Announcements
There is no school Monday, May 28th for Memorial Day.
Graduation
Graduation will be in the Town Center Gym at 1:00 on Tuesday, May 29th. We ask that learners to bring their Sunday best to change into for the graduation ceremony. We recommend khaki, navy, or black slacks with a button-up shirt or polo for boys and a dress or skirt and nice shirt for girls. All parents and family members are invited to join us in the gym at 1:00, and we will have a reception in the cafeteria after the ceremony.
Talent Show Video
Last Day Information
-The last day of school is Thursday, May 31st.
Germs and Bacteria Presentation
On Wednesday, May 30th, Dave Greenberg, an Infectious Disease doctor, will be coming in the morning to talk with 5th grade about germs and bacteria. We will then get to explore the school and hunt for GERMS! We are all super excited to hear him speak.
Board Game Day
5th Grade will be allowed to bring board games and cards on Wednesday, May 30th. We will play these games in the afternoon.
Last Day Information
-Learners can meet at the Cozby Library at 7:00 AM for peanut-free donuts and juice. They will all walk to school together for the last time.
-The 5th Grade Goodbye Walk will be at 12:00. Learners will walk around the school to say goodbye. Parents are welcome to join. We recommend coming a little before noon to find a good spot.
-All learners will be released at 12:15. Please let your child's homeroom teacher know if they are getting home a different way on this day.
Yearbooks
Yearbooks are on sale at the office for $25. You may purchase one with a cash or a check made out to TCE PTO. These will be sold on a first come, first serve basis. We will also allow learners to sign each other's yearbooks on Wednesday, May 30th during game day.
Summer Learning Ideas
2018 Summer Reading Activities
Please click the link for information:
https://tinyurl.com/summerreadingtce2018
License Plate Math
This game involves fraction, multiplication, and division. You chose a “number of the hour,” and your children need to figure out how they can combine numbers they see on passing license plates or even road signs to reach that number. To make it trickier, you can award only one point for each plate, and whoever thinks up the last combination wins the point. For example, if the number of the hour is 15, and the plate reads JR-1435, your son might spot “3×5,” but then your daughter could call out “(1+4)*3.” (link)
License Plate Codes
Keep track of any vanity plates you see. Use a basic alphanumeric cipher to substitute the letter on plates for numbers. (The easiest code is just giving each letter of the alphabet the number of its position in the alphabet, in which A = 1 and Z = 26.) Calculate to see which vanity plate has the highest numerical value. (link)
License Plate Place Value
Have each passenger find a license plate and write down the number, taking out any letters. Ask your child to read each number to you (if she can), and compare them and see whose number is the largest. Ask: Can you identify the number in the tens place in each license plate? What about the hundreds place? Does anyone's plate have a larger place value than hundreds? What is it? Whose license plate number is larger if you add the numbers on each plate together? (link)
Distance and Time
Turn “Are we there yet?” into a learning opportunity. Create paper tickets for each trip and share how many tickets long the trip will be. At even intervals, collect one ticket from your child. This fun exercise gives children a tangible and visual way to understand distance and time. Using different colors allows your child to practice patterns and learn early addition problems or fractions. (link)
Counting Game
Basic counting games might sound dull, but they can be a fun way for your child to practice their counting and addition skills if you throw in a competitive edge. Have your children make predictions about what they think they’ll see on the road and keep points for sightings. For example, each child can choose a color of car and a kind of animal (birds don’t count!), and get a point for each time they see their attributes. Your kids will pit their favorite colors against each other, or maybe it’ll be a battle between horses and deer, but they’ll learn not only to hold cumulative sums in their minds, but they’ll start to notice probability principles, too. (link)
Attribute Finds
Each child chooses a color of car, a make, and an attribute, for example “green,” “Subaru,” and “bumper stickers.” You’ll want to think of a list of “attributes” beforehand, things that are easy to spot and equally probable, like bumper stickers, dents/damage, backseat passengers, or rearview mirror decorations. Every time they see a car that has one of those three attributes, they call it out and claim points. The points scale according to rarity— e.g., you get one point for any green cars, two points for any Subaru’s, and three points for bumper stickers. If a green Toyota with a clean bumper drove by, you’d get one point, and if a white Chevy with a bumper sticker drove by, you’d get three. The real fun comes in when a vehicle has multiple attributes, in which case you add the numbers for the attributes—to use our example, a green Subaru with bumper stickers would be worth six points. You can add all kinds of variations to make it harder and more intellectually involved, like multiplication for multiple attributes, or giving your children the ability to “call” each other’s attributes out first for half points. (link)
