TCE First Grade 2019-2020: October 28th

Calendar:

November 6th - Wacky Wednesday Schedule
November 7th - STEM night with Ross Perot Museum at TCE 5-7
November 7th - Mrs. Sork's birthday
November 11th - Veteran's Day Ceremony 8:00am
November 20th - Wacky Wednesday Schedule
November 21st - Social Study "Traditions" home project sent home.
November 25th - 29th - NO SCHOOL for Thanksgiving holiday

CISD Family Survey:

CISD is currently surveying our families in order to gain insight into your perception of our schools and district effectiveness. This survey shouldn’t take more than a few minutes to complete and will be a valuable source of information for us, as we work to make our schools and our district the best that they can be. You may complete the survey online between now and Nov. 4, using a computer, tablet or smartphone. To take the survey, please visit https://surveys.panoramaed.com, then select your child(ren)’s school. If you have multiple children in CISD, we ask that you take the survey for each school your child attends.

Look At What We Will Be Learning Next Week:

Language Arts:

Making the long /u/ sound using silent e.
In Reader's Workshop we will focus on building stamina and how to stay focused when reading.
In Writer's Workshop we will will continue our "How To" writing in order to teach the reader something in sequential order.
During Grammar talks we will talk about how all sentences have a matching subject and verb.

Social Studies:
Next week we will talk about the difference between "Long Ago" and "Today" and how the world around us has changed. We will also talk about how technology has affected our world.

Math:

Learners will review strategies used to solve addition and subtraction problems. We will also begin to represent a word problem with a number sentence.

Please see the link below to practice math facts

https://www.abcya.com/games/math_facts_game

Please see the link below to practice your double facts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jOzhiACB68

Please see the link below to practice your double facts plus one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdZ9DLEjgto

Please see the link below to exercise while counting to 120 by 5s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKg0eu9_fsM

Science:
We will be ending our unit on how force, motion, and energy are related and are part of everyday life. We will begin exploring with magnets and discuss what is magnetic and what is not.

Discussions At Home:
Don't forget to practice your sight words and spelling words at home each week.

With our new social studies unit, LONG AGO and TODAY, this would be a great time to talk about how things were different in school when you were a child in first grade. It's amazing how things have changed!

What are nouns and verbs in a sentence?

Practice counting to 120 by 5s and 10s.

Encourage your child to use different strategies to show two ways they can solve 9 + 8. Have your child share answers and discuss all the strategies.

In Other News:

Today your child is bringing home a Town Center Elementary School-Parent Compact. It needs to be signed by both student and parent and returned to school. Thank you!!!

Thank you to everyone who has returned their signed report card. If you haven't sent it back, please try to send them back next week. thank you!

We will NOT be dressing up for Halloween. Please do not send your child to school in a costume on that day. Thank you!!

Mark you calendars for November 7th from 5-7. All TCE families are invited to spend some time with us as the Ross Perot Museum comes to TCE for some STEM fun!

Library: Please don't forget to bring back your library books each week. New books can only be checked out once the old books have been returned.
All first grade classes will be attending the library on Mondays beginning next week. ALL library books are due back to your homeroom on Monday. New books will not be able to be checked out until the previous week's books are returned.

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