February 24th - 28th

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Important Dates

February 20th - Cultural Night and Art Show 5:30-7
February 28th - Field trip to FTW Museum of Science and History
March 2nd-6th - Scholastic Book Fair in the Library
March 9th-13th - No School Spring Break

Announcements

Field Trip This Friday

Our Field Trip to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History this Friday! We are so looking forward to exploring and learning in a new place! Here are a few quick reminders before the trip on Friday.

1. Please make sure your child brings a sack lunch and water/drink with their name on it. Everything needs to be able to be thrown away or recycled, and peanut free! If your child will be getting a sack lunch from the cafeteria, please you child's teacher know before Friday!
2. Your child needs to wear their green TCE 3rd Grade shirt.
3. We will be leaving school around 8:45 and should be back to school by 2:00. Your child won’t need their binder, so they can leave their backpacks at home on this day!

Upcoming Parent Book Club

Our counselor and librarian will facilitate a parent book club this Spring in the Town Center library, and we would love for you to attend! It will be a great time to get to know and collaborate with other parents. The book study will start towards the end of March and go through April. It will be a total of five sessions, with each session lasting one hour. All participants will receive a free copy of the book, and it will be yours to keep. If you are interested in attending/learning more, please fill out the link below. This will help us pick the day that works best for everyone and gauge interest in the book club.

Our Spring Book Club Book:

Teach Your Children Well - Why Values and Coping Skills Matter More Than Grades, Trophies, or "Fat Envelopes"

Psychologist Madeline Levine brings together cutting-edge research and thirty years of clinical experience to explode once and for all the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame. This book clarifies some of the core values and choices that are most likely to lead to authentic success rather than children that are exhausted, externally driven, and emotionally impaired children who believe they are only as good as their last performance.

Click here for our book study interest survey. 

Book Fair

Lions, and Tigers and Books Oh My!  Our Spring book fair is March 2nd - 6th and we would love to have parents volunteer.  Please sign up on the link below.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080b4aadad22a4fb6-spring

Town Center Parent Newsletter

Here is the link to Ms. Martin's Parent Newsletter for the week.

What are we learning?

Math

In math, we will continue our Geometry unit by exploring 3D shapes and their attributes. If you requested 2D and 3D shape flash cards, they will be sent home next week!

Language Arts

In language arts, we will continue to work on summarizing fiction and non fiction texts. We will also review non fiction text features as well as focus on academic vocabulary. 

Science

In Science, we will complete our project of modeling the relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Moon. We will then learn about the order of the planets in our solar system. 

Social Studies

In Social Studies, we will wrapping up our Economics unit by using what we have learned to play our version of the Game of Life.  

February 10th - 13th

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Important Dates

February 13th - Valentine's Party @ 2pm
February 14th - No School
February 17th - No School Presidents' Day
February 20th - Cultural Night and Art Show 5:30-7
February 28th - Field trip to FTW Museum of Science and History

Announcements

Please click here for Cultural Night and Art Show details.

Town Center Parent Newsletter

Here is the link to Ms. Martin's Parent Newsletter for the week.

What are we learning?

Math

In math, we will dive into geometry by learning about the attributes of 2D shapes. We will learn what a polygon is and sort 2D and 3D shapes. 

Language Arts

In language arts, we will be exploring summarization and discussing its differences from retelling. We will practice summarizing with our nonfiction books. We will also introduce biographies and the differences from other nonfiction reading. In addition, we will continue discussing using context clues with the shift to academic language.

Science

In Science, we will investigate the relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Moon. We will model this relationship and the new vocabulary words of rotate and revolve. 

Social Studies

In Social Studies learners will discuss reasons to save and explain the benefit of a savings plan, including for college.

February 3rd - 7th

Thank you for taking the time to read our third grade blog. Make sure you are checking it weekly for calendar updates and what we are learning!

