BARFIELD BANNER

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Thank you for your support throughout the month of January! We had an awesome Literacy Week, which created great experiences for our students and families. Thank you to our families that attended Literacy Night. As a school, we felt that this was the most successful one yet! It was wonderful to see students synergizing with their friends and family. We look forward to creating similar events in the future! Quarter 2 Report Cards were sent home last week. Please make sure you review your child’s progress and reach out to their teacher if you have any questions or concerns. Your support from home is very important to ensure each student’s success!

As we move into February, look for information from your child’s teacher regarding Student Led Conferences. SLC is something we do each year in February. It is a great way for parents to come in and hear about their child’s progress- from their child! Student Led Conferences allow the students to share their Leadership Notebooks, which include goal setting and celebrations. Each teacher/grade level schedules these conferences a little differently, so please look for more information to come.

I would like to extend a shout-out to our TBE PTO! While our PTO has always supported our school, this year they have taken their support to a whole new level. Please take the time to read their portion of the Barfield Banner below and look for more upcoming events. TBE appreciates all parent and community support!

While it is over a month away, TBE will be working hard to prepare for our 3rd Annual Leadership Day! This year, we will hold Leadership Day on Friday, March 8th. For those new to TBE, Leadership Day is a day that we celebrate being a Leader in Me School. Our students showcase all the varying aspects of Leader in Me and share our beautiful school with fellow CCPS educators and community members. While Leadership Day is not a parent event, we appreciate your support in ensuring your child participates that day! We will have dozens of leadership opportunities and ALL students will have a role in one way or another. It truly is one of my favorite events and I am looking forward to hearing from the students what their vision is this year.

Thank you again for your support! Looking forward to a great month ahead!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Ledbetter

Roses are red.

Violets are blue.

February is here.

Kindergarten has so much to do!

Our school days include:

Honoring American Presidents

Learning about geography – maps, globes, cardinal directions, landforms, bodies of water

Learning one parent’s phone number and home address

Science activities about changes in matter, sound, and motion

Daily guided practice:

Applying reading strategies to decode unknown text (segmenting, blending, letter sounds)

Story comprehension (characters, setting, plot, conclusion, sequence of events)

Sight word practice

Expand writing skills to include details and punctuation!

Representing, making, and decomposing teen numbers

Identifying and describing 3D shapes

Counting to one hundred (100)

Your Kindergarten Teachers

Dear Parents,

As we wrap up the first half of the school year, it is fun to look back and reflect on all that we have learned and all the fun that we have had!

Before break, we spent some time sharpening the saw with Gingerbread Day and Field Day. The students had a blast planning and decorating their gingerbread houses, as well as showing off all the skills they have learned in P.E. this year during Field Day.

Now that we are back into the swing of things, we are continuing our reading module about American holidays, symbols, and monuments. Students have a great time learning about the history of our country and all the ways we celebrate that history. They have continued to practice locating and using text features to better understand their reading. We also had a chance to read some poetry and identify some of the ways that poets make poems so fun to read! In math, we finished our unit on addition and subtraction word problems and now shifting the focus to place value and how we can show numbers in different ways. Please take time to review the math letters sent home with each unit for great ideas on how to assist your student.

As always, we so appreciate your support at home with nightly reading and any additional homework. We are looking forward to a great second half of the school year!

The First Grade Team

Dear Parents,

We cannot believe we are halfway through the school year already! We have been having so much fun these past few months.

In Language Arts, students are reading informational texts about how weather affects us. Students will further their learning of theme in poetry, author’s purpose, central idea, text features and retelling text to enhance comprehension. In Fundations (Phonics) time, we are starting Unit 9 which will focus on combining r-controlled syllables with er, ir, and ur with other syllable types. We will also start practicing our dictionary skills. As always, please continue to encourage your child to read nightly for 20 minutes. At school they can take quizzes on the books they have read and earn Reading Counts points.

In Math, we will finish learning about measurement and then we will begin learning strategies of decomposing and adjusting addends to add as well as using a number line to add and subtract 3-digit numbers. Please encourage your child to continue improving their math fact fluency with flash cards or simple addition problems with sums to twenty (20).

In Science, we will finish our habitat unit with the students at home diorama projects. We cannot wait to see the amazing creations your kids have made! We will then be starting our life cycle unit.

