September 26th - 30th

Calendar Dates:

Thursday, September 29th - Kinder Community Helper Field Trips

Friday, September 30th - K2 Community Helper Field Trip 

Thursday, October 6th - Early Release @ 12:30

Friday, October 7th - No School for Students / Parent Conferences

Monday, October 10th - No School for students or teachers

Friday, October 14th - TCE Color Run 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.

(more info coming soon from TCE PTO)

Important Information:

Community Helpers Field Trip

On September 29th and 30th, Kindergarten will be visiting the Cozby Public Library, the Coppell Fire Station, and the Coppell Police Department! A permission form went home last week. Please let us know if you need a new one! We would love to have lots of chaperones! If you can join us, please fill out the background check, and let your child's homeroom teacher know!

Volunteering and Classroom Helpers

Throughout the course of the year we will be looking for some volunteers to help us with specials events in our classrooms! If you are interested in volunteering or attending any of these events you will need to have a background check on file. You can go ahead and fill this out here!

Parent Conferences

We will be offering parent-teacher conferences on Thursday afternoon, October 6th and Friday, October 7th. This will be a chance for you to meet with your child's homeroom teacher about all of the amazing progress they've made so far this year! More info about signing up will be coming soon!

Library Books

I hope your child enjoyed their library book they checked out at our TCE Library last week! Please return library books every Monday so your child can get a new book to take home!

Ms. Martin's Parent Newsletter

Parent Newsletter Linked Here!

Ms. Matlock's Counselor Newsletter

Counselor Newsletter Linked Here!

Take a Peek at our Week

Language Arts

Writer's Workshop:

This week in Writer's Workshop we will begin writing sentences in our journals!  We will talk about how sentences begin with a capital letter, have spaces between words, and end with punctuation. We will start with "I like......" sentences and work towards adding more! 

We will also learn two new SNAP words! SNAP words are high frequency words that are found most commonly in English texts. We call them SNAP Words because we learn them so that we will know them in a SNAP!

This week we will learn the words: "see" (we didn't get to this one last week) and "a." 

Reader's Workshop:

We have begun using the app Raz Kids or Kids A to Z in our reading practice!  This is a great app to help your child find and read books on their level!  I will send home the log in cards this week so you can try it out at home if you have not already!  Students are able to listen to the story and then practice reading the story independently.   As the progress the app will ask them comprehension question about the story too! 

We will begin a new unit on rereading and looking closely at books to learn and notice more.  We will practice sounding more like a storyteller when we are reading and rereading some of our favorite stories! 

We will also read some fun books about APPLES and FALL. 

Phonics:

 We will continue focusing on the common sounds that letters represent! We will also talk about and practice sorting letters, words,  and sentences.   We will discuss how letters make words and words make sentences. 

Math

In Math this week, we will continue working on our numeracy skills! We will focus on comparing numbers! We will learn vocabulary words like greater, more, less, fewer, and equal. We will be able to compare numbers, pictures, and sets of objects! We will also use two new apps (Khan Academy Kid and Boom Cards) to help us practice our comparing skills! 

Social Studies

In Social Studies, we will complete our unit on Jobs in Home, School, and Community by visiting (walking) the Police Station, Fire Station, and Cozby Public Library next Thursday and Friday. Cant wait!!

I am so excited to introduce Time for Kids magazine to all our Kinder learners. This is a "News of the Week" article or interview for tomorrow's leaders and global citizens. It is a fun way to experience what is happening in our world and around us!

Science

In Science next week, we will complete our unit on Properties of Objects. We will make observations, record our findings, and discuss how materials can be changed when heating and cooling occur. For examples, what happens to chocolate chips when they are placed in the heat (sun)? then in the freezer? What other objects can change due to heat or cold?

