TECEC TIMES
Where the journey begins......January 15, 2025
Dear TECEC families,
Believe it or not, TECEC and our elementary schools are already planning for the 2025-2026 school year and it will be here before we know it! If your child is currently in one of our three-year-old classrooms, or was born on or after September 1, 2020 and is in one of our four-year-old classrooms, we invite you to secure their spot for the 2025-2026 school year at TECEC. To do so, please complete the TECEC Returning Student Questionnaire by March 14, 2025. After this date, registration will open to new students.
Children with an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) currently enrolled in our three-year-old classrooms, as well as those born after September 1, 2020, who have opted not to attend kindergarten, will automatically continue their enrollment at TECEC for the 2025-2026 school year as long as you shared with us your intent. For children with IEPs transitioning to kindergarten, a bridging meeting will be scheduled at your elementary school in the coming months. We will contact you soon with the date and time. Additionally, all children in our four-year-old program who will be starting kindergarten in the 2025-2026 school year must complete the online registration process. To register please click here. More information can also be read below.
If you have family or friends who are interested in enrolling a child in TECEC for the upcoming school year, the waitlist can be accessed here.
Please feel free to reach out to me, your child's teacher or main office if you have any questions about this process or any other topic.
Warm regards,
Principal
Happy New Year from Art!! We started the month of December with adorable paper plate snowpeople, using mixed media (yarn, buttons, paper and googly eyes!), and continuing our glueing/collage skills! We created paper plate polar bears as well, adding pom-poms into the mix! The students have been exploring facial expressions and art media, getting creative with their designs. We then explored tissue paper and how to glue this challenging media, making gorgeous backgrounds to our collaged penguins, and also learning art terms! Some classes created Menorahs with shiny gold paper and learned how to draw fire! We finished off the month creating arctic foxes out of paper plates then sponge painting a glittery showy/ice scene onto their black background, and creating snowy houses with TONS of personality with paint sticks!
Thank you for the chance to get creative with these students. They are learning a lot and having so much fun!
-Miss Anna
Winter is here. Please make sure your child is wearing all of their outdoor layers, including jackets, gloves/mittens, hats, and scarves. If your child wears their winter/rain boots to school, please send sneakers for them to change into for safety in school. Please label all of these items so your child will wear the same items home.
We celebrated Hibernation Day last week. Our classrooms learned all about animals that hibernate and we wore our pajamas to school! All month long we’ll be learning about snow, ice, snow people and cold weather animals. January 20 is Martin Luther King Jr. day. We’ll be honoring Martin Luther King in our classroom by reading The Peace Book by Todd Parr. We focus on teaching our students ways to spread kindness, joy and peace to others. The Peace Book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3fcJ1P4OcY
We have been very busy learning letters and their sounds. We began the writing component of the Fundations curriculum this week. This not only teaches letter formation but also reviews letter and sound identification through a multi-sensory approach. This is also another important skill to reinforce at home please practice identification of letters and sounds.
Our bridges curriculum theme is mittens, scarves and cold weather this month. We’re continuing to focus on counting, number identification and learning about the concept of pairs of items.
Winter weather is here! Please take a moment to review TECEC's inclement weather guidelines and adjusted schedules here to stay prepared for potential snow or any other disruptions to the school day.
Outlined below is our abbreviated program schedule in the event of a delayed opening or early dismissal due to inclement weather or other emergencies. This may change depending on the circumstances of the day.
