Friday, March 7th - Olympic Day - Details below! No Family Lunch Friday on Olympic Day
Friday, March 7th - Kona Ice Truck at TCE - Details below!
Monday, March 10th-Friday, March 14th - Book Fair - Volunteer Sign-up Linked Here
Thursday, March 13th - Open House 5:30-6:30 at TCE
Friday, March 14th - Shamrock Shuffle - 2nd grade @ 9:15 (during specials)
Monday, March 17th-Friday, March 21st - Spring Break - No School
Friday, March 21st - LAST DAY to order a Yearbook - Order Link Here code: 14305225
Tuesday, March 25th - Spring Creek BBQ Spirit Night - 5:00-8:00 Address below!
Terrific Texans
Throughout the week our learners at TCE work hard at going above and beyond! When any teacher catches them standing out for exhibiting our character trait of the week 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.
TCE Olympic Day - Friday, March 7th
TCE families are invited to come cheer on your child and their class during TCE Olympic Day! All visitors must check in at the front office and wear their visitor sticker. 2nd Grade will participate in Olympic Day from 11:00-12:30!
Gloves are highly recommended for the Tug-of-War event. If kiddos doesn't have their own pair of gloves you can bring a pair of socks to put over their hands.
*Due to schedule changes throughout the day, there will not be Family Lunch Friday on Friday, March 7th.*
2A will wear any YELLOW shirt
2B will wear any GREEN shirt
2C will wear any RED shirt
2D will wear any BLUE shirt
Kona Ice at TCE! - Friday, March 7th
We are excited to have the Kona Ice Truck at TCE on Friday, March 7th. All students will have the option to purchase a shaved ice treat from the Kona Ice Truck after lunch. If you would like your child to purchase one, please send cash with your child based on the price options below. Worried you may forget and miss out? You are welcome to send money with your child any day next week!
*All Kona Ice flavors are dairy-free, gluten-free and peanut-free. Sugar-free and dye-free flavors are available upon request.
Coppell Cares
Coppell Cares offers the Weekend Backpack Program for families who have financial need. Each Friday, learners receive a bag of snacks for the weekend. The goal of the program is to help eliminate food insecurity for children. They provide nutritious breakfast, lunch, and snack items to eligible CISD children (and siblings). This weekly food program helps feed children over the weekend during the school year when they are not receiving meals at school.
If you would like your child(ren) to participate in this program, please complete the online application below. If you would prefer a paper copy to be sent home with your child, please email TCE's counselor, Kelly Matlock at kmatlock@coppellisd.com. Families may sign up for this program at any time during the school year. Deliveries will begin Friday, September 6th. Deliveries will be suspended for Thanksgiving week, Winter Break, and Spring Break.
ParentSquare - Download the App Today!
Math Workshop - In math workshop, learners will begin to partition objects into equal parts and name the parts, including halves, fourths, and eighths, using words. Learners will explain that the more fractional parts used to make a whole, the smaller the part; and the fewer the fractional parts, the larger the part. Learners will identify examples and non-examples of halves, fourths, and eights.
Reading Workshop - We will continue our study of series books in our book clubs this week, comparing and contrasting our main character's adventures in our books! Since we had such great participation in our February Reading challenge, be on the lookout for a new one starting next week!
Writing Workshop - I can revise and edit my opinion writing. In Grammar we will be learning about prepositional phrases and applying them in our writing.
Social Studies - In Social Studies, we will study natural and man-made resources!
Science - In Science, learners will define characteristics of tornadoes, hurricanes, and thunderstorms, and talk about what type of severe weather is most likely to occur in our area.
- Ask your child how they can model a division situation such as 15 shared equally into 5 groups is 3 or 15 divided into group of 3 makes 5 equal groups.
- What is a meteorologist? Why do they measure, record, and graph the temperature and precipitation?
- Ask your child to tell you the differences between the 7 continents of the Earth or what is different about the 5 oceans of the world.
- We have started our new unit this week over opinion writing! Ask your child what topic they chose and have them tell you why it is important.
- Working on reading high frequency words fluently is a great way to build reading skills! Check out the lists we work with and challenge your learner to practice them using these activities!
Book Clubs!
