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Yearbook Pictures
Yearbook Sales
The Yearbook deadline has been extended! See info below to purchase.
Accessing Your Son/Daughter's Schoology
As we shared at Curriculum Night, Schoology is a great resource to use to learn more about what we are doing in class. If you login to your son/daughter's account (or ask them to login and show you), you'll be able to see resources added by teachers, assignments, pretests and quizzes, and discussions. Each of us uses Schoology differently, but it would be beneficial for each class of parents to visit from time to time. If you'd like to access your own account (rather than logging in as your child), you can use this site to learn more about how to do it.
The 5th grade room parents have created Google photo folders where you can start uploading photos of your learners with their TCE friends to be used for the 5th Grade Slideshow at the end of the year. The ideal photos to upload are of groups of 3 or more and have Town Center 5th graders in them. Please use the links below to upload photos to your homeroom teacher's album.
5A Schaff: https://photos.app.goo.gl/MKzHHRr5ZM539zW89
5B Foroodi: https://photos.app.goo.gl/EKppkUJuzWkkVW23A
5C Natherson: https://photos.app.goo.gl/xb4Lyjm3zVrnUhGGA
5D Taylor: https://photos.app.goo.gl/NJgD6S8Ef7JyYKh49
The 5th grade room parents have created Google photo folders where you can start uploading photos of your learners with their TCE friends to be used for the 5th Grade Slideshow at the end of the year. The ideal photos to upload are of groups of 3 or more and have Town Center 5th graders in them. Please use the links below to upload photos to your homeroom teacher's album.
5A Schaff: https://photos.app.goo.gl/MKzHHRr5ZM539zW89
5B Foroodi: https://photos.app.goo.gl/EKppkUJuzWkkVW23A
5C Natherson: https://photos.app.goo.gl/xb4Lyjm3zVrnUhGGA
5D Taylor: https://photos.app.goo.gl/NJgD6S8Ef7JyYKh49
*Thank you so much to the wonderfully attentive parents that pointed out that the image above had the dates messed up. We have updated and it now shows the correct dates.
Our parent meeting will be Thursday, January 23rd.
This meeting will be really informative as we'll go through packing lists, tentative schedules, classes, meals, and specifics about the camp grounds. We really hope you'll be able to attend. (We anticipate the meeting lasting no longer than 45 minutes.)
As you know, we have a payment plan for our Sky Ranch trip. You can view the information letter here. The second payment of $50 was due Friday, November 1st. The third payment of $50 will be due February 2nd. You may pay by cash, check, or online via this link. Please contact your homeroom teacher or Mrs. Ford, the Assistant Principal, if you would like to discuss payment plans.
Math
In math this week, we will continue to work on our Expressions and Equations unit. We are exploring prime and composite, simplifying expressions, and graphing.
Science
In science this week, we have started our unit on renewable and nonrewable resources. Ask your learner about our project where we are researching a type of alternative energy and giving reasons why it would be the best fit for running the energy in our school!
We have begun our poetry unit where learners are annotating and analyzing different types of poetry. Learners have been answering questions about poetry in a Numbers Work Flow that we will continue to work on.
Social Studies
We have started our unit over the U.S. Constitution. We began learning about the Articles of Confederation and the Preamble, and we will move into learning how the Constitution was created.
As a reminder, all of the activities listed below are optional resources for you and your family.
Math
Reading & Language Arts
We would love for your son/daughter to spend time reading at home! They can read any text that catches their interest. We are currently in our Poetry Unit, so any poetry books they are interested in would be great.
Here are a couple of websites that offer current event articles targeted towards preteens and teens. With your guidance, they could choose articles of interest to read.
January 20th: No School - MLK Holiday
January 23rd: Sky Ranch Parent Meeting at 5:30pm in the TCE Cafeteria
January 31st: 5th Grade Growth and Development talk (more info to come via a handout)
Our fifth graders had the opportunity to hear from many different speakers about health and wellness today. Please see the image below from Kasey Kemp and Monica Champagne, two of our Digital Learning Coaches from CISD, who spoke to the learners today about Digital Health.
Here are some pictures from the week:
