Kindergarten News: November 28th- December 9th

What we’re      

Workin’ on this week..

Language Arts / Social Studies

This week we will begin an author study on Author and Illustrator, Jan Brett!  She has written many famous children's books and is an amazing artist as well!  We will also pick back up in our journals and really work on extending our writing!  Everyone is doing great!  We will learn one new word this week, "my" and review the words we have already learned too! We are almost at 20 words!

Math

This week we will be working on learning about personal financial literacy! We will be learning all about needs vs. wants, goods and services, earning money, saving money and receiving money as a gift. We will be challenging learners to think of things they are good at that they could provide as a way of earning money. (We will be making a poster to show that we know how we can earn money).
As we talk about needs vs. wants, we will be talking about some of the things that are needed around the world and brainstorming how even though we may be little, how we could help out! 

Extending your Learning at Home:

Thank you to those who have sent in a video counting in a different language! We hope to get more videos in!! Click on the hotspot circle links on the map below! 

 

If you would still like to participate in our counting challenge, have your mom or dad tape you and send it to either Mrs. McKinney or Mrs. Brehm. Please include the region of where your language is from, as we are making a link to that place in the world!
***Example: Hi my name is _______. I am going to count to 10 in Chinese. (Then you would count slowly so others will be able to learn from you!)
We cannot wait to get in the videos, put them on our world map and learn from you!

Science

We are finishing up our digital storybooks about how plants are affected through the seasons. When we are finished we will share our final draft with you all!

After we finish our research project, we will be studying trees. We will be looking at all the parts of a tree and how they differ from other plants, doing leaf rubbings and learning the difference between evergreen and deciduous

Important Dates... 

December 1st- Art from the sky (Wear a white shirt)
December 9th- Jingle Bell Run (@ 1:20-2:10)
December 15th- Winter Party ( @ 2:00)
Decmber 19th- January 4th- Winter Break (no school)
January 6th- Spirit Rally (@ 8:15)
January 16th- No school- Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Texans of the Week

K1- Medow

K2- Dean

K3- Vi

K4- Sastha

K1- Liv

K2- Gracie

K3- Giada

K4- Varsha

Calling all cooks!! 

Art From the Sky with Daniel Dancer

A blue flyer was sent home with your child earlier this week about the art from the sky program that we are partnering with! This Thursday, December 1st, please have your child bring or wear a white shirt. We will be taking a school picture with everyone, but we will be making the shape of Texas with our bodies! I cannot wait for everyone to see the final outcome!

The Giving Tree

When: November 30th-December 15th

Where: Place new, unwrapped toys under the Christmas Tree by the front office

What: Town Center first graders are collecting new, unwrapped toys for children in need. We will be donating the toys to the Lions Club. When you place your toy under the Christmas Tree, please sign your name on an ornament and hang it on the tree!

Thanks so much!!

1^st grade

STEM stations

On Monday, December 12th, we will be having some fun STEM stations. We would love to have parents come in to help out in each station! Please click on the link below for more information on what we will be doing! If you are available, please sign up for one or both times!! :) 

http://signup.com/go/B5GfPS

Class Winter Party

Class Winter parties are on December 15th at 2:00. More information will be coming home soon from your class room moms! Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy the fun activities that are planned for the afternoon! 

Interested in Volunteering this year? 

If you are interested in volunteering at all this year, please click on the link below to fill out the 2016-2017 volunteer background check. Everyone that volunteers must have a completed background check. Once you have done it, it is good for the entire year! It only takes a few minuets! 

http://www.coppellisd.com/P

Kindergarten News: November 14th-November 18th

What we’re      

Workin’ on this week..

Language Arts / Social Studies

We will continue our unit on Thanksgiving!  We have been learning about the Pilgrims and the Native Americans and their journey together.    We are continuing our research rotations this week as we  learn more about the first Thanksgiving!
We will also continue to work on using our journal checklist in our writing.
Lastly we will review all the word wall words we have learned so far and play catch up on a few we got behind on!  Thanks so much for sending your item for our Feast on Friday!  We are so excited to celebrate all we have learned!

Math

This week we will be working on learning all about Money. We will be working on recognizing the penny, nickel, dime and quarter. We will be learning cute poems to help us remember the coins names and amounts! 

Check out this cute video that tells about all of the coins! 

Continue to work on composing and decomposing numbers at home!!
As a challenge, click here to decompose numbers at home! 

