🔔 Reminder: No School Dec 22 - Jan 2.

Enjoy the winter break! All TCAPS school offices and the TCAPS Administration Building at Glenn Loomis will be closed during this time.

Buildings and classes will resume on Monday, January 5, 2026.

View the academic calendar here: https://5il.co/3jfx6

9 days ago, Traverse City Area Public Schools
Warm-toned photo with a silhouette of a person reading under a large tree and the TCAPS school logo

🔔 Reminder: No School Dec 22 - Jan 2.

Enjoy the winter break! All TCAPS school offices and the TCAPS Administration Building at Glenn Loomis will be closed during this time.

Buildings and classes will resume on Monday, January 5, 2026.

View the academic calendar here: https://5il.co/3jfx6

10 days ago, Traverse City Area Public Schools
Warm-toned photo with a silhouette of a person reading under a large tree and the TCAPS school logo

SCHOOL IS CLOSED: All TCAPS schools are closed today, Friday, December 19, 2025 due to inclement weather. Students in Michigan Virtual, Acellus, or Dual Enrollment classes should follow the direction of the instructors for those programs.

For more information on snow days, including how they are communicated and how decisions are made, go to www.tcaps.net.

12 days ago, Traverse City Area Public Schools
TCAPS ALERT Schools are closed due to inclement weather.
Willow Hill 5th graders were spreading Holiday cheer today for the residents at Bay Ridge Senior Living. Thank you to Mrs. Brazee and our teachers for this annual event! Happy Holidays!
12 days ago, Willow Hill Elementary
5th Grade Holiday Concert
Willow Hill 4th graders participated in their first annual Poetry Cafe! Students read poems they had written from their Unit 3 CKLA unit and enjoy hot cocoa while listening to their peers share their talent!
12 days ago, Willow Hill Elementary
CKLA POETRY
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🌟 Beyond Sounding Out: CKLA Knowledge Units Build Confident Readers! 📚

While learning to sound out words is essential, did you know that CKLA Knowledge Units teach your child about the world (like history and science) and grow their vocabulary by introducing important, academic words? This strong foundation of knowledge and words is how they move beyond simply sounding out letters to actually understanding the meaning of what they read, making them skilled and confident readers.

 CKLA Connected—check out the learning adventures happening right now!

 Kindergarten: Underdogs and Heroes: Stories 
First Grade: Common Threads: Different Lands, Similar Stories 
Second Grade: Legends and Heroes: Greek Myths
Third Grade: Rhythm and Rhyme: Poetry
Fourth Grade: Meaning and Metaphor: Poetry
Fifth Grade: Visions in Verse: Poetry

20 days ago, Traverse City Area Public Schools
Young girl using a pocket chart for a phonics lesson, placing a letter card under the 'Chaining' category.
Student learning what is inside the human body at school
Teachers and students in a classroom hold up cards with shapes (star, circle) and letters ('f', 'o', 'g') for a lesson.
Students learning in the classroom
Students with paper masks learning in the classroom
2nd Grade, Courtade:  Domain 2, “Ancient Greece” Display
Group of students smiling together in the classroom.
Trade Fair after wrapping up the Middle Ages unit in CKLA. 4th graders got to experience what it was like being a merchant during this time and had fun trading with other merchants!
about 1 month ago, Willow Hill Elementary
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CKLA Trade Fair
CKLA Trade Fair
First Grade students in Mrs. Gosney's class were actively learning during their Pop Up Chaining (with long vowels) as part of CKLA. Go Falcons!
about 1 month ago, Willow Hill Elementary
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Thanks to Bay Meadows Golf for enhancing our PE classes with some basic golf instruction this week!
about 1 month ago, Willow Hill Elementary
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The first snowy recesses of '25-'26! Go Falcons!
about 2 months ago, Willow Hill Elementary
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Kindergarten students learned about the Blue Angels for Veteran's Day in their Scholastic Reader. Thank you, Veterans!
about 2 months ago, Willow Hill Elementary
Blue Angels salute
TCAPS REMINDER: No School TUESDAY 11/04/25 for Regional Staff Development Day. School Resumes Wednesday, 11/05
about 2 months ago, Willow Hill Elementary
RSDD 11/4/25
Thanks to our West Senior High Drum Line for leading the Halloween Parade. Go Titans!
about 2 months ago, Willow Hill Elementary
WSH Drum Line
Happy Halloween, Falcons! We had so much fun at today's costume parade !
2 months ago, Willow Hill Elementary
Halloween parade
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Willow Hill students enjoyed a visit from author Bruce Cameron, bestselling author. Students asked lots of questions and learned from Mr. Cameron's stories.
2 months ago, Willow Hill Elementary
Meet Bruce Cameron
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4th grade students enjoyed engaging presentations about energy from our friends at DTE! Students received energy kits to take home.
3 months ago, Willow Hill Elementary
DTE Presents
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TBA Student Run Credit Union is up and running! Our next banking day is November 19. Save up and plan to make a deposit.
3 months ago, Willow Hill Elementary
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TCAPS has an Early Release Day on Monday, 10/13/25. Willow Hill dismisses at 1:57 pm.
3 months ago, Willow Hill Elementary
Early Release Monday, 10/13/25
Lost and Found is overflowing! Claim items by Friday, 10/17.
3 months ago, Willow Hill Elementary
Lost and Found
Lost and Found
Lost and Found
Beautiful skies over Willow Hill this morning! Happy Wednesday, Falcons!
3 months ago, Willow Hill Elementary
Rainbow!
Students exclaimed, Mother Nature is beautiful!"
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