September 16th-20th

   Upcoming Dates

September 16th-20th - Town Center Book Fair

September 20th - Special Friends' Day

September 27th - Fall Frolic Run

This will be during each grade level's specials time (3rd grade - 10:10 a.m.). Parents are invited to attend.

October 4th - Family Friday Lunches begin!

October 9th - Picture retake day for anyone absent or wanting a retake

Terrific Texans

Throughout the week our learners at TCE work hard at going above and beyond! When any teacher catches them standing out in a positive way they are awarded a Terrific Texan. At the end of the week, there is a school-wide drawing and 3 winners are chosen from each grade level.

Congratulations to this weeks winners! 

Raj, Dharit, and Rex

Show Up For Great Attendance

Metro Services - Mobile Food Pantry

Curriculum Night

We enjoyed seeing and meeting so many of you last Thursday on Curriculum Night!  In case you were not able to attend or would like to refer back to our slides here is a link to what we covered.  Please let us know if you have any questions.  We are excited for this school year!

Curriculum Night 24/25

Coppell Cares

Coppell Cares offers the Weekend Backpack Program for families who have financial need. Each Friday, learners receive a bag of snacks for the weekend. The goal of the program is to help eliminate food insecurity for children. They provide nutritious breakfast, lunch and snack items to eligible CISD children (and siblings). This weekly food program helps feed children over the weekend during the school year when they are not receiving meals at school. 

If you would like your child(ren) to participate in this program, please complete the online application below.  If you would prefer a paper copy to be sent home with your child, please email TCE's counselor, Kelly Matlock, at kmatlock@coppellisd.com.  Families may sign up for this program at any time during the school year.  Deliveries will begin Friday, September 6th.  Deliveries will be suspended for Thanksgiving Week, Winter Break, and Spring Break.

2024-2025 Coppell Cares - Weekend Backpack

2024-2025 Coppell Cares - Mochila de fin de semana

Attendance

go.coppellisd.com/attendancenote

Background Checks

We ask that all families complete a volunteer background check at the start of the year. They do not carry over from year to year. Since the background checks take time to process, we ask that everyone complete one in case any type of volunteering opportunity (class field trip, Dad's Club, Room parent, class volunteer, field day, etc.) arises during the year that you are interested in. Please click on the link below to complete it.

Background Checks - Linked Here

Tennis Shoes for PE & Extended Specials Day (CTT)

Please help ensure your child wears appropriate shoes on PE days and Move & Groove (Fridays). Additionally, every other Thursday 3rd grade has extended specials during CTT. The dates are outlined for the remainder of the year below. Thank you for your help in making sure your child is safely dressed for the gym! 

3rd Grade CTT Dates for 2024: 9/26, 10/10, 10/24, 11/7, 11/21, 12/12

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 13th Newsletter!

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

Lunch Menus can be found here

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING

ELA - As we continue reading Wild Robot we are still learning how readers monitor their own comprehension. We’ve learned these skills so far:

-Readers stop to give themselves comprehension checks by asking who, what, where questions.

-Readers think about what the text is asking them to do. They visualize to make movies in their mind, or they make a list to gather information.

- Readers make high level predictions based on background knowledge and evidence from the text.

-Readers us a variety of strategies to figure out the meaning of words they don’t know: Gist, Antonyms, Synonyms, Explanation

This next week we will continue to practice these metacognitive strategies. We will also add strategies for figuring out tricky phrases like “figurative language” and idioms for example.

Finally we will introduce the inference skill involved in author’s purpose or intent for specific parts of a text.

We will continue to work on these skills the week following. They are all big heavy skills that take practice to put into place.

We kicked off our spelling unit this week. Our first pattern included CVC short vowel words with alternate endings to change the tense of the word.  Our goal for spelling practice is NOT to memorize a list of words; rather to recognize patterns and be able to apply the pattern to any word we see. Next week we are working on the “Rabbit Rule” which shows the reason for doubling a consonant in the middle of a word.

In writing this week we will learn about how to use introductions to hook our readers and conclusions to wrap it all up.  They will practice the different ways and then choose one to focus on for their own personal narrative.

In grammar we will focus on using and identifying singular and plural nouns. 

Social Studies - In social studies we continue with communities and cultures. We will highlight community differences in size and how they meet different needs.

Math - Hello 3rd grade math families! We did not practice as many open number lines as we needed to last week to be able to jump right into rounding numbers, so we’ll dip our toe at the beginning of the week and then be fully splashing in the rounding pool by the end of the week. Last week, I enjoyed talking with the kiddos one on one and hearing their thoughts on the goal they wanted to achieve for the BOY math map. We also made great progress on learning how to subtract with regrouping and will continue strengthening that skill this week - subtracting across 0s, we’re comin’ for ya!

