TCE Kinder

Friday, November 17, 2017

Nov. 27th - Dec. 1st

What is happening after Thanksgiving
break?

Upcoming Dates

December 7th - Jingle Bell Run during specials (1:20) *****new date!!!!!
December 15th - Early Release from school
December 18th - January 2nd - NO SCHOOL - winter break

Thank you to everyone for contributing to our Thanksgiving Feast! We had a wonderful time celebrating friendship and kindness! A special thanks to our kindergarten room moms for helping serve and clean up. We love you!!

This is such a wonderful time of year for giving thanks for the blessings in our lives. We are so thankful for our wonderful kindergarten learners and families! We are so honored to be teaching your little ones and can't wait to see what the rest of the year will bring. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!!!

After the break.....

Language Arts

We will be starting our first author study when we return from the break. We will read and learn about the wonderful Jan Brett!

Our two new sight words will be: "he" and "she".

Social Studies

We will continue to talk about National Holidays.

Math
We will continue counting strategies, comparing sets of numbers, and how to compose numbers.

Science:
In collaboration with the Fairy Tale unit in reading, we will be going through the engineering design process as we learn about shoes and how they are made. We will then improve upon the design of an existing shoe.

TCE Life Principal of the Week: Caring

Town Center Common Courtesy: Hold the door open for people.

Google Sites

If you are looking for some great resources, please click on your teacher's google site. We have lots of video connections and videos to enhance learning.

K1 Google Site: Mrs. Sork

K2 Google Site: Mrs. Vincenzo

K3 Google Site: Mrs. Burks

K4 Google Site: Mrs. McCullough

Reminders

The TCE lost and found is getting full. Please stop by and check it out. Our lost and found is located right outside the cafeteria doors. Also, don't forget to put your child's name in the tag of his/her jacket in case it gets lost.

Please don't forget to send a snack and a water bottle to school each day.

We love our learners!

We loved our Thanksgiving Feast!!!

We are thankful for our friends!

Happy Thanksgiving from Kindergarten!!!

5th grade working with Kinder!

Friday, November 10, 2017

Nov. 13 - Nov. 17

What is happening next week

in kindergarten?

Upcoming Dates

November 16th - Food for Thanksgiving feast due at school
November 17th - Thanksgiving Feast (learners only)
November 17th - Turkey Trot during specials (1:30 - 2:10)
November 20th - 24th - Student Holiday - Thanksgiving

KINDERGARTEN is collecting "used" shoes, of all sizes, for an engineering project and service learning project. We will be using the engineering process to improve a pair of shoes while tying the engineering design process into our study of Fairy Tales. This unit is a kindergarten favorite!! All shoes will be donated to charity when our engineering unit is completed. We need all the "used" shoes we can get! So, start cleaning out those closets and donate some shoes to our service learning project!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

The kindergartners will be having a Thanksgiving Feast in our classrooms on Friday, November 17th. Due to space limitations, this will be for learners and teachers only. Letters went home this week in your child's folder about donations for feast items. If you did not receive yours, please contact your teacher.

Coppell ISD Family Feast Drive Nov. 17

For 14 years, CISD has collected food for families in need around Thanksgiving. Mark your calendars to donate canned foods or non-perishable foods from Monday, November 13-Friday, Nov. 17 for the CISD Family Feast Drive! You also may make an online donation here. When you make your donation, you can choose Town Center by scrolling down the page as you make your donation. Last year, CISD collected 12,397 pounds of food and $13,708 for a total of 51,454 nutritious meals for those in need in North Texas.

Next week.....

Language Arts

Our two new word wall words next week are: "is" and "my". We are up to 18 words!! We love to find these words in our leveled reading books!

We are also still reviewing rhyming words, syllables, and reading/writing CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words.

Social Studies
We will discuss why we have Thanksgiving and what we are thankful for in our lives.

Math
We will continue to work on counting to 50, comparing numbers using words like greater than and less than, and skip counting by 10s to 50. Learners will also work on identifying a number that is one more or one less than a given number.

