Sunday, October 28, 2018

October 29th - November 2nd


What We're Working on This Week:

Language Arts

This week we will focus on journal writing and good illustrations!  We will discuss and learn how to add details to our illustrations and make sure that our drawings help tell the story!

 Readers Workshop is going great!! We will continue to talk about different ways you can read a book (read the pictures, read the words, retell a familiar story) and keep working to build stamina in our reading! 

We will continue reading books about Pumpkins and Halloween just for fun! 


Black Cat Behind Jack-O-Lantern



Social Studies

We are continuing our unit called: Our Country, the Land We Love!
We will continue learning about our country, the United States of America! We will keep focusing on symbols of the USA!! We are having a great time learning these! 





Math and Science

In Math and Science this week, we are excited to be learning all about PUMPKINS! We will study their life cycles, learn the parts of a pumpkin, and do several fun engineering and math stations with pumpkins! Thank you so much to everyone who has brought it a miniature pumpkin for us to use! And..It's not too late to send one in!!

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Library Day - Mondays 

LIBRARY BOOKS DUE ON MONDAY!
We will go to the TCE Library on Monday, October 29th!
Bring your book back so you can check out a new one!
We Love Library! 


Kids Sitting on Books



Terrific Tiny Texans:

Each week we will be spotlighting a special TCE Tiny Texan from each class. This is someone who we've seen going above and beyond and doing a fabulous job in class! They will get to be our line leader for the week, and they will get to fill out a STAR STUDENT poster to share during family meetings. This weeks texans are:


K1: Emily Paulsen
K2: Owen Cooper 
K3: Cody Kugler
K4: Gavin Fischer




Important Dates

November 2nd - TCE Pansy Planting
November 6th - PTO meeting - 6:00pm in the library
November 9th - Veteran's Day Ceremony at 9:00 am




Pumpkin Fun!

We are collecting tiny pumpkins for an upcoming math and science unit! If you are willing, we would love for you to send in some of the tiny pumpkins. We have bought them at Trader Joes, Tom Thumb, etc. Thank you so much for your support!




Storybook Pumpkins

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Friday, October 26, 2018

Kinder-GARDEN Fun!

We had so much fun planting seeds, reading books, and exploring the TCE and community gardens! Thank you to all of the amazing parent volunteers who came to help out! We couldn't have done this without all of you!


Here are some pictures of our fun time:




Friday, October 19, 2018

October 22nd - 26th


What We're Working on This Week:

Language Arts

This week we will continue practicing our Readers Workshop! The kids are doing great!   We will continue to talk about different ways you can read a book (read the pictures, read the words, retell a familiar story) and keep working to build stamina in our reading! 

We will also learn two new word wall words: "the" and "little."

We are reading books about Pumpkins and Halloween just for fun!  



Social Studies

We are continuing our unit called: Our Country, the Land We Love!
We will continue learning about our country, the United States of America! We will keep focusing on symbols of the USA!!  We are having a great time learning these! 






Math

In Math this week we will be learning more about counting and subtilizing the numbers 6 - 10! We will become experts about how to write, count, and compare and order these numbers! 


Science

In science we will continue to learn all about energy! We will learn about light, sound, and heat energy. We will even work together to design and engineer something that has sound energy!



Library Day - Mondays 

LIBRARY BOOKS DUE ON MONDAY!
We will go to the TCE Library on Monday, October 22nd!
Bring your book back so you can check out a new one!
We Love Library! 








Terrific Tiny Texans:

Each week we will be spotlighting a special TCE Tiny Texan from each class. This is someone who we've seen going above and beyond and doing a fabulous job in class! They will get to be our line leader for the week, and they will get to fill out a STAR STUDENT poster to share during family meetings. This weeks texans are:


K1: Keagan Mascarenhas 
K2: Rishii Nilgiri
K3: Berkley Hoerman 
K4: Lunghnem Par


Important Dates

October 19th - Report Cards Go Home
October 22nd - 26th - RED RIBBON WEEK!
October 26th - Kinder - "Garden" Day
October 26th - Family Movie Night (In the Gym @ 6pm)



Red Ribbon Week

We will be celebrating Red Ribbon Week next week- October 22nd - 26th. We are having a special dress up day each day to celebrate being healthy and drug free!
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Kinder - "Garden"





We are so excited about doing some hands-on learning out in our TCE Garden and community garden. We are planning our first "Kinder-Garden" day on October 26th. We will spend some time in station rotations planting new seeds in our TCE Garden Bed, watering the garden, reading books about the garden, and visiting our community garden.

We would love to have parents come and be a part of this day! If you are interested in volunteering, please use the link below to sign up. If you haven't filled out a background check, please do that, too!






Pumpkin Fun!

We are collecting tiny pumpkins for an upcoming math and science unit! If you are willing, we would love for you to send in some of the tiny pumpkins. We have bought them at Trader Joes, Tom Thumb, etc. Thank you so much for your support!



PTO Family Movie Night

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