Science - In Science this week we will look at how we can combine materials based on their physical properties to create or modify objects.  We will have a bridge building challenge that will demonstrate this, as well as focus on their ability to work together and justify their choices to their peers. 

September 9th-13th

  Upcoming Dates

September 12th - TCE Sonic Spirit Night

5:00-8:00 p.m.

September 13th- Math MAP

Please make sure iPads are updated and charged.

September 16th-20th - Town Center Book Fair

September 20th - Special Friends' Day

September 27th - Fall Frolic Run

This will be during each grade level's specials time (3rd grade - 10:10 a.m.). Parents are invited to attend.

Terrific Texans

Throughout the week our learners at TCE work hard at going above and beyond! When any teacher catches them standing out in a positive way they are awarded a Terrific Texan. At the end of the week, there is a school-wide drawing and 3 winners are chosen from each grade level.

Congratulations to this weeks winners! 

Hudson, Asher, Maelys

Curriculum Night

We enjoyed seeing and meeting so many of you last Thursday on Curriculum Night!  In case you were not able to attend or would like to refer back to our slides here is a link to what we covered.  Please let us know if you have any questions.  We are excited for this school year!

Curriculum Night 24/25

Sonic Spirit Night

Coppell Cares

Coppell Cares offers the Weekend Backpack Program for families who have financial need. Each Friday, learners receive a bag of snacks for the weekend. The goal of the program is to help eliminate food insecurity for children. They provide nutritious breakfast, lunch and snack items to eligible CISD children (and siblings). This weekly food program helps feed children over the weekend during the school year when they are not receiving meals at school. 

If you would like your child(ren) to participate in this program, please complete the online application below.  If you would prefer a paper copy to be sent home with your child, please email TCE's counselor, Kelly Matlock, at kmatlock@coppellisd.com.  Families may sign up for this program at any time during the school year.  Deliveries will begin Friday, September 6th.  Deliveries will be suspended for Thanksgiving Week, Winter Break, and Spring Break.

2024-2025 Coppell Cares - Weekend Backpack

2024-2025 Coppell Cares - Mochila de fin de semana

Attendance

go.coppellisd.com/attendancenote

Background Checks

We ask that all families complete a volunteer background check at the start of the year. They do not carry over from year to year. Since the background checks take time to process, we ask that everyone complete one in case any type of volunteering opportunity (class field trip, Dad's Club, Room parent, class volunteer, field day, etc.) arises during the year that you are interested in. Please click on the link below to complete it.

Background Checks - Linked Here

Tennis Shoes for PE & Extended Specials Day (CTT)

Please help ensure your child wears appropriate shoes on PE days and Move & Groove (Fridays). Additionally, every other Thursday 3rd grade has extended specials during CTT. The dates are outlined for the remainder of the year below. Thank you for your help in making sure your child is safely dressed for the gym! 

3rd Grade CTT Dates for 2024: 9/12, 9/26, 10/10, 10/24, 11/7, 11/21, 12/12

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. 

August 23rd Newsletter!

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

Lunch Menus can be found here

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING

ELA - This week in writing we will continue drafting our personal narrative.  We will focus on taking 3 main parts of our story and adding specific details to elaborate on it.  

We continue thinking about our reading this week as we dive into some tricky skills. Our main focus will be retelling major events before moving forward in a book and practicing how to figure out tricky words. 

Social Studies - In social studies we continue with communities and cultures. We will do a group mind mission to highlight how communities start from the ground up!

Math - Subtraction with regrouping is upon us, and please don’t worry! If you’re new to our 3rd grade blog, welcome! Last week in the blog, I said that regrouping is the “new math” way to say that we are “borrowing” - which is what we said growing up in the 90s (ahem, for some of us it was the 80s, but I’ll not name any names). The new skills for 3rd graders are subtracting numbers up to 1,200 - that means we’ll have to double regroup those middle digits, and we’ll also have to subtract across 0s. We have totally got this! We also pivoted last Thursday and learned about open number lines, so we’ll practice those this week - make sure to ask your kiddo about the age-old folktale characters of Hansel and Gretel and their adventures in The Number Line Forest. Plotting numbers on open number lines helps us get ready for rounding, but more about that next week. This is a big week for real-world math skills they’ll use for the rest of their life, and what’s more exciting than that? Answer: nothing. Let’s go 3rd grade!

