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Important Dates
October 29th - Storybook Pumpkin Patch
November 2nd - Pansy Planting
November 2nd - Fall Texan Town #4
November 9th - Fall Texan Town #5
November 16th - Turkey Trot/ Fall Texan Town #6
November 19th-November 23 - NO SCHOOL Thanksgiving Break
December 4th - PTO Meeting @ 6pm
Announcements
Report Cards
Friday, October 19th, your child brought home their report card for the first nine weeks of school. If you would like more clarification for what each standard means and what it looks like for your child to met standard, approach standard, and make insignificant progress towards standard please check out the CISD standards-based report card rubrics found here. Please note that every nine weeks the same standard may be reported on but the rigor and expectations increase from nine weeks to nine weeks.Please reach out to your child's teacher(s) if you have any questions or would like clarification regarding their report card.
Storybook Pumpkin Patch
The Town Center Elementary Library will host a Storybook Pumpkin Patch for any TCE students that would like to participate. At home, students and/or families can decorate a pumpkin to look like one of their favorite children's book characters. Students may bring their decorated pumpkin to the TCE Library 7:30-8:00am on Monday or Tuesday morning, October 29-30, 2018. The pumpkins will be on display for viewing Monday, October 29th - Thursdday, November 1st. Pumpkins must be removed from the library by 3pm on Friday, November 2nd. Visit this link for details and guidelines: tinyurl.com/TCEpumpkinpatch.
Report Cards
Friday, October 19th, your child brought home their report card for the first nine weeks of school. If you would like more clarification for what each standard means and what it looks like for your child to met standard, approach standard, and make insignificant progress towards standard please check out the CISD standards-based report card rubrics found here. Please note that every nine weeks the same standard may be reported on but the rigor and expectations increase from nine weeks to nine weeks.Please reach out to your child's teacher(s) if you have any questions or would like clarification regarding their report card.
Storybook Pumpkin Patch
The Town Center Elementary Library will host a Storybook Pumpkin Patch for any TCE students that would like to participate. At home, students and/or families can decorate a pumpkin to look like one of their favorite children's book characters. Students may bring their decorated pumpkin to the TCE Library 7:30-8:00am on Monday or Tuesday morning, October 29-30, 2018. The pumpkins will be on display for viewing Monday, October 29th - Thursdday, November 1st. Pumpkins must be removed from the library by 3pm on Friday, November 2nd. Visit this link for details and guidelines: tinyurl.com/TCEpumpkinpatch.
What are we learning?
Math
In math, we will press on with our multiplication and division unit. We have officially introduced our "fact fluency" timed practice that we will be doing each day. This will not be a grade of any sort, just a way to practice and reinforce memorizing multiplication facts. During class we will start to learn strategies for 2 digit by 1 digit multiplication including the distributive property, partial products, and the standard algorithm.
Language Arts
In reading this week learners will continue to read poetry, understand, and analyze the elements and forms of poetry. We will continue to look at figurative language in poetry, and ask questions about poetry. We will continue to analyze the mood of a poem. We will work on the spelling pattern of dropping the final "e" and adding "ing" to words.
In writing, learners will continue to look at poetry. Learners will continue to use describing words to begin to use their poet's voice to make meaning in their poems and add imagery.
In writing, learners will continue to look at poetry. Learners will continue to use describing words to begin to use their poet's voice to make meaning in their poems and add imagery.
Science
In science, we will finish up our discussion about forces such as pushes, pulls, friction, and gravity.
Social Studies
In Social Studies learners will complete the Unit on Government by using different forums to showcase their understanding of the basic structure of government in our local community, state and nation.
