January 29th - February 2nd

 Calendar

January 29th - PTO meeting at 6:00 in the TCE library

February 5th- Author Visit for all of 1st Grade, Last Day for Valentine Sticker Donations 

February 6th:  1A & 1C will take the Reading MAP test/1B & 1D will take the Math MAP test (Please charge iPads to 100 %!)

February 7th:  1A will take the Math MAP test/1B will take the Reading MAP test (Please charge iPads to 100%!)

February 8th:  1C will take the Math MAP test/1D will take the Reading MAP test (Please charge iPads to 100%!)

February 9th:  PTO Valentine Dance 6-8pm - See information below

February 14th - Valentine's Party 2:00 - all parents are welcome! 

February 16th - No school for learners

February 19th - Weather day (no school if we do not use a weather day)

February 29th - Spring Pictures (This is the one where we take a class picture - don't forget to order one when the order form comes home!!)

February 29th - Music Performance - look for information to be coming home from our music teacher

What will we be learning next week?

Language Arts

• Reading - We will work on retelling texts in ways that maintain meaning as well as choosing efficient reading strategies. 

• Writing -  We will wrap up some writing projects that we have been working on as well as write a descriptive writing piece for Groundhog's Day. 

• Phonics - We will review past spelling rules so there will not be a spelling test on Friday.  

Math

Learners will generate a number greater than a given number.  Learners will also say a number 10 more or 10 less than a given number.   

Science 

We will observe and record changes in the appearance of objects in the sky such as the Moon, stars, and sun. 

 Social Studies   

We will explore several famous Americans next week.  We will see how these significant individuals have impacted our state and nation. We will also use a variety of sources to gather information about famous Americans. 

Weekly Announcements

1st Grade Author Visit 

Hi First Grade families,

 

Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Vincenzo and I are excited to announce that author, Isabelle Engler, has agreed to come to our school on February 5th and speak about her book Lunar New Year.  We are lucky to have her come to speak with 1st Grade, since we recently have studied different Cultural Celebrations and Traditions in social studies. Her visit will also coincide with Lunar New Year!

 

The book, Lunar New Year, is a bilingual singable book with a traditional nursery rhyme retold and reimagined.  Readers can sing along in English, Mandarin with Pinyin.  Easy to follow colored keys guide enables children to play the song on the piano.  The book is about love and connections through family traditions.  Below is a link to the author's website.

 

https://musicandtales.org/books

 

If you would like to preorder a copy of the book, please send $20.00 cash or check made out to TCE.  All preorders must be received by Friday, February 2nd.  Ms. Engler will sign all preordered books.  

Please let me or your child's reading teacher know if you have questions.  Thank you! -Mrs. Mancuso

• At the end of the last grading period, we noticed that many learners are coming to school with iPads that are not fully charged.  Please don't forget to charge your child's iPad nightly. 
• As the weather turns colder, please make sure your child wears a jacket to school.  We will be going outside on cold days.  We will follow district protocol on when we need to have indoor recess because of temperatures . Also, please write your child's name in the label of the jacket.  Lost and Found gets full in the winter!
• Don't forget to send a quick snack with your child each day.  We all get pretty hungry in the afternoon. 

Great Information To Know

School begins at 7:40.  If your child arrives after 7:40 they will need to go to the office and receive a tardy pass.  Please make sure your child arrives in the building before 7:40 each day.  

• Please make sure to look at your child's daily behavior calendar.  Our goal is for the children to color in the day with the appropriate behavior.  Many times, the children forget.  If it is not colored, please assume it is a great day.  If you see a teacher comment, we would love for you to have a conversation with your child about what happened to receive the comment.  Please know many warnings were given before a comment was written. :-) 
• Please review and take out all papers from their take-home folder each day.

Teacher Emails

The best way to get in touch with your teacher is by email.  Please email the teacher that can best answer the subject of your question. If it is a general question, please email your homeroom teacher.

1A Mrs. Vincenzo (1A and 1B language arts/social studies teacher)                     lvincenzo@coppellisd.com

1B Mrs. Harle (1A and 1B math/science teacher)                                      kharle@coppellisd.com

1C Mrs. Brown (1C and 1D language arts/social studies teacher)           ebrown@coppellisd.com

1D Mrs. Sork (1C and 1D math/science teacher)                                        msork@coppellisd.com

School Lunches 

Every Friday families are allowed to eat lunch in the cafeteria. 

