January 15th-19th

  

Upcoming Dates

January 15th - No School

January 29th - PTO meeting @ 6:00

February 14th - Class Valentine's Party @ 2:00

February 16th - No School

February 19th - Bad Weather Make Up Day (No school unless it is used for a school cancellation due to weather)

Terrific Texans

Congratulations to this week's winners!

Alex, Sadbhaav, and Priya

No School on Monday 1/15

Yearbooks for Sale

Our yearbook sale is now open! Each year we have a Town Center Yearbook that highlights photos from every class, school events, and staff. It is a great item to have to look back on memories from the year, and we even have a yearbook signing party in May. If you are interested in purchasing a yearbook, please see the graphic below for thee different purchasing options. As a reminder, the TCE Yearbook cost WAS NOT included in the TCE Trail Pass. If you would like a yearbook for your child(ren), you will need to purchase using the website link below.

Our yearbook committee would also love your help in submitting photos for the yearbook. As you attend campus events, if you have any photos you would like to share, see below for information on uploading them to our committee.

Lunches

Below are a few links regarding lunches:

- Breakfast & Lunch Menu

- Free & Reduced Lunch Application

- Check Your Lunch Application Status

- Create Your Child's Online Lunch Account

Lunch Menus can be found here

TCE Principal Newsletter

Each week Ms. Martin sends out her Town Center Principal Newsletter. Please make sure to check out all the important campus-wide announcements in the Principal Newsletter. 

January 12th

What we are learning

Math - Parent tutoring, anyone?! This week we will start our deep dive into quadrilaterals and their attributes, which includes parallelograms, rhombuses, squares, rectangles, and trapezoids. To really blow your mind, we will discuss fascinating, abstract concepts like how rhombuses CAN be squares but aren’t ALWAYS squares, how squares are a special kind of rectangle, how rectangles are also parallelograms and quadrilaterals but not rhombuses, and how trapezoids are only quadrilaterals. Do we think it’s time to dust off the ol’ high school geometry book? Nah, your kiddos have totally got this! We’re gonna keep on keepin’ on!

Science - This upcoming week we finish up exploring a variety of fast land changes: tsunamis, landslides, hurricanes and tornadoes.  We are finding what causes these to occur and the result after.

ELAR - 

This week we will use the Plot Mountain to share what we know about Wild Robot. Each learner will create a final project that displays our understanding of illustrations, captions, and the key elements of plot including exposition (introduction), rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. 

If all goes according to plan, your kids will be Ted Talk keynote speakers….well, kinda! We hope to record our persuasive speeches to share with their appropriate audience.

Social Studies - This week our Geography unit will come to a close. We explore maps and globes, both the physical and digital versions.

January 8th-12th

 

Upcoming Dates

January 15th - No School

January 29th - PTO meeting @ 6:00

February 14th - Class Valentine's Party @ 2:00

February 16th - No School

February 19th - Bad Weather Make Up Day (No school unless it is used for a school cancellation due to weather)

Terrific Texans

Congratulations to this week's winners!

Avaneesh, Alondra and Eva

Yearbooks for Sale

Our yearbook sale is now open! Each year we have a Town Center Yearbook that highlights photos from every class, school events, and staff. It is a great item to have to look back on memories from the year, and we even have a yearbook signing party in May. If you are interested in purchasing a yearbook, please see the graphic below for thee different purchasing options. As a reminder, the TCE Yearbook cost WAS NOT included in the TCE Trail Pass. If you would like a yearbook for your child(ren), you will need to purchase using the website link below.

Our yearbook committee would also love your help in submitting photos for the yearbook. As you attend campus events, if you have any photos you would like to share, see below for information on uploading them to our committee.

Lunches

Below are a few links regarding lunches:

- Breakfast & Lunch Menu

- Free & Reduced Lunch Application

- Check Your Lunch Application Status

- Create Your Child's Online Lunch Account

Lunch Menus can be found here

TCE Principal Newsletter

Each week Ms. Martin sends out her Town Center Principal Newsletter. Please make sure to check out all the important campus-wide announcements in the Principal Newsletter. 

January 5th

What we are learning

Math - Our geometry unit has begun and it’s groovy, ya dig? Last year, the kiddos learned the attributes of 2D shapes from triangles (3 sides, 3 angles, 3 vertices) all the way to dodecagons (12 sides, 12 angles, 12 vertices). Geometry is an interesting “math” unit because, well, there’s not a lot of math. On the contrary, there are lots and LOTS of vocab words: side, angle, vertex/vertices, parallel lines, polygons, right angles, 12 different shape names to review…take some deep breaths, parents, and be prepared to be amazed with your child and the amount of geometry knowledge that is about to go down. Right on, right angle!

