Email from Monday,
December 22, 2008
Parents and
Tallenettes,
Words cannot express how proud I was of our girls on
Saturday night!! They looked and danced beautiful!!! And what a great gift from
our football team on an exciting nail biter State Championship victory!! All our
familiies really turned out for an exciting finish to a thrilling season! START
STRONG FINISH STRONG!!!!!
I also want to thank all of you for your
contribution to the delightful Christmas gifts at the progressive dinner, before
and after. You all were very thoughtful and generous; please know that I feel
your blessings every day!!!!!
Our hosts for the progressive dinner
certainly deserve a shoutout as well. Thank you to Sherry Underwood, Shannon
Mileger, Tracy Frye and Janice Crosswhite and Beth Bistransin for their help.
The evening was splendid!!!
Just a few updates, please remember to return
you red velvet dress and shorts on Monday, Jan 5. Also if you are in town on
Saturday Jan. 3rd we have a gym rehearsal to set contest piece formations from
11-3 in the competition gym.
Happy Holidays to you all, be safe in your
travel!!
Love, MamaTek
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Email from Monday, December 15,
2008
The marabou was just delivered, and Mrs.
Tek has asked that anyone who is available to help with this project please come
to the studio tomorrow evening, Tuesday, at 5:00. (What's the project? We are
adding marabou to the girls' costumes for their field performance this
Saturday.) We'll finish it tomorrow evening without a problem if plenty of
people come! This project will just be a little measuring, a little cutting, a
little pinning, and a little tacking, so anyone who wants to help will have
something to do - you don't have to be able to sew! If 5:00 is too early, just
show up when you can. Anyone who arrives late and needs to be let in can call
Michelle Bova's cell (972-955-9780).
After many hours of
persistence, Linda Rubin has finally managed to get the Tallenette Booster
club set up with the Krogers Share Card. Ms. Tek will be passing
out the letters to the girls this week. To get the Booster Club on your individual Kroger's Plus Cards,
all you need to do is give the letter to the
cashier at the beginning of the
order and she/he will scan it along with the Plus Card
andvoila! you are enrolled. Please use this when you are shopping
at Krogers. This is free money and every little bit helps.
Thank you Linda for your
diligence in pursuing this
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008All Points Bulletin:
The girls will be performing a new routine
Saturday. However, we are needing some help in getting the props ready. Our mission in this project, if you
choose (and we hope you do) to accept this task is to make Christmas packages. It was decided that it
would probably be better to take some boxeshome to paint versus doing it at the school. If you can
help with picking up the boxes and/or takingsome items back to Go Figure in Garland, please contact Ms.
Tek directly at lisa_smentek@allenisd.org If you can assist with the painting and/or the bow making, the
material will be ready for pickup after1:00 pm tomorrow
(Wednesday).
As always, your help is greatly appreciated. Please
consider helping so the Teks don't have to finish theproject during the
wee hours of the night. That's saved for Contest and Showcase. Just Kidding, Ms.
Tek.
Judy
Below is a list of what she needs.
1. Picking up
boxes at Mr. Parcel (Greenville Ave. near Elkes) tomorrow about
noon. (email Ms. Tek
if you can)
2. Exchanging some foot undeez at Go Figure
in Garland. (email Ms. Tek
if you can)
3. Painting these boxes red and green
to look like packages. (pick up at AHS after 1:00
Wednesday)
4. Making white bows with a velcro sticky on
top to put on package box at half-time. (one person so they will look the
same)
Let
me know if you can help!
Lisa F.
Smentek
AHS Tallenette Director
972-727-0400 x7757
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Emails from Monday, December 8,
2008
Reminder to the oldies,
please bring your extra red tennis shoes tomorrow (Tuesday).
Newbies, as
you probably notices in this week's schedule, red shoes are needed. Ms.
Tek thinks we have
enough from
other girls to shoe you, so to speak.
Here's
this
week's schedule from Ms.
Tek. And if you think the football players are excited about
winning
Saturday, you didn't see Ms. Tek at the
game...LOVE IT!
OK I finally have necessary details to
pass on about this crazy week! (WE BEAT TRINITY!!!!!)
How cool is that- stay focused we have two more games . .
. . .