District guidelines limit lunchroom visitors at the elementary level to parents, immediate family members with written permission from a parent, and campus mentors. Immediate family members are defined as the student’s parents/step-parents, siblings, grandparents, or any person residing in the home. A parent can list the person(s) who have permission to have lunch for the entire school year.  If anyone other than the parent(s) listed as guardians in our district e-school system is eating with the child, we will need written documentation of your approval.

Dismissal

If you change the way your child goes home at the end of the day, please email your teacher.  Children will be sent home their "usual" way unless we hear directly from a parent.  Also, please make sure that the teacher has responded to your email to ensure that we got the message.  If you don't hear back from your teacher, please call the office to let them know about dismissal changes. 

Birthday Treats

We will celebrate your child’s birthday with a spotlight on our daily school-wide announcements and a goody bag from the school that contains several items, including a coupon for a free treat in the cafeteria.  

If you choose to send birthday food treats to school, they will need to be in their original packaging that lists the ingredients.  Please send the treats to our school nurse.  She will look over the ingredients and then deliver them to your child's homeroom class.  These treats will be sent home with the learners at the end of the day for them to enjoy at home. 

Volunteering

If you think you would like to volunteer at TCE this year, please fill out the volunteer background check.  The sooner the better!  You can find information about how to fill out the form and the actual form on our TCE webpage. This needs to be done each. year.  You will need a background check to help in the classroom, field trips, field day, etc. 

Photos From The Week

Rain, rain, go away!  We want to go outside for recess!! 

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January 22 - 26

Calendar

January 29th - PTO meeting at 6:00 in the TCE library

February 5th- Author Visit for all of 1st Grade

February 14th - Valentine's Party 2:00 - all parents are welcome! 

February 16th - No school for learners

February 19th - Weather day (no school if we did not use a weather day)

February 29th - Spring Pictures (This is the one where we take a class picture - don't forget to order one when the order form comes home!!)

February 29th - Music Performance - look for information to be coming home from our music teacher

What will we be learning next week?

Language Arts

• Reading - We will continue talking about author's purpose, correct reading mistakes when reading, and work on increasing our comprehension and fluency during independent reading. 

• Writing -  We will be using our writing skills and imaginations for a special writing project next week.  

• Phonics and Grammar - We will be talking about dividing words into syllables and finishing up on adjectives.  For phonics, we will be studying two more ways to make the long /a/ sound by diving into /oa/ and /ay/.

Math

Learners will use place value and an open number line to compare and order numbers (written and spoken) up to 120 using the words greater than/more than, less than and equal. 

Math Activities to do with your child

Have your child tell you a story problem for a math equation.  

For example,  ? -8 =12.   Rudolph had some carrots.  He ate 8 carrots.  Now he has 12 carrots.  How many carrots did Rudolph have in the beginning?  20 carrots.  

Have your child tell you a double fact, a double plus one fact, a double minus one fact, and a fact he or she solved by counting on.  Have your amazing mathematician describe how each strategy works. 

Give your child a number.  Let them tell you everything they know about that number.  For example,  My number is 62.  It is even, 10 more is 72, 10 less is 52, I see 6 tens and 2 ones, I also know 62 can be 5 tens and 12 ones, or 4 tens and 22 ones, etc..

Skip count by fives and twos with your child to 120.  

Science 

We will continue to observe and record changes in the appearance of objects in the sky.  

 Social Studies   

We will talk about some amazing famous Americans and how they have changed our world. 

1st Grade Author Visit 

Hi First Grade families,

 

Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Vincenzo and I are excited to announce that author, Isabelle Engler, has agreed to come to our school on February 5th and speak about her book Lunar New Year.  We are lucky to have her come to speak with 1st Grade, since we recently have studied different Cultural Celebrations and Traditions in social studies. Her visit will also coincide with Lunar New Year!

 

The book, Lunar New Year, is a bilingual singable book with a traditional nursery rhyme retold and reimagined.  Readers can sing along in English, Mandarin with Pinyin.  Easy to follow colored keys guide enables children to play the song on the piano.  The book is about love and connections through family traditions.  Below is a link to the author's website.

 

https://musicandtales.org/books

 

If you would like to preorder a copy of the book, please send $20.00 cash or check made out to TCE.  All preorders must be received by Friday, February 2nd.  Ms. Engler will sign all preordered books.  

Please let me or your child's reading teacher know if you have questions.  Thank you! -Mrs. Mancuso

Weekly Announcements

• At the end of the last grading period, we noticed that many learners are coming to school with iPads that are not fully charged.  Please don't forget to charge your child's iPad nightly. 
• As the weather turns colder, please make sure your child wears a jacket to school.  We will be going outside on cold days.  We will follow district protocol on when we need to have indoor recess because of temperatures . Also, please write your child's name in the label of the jacket.  Lost and Found gets full in the winter!
• Don't forget to send a quick snack with your child each day.  We all get pretty hungry in the afternoon. 

