April 8th - April 12th

What We're Working on This Week

Language Arts:

This week we will start a new unit on Poetry!  We will be reading some poems and poetry books
as well as illustrating some poems of our own! We may even write a poem or two!
We will also learn 2 more word wall words:
"up" and "get"
Keep working on those words at home too! See if you can
read them and write them or make flash cards!

 

Social Studies:

We will begin a new unit on Economics!
We will be learning about our needs and wants and identifying examples of each!

Math

In math this week, we will be exploring all about 3D shapes! We will be learning about their names and attributes- such as faces, edges, and vertices. We will also be learning about real world examples of these shapes! Here is one of our favorite 3D shape songs!

Science

In Science, we will be learning all about plants. This week we will explore a plant's life cycle. We will learn how it grows from a seed, to a sprout, to a plant, to a flowering plant. We will even be growing our own plants in our classrooms!

Terrific Tiny Texans:

Tiny Texans are BACK! We are so proud of these students for going above and beyond this week to show great citizenship qualities and kindness at TCE! Tiny Texans get to be the line leader for our class each week and show us how to be a good example to others! Here are this weeks Tiny Texans:

K1: 

K2: Arnav Nellore

K3: Syon Mistry

K4: Bishop Aycock

Important Dates:

April 12th - TCE Color Run

April 19th - No School (Weather Day)
April 22nd - No School (Professional Learning Day)
April 29th - TCE STEM Night
May 7th - Kindergarten Field Trip
May 10th - Kindergarten Muffins for Mom @ 8:00 a.m.
May 10th - All Library Books Due

TCE Tiny Texan Citizens of the Year

These students represented their kindergarten classes on Wednesday night at 

CISD Night at the Ballpark!  We are so proud of them! If you see them please tell them 

Congratulations!!

K1: Max Reed

K2: Adelaide Vasquez

K3: Brooks Johnson

K4: Beatrice Morton

Important Announcements:

TCE Color Stampede

No Visitors 4/9-4/10

We will be administering the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) to learners on Tuesday, April 9th and Wednesday, April 10th. Fifth grade will take Math on Tuesday and Reading on Wednesday. Fourth grade will take writing on Tuesday. During these days, all other grade levels will continue with a regular school day.

It is important that we have an environment that is free of interruptions to ensure that our students have the opportunity to do their best on these important days. In order to ensure a secure and quiet testing environment, no visitors will be allowed on campus for all grade levels.
Due to this, we will not allow lunch visitors these days.
You may contact the office on these days if you are in need of assistance and they will be happy to help you.
Thank you for your cooperation in helping our campus and our students to be successful on our testing days!

Kindergarten Field Trip

On May 7th, we will be going on our Kindergarten Field Trip to the Coppell Life Safety Park and the Coppell Biodiversity Center. We are so excited about this learning opportunity! Please return your child's lime green permission slip and $5 bus fee as soon as possible. If you need another one, please let your child's teacher know.

 If you wish to be a chaperone on this trip, be sure you have let your child's teacher know by filling out the chaperone paper, and by completing a background check HERE! You cannot go on our field trip if you haven't filled this form out.

TCE STEM Night

Mark your calendars for Monday, April 29th 5:30 - 7:00 for STEM Family Night! 

PTO 

PTO Needs Your Help! Please sign up for a PTO position for 2019-2020 school year.

April 1st - April 5th

What We're Working on This Week

Language Arts:

This week we will continue to work on our writing goals and meeting our individual goals!
Everyone is doing great! 
We will continue learning new sight words or word wall words.  This week we will learn:
"in" and "big."
Our chart of all the word wall words we have learned so far is below! Please practice at home too!

 

Social Studies:

We will wrap up our unit on geography and maps!
We have focused on positional words, maps, the purpose of maps, different types of maps, and ways we can use maps in our home, school, community, and world! 

Math

In Math this week, we are learning all about geometry. We will be learning about 2D shapes and their attributes. We look forward to creating many creative projects and doing many FUN stations to learn all about our shapes. Here is one of our FAVORITE songs! 

Science

In Science, we will be learning all about plants. This week we will explore a plant's life cycle. We will learn how it grows from a seed, to a sprout, to a plant, to a flowering plant. We will even be growing our own plants in our classrooms!

