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
Ms. Matlock's Counselor Newsletter
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?
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