From the Principal's Desk
Our students have had another wonderful year filled with learning. We promoted an Eighth Grade Class that is well prepared for high school and will one day do great things in the community. Together, we have initiated the awesome work of transforming TEC into an Arts Integration school. Our teachers are excited about our new mission for instruction, and we are working to ensure that our students are provided with outstanding opportunities to learn through music, drama, art, and dance.
Please remember one word this summer, READ! Parents, please encourage your children to read every day. Travel with a book during your summer vacations. Summer reading lists for every grade are posted below. All assignments are due the first day of school.
Have a terrific summer and I look forward to greeting bright and smiling faces on August 23, 2010.
Sincerely,
Rikki Hunt Taylor
Principal
Summer Reading Lists
| First Grade | Fourth Grade | Sixth Grade |
| Second Grade | Fifth Grade | Seventh Grade |
| Third Grade | Eighth Grade |
Student Supply Lists are now available for new school year (click here)
DCPS Calendar for new school year 2010 -2011 is now available. (click here).
Note: Based on input from the community and others, the first Parent-Teacher Conference has been moved by DCPS to earlier in the year to Monday, October 18th. Both families and teachers reported that December was too late for the first conference. Also Spring Break will be held later from April 15 – 25th.
Art Makes Smart at Takoma -
We did it! We completed our planning year on the path to becoming the only pre-K - 8th grade Arts Integration school in the DC Catalyst Project (more . . .). Our teachers and support staff have participated in numerous professional development workshops led by teaching artists from Imagination Stage and the Kennedy Center. One more intensive Summer Institute for everyone, and teachers will be ready to motivate their students through creative and innovative strategies that will advance academic achievement.
Students also have become more engaged in the classroom by "acting out" new vocabulary, learning "compare/contrast" from songs of different cultures, expressing scientific classification through movement, and painting the story of the Titanic on large murals. I have heard students' question, "When are you coming back into the classroom (with arts integrated activities)...?" ring throughout the halls.
We are hard at work lining up a very exciting and challenging program for the school year 2010-11 and look forward to seeing you and your children "dance" through the school doors on August 23.
Inga Sieminski
Arts Integration Coordinator