Thank you, parents, for your continued support at home. We truly appreciate you all so much!

The Second Grade Team

Parents,

We are starting the third quarter out right! Third graders have been hard at work learning new things!

The students are still working on their multiplication fluency in Math. Multiplication is a large part of the 3rd grade math curriculum and the students have been practicing their skip counting chants. Please have your child continue to practice these chants at home. The students also learned how to use strategies to add and subtract multi-digit numbers.

In Reading, we built knowledge about what sports can teach us about working together and began discussing what behaviors help animals survive. Students focused on explaining how text features contribute to the meaning of a text, identifying central ideas, and the development of an author’s purpose. They also worked on summarizing a text to enhance comprehension across genres. In writing, students wrote an expository piece using one or more sources.

In Science, the students learned about basic forms of energy. For Social Studies, students learned about the countries and commonwealths in North America and in the Caribbean.

Please continue to read with your child every night and practice multiplication facts. We appreciate all your help and support at home!

The Third Grade Team

Dear Parents,

We have had a great start to 2024 and are excited about all the learning ahead. It is hard to believe we have settled into the third quarter already. Now, more than ever, it is crucial for students to be in school, all day every day, as much as possible as we head into the push towards Spring state assessments!

Math Unit 12: Decimal Fractions, students are using a variety of representations to help explore decimal fractions. They then apply their knowledge of decimal fractions to write fractions as decimals. Students explore adding and subtracting decimals and solve problems involving money. Please encourage your students to practice their multiplication facts several times a week to build fluency.

Reading this month continues digging deeper into text features, text structures, theme, and central idea along with many other comprehension strategies to help better prepare us for becoming the best reader we can be. Remember fourth graders should be reading for a minimum of 40 minutes every night for homework. Asking your student questions about what they are reading can help build their comprehension skills.

Science in February brings us to the moon, more specifically describing the changes in the observable shape of the moon over the course of about a month. We then move into technology, space research and the economy. Students investigate and report the effects of technology and exploration on the economy and culture of Florida. In Social Studies we will be turning our focus to the Civil War and reconstruction in Florida, and how that affected the industry in Florida.

Leader in Me has us diving deeper into Habit 6: Synergize. Our students have been actively working on and displaying this habit through our “Connect for Success” lessons. We are focusing on valuing other people’s strengths and learning from them. We are looking forward to sharing all that we know about Leader in Me at our first annual Leadership Family Night on February 16th at 4:30. Hope to see you there!

We are so thankful for your continued support at home. We are now more than halfway through the year. We would like to tell our students they are now rising to 5th graders. We are very proud of how hard they are working, but we need to stay focused so we can finish quarter 3 strong.

Thank you,

Your Fourth Grade Team

Hello families!

Happy February! We continue to use our 7 Habits to work individually and to synergize with our classmates each day to accomplish our goals.

In ELA, we will be diving more deeply into informational text relating to topics related to art in America. The fifth graders will learn how to summarize texts by identifying the central idea and the relevant details that support it. When we finish that unit, we will explore poetry, and the students will need to explain how figurative language and other poetic elements work together in a poem. In the later part of the quarter, students will be making inferences to support their comprehension about texts related to Earth’s water.

In Math, please continue working on both multi-digit multiplication and division algorithms at home. In class, we will be working on multiplying and dividing with fractions and mixed numbers over the next two units. Remind students to complete their homework daily.

In Science, we are wrapping up our units on the Human Body and Plant and Animal Organ Structures. Ask your child to explain which organs are at work while eating dinner or running around the park. We’ve had an ongoing discussion about which organ is the most vital for survival. Ask what they think and make them support their claim with evidence. Share your own thoughts! We will embark on our unit of the Galaxy, our Solar System, and Planets! Take time in the evening to observe the night sky together!

In Social Studies, students will use primary and secondary sources to understand history and utilize timelines to identify and discuss significant events surrounding the American Revolution.

Please remind your students to read, practice math flash cards, and study science notes each night!

Thanks,

Your Fifth Grade Team

Parents,

This quarter we are working on using different implements for striking, such as hockey sticks, baseball bats, golf clubs, tennis rackets, and more.

Here’s a few fun photos from our Field Day on December 15th. A huge shout out to our parent volunteers who helped make this day run smooth.