Every learner needs a empty paper towel roll for what we will be doing.If you have not brought one in, please do so by next week. ( We are going to be making a scroll that they will get to build onto as they write larger number amounts! Every year, once the pattern is seen, the kiddos just take off! I cannot wait to show you how high your child will be able to write! )

Thank you to those who have sent in a video counting in a different language! We hope to get more videos in!! Click on the hotspot circle links on the map below! 

If you would still like to participate in our counting challenge, have your mom or dad tape you and send it to either Mrs. McKinney or Mrs. Brehm. Please include the region of where your language is from, as we are making a link to that place in the world!
***Example: Hi my name is _______. I am going to count to 10 in Chinese. (Then you would count slowly so others will be able to learn from you!)
We cannot wait to get in the videos, put them on our world map and learn from you!

Science

This week in science we will be taking the information that we research about plants through the seasons and turn it into a digital storybook! We cannot wait for you to see our final product!

Extending your  learning at home:

Wow! We love how you extended your learning at home when you went on a walk with your family!

Important Dates... 

November 15th - Fall Nature Walk -8:15-10:30
November 18th - Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast (10:30- 11:15)
      Turkey Drive- (Frozen Turkeys)
                                             Turkey Trot (Parents are welcome to come @ 1:20- 2:10)
November 21st - November 25th- Thanksgiving Break ( No School)

Texans of the Week

K1- Brielle

K2- John Robert

K3- Megan

K4- Nehemiah

Fall nature Walk

We have a fun field trip planned for Kindergarten!  We are going on a Fall Nature Walk to Kid Country/Andy Brown.  The learners will be participating in a fall scavenger hunt that will expand their understanding of nature, weather, and animals.  We will walk around the pond area, playground, and woods.  We will be going on Tuesday, November 15th.   Volunteers will be needed to help with small groups once we arrive at Kid Country. If you would like to help, please fill out the yellow form that was sent home with your child! 

We will walk to Kid Country/Andy Brown at 8:30 a.m. We will start walking back to Town Center a 10:30 a.m.                             

If you have not sent in your yellow permission slip, or you have lost yours, please email your teacher so that we can get you another form!

Tasting parts of a plant

Check out your child's vegetable plant that they made on SeeSaw!

Thank you everyone who was able to bring in different vegetables! We loved getting to taste all the different parts of a plant! We could not do all of these fun activites with out you! We are so thankful

November 18th is a BUSY day at TCE!!

On November 18th, we will be having a busy but exciting day here in Kindergarden! Here is a little more information about what is happening throughout the day! 

Trim the Turkey Drive: Please see the flyer below about the Turkey Drive! You can bring in canned foods as well as buy the turkey online if you would like.

Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast: Kindergarteners will be having a Thanksgiving feast in the cafeteria! We will be sending home what we need each friend in the classroom needs to provide to help us with our feast ( everyone just brings one thing on the list! :) ) . We will be needing volunteers for this day to help us set up our decorations, serve the kindergarteners as well as clean up before the next grade comes into the cafeteria! We will be starting our feast a little earlier than our usual lunch time so that we can make sure that we all have a chance to eat and enjoy each other! More information will be coming soon! We just wanted you to be able to mark your calendars! 

Click here if you would like to help with the feast!

Turkey Trot: During specials, Kindergarten will be outside to run our in our TCE Turkey Trot! All parents are invited to come and run or walk with their child! The time is from 1:20-2:10.

Calling all cooks!! 

Interested in Volunteering this year? 

If you are interested in volunteering at all this year, please click on the link below to fill out the 2016-2017 volunteer background check. Everyone that volunteers must have a completed background check. Once you have done it, it is good for the entire year! It only takes a few minuets! 

http://www.coppellisd.com/P

Pansy Planting

Pansy Planting

Thank you so much to the parents who were able to come and help our kindergarten friends plant in our front flower bed this afternoon! Every year it is so much fun to get to take ownership in making our flowerbeds look so wonderful for the Fall and Winter!

A special thank you to Nick Walther! He worked so hard on getting our flower beds prepped and ready so that we could plant! Thank you Thank you Thank you! We couldn't have planted so easily without your help yesterday! 

Kindergarten News: November 7th- November 11th

What we’re      

Workin’ on this week..

Language Arts / Social Studies

We will continue our unit on Thanksgiving!  We have been learning about the Pilgrims and the Native Americans and their journey together.  Today we learned about the Mayflower!  We are starting some fun research rotations this week as we continue to learn more about the first Thanksgiving!
We will also continue to work on using our journal checklist in our writing.
Lastly we will learn two new words: "have" (we did not get to this one last week!) and "is."

