Welcome back to former Armstrongs and Mayoans and a BIG welcome to all NEW Armstrongs and Mayoans! We are so excited about the start of this school year with not only a new group of Armstrong students but also a (semi) new group of teachers as well!
Tomorrow is the first day of school and we are meeting on the front lawn by the flagpole for music with DJ Ed for an 8AM “Welcome Back” greeting. Please join us and look for the Armstrong sign (blue). Your child’s homebase teacher will be near the Armstrong sign and will be waiting to greet and sign them in.
Important Upcoming Events:
Helmzar Challenge Course – 8/24 (Guss and Najera HB) & 8/25 (Smith and Colle HB)
- The Helmzar Challenge course is a TPS partnered Ropes Course. We will be completing low ropes (team challenges and games) during the morning and students will be able to complete the high ropes (with a trained facilitator and safety gear) in the afternoon. Students are able to choose whether or not they would like to climb the course in the afternoon based on their comfort level.
- If you were unable to attend the Mayo mingle, we will be sending home the consent form and sack lunch request form tomorrowas well as a field study permission slip.
- If you were able to attend the Mayo Mingle and took home the forms to fill out, please return the ASAP!
- The consent form is separate from the Mayo field study permission slip and both must be signed and returned for your child to participate.
- We are not in need of parent volunteers for this field study.
Sack Lunch Form: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9tK7eFBM-uPTGRpa3Q5YmxpcE0/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msword
Helmzar Release Form: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9tK7eFBM-uPSHNnbEJxOFBuVFk/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msword
Back to School Night – 8/30
- Please join us for our Back to School night on Tuesday August 30th at 6:30 PM in the Armstrong Area. We will be talking about upcoming field studies, your child’s class schedule, our yearly concept, our Armstrong homework philosophy as well as other procedures and information about the Armstrong Area. We hope to see you there!
Armstrong Team Changes:
As you know, we had several teachers leave the Armstrong area over the summer, some transferred to other schools while others moved to different instructional areas. Mrs. Hewitt moved with her family to Wilson, Arkansas to teach at the Delta School. Mrs. Moore accepted a position at Holy Family teaching 4th and 5th grade. Ms. Molina is still at Mayo and has moved to the Goodall area. While we had some movement of teachers, we also had to shrink the Armstrong team from 6 teachers to 4 teachers due to state budget cuts. Although we lost teacher positions, we still have roughly the same amount of Armstrong students which has resulted in class sizes of 29 and 30. With the movement of teachers we had an opening position in the Armstrong area for our fourth teacher and as many of your know, we hired Brittany Johnston (soon to be Colle) to fill that position! Brittany graduated from the University of Tulsa in May and will be starting her first year teaching at Mayo. Not only was she Mrs. Smith’s student teacher last Spring, she also has done several observations at Mayo in the Goodall and Edison areas. She is a wonderful addition to Mayo and we are happy to welcome her as a part of the Armstrong Team!
Please feel free to email Elyse Smith (embryel@tulsaschools.org) or your child’s homebase teacher if you have any questions or concerns.
Thank you and have a wonderful start to the school year! See you bright and early tomorrow!
Elyse Smith
Armstrong Team Lead
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