Timothy Ball Elementary

Last week, all students were able to select two books to add to their personal collection to kick off their summer reading! Keep your eyes out on Facebook posts for more reading opportunities this summer!
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Descriptive text: Elementary students look over tables filled with stacks of books. Chapter books and picture books fill tables as students pick them up one by one to look at the pages. Several excited students sit on the floor against the wall and hold up two books each and smile.

Timothy Ball Elementary Student Council members made a donation to Community Help Network, Inc. this week. Throughout the year, The Community Help Network, Inc., helps out the community, and our students wanted to help them!
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Descriptive text: Several elementary aged students in bright colored clothes smile as they stand together with multiple adults in front of a brick wall in the main entrance of a school. Two students hold an envelope to represent a donation they are making to the Community Help Network, Inc. from the Timothy Ball Elementary Student Council.

More pictures of Field Day fun at Timothy Ball!
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A close-up selfie of three smiling individuals outdoors on a school playground. In the center is an adult wearing a purple Chicago White Sox cap, a blue school t-shirt, and a red lanyard with a school ID badge. She is flanked by two young girls — one on the left in a light blue shirt and one on the right in a colorful tie-dye shirt. In the background, a rainbow-colored parachute is visible on the blacktop along with other students and a goal post.

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A beaming young boy with red hair and freckles stands on a grassy field proudly holding up a blue 1st Place ribbon. He is wearing a blue FIFA World Cup 26 t-shirt, black checkered shorts, white socks, and black Skechers sneakers. Other students, orange traffic cones, and trees are in the background, suggesting an outdoor field day or track-and-field event.

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A group of children sitting along the edge of a large, colorful rainbow parachute that has been pulled up over them, creating a tent-like canopy above. The vibrant parachute fills the top of the frame with stripes of green, blue, yellow, red, and orange. Several children are grinning and posing — one giving a peace sign — while seated on a painted blacktop. An adult with sunglasses is visible at the far right end of the row.

Our 4th & 5th grade NEHS Mentors wrapped up an amazing year with their buddies today! We enjoyed the beautiful weather, shared lots of smiles and laughs, and made some wonderful memories together. So proud of the friendships, leadership, and kindness these students have shown all year long! 💙
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A large group of approximately 35–40 elementary school students posing together outdoors on a blacktop area in front of a school building. The children are arranged in two rows — some standing in the back, others sitting or kneeling in front. A large leafy tree provides shade behind them, and a colorful playground structure is in the background to the right. The weather is sunny and pleasant.

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Children playing on a modern school playground featuring lime green and dark blue/gray equipment with slides, climbing structures, and rope elements. A few students are gathered talking near the base of the equipment, while one child runs across the blue rubber safety surface in the foreground. Hopscotch and other chalk drawings are on the adjacent pavement.

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A group of children joyfully riding a spinning merry-go-round/carousel piece of playground equipment. The dome-shaped structure is lime green and gray, and the children are laughing and holding on as it spins. The blue rubber playground surface and the school building are in the background.

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Students gathered outdoors on a school blacktop around a large colorful painted game board or activity mat on the ground. Children of mixed ages appear to be playing or interacting together, with the playground equipment, trees, and a blue sky with clouds visible in the background. Chalk drawings cover much of the surrounding pavement.

Students enjoyed a fun-filled Field Day rotating to several stations and exciting events this week! Thank you to Mrs. Radtke for organizing this great event and to all of our parent volunteers that made it happen!
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Descriptive text: Students are outside in grassy areas playing games. Students are elementary aged and several hold onto a rope as a team and try to pull another team towards them. Their faces show hard work and determination.

Students run carrying pool noodles in a game to compete with another team. Students pick up one pool noodle each time and eventually have an armful of pool noodles they are trying to carry.

Students sit and smile as they eat popsicles and watermelon together on the ground and at tables. The treats on a warm day prove to be a highlight for students.

Students throw frisbees toward a bowling pin set up on a pedastal. Four students compete at a time to try to knock the bowling pin down.

