Announcements
- The TCE Turkey Trot will happen on Friday, November 18th during specials (11:10-12:00).
- Please remember that the learners will have the week of November 21-25 off because of Thanksgiving.
- Coppell ISD will providing ESL classes for parents. Click here to see the flyer. Classes will be Monday evenings 5:30-6:30 with beginning classes offered at Wilson and Intermediate/Advanced classes offered at Austin. The classes are open to any parents who need them.
- Please see the attached newsletter and calendar from our PE teacher, Mrs. Martin.
- Town Center Cookbook - We wanted to have the opportunity to create a TCE Family Traditions cookbook this year since our theme is all about family and celebrating the diversity within our community. We would love to have you share one of your favorite family recipes to go into our cookbook this year. If you are interested in participating, please send in your recipe to Casey Wagner, cwagner@coppellisd.com, or you may send in a paper copy of your recipe to the front office.
5th Grade Program
- 5th Grade Program - The learners will be performing in the annual Winter Program this year. The program will be Tuesday, December 13th. We will have a morning performance and an evening performance.
- The learners are currently participating in auditions.
- We will have more information about the program coming soon.
Service Learning Opportunities
- Trim the Turkey
The second grade learners at TCE will be having a canned food drive to ‘trim the turkey’ for families in need this holiday season. We will be partnering with North Texas Food Bank to collect nonperishable trimmings for turkeys donated online. The district will not be collecting frozen turkeys as they have in previous years, but you may still donate a turkey online. (The link to donate a turkey online is in the flyer attached below.) For more information, please click on the image below to read the attached flyer!
- Blue Jean Drive
We will be having a special program coming to our campus this December that focuses on art, the world and each individual's role in helping our environment, and the importance of having good character within their lives. In preparation for the program in December we are doing a blue jean drive collection in order to help with our school art design that we will be creating. Please bring any kids or adult size jeans that you might be able to donate to the front office of TCE. They can be gently used or have holes in them as well. After we use them for the school wide art display we will be donating them toward a non-profit organization to be given to others or recycled as other products.
Sky Ranch Updates
- Please see our Sky Ranch flyer for updates and details about our trip. Within this flyer, we have included a link to our payment letter and a place for you to ask questions about the trip (should you feel the need).
- Our next payment is due Friday, November 18th. If you are unable to make that payment, please be sure to email or reach out to your learner's homeroom teacher.
- We will have an informational meeting for all 4th grade parents on Thursday, January 26, 2017 at 5:30 PM.
Spelling Bee
- Our class bees will occur on the morning of Thursday, November 17th. (This is a date change as we originally scheduled it for Friday the 18th.) Any learner that would like to participate is invited to participate in those bees. The top 8 learners from each class bee will be invited to participate in the school bee.
- Learners have been given grade level lists to study. They will need to study and prepare on their own time. Learners should practice spelling orally as this is not something they are used to doing.
- The school bee will occur on Monday, December 5th during the school day. We will designate one winner and one runner up from our school bee. The district bee will occur on January 11th at 9:00 AM.
- If you have any questions regarding the spelling bee, please email your learners' Language Arts teacher.
Curriculum Tidbits
*We hope that you will periodically check our Twitter accounts as we tweet glimpses of what we're learning in class. You can find our tweets by searching the hashtag #tce5th or by going to our individual pages.
*We hope that you will periodically check our Twitter accounts as we tweet glimpses of what we're learning in class. You can find our tweets by searching the hashtag #tce5th or by going to our individual pages.
Math
This week in math the learners will be continuing learning about fractions. They will be working in groups on a “holiday fest” project and incorporate different operations with fractions throughout the learning experience.
Science
In science the learners will continue exploring force and motion. They have been working in groups to design a structure and test how force affects an object.
Writing & Spelling
In writing, we are continuing our Imaginative Writing Unit which will focus on writing imaginative stories and incorporating various grammar skills such as writing compound sentences and punctuating dialogue correctly.
In addition, our learners are participating in our Annual Gratitude Challenge. Learners have choice in how they respond each day, but they are required to post on their individual blogs. We are very grateful to PTO for providing these blogs for our learners. Your son/daughter can login to his/her blog to show you their posts. They really enjoy sharing their writing on the blogs.
As a note, the learners do have a weekly spelling list that they are expected to study throughout the week. We include "Study for Spelling Quiz" in the homework section of our daily agendas, so if every your learner says they don't have homework, they do. While we do cover spelling in class, it is important for them to take the time to study at home as well.
In addition, our learners are participating in our Annual Gratitude Challenge. Learners have choice in how they respond each day, but they are required to post on their individual blogs. We are very grateful to PTO for providing these blogs for our learners. Your son/daughter can login to his/her blog to show you their posts. They really enjoy sharing their writing on the blogs.
As a note, the learners do have a weekly spelling list that they are expected to study throughout the week. We include "Study for Spelling Quiz" in the homework section of our daily agendas, so if every your learner says they don't have homework, they do. While we do cover spelling in class, it is important for them to take the time to study at home as well.
Social Studies
We really enjoyed our election unit! The learners learned about the voting and election process and were able to make connections between what they had learned about the Constitution and the election process.
Homework Tidbits
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Homework Tidbits
- Weekly Spelling List - Quiz on Friday
- Reflex Math
- Weekly Math Homework - Due Friday
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Finally, thank you again for taking the time to read our blog. We know how important it is for our TCE families to know what is happening at school! If you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to ask. Our contact information is linked below for your convenience.
5A Morgan Peccarelli - mpeccarelli@coppellisd.com
5B Kate Seifert - kseifert@coppellisd.com
5C Marly Natherson - mnatherson@coppellisd.com
5D Jenna Taylor - jltaylor@coppellisd.com
