• SUPPLY LISTS can be found here.
  

• Thanks to wonderful volunteers, the library is up and running.
  We will hold library hours on Monday, July 21 and August 4 from 12pm-2pm. We hope to have evening hours those same days as facilities become available. Hopefully these times will allow everyone the opportunity to come in and check out some books. During the summer, each child enrolled in TCGIS is allowed to check out two items from the library. Items may be checked out up to two weeks. PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN BAGS FOR TRANSPORTING LIBRARY MATERIALS.
  Contact Holly Wiste if you have any questions regarding the library
  (651-639-9138, home, or hwiste@hotmail.com).
  

• Our new address is 1745 University Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55104.
  

• New Start and End Times for next School Year: School starts at 8:15 am and ends at 3:15 pm for grades 1 through 4. Kindergarten times are 8:15 am to 11:15 am and 12:15 am to 3:15 pm.
  

• Host families are needed for Fall 2008!

• Buddy families – as this is a transition year, we would like to pair incoming school families with current school families. We have 35 new families joining us this year and are looking for that many school families to be available by phone over the summer, meet at least once in person, and generally answer questions about what it is like to be a TCGIS family.
  
  
• Now Hiring for the 2008-2009 school year. Details on the employment page. If you are interested joining the hiring committee along with teachers and administration, please contact the office.
  

German Day at the Minnesota Zoo - Children from the TCGIS are presenting (February 2008):

Read this parent comment: "My neighbor works at Inver Grove High School and she was asked to go to the German Camp at the zoo last week.  She was dreading it a bit, not sure what to expect....  But when she got home she came over with nothing but raving reviews of our German Immersion School.  She said that the high schoolers were blown away, not only by our 2nd and 3rd graders German knowledge, but their ability to communicate so effortlessly.  She said that the projects they did were fantastic.  She and the IGH students talked about the benefits of learning another language at an early age, and all were wishing that they had had that opportunity.  She also said that the teachers at the school must be doing something right, because the German Immersion kids were outspoken amongst all the older high school kids.  They did a wonderful job in explaining and demonstrating the animals that they were assigned. I have a daughter in Kindergarten,  so she was not part of the zoo experience.  But I felt that it was important to let the parents of those smart, outgoing, German speaking, 2nd and 3rd graders know that their kids are doing a great job." 

Next board meeting: April 22nd, 2008 at 6:30 in the evening. These are open meetings and all are welcome to attend. We meet at the school building, 1399 Eustis Street, in the large meeting room. A current agenda and previous minutes are available under Governance-Board Documents one week prior to the meeting.


2007 FLAP grant awarded to Twin Cities German Immersion School. The immersion program at TCGIS has been honored by a foreign language assistance program grant. These grants are available to schools and school districts to promote early language learning in a school setting and to promote continuous language learning up as the children move to higher grade levels. This describes us exactly! With this grant, TCGIS will contunue to improve the elementary program through curriculum development, professional development of our staff, a strong fine arts program and will provide our classrooms with native speaking interns. The grant will provide us with $80,000 in the 2007-2008 academic year and we will soon hear how much additional we will receive by 2010.

Beautiful notecards feature TCGIS student artwork.
The cards cost $10 for 10 cards, 2 of each design / $20 for 20 cards, 4 of each design. Your purchase benefits the school. The cards are available at the school. Click Here to view all the cards.