February 10th - 13th

What We're Working On

This week in Language Arts we will focus on:

Reading Workshop - Reading books with stamina and becoming an AVID reader.
Practice your book bag books at home too! Everyone is doing great!

Writer's Workshop - We are learning to write "HOW TO..." books.  We are teaching
each other how to do things that we are an expert on, for example...
How to ride a bike.
How to swim.
How to walk a dog.

Phonics Workshop:  We will continue to learn about VOWELS!
We will discuss long and short sounds of each vowel.

Social Studies:

We will read books about Valentine's Day and discuss ways
we can show each other kindness at school!

Math:

In math this week, we will be continuing to learn all about addition and subtraction. We will learn strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems. We will play some fun games and stations to help us practice these skills! We will also do lots of fun Valentine's addition and subtraction!

Science:

In Science we will be ending our  unit all about Earth science. We will review about Earth materials like soil, rocks, and water. We will learn how we these natural resources to help us each day. We will discuss all the ways we use these resources to help us!

Important Dates:

Thursday, February 13th - 2:00 pm Class Valentine's Parties

February 14th / February 17th - No School for Students 

March 3rd - Kindergarten Field Trip to the Willow Bend Theater

March 17th - Shamrock Shuffle at 1:10 pm

April 9th - Kindergarten Field Trip to the Bio Diversity Center and Life Safety Park

Important Announcements:

Valentine's Day

We will be celebrating Valentine’s Day at school on Thursday, February 13th! Please have your child address a Valentine card to each person in their homeroom class. A class list was sent home last week! If you need a new one please e-mail your child's homeroom teacher. 

Send the cards with them to school on or before Thursday, February 13th! 

On Thursday, February 13th we will open Valentines and celebrate with a class party from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. All parents are welcome to join us at the party! 

Kindergarten Field Trips

Our Kindergarteners will be taking TWO Field Trips this spring! On March 3rd we will be going to the Willowbend Theatre to see a performance of Peter Rabbit. On April 9th we will be going to the Coppell Bio Diversity Center and Life Safety Park. 

Please send in money ($16 covers both trips) and permission slip by February 13th!

Thank you!

TCE Cultural Night

Please click HERE for information on our TCE cultural night!

Kids Heart Challenge Benefitting the 

American Heart Association

The American Heart Association visited our school this week to kick off the Kids Heart Challenge (formerly Jump Rope for Heart)! During their visit, learners joined teams to work together to defeat heart disease while learning how easy and FUN it can be to take care of our hearts!

Over the next few weeks, learners will continue learning more about heart disease, exercise, healthy eating, and the importance of helping/giving back to others. We hope you will join us as we work to support the American Heart Association’s mission of saving lives. Sign up through the Kids Heart Challenge App (App Store for iPhone or Google Play for Android) or online at www.heart.org/khc

This year we have set a goal to reach at least $15,000 raised again to help fight heart disease and help kids with sick hearts! To help us reach our goal, we are taking a SLIME CHALLENGE!!! Any learner who raises $200 (or more!) earns a cup of SLIME and will get to SLIME Coach T. and any learner that raises $500 (or more) earns a cup of SLIME to SLIME Ms. Martin!

Check out our Heart Hero Alexa explaining more about this fun experience: https://youtu.be/mJYbsNji1QA