Great Information To Know

School begins at 7:40.  If your child arrives after 7:40 they will need to go to the office and receive a tardy pass.  Please make sure your child arrives in the building before 7:40 each day.  

• Please make sure to look at your child's daily behavior calendar.  Our goal is for the children to color in the day with the appropriate behavior.  Many times, the children forget.  If it is not colored, please assume it is a great day.  If you see a teacher comment, we would love for you to have a conversation with your child about what happened to receive the comment.  Please know many warnings were given before a comment was written. :-) 
• Please review and take out all papers from their take-home folder each day.

Teacher Emails

The best way to get in touch with your teacher is by email.  Please email the teacher that can best answer the subject of your question. If it is a general question, please email your homeroom teacher.

1A Mrs. Vincenzo (1A and 1B language arts/social studies teacher)                     lvincenzo@coppellisd.com

1B Mrs. Harle (1A and 1B math/science teacher)                                      kharle@coppellisd.com

1C Mrs. Brown (1C and 1D language arts/social studies teacher)           ebrown@coppellisd.com

1D Mrs. Sork (1C and 1D math/science teacher)                                        msork@coppellisd.com

School Lunches 

Every Friday families are allowed to eat lunch in the cafeteria. 

District guidelines limit lunchroom visitors at the elementary level to parents, immediate family members with written permission from a parent, and campus mentors. Immediate family members are defined as the student’s parents/step-parents, siblings, grandparents, or any person residing in the home. A parent can list the person(s) who have permission to have lunch for the entire school year.  If anyone other than the parent(s) listed as guardians in our district e-school system is eating with the child, we will need written documentation of your approval.

Dismissal

If you change the way your child goes home at the end of the day, please email your teacher.  Children will be sent home their "usual" way unless we hear directly from a parent.  Also, please make sure that the teacher has responded to your email to ensure that we got the message.  If you don't hear back from your teacher, please call the office to let them know about dismissal changes. 

Birthday Treats

We will celebrate your child’s birthday with a spotlight on our daily school-wide announcements and a goody bag from the school that contains several items, including a coupon for a free treat in the cafeteria.  

If you choose to send birthday food treats to school, they will need to be in their original packaging that lists the ingredients.  Please send the treats to our school nurse.  She will look over the ingredients and then deliver them to your child's homeroom class.  These treats will be sent home with the learners at the end of the day for them to enjoy at home. 

Volunteering

If you think you would like to volunteer at TCE this year, please fill out the volunteer background check.  The sooner the better!  You can find information about how to fill out the form and the actual form on our TCE webpage. This needs to be done each. year.  You will need a background check to help in the classroom, field trips, field day, etc. 

Photos From The Week

Working on Balanced Equations

We know that 4 + 1 = 2 + 3

We proved the commutative property is true.  

Math smiles and balanced equations make a teacher heart happy!  

10 + 5 + 3 = 9 + 9

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Great job! 

Cuties! 

Amazing! 

Way to go! 

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“If you floated down a river, where would you end up?” We learned how water flows from high to low, and how many rivers start up in mountains or hilly areas, and ultimately flow out towards the sea. 

January 15 - 19

 Calendar

January 15th - No School

January 29th - PTO meeting at 6:00 in the TCE library

February 14th - Valentine's Party 2:00 - all parents are welcome! 

February 16th - No school for learners

February 19th - Weather day (no school if we did not use a weather day)

February 29th - Spring Pictures (This is the one where we take a class picture - don't forget to order one when the order form comes home!!)

February 29th - Music Performance - look for information to be coming home from our music teacher

What will we be learning next week?

Language Arts

• Reading - We will continue to use strategies to self monitor and correct reading mistakes as they arise. We will also be talking about author's purpose.  After reading or listening to a book, we can determine if the author's purpose for writing the book was to entertain, to inform, or to persuade.

• Writing - We will continue to use our writing strategies to write fictional stories.  Our creativity is really coming out with these writing pieces!  We write these stories in our writing journals and we can't wait to show you them at Open House in March! 

• Phonics and Grammar - Next week we will talk about two more ways to make the long /o sound.  We will look at the /oa/ vowel team and /ow/ to make the long /o/ sound.  We will notice that the /oa/ vowel team is usually found in the middle of a word.   We will also working on adjectives and breaking apart words into syllables. 