Terrific Tiny Texans:

Tiny Texans are BACK! We are so proud of these students for going above and beyond this week to show great citizenship qualities and kindness at TCE! Tiny Texans get to be the line leader for our class each week and show us how to be a good example to others! Here are this weeks Tiny Texans:

K1: Rehman Khan

K2: Lucas Priest 

K3: 

K4: 

Important Dates:

April 2nd - PTO Meeting, 6:00 pm in the TCE Library

April 12th - TCE Color Run

April 19th - No School (Weather Day)
April 22nd - No School (Professional Learning Day)
May 10th - All Library Books Due

Announcements:

TCE Color Stampede

Color Stampede Auction Baskets: 

Donations needed! Please help us make our Kinder “Rainy Day Fun” auction basket awesome! The basket will be auctioned at the Color Stampede Event on April 12th. We need new board games, puzzles, craft supplies, books, activity/coloring books, gift cards for movie theaters or other indoor fun places to entertain kiddos on a rainy day!  Deadline for all donations is Friday, April 5th. Please use sign-up genius for complete info, and other donation ideas to sign up for! Thank you in advance!! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090945a8ad29a13-rainy

PTO

March 25th - 29th

What We're Working on This Week

Language Arts:

This week we are working hard on our writing!  We have started setting writing goals and each time we write in our new journals we review our goals and check for mastery of that goal after we complete the days journal entry!  Everyone is doing great! Ask them what writing goal they are working on at home! 

Social Studies

We will continue our unit on geography and places around our world! So far we have discussed positional words like: above, below, next to, across from... etc...
We will now focus on maps and what they tell us and why they are important to us!

Math

In Math this week, we are learning all about geometry. We will be learning about 2D shapes and their attributes. We look forward to creating many creative projects and doing many FUN stations to learn all about our shapes. Here is one of our FAVORITE songs! (Although, when the song says "diamond" we say "NO!" because we know the real word is RHOMBUS!)

Science

In Science, we will be learning all about plants. In the past week we have learned the difference between living and nonliving things. We have learned that living things move and grow, need energy (like food and water!), and reproduce. We are excited to extend that learning into learning all about plants!!

Terrific Tiny Texans:

Tiny Texans are BACK! We are so proud of these students for going above and beyond this week to show great citizenship qualities and kindness at TCE! Tiny Texans get to be the line leader for our class each week and show us how to be a good example to others! Here are this weeks Tiny Texans:

K1: Jaxson Smith 

K2: Aleena Khan 

K3: Syon Mistry

K4: Aryan Raza

Important Dates:

March 22nd - Report Cards go home, please sign and return ASAP

March 25th - TCE Sonic Night 5:00 - 8:00

March 28th - Cultural Night 5:30 - 7:00

April 12th - TCE Color Run

Announcements:

Sonic Night

We hope you will join us at Sonic on Monday night! 20% of all proceeds will go to TCE! You might even see some of your favorite Kindergarten teachers there!! 

Cultural Night

Our 2nd Annual Cultural Night is almost here. We are looking forward to a fabulous night with performances, food samplings, and fun activities. Please join us on March 28th at 5:30 in the gym and cafeteria. See below for a sneak peek at what the night holds for us all!

Performances include Bollywood dances, a Bollywood workshop, folk songs and dances, Folklorico dance followed by a workshop, Tonal Texan performance, and Lion Dance performance. Some of the food samplings include Mango Lassi, Dumplings, Tamales, Galaktombureko and Alfajores. Activities will include calligraphy, henna, origami, coloring pages and books to explore and read. Please join us for a fun filled family event!

March 4th - 8th

What We're Working on This Week

Language Arts:

This week we are working hard to finish up all of our writing pieces to show you at Open House!
We have become such good writers this year!!!
We can't wait to show off our:
Fiction Writing "Once Upon a time there was a...."
Non-Fiction Writing - Facts about Penguins
Poetry Writing - Acrostic Poem about Penguins
and everything else! 

We have been working so hard and we are awesome writers! 

We will read both fiction and non-fiction books about Penguins to tie into our Science unit. 

Social Studies

We will be starting a new unit on geography and places around our world! We will start by incorporating our unit of study on penguins and mapping places that different types of penguins live all over the world! We will also review and discuss positional words like:
on, above, behind, under, next to, beside

Math

In Math this week, we will continue our learning about money and coins. This week we will learn about ways to make good financial choices with out money. We will also be making some fun digital projects to show off our learning. Here is one of our FAVORITE coin videos:

Science

In Science, we are excited to begin exploring Life Science! We will spend the next few weeks learning all about one of our favorite animals - the PENGUIN! We will learn about the penguin's life cycle, habitat, and how it survives! We are loving learning about these cute creatures!