Students circle around a multicolored large parachute for an activity. Each student holds on to the parachute with two hands and the group is directed to shake the parachute, and then raise it into the air. When raising it into the air while holding on, students then sit underneath it and pull it down behind them.

Students participate in different water themed relays. Some students hold a plunger upside down that contains water in an effort to fill a bucket before their opposing team. Students carefully race one at a time to fill the bucket. In another event, students pass a water soaked sponge down a line of kids to a bucket where it is squeezed to empty the water.

Students ride four wheeled scooters in a relay race around a cone to try to finish before the other three teams.

Some students draw with chalk on the pavement in designs that have been outlined for artwork to be completed.

One event that students participated in is the running dash. Three to four students at a time dashed across the field in a foot race to see who could make it to the finish line first.

As they near graduation day, CPHS seniors walked the halls of TBall recently! Almost everything has changed inside the building since these students were in elementary school, including the playground outside! Good luck to all of the CPHS seniors as they begin their next chapter!
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Descriptive text: High school students in red graduation gowns and red caps walk in a single file line through an elementary school. Elementary students stand on the sides of the hall smiling and cheering for the graduates. The high school students went to the playground to swing on the swings and play gaga ball in the black framed pit. Outside, some red caps lay on the ground as students swing high on the swings.

In honor of the end of Kindergarten and the Indy 500, our students showed off their own cars at the TBall Kindy 500 on Friday! After a parade and music program, our students joined their families for a drive in movie!
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Young students walk through the gym, each in their own cardboard box car decorated for various themes including barbie, spiderman, racecar, police, alligator and more! The cards the students are wearing are colorful and vary in size. Students are smiling and focused on guiding their homemade creations through the gym. After the parade, students place their cars on the gym floor and sit in or near them and eat popcorn while watching a movie on the big screen.

We are proud to announce that the NICK Foundation received a donation from Timothy Ball’s Student Council. Throughout the year, Student Council hosts various fundraisers, such as the Pumpkin Decorating Contest, Squishmallow and Gummy Raffles, that make it possible to support the foundation and its mission.
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Descriptive text: Students in bright colored tshirts present a check in a white envelope to two adults. All people are gathered in a school and smiling during the check presentation. The students are boys and girls in 4th and 5th grade, along with their two adult school sponsors.

2nd grade enjoyed a fun trip to the Gabis Arboretum in Valpo!
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Image 1 — Six elementary school students gather around an outdoor educational station near a pond or wetland area. The station is a nature exhibit with blue cylindrical objects on top and a wire mesh compartment below. The kids are smiling and engaged, wearing name tags. Lush green trees and water are visible in the background.

Image 2 — A boy stands triumphantly behind a large, impressively tall tower he built from flat wooden blocks (similar to oversized Jenga-style pieces). His arms are raised wide in celebration, and he's wearing a white "Outstanding Attendance" t-shirt and a blue and yellow baseball cap. A sunny park setting with green grass and trees fills the background.

Image 3 — Two girls sit inside a colorful, egg-shaped playhouse or nature exhibit structure, viewed through its large circular opening. The interior is painted bright green. One girl wears a light blue shirt and the other a green t-shirt that reads "Timothy Ball Elementary." They're smiling and appear to be enjoying a quiet moment together.

Image 4 — A group of about nine elementary students poses in front of and inside a large tunnel structure designed to look like a caterpillar or worm, with orange and brown arched rings. The kids are wearing "Field Trip" name tags and are all smiling. The setting is a wooded, natural outdoor area on a sunny day.

Today our Girls on the Run team completed the 5k run they have been training for! We're so proud of all of the girls for their hard work training this semester and their perseverance today during the warm race! Way to go TBall!
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Students in green tshirts and various colors of shorts show excitement as they walk towards the start line and then start in a running race. There are several adults and running buddies in pink shirts along with the runners in green shirts. Many students are wearing sunglasses and hair paint that is colorful and bright. The runners are on pavement paths surrounded by green trees.