Upcoming Dates
Nov. 5th - No school for students - district professional development
Nov. 7th - PJ and Stuffed Animal Day
Nov. 8th - Olympic Day - NO lunch visitors on this day. 3rd grade 11:00-12:30
Please see information below
Nov. 11th - Veteran's Day Ceremony 8:00am-9:00am - We invite all veterans that are family and/or friends of our learners to join us that morning as we celebrate our veterans in a school-wide assembly
Nov. 15th - Town Center Family Game Night @ 6:00-8:00 p.m. - More details below
Nov. 19th - Chipotle Spirit Night
Nov. 22nd - Turkey Trot - 3rd grade @ 10:10 a.m. Parents are invited to attend.
Nov. 25th-29th - No School - Thanksgiving Break
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 our winners this week!
Maelys, Hudson, and Dharit
Character Trait of the Week
Week of November 4th
Veteran's Day Ceremony
We are excited to celebrate our veterans on Friday, November 11th at 8:15 a.m. To plan for seating and reception items, please let us know if you have any family members or friends who are veterans and will be in attendance. We look forward to our veterans joining us! Click here to RSVP any veterans who plan on attending. **Regular visitor check-in procedures will apply to everyone visiting our school that day. Please bring in your ID and check in through our front office. We encourage you to arrive by 8:00 am. to allow time for check-in.
TCE Olympic Day - November 8th
We are asking that each class wear a specific color that day.
3A - Blue
3B - Red
3C - White
Family Game Night - November 15th
Mark your calendar for our Family Game Night hosted by our Dads and Dudes. A free event open to all families. Click here to register for our Town Center Game Night!
Spirit Night
Yearbook
A Note from Nurse Crenshaw
St. Ann’s Catholic Parish is once again sponsoring Thanksgiving Basket deliveries (or a pickup option at St Ann’s Church if you prefer). This program provides families in need with a complete Thanksgiving dinner for the entire family. The baskets will be delivered to your home the weekend before Thanksgiving, so it is critically important that an adult representing the family be at the home between the hours of Noon and 4PM on Sunday, November 24th, 2024. The deadline to sign up for a basket is October 22nd, 2024.
Please fill out this form with all information requested. Please contact Nurse Crenshaw if you have any questions. kcrenshaw@coppellisd.com
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: 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.
October 28th Newsletter!
**Identifying nonfiction text features and explaining their purpose in the text. These text features include: glossary, index, table of context, bold/italicized words, captions, photographs/illustrations, maps, graphs, diagraps, headings, subheadings and more!
**Identifying the main idea of a passage and providing supporting details. The hardest part about this for learners is that they want to describe the purpose of the article when the main idea is something different. Here is an example of the difference:
After reading an article about shark teeth, learners are asked to identify the main idea. If they say “the article is written to teach you about sharks’ sharp and replaceable teeth” they would be stating the author's purpose. The main idea would instead be something like, “Sharks have an amazing mouth that includes rows of sharp teeth that replace automatically when one falls out.” This is a tricky skill that leads the way for thesis writing!
In writing we will use our research on our animal and our main idea stool to create our final product for our informational writing. We are working on writing a topic sentence with supporting details. We will also work on an introductory paragraph that highlights the main idea of what we researched.
Social Studies - In social studies we will begin our geography unit. We will start with a pre-assessment on map skills and begin introducing the basics of tools on a map.
Math - In math, we will continue to review strip diagrams and the other ways to represent multiplication (arrays, equal groups, and number lines). We will also move on to two by 1 digit multiplication! Of course, the standard algorithm (how we learned to multiply as children back in the ‘80s) is our end goal, but first we will learn to use an area model to multiply 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers. #newmath
Please see this example for 36 x 4:
Put 36 into expanded form on top of the area model. (30 + 6)
Put the one digit number (4) on the left side of the area model.
Multiply 30 x 4. (Think 3x4 then bring down the 0.)
Multiply 6 x 4.
Add the products together.
And, if you know me, you know I love a good rhyme. Our rhyme for the standard algorithm (the good, ol’ fashioned way we all learned to multiply - carry the one. Anyone? Anyone?) is bottom, top, bottom, side - that is how we multiply! Big week coming up for math! We are ready and so excited to up our multiplication game!
Science - We will wrap up our Energy Unit next week. We will take what we learned about mechanical, sound, light and thermal energy to create a unique robot that highlights these forms of energy.
