Timothy Ball Elementary School

720 West Summit Crown Point, IN 46307 Phone: 663-0047 Attendance: ext. 21002 Fax: 662-4320

Website www.cps.k12.in.us/tball

WEEKLY NEWSLETTER AND MENU April 13—April 17, 2015

Lunch Menu Breakfast $1.30 Lunch $2.00 Milk $0.40

1% Milk Served Daily

Monday April 6: Chicken Tenders / Saucy Meatball Sub Baked Beans / Cucumber w/Dip Pears

Tuesday: French Toast Sticks w/Sausage Cheese Burger Deluxe Hash Brown / Rocket Red Peppers w/Dip Mandarin Oranges

Wednesday: In-Service Day—NO SCHOOL PM

DISMISSAL IS AT 12:14PM

Thursday: Chicken Nuggets / Asian Bowl Brown Rice / Corn Niblets / Broccoli w/Dip Fruit Medley

Friday: Bosco Sticks w/Marinara Sauce / Cheese Burger Deluxe Tiny Tree Top Broccoli / Carrots w/Dip Applesauce

Weekly Specials—Available Daily: Turkey Chef Salad / Turkey Sandwich Fresh Fruit & Milk

NO RESTAURANT, FAST FOOD OR SOFT DRINKS

ALLOWED.

STUDENTS ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE 1 GUEST PER

MONTH JOIN THEM IN THE CAFETERIA. PLEASE

CALL TO RESERVE YOUR DATE.

Principal’s Notes

“Bravo”

Did you know that it is a statistical fact that students that are involved in extra-curricular clubs and activities per-

form at higher levels in the classroom?

This week our student body treated to a choral perfor-mance provided by the Wheeler Middle School 8th grade choir. After the middle school students sang, our all-city choir participants from Tball joined them in a final song. WOW! They were fantastic!!! Later on that evening the

all-city choir students sang in the Crown Point High School auditorium. In case you did not know, we are

blessed with much talent in our school community…..the performances by all grade levels what amazing.

We always encourage our students to follow their interests and their hearts when it comes to extra-curricular interests.

Be it music, art, sports, science, or any other club…..get involved! It helps foster a student that will become Fit For

Life!

Take care,

Attendance rate this week was 96%

We have to maintain 97% for students success &

4 Star Status. Please avoid

voluntary absences!

Kindergarten 2015/2016 Registration—Was Thursday, Febru-ary 19, please contact the school office to make an appointment.

PTO/Summit Athletics Open Gym Night—Saturday, April 11, 6pm—9pm. $10/student. Students can come out & have a fun evening with friends.

Teacher In-Service—Wednesday, April 15, dismissal at 12:14pm—no school in the afternoon.

Author/Illustrator Visit—Wednesday, April 15, Mr. Dwayne Abel will visit with grades 3, 4, & 5.

BOGO Scholastic Book Fair—Monday, April 20—Friday, April 24. More information to follow.

Book Bingo—Tuesday, April 21, 6:00pm—7:30pm, in the café.

Spring Pictures—Wednesday, April 22, 9am—11am. Two packages available, horizontal or vertical.

Fourth Grade field Trip—Friday, April 24—they will be visit-ing Buckley Homestead. They will leave at 8:50am.

Lunch Time Information from

Our Cafeteria Manager, Ms. Owczarzak

Lunch Time Visitors Each student is allowed to have ONE GUEST PER MONTH. PLEASE

CALL TO RESERVE YOUR DATE. RESTAURANT/FAST FOOD & SODAS ARE NOT ALLOWED. Parents may purchase lunch in the cafeteria, cost is $2.75. This cannot come off the student’s lunch card. Guests are asked to call the office a day or two ahead of time to make a reservation.

Lunch Time Money Please go online www.mymealtime.com to deposit lunch money/send a check in a labeled envelope with student first and last name. Mealtime online passcodes are now the student ID#’s. Parents can find this number on book rental bills, RDS (next to student’s name) or on their schedule. Parents will use this number to set up an account on mealtime online for their student. If they already have an account established, parents do not need to do anything with the existing account. ALL STUDENTS will receive a HOT LUNCH regardless if they are NEGATIVE. NO CHARGING of any extras will be allowed.

Did you bring your lunch, but need a drink? Milk may be purchased, if you brought in a lunch from home, but you may not charge it.