Monday, December 8th - Today
5:00 pm - Team Release
6:00 pm - Officers
Release
Tuesday, December 9th
5:00 pm - Team Release (Fun Face
day and Jingle Bells)
Wednesday, December 10th STARS GAME DAY!!!!
WEARING:Velvet with compression shirt, red
tennis shoes, black socks, straight hair, bling, eye lashes, team make-up!!!!
We will practice during 8th period, eat
dinner @ 4:00 pm and dress and depart for STARS game @ 4:45. You will need
dinner $$ at American Airlines Center (it is expensive). Bags subject to search,
no food or drinks, cameras, but NO VIDEO CAMERAS ALLOWED!!!! Parents if you
video the plaza performance, be prepared to check your video camera in at
security. You cannot have your video camera inside at American Airlines
Center!!!!!! NO one will "move down" to shoot photos on the ice!!! We will
hand routine between 1st and 2nd periods of the game.
Thursday, December
11th
NO
AM practice - WHOOP!
4:00 pm - Team
Release
Friday,
December 12th
AM practice
5:00 pm - Team Release (Pilates and run
through)
Saturday,
December 13th
WEARING:
TBA, curly hair, sleeves?, tights - yes
8:15 am Call
9:00 am Departure
Noon -
eat lunch @ Baylor stadium (Jason's)
2:00 pm - Kick-off
5:00 pm
- Celebration
dinner @
stadium (Chik-fil-A)
9:00 pm - return to
Allen
Sunday,
December 14th - Progressive
Dinner
6:00 pm - start @ Underwood's (Bring a
$10 gift for white elephant and sis gift)
Then, off to
finals and State!!!! Will let you know those details next week!
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Emails from Monday, December 1, 2008
Thank you to those of you who donated items for the
Dicken's Christmas event in McKinney Square. A big thanks to those
families who helped sell items. We had a great time and may I just say
that, Bob Landon is sincerely one of the nicest people I've ever met. He
was so accomodating and his employees are all so special. Katie, thank you
for this opportunity and for your assistance.
Please note that
the Progressive Dinner money is to be paid to Shannon Mileger, including any
checks you need to write...they should be payable to her.
Thank you, parents for all you do.
It seems to be a never-ending stream of requests right now but, it will settle
down once we get through all the holiday stuff.
Sincerely,
The
Executive
Board
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Hi Parents,
Attached is a copy of the Christmas
invitation your daughter will be receiving today.Additionally, we are
askingthat each girl contribute $6.00 towards the
purchase ofthe main dish--fajitas. An envelope
is included with each invitation for your convenience
and can be returned to either Ms. Tek or Skye. If you
have any questions, please feel
free to contact Shannon Mileger at: shannonmileger@yahoo.com
Email from Sunday, November 30,
2008Yikes!!! Who'd a thunk? Here we are
playing numero uno again!! Get ready, there is no rest for the beautiful - so
all of you must be beautiful because there will be no rest this
week!!
Things to be ready
for this week:
- 2 contest routine auditions (Nirvana and Lexi)
- Red velvet santa hat for Sunday's parade
- ACO donations due by Friday, Dec 5: 10 year old girl
gift items, non-perishable food items, household items
- We will be learning 2 new hand routines and start a new jazz for STARS and
Semi-Finals for State.
Monday, December
1st
4:30 pm - Team Release
5:00 pm - Elite Release
6:00 pm -
Officer's Release
Tuesday, December
2nd
5:00 pm - Team Release (Nirvana auditions)
7:00 pm -
8:00 pm co-ed - pairing auditions
Wednesday, December
3rd
5:00 pm - Team Release (Lexi Hip-hop auditions)
5:45
pm - Jr. Elite Release
Thursday, December
4th
4:00 pm - Team Releas
5:00 pm - Nirvana
Rehearsal Release
Friday, December
5th
4:30 pm - Team Release
Possible co-ed final pairings
(time TBA)
Saturday, December
6th
9:00 am - 11:00 am - Annie Dancers @ Lowery to help with
children's auditions
GAME INFO:Itinerary likely to be identical to
last week - will update as soon as I know
Call @ noon
WEARING:Traditional uniform with
sleeves, pants, no petticoat, hair TBA
Sunday, December 7th
Allen
Christmas Parade
WEARING:
Traditional uniform w/petticoat with red velvet santa hat.
NO field
hat today