March 28th - April 1st

Calendar Dates:

Tuesday, March 29th PTO Meeting @ 5:30 p.m.

(see Ms.  Martin's Principal Newsletter for more Info) 

Thursday, March 31st - Reading Rainbow Blue Bingo Card Due!  

Friday, April 15th - will now be a regular school day!

We will use this day to make up for our ice day on 2/24!

Monday, April 18th - No School! 

Important Information

Reading Rainbow Bingo Cards

If you have a blue reading rainbow bingo card (or any color really) please send it in with your child this week to receive their jibbitz for their reading bracelet and we will send home the final reading card of the year:  PURPLE! Students who have completed all the colored cards will be invited to a celebration in May! Keep Reading! 

Blue Cards due - Thursday, March 31st! 

TCE Yearbook

Book Bags / Library Books

We will go to the library on Monday, March 28th! Please return any library books by Monday so your child can check out a new one!

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 spend a lot of time focusing on putting all of the skills we have learned together!  We are learning how to write on our new lined paper that goes with our Handwriting Without Tears curriculum!

Phonics:

We will continue our unit called Playing With Phonics. We will focus on sounding out words that are unfamiliar and recording the sounds we hear. 

Readers Workshop:

In Reader's Workshop we will begin a new unit on Fairy Tales!  We will learn about Characters and talk about getting to know our characters. We will discuss the characteristics of a fairy tale.

 We will continue to work on building our reading skills and noticing things in our books as well! 

Math

In Math this week, we will be learning all about money! We will become experts about each of the different type coins and their values. We will play some fun coin games and do stations to help us practice our learning all about coins! If you have a piggy bank or jar of coins at home, sort through them with your child! 

Social Studies

In Social studies this week, we will learn all about Maps. We will learn about maps of neighborhoods and streets. We will learn about keys on a map and how they help us learn important information. This week we will have fun with creating our OWN maps!

Science

In Science this week, we will be learning all about living and nonliving objects. We will learn that living things have basic needs. We will be able to sort between living and nonliving objects.

Scientist of the Week:

K1 - Hendrix

K2 - Shreyan

K3 - Sawyer

March 7th - 11th

Calendar Dates:

March 7th - 11th -Book Fair in the Library (see below!)

March 10th - Open House from 5:30 - 6:30pm

Friday, March 11th - Early Release at 12:30 p.m.

March 14th - 18th - SPRING BREAK!

Friday, April 15th - will now be a regular school day!

We will use this day to make up for our ice day on 2/24!

Important Information

Book Bags / Library Books

Due to the book fair being set up in the library, your child will not be checking out a new  library book. They are welcome to keep the one they have now. New Book Bags will come home on Monday, March 7th.  Please return book bags on Friday, March 11th! 

Book Fair

The Book Fair will be from Monday March 7th - Friday, March 11th. 

Parents are invited to shop with their children before school Monday - Friday from 7:20-7:40 a.m. and after school Monday - 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 Open House on Thursday, March 10th from 5:30-6:30 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!

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 wrap up our "HOW TO" writing. We will be getting our Writing folders ready to share with you at Open House!  Please come see the great writing we have been doing! 

Phonics:

We will review all the common sounds that letters represent.

We will review short vowel sounds.

We will review the "H Brothers" digraphs

ch, th, wh, sh

Readers Workshop:

In Reader's Workshop we will continue our new unit on becoming AVID Readers! Thank you so much for reading the book bag books at home! This makes a huge difference in your child's reading confidence!  

Math

In Math this week, we will be having some fun with Graphing! We will all be campers at "Camp Graph-A-Lot" as we learn about different types of graphs, how to organize data, and how to analyze data! We can't wait to show off our work at Open House!

Social Studies

In Social Studies, we will be exploring Maps and Globes and how useful these geographic tools are. We will use them to help identify states, water, land, continents, etc. We will also be learning how to use a map key and vocabulary.

Science

In science this week, we will be learning about adult and baby animals and their characteristics/traits. How are they the same and different? Beginning Intro in Living and Non-Living Things.