Terrific Tiny Texans:

Tiny Texans are BACK! We are so proud of these students for going above and beyond this week to show great citizenship qualities and kindness at TCE! Tiny Texans get to be the line leader for our class each week and show us how to be a good example to others! Here are this weeks Tiny Texans:

K1: Shri Paramakusum

K2: Mohamed Lkanit

K3: MacArthur Monroe 

K4: Bishop Aycock

Important Dates:

March 4 - 8 - SPRING Book Fair

Tuesday, March 5th - TCE PTO Meeting 6-7pm

Wednesday, March 6th - Spring Picture Day / Class Pictures

Thursday, March 7th - Open House 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.

Friday March 8th - Shamrock Shuffle Fun Run @ 1:20 - 2:10

March 11th - March 15th

SPRING BREAK - No School!!

Announcements:

A Note from Our Librarian...

THE SPRING BOOK FAIR IS NEXT WEEK - March 4th-8th

Monday - Thursday: 7:20am-3:20pm

Thursday (Open House): 5:30-7:00pm

Friday (CLOSING EARLY): 7:20am-2:00pm

You can shop our Book Fair online at the link here:

http://www.scholastic.com/bf/towncenterelementaryschool1

We are still in need of more parent volunteers to run cash registers, tidy/restock shelves, and help customers find things. Please sign-up for an available time slot at this link:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090445AAAB2FA75-book1

*Volunteers must have an approved Coppell ISD background check on file before you will be permitted to help with Book Fair. A new background check is required each school year. You should submit the form at least a week before volunteering. You can find the background check form at this link: https://www.coppellisd.com/domain/17

TCE's 2nd Annual Culture Night 

We are excited to have our 2nd annual Culture Night at TCE. Last year was such a great success with all the dishes you shared with our TCE community. If you would like to share an appetizer, main dish or dessert on March 28th please sign up below. We will get back with you with more specific details as the event grows near. TCE will provide sample cups to share the dish you bring. This event was successful because of all of our families' contributions. Thank you for making our school so great! 

SIGN UP BY CLICKING HERE

Be on the lookout for more information about this event including performances and interactive stations!

February 25th - March 1st

What We're Working on This Week

Language Arts

This week we will be working on and reviewing our 1st 30 Word Wall Words!  We are doing great!  You will get home an assessment to show which words your child needs a little help with, please help at home! :) . Here are the 30 we have learned so far:

We will continue to use the writing process and set writing goals to help us become better writers!  

Everyone is writing so well!  We just got our new "First Grade Journals" this week and the kids are loving them!  We can't wait to show off to you at Open House!

We will read both fiction and non-fiction books about Penguins to tie into our Science unit.  We will be learning how to write our own fiction piece, non-fiction piece, and poetry about penguins too!  

Social Studies

We will be starting a new unit on geography and places around our world!  We will start by incorporating our unit of study on penguins and mapping places that different types of penguins live all over the world!

Math

In Math this week, we will become experts about coins! Last week we learned the different types of coins. We will do some fun, hands-on math stations to practice learning about these coins. We will also be making some fun digital projects to show off our learning. Here is one of our FAVORITE coin videos:

Science

In Science, we are excited to begin exploring Life Science! We will spend the next few weeks learning all about one of our favorite animals - the PENGUIN! We will learn about the penguin's life cycle, habitat, and how it survives! We are loving learning about these cute creatures!

Terrific Tiny Texans:

Tiny Texans are BACK! We are so proud of these students for going above and beyond this week to show great citizenship qualities and kindness at TCE! Tiny Texans get to be the line leader for our class each week and show us how to be a good example to others! Here are this weeks Tiny Texans:

K1:  Evan Lee

K2: Terrence Muga

K3: Divam Mehta

K4: Soudamini Reddy 

Important Dates:

February 22nd - PTO Movie Night - "Incredibles 2"
March 4 - 8 - SPRING Book Fair
Tuesday, March 5th - TCE PTO Meeting 6-7pm
Wednesday, March 6th - Spring Picture Day / Class Pictures
Thursday, March 7th - Open House 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Friday March 8th - Shamrock Shuffle Fun Run @ 1:20 - 2:10

March 11th - March 15th
SPRING BREAK - No School!!