Important Dates

January 28th - Spring Creek BBQ Spirit Night @ 5-9 pm
February 20th - Cultural Night 5:30-7
February 13th - Valentine's Party @ 2pm
February 14th - No School
February 17th - No School Presidents' Day
February 28th - Field trip to FTW Museum of Science and History

Announcements

Town Center Parent Newsletter

Here is the link to Ms. Martin's Parent Newsletter for the week.

What are we learning?

Math

In math, we will start our geometry unit. We will begin by classifying and sorting 2D and 3D shapes. Learners are responsible for identifying these shapes by their attributes. 

Language Arts

In language arts we will dive deeper into our nonfiction unit and learn ways we can challenge our understanding of what we are reading. We will discuss fact versus opinion and begin to familiarize ourselves with summarization. 

Science

In Science, we will start our Earth and Sky unit. We will begin by learning about the Sun and thermal energy. Towards the end of the week we will investigate the relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Moon. 

Social Studies

In Social Studies, we will continue to discuss opportunity cost and reflect on times we have experienced it.  We will begin to explore cash vs. credit and the pros and cons of each.

January 27th - 31st

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Important Dates

January 28th - Spring Creek BBQ Spirit Night @ 5-9 pm
February 28th - Field trip to FTW Museum of Science and History

Announcements

Town Center Parent Newsletter

Here is the here to Ms. Martin's Parent Newsletter for the week.

What are we learning?

Math

In math, we will finish our area and perimeter unit. We will practice finding the area of composite figures by partitioning, using the same formula, and the additive property of addition. We will then begin our geometry unit where we will sort and classify 2D and 3D shapes by their attributes. 

Language Arts

In language arts we are continuing to explore nonfiction texts. We will overview nonfiction text features and how they help us understand what we are reading. We will also dive into main idea and focus on finding supporting details.

Science

In Science, we will finish our second ADI (argument driven inquiry). This is a student led research and investigation project. They will work together in a group to research, develop a claim, collect data, and justify their evidence to highlight a pattern between climate and latitude in countries around the world. The students have developed a claim and collected data, so our last steps will be to make an argument board and write a report. Towards the end of the week we will start our next unit. 

Social Studies

In Social Studies learners will explore the difference between spending and saving.  We will discuss how saving choices effect the future.

 

January 21st - 24th

Thank you for taking the time to read our third grade blog. Make sure you are checking it weekly for calendar updates and what we are learning!

Important Dates

January 20th - No School
January 28th - Spring Creek BBQ Spirit Night @ 5-9 pm
February 28th - Field trip to FTW Museum of Science and History

Announcements

Town Center Parent Newsletter

Here is the here to Ms. Martin's Parent Newsletter for the week.

What are we learning?

Math

In math, we will continue our Area and Perimeter unit. We will build upon our knowledge of calculating area using multiplication (A=LxW) to find the area of composite figures by partitioning, using the same formula, and the additive property of addition. 

We will continue taking our multiplication fact quizzes on Mondays and Wednesdays. If all 10 facts are correct in 2 minutes, your child will be able to move on to a new quiz the next day we are testing. If they're not mastered, then that same quiz will be taken again until all 10 are correct.  Additionally, any practice with fact fluency that can be done at home is VERY helpful. Each learner has been placed on multiplication and division on Reflex Math for this reason. Flashcards at home also work. 

Language Arts

In language arts we are continuing to explore nonfiction texts. We will overview nonfiction text features and how they help us understand what we are reading. We will also dive into main idea and focus on finding supporting details.

Science

In Science, we will begin our second ADI (argument driven inquiry). This is a student led research and investigation project. They will work together in a group to research, develop a claim, collect data, and justify their evidence to highlight a pattern between climate and latitude in countries around the world. 

Social Studies

In social studies we will continue to explore economics. We will focus on scarcity and supply and demand and what these look like in our community.

January 13th - 17th

Thank you for taking the time to read our third grade blog. Make sure you are checking it weekly for calendar updates and what we are learning!