September 19th - 23rd

Calendar Dates:

Monday, September 19th - PTO Meeting at 6 pm in the TCE Library

Wednesday, September 21st - CHS Homecoming Parade @ 6:30

Thursday, September 29th - Kinder Community Helper Field Trips

Thursday, October 6th - Early Release @ 12:30

Friday, October 7th - No School for Students / Teacher Workday

Monday, October 10th - No School for students or teachers

 

Important Information:

Community Helpers Field Trip

On September 29th and 30th, Kindergarten will be visiting the Cozby Public Library, the Coppell Fire Station, and the Coppell Police Department! A permission form went home last week.  Please let us know if you need a new one! We would love to have lots of chaperones! If you can join us, please fill out the background check at the link below and let your child's homeroom teacher know! 

Volunteering and Classroom Helpers

Throughout the course of the year we will be looking for some volunteers to help us with specials events in our classrooms! If you are interested in volunteering or attending any of these events you will need to have a background check on file. You can go ahead and fill this out here!

Ms. Martin's Parent Newsletter

Parent Newsletter Linked Here!

Ms. Matlock's Counselor Newsletter

Counselor Newsletter Linked Here!

Take a Peek at our Week

Language Arts

Writer's Workshop:
This week in Writer's Workshop we will continue telling our story in pictures! We will continue writing in our journals by adding the date at the bottom and illustrating our story at the top! We will work on adding more labels to our writing! We will label pictures with their beginning sounds, for example "sun" would be labeled with an "S."

We will also learn to new SNAP words! SNAP words are high frequency words that are found most commonly in English texts. We call them SNAP Words because we learn them so that we will know them in a SNAP!

This week we will learn the words: "can" and "see"

Reader's Workshop:

This week we will complete our unit called "We Are Storybook Readers." We will practice reading stories that we have made storybook favorites and we will use exact words from the stories and look for words we know!  We will work hard to find our SNAP Words (I, like, can, see)  in the books we are reading! 

Phonics:

This week we will continue focusing on the common sounds that letters represent! Feel free to watch the video below with your child to hear how we correctly pronounce each sound! We will also learn how to use the app: Khan Academy Kids to help us with our letter sounds! 

Math

In Math this week, we will continue working on our numeracy skills! We will focus on representing numbers! We will learn that numbers can be represented in so many ways! We can use ten frames, pictures, dice, number bonds, number lines, and SO much more to represent our numbers! We will play many fun games, sing songs, and do lots of hand-on activities to practice representing numbers during Math Workshop!

Social Studies

We will continue our study on Rules, Laws and Authority Figures. We are so excited to get the opportunity to visit our Community Police & Fire Stations, and Public Library! A field trip permission form went home last week. Please return by Friday, September 23rd. We would love to have as many chaperones as possible. You can find the background check online form HERE!

Library: 

 I hope your child enjoyed their library book they checked out at our TCE Library last week! Please return library book on Monday so your child can get a new book to take home!

Science

We are continuing our unit on Properties. Next week we will focus on materials such as metal, wood, plastic, glass, fabric and cardboard. We have some new vocabulary words for the week - stiff, bendable, flexible, stretchy, and texture (the way in which a surface feels). Your child is welcome to take pictures (on their iPad ) of objects that have the properties we have studied. I would love for them to share with their class.

September 12th - 16th

Calendar Dates:

Tuesday, September 13th - Spring Creek BBQ Night 5-9pm (Lewisville)

Monday, September 19th - PTO Meeting at 6 pm in the TCE Library

Wednesday, September 21st - CHS Homecoming Parade 

Important Information

Spring Creek BBQ Night (Lewisville)

Free and Reduced School Meals

For the last two years, free and reduced meals were provided for all Texas public school children. Beginning September 29th, families must complete an application to qualify for free or reduced priced meals. For more information, check out the Coppell ISD Child Nutrition website. Complete your School Meal Application here. Allow up to ten days to process your application.

