Town Center Elementary: March 25th

Calendar:

March 22nd - Report cards sent home (sign and return)
March 25th - Sonic Night - Come see your teachers delivering food and taking orders. This is a TCE fundraiser. A portion of the earnings will go directly to TCE!! See you there!!
March 27th - Wacky Wednesday schedule
March 28th - Cultural Night
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
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

We are excited to have our 2nd annual Culture Night at TCE. Last year was such a great success with all the dishes you shared with our TCE community. If you would like to share an appetizer, main dish or dessert on March 28th please sign up below. We will get back with you with more specific details as the event grows near. TCE will provide sample cups to share the dish you bring. This event was successful because of all of our families' contributions. Thank you for making our school so great!

Be on the lookout for more information about this event including performances and interactive stations!

Miscellaneous:

***If you are volunteering for our field trip, please make sure that you do your background check asap. You will not be able to attend unless that is completed at least 2 weeks in advance. THANK YOU!!!!

What Are We Learning?

Language Arts:

Spelling: We will talk about the two sounds that /oo/ can make.

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 complete our Economics Unit and then will focus on how we can affect the world.

Math: Learners will continue to classify and sort regular and irregular two- dimensional shapes based on attributes using informal and geometric language.

Math Take Home Activity: Have your child draw a square, a trapezoid, and a triangle. For each shape, have him or her show you the sides and vertices, and tell how many of each.

Science: On Monday we will test our abilities as Materials Engineers! We will take a "wrecking ball" to our creations to see if our mortar will hold the bricks together. From there we will be moving into life science.

Pic of the Weeks