Heating up Lunches Our cafeteria does not warm up food, cook food or wash dishes brought from home. If we tamper with the food it becomes the responsibility of the cafete-ria. Please, if you are sending in hot food make sure it is in a thermos.

Would you like to Substitute in the Cafeteria? If you would like to be a sub in food services please call Pam Maloney at 662-6480. This is a great way to earn a little extra cash and be home with your children in the morning and afternoon.

School Breakfast FAST FACT Students who eat breakfast have better attention and memory. School break-fast is healthy, & convenient. Students who participate in school breakfast show improved attendance, behavior, standardized test scores as well as de-creased tardiness. Students who eat school breakfast attend, on average, 1.5 more days of school per year and score 17.5% higher on standardized math tests.

A Social Fitness Note from our Positive Behavior

Intervention & Support Paraprofessional

(PBIS), Mrs. Derwinski

Agree with the Bully. Use a “so what” atti-tude. Agreeing with the Bully makes the situation awkward and catches him totally off guard. Reminder: Everyone should wear a blue shirt on Mon-day.

A Note from our Art Teacher

Mrs. Hufford

I will be sending slips home soon for our students who currently don’t have Artsonia online museum parent ac-counts activated, since I have received several recent re-quests for them. The slips contain a code that you will enter on the website. We are still happy to take 4 to 6 inch plastic lids and all your extra bubble wrap!

A Note from our Physical Education Teacher,

Mrs. Decker

April 29 is the last day of morning Bootcamp. We had a great turnout this year! Thank you to our parents that

were willing to bring their students early to school to par-ticipate.

Have you moved or are you planning on moving over the summer?

If you know your children are not returning to Timothy Ball

for the 2015-2016 school year, please let the office know.

Please call 663-0047 Or e-mail: tloosemore@cps.k12.in.us

Congratulations to the following students receiving PAWS

Maddy Tracy, Isabella Swander, Ashlyn Dabrowa, Brandon Aydt, Aiden Gubbins, Jacob Dereamer, Ian Carriere, Alex Torrex

PTO Corner

Market Day: Attention all Parents and Timothy Ball staff, what

could our school do with a FREE $100 Apple gift card? I can think of a few things. So how do we win this? All we need is $1400 in adjusted sales this month (total sales minus coupons and adjustments). Please look at a flyer and place an order this month with Market Day. New Customer: be sure to enter NEWFIVE upon checkout and you will receive $5 off of your $25 order. Lots of new things this month: Family Produce Assortments, Breakfast Burritos, Italian Burgers and not new but always worth looking at is the Cookie Dough. Online orders are due April 2nd at 11pm. If you cannot order online, send your flyer back to school with your student by March 27th. Any questions, feel free to email klims99@ameritech.net or call 219-661-8731.

Box Tops / Labels for Education: Remember to send in Box Tops and Labels for Education. Staff Appreciation Week: It's not to late to sign up to help for Staff Ap-preciation week during the month of May. Thank you to everyone that vol-unteers, it is greatly appreciated.

Fit For Life: Keep sending in the Fit for Life dona�ons, every li�le bit

helps!!

Lake County Health Department

Immunization Clinic 2900 W. 93rd Ave

Crown Point, IN 46307 (Located across from government complex)

Immunization Hours Monday—Thursday

9am—4pm

Free immunizations to Indiana Medicaid And uninsured children.

Children with private insurance call for eligibility at (219)755-3658

All Children need a current shot record Please bring an Indiana Medicaid card and

Current insurance card which pertain your child.

School StoreSchool StoreSchool StoreSchool Store Brought to you by the Timothy Ball Student Council

Open Tuesday & Thursday Mornings,

8:10am—8:50am

In the Cafeteria

* All Items are under $3.00 * Selling School Supplies ∗ Items are available first come first serve & inventory

changes periodically ∗ Due to unforeseen events the store may be closed.

Attention Parents of all 5th Graders

From the Desk of the Timothy Ball Nurse

Your child will be required to have a completed physical done by a physician before entering the 6th grade. A yel-low physical form will be coming home with your child on Tuesday, April 14, 2015. Please watch for this im-portant form! Attached to this form is information regard-ing 2 vaccines that will be required prior to entering 6th grade. These vaccines are: 1 dose of tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap) and 1 dose of meningo-coccal conjugate vaccine (MCV4). This form and proof immunizations must be provided to Wheeler Middle School by fall registration. Thank you for your assistance in this matter

CP JR BULLDOG CHEERLEADING REGISTRATION!!!!!!

