Calendar
Friday, April 5th - Party at the Parks
Monday, April 8th - Solar Eclipse Day!! We can't wait to see the solar eclipse! Please see information below regarding this day.
April 12 - No School (Bad Weather Day)
April 15 - No School
April 19 - PTO Interskate Night 6:00 - 8:00
April 22 - April 26 - Teacher Appreciation Week
April 30 - Dallas Zoo Field Trip
May 1 - Author Visit
May 2 - Kindergarten Round-Up 5:30 PM
Spring Family Picnic 6:00 PM
May 14 - Mrs. Vincenzo's birthday
May 20 - Field Day
May 21 - Yearbook Signing Day
May 24 - Last day of school - early release at 12:30
SOLAR ECLIPSE DAY!!!!
*Wear green or red on Monday for the solar eclipse
*Solar eclipse glasses will be given to each child
*Visitors will not be allowed on campus on this day
*If you are checking your child out for the eclipse, please check them out before 1:00
Sign Up for the Run to Fund
CEF will also give $2 from every Run to Fund race entry to the Physical Education Department at the CISD school of your choice.
**Each year CISD has a contest to see which school has the most participants, and we'd love for Town Center to have their first win! Join Ms. Martin and other TCE staff for a fun morning. If our school wins, each class will win an extra recess time!
What will we be learning next week?
Language Arts
- Reading - We are working on building our stamina when reading so that we are ready for second grade --eyes focused, using our reading strategies, thinking of our comprehension strategies, and reading more and more.
- Writing - We will finish up our non-fiction writing unit. We are having fun researching, creating a thinking map to help with our thinking, and then turning our thinking map into a writing piece.
- Phonics/Grammar - We will do a two week study of contractions and the rules about how to make a contraction. We will also talk about apostrophes. Since this is a two week unit we will take our pretest this week but we will not have a spelling test on this rule until April 19th.
Math
Learners will continue to identify 3D solids and describe their attributes. Learners will also learn how to partition shapes into equal parts.
Science
First Grade has had so much fun learning about the life cycle of a chick. We are eagerly awaiting the arrival of our baby chicks to hatch. We will also be doing activities for the solar eclipse on Monday.
Social Studies
We will talk about and celebrate the solar eclipse on Monday. We are crossing our fingers for no clouds!! We will also start our next social studies unit on Geography. We will start by talking about landforms on the earth's surface.
Weekly Announcements
- PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO CHARGE YOUR CHILD'S IPAD! We have many iPads coming to school that are not charged. All iPads need to be charge at home each night. Thank you!
- Mark your calendar for our first grade field trip. We will be going to the Dallas Zoo on April 30th and will take as many chaperones as would like to accompany us. Permission slips were due today. If you forgot, please make sure you return the permission slip with $7 on Monday. Thank you!
- If you haven't turned in the blue sheet to let us know if you will be coming back to TCE next year, please make sure you turn that in on Monday. Thank you!!
- 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
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| I know a triangular prism has 2 triangles and 3 rectangles! |
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| A cube has 6 faces, 8 edges, and 12 vertices. |
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| My triangular prism has 5 faces, 9 edges, and 6 vertices! |
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| This is the net of a cube! |
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| Finding the area of a rectangle! |
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| I know a lot about shapes! |
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| We are shape masters! |
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