April 29th - May 3rd

Calendar

April 27th - LAST Day to Order Food for Spring Family Picnic

See details below!

May 1st - Author Visit

See details below!

May 2nd - TCE Spring Family Picnic (6:00-7:30 p.m.) & Kindergarten Round-up (5:30-6:15 p.m.)

May 7th - CISD Parent Budget Meeting - Zoom @ 6:00 p.m.

 

May 20th - Field Day

Mark your calendars and make sure you have a CISD background check on file!

May 24th - Last Day of School & Early Release @12:30 p.m.

Announcements

Terrific Texans

Throughout the week our learners at TCE work hard at going above and beyond! When any teacher catches them standing out in a positive way they are awarded a Terrific Texan. At the end of the week, there is a school-wide drawing and 3 winners are chosen from each grade level.

Congratulations to our Terrific Texans this week:

Don't Forget - Saturday is the deadline to order food for the TCE Spring Family Picnic!

We are excited to have In-N-Out Food Truck join us at our TCE Spring Picnic on Thursday, May 2nd from 6:00-7:30 PM. Pre-order is required. They have several options to choose from, including a vegetarian option. Below is the link to pre-order by Saturday, April 27th. The meals are $5 each and include a grilled cheese, hamburger, or cheeseburger; chips; and a soft drink. Our Town Center PTO receives 75% of the sale proceeds, and the remaining 25% goes to In-N-Out's Slave2Nothing Foundation (In-N-Out Burger created the Slave 2 Nothing® Foundation to open paths to freedom for those who are enslaved by any person or substance).

Parent Panorama Survey Deadline Extended - We'd love for you to participate! 

We would love parent feedback from our TCE families. The district Panorama Survey window has been extended, and we hope to have more families participate. Click below to access the survey. We do ask that you fill out one specific to Town Center if you have learners at multiple schools for us to receive feedback on your Town Center experience.

(linked here)

TCE Hosts Virtual District Budget Chat for Parents - May 7th 6:00 PM

We invite all Town Center Families to join us Tuesday, May 7th at 6:00 p.m. via Zoom to hear from our CISD Superintendent Dr. Hunt, Chief Financial Officer Diana Sircar, and Chief Communications Officer Angela Brown. They will share more about our district budget and answer any questions you may have. We'd love for you all to join us!

Zoom Link to Join the Meeting:

Zoom Linked Here

Meeting ID: 910 1905 6081

Passcode: 597204

Author Visit - May 1st

Wednesday, May 1st, author-illustrator James Burks will visit TCE. If you would like him to sign one of his books for you, please purchase a book from the retailer of your choice and deliver it to Mrs. Mancuso by Monday, April 29th.

Summer Sack Hunger

iPad Expectations - NEW iPads

Tennis Shoes for PE & Extended Specials Day (CTT)

Second-grade specials are split into color houses. Red folders have a schedule of your child's color house specials rotation. Please help ensure your child wears appropriate shoes on PE days and Move & Groove (Fridays). Additionally, every other Tuesday second grade has extended specials during CTT. The dates are outlined for the remainder of the year below. Thank you for your help in making sure your child is safely dressed for the gym! 

2nd Grade CTT Dates for 2024: January 30th, February 13th, February 27th, March 19th, April 2nd, April 16th, April 30th, May14th.

Smart Watches

We have noticed that more and more of our students have begun wearing smartwatches 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 to their iPads.) This includes parents. Additionally, smartwatches are only to be used to tell time during the day. Please help us in reinforcing this expectation.  If you need to contact 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 (or use any additional feature beyond telling time), they will receive one warning. After that one warning, we will ask for those devices to stay at home.

Lunches

Below are a few links regarding lunches:

- Breakfast & Lunch Menu

- Free & Reduced Lunch Application

- Check Your Lunch Application Status

- Create Your Child's Online Lunch Account

-Lunch Menus can be found here

TCE Principal Newsletter

Each week Ms. Martin sends out her Town Center Principal Newsletter. Please make sure to check out all the important campus-wide announcements in the Principal Newsletter. 

April 26th

What are we learning?

Math Workshop - In Math, learners will find the length of objects using concrete models for standard units of length. Learners will determine the length of an object to the nearest marked unit using rules, yardsticks, meter sticks, or measuring tapes. Learners will also describe (using academic vocabulary) the inverse relationship between the size of the unit and the number of units needed to equal the length of objects.

Reading Workshop - In Reading, learners will look at character feelings using the mentor text Library Lion. They will also work in various reading rotations with a focus on homophones and story problems & solutions.

Each Thursday we go to the library to read. Make sure to bring your books back so you can return and check out new books each week! 

Writing Workshop- In writing, learners will finish up their current writing pieces and take it through the publishing process.

Social Studies- In Social Studies, learners will finish up the production of their products in preparation for our big Market Day. As our unit concludes, they will have a chance to participate as both a producer and a consumer during Market Day and will also need to work within a budget. 

Science- In Science, learners will investigate how seasonal changes affect organisms' behavior.