Winter break is here! We wish our Telra community a wonderful and festive break with your friends and family. We'll return back to school on January 6. The school office will be open on Monday 12/23 before closing down for the break and reopening on Thursday 1/2.
Key dates - basketball this weekend, lunch orders due Monday
Field trip recap - photos!
iReady score reports
Computer Science awards - Telra winners!
Flag football - interested?
Key dates
Sunday - 12/22 - Boys 12U basketball 3pm at Crews Recreation Center
Monday - 12/23 - Office hours 9am-2pm
Enjoy winter break (no school) 12/21 - 1/5
12/23/24 - Order lunch by noon for 1st week back in January
12/30/24 - Order lunch by noon for 2nd week back in January
1/2 & 1/3 - School office hours 9am-2pm
January 6, 2025 - Back to school
1/23 - School spelling bee (starts at 4:30)
Winter field trips
Over the last 10 days, Telra students had a chance to venture out around Charlotte for winter field trips filled with fun and learning. If you went on one of these trips and have your own photos of videos, please share them with our Telra archive at https://bit.ly/TelraShare24. You can help keep these field trips free of charge with your contribution to the Telra Annual Use fund!
Telra Annual Use fund (𝜏au)
Thank you to the generous families who have helped us get to 5% of our goal in the first month of the launch of the Telra Annual Use fund (𝜏au).
As 2024 winds down, you still have a few weeks left to make a tax-deductible donation to support all we do at Telra. Many corporate matching programs have a cap that resets each calendar year, so don't miss your chance to double your impact!
The launch video explains why 𝜏au is the top fundraising priority for the school, and how it can help us elevate your child's educational experience to world-class.
You can do your part to help us keep field trips, school buses, clubs, technology, and other benefits of the Telra experience free of service fees (not to mention helping us attract and keep great teachers). Visit the 𝜏au home page where it's quick and easy for you to support the cause.
Your children spend more than 7 hours each day with us. Won't you help us make Telra into all it can be?
iReady score reports
Last week, students in grades K-8 took their mid-year i-Ready diagnostics in reading and math. i-Ready is a nationally-normed assessment used as an independent measure of growth, so that we (and you) can track your child's progress over time with a test that's not tied to Telra's curriculum (i.e., we don't teach to the test). Families can access their child's results in the iReady Parent Portal at any time.
Visit i-ReadyConnect.com and log in using the credentials below
Username = Student ID number (you can find this in Alma)
Password = telra
Click on the For Families dropdown and select the For Families report.
Enter the Telra District Report Code: NNXHJ4
As you look at the scores, please keep in mind that all tests have an error range, and it's not unusual for individual test administrations to show little growth (or sometimes even negative growth). These scores are most meaningful when we track growth over years.
For more help interpreting the scores, see the attached file
Computer Science awards
Telra students have been busy learning how to express themselves through computer code in Mrs. Gururaj's class and participated in the CMU CS Academy Fall 2024 Creative Task Competition. Our students’ projects stood out among numerous submissions from schools across 65 countries worldwide that use this curriculum.
Grace Jordan (6th grade) won 1st place for her exceptionally detailed work featuring Kawaii characters and showcasing her grasp of event-driven programming concepts work in Unit 2
Ronan Kirk (7th grade) took 2nd place for his Ping Pong game in Unit 3 which introduced concepts of Conditionals.
See these works and more projects from Telra students on our CS Showcase website.
Flag football
Experience the fun, teamwork, and excitement of flag football at Telra. If you're in grades 5-9 and might be interested in participating in an intramural co-ed flag football league, let us know in the form below. If we get enough interest, we'll launch the program this spring!