First Grade Blog 2024-2025: Feb. 10

Calendar

February 11th - All valentine cards due to school

February 11th & 12th - Math/Reading MAP tests. Please have iPads fully charged!

February 13th - Valentine's Party 2:00 - all parents are welcome!

February 13th - TCE Family Valentine's Dance 6-8pm

February 14th - No School

February 17th - No School

February 21st- Last day for Kids Heart Challenge

February 21st - Heart Hustle run during specials (12:30)

March 7 - TCE Olympics

March 17-21 - SPRING BREAK (no school)

March 28 - Report cards emailed home

Weekly Announcements

Don't forget that all valentine cars are due at school on February 11th so that each child can deliver their cards to friends! If you need an extra class list, please email your child's homeroom teacher.

What Will We Be Learning Next Week?

Language Arts

Next week we will be taking the MAP test for reading. 1A and 1B will take it on Tuesday and 1C will take it on Wednesday. Please make sure your child's iPad is fully charged.

Phonics/Grammar - We will not be having a new spelling rule next week. We will be reviewing the vowel team rules that we have learned so far.

Reading - Woohoo!!! We will be adding chapter books to our book in a bags next week!

Math

We will use pictures or objects to find the difference between two amounts in a word problem. We will also continue solving word problems by writing an equation to find the solution. Additionally, we will explore fact families and how knowing one fact can help us solve another.

Fun math videos to watch with your child:

Number Practice

Help your child practice counting to 120 by ones, twos, fives, and tens to reinforce their number skills! Let's work together to build a strong foundation in math that will help us in all areas of life. Happy counting!

Science

We will work on classifying things into living and nonliving groups. Students should be able to explain and justify why an object is living or nonliving.

Social Studies

We will wrap up our research on famous historical figures and then wrap up this unit by studying George Washington and Abe Lincoln and the reason we recognize presidents day.

Great Information

To Know For The Year

School begins at 7:40. If your child arrives after 7:40 they will need to go to the office and receive a tardy pass. Please make sure your child arrives in the building before 7:40 each day.

Please make sure to look at your child's daily behavior calendar. Our goal is for the children to color in the day with the appropriate behavior. Many times, the children forget. If it is not colored, please assume it is a great day. If you see a teacher comment, we would love for you to have a conversation with your child about what happened to receive the comment. Please know many warnings were given before a comment was written. :-)
Please review and take out all papers from their take-home folder each day.

Teacher Emails

The best way to get in touch with your teacher is by email. Please email the teacher that can best answer the subject of your question. If it is a general question, please email your homeroom teacher.

1A Mrs. Vincenzo (language arts teacher) lvincenzo@coppellisd.com

1B Mrs. Brown (science and social studies teacher) ebrown@coppellisd.com

1C Mrs. Sork (math teacher) msork@coppellisd.com

School Lunches

District guidelines limit lunchroom visitors at the elementary level to parents, immediate family members with written permission from a parent, and campus mentors. Immediate family members are defined as the student’s parents/step-parents, siblings, grandparents, or any person residing in the home. A parent can list the person(s) who have permission to have lunch for the entire school year. If anyone other than the parent(s) listed as guardians in our district e-school system is eating with the child, we will need written documentation of your approval. Please fill out a form in the office for any visitors other than who is listed as guardians in your child's record.

Dismissal

If you change the way your child goes home at the end of the day, please email your teacher. Children will be sent home their "usual" way unless we hear directly from a parent. Also, please make sure that the teacher has responded to your email to ensure that we got the message. If you don't hear back from your teacher, please call the office to let them know about dismissal changes.

Birthday Treats

We will celebrate your child’s birthday with a spotlight on our daily school-wide announcements and a goody bag from the school that contains several items, including a coupon for a free treat in the cafeteria. If you choose to send birthday food treats to school, they will need to be store bought and in their original packaging that lists the ingredients. Please send the treats to our school nurse. She will look over the ingredients and then deliver them to your child's homeroom class. These treats will be eaten at school. Please have all treats brought to school first thing in the morning.

Volunteering

If you think you would like to volunteer at TCE this year, please fill out the volunteer background check. The sooner the better! You can find information about how to fill out the form and the actual form on our TCE webpage. This needs to be done each. year. You will need a background check to help in the classroom, field trips, field day, etc.

Pics from the Week