Friday, October 4, 2019

Week of Sept. 30th-Oct. 4th

Hello 4th Grade Town Center Families! Please see below for class updates and reminders: 

Please read through our Town Center Parent Newsletter for important campus updates and reminders.

Fall Parent Teacher Conferences
Fall Parent Teacher Conferences will be Friday, October 11th. If you have any questions, please reach out to your child's homeroom teacher. 

Writer's Workshop for Parents
We would love to invite you for a Writer's Workshop. We will go through the writing process and model what our writing block looks like in our classrooms. We will also provide tools and resources for our learners to practice at home. 

TCE Pumpkin Patch
This Fall we will be turning our very own TCE Garden into the TCE Pumpkin Patch!  We are so excited about all of the wonderful learning activities and curriculum connections we will be able to make in our school garden!  If you would like to help us turn our school garden into the TCE Pumpkin Patch, please consider donating a pumpkin (any size or type) to our garden!  You can begin sending in pumpkins as soon as possible, and we will take them to the garden. You can also drop them off in the garden on your own!   
Thank you so much!  

2019-2020 Creative Writing Competition
It's time for the 2019-2020 Creative Writing Competition sponsored by the Coppell Gifted Association. This will be the 12th year CGA has run this competition, and we'd love to have our 4th and 5th graders participate. Please see below for the link to register and important details.

PTO Meeting will be Tuesday, October 8th.
End of the 1st Nine Weeks/Spirit Rally will be Thursday, October 10th.
Parent Conferences will be Friday, October 11th. 
There is no school on Monday, October 14th.
PTO Movie Night will be Friday, October 18th
Picture Retakes will be Wednesday, October 16th
Writer Workshop for Parents will be Wednesday, October 23rd at 5:30 PM.





In Writing, we will finish publishing our personal narratives. Please be on the outlook for your child's published and signed copy. We will practice spelling words with the long e spelled ee, ea and will explore quotation marks using our mentor sentence. 

In Reading, we will celebrate our first unit on interpreting characters. We cannot wait for learners to showcase all the growth they have made for the first nine weeks in both reading and writing. 

In Math, we will be wrapping up our place value of whole numbers and decimals with the learners participating in the Decimal Olympics. 

In Science, we will continue our investigations on mixtures and solutions by completing hands-on learning experiences. 

In TX History, we will continue our discussion on how location influences lifestyle choices. Exploring the lifestyles of our early Texans, we will dig deeper until noticing and evaluating patterns.