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!
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.
Attendance
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!
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.
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