Things Happening at TCE:
3rd Grade Music Program - November 7 at 8:15 am & 6:00 pm
Veteran’s Day Program- November 10 at 9:00
Spring Creek BBQ Night- November 13th
TCE Turkey Trot- November 14th (4th Grade time: 9:30-10:20)
Take a look at the awesome submissions for the TCE Pumpkin Design Challenge! Click here to see a video!
Notes from Dr. Applegate:
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Curriculum Tidbits:
In math, we are wrapping up our unit over addition and subtraction of whole numbers and decimals. We will soon begin our unit over Personal Financial Literacy. Here are some of the terms that your child will be learning: fixed expense, variable expense, profit, savings, allowance, spending, financial institution, borrowing, and lending. Real connections will help your child gain a better understanding of these terms. If you can, it would be helpful to have discussions with your child about how these vocabulary terms relate to your lives.
In science, we are wrapping up our unit over Force, Motion, and Energy. The learners will be taking a test at the end of this week over the topics we covered during the unit. Next week the learners will be participating in their first Argument Driven Inquiry (ADI) activity. We are very excited to introduce this to the learners. They will have the opportunity to design their own experiment and will use their writing skills to show what they learned from their experiment.
In writing, we will be going through the writing process to write a complete expository piece. If you get a minute, you might ask your son/daughter about his/her favorite time of the year. For their writing assignment, they will be explaining why it’s their favorite.
In Social Studies, learners will be completing reading and writing activities to help them learn about exploration and colonization in Texas. Students will also be participating in Mind Missions to deepen their understanding of the benefit of Exploration.
