Please see the Google calendar embedded above with important dates and reminders.
Important Reminders:
- The next Sky Ranch payment of $50 is due Friday, March 1st.
PTO Dad's Club Movie Night will take place Friday, February 22nd from 6-8pm in the TCE Gym.
Book Fair Volunteers Needed!
- The Spring Book Fair will take place the week of March 4th-8th.
- We also need volunteers to help set-up and tear down on February 27th and March 8th.
- View this link to sign up for an available time.
Photos for the TCE Yearbook
The TCE Yearbook Committee would love your help in adding additional photos to the yearbook. The deadline to upload pictures for the yearbook is March 1st!
For more information about things happening at TCE, please make sure to read Ms. Martin's latest Parent Newsletter by clicking the link here.
Friendship Friday in Fifth Grade
As a reminder, we will be having "Friendship Friday" every other Friday during lunch. Our next Friendship Friday lunch will be March
Sky Ranch Updates
Sky Ranch Payments
The final Sky Ranch payment of $50 will be due Friday, March 1st. Visit this link to pay by credit card. As of March 1st, the full balance of $200 should be paid. If you have not yet made any payments, or your balance is less than $150, please contact your son/daughter's teacher to provide an update on your plan for payments. As always, if you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to ask.
Important Sky Ranch Dates
- All Sky Ranch Paperwork is due April 10th.
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A Peek into Our Classrooms
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| Using Hexagonal Thinking to see how our vocabulary words connect with each other in math. |
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| Using Hexagonal Thinking to see how our vocabulary words connect with each other in math. |
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Using Hexagonal Thinking to see how our vocabulary words connect with each other in math.
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| Rainy weather is perfect when we're learning more about the water cycle. |
Curriculum Updates:
Math
The learners have begun our next unit over coordinate planes. At the end of this unit, the leaners will be able to describe the key attributes of the coordinate plane, including perpendicular number lines (x and y axes) where the intersection (origin) of the two lines meet with zero on each number line and the given point (0, 0), along with how to graph an ordered pair (with positive numbers only) on the coordinate plane. They will also be able to generate a numerical pattern when given a rule in the form y = ax or y = x + a. This unit will also reinforce information learned in our previous unit, expressions & equations.
Click this link for the weekly math homework.
Click this link for the weekly math homework.
Science
The weather got the best of us again last week! This week in science, we will be continuing our unit over patterns in the natural world. Exploring the earth's movements around the sun. We will be tracking our shadows outside and adding the video to our Flipgrid. We will then be investigating what causes day and night. You can continue to follow along with our learning on Flipgrid! To view the Flipgrid, visit https://flipgrid.com/tceconnect and enter the password Patterns!
Social Studies
This week in Social Studies, learners will begin reviewing Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion. Major topics covered in this unit were identifying significant events and concepts associated with U.S. territorial expansion, including the Louisiana Purchase, the expedition of Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny.
Reading & Language Arts
This week we will finish up our poetry unit. The learners have become masters at identifying sound effects in poetry. Ask them about how alliteration, onomatopoeia, line break, and word choice can affect the way a poem sounds. We've also learned about how poets use poetic license to improve their poems.
In writing, we will continue working on publishing our poetry books. This week we are rewriting popular songs. We'll also use a poem called, "If I Were in Charge of the World" to write our own versions. We will look forward to sharing our poetry books with you when we're finished!
In spelling, we will continue to study Greek and Latin roots. So far we've learned about the meaning of the following word parts: tele, trans, port, script, meter, graph, and phon.
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