The Latest News & Announcements:
(Please note that the most recently updated is on top & do not forget to look at the school calendar above which will highlight No School day and other activities)

Face lift
Family Days
- Activity list for July 14 WOW check for what happened
- Activity list for July 21 A NEW Activity List
- Activity list for July 28 DEADLINE!
- Children's Therapy Works
- Pool party July 29
Last day for make-up tests - July 31
Enrollment status
Information meetings 2007-2008
Commencement
Summerschool
Report cards

FACE LIFT
One of the most exciting news this summer is our face lift project. Due to a generous donation matched by TLE we hope you will be excited about our new facility face lift. Our goals can be summarized as follows:
- rewire pavillion to allow for simultaneous airconditioners - DONE
- repaint pavillion, new lighting, fans, tile bathrooms
- computer room in order
- welcome center (mostly ready)
- face lift of office

Well, our goals are set very high, but we believe we will have it all ready in July. But we need your help. That is why we have asked you to come to one of the three family work days in July. Please see the listing below for more details of what tasks are at hand.

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ACTIVITY LIST JULY 14
This was really a success. We were blessed by a hard day's work put down by so many. Look at the list below and you know what I mean.

Thank YOU all:
- Bekkers: Carel, Josh & Stefan
- Gregory: Josh
- Carey: Danielle
- Harmon: Jay, Becky, Josh, Abigail,
- Kessler: Suzie, Donnie
- LaCava: Lisa, Shannon, Sabrina, Daniel
- Smith: Zach
God Bless you all!!

Welcome center - Ellen's room
- mount clock (stud finder available)
- mount blinds (need tools)
- mount film on windows

Computer room
- move cabinets to the shed
- move computer tables to the center of the room
- patch walls
- paint walls and wood work with Killz
- mask tape
- paint walls and wood work (2)

Stage / new main room
- prepare room: move furniture away from walls
- mask tape and patch walls
- Killz or just paint walls with silver paint (2)
- mount fan
- empty and clean lockers
- glue table tops and edge
- disattach last two lockers, install support beam, attach lockers
- detach lamp pulls

Kitchen area:
- prepare room: move furniture away from walls
- mask tape and patch walls
- Killz or just paint walls with silver paint (2)
- mount fan
- move three book shelves to old main room (wall by hot water heater)
- roll copier to old main room (wall to the left of entrance)
- move wood shelves to shed
- staple insulation to wall side of lockers
- staple cloth cover
- install lunch tables - counter side height
- sew two drapes
- mount fan

Office
- install fan
- detach sorter on copier and attach to the copier in the main room
- move copier down - take to dump Actually we had a Celebration of Gravity!!

Varsity lounge:
- install fan
- mount mirror
- install lamp over red peanut table

Outside:
- prepare grass area to the right of entrance: mow grass, spray round up, put down landscapers black cover, rake a thin layer of wood chips (leave most of it for under the tree house
- finish tree house only with adult project leader
- spray paint (silver) all paper towel dispensers (after having taken them down of course)
- spray paint (black) small cabinet from Ellen's room & two book shelves in the varsity lounge and storage bin from the office & the bookshelf in the computer lab
- take down the retainer wall

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ACTIVITY LIST JULY 21
Below you will see what is at hand. The list will be updated during the week as we get closer to the weekend. We will have paint, and paint tools available. (We would appreciate if if you could bring your own tools).

Well even this weekend we got a lot done, thanks to participating parents.

The computer lab is now ready - painted, furnished with computer tables and desk. We will be getting our computer chairs this week

Both Ellen's room and the computer lab now has blinds, looks great, and new day light fluorescent lights.
Office area is now unloaded, ready for the carpet to ripped out. We have also done the appropriate hanging of things. Due to the work with the office, the main entrance is now through Ellen's office = downstairs.

In the pavilion/barn we assembled the new bar stools for the kitchen area and the fabric for the dividing wall is ready to be installed

And the outside area got its face lift. The tree house has almost its floor down. We sprayed the bank, fence line, from weeds, the wood chips pile is now neatly distributed, weeds in drive way is killed off.

We now can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Thank you all participating families:
- Estes - the whole framily was here
- Hitt - the whole family was here
- Kessler - the whole family was here - AGAIN

So now is time for the home stretch - it all has to be ready this coming weekend.