Returning Cheerleaders—Friday, April 17, 5pm-7pm New Cheerleaders—Saturday, April 18, 10am—2pm

Lake Street Elementary School

Cheerleading registration is here!! The CP Jr. Bulldog Cheer-leading organization has opened registration to ALL girls enter-ing 1st - 8th grades. Sign-ups for all interested girls must be entering 1st-8th grade for the 2015/2016 school year. Registra-tion will be held at Lake Street Elementary school, numbers will be passed out at 9am Saturday on a first come, first serve basis & registration will begin at 10am. The annual fee of $60.00 plus any uniform cost must be paid at time of registration. Please bring your cheerleader with you to registration with a leotard or bathing suit UNDER HER CLOTHING as there will be no privacy at the uniform try on station. Coaching positions are also available if you have a daughter in the organization. Questions may be directed to Tammy Hand-Stepanovic (708)653-2064 or Celia Bosel (219)545-3410 or you are welcome to visit our website at:

www.crownpointjrbcheer.org

Spring Pictures

Wednesday, April 22, 9:00am

Inter-State Studio will be here to take spring pictures of our students. This is an optional photo day. All packag-es must be paid for when the photo is taken. No late or-ders will be accepted.

Orders can be paid for by cash/check with the order form or online using debit/credit card. Website is: www.inter-state.com/order.

For online ordering: Horizontal Photographs use order code 00382E Vertical Photographs use order code 00382G

Packages range in price from $13.00—$40.00. Addi-tional add ons available.

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Every student has an opportunity to become an author at Timothy Ball. GUIDELINES

1 – Books may be fiction, non-fiction or a poetry collection. Students may collaborate with each other. The finished product should reflect the number of students collaborating. Kindergartners may choose to

enter their own picture books. They may copy a few words as told to parents, teachers, or helpers.

2 – Each book must have a title page, including the title of the story, author & illustrator’s names,

classroom teacher’s name & grade level.

3 – Books may be created with materials from home or from those supplied in class. The stories may be handwritten or completed using a computer.

4 – Students may illustrate books in pencil, crayon, markers, water color, ink, photographs or computer graphics.

5 – Stories should be written in good taste. Teachers have the right to disqualify any book with inappro-priate content.

6 – All students who submit their books to their classroom teacher by the end of school Thursday, April

30, will receive a participant ribbon. After the books are submitted, they are kept in the library for the stu-dent body to enjoy until the last week of school.

BUY ONE GET ONE FREEBUY ONE GET ONE FREEBUY ONE GET ONE FREEBUY ONE GET ONE FREE SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR –––– 4/20 4/20 4/20 4/20 –––– 4/244/244/244/24

8:30 a.m. TO 4:00 p.m.8:30 a.m. TO 4:00 p.m.8:30 a.m. TO 4:00 p.m.8:30 a.m. TO 4:00 p.m. BOOKS ONLY BOOKS ONLY BOOKS ONLY BOOKS ONLY

FAMILY BINGO FOR BOOKS NIGHTFAMILY BINGO FOR BOOKS NIGHTFAMILY BINGO FOR BOOKS NIGHTFAMILY BINGO FOR BOOKS NIGHT TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 6:00 TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 6:00 TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 6:00 TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 6:00 ---- 7:30 p.m.7:30 p.m.7:30 p.m.7:30 p.m.

TIMOTHY BALL CAFETERIATIMOTHY BALL CAFETERIATIMOTHY BALL CAFETERIATIMOTHY BALL CAFETERIA FREE FAMILY EVENTFREE FAMILY EVENTFREE FAMILY EVENTFREE FAMILY EVENT

STUDENTS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULTSTUDENTS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULTSTUDENTS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULTSTUDENTS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT

BOOKMARK DESIGN CONTESTBOOKMARK DESIGN CONTESTBOOKMARK DESIGN CONTESTBOOKMARK DESIGN CONTEST Library, favorite book or reading themed

Hand-drawn

Black and white design ONLY

Student’s full name and teacher’s name in box on back of template. Classroom teachers have

blank templates.

Turned in to Mrs. Kerr by 3:30, Thursday, April 30

Winning design from each grade will be chosen as renewal Winning design from each grade will be chosen as renewal Winning design from each grade will be chosen as renewal Winning design from each grade will be chosen as renewal bookmark for 2015bookmark for 2015bookmark for 2015bookmark for 2015----2016 school year.2016 school year.2016 school year.2016 school year.