September 16th - 20th

Calendar:
September 24th:  Sonic Night  5:00 - 8:00
October 1st:  PTO Meeting  6-7
October 4th:  TCE 25th Birthday Celebration Family Picnic
October 10th:  End of 9 Weeks Spirit Assembly
October 11th - No school for learners - - Parent/Teacher Conferences
October 14th - No School (Columbus Day)
October 16th:  Picture Retake
October 18th:  Report Cards Go Home  (sign and return)
October 18th:  PTO Family Movie Night in the TCE Gym 6:00
October 21st - 25th:  Red Ribbon Week
October 25th - Wacky Wednesday - (learners will go directly to the gym in the morning)

Look At What We Are Learning:

Language Arts:

• Spelling next week will concentrate on the short /e/ sound.
• During Writer's Workshop we will continue to work on Capital letters to start a sentence, punctuation at the end, and transition words to help tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end.
• During Reader's Workshop we will continue to build good reading habits by taking a sneak peak, checking our sneak peak, reading more and more, and scooping up words when reading.

Social Studies:


We love having Mind Mission Mondays.  This week we created advertising billboards for our bunny communities.  We LOVE working in collaborative groups to imagine, design, and build to solve real world problems.  Here are some pics of this week's mind mission.

 
 


Math:

Your children are doing an AMAZING job with subitizing and making 10!  Way to go first grade!  We will continue to work on subitizing and making 10 next week.  We will also work on representing a number in various ways.  For example, standard form, expanded form, word form, base ten form, etc.

Please see the link below to practice making 10 at home.

Making 10 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73av5oijolU

Please see the links to practice subitizing below.  

Subitizing with tally marks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmWGHnoCOng

Subitizing up to 10 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRR9LK3zfho

Subitizing up to 20 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVjvswqL-Ow


Science:
We have become amazing observers using our senses.  We will be looking at solids and the properties that all solids have!

Discussions At Home:

Don't forget to study your spelling words each week.  Spelling tests will be given on Fridays.  If your child spells all 10 words correctly on the pretest on Monday, they will be given a new set of words (List B) to study.  The spelling rule will be the same, but it will have more challenging words on it.  Always study the list that is attached to the pretest on Mondays. 

Practice counting to 120 from any given number with your child.  Parents pick a number and take turns saying the next number until you reach 120.  

In Other News:

Don't forget to join the PTO!  Please click on this link to access the PTO website:  https://towncenterpto.membershiptoolkit.com/home

First Grade Pics: