Town Center Elementary: April 1st

Calendar:

April 9 - 11th - STAAR TESTING - No visitors/parents in the building on these days.
April 11th - Field Trip to ATT stadium
April 12th - TCE First Annual Color Run
April 19th - No School/Weather Day - We will not have school on this day if we haven't used a weather day.
April 20th - Mrs. McCullough's birthday
April 22nd - NO SCHOOL - teacher workday
April 29th - TCE STEM Night 5:30 - 7:00 We hope to see everyone there!!!

A Note from Ms. Martin:

TCE Families,
The data analysis from the looping survey is complete, and a decision has been made in regards to the looping process at Town Center Elementary. Please click on the link below to view the Looping Report which includes a summary of the data received, conclusions, and next steps.
A special thank you to our TCE families, staff, and learners that provided feedback. I appreciate the honest and thoughtful insight that was given. Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any additional questions or concerns, and I would be happy to meet with you.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tT9W6yZgPopst_wT8ONRqIGh3r4XJ8HoGfc3WVKj5KY/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you,
Jennifer Martin

TCE's 2nd Annual Culture Night

Thank you to everyone who came out and enjoyed this special night with us!! We loved learning about different cultures!!

FIELD TRIP:

Our field trip is almost here (April 11th). The buses will be departing TCE at 9:00am. Please make sure your child remembers the following:

1. Wear comfortable walking shoes. There will be LOTS of walking on this field trip.
2. Wear your #FIRST shirt so that we can easily spot all of our TCE learners.
3. Bring a sack lunch. Everything MUST BE disposable. Please do NOT send lunchboxes or ice packs as everything will be thrown away after we eat. We will be eating in the stadium.

***Thank you to all of our volunteers!!! If you are volunteering for our field trip, please remember that you will not be able to ride the bus with us to ATT stadium. You may meet us at the stadium or follow the buses. The buses will be departing TCE at 9:00am. Also, learners will not be able to drive to/from the stadium in your car. All learners will take the bus with the teachers.

What Are We Learning?

Language Arts:

Spelling: words with the /aw/ sound

Reading: In Reader's Workshop we are learning that readers have big jobs to do: fluency, phonics, and comprehension.

Writing: We are putting everything we have learned into our writing: brainstorming ideas, handwriting, transition words, punctuation, spelling rules, topic sentences, closing sentences, capitalization...... Wow! We have learned a lot!!

Social Studies: We will continue creating our digital book that will showcase something in our life.

Math: Learners will compose two-dimensional shapes by joining two, three, or four figures to produce a target shape in more than one way if possible.

Math Take Home Activity: Ask your child to draw a new shape he or she can make by combining two triangles.

Science: This week we will be starting our unit on living things. We will begin by telling the difference between living and nonliving things. From there we will be comparing the ways young animals resemble their parents. PS - we will be setting up the incubator to hatch chicks in the next couple of weeks!!

Pic of the Weeks