Science:
To tag along with the Fairy Tale unit in Language Arts, we will be begin our engineering project on redesigning and improving shoes. We will be collaborating with our TCE 5th graders to help with the technology aspect of the project.

TCE Life Principal of the Week: Gratitude

Town Center Common Courtesy: Always say, Thank you" when given something. When you receive something, do not insult the gift or the giver.

Google Sites

If you are looking for some great resources, please click on your teacher's google site. We have lots of video connections and videos to enhance learning.

K1 Google Site: Mrs. Sork

K2 Google Site: Mrs. Vincenzo

K3 Google Site: Mrs. Burks

K4 Google Site: Mrs. McCullough

Reminders

Lunch Menu

We love our Learners!

We are so thankful for Kinder! \

Indoor Recess Fun!

Junior I-Team helping kindergarten design
their Google Site!!!

Coach Wagner's visits with kindergarten to tell us
about his service in the Military!

Thank you for your service Coach Wagner!!!

What a wonderful Veterans Day Ceremony with
our Veterans!!!

Friday, November 3, 2017

Nov. 6 - Nov 10

What is happening next week

in kindergarten?

Upcoming Dates

KINDERGARTEN is collecting "used" shoes, of all sizes, for an engineering project and service learning project. We will be using the engineering process to improve a pair of shoes while tying the engineering design process into our study of Fairy Tales. This unit is a kindergarten favorite!! All shoes will be donated to charity when our engineering unit is completed. We need all the "used" shoes we can get! So, start cleaning out those closets and donate some shoes to our service learning project!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

The kindergartners will be having a Thanksgiving Feast in our classrooms on Friday, November 17th. Due to space limitations, this will be for learners and teachers only. Look for more information to come home in the folder on Monday.

Next week.....

Language Arts

In writing we are working on extending our sentences while still remembering finger spaces, punctuation and a capital letter to start the sentence. We love reading from our browsing boxes with our leveled readers! We are doing great!!

Our two new sight words will be:"to" and "have". Don't forget to keep up with the sight words on the word list that is in the "Book in a Bag" each week!

Social Studies
We will continue to learn about American Symbols.

Math
We are working on counting to 50, comparing numbers using words like greater than and less than, and skip counting by 10s.

Please continue to work with your children at home counting their numbers by 1's and 10's. Please have your child go onto the fun elementary computer activity called numerical order. Children will be practicing number sequence by arranging numbers in ascending order. The difficulty can be adjusted by selecting a level before playing. Children can also sing along to "Here are your numbers 1 to 50"

Science:
We will be using Dash the robot to help us show the ways things can move!

TCE Life Principal of the Week: Common Sense

Town Center Common Courtesy: There is a napkin provided for the purpose of cleaning your fingers.

Google Sites

If you are looking for some great resources, please click on your teacher's google site. We have lots of video connections and videos to enhance learning.

K1 Google Site: Mrs. Sork

K2 Google Site: Mrs. Vincenzo

K3 Google Site: Mrs. Burks

K4 Google Site: Mrs. McCullough

Reminders

If you have not returned your child's report card, please sign it and return it as soon as possible. Thank you so much!

Memory match with our word wall words!!

Working on taking turns and good sportsmanship
while learning!!

Taking our reading and writing outside!!

Girls just wanna have fun!

Using our labeling skills to label the outdoors with
vocabulary words!

We love our kinder boys!

Making our school beautiful!

Kinder planting pansies!

We can program a robot!

Making our school beautiful!!

Friday, October 27, 2017

Oct. 30 - Nov. 3

What is happening in kindergarten

next week???

Upcoming Dates

November 3rd - Pansy Planting
November 17th - Turkey Trot during specials (1:30 - 2:10)
November 20th - 24th - Student Holiday - Thanksgiving

***Due to different beliefs and traditions of our learners, Town Center Elementary does not celebrate Halloween. Please make sure that your child DOES NOT come to school in a costume on Halloween. Thank you!!!

Next week.....

Language Arts

Next week we will continue to work on syllables and breaking apart words into syllables. Our two new sight words will be: "the" and "little". We are up to 14 sight words!! Don't forget to keep track of the words we have learned in the "Book in a Bag".

