Kindergarten news May 8th- May 12th

What we’re      

Workin’ on this week..

Language Arts / Social Studies

This week we will be working on some special things for our MOM's!  We have a lot of wonderful work to show you!  Please joins us this Friday for Muffin's for Mom!

 Also, we are all done bringing home book bags! We need to begin collecting any guided reading books or book bags you might have at home so that all the books can be resorted into the
literacy library!
 Thank you so much for reading with your students all year! Their progress is amazing!  Don't forget the public library has a multitude of easy reader books that you can check out as well as using Raz Kids online to keep up with your reading! Thank you so much!

Math

 This week we will continue working on both our addition and subtraction skills! 

As adding and subtracting agents, we are always looking for clues to help us know what to do! We always go through our detective 4 step process!
1. read the problem
2. underline our question
3. box in the words that help us know if we are going to add or subtract

4. circle our important numbers

Once we have gone through our 4 steps, we are ready to choose our how we want to solve the problem with the information we have gained!!

Here are the strategies that we have learned!

Math Challenge!!

Can you count to 150+? If you can count with your parents to 150 or above without any help, you will be able to earn a Texan Buck! We cannot wait to hear everyone counting!!!

Science

This week we will be continuing our study of rocks! To help us with our observations, if your child has not brought in their rock, please have them bring it by Monday in a labeled ziplock baggie. (this will help us not have to big of rocks since everyone will have one and we are storing two classes worth) We will be able to observe different rocks and all of their properties when we do our rock reports! We are going to use our ABCD's of drawing with our rock reports! We will draw A- accurate, B- Big, C- Colorful and D- Detailed.

Important Dates... 

May 8th, 9th and 10th- STAAR Testing days (No visitors at TCE)
May 12th- Muffins for Moms 8:00-8:45
May 17th- CISD night at the ball park- Texas Rangers
May 19th- Field Day

May 29th- Memorial Day- No School
June 1st- Last day of school! (Early Release)

STAAR TESTING

Due to State regulations, we are not allowed to have any visitors at TCE on STAAR testing days. If you are needing to drop something off for your child, you may bring it to the front office and we will be sure to get it to your kiddo! Please make note that we will not be able to have guests at lunch on these days as well! Thank you for your understanding! 

Muffins for Moms

All moms are invited to join us for Muffins for Moms on May 12th from 8:00- 8:45. If Mom cannot attend on that day, please feel free to send a "substitute Mom"  to join in on the fun! Muffins, fruit and water will be provided! 

Please B.Y.O.C. (Bring your own Coffee if you like) 

TCE Garden Design Challenge

We are going to have a Garden Design Challenge in which all learners can turn in drawings, models, paintings, etc. in order to show what they would like for our garden area to look like for TCE.  We currently have several beds and have been working with a company, Real School Gardens, in order to find even more ways to incorporate real world, hands-on applications within our garden to enrich our academic learning.  

We are going to have our TCE Student Council work with a committee at the campus for choosing final selections for the overall design.  Until then, any ideas are welcome!  We are going to work with our Dad's Club/Green Team Volunteers in order to get going, but would love more helpers for when we get to our build!

Our goal is to build and get the designs in place for additional areas of the garden the week of May 15th.  

If you would like to be a part of this planning process or building, please fill out the following Google form:

Click here for the link!

We will reach out to you toward the middle of April!