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ACTIVITY LIST JULY 28
This is the last weekend - and we need as many of you as possible to get it all done. From next week on our prime focus will be on refining the scheduling and procedures of the coming school year (please check the calendar for upcomoing information meetings. So the list is long, but I know we will make it.. (We would appreciate if if you could bring your own tools).
AS usual pizza is served

Kitchen and old Stage area:
- move book shelves to old main room
- move wood shelving unit to shed
- mask tape the walls
- paint the walls and wood trimming, keep the electrical pipes bare
- select the best white blinds and rehang
- sew and hang 2 curtains
- install two IKEA table - counter high (need to detach two sets of lockers to identify brace enforcer)
- assemble IKEA lunch table
- clean and paint (white) both bath rooms
- tile bathrooms
- install wood brace for the ping pong table
- install fan
- paint floor on stage
- clean


Office:
- rip out the carpet
- prepare the floor
- paint: spray: filing cabinets (silver) and desk (black)
- rag paint part of wall
- move back the furnitures
- install blinds
- install fan
- assemble storage unit (IKEA package in the computer lab)

Varsity lounge:
- install fan
- replace the fluorescent with a three bulb lamp + fix the ceiling
- hang pendent lamp above red table

Computer lab :
- assemble 16 office chairs from IKEA
- mop and wax the floor
- hang two CD holders
- prepare computers = 1. move all monitors from closet to each empty table & test that they work; 2. distribute keyboards and mouses and towers to the various tables and 3. test all complete computer sets and document: speed, version, configuration, hard drive and memory size

Outside:
- plant 300 periwinkles in the slope to Canton Road
- finish tree house only with adult project leader
- spray the gate silver
- paint outside staircase blue
- paint the entry to the welcome center grey
- move the painted trapezoid table to the computer room
- move trash and tree branches to the dumpster

That is pretty much it.

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POOL PARTY JULY 29
This year we will all have a chance again to meet at the pool. This year it is Sunday July 29 @ 2.00. For more information please contact us .

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LAST DAY FOR MAKE UP TESTS July 31
Just a friendly reminder that if you have tests or updates that you want to impact your transcript for 2006-2007 July 31 is the last date.

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CHILDREN's THERAPY WORKS - AUGUST 3
If you recall, Shelley Margow had a very well attended and appreciated presentation at TLE last year. Friday August 3 from 2.00pm to 5.00pm she will share with you more specifically her successes in children with various sensory integration issues. A great opportunity to get all those specific questions answered.

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ENROLLMENT STATUS
As of today we 25 students are enrolled. This is better than any year prior. What makes us very excited is both that most students return but also that we have some awesome new students that we know you all will appreciate. You may meet them at the pool party!We still have slots available, actually 15. But we know they will be filled up quickly come end July/beginning August. So if you know someone who is interested, please suggest they contact us for informal meeting/application. The policy is first time first served.

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INFORMATION MEETINGS
We will have two information meetings prior to school start. One for the parents and one for team/table leaders. These will happen the week prior to school start. More on that later Mid July all those who have registered will receive their reading lists so they can begin planning / searching for good deals. The books will be distributed end of July to those having registered prior to July 1.

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COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY ended the 2006-2007 SCHOOL YEAR - THANK YOU ALL!
What a wonderful event. Ellen and I enjoyed it whole heartedly. The facility had been decorated and food prepared by the awesome professional couple Lang and Plouff. Thank you both. It was so pretty and the food was fantastic.All students were there, thank you all for what you have taught us, what you have meant to us. You really have worked very diligently and created a great TLE experience. We miss you very very much and hope to see you in some of the summer pool events we are planning, or in summer school or up in the mountain, you are all always welcomed to visit.Of course a special thank you to our 2007 Graduates Olivia and Suzie. We will miss you so much but hope you will come and visit and share your future successes which we know will be many and great. We wish you the very best in the future.Thank you all wonderful parents. We have never ever before had such a dedicated group of families supporting us to make this year so very special to us. We cannot thank you enough.Not to forget Nina, thank you Nina for all your hard work to make the office an office. A great experience.For the ceremony a special thank you to our Master of Ceremony: Paul Boehlert, our "own" Pastor Seven, and our Invocation speaker Mrs Opal Bush. A fantastic message from both our speakers. Thank you and God Bless.Finally from Ellen and myself, thank you again for a wonderful year. We can not enough explain what it has meant to us, and we truely look forward to see you all next school year. Back to top SUMMER SCHOOL
Summer school starts June 4 and is planned to take place every Monday and Wednesday till July 30. If you cannot make it a certain day don't worry we will work around it. If you have not signed up for summer school yet, just let us know via an email. Within the next few days we will have the summer school schedule on our Downloads page. Back to top NEW REPORT CARDS AND PROGRESS REPORTS
In the download section you can now find the final report card and progress report. The latter lists all graded activities from day one.Back to topLots of things are happening and both of us are looking forward to the new school year.

John & Ellen