Science - Let’s shake, rattle and roll!  We have started our 2nd part of our Earth’s Surface Unit!  We are looking at Rapid Changes in these upcoming weeks and will start with exploring volcanoes and earthquakes.

ELAR - 

This next week in reading we will finish a novel that we have been reading for a few months! It is such a fun read. We hope you have heard some about our Robot, Roz. We will be working through the narrative elements of plot and theme as we wrap up the story.

We’re sorry, not sorry, if your kids are coming home trying to persuade you to do things. We have been learning about the elements of persuasive writing including the issue at hand, the target audience, and delivery mode.

Social Studies - Next week we will wrap up our map unit before heading into an entire new unit on Economics!

December 15 - January 3

December 18th-January 2nd - Winter Break

See you back for the 2nd semester on January 3rd!

Congratulations to our 2nd 9 week Top Texans!

Finley, Vashista, Lan, Sadbhaav

Yearbooks for Sale

Our yearbook sale is now open! Each year we have a Town Center Yearbook that highlights photos from every class, school events, and staff. It is a great item to have to look back on memories from the year, and we even have a yearbook signing party in May. If you are interested in purchasing a yearbook, please see the graphic below for thee different purchasing options. As a reminder, the TCE Yearbook cost WAS NOT included in the TCE Trail Pass. If you would like a yearbook for your child(ren), you will need to purchase using the website link below.

Our yearbook committee would also love your help in submitting photos for the yearbook. As you attend campus events, if you have any photos you would like to share, see below for information on uploading them to our committee.

Lunches

Below are a few links regarding lunches:

- Breakfast & Lunch Menu

- Free & Reduced Lunch Application

- Check Your Lunch Application Status

- Create Your Child's Online Lunch Account

TCE Principal Newsletter

Each week Ms. Martin sends out her Town Center Principal Newsletter. Please make sure to check out all the important campus-wide announcements in the Principal Newsletter. 

December 15th

December 11-15

  

Upcoming Dates

November 27th-December 14th - Giving Tree and Canned Food Drive

December 8th - Early Dismissal @ 12:30 

December 14th - Winter Class Party @ 2:30

December 15th - Spirit Rally @ 8:00am

December 15th - Early Dismissal @ 12:30

December 18th-January 2nd - Winter Break

📍Don't forget!

• Town Center will have Early dismissal (12:30) on Friday, December 15. 
• There will be no Family Friday lunch on Friday, December 15 due to early dismissal and different lunch schedules.

Terrific Texans

Congratulations to this week's winners!

Mohammed, Vihaan and Vashista (not pictured)

Toy and Canned Food Drive

Yearbooks for Sale

Our yearbook sale is now open! Each year we have a Town Center Yearbook that highlights photos from every class, school events, and staff. It is a great item to have to look back on memories from the year, and we even have a yearbook signing party in May. If you are interested in purchasing a yearbook, please see the graphic below for thee different purchasing options. As a reminder, the TCE Yearbook cost WAS NOT included in the TCE Trail Pass. If you would like a yearbook for your child(ren), you will need to purchase using the website link below.

Our yearbook committee would also love your help in submitting photos for the yearbook. As you attend campus events, if you have any photos you would like to share, see below for information on uploading them to our committee.

Lunches

Below are a few links regarding lunches:

- Breakfast & Lunch Menu

- Free & Reduced Lunch Application

- Check Your Lunch Application Status

- Create Your Child's Online Lunch Account

TCE Principal Newsletter

Each week Ms. Martin sends out her Town Center Principal Newsletter. Please make sure to check out all the important campus-wide announcements in the Principal Newsletter. 

December 8th

What we are learning

Math - Graph it up up up, graph it up up up, graph it up up up - we’re on FIRE! The kiddos will be learning about different types of graphs - bar, picto-, and dot, as in dot plots. (All the cool club knows that dots - or Xs - mean people.) See below for an example of a dot plot:

             

The Merry Merry Multiplication and Division review will also be worked on at school and will be sent home next Friday.

Check out the function machine fun from this week! Thank you for all the donations!

Science - Science comes in so many forms! This week, we will be exploring computer science as part of the Hour of Code movement!

ELAR - 

As our countdown to winter holidays continues, we will keep working on understanding the characters and events of a story.  Using the RACE strategy to craft short responses is just one way we reflect on our Wild Robot read aloud. This develops both their reading and writing skills!

Social Studies - To celebrate the Hour of Code, a global movement to expose learners to computer science and coding, we will be introducing our geography unit with a fun mapping project in Scratch Jr!   They will code their “sprite” to navigate a map using directional vocabulary. Learn more about the Hour of Code here!