Parents, TCES is committed to ensuring that all students receive the best education that they can. In order to do this we need students to regularly come to school. Please review the information below to learn more about what the importance of your child's regular attendance can have on their ability to learn.
DID YOU KNOW?
ā¢ Starting in preschool and kindergarten, too many absences can cause children to fall behind in school.
ā¢ Missing 10%, or about 2 days each month over the course of a school year, can make it harder to learn to read.
ā¢ Students can still fall behind if they miss just one or two days every few weeks.
ā¢ Being late to school may lead to poor attendance.
ā¢ Absences and tardiness can affect the whole classroom if the teacher has to slow down learning to help children catch up.
Attending school regularly helps children feel better about schoolāand themselves.
Start building this habit in preschool so they learn right away that going to school on time, everyday is important. Eventually good attendance will be a skill that will help them succeed in high school and college. Please, help ensure that your students attend school daily.
Rey Gonzalez
TCES Principal
It is so hard to believe that we have completed a quarter of our school year already!! In kindergarten we have had so much fun learning that time has flown by.
In reading, we continued to practice letter recognition/sounds, rhyming, blending words together, and added four new sight words. We will continue all of that for the month of October, adding new words every week and continue with phonics and phonemic awareness.
In math we practiced numbers 0-10 for the month of September. In October we will compare numbers 0-10. Please be on the lookout for information about classroom Halloween parties. Thank you so much for your continued support of your childās education.
Kindergarten Team
Hello all! We are focusing on leveling up on our Istations monthly assessments! Please encourage your child to work on their decodables that are sent home throughout the week. This will help with each area in Istation such as Reading Comprehension, Phonemic Awareness, Vocabulary and Letter Recognition. Our focus for math in the month of October is Data/Graphing and Addition & Subtraction. š
We need:
Each child needs to bring 1 bag of candy for a class donation for Halloween.
Clorox Wipes
Glue Sticks
Markers
Reminders:
Spelling Lists will be sent home every Monday!
Please do not bring toys to school!
Wear tennis shoes on PE days!
Williams (Mon)
Masce (Thurs)
Baca (Fri)
Vickers (Tues)
Trick or Treating ā We will be Trick or Treating on Oct. 31st please be sure to turn in your childās permission slip.
COSTUMES: No weapons, face paint that covers the entire face or masks.
We hope everyone had a restful and fun fall break! We are finishing off the first semester this week and report cards will be coming home soon.
In math we are continuing to work on addition fluency, properties of place value, and adding within 100 using various strategies. Please continue to help your kiddos practice their addition facts at home for at least 5-10 minutes a night.
In reading, we are continuing to work on reading every day. Some things that we are practicing this month are new and old letter sounds, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, vocabulary, and working in small reading groups. We are getting ready to take our October Istation assessment and see all of the growth we have made.
In Science, we finished up a fun unit learning about the three states of matter before break. This month we will be working on social studies by learning all about local community events and holidays from around the world. We will also be learning about the life cycle of a pumpkin for science.
Other important info:
- Any parents willing to donate the following to classrooms would be greatly appreciated: Clorox/Lysol wipes, Kleenex, and classroom snacks.
- Please remind students to wear tennis shoes and appropriate clothes on PE days: Jankowski-Monday, Klein-Tuesday, J. Tolley- Thursday, M. Tolley- Friday
- We will be going Trick or Treating on October 31, permission slips and more info will be going home soon! Costumes are allowed to be worn to school but must be appropriate.
The roof construction project for the gym is now complete. PE classes will use both the gym and the outside fields for the month of October. This month, we will be working on Soccer skills, drills, and games. Please remember to send your child with appropriate footwear, water bottles, and sunscreen on their PE day of the week. Also, the gnats and mosquitoes have appeared to die down, so that is no longer a concern. Have a wonderful month!
Chase Brownfield
Hi Families!
Happy Fall!
During the second quarter, students will be refining art-making techniques as well as engaging in many art projects. We will be exploring a variety of art media. Children will be working on collage, bookmaking, drawing and painting.
We always love donations of egg cartons! When students work with tempera or acrylic paint, egg cartons are used as paint palettes. We throw them out after use, so we go through quite a lot of them.
As always, please reach out with questions or concerns or ideas. We welcome your input about current and future art projects!
Be well,
Thea Storz
Rhonda Nickles
Art Supplies to have at home:
Crayons, markers, glue, scissors, watercolor paints, paper, modeling clay, model magic clay.
Fun art websites:
https://archived.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/metkids/
https://www.sfmoma.org/visit/sfmoma-for-kids/
Hello from music! Students have been exploring high and low pitches through singing and playing. We discovered both low and high notes on the xylophone and engaged in a fun game called ābounce high, bounce lowā to enhance our singing abilities at various pitches.
In October, students will start rehearsing for our Veteranās Day program, scheduled for Monday, November 11th.
Abby Harrison
Bookshelf Bulletin with Mrs. Q
Hello TCES families! Happy Fall! In the library we have started our Tiger Reading Challenge. Please encourage your student to read their library books at home.
Our Fall book fair is coming up in November. We will be sending home flyers. Please consider coming with your young reader to see all the great books we will have available.
If your student has any overdue library books at home, please get those turned in.
Don't forget to read to/with your students at home to help nurture their love of reading.
Welcome back!
Hello, my name is Ms. Lacey for those curious and still learning as well! This is my third year as the computer teacher at TCES and I enjoy being here. Iām excited to be back learning new technology knowledge with both friendly, familiar and new faces!
To start kinder off, they will be learning how to work as well as login independently. First and second will touch base with their independent work, then they will work towards their routine with typing and coding activities.
Looking forward to a great year of learning!
Happy October students and families!
Thank you to those who have returned parental forms for your child. I am excited to have some familiar
faces and some new faces.
In the classroom students are getting to know each other and classroom rules and expectations.
Emergent Readers (1st grade) have been practicing phonics and phonemic awareness along with
reading fluency through poems and high frequency words. As we move throughout the month, we will
transition into group read-alouds and vocabulary.
Developing readers (3rd and 4th grade) have been participating in group read-alouds, vocabulary and
fluency. After fall break they will transition into GIRP (guided independent reading practice).
It has been an amazing start to the school year, and I look forward to lots of reading happening soon!
Mary Reuland