Let’s Talk About the Budget (Comments Off)

May 12, 2012 • Category: Chalkboard Newsletter, Lead Story

Taos Charter School will continue to face financial challenges next year and our fundraising group, Friends of Taos Charter, is again being asked to fund materials for the school.    Parents might like to know more about our budget challenges and what we are asking from the Friends this year.  Earlier in the year, the [...]

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School Wide Anti-Bullying Program (Comments Off)

Beginning this semester, Taos Charter School is implementing a school wide anti-bullying program.  I will be going into each classroom and talking with the students about our definition of bullying: Bullying is when someone repeatedly and on purpose says or does mean or hurtful things to another person who has a hard time defending himself [...]

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Peanut Allergies in First Grade (0)

We have students in our class who are severely allergic to peanuts, tree nuts (pecans, pistachios, cashews) and eggs.  These are life threatening medical conditions.  Therefore, we are implementing the following policy for this class of First Grade students: Do not send your child  to school with any of the following food items: Peanuts in any [...]

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Summer Learning Can Be Fun! (1)

Kids, Remember to keep reading and practicing your math skills this summer so you don’t lose all that knowledge you gained this year.  Check out these math sites to practice and maybe even learn new skills.  I recommend that you quiz yourself after you read a book using Scholastic Reading Counts (you have to be [...]

Grade 3»

End-of-the-Year Notes (Comments Off)

Please clean out your backpacks and rooms at home.  Bring back all classroom and school library books by Monday, May 14. BOOK SWAP: If you would like to swap your paperbacks and other books  for different ones, please bring them in for our 3rd/4th/5th Grade Book Swap on Tuesday, May 15th.  Stock up for summer [...]

Grade 4»

4th Grade Blog Link (0)

Fourth grade students and parents, please bookmark  http://www.tcs4th.blogspot.com/ This is my on-line bulletin board that I’ll use to post assignments, announcements, class information, educational links, and spelling lists.    Thanks,  M. Bonner

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Thursday may 16, 2012 (Comments Off)

Assignments: Tuesday May 17 , 2012 Thank you parents and students for a successful year.  Report cards, if not picked up from me tomorrow (Friday), are available for pick up in the school office any time next week.  If you not able to stop by due to travel, send me an e-mail and I will [...]

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Spare Book Shelf for Donation or Loan? (Comments Off)

Taos Charter sixth grade has starting listing cast-off text books on Amazon for sale to other schools, home school students, etc. The school will make around $1,000 if all the books listed sell. We are hoping to store the listed books in the office till sold. Because we need to mail books within two days [...]

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Making Comics in Spanish (Comments Off)

The middle school students have been using a comic maker program to create comics in Spanish!  This is just one of the new activities and games we are doing with our new Spanish teacher, Andrea Nicholson.

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