10-22-2021
Assalamu Alaikum dear Parents,
This past week has been once again very productive. TIA’s preschool has been growing to a point where we had to split the class into two: Prek3 and Prek4. We are renovating the bathrooms of the preschool portable and repairing some damage caused by a water leak. Students will be able to go back to their
classroom by the end of next week inshaAllah. A special thanks goes to the preschool and kindergarten
parents for their patience and understanding.
Coach Kazem Sabet, the NFL flag football commissioner at Merrimack Valley flag agreed to lead our
physical education program which will start on Monday. We are so excited to have him and look forward
to using his experience to give our students the best.
Our teachers and staff took the ALICE training with the Methuen police to prepare our teachers to
handle man made emergencies. They specifically addressed lockdown and emergency evacuation
of our students, teachers, and staff. Once the teachers and staff are ready, we will practice the lockdown procedure with our students.
I would like to thank our parents for supporting TIA through the school store. The teachers are very
excited and thankful for the monetary contributions they are earning through this program.
Nadjette Lazzouni
School Store program
Thanks to all the families who have already participated in our SchoolStore program! We need everyone's help to make sure our teachers get the essential tools they need to help our students succeed.
If your family has not participated, there's still time! This is 100% online so there is no face-to-face selling, collecting money, or delivering products. Your child will receive a prize just for participating, and more prizes will be awarded when goals are reached.
Please help now. It really will make a difference.
Go to https://www.schoolstore.net/sid.t?0000004133 to show our valued teachers your support.
Attention - Online shoppers
Parents, their friends and families who love online shopping can now support our school. Whenever you want to shop at a particular store (Walmart, Kohls, Macys, JcPenney, Childrens’ Place, Sam’s Club, Gap, Old Navy, Best Buy, Office Depot and many more), please click the link below and select the store you wanted to shop.
You do not donate but we will earn up to 6% of your purchase. Please share this link with your friends and families.
P.S. Family participation is the key to our success, and we are counting on you!
Extra Face Mask
Face coverings are essential to protecting children, keeping schools open and slowing the highly contagious coronavirus variant. So, students cannot come to school without a mask.
Students losing their masks or masks getting ripped off is inevitable. Parents are requested to send some stack of extra paper masks to keep in their desk for such occasions.
Grade 4 - Teamwork
Fourth graders participated in a Marshmallow challenge this week. Each group was given 20 minutes, 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, and one marshmallow to
build the tallest structure. The winning tower measured 20.4 inches. Students learned the importance of collaboration and teamwork through this activity.
KG - Anti-bullying
Since October is National Bullying Prevention Month, the kindergarten did “A Wrinkled Heart” activity. Kind words were said and a flower for the kind word was drawn by each student. Finally the heart looked pretty with all the flowers. Then each student said a mean word and for each mean word they folded the heart.
Finally it was all wrinkled. We discussed the effects that hurtful behaviors could have on someone’s heart, as the wrinkles never come all the way out. The ways students could demonstrate kind behaviors toward their peers and not cause wrinkles in other hearts were discussed.
Grade 3 Poem writing
Third graders studied poems this week. They read a variety of poems, listened to poems by Shel Silverstein (they really enjoyed the poem 'Sick'), and wrote their own cinquains, diamante poems, and shape poems.
A Message from STUDENT COUNCIL
Student Council's first meeting will be on Monday, October 25th from 4:30 p.m. to 5:15 pm via Zoom. Link will be shared with the students who registered. If you did not register and would like to do so, please submit your paperwork to Mrs. Karima by Monday morning.
Pizza Lunch Program Volunteers
PTO is still in need of parent volunteers to help with the distribution of pizza lunch for the forthcoming weeks on Thursdays from 11:45 am – 12:45 pm. If you would like to volunteer, please click this link and sign-in your name.