our piece. For each piece of chocolate/candy we went through this process and took lots of notes on our observations being careful to be very descriptive about the chocolate/candy. Later that week, we were asked to write a review of two flavors of chocolate/candy. It could be our favorite or one we really did not like. We planned out our writing in our writer’s notebooks before typing into Google Classroom. We LOVE National Chocolate Day!

Tell us a few everyday examples of kindness shown by the students.
–I was struggling with my Scholastic News and a friend helped me understand how to find the definitions I was looking for.
–I struggled to find a work in the classroom that I was assigned and a friend helped me find where it was.
–When I was trying to figure out how to draw a circle with the box of sticks a friend came and showed me how to do it.
–When my mechanical pencil ran out of lead someone gave me some of their lead.
–I had a lot of things to put in my backpack and a friend stayed to help me.
–I got a jar of pencils dropped on my arm and my friend helped me feel better.

How do you and the students start and end your day?
–First, we put our backpacks and coats in our cubbies. Then we change into indoor shoes and go to our classroom. When we walk into our room we read the message our teacher writes to us and follow the directions. Finally, we plan our day and the work we want to get accomplished.
–At the end of the day, we clean up our work, do our community jobs and get our folders and wait to be dismissed.



Dance in the Schools
Room 286 thanks the Friends of Tobin for our dance class with Miss Heather from Dance in the Schools!
 

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