September 11th-15th

 Upcoming Dates

September 7th-15th - Book Fair

September 8th - Last Day to order spirit wear and Grade Level Shirts

September 11th - Science MAP 

September 14th - College T-Shirt Day 

September 21st - Sonic Spirit Night

September 29th - Fall Frolic Run (during Specials 10:10-11:00)

Terrific Texan

Congratulations to this week's winners!

Sadbhaav, Emma, Capri 

Curriculum Night

Thank you to all our families who were able to make it out to curriculum night! We loved sharing with you all that we are learning in 3rd grade. If you were unable to make it, you can check out our presentation linked below. As always, please feel free to reach out to your child's teacher if you have any questions or concerns. We are more than happy to help out and answer in any way that we can!

Curriculum Night 23/24

Shout out to our 3rd grade raffle winner! We loved this fun incentive our school put on for all our TCE families who joined us for curriculum night.  

Start With Hello

We are excited to launch Start with Hello Week at Town Center during September 18-22!

Program Overview

The Start With Hello program empowers students in grades K-12 to recognize loneliness and social isolation in their peers, offering effective strategies to reach out and help, and ways they can grow an empathetic and inclusive community.  The program is designed around three goals that are accomplished using the program’s framework and reinforced throughout the program cycle.

Goals

The three goals of the Start With Hello program are to teach students how to:

• Recognize loneliness and social isolation in peers.

• Help their peers who may be lonely and/or socially isolated.

• Grow an empathetic and inclusive community.

Program Framework

The goals are accomplished using our three-step program framework:

1. See Someone Alone: learn how to recognize social isolation and loneliness.

2. Reach Out and Help: learn the benefits of helping peers who are lonely or socially isolated as well as strategies to overcome the challenges.

3. Start with Hello: learn ways to help peers who are lonely and socially isolated as well as help create a more connected and inclusive community.

Check out the graphic below to learn more about how we will reinforce these skills at TCE this year!  💚

Lunches

Below are a few links regarding lunches:

- Breakfast & Lunch Menu

- Free & Reduced Lunch Application

- Check Your Lunch Application Status

- Create Your Child's Online Lunch Account

TCE Principal Newsletter

Each week Ms. Martin sends out her Town Center Principal Newsletter. Please make sure to check out all the important campus-wide announcements in the Principal Newsletter. 

September 11th-15th

September 4th-September 8th Newsletter Linked Here!

What we are learning

Math - Next station up for the Place Value Train iiisssss ROUNDING, and we are rolling right along, folks! Kiddos often get bogged down in the details and rules of rounding and forget the big picture: they’re trying to find the closest friendly number, or number that ends in a 0. In addition to rounding, we’ll work on addition - see what I did there - and subtraction. Now, friends, I’m gonna throw out a “new math” term (also what was wrong with the old math?), but don’t panic - I’ll translate into old school: the term is regrouping, and the translation is carry the 1 (addition) and borrow (subtraction). That’s familiar, right? It’s a new skill for 3rd graders, but only because they’ve never used it with 3 and 4 digit numbers or across 0s, so we start from the beginning. It’s a big week, jam packed with 2 math skills they’ll use for the rest of their life! What’s better than that? Answer: nothing. #thingsmathteacherssay

Science - This week we will continue exploring changing states of matter.  We will spend a day focusing on each: Freezing, Melting, Evaporation and Condensation.   The best way to explore this is with some hands-on learning!  We will be conducting experiments to explore these changes and what causes them.

ELAR - Our readers will dive into the comprehension skills of prediction and retelling fiction stories this week.. As your learner is reading at home, ask them to tell you about what they read and what predictions they made before and during their reading!  

In writing, we will continue writing our personal narrative stories that were inspired by a special place. This week, we will learn about how to create introductions that “hook” the reader and the elements of a solid conclusion!

Social Studies - In social studies we are still in our community unit. We are exploring the different functions of community characteristics and how cultures play a role in community development.