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Evening of Excellence
The annual Evening of Excellence celebrates the excellence found throughout our building. It comprises the Enrichment Fair (showcasing enrichment projects from throughout the year), the Science Fair (including all grade levels), and grade-level and department displays. This evening has been an annual event for nearly 20 years at Talbott Springs and is well attended by our community. The 2014 Evening of Excellence's theme was a Green Means...
Family Reading Night
Talbott Springs encourages the community to reuse much-loved books. A book exchange allows students to turn in books from home and take home a new book.
Family Reading Night
"Going Green," our annual Reading Night, was a way to engage families in reading through the use of resources that promote protecting the environment. Families read to perform a task and made sock puppets to promote reading at home, in addition to creating an origami frog after learning about how to protect these animals. Families also read to be informed about recycling and made posters to remind everyone to recycle, in addition to creating recycling boxes that they were able to take home. Then, families used old magazines to identify text features while creating a text feature book. Check out our Photo Gallery for pictures of the successful evening.
Family Math Night
Family Math Night is an annual event at Talbott Springs Elementary. It is an opportunity for parents and their children to have fun with hands on math activities. The evening is always well attended. This year about 100 families, for a total of 300 people attended. This year's them was "Mardi Gras Math." In keeping with our school's Green Team initiative, this year some of our prizes were recycled Mardi Gras beads donated by staff members. Students recorded their answers in recycled "journals" made from recycled sheets of scrap paper.
Trot For Talbott
Trot for Talbott is a fun Walk/Run that is an annual event at Talbott Springs. The event helps promote healthy family activities and lifestyles. This event supports our Healthy Howard initiatives, Green School Certification, and the Garden and SOAR initiatives at Talbott Springs Elementary. Activities include a one mile walk/run community course, arts and crafts, Zumba provided by the Columbia Association, Kangaroo kids demonstrations, healthy snacks, fitness stations in the TSES gym, and many fitness door prizes for all student. Before the race a team of teachers and community members come together to help pick of trash and clean the course. We provide bananas and oranges as snacks because we are able to recycle the waste from them. Lastly, we give out reusable grocery bags and other recycled sporting goods as prizes.
TSES Green Apple Day of Service TSES and the community all gather to help clean the school grounds, add new artwork, and get the garden ready for winter. We had hundreds of parents, students, and staff all come together for a great day. This years projects included: - Building outdoor classroom workstations - Painting a Butterfly Mural - Adding 2 hundreds charts to the blacktop - Clearing and weeding the garden for winter
TSES Organic Garden The TSES organic garden is a sustainable garden, growing fruits and vegetables for TSES students and family members. Many grade level classes, students, and parents participate in planting, watering, weeding and harvesting crops from spring into fall. The garden includes a fenced in area as well as six garden boxes. TSES also has created two compost containers that provide our garden with nutrients.
TSES Wrapping Paper Drive
One of our 4th Grade students developed the idea to collect wrapping paper during the week after winter break. This student presented the idea to the student council, and with help from the entire 4th grade the school wide event was a huge success. The 4th grade collected wrapping paper every morning and piled it on our stage. They then developed morning and lunch announcements to help share the purpose of the drive and to remind students to recycle. Their purpose was to show how wasteful we can be during the holiday season. They also wanted to promote recycling wrapping paper from year to year, as well as finding alternatives to using wrapping paper. At the end of the week a group of 4th grade students made sure all of the materials made it to the recycling bin. This event was a huge success, and is certainly a new tradition at TSES.
The Community Is Active In Our School
Funding Factory Helps Us Recycle
Please be sure to recycle your ink cartridges at school. Collection boxes are in the front hall. Notices have been sent home encouraging families to recycle their empty ink cartridges. Funding Factory helps us to recycle these cartridges and the school benefits monetarily.
The ink recycling program at Talbott Springs Elementary School partners with Funding Factory. Funding Factory recycles small ink cartridges that are donated by students, staff, and community members. The first shipment has already been sent in. A check will be written to the school for the recycled cartridges. The collaboration with Funding Factory also includes large cartridges that are used in the school printers. Reminders to families have been sent via e-newsletter and school newsletters.
The Home Depot donated all of the materials for our Green Apple Day of Service. They donated all of the lumber for the outdoor classroom, and paint for the mural and hundreds chart. They also donated soil and compost for our garden. Without their support and generosity we would not have been able to complete our projects.
Master Gardeners Active At Talbott
Mrs. Greenwald, a Howard County Master Gardener, works with 4th and 5th grade students in preparation for planting a Rain Garden. Ms. Greenwald taught students about the importance of soil preparation. She also helped select appropriate native plants for the garden.