Mrs. Sieman's Newsletter
April 19, 2019
Last Study Trip of the Year...Flat Fork Creek Park!
Our last trip to Flat Fork Creek Park is scheduled for Friday, April 26th! All who have background checks on file are welcome to join us on this trip. Please email me ASAP if you'd like to attend this study trip with us. I appreciate your help!
My chaperones are listed below! Please let me know if you can't make it or if you'd like to be added!!
April
Hau Truong
Benji Loney
Elissa Beall
Andy Beall
Danuta or Alex Vargas
Crystal Bennett
Teresa Armstrong
Casey Vanputten
Jen Harris
The tentative agenda is below.
10:30 Board buses at TCE
10:45 Arrive at Flat Fork Creek Park
Go over expectations with students and chaperones & form groups
11:00-1:00 Lunch/Exploring Flat Fork Creek Park
Feel free to eat lunch wherever & whenever your group is hungry!
1:00 Begin heading back to buses
1:15 Depart Flat Fork Creek Park
Pennies for Patients Fundraising Campaign
Hello Thorpe Creek Families!
Student Council will be collecting donations for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society from April 18-25th through our Pennies for Patients fundraiser! If you would like to learn more about where our donations are going, check out this video: https://youtu.be/8PluE1SoNmw
All students will bring home a small box to collect their donations in and bring back to school any time between now and April 25th. There is also an option to donate online at this website: http://events.lls.org/pages/in/ThorpeCreekElementarySchool-2019
To celebrate the start of our campaign, we will have a hat day on Friday, April 19th!! All students may wear hats to school that day and are encouraged to donate $1.
We are looking forward to seeing what a difference our “Thorpe Creek Squad” can make in the lives of so many superheroes!
Sincerely,
TCE Student Council
Reusable containers
Hi TCE Cardinals!
Did you know that bringing reusable containers for your daily snack and in your lunchbox is better than using plastic baggies? We have learned that plastic
baggies take 500-1,000 years to decompose. We are recycling the plastic baggies, but bringing a reusable container is better for the Earth! Try to use more
reusable containers than plastic baggies.
Thank you for helping us change the world by reducing one plastic baggie at a time!
Mrs. Gibson's First Grade Class
Daily Snacks
Please consider sending a snack to school with your child each day. Our approved list (to keep all of our Cardinals safe - especially those living with food allergies) include:
fruit
veggies
cheese
Pepperidge Farm Goldfish
Skinny Popcorn
We appreciate donations for our students that are without a snack, as well. Thank you for considering!
Mark Your Calendar!
April 26th- Flat Fork Creek study trip
May17th- Field Day
May 22nd- Student Choice Day
May 24th- Last day of school
*Just a reminder that we have early dismissal every Monday so that our teachers can continue their learning.
Background Checks & Anti-Bullying Video
Related Arts Schedule for Next Week!
Monday, April 22: Day 4: Global Studies
Tuesday, April 23: Day 1: Music
Wednesday, April 24: Day 2: Art
Thursday, April 25: Day 3: P.E.
Friday, April 26: Day 4: Global Studies and Library
We are Learning
Reading
This week, we talked about how authors use literary language to make the ordain, extraordinary. Soon, we will be moving on to our poetry unit in writing, and diving deeper into this topic. We also focused on how we can bring an authors story to life by recognizing the way the story is written. There might be big bolded words, italic font, large type or signals like commas or periods to tell the reader how to read the text! We practiced this in our reading.
Next week, we will begin a new unit on fairy tales!
Writing
Math
This week, we learned about telling time! We've practiced telling time to the hour, 5 minutes, and 1 minute. We've also practiced telling time to the nearest quarter (quarter to, quarter after, and half past. Next week, we will continue our study of time and begin focusing on elapsed time. Check in with your child to see how they are doing with this!
We also had so much fun wrapping up our study of liquid measurement! The kids were able to break into groups and work together to follow a recipe all on their own! We did notice that the different groups had different looking batches of cookies and that lead to an interesting discussion as to why! Were our measurements off? Did we forget to add an ingredient or two? It was a fabulous learning experience and the kids really grasped the importance of measuring accurately!
Science
This week, we continued our study of weather. We also began our discussion on clouds. We discussed the different types of clouds we could see in the sky. We learned that there are four main types of clouds: Cirrus, Stratus, Cumulus, and Cumulonimbus. Cirrus clouds are wispy and means the weather is calm. Stratus clouds are low clouds that can produce rain or snow. Fog is a stratus cloud. Cumulus are fluffy clouds that look like cotton candy in the sky. When they are apart, they mean the weather is fair. When they are together, rain or snow showers can be produced. Cumulonimbus clouds are big and dark. They can produce storms that have thunder and lightening. They can even produce a large amount of rain that could cause flooding.
Lindsey Sieman
Email: lsieman@hse.k12.in.us
Location: 14642 East 126th Street, Fishers, IN, USA
Phone: (317) 594-4310
Twitter: @LindseySieman