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.