Our Sportsmanship Award winners included:

Kinder – Ms. Richart

1st Grade – Ms. McDuffie

2nd Grade – Ms Heitman

3rd Grade – Ms. Dolan

4th Grade – Ms. Jewett

5th Grade – Ms. Kerens

Deana Richett

Physical Education Teacher

Riched1@collierschools.com

Twitter (X) @PEatTBE

Dear Parents,

Students have been creating beautiful masterpieces over the last two months.

First Grade did some winter projects and learned about MLK:

Second Grade did some winter projects and a project for Literacy Week:

Third Grade made this Ugly Sweater projects based on Britty Em’s black and white dog artwork, all wearing sweaters, from her Forever Home Series:

Fourth Grade used symmetry to make these winter and fall trucks:

Fifth Grade used symmetry to make these winter and fall trucks:

If you haven’t check out your student’s artwork on Artsonia, check out their art here: https://www.artsonia.com/connect/TCCPZFNC

To look at our artist’s work or to see who the Star Student was for each day, follow @beauvaisCCPS on twitter.

February is the time for TOOT, WHISTLE, PLUNK, and BOOM!!! Students are discovering the sounds of the four families of the orchestra. Percussive drums are beating, Ukulele strings are strumming, Recorder winds are blowing, and the buzzing lips are bringing in the Brass. There is a lot of sound coming from the Music Room at this time of year. Also, our talented fifth-grade Honors Chorus members are gearing up for the district concert on February 16th. TBE is so proud of these song leaders who are definitely “Finding Their Voice!”

Craig Greusel

Teacher, Music, Tommie Barfield Elementary

Parents,

In February, K-5 Technology Classes again move into new learning goals this quarter based on the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards for Students: https://iste.org/standards/students . Grades K, 1, & 2 build their “Tech Toolbox” learning different online resources, such as Pebble Go! An interactive encyclopedia for primary students. Grades 3, 4 & 5 further their block coding skills utilizing the code.org website and OzoBot Evo and Dash Robot, respectively. Grades K-1 continue to practice two-handed typing, and grades 2-5 continue to practice 10-finger typing in the District program Typing Club. Please encourage your intermediate grade student to practice at home 3-4 times per week for 10 minutes each to help build these skills.

Jody McCarty

Teacher, Physical Education, Tommie Barfield Elementary

Dear Parents/Guardians:

This column is a continuation of January’s Counseling Corner. There are 10 more Coping Skills that you may wish to teach your children, especially when they are feeling overwhelmed:

1. Use positive self-talk.
2. Say something kind to yourself.
3. Talk to a friend.
4. Talk to an adult.
5. Close your eyes and relax.
6. Say, “I can do this.”
7. Visualize your favorite place.
8. Think of something happy.
9. Think of a pet you love.
10. Think about a family member that you love.

Happy Kindness Month!

Sincerely,

Leanne Hope

School Counselor

Dear Parents,

February 10th, we have our Annual Everblades Hockey fundraiser. This is so much fun for all the family. The game is at 7 p.m. Tickets are $19 each, and $5 for every ticket goes back to PTO. We are excited that Swampy will be visiting TBE on February 6th. This is the link to purchase tickets www.BladesTix.com/TBES

February rolls out our Birthday Celebrations; we have been working on a birthday celebration to offer for your child’s birthday. We can offer popsicles and dress down passes to help make their day special. This will be done through our website. Check out the details. Birthdays 🎉 — Tommie Barfield (tommiebarfieldpto.com)

We hope you got to bid on your favorite item at our 1st Ever Auction at TBE. We Auctioned off 1st Spot in Car rider line for pickup for a month. Weekly birthday name on the Marquee sign and front row seats to the TBE Graduation.

We are still selling our Spirit Wear. Those ‘Tommie’ Sweaters and tie dye shirts you have been seeing around is our new Merch. Check out the link to order some Shop — Tommie Barfield (tommiebarfieldpto.com)

Lastly, Since February is the month of love, we will be Selling Assorted Carnations this year for Valentines Day. Feb 13th & 14th in the car rider line and bus loop before school. This year we will have a plastic sleeve for each flower to help minimize breakages. Carnations will be selling for $2 each.

Thank you for all your support, it is Greatly Appreciated!

From Your PTO Board.