Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Week of February 19th-23rd

                  

  • February 19th: Bad Weather Day-NO SCHOOL
  • February 21st:  Career and Steam Dress Up Day- See flyer below
  • February 23rd:  Heart Hustle- 11:35
  • February 26th- Steam Night- 5:00-7:00

Language Arts

We are officially wrapping up our historical fiction unit.  The students will be doing a project about the character traits of one of the main characters.



Math

 This week in math, This week we are starting our unit on fractions.  


  • Relate decimals and fractions

  • Generate Equivalent Fractions

  • Compare and Order Fractions

  • Add and Subtract Fractions with like denominators

Social Studies   

In Social Studies this week, we will learn about the impact of the United States and Mexican War.  We will also begin learning the branches of governement.


Science:

  This week, we will continue our unit on weather. We will be researching extreme weather and creating a presentation.






  Please make sure that you are reading the Principal Newsletter each week as it will have more information about events and important reminders that we will not have in our BLOG.  Please click the picture below and it will take you to the newsletter.



Watches and Phones
We have noticed that more and more of our students have been wearing smart watches to school, so we want to take a minute to be clear about expectations for those devices. 

Students are not permitted to communicate on their personal devices during the school day. (The same rule applies for their iPads.) This includes parents. Please help us in reinforcing this expectation.  If you need to get in touch with your son/daughter during the day, please email your child's teacher or call the front office. 

We have talked about these expectations with the students. We've let them know that if they are using their smart watch, cell phone, or other personal devices to communicate, they will receive one warning. After that one warning, we will ask for those devices to stay at home.

Healthy Heart Challenge


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Join the Kids Heart Challenge at Town Center Elementary! Our goal is to rally all families to join our team, learn Hands-Only CPR, build awareness, and raise $10,000 for the American Heart Association. During specials time earlier this week, our learners had the chance to learn about the Kids Heart Challenge.


Ready to kick off? Sign up, make a lifesaving donation, and start Finn’s Mission by downloading the free app for iPhone or Android, or registering online: Click here to register online.


Every student who raises $100 is invited to a pizza party with Coach Hayes.

Every student who raises $200 gets to SLIME Coach Hayes!


Want to see why students are buzzing about the Kids Heart Challenge? Watch the Official Kick-Off Video!


Yearbooks
Our yearbook sale is now open! Each year we have a Town Center Yearbook that highlights photos from every class, school events, and staff. It is a great item to have to look back on memories from the year, and we even have a yearbook signing party in May. If you are interested in purchasing a yearbook, please see the graphic below for the different purchasing options. As a reminder, the TCE Yearbook cost WAS NOT included in the TCE Trail Pass. If you would like a yearbook for your child(ren), you will need to purchase using the website link below.


Our yearbook committee would also love your help in submitting photos for the yearbook. As you attend campus events, if you have any photos you would like to share, see below for information on uploading them to our committee.

Dads Club


Thank you to the dads that have taken time at TCE on Fridays to volunteer. For clarification, any amount of time you can give would be great. If you only have time to be there at drop-off or for a specific time frame, we would still love for you to sign-up.


As a reminder, we are having "Dads Club on Campus Day" at TCE. This is currently scheduled for Fridays, and they are able to sign-up to spend time at TCE supporting the campus and classrooms in different ways. This may include:

  • Welcoming students to school during morning arrival
  • Helping in classrooms, the office, or PE as requested by teachers
  • Joining staff for lunchroom duty
  • Re-shelving books in the library
  • Car line dismissal and high fives to end the day


**In order for the campus to coordinate scheduling, please sign-up at least a week in advance.

Click Here to Participate in a Friday Dads Club on Campus Day.


If you would like to sign up to receive Dads Club Communications, you can email your contact information to Nick Walther at tceptodadsclub@gmail.com.


iPads

TCE 4th graders should come to school each day with their iPad and charger. Please ensure your child charges his/her iPad each evening. Your child should also check periodically to ensure his/her iPad's software is up to date (settings --> general --> software update). 
Learners will continue filling in a "Charge Bank" to keep track of their daily iPad battery charge.  We hope this helps learners to become responsible for making sure their iPad is fully charged and in their backpacks each morning.  Below, is the daily tracker they will fill out each morning when they arrive to school.


Please remember school issued iPads are for school use only.  We do random iPad checks every few weeks. We reminded the students daily that school issued iPads are not for personal photography, books, or communicating with friends or parents via emails or chats, or watching videos on you tube that were not assigned by their teacher. It would help us out if you could reinforce this home.



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