Science - Changes in States of Matter…that is what is happening this week in science!  We will explore melting, freezing, evaporation and condensation and how by adding or removing heat to different states of matter causes a change.

September 2nd-6th

 Upcoming Dates

September 2nd - No School

September 5th- Curriculum Night

Kinder-2nd 5:00-5:45; 3rd-5th 5:45-6:30

3rd grade will be in the Cafeteria

September 6th- Reading MAP

Please make sure iPads are updated and charged.

September 12th - TCE Sonic Spirit Night

5:00-8:00 p.m.

September 13th- Math MAP

Please make sure iPads are updated and charged.

September 16th-20th - Town Center Book Fair

September 20th - Special Friends' Day

More details to come!

September 27th - Fall Frolic Run

This will be during each grade level's specials time (3rd grade - 10:10 a.m.). Parents are invited to attend.

Terrific Texans

Throughout the week our learners at TCE work hard at going above and beyond! When any teacher catches them standing out in a positive way they are awarded a Terrific Texan. At the end of the week, there is a school-wide drawing and 3 winners are chosen from each grade level.

Congratulations to this weeks winners! 

Anna, Peter and Lane

Sonic Spirit Night

Coppell Cares

Coppell Cares offers the Weekend Backpack Program for families who have financial need. Each Friday, learners receive a bag of snacks for the weekend. The goal of the program is to help eliminate food insecurity for children. They provide nutritious breakfast, lunch and snack items to eligible CISD children (and siblings). This weekly food program helps feed children over the weekend during the school year when they are not receiving meals at school. 

If you would like your child(ren) to participate in this program, please complete the online application below.  If you would prefer a paper copy to be sent home with your child, please email TCE's counselor, Kelly Matlock, at kmatlock@coppellisd.com.  Families may sign up for this program at any time during the school year.  Deliveries will begin Friday, September 6th.  Deliveries will be suspended for Thanksgiving Week, Winter Break, and Spring Break.

2024-2025 Coppell Cares - Weekend Backpack

2024-2025 Coppell Cares - Mochila de fin de semana

Attendance

go.coppellisd.com/attendancenote

Background Checks

We ask that all families complete a volunteer background check at the start of the year. They do not carry over from year to year. Since the background checks take time to process, we ask that everyone complete one in case any type of volunteering opportunity (class field trip, Dad's Club, Room parent, class volunteer, field day, etc.) arises during the year that you are interested in. Please click on the link below to complete it.

Background Checks - Linked Here

Tennis Shoes for PE & Extended Specials Day (CTT)

Please help ensure your child wears appropriate shoes on PE days and Move & Groove (Fridays). Additionally, every other Thursday 3rd grade has extended specials during CTT. The dates are outlined for the remainder of the year below. Thank you for your help in making sure your child is safely dressed for the gym! 

3rd Grade CTT Dates for 2024: 9/12, 9/26, 10/10, 10/24, 11/7, 11/21, 12/12

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. 

August 23rd Newsletter!

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

Lunch Menus can be found here

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING

ELA - In writing this week we will start the planning stages of our personal narrative.  We will begin with brainstorming our ideas and outlining what we want to focus on.  We will also get matched with a writing partner that will help with conferring during this writing process.  

As we read this week, we will continue to strengthen our reading comprehension skills. We will practice visualizing to enhance our thinking, and we will decipher what the author wants us to do with the text. We are still reading the Wild Robot as our class read aloud. I hope your kids are excited to read it as the movie premiere is just around the corner!

Social Studies - This week we continue with our community unit. We will locate places that help us meet the needs of the people and even fill in some of the wants we have as humans. We will also explore some specific places Coppell offers us as community members.

Math - We are taking our knowledge of the individual place values and applying it to be able to compare and order numbers to 120,000, and we’ll still focus on making numbers in different ways. Being able to decompose (break apart) numbers in different ways strengthens their number sense, and it will get us ready for subtraction with regrouping. “Regrouping” is the “new math” way to say “borrow”, but it means the same thing as it did when you guys were learning subtraction back in the 90s. Regrouping is not new for 3rd graders, but regrouping across multiple place values is a new skill; this is why we take time to get there by making sure kiddos feel confident in their understanding that, for example, 247 can be made with 2 hundreds blocks, 4 tens, and 7 ones OR it can be made with 24 tens blocks and 7 ones. And that’s just two ways to decompose this number - there’s so many more! Math is exciting, #amiright?! Let’s gooooo!

Science - This week we will explore different types of matter and how to classify them based on their properties and demonstrate that solids have a definite shape and that liquids and gases take the shape of their container. We will get dive into what the particles of solid, liquids, and gasses look like and act like.