Announcements:

A Note from PE

The American Heart Association and the Heart Heroes visited our school last week to kick-off Kids Heart Challenge (formerly Jump Rope for Heart)! Students enjoyed a 3D ride through Heartsville (view it here), which reminds us of how easy it can be to take care of our hearts. We hope you will join us as we work together to support the lifesaving mission of the American Heart Association by downloading the Kids Heart Challenge App or going to www.heart.org/kidsheartchallenge to register, take a healthy challenge, and start fundraising!

Together our students are working to help others and are learning how to keep their own hearts healthy. Our goal is to raise $20,000 as a campus, and if we do, we can earn brand new PE Equipment and Supplies for our school and students to use! PLUS, ANY student who has raised $150+ online by 11:59 pm central on February 13th will earn the PLUSH FINN and be recognized as a special Town Center Heart Hero over the morning announcements on February 14th!

TCE's 2nd Annual Culture Night 

We are excited to have our 2nd annual Culture Night at TCE. Last year was such a great success with all the dishes you shared with our TCE community. If you would like to share an appetizer, main dish or dessert on March 28th please sign up below. We will get back with you with more specific details as the event grows near. TCE will provide sample cups to share the dish you bring. This event was successful because of all of our families' contributions. Thank you for making our school so great! 

SIGN UP BY CLICKING HERE

Be on the lookout for more information about this event including performances and interactive stations!

A Note from Our Librarian...

Volunteers needed for Book Fair! The Spring Book Fair is coming soon, and we need parent/community volunteers* to help with Book Fair Preview on February 28, March 1st, & March 4th and run cash registers, tidy/restock shelves, and help customers find things during the actual Book Fair week, March 4th-8th. We also need several volunteers to help with Book Fair set-up and tear down on February 27th and March 8th. We appreciate community support to continue this exciting tradition and consumer/financial literacy learning experience for our learners! Please sign-up for an available time slot at this link:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090445AAAB2FA75-book1

*Volunteers must have an approved Coppell ISD background check on file before you will be permitted to help with Book Fair. A new background check is required each school year. You should submit the form at least a week before volunteering. You can find the background check form at this link: https://www.coppellisd.com/domain/17

February 11th - 15th

What We're Working on This Week

Language Arts

This week we will continue working on our journal writing: starting with a capital letter, using spaces between words, and ending with proper punctuation! We are going to chart our writing goals in the classroom so that we can see what ares we need to grow and how we are doing! 

We got some brand new books to use with our Lucy Calkins Reader's Workshop program! 
Ms. Martin was so awesome to use some school funds to help us purchase new books to fill our in class book bags!  These new books are darling and the kids are really excited to start book shopping and adding new books to the book bags they keep in class! We will tweet some pictures of us reading this week!  Everyone is doing great! 

Social Studies

This week we will talk about Valentine's Day and friendships and how to be a good friend to others! 

We can't wait to celebrate our friendships on Valentine's Day! 

Math

In Math this week we will be celebrating Valentine's all week with some fun and hands on Valentine math stations. We will be practicing writing and counting numbers, adding and subtracting, and ordering and comparing!

Science

In science this week, we will be finishing our unit on natural resources. We will review how we have learned about rocks, soil, and water. We will reflect on ways they resources help us live! 

Terrific Tiny Texans:

Tiny Texans are BACK! We are so proud of these students for going above and beyond this week to show great citizenship qualities and kindness at TCE! Tiny Texans get to be the line leader for our class each week and show us how to be a good example to others! Here are this weeks Tiny Texans:

K1:  Liam Rose 

K2: Molly Gray 

K3: Ben Cook 

K4: Eli Spivey 

Important Dates:

February 14th - Class Valentine Parties @ 2:00 p.m.

February 15th - No School for Students / Teacher In-Service Day

February 18th - Bad Weather Day! No School! 

February 19th - Last Day to turn in Six Flag's Reading Logs
February 20th - Newcomer Parent Class (5:00 in the TCE Library)
February 22nd - PTO Movie Night (Movie TBA)

Announcements:

Valentine's Day

We are so excited to celebrate Valentine's Day in Kindergarten! Your homeroom teacher has sent home a list of the learners in your child's class. Please have your child address a Valentine card to each child in their class. They may bring these cards to school Monday, February 11th through Thursday, February 14th. We will celebrate with a party on February 14th and 2:00pm. All parents are welcome to join!

