Virtual Assignment Notebook Link

Virtual Assignment Notebook Makes Blog Debut
For your convenience, the Twin Oaks Blog now has a link to the Virtual Assignment Notebook to help promote student organization and success.  Please use the Virtual Assignment Notebook link to gain information about class assignments. A link can still be found on the school's website home page as well. We welcome you to continue to visit the Twin Oaks website for additional information about what is happening here at TOMS.
 
Second Step – Study Skills Highlights
 
Drama Auditions 
Monday and Tuesday, December 3rd and 4th in the HOMS Choir Room -  details 

Drama Club Auditions
Auditions are Dec 3-4 in the HOMS Choir Room 2:30 - 4:30 pm
Please pick up an information/registration packet in the TOMS office. DETAILS

Strength Team Registration Extended
It's not too late to join LAKER Strength Team! All Middle School Athletes are encouraged to pick up a registration form in the TOMS office.  DETAILS 

Box Top Prime Time Competition
Please send in Box Tops for Education and 5-cent milk lids (Land O'Lakes & Kwik Trip) with your student this week. The prime time class to collect the most tops by Tuesday Dec. 4th will win a pizza party to celebrate, courtesy of PACT (Parents Assisting Children and Teachers) and our local Domino's. Tops must be clipped and clean to enter! Be sure to mark the bag with your student's prime time teacher or room number. Proceeds will help to fund educational materials at Twin Oaks. Thanks for your support!   

Operation Send A Smile
Support our Troops with a donation of hard candy, powdered drink mixes, beef jerky, bubble gum, batteries and notes/letters of support.  Please bring donations to Twin Oaks by December 14th.  DETAILS

Fundraiser Checkbooks Still Available
A limited number of fundraiser checkbooks are still available for purchase in the Twin Oaks office. The checkbooks contain coupons for local merchants and are perfect for holiday giving. $20 each while supplies last!

TOMS Yearbooks  

This is the last week to get 2012-2013 yearbooks for $30. Starting December 1, the price increases to $35. You can order online https://shop.smart-pay.com/ or send in your order, using the attached form. DETAILS

FROG CLUB Meets Tuesday Morning
Hidden Oaks and Twin Oaks students are invited to join tomorrow's FROG CLUB meeting on Tuesday, November 27th at 6:45 AM in Twin Oaks Room 503. Join other students for donuts and an encouraging devotion. No registration is necessary.  FROG CLUB is a student-led middle school faith club that meets on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday morning of each month and is open to all TO/HO students.

SPAN Meeting Tuesday Evening 

SPAN (Synergy/SAGE Parent Action Network) will be hosting an MCGT-sponsored CHAT night on Tuesday November 27 at 7pm in the WestWood Media Center.  The title of of the CHAT night is “The Social and  Emotional Development of Gifted Kids Throughout Childhood.”  Our facilitator will be Dr. Teresa Boatman, a Twin Cities psychologist who focuses her practice on  gifted kids.  Please contact Apryl at span.priorlake@gmail.com with questions or for more information. DETAILS

 
2013 Washington DC Trip Registration is Open
Current 7th Grade students may now register for the October 2013 8th Grade trip to Washington DC.  Rates increase on December 12th, so register now and save!  DETAILS

Middle School Choir Concert

The Twin Oaks Middle School and Hidden Oaks Middle School 6^th grade choirs will present their first concert on Tuesday evening, November 27^th.  Combined Twin Oaks choirs perform at 6:45 and combined  Hidden Oaks choirs perform at 7:45 (note second concert time change).  All performances will be held in the Twin Oaks Auditorium.

Join us as our combined choirs from TOMS provide the first of back-to-back concerts followed by the combined choirs from HOMS in a second performance.  Their music making and 6^th grade enthusiasm will offer a charming introduction to festivities associated with the holiday season.

No School 

District schools and offices will be closed                 Wednesday, November 21st - Friday, November 23rd.




Operation Send a Smile

On Friday, November 16th, 7th Grade Social Study Students from Twin Oaks and Hidden Oaks learned about military life in the day of an American Soldier in Afghanistan. Master Sergeant Mat Weber and Master Sergeant Russell are recipients of Care Packages sent by Prior Lake Middle School students in previous years as part of the program Operation Send a Smile.  The servicemen visited our school to help students understand the difference a care package can make as our 2012 Operation Send a Smile program gets under way.

6^th, 7^th, and 8^th grade students from Twin Oaks and Hidden Oaks are collecting items (gum, candy, beef jerkey, letters, etc.) for American Soldiers stationed overseas.  Last year, we mailed almost 120 boxes to different Soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Everyday, the freedoms that we enjoy are provided for us by an American soldier.  This is our opportunity to say thank you for the many brave men and women stationed around the world who are away from their families.  Supporting our troops is a gift we give ourselves as they serve on our behalf!  We will be supporting men and women in uniform and asking nothing in return except the honor of letting them know they are appreciated and never forgotten!  Please send your donations for Operation Send a Smile by Friday, December 14th.

For more information or to learn how you can help, please visit http://www.priorlake-savage.k12.mn.us/168720425124527430/blank/browse.asp?A=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=61387

SPAN (Synergy/SAGE Parent Action Network) Meeting Tue. Nov 27 at 7pm

SPAN (Synergy/SAGE Parent Action Network) will have its next meeting on Tuesday November 27 at 7pm in the WestWood Media Center.  The event will be an MCGT-sponsored CHAT night titled, “The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Kids Throughout Childhood.”  The facilitator will be Dr. Teresa Boatman, a psychologist from the Twin Cities area who focuses her practice on gifted kids.  Please see our website www.mctg.net/priorlake for more information about SPAN.  Contact span@mchsi.com with questions/concerns.