First Grade Blog 2024-2025: Feb. 17

Calendar

February 17th - No School

February 19th - Spring Creek BBQ Fundraiser

February 20th- STEAM Career Dress Up Day (see below)

February 21st- Last day for Kids Heart Challenge

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

March 7 - TCE Olympics

March 10 - 14 - TCE Book Fair in the library

March 13 - Open House 5:30

March 17-21 - SPRING BREAK (no school)

March 28 - Report cards emailed home

Weekly Announcements

What Will We Be Learning Next Week?

Language Arts

Phonics/Grammar - We will continue to review our vowel teams in spelling.

Reading - Next week we will begin our non-fiction reading unit. We will learn how to read and understand non-fiction text features.

Writing - We will also begin our non-fiction writing unit. We will learn how to differentiate between writing our opinions and writing facts.

Math

We will use objects, pictures, and number sentences to solve action and comparison word problems. Additionally, we will practice skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s up to 120. This practice will help us prepare for our upcoming coin math unit.

Number Practice

Help your child practice counting backward by ones. :-)

Science

We will start to look at and create food chains. The purpose of this learning objective is for students to understand that organisms depend on each other. We also learn that when creating and illustrating food chains the arrows represent that energy is being transferred.

Social Studies

We will dive into needs and wants. This is a basic concept that connects to science and the needs of living things. It will also help us transition into studying goods and services the following week.

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.

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