Coppell Cares

Coppell Cares will provide the Weekend Backpack Program (WBPK) again this school year. Families may sign up for this program at any time during the school year. Siblings living in the same household, are also eligible to participate. If your family would benefit from a weekly Friday snack bag delivery, please complete the following form to sign up:

English Application:

https://forms.gle/NDV8iAJbCUwcEUuu5

Spanish Application:

https://forms.gle/xEQi6c2Ghsa7Hye48

WBPK deliveries will begin Friday, 9/8/2022. Deliveries will be suspended for Thanksgiving Week, Winter Break, and Spring Break.

If you have any questions, please reach out to TCE's counselor, Kelly Matlock, at kmatlock@coppellisd.com.

Volunteering and Classroom Helpers

Throughout the course of the year we will be looking for some volunteers to help us with specials events in our classrooms! If you are interested in volunteering or attending any of these events you will need to have a background check on file. You can go ahead and fill this out here!

Ms. Martin's Parent Newsletter

Parent Newsletter Linked Here!

Ms. Matlock's Counselor Newsletter

Counselor Newsletter Linked Here!

Take a Peek at our Week

Language Arts

Writer's Workshop:

This week in Writer's Workshop we will continue telling our story in pictures! We will continue writing in our journals by adding the date at the bottom and illustrating our story at the top! We will also begin adding labels to our writing! We will label pictures with their beginning sounds, for example "sun" would be labeled with an "S."

We will also learn to new SNAP words! SNAP words are high frequency words that are found most commonly in English texts.  We call them SNAP Words because we learn them so that we will know them in a SNAP!  

This week we will learn the words: "I" and "like" 

Reader's Workshop:

This week we will begin a new unit called "We are Storybook Readers!" We will talk about how we can read and re-read books again and again to learn more of the story!  We will use the text "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" to practice our storybook reading! 

Phonics:

This week we will continue focusing on the common sounds that letters represent!  Feel free to watch the video below with your child to hear how we correctly pronounce each sound!   We practice this in class too! So far we have worked on the first 10 letters! We will add the rest this week! 

Math

In Math this week, we will continue working on our numeracy skills! We will focus on subitizing! Subitizing means to look at a structured arrangement and recognize how many are there, rather than counting. For example, when you roll a dice, you know when you land on a 6, rather than counting each of the dots individually! We will play many fun subitizing games, sing songs, and do lots of hand-on subitizing and counting activities during Math Workshop!

Social Studies

The next few weeks, we will continue our study about Rules in our school, Home, and Community. We will listen to books, videos, and write about rules.  We will learn the difference between a rule and a law and how rules and laws keep us safe.  

 

On Monday, September 12th, we will get to check out a book from our TCE Library!  Look in your child's backpack!  We will return book the following Monday, and get a new book to take home! 

Science

We will continue our unit on Properties of Objects by observing and recording properties of objects that are different in shape, color, and texture.  We will learn how materials can be combined together to make new objects. We learned this past week that some changes are permanent and some changes can be changed back so they are temporary.  Please ask your child to give you examples!

September 5th - 9th

Calendar Dates:

Monday, September 5th Labor Day / No School!

September 1st - 9th - BOOK FAIR in the TCE Library

September 9th - Special Friends Day

Important Information

Specials Friends Day

Please Save the Date of Friday, September 9th for Special Friends Day! Special Friends (Grandparents, Moms, Dads, Aunts, Uncles, Neighbors, any adult really can be a special friend) are welcome to visit the Kindergarten Classrooms from 12:15-1:15 p.m. During this time, the Kindergarteners will show their friend some special work, eat a quick snack, and take a tour around the school. They will also be able to visit the Book Fair!

Click HERE to pre-register for coming it visit!

We are also looking for donations to make our Special Friend's Day even more special. If you would like to donate, please sign up using the link below:

Link Here

TCE Book Fair

The Scholastic Book Fair is HERE! Parents are invited to shop with their children before school Tuesday, September 6th - Friday, September 9th from 7:20-7:40 a.m. and after school Tuesday - Thursday from 3:00-3:30 p.m.