Social Studies
We will continue our study of American Symbols.

Math
Next week learners will use words, such as "more/greater than," "less /less than," and "same/equal to" in order to compare two written numerals up to 20.

This nine weeks we will be concentrating on counting numbers up to 50. Please continue to work with your children at home counting their numbers by 1's and 10's. Please have your child go onto the fun elementary computer activity called numerical order. Children will be practicing number sequence by arranging numbers in ascending order. The difficulty can be adjusted by selecting a level before playing. Children can also sing along to "Here are your numbers 1 to 50"

Science:
We will continue to observe the way objects move.

TCE Life Principal of the Week:Cooperation

Town Center Common Courtesy: Keep Bathrooms clean and germ free.

Google Sites

If you are looking for some great resources, please click on your teacher's google site. We have lots of video connections and videos to enhance learning.

K1 Google Site: Mrs. Sork

K2 Google Site: Mrs. Vincenzo

K3 Google Site: Mrs. Burks

K4 Google Site: Mrs. McCullough

Reminders

If you have not returned your child's report card, please sign it and return it as soon as possible. Thank you so much!

Lunch Menu

All of our kindergarten used skills as scientist to predict, observe and answer
questions about pumpkins through a variety of stations.

We enjoyed taking a tour of the cafeteria kitchen
and making pumpkin cookies!!

We are doing some serious Word Study in K2!!!!

Our Catapult worked great!!! We loved our design!!!

Designing catapults for our pumpkin to go OVER the gate.

Going shopping in the Texan Store with the bucks we earned!! Way to go Kinder!!!

Kindergarten wore hats to put a "cap on drugs"during red ribbon week.

Friday, October 20, 2017

October 23rd - October 27th

What is happening in kindergarten
next week???

Upcoming Dates

October 23rd: Pumpkin Design Challenge starts
October 23-27: Red Ribbon Week (see list below)
October 27th - Jack-O-Lantern Jog
October 27th - Dad's Campout 5:00pm - 9:00am
November 20th - 24th - Student Holiday - Thanksgiving

Red Ribbon Week:

Your Future is Key, so Stay Drug Free

Monday: My Team Needs Me to Be Drug Free! Wear TCE spiritwear.

Tuesday: The Best Me is Drug Free! Wear an outfit that represents a healthy activity you enjoy (jersey/sport uniform, scout uniform, tae kwon do, a team you like to cheer for, etc.)

Wednesday: Put a Cap on Drugs! Wear any hat! (ball cap, crazy hat, etc.)

Thursday: Follow your Dreams, Be Drug Free! Wear your pajamas.

Friday: We Choose to Be Drug Free! Wear red for the Red Ribbon Run

Next week.....

Language Arts

We are continuing working on rhyming words and will begin to discuss syllables and clapping how many syllables are in a word. Our two new sight words will be "not" and "am". Thank you for returning the "Book in a Bags". Your child will bring home new books on Monday. Happy Reading!

Social Studies
Learners will be exposed to National Symbols and we will be discussing several symbols around our country.

Math
Learners will read and write whole numbers 0 to 20. They will represent these numbers by drawing pictures or using objects. Please see picture below for ways to help with counting. We appreciate your support. TCE Kinder Parents Rock!

Please continue to work with your children on the math activity that was sent home. We appreciate your help and support.

Science:
We will be using our skills as scientists to predict, observe, and answer questions about pumpkins on Monday through a variety of exciting stations.

We will also be putting the final touches on our physical science unit.

TCE Life Principal of the Week:
Flexibility

Town Center Common Courtesy: All trash needs to make it into the trashcan.

TCE October Design Challenge

Please click on the link to see the TCE design challenge for October...

https://www.smore.com/u6hxg

Reminders

Don't forget to check out your teachers' google sites! There are tons of video connections and websites to help your child review what is being learned in class! Make sure to check out your LA/SS teacher and your math/science teacher! You can access the google sites from the TCE website or through this blog.

Lunch Menu