Six Flags Reading Logs

Keep Reading and recording your hours so that you can earn a free ticket to Six Flags over Texas this summer! Return Book Logs as soon as you have completed your hours! 

Final date to return book logs is February 19th!

A Note from PE

The American Heart Association and the Heart Heroes visited our school last week to kick-off Kids Heart Challenge (formerly Jump Rope for Heart)! Students enjoyed a 3D ride through Heartsville (view it here), which reminds us of how easy it can be to take care of our hearts. We hope you will join us as we work together to support the lifesaving mission of the American Heart Association by downloading the Kids Heart Challenge App or going to www.heart.org/kidsheartchallenge to register, take a healthy challenge, and start fundraising!

Together our students are working to help others and are learning how to keep their own hearts healthy. Our goal is to raise $20,000 as a campus, and if we do, we can earn brand new PE Equipment and Supplies for our school and students to use! PLUS, ANY student who has raised $150+ online by 11:59 pm central on February 13th will earn the PLUSH FINN and be recognized as a special Town Center Heart Hero over the morning announcements on February 14th!

TCE Cultural Night

A note is coming home in your child's folder today about our 2nd annual TCE Cultural Night. If you have anything you would like to share with our school for Cultural Night, please return the bottom portion of the form. 

February 4th - February 8th

What We're Working on This Week

Language Arts

This week we will continue working on our journal writing: starting with a capital letter, using spaces between words, and ending with proper punctuation!  We have come so far!!

We will also focus on word families.  Word families are words that have the same endings like:
cat, bat, hat, mat, sat, are all part of the -at word family.  Practice some in the car while driving or at home too just for fun!

We will also keep working on our reading in Readers Workshop and in guided reading groups!  Everyone has grown so much!!  Book Bags will be back on Monday so please keep reading at home!  Reading Rocks! 

Social Studies

This week we will talk about Valentine's Day and friendships and how to be a good friend to others! 

We can't wait to celebrate our friendships on Valentine's Day! 

Math

In Math this week we will be exploring how to to solve Story Problems. We will use addition and subtraction key words to help us solve these problems. We will also try writing our own problems for our classmates to solve!

Science

In science this week, we will be exploring WATER! We will learn all about sources of water. We will compare rivers, lakes, and oceans. We will also learn what makes water a natural resource and how we need it to survive.

Terrific Tiny Texans:

Tiny Texans are BACK! We are so proud of these students for going above and beyond this week to show great citizenship qualities and kindness at TCE! Tiny Texans get to be the line leader for our class each week and show us how to be a good example to others! Here are this weeks Tiny Texans:

K1: Avery Griffin 

K2: Brooks Ford 

K3: Ava Rowe

K4: Harmithan Prasanna 

Important Dates:

February 5th - PTO Meeting @ 6:00 pm in the Library

February 14th - Class Valentine Parties @ 2:00 p.m.

February 15th - No School for Students / Teacher In-Service Day

February 18th - Bad Weather Day! No School! 

February 19th - Last Day to turn in Six Flag's Reading Logs 

Announcements:

Valentine's Day

We are so excited to celebrate Valentine's Day in Kindergarten! Your homeroom teacher has sent home a list of the learners in your child's class. Please have your child address a Valentine card to each child in their class. They may bring these cards to school Monday, February 11th through Thursday, February 14th. We will celebrate with a party on February 14th and 2:00pm. All parents are welcome to join!

We will be decorating our Valentine's bags at school next Friday, February 8th. If you would like to donate items to help us decorate these bags, we would SO appreciate it. We are mostly in need of heart-themed stickers, doilies, ribbon, stamps, etc. (Things that are easy to glue on their bags!) Thank you so much!!

Six Flags Reading Logs

Keep Reading and recording your hours so that you can earn a free ticket to Six Flags over Texas this summer! Return Book Logs as soon as you have completed your hours! 

Final date to return book logs is February 19th!

Lost and Found

All items in our lost & found will be donated Friday, February 8th. Please stop by before then to claim any items your child is missing. Our lost & found is located in the hallway outside the cafeteria and contains jackets, shirts, gloves, water bottles, and lunch boxes.