First Grade News January 15th - January 19th 2018

What We're Working on This Week:

First Grade Curriculum:
Language Arts 

This week in LA we will get a new spelling list on Tuesday.  We will focus on the r controlled vowels or the bossy r (ir, er, ur). Spelling test will still be on Friday!  We will also continue learning about NOUNS (a person, place, or thing).  Book bags will come home on Tuesday! Please read your books each night and complete the "Text to Self" readers response on one of your books.  Please return book bags on Fridays!  

Social Studies

This week in Social Studies we will continue our unit on Famous Americans.  We will read a few books about and discuss Rosa Parks and Ruby Bridges.  We are creating a class time line to show how events from the past are put in chronological order and affect our world. 

Math

In Math we will be continuing our unit on addition and subtraction. This is our biggest and most in depth unit we will study this year! We will explore several strategies for adding and subtracting, and we will discuss what makes a strategy "efficient" for us! We will explore these strategies by playing games, completing fun stations, and lots and lots of practice! This is one reason it is so crucial our learners are on Reflex Math at home... we want them to be confident in their facts!

Science

In science we are learning and discovering all about air and weather. We have learned how we can all be meteorologists and track weather data. We will keep track of the weather in Coppell to make weather graphs. We will also track the weather in other various places around our world. This week in particular we are tracking weather from cities around the world and comparing it to our weather in Coppell.

Important Dates:

January 15th - MLK Jr. Day / No School
February 14th - Valentine's Day Parties at 2:00 (more info coming soon)
February 19th - No School for Students (Staff Development Day)

Other Important Information:

Yearbooks

Calling all TCE Texans!!  Please purchase your 2017-2018 TCE Yearbook online! 

The PTO will have a very limited supply to sell at the end of the year. As of now the deadline to purchase and build ads is January 15th.

http://shop.balfour.com/smi98688/catalog/category/view/s/yearbook-and-accessories/id/312795/

Skate Night!
Thank you so much to everyone who came out for Skate Night this week!  We appreciate all your support of TCE and our awesome PTO!  Yay!