Important Dates

January 20th - No School
January 28th - Spring Creek BBQ Spirit Night @ 5-9 pm
February 28th - Field trip to FTW Museum of Science and History

Announcements

Town Center Parent Newsletter

Here is the here to Ms. Martin's Parent Newsletter for the we ek.

What are we learning?

Math

In math, we will be beginning our Area and Perimeter unit.  This is a short 3-week unit where we will learn to calculate area and perimeter of rectangles using formulas. We will use multiplication (A=LxW) to teach area, and use addition to find the perimeter of rectangles. We will also learn to find the area of composite figures by partitioning and using the same formula. 

We will continue taking our multiplication fact quizzes on Mondays and Wednesdays. If all 10 facts are correct in 2 minutes, your child will be able to move on to a new quiz the next day we are testing. If they're not mastered, then that same quiz will be taken again until all 10 are correct.  Additionally, any practice with fact fluency that can be done at home is VERY helpful. Each learner has been placed on multiplication and division on Reflex Math for this reason. Flashcards at home also work. 

Language Arts

In LA we are diving head first into nonfiction reading! We will be discussing the difference between nonfiction and fiction reading. We will be focusing on the structure of nonfiction texts, exploring different nonfiction text features. We will begin to introduce main idea and supporting details. 

Science

In Science, the learners will finish learning about slow land changes such as weathering and erosion. We will begin learning about different types of natural resources and how to conserve them. We will also begin our career connection trade card for this unit. 

Social Studies

In Social Studies we will begin our new unit on Economics.  Throughout this unit learners will be able to explore the purposes of earning, spending, saving, and donating money and will learn the concept of the free enterprise system and how businesses operate in the U.S. free enterprise system. 

December 9th - December 13th

Welcome to our third grade blog! Please check our blog each week to see what we are learning as well as announcements and calendar updates for TCE and Third Grade!

Calendar

December 13th - Jingle Bell Jog
December 18th - Grade Level PJ Day
December 19th - Winter Parties @ 2pm
December 20th - Early Release @ 12:15

Announcements

Holiday Food Baskets and Toys

Each year the Lions Club of Coppell provides holiday baskets and toys to families in need in Coppell's attendance area. The food baskets and toys are delivered by members of the Lions Club of Coppell, and the identify of the recipients is kept confidential. All they need to know is the address and the family demographics, sizes, and any special needs the family may have. If your family would benefit from this, please return to our school nurse or front office by December 1st.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y0LtfOIKo54q9za9eplMtv6PMSyJgFiM8xZn2Dh6KA0/edit?usp=sharing

Yearbook Orders

Town Center Parent Newsletter

Here is the link to Ms. Martin's Parent Newsletter for the week.

What are we learning?

Math

In math, we will be working through our multiplication and division choice board. Each learner will be working through different tasks on their choice board based upon their individual Schoology checks taken over the last few weeks. While students work through the choice board, teachers will be pulling small groups to reteach and re-engage based upon these Schoology checks as well. Our multiplication and division post test will take place on Friday, December 13th. 

We will continue taking our multiplication fact quizzes on Mondays and Wednesdays. If all 10 facts are correct in 2 minutes, your child will be able to move on to a new quiz the next day we are testing. If they're not mastered, then that same quiz will be taken again until all 10 are correct.  Additionally, any practice with fact fluency that can be done at home is VERY helpful. Each learner has been placed on multiplication and division on Reflex Math for this reason. Flashcards at home also work. 

Language Arts

In language arts, we are exploring fables, myths, legends, and fairy tales. We will be adapting a classic fairy tale and writing one of our own. We will be reading various fables, myths, and legends, and discussing the theme of these works. We will be studying the overall message of stories and how it can be translated to other books that we have read.

Science

In Science, the learners will be researching rapid changes to earth's surface. We will research the causes and effects of natural disasters including volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and landslides. The learners will make a survival guide for the natural disaster of their choice. 

Social Studies

In social studies, we are starting a new geography project. Each student will research various aspects of geography in an assigned state. We will be focusing on landforms, natural disasters, and weather and climate.