90 MINUTE DELAYED OPENING
• AM Preschool 10:00 AM entrance (Special Education/PIP Classes/Half Day Head Start)
• Full Day Head Start-10:00 AM entrance
• Full Day Students/SRP-10:00 AM entrance
TWO HOUR DELAYED OPENING
• No AM Preschool (Special Education/PIP Classes/Half Day Head Start)
• Full Day Students/SRP-10:30 AM entrance
• Full Day Head Start-10:30 AM entrance
TWO & HALF HOUR DELAYED OPENING
• No AM Preschool (Special Education/PIP Classes/Half Day Head Start)
• Full Day Head Start – 11:00 AM entrance
• Full Day Students/SRP- 11:00 AM entrance
EARLY DISMISSAL
• AM Preschool (Special Education/PIP Classes) 8:30 – 11:00 AM
• PM Preschool (Special Education/PIP Classes) No Session
• Specialized Resource Program 8:30 – 11:00 AM
• All Head Start classrooms 8:20 – 11:00 AM
We will begin registering students for the Class of 2038 on Wednesday, January 8. If you are looking to register your child for the 2025-2026 school year, please click here for all the information you need.
Children Turning 5 ON or BEFORE September 1st of the 2025-2026 School Year
If your child is turning 5 and born on or before September 1st, 2020, please visit the Trumbull Public Schools District registration webpage at https://www.trumbullps.org/general/student-registration
for instructions to complete registration and upload forms online. If you are unable to upload all of your documents, please contact our Registration Coordinator for assistance by email registration@trumbullps.org.
Children Turning 5 AFTER September 1st, 2025 and BEFORE January 1st, 2026
If your child is turning 5 between September 1st, 2025 and January 1st, 2026, you are eligible to submit a written request and assessment for your child to enter kindergarten. Please click on the blue button below to complete the short request and assessment so that the principal and certified staff can review your input and approve placement for your child to enter kindergarten. All requests will be reviewed by the school principal and a certified educator. Once reviewed, you will be sent an approval notification to register your child. Please note, the registration window for the 2025-2026 school year is open. For children in this category, a written request and assessment must be completed and then pre-approved by the principal of your child's school to register. Click on the blue square below.
Please click on the blue button below to submit a written request and complete the CDC Milestones Assessment for kindergarten registration consideration.
Every Thursday is spirit wear day! Since many of our children do not attend school on Fridays, we thought it would be fun to have “TECEC Thursday” each week where everyone is encouraged to wear school spirit wear. If you don't have any TECEC spirit wear, feel free to wear our school color which is blue. You can also purchase spirit wear here: https://tecec.ptboard.com/
Our arrival and dismissal procedures were developed to keep the children, you and our team safe. Please review the following guidelines that your adherence is critical to assure everyone arrives and leaves TECEC safely. One particular highlight is that vehicles must only enter the TECEC driveway by taking a right from Middlebrooks Ave. into the parking lot from 8:20-3:30. Attempting to access Middlebrooks Ave. via Church Hill Road and trying to take a left into TECEC creates an unsafe traffic pattern and should be avoided. Our arrival and dismissal procedures can be found here.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us.
One of the hallmarks of our program is parent and community involvement. Your child’s teacher will be reaching out to you with the best ways to engage with their education. We also encourage you to take the time to fill out the TPS volunteer form for the 2024-2025 school year. For most individuals, you will only need to complete part one (Tier one). This will permit you to volunteer in the school while in the presence of a staff member. Part two (Tier two) is for those who will be working with children not in the presence of a school employee. Since every volunteer will be in the presence of a TECEC staff member, there will not be a need to complete that section, unless you plan on volunteering in another school. This form has to be completed annually as mandated by the state guidelines for school volunteers. If you are interested in volunteering, the form can be found here and dropped off at TECEC so it can be processed. All submitted forms need to have an original signature, therefore a form with an e-signature will not be accepted.
Please join us on Wednesday, February 5 for our next PTO meeting. The meeting will be held in person at TECEC beginning at 7:00 PM. For those who would like to join virtually, the link is: PTO Meeting
The TECEC Father's Club is recruiting new members. Please note that you can join as a mom, aunt, uncle, grandparent or any family member that would like to support the children, teachers and each other. Their next meeting will take place Thursday, February 6 at 7:00 PM at Elicit Brewing in Fairfield, CT .
