October 28th - November 1st

What We're Working On:

Language Arts:

BOOK BAGS ROCKED!
We are so proud of all our kinder friends for the great reading they did on their take home book bags! New books will come home on Mondays! Keep up the great reading! 

Book Bags go home on Monday

Book Bags are returned to school on Fridays!

In Reader's workshop we will be reading some fun books on Bats. 
We will compare fiction and non fiction texts.  

In Writer's Workshop we will continue our study of narrative writing.
We are working on writing three sentences and using a checklist to make
sure we have capitals, periods, and finger spaces.

In Phonics Workshop we will continue working on sounding out words and

"catching" the beginning sound. We are using our ABC Charts to help us catch the sound, find the sound and then read or write the sound of each letter!

Library Day is Monday! Bring your books! 

Social Studies:

This week in Social Studies we will continue our unit called

"Our Country: Land that we LOVE!"

We have been learning about what it means to be patriotic. This week we will continue our study of patriotic holidays by focusing on Independence Day!

Math / Science:

This week we will be integrating some fun math and science activities and stations to learn all about Bats!

We will learn about the lifecycle of a bat, the basic needs of bats (and all animals), different types of bats, and some very fun facts for bats. We are excited about a fun week of learning!

Important Dates:

October 29th - Kindergarten Pumpkin Carving Day @ 8:45
(see below for details)

October 31st - Kindergarten Fall Fun Day
October 31st - Red Ribbon Run / Jack-O-Lantern Jog at 1:15

November 7th - STEM Night (5:30 - 7:00)

November 11th - Veterans Day Ceremony (8:00)

Important Announcements:

Pumpkin Carving Day: 

This Tuesday, October 29th @ 8:45 we will be carving our kindergarten class pumpkins!  Parents are welcome to come and join us for our carving (and help too!) but please be sure you have a 

background check on file in the office! Information on background checks 

can be found on the link below:

https://www.coppellisd.com/Domain/3443

CISD Family Survey:

CISD is currently surveying our families in order to gain insight into your perception of our schools and district effectiveness. This survey shouldn’t take more than a few minutes to complete and will be a valuable source of information for us, as we work to make our schools and our district the best that they can be. You may complete the survey online between now and Nov. 4, using a computer, tablet or smartphone. To take the survey, please visit https://surveys.panoramaed.com, then select your child(ren)’s school. If you have multiple children in CISD, we ask that you take the survey for each school your child attends.

Town Center Elementary School Parent Compact

Today you will receive home a yellow handout labeled School / Parent Compact.

Please review the compact and sign it and return to school ASAP!

Veteran's Day Ceremony

Please plan to join us Monday, November 11th in the TCE Gym at 8:00 AM to help us honor our Town Center families and friends who are veterans. We'd like to extend the invitation to any veterans that are able to attend. It's a small way for us to say thank you. The program will be approximately thirty minutes, and we will have refreshments afterwards for our special guests and their families.

We are also putting together a digital photo display this year, so if possible, please send in a photo of your special veteran, even if they are not able to attend the ceremony. We will collect these through Thursday, November 7th. 

If you know of a veteran that is able to attend our November 11th ceremony or have a photo you would like to be included in our display, please email me at jmartin@coppellisd.com

TCE STEM Night

We would love for your to join us on November 7th for a fun night provided by the Perot Museum!

October 21st - October 25th 2019

What We're Working On:

Language Arts:

This week your child will be bringing home a book bag!! We are so excited to bring home some books to practice and read!  Your teacher will send an e.mail with more info about book bags too, but here is what you need to know....
Book Bags go home on Monday
Book Bags are returned to school on Fridays!

We will continue working on our writing! We are getting so good at
Starting with a capital letter
Using finger spaces between words
Ending with a period

We will continue our phonics study by focusing on sounding out words and
"catching" the beginning sound.  We are using our ABC Charts to help us catch the sound, find the sound and then read or write the sound of each letter!

Library Day is Monday! Bring your books! 

Social Studies:

This week in Social Studies we will continue our unit called
"Our Country: Land that we LOVE!"
We have been learning about what it means to be patriotic.  This week we will focus on
three patriotic holidays: Independence Day, President's Day, and Veteran's Day!

Math / Science:

This week we will be integrating some fun math and science activities and stations to learn all about PUMPKINS!

We will be doing pumpkin math: counting pumpkins, sorting pumpkins, and graphing pumpkins.

In Science we will learn about the lifecycle of a pumpkin, what all plants need to grow, and how pumpkins grow and change.

Important Dates:

October 18th - Report Cards go home *Please sign and return
October 18th @ 6:00 p.m. PTO Family Movie Night at TCE
October 21st - October 25th - RED RIBBON WEEK (see below for dress up days)
October 29th - Kindergarten Pumpkin Carving Day @ 9:00
October 31st - Kindergarten Fall Fun Day 

Important Announcements:

Red Ribbon Week 2019

TCE is a school DRUG FREE! Check out the graphic below to dress up each day and support our TCE Red Ribbon Week!  

TCE Pumpkin Patch 

October 7th - October 11th

What We're Working On:

Language Arts:

This week we will be starting some new Literacy / Social Studies Stations to review and independently practice many of the skills we have been working on in our readers and writer's workshops.  We are so excited to show you all of our great writing at conferences!

This week we will review our first 10 SNAP Words!!
We will do a little practice and a little assessment to see how many we know!
So far we have learned:
I, like, me, a, the, my, look, see, at, are
Please practice reading and writing these words at home!

Library Day is Monday! Bring your books! 

Social Studies:

This week in Social Studies we will continue our unit called
"Our Country: Land that we LOVE!"
We will learn a little bit about Christopher Columbus and his trip to discover America!

Math:

In math this week, we will  learn about composing and decomposing numbers. We will learn that numbers can be broken a part in different ways. This is a crucial and foundational step to being able to add and subtract fluently! We are so excited about building these strong foundations!

Science:

This week we will be finishing our unit all about different types of ENERGY! This week we will wrap up by learning about sound energy. We will even design something that creates sound energy!We will become experts at finding sources of heat and sources of sound. 

Ask your learner at home if they can spot anything around your home with sound energy!

Important Dates:

October 8th - PTO Meeting @ 6pm in the TCE Library
October 10th - End of 1st Nine Weeks / Spirit Rally

October 11th - Parent / Teacher Conference Day (no school for students)

October 14th - HOLIDAY - No School

Important Announcements:

Fall Conferences:
Friday, October 11th - 

If you haven't scheduled a fall conference with your child's teacher, please use the links below to do so. We look forward to celebrating your sweet child's growth and progress in Kindergarten so far!

K1 and K2 families:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050B4AABA72EA75-k1k2

K3 and K4 families:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c4ea9ab23abff2-kindergarten

TCE Pumpkin Patch!