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.