Math

Learners will practice adding a multiple of 10 with a 1-digit number.  We will practice skip counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's to 120.  We will continue to decompose and compose numbers to 120 in more than one way.

Math Activities to do with your child

Have your child tell you a story problem for a math equation.  

For example,  ? -8 =12.   Rudolph had some carrots.  He ate 8 carrots.  Now he has 12 carrots.  How many carrots did Rudolph have in the beginning?  20 carrots.  

Have your child tell you a double fact, a double plus one fact, a double minus one fact, and a fact he or she solved by counting on.  Have your amazing mathematician describe how each strategy works. 

Give your child a number.  Let them tell you everything they know about that number.  For example,  My number is 62.  It is even, 10 more is 72, 10 less is 52, I see 6 tens and 2 ones, I also know 62 can be 5 tens and 12 ones, or 4 tens and 22 ones, etc..

Skip count by fives and twos with your child to 120.  

Science 

We will observe and record changes in the appearance of objects in the sky such as the Moon, stars, and sun.

Social Studies   

We will continue to look at history while we talk about Martin Luther King and how he changed the world that we live in today.

Weekly Announcements

• At the end of the last grading period, we noticed that many learners are coming to school with iPads that are not fully charged.  Please don't forget to charge your child's iPad nightly. 
• As the weather turns colder, please make sure your child wears a jacket to school.  We will be going outside on cold days.  We will follow district protocol on when we need to have indoor recess because of temperatures . Also, please write your child's name in the label of the jacket.  Lost and Found gets full in the winter!
• Don't forget to send a quick snack with your child each day.  We all get pretty hungry in the afternoon. 
• Report cards were sent electronically last Friday.  If you didn't get it, please let the office know.

Great Information To Know

School begins at 7:40.  If your child arrives after 7:40 they will need to go to the office and receive a tardy pass.  Please make sure your child arrives in the building before 7:40 each day.  

• Please make sure to look at your child's daily behavior calendar.  Our goal is for the children to color in the day with the appropriate behavior.  Many times, the children forget.  If it is not colored, please assume it is a great day.  If you see a teacher comment, we would love for you to have a conversation with your child about what happened to receive the comment.  Please know many warnings were given before a comment was written. :-) 
• Please review and take out all papers from their take-home folder each day.

Teacher Emails

The best way to get in touch with your teacher is by email.  Please email the teacher that can best answer the subject of your question. If it is a general question, please email your homeroom teacher.

1A Mrs. Vincenzo (1A and 1B language arts/social studies teacher)                     lvincenzo@coppellisd.com

1B Mrs. Harle (1A and 1B math/science teacher)                                      kharle@coppellisd.com

1C Mrs. Brown (1C and 1D language arts/social studies teacher)           ebrown@coppellisd.com

1D Mrs. Sork (1C and 1D math/science teacher)                                        msork@coppellisd.com

School Lunches 

Every Friday families are allowed to eat lunch in the cafeteria. 

District guidelines limit lunchroom visitors at the elementary level to parents, immediate family members with written permission from a parent, and campus mentors. Immediate family members are defined as the student’s parents/step-parents, siblings, grandparents, or any person residing in the home. A parent can list the person(s) who have permission to have lunch for the entire school year.  If anyone other than the parent(s) listed as guardians in our district e-school system is eating with the child, we will need written documentation of your approval.

Dismissal

If you change the way your child goes home at the end of the day, please email your teacher.  Children will be sent home their "usual" way unless we hear directly from a parent.  Also, please make sure that the teacher has responded to your email to ensure that we got the message.  If you don't hear back from your teacher, please call the office to let them know about dismissal changes. 

Birthday Treats

We will celebrate your child’s birthday with a spotlight on our daily school-wide announcements and a goody bag from the school that contains several items, including a coupon for a free treat in the cafeteria.  

If you choose to send birthday food treats to school, they will need to be in their original packaging that lists the ingredients.  Please send the treats to our school nurse.  She will look over the ingredients and then deliver them to your child's homeroom class.  These treats will be sent home with the learners at the end of the day for them to enjoy at home. 

Volunteering

If you think you would like to volunteer at TCE this year, please fill out the volunteer background check.  The sooner the better!  You can find information about how to fill out the form and the actual form on our TCE webpage. This needs to be done each. year.  You will need a background check to help in the classroom, field trips, field day, etc. 

Photos From The Week

Amazing Mathematicians at Work

Writers participating in an inner/outer circle sharing what they know about adjectives and verbs. 

Mrs. Mancuso read a wonderful book about
snowflakes and how we can capture them in
photographs. 

You know what cold weather brings......

indoor recess!!