"THE MAYFLOWER"

Math

This week we will continue composing and decomposing numbers by using number bonds. This is breaking an amount apart into two numbers. This is an introduction into combinations of numbers that will help them once we start addition and subtraction! Be on the look out for learners sending you their explination of them composing or decomposing a number! 
As a challenge, click here to decompose numbers at home! 

We are also working on seeing patterns in numbers when we are writing. Every learner needs a empty paper towel roll for what we will be doing. We are going to be making a scroll that they will get to build onto as they write larger number amounts! Every year, once the pattern is seen, the kiddos just take off! I cannot wait to show you how high your child will be able to write! 

We are also do a fun math challenge of counting in different languages to 10 or 20. If you are a friend who is able to count in a different language, please have you mom or dad video tape you and send it to either Mrs. McKinney or Mrs. Brehm. Please include the region of where your language is from, as we are making a link to that place in the world!
***Example: Hi my name is _______. I am going to count to 10 in Chinese. (Then you would count slowly so others will be able to learn from you!)
We cannot wait to get in the videos, put them on our world map and learn from you! 

Science

This week in science week in science we will continue talking about the life cycle of a plant- especially the tree! We will be doing our very first research project on how plants (especially trees) are effected through the seasons. Learners will be working in groups within the classroom on the research website Pebblego.com. I cannot wait for you to see their finished products of research as well as the online nonfiction book they will be making! 

Extending your  learning at home:

Wow Luiza! We love how you extended what you learned in science about living and nonliving things at home! We cannot wait to see what else others bring in/ create! Thank you for sharing with us! 

Important Dates... 

November 11th - Veteran's Day- meet out by the flag pole @ 8:00
November 15th - Fall Nature Walk -8:15-10:30
November 18th - Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast (10:30- 11:15)
      Turkey Drive- (Frozen Turkeys)
                                             Turkey Trot (Parents are welcome to come @ 1:20- 2:10)
November 21st - November 25th- Thanksgiving Break ( No School)

Texans of the Week

K1- Elina

K2- Aanya

K3- Gabriella

K4- Athena

Fall nature Walk

We have a fun field trip planned for Kindergarten!  We are going on a Fall Nature Walk to Kid Country/Andy Brown.  The learners will be participating in a fall scavenger hunt that will expand their understanding of nature, weather, and animals.  We will walk around the pond area, playground, and woods.  We will be going on Tuesday, November 15th.   Volunteers will be needed to help with small groups once we arrive at Kid Country. If you would like to help, please fill out the yellow form that was sent home with your child! 

We will walk to Kid Country/Andy Brown at 8:30 a.m. We will start walking back to Town Center a 10:30 a.m.                             

If you have not sent in your yellow permission slip, or you have lost yours, please email your teacher so that we can get you another form! 

PARTS OF A PLANT - Sign Up

In Science, we have been working on Life Cycles of Pumpkin and Plants, and Parts of a Pumpkins and Plants.   To extend this lesson, we are going to create a plant using  fresh vegetables.  We are asking for your help with this activity by signing up for item(s) on the following link. 

http://signup.com/go/Rukp2e

We appreciate all you do!!

Thank you!

November 18th is a BUSY day at TCE!!

On November 18th, we will be having a busy but exciting day here in Kindergarden! Here is a little more information about what is happening throughout the day! 

Turkey Drive: We are having a Turkey Drive hosted by the 2nd graders to be donated to families that are unable to afford a Thanksgiving dinner. A link will be sent home soon to donate the turkey to the food bank! 

Kindergarten Thanksgiving Feast: Kindergarteners will be having a Thanksgiving feast in the cafeteria! We will be sending home what we need each friend in the classroom needs to provide to help us with our feast ( everyone just brings one thing on the list! :) ) . We will be needing volunteers for this day to help us set up our decorations, serve the kindergarteners as well as clean up before the next grade comes into the cafeteria! We will be starting our feast a little earlier than our usual lunch time so that we can make sure that we all have a chance to eat and enjoy each other! More information will be coming soon! We just wanted you to be able to mark your calendars! 

Turkey Trot: During specials, Kindergarten will be outside to run our in our TCE Turkey Trot! All parents are invited to come and run or walk with their child! The time is from 1:20-2:10.

 Interested in Volunteering this year? 

If you are interested in volunteering at all this year, please click on the link below to fill out the 2016-2017 volunteer background check. Everyone that volunteers must have a completed background check. Once you have done it, it is good for the entire year! It only takes a few minuets! 

http://www.coppellisd.com/P