January 24th - 28th

Calendar Dates:

February 1st - The 100th Day of School! (See Info Below!)

February 14th - Class Valentine's Party

February 22nd - Kindergarten Celebrates 2's DAY (2/22/22)

Important Information:

100th Day of School

On February 1st, we will be celebrating the 100th Day of School! Earlier this week, a bag with your child's name on it came home in  their folder. Please help your child fill the bag with 100 objects (ex: 100 pennies, 100 marshmallows, 100 toothpicks, etc.) Your child can bring their bag any time during the week of January 24th - 28th. We will share our collections on the 100th Day and hang them in the hallway to show! We will  send them back home after our celebration.

A Note from our Counselor: Play It Safe

Dear Parents and Guardians,

In February your child’s Professional School Counselor will meet with all students about the topic of personal safety. Coppell ISD uses Play It Safe. Play It Safe is a research-based, age-appropriate abuse prevention program.

The purpose of this personal safety presentation is to provide all children with information and practical skills to protect themselves by recognizing, reacting to, and reporting potentially dangerous situations. Topics that will be addressed vary at each grade level as they consider the child’s age and maturity level.

Our Professional School Counselors are the presenters and will visit with each classroom, K-5, for approximately 30-45 minutes. Stories, puppets, group discussions, and videos are used in the low-key, age-appropriate presentation.

You can obtain more information about the Play it Safe program at the following link: https://playitsafe.org/index.php. Also, feel free to contact your child’s Professional School Counselor if you have any questions.

If you DO NOT want your child to view the Play It Safe Program, please email your campus' Professional School Counselor by Friday, February 4th. Your child’s teacher will make sure that your child goes to an alternate learning environment during the Play It Safe presentation.

If you would like your child to participate in this valuable learning opportunity no further action is needed.

Sincerely,

Anne Lehew, M.Ed., PSC

Coordinator of Counseling and Social Emotional Learning

TCE's counselor is Kelly Matlock.  She can be reached at kmatlock@coppellisd.com.

Book Bags / Library Books

Don't forget to return your book bags and library books on Monday! The learners will not be visiting the library until Monday, January 24th, many of you have already turned in your books! 

We will also be sending new reading book bags home on Monday! Please keep reading these books with your child each night and return them on Fridays! Happy Reading!

Ms. Martin's Parent Newsletter

Parent Newsletter Linked Here!

Take a Peek at our Week

Language Arts

Writer's Workshop:

This week in Writer's workshop we will be learning about informational / descriptive writing. We will be writing about and making a snowman! We will continue our focus of starting with a capital letter, using ending punctuation, and leaving spaces between words!

Phonics:

We will be starting a new unit on VOWELS! We will focus on short vowel sounds! 

Readers Workshop:

This week we will start a new Reading Unit on GROWING our SUPER Powers!  We will focus on what we know about letters and sounds to decode words and read "bigger books."  We will learn that reading "bigger books" means getting "bigger reading muscles."  Don't forget to practice using your super reading powers at hone when you read your book bag books too! 

Math

In Math this week, we will continue learning about representing numbers! We will become experts about how to represent and write our teen numbers correctly. We will  do fun stations and games to help us practice our learning! Below is one of our favorite teen number songs!

Social Studies

This week we will continue to learn all about about Citizenship and what it means to be a good citizen.

We will also continue to learn and discuss about different cultures.  We will learn about clothing and food from all over the world! 

Science

In science this week we will continue our unit all about Earth Materials! We have wrapped up our study of rocks.  This week we will focus on WATER as a natural resource and how it helps our world.  

Please Celebrate our Scientists of the Week:

Asher C. - K1

Miles L. - K3