Learners who are shopping independently will shop during their recess.

The book fair will be open during Special Friends Day until 2:00 p.m.

We encourage you to use the eWallet feature. Instead of sending cash with your children, you can create an eWallet account and place a predetermined amount of money on the account for your children to shop the in person fair. To create an eWallet go to https://www.scholastic.com/bf/towncenterelementaryschool

Thanks for supporting book choice and TCE!

Free and Reduced School Meals

For the last two years, free and reduced meals were provided for all Texas public school children. Beginning September 29th, families must complete an application to qualify for free or reduced priced meals. For more information, check out the Coppell ISD Child Nutrition website. Complete your School Meal Application here. Allow up to ten days to process your application.

Coppell Cares Snack Bags

Coppell Cares will provide the Weekend Backpack Program (WBPK) again this school year. Families may sign up for this program at any time during the school year. Siblings living in the same household, are also eligible to participate. If your family would benefit from a weekly Friday snack bag delivery, please complete the following form to sign up:

English Application:

https://forms.gle/NDV8iAJbCUwcEUuu5

Spanish Application:

https://forms.gle/xEQi6c2Ghsa7Hye48

WBPK deliveries will begin Friday, 9/8/2022. Deliveries will be suspended for Thanksgiving Week, Winter Break, and Spring Break.

If you have any questions, please reach out to TCE's counselor, Kelly Matlock, at kmatlock@coppellisd.com.

Volunteering and Classroom Helpers

Throughout the course of the year we will be looking for some volunteers to help us with specials events in our classrooms! If you are interested in volunteering or attending any of these events you will need to have a background check on file. You can go ahead and fill this out here!

Restroom Breaks in Kindergarten

As the school year gets going we wanted to touch base on kindergarten friends and using the restroom! We know that using a public / school restroom can be an adjustment for some so we wanted to share our procedures with you.... Typically we take three whole class restroom breaks each day (one in the morning, one at 10:20 prior to lunch, and one in the afternoon), however your child can always ask to use the restroom independently and we will allow them to walk down to go. At times we might ask for them to wait for a moment until another student returns so as not to overwhelm the number of students down at the restroom together. Please encourage your child to ask the teacher if they need to go as well as having a conversation about asking before it becomes an emergency! We do our very best to meet everyones needs restroom and otherwise as soon as we possibly can. Please keep a clean change of clothes in your child's backpack in case an accident occurs. Thanks so much!!!

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 continue telling our story in pictures! We will continue writing in our journals by adding the date at the bottom and illustrating our story at the top! We will also begin adding labels to our writing!  We will label pictures with their beginning sounds, for example "sun" would be labeled with an "S." 

Reading Workshop:

This week we will review what we learned and discussed in "We Are All Readers!" We will continue to discuss how readers look, think, read, and learn! We will practice reading letter names and discussing the parts of books! We will also begin practicing our reader's workshop by reading quietly and looking for familiar letters, words, and pictures in books! We will learn how to re-read to learn more! 

Phonics:

This week we will continue focusing on the common sounds that letters represent!

Math

In Math this week, we will begin working on our numeracy skills! We will focus on counting strategies this week. We will sing counting songs, play counting games, and do lots of hand-on counting activities during Math Workshop!

Here are some pictures from our first week of Math Workshop:

Social Studies

This week in Social Studies we will continue our study on Rules in school, home, and our community.  Look for our "Special Guest" videos.  We will be able to identify how rules are important, keep us safe, and how rules help us everyday!

Science

In Science next week we will start our Unit on Properties of Matter.  We will begin with observing and recording properties of objects that are bigger, smaller, heavier and lighter.  Objects can be described and sorted based upon their properties.  We will be "Scientist" and use our Science Journals to record our observations.  

Curriculum Night 2022

 Here is our presentation from Curriculum Night 2022:

You can also click the link HERE to view it!