TCE First Grade 2020-2021: November 16

Calendar

November 16th - Virtual Learner Book exchange by front doors (8:30-12:30)
November 17th - No Morning Meeting for 1A and 1C
November 19th - No Science Academic Zooms
November 23rd - 27th - Thanksgiving Break - No School
November 30th - Virtual Learner Book exchange by front doors (8:30-12:30)
December 1st - First Grade's Toy drive begins

***Starting November 16th, all literacy Zooms will be cancelled until further notice. The literacy teachers will be assessing each learner on 7 different tests that CISD and the state of Texas now require for all first graders. The teachers will be testing face to face learners at school and they will be setting appointments with all virtual learners. We will let you know when these assessments are finished and when we will resume daily Literacy Zooms. Thank you for your understanding and patience in this ever changing schedule!!! Math zooms will continue as scheduled.

Look at what we will be learning next week:

Math: Learners will use different strategies to solve subtraction number sentence within 20. We will discuss how to solve a subtraction number sentence and pick a strategy that would best fit the problem.

Science: This week, learners will be exploring different sources of water on Earth such as lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, and oceans.

Language Arts:

Reading: Making connections to traditional tales.

Writing: We will continue our poetry writing unit.

Phonics: We will practice reading phonetic nonsense words.

Social Studies: The learners will describe the origins of customs, holidays, and celebrations of the community, state, and nation through listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Fun activities to do at home:

Math Activities to do with your child at home

Play " Guess My Number"

What number is equal to 1 ten and 23 ones?
I am thinking of an even number. It is greater than 17 and less than 19? What number am I thinking?
I am thinking of a number? It has 2 tens and 3 ones. What number am I thinking?

Practice counting to 120 by ones (forwards and backwards) with your child.

Practice counting to 120 by fives and tens with your child.

Practice reading the snap words. Remember, your child should be able to read all of the snap words in a "snap".

Virtual Learner Announcements

Monday, November 16th is Book Exchange by the front door (8:30-12:30).
Dream Box - Please make sure your child is on Dream Box at least 3 times a week for 15 minutes. :-)

Remember, your learner needs to Istation every Monday for at least 20 minutes and must complete 15 minutes of Raz Kids (listening, reading, comprehension question) every day.

Virtual learners -- if you would like to check out books from the TCE library, please click on Mrs. Mancuso's link below to learn how: https://www.loom.com/share/3e99db6ca13c438a8b891ceb10298987

Face to Face Learner Announcements

Please check with your child if they have working headphones. Many learners have broken their headphones or the headphones do not fit them correctly. We need every learner to have a working pair of headphones.

Please make sure you put your child's fully charged Ipad and charger in their backpack each day. The Ipad battery should be 100%.

Please make sure your child has their take home folder with them each day. Take home folders need to be cleaned out daily at home.

We have library on Mondays. Please make sure to send your library books back to school on Monday so your child can check out some new books.

Virtual and Face to Face Learner Announcements

Kindergarten and First Grade will be working with the Coppell Lions Club to coordinate a food and toy drive at Town Center. This will help to provide food and toys for more than 100 Coppell families during the holidays. We'd love for our learners in grades K-5 to bring canned food items and/or a new, unwrapped toy to donate starting December 1st through December 15^th.If you are a face-to-face learner, you may drop your items by the TCE Giving Tree in the front of the school, and canned foods can be put in the boxes at the end of each hallway. Virtual learners may call the front office at 214-496-7800 to make arrangements to drop off your donation in the front loop during school hours. THANK YOU for your support!

Please see the link below to view Miss Martin's newsletter:

https://www.smore.com/2ct3w

Pictures from First Grade