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Saturday, August 27, 2022

August 29th - September 2nd

Calendar Dates:

August 31st - Picture Day

September 1st - Curriculum Night at 5:30 pm in the Cafeteria (Parents Only)

Monday, September 5th Labor Day / No School!

September 1st - 9th - BOOK FAIR in the TCE Library (more info to come!)

September 9th - Special Friends Day

Important Information

Picture Day

Fall Picture Day is coming on Wednesday, August 31st! To order your child's pictures, you can use the order form sent home last week, OR you can visit mylifetouch.com. Our TCE Picture Day ID is EVTRNPXXS.

Specials Friends Day

Please Save the Date of Friday, September 9th for Special Friends Day! Special Friends (Grandparents, Moms, Dads, Aunts, Uncles, Neighbors, any adult really can be a special friend) are welcome to visit the Kindergarten Classrooms from 12:15-1:15 p.m.

We will have more info coming soon!

Free and Reduced School Meals

For the last two years, free and reduced meals were provided for all Texas public school children. Beginning September 29th, families must complete an application to qualify for free or reduced priced meals. For more information, check out the Coppell ISD Child Nutrition website. Complete your School Meal Application here. Allow up to ten days to process your application.

Coppell Cares Snack Bags

Coppell Cares will provide the Weekend Backpack Program (WBPK) again this school year. Families may sign up for this program at any time during the school year. Siblings living in the same household, are also eligible to participate. If your family would benefit from a weekly Friday snack bag delivery, please complete the following form to sign up:

English Application:

https://forms.gle/NDV8iAJbCUwcEUuu5

Spanish Application:

https://forms.gle/xEQi6c2Ghsa7Hye48

WBPK deliveries will begin Friday, 9/8/2022. Deliveries will be suspended for Thanksgiving Week, Winter Break, and Spring Break.

If you have any questions, please reach out to TCE's counselor, Kelly Matlock, at kmatlock@coppellisd.com.

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!

Restroom Breaks in Kindergarten

As the school year gets going we wanted to touch base on kindergarten friends and using the restroom! We know that using a public / school restroom can be an adjustment for some so we wanted to share our procedures with you.... Typically we take three whole class restroom breaks each day (one in the morning, one at 10:20 prior to lunch, and one in the afternoon), however your child can always ask to use the restroom independently and we will allow them to walk down to go. At times we might ask for them to wait for a moment until another student returns so as not to overwhelm the number of students down at the restroom together. Please encourage your child to ask the teacher if they need to go as well as having a conversation about asking before it becomes an emergency! We do our very best to meet everyones needs restroom and otherwise as soon as we possibly can. Please keep a clean change of clothes in your child's backpack in case an accident occurs. Thanks so much!!!

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Take a Peek at our Week

Language Arts

Writer's Workshop:

This week in Writer's Workshop we will be learning how to tell a story in pictures! We will begin writing in our journals by adding the date at the bottom and illustrating our story at the top! We will talk about what good writers do! We are off to a great start in our writing!

Reading Workshop:
This week we will learn that We Are All Readers! We will discuss how readers look, think, read, and learn! We will practice reading letter names and discussing the parts of books!

Phonics:
Last week we reviewed and revisited the names of letters! This week we will begin focusing on the common sounds that letters represent!

Math

In Math this week, we will be learning all about 2D shapes! We will learn about different attributes of 2D shapes. We will learn the words sides and vertices - ask your Kindergartner to tell you about those words! This week we will begin Math Workshop! This means we will get to participate in fun, hands-on Math Stations in small groups to help us better learn Math!

Social Studies

On Monday (8/29), all of Kindergarten will get to visit the TCE Library! We will meet our Librarian Mrs. Mansuco, and listen to a story and learn about the library. Every Monday, starting September 12th, Kindergarten will be able to check-out a book at take home and return the following week. We will begin our unit on rules in school, home and our community.

Science

In Science this week we will be using our Five Senses to explore, observe, and investigate our relationships with our friends, science, and our environment. We will visit (explore) our TCE garden and use science tools to make observations.

Friday, August 19, 2022

Back to School!

Hello Kindergarten families! Welcome to our Kindergarten Blog! Each week we will share curriculum updates, important dates for your calendar, pictures, and information that you will need to know. Thank you so much for taking the time to read it each week!

This week, we just wanted to share a few things to know for Kindergarten!

Lunches

Your child can bring a lunch from home or buy a lunch from our cafeteria. The lunch menus for each month can be found here! Your child can also purchase "extras" such as chips and ice cream for $1. To put money into your child's account, you can either send in cash or you can set up an account through My School Bucks!

Green Folders

Every day we will send home our green Take Home Folder. Please check this every night and return to school the next day! Any work that comes home in the folder is yours to keep. This is also where we will send home important papers (for example, a picture day paper is coming home in the folder today!). There is also a behavior calendar in the folder. Please sign or initial this each night!

iPads

We are so excited about getting iPads for all of our Kindergarten friends! We are not anticipating this happening for a few more weeks, but once we have iPads, we will let you know! If you were in Pre-K in Coppell ISD, then your child will continue to use the same iPad they did last year. The iPad can stay at home for the time being. Once we are ready to use them, we will send an email to let you know!

Switching Classes

Beginning Monday, we will start switching classes for content. During Language Arts, your children will go to Mrs. Torti's classroom. For Math they will go with Miss Rice, and for Science and Social Studies they will go to Mrs. Brehm's room.

Important Dates:

August 24th - PTO Meeting at 6:00 pm in TCE Library

August 31st - Fall Picture Day (check green folders for information!)

September 1st - Curriculum Night at 5:30 pm in TCE Cafeteria

Sunday, May 15, 2022

May 16th - 20th

Calendar Dates:

May 23rd - TCE Field Day

(please see info in your child's folder from Friday and links below!)

May 27th - Last Day of School and Early Release @ 12:30!!

Important Information

Book Bags / Library Books

All library books and book bags are now PAST DUE! If you have any library books or book bags at your home, please return them ASAP!

Field Day

If you would like to volunteer to help with Field Day, please use the links below:

Parent Volunteers: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080C4CA8AD2DA0FC1-town

Field Day Classroom Walkers: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080C4CA8AD2DA0FC1-tcefield

As a reminder, you MUST have a background check completed to volunteer for a station or walk with your class!

Background Check:

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

Last Week of School

It is almost time to send our sweet Kindergartners off to FIRST grade! But before we do, we have a few things we want to do FIRST! Here is how we will be celebrating the final week of school:

This flyer will also come home in your child's folder next week!

From PTO

Parents,

My name is Heather Thurgood, and I am the PTO President-elect for the next school year. You may not be aware, but it takes many volunteers to help run the PTO (Parent-Teacher Organization). We could really use more volunteers as we have a lot of open PTO Board positions. Some positions require hands-on work at the school, but some just need emails sent and can be done from work or home in the evenings.

Some of the openings include: Field Day Coordinator, Yearbook, Teacher Appreciation Week, Spirit Wear Coordinator, Fundraising, Write-A-Check Coordinator, Kindergarten Roundup, and Lead Volunteer Coordinator. If you aren't comfortable or able to lead one of these positions, you can be on the committee and help.

Please contact me if you would like to discuss filling a board position. Our PTO is an important part in the success of our schools. We need your help.

Thanks,

Heather

hcthurgood7@gmail.com or 801-910-6436

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