February 5th-9th

 

Upcoming Dates

February 9th - Town Center PTO Valentine's Dance See flier below

February 14th - Class Valentine's Party @ 2:00

February 16th - No School

February 19th - Bad Weather Make Up Day (No school unless it is used for a school cancellation due to weather)

February 23rd - Heart Hustle - during Specials @ 10:10 See flier below

February 29th - Spring Pictures

Class and Individual

Terrific Texans

Congratulations to this week's winners!

Aditi, Saksham, and Evah

Town Center PTO Valentine's Dance

Valentine's Party

Our class Valentine's Day party will be on Wednesday, February 14th at 2:00 p.m. Please have your child address a Valentine's card to each child in their homeroom. The names of students in the class were sent home on Friday, February 2nd. Please reach out to your homeroom teacher if you need a new list. You may attach a small treat to the card, if you would like. Please have them bring cards with them to school on or before Wednesday, February 14th. 

We will be decorating Valentine's bags (to collect our Valentines in) at school so there is no need to send in a box or bag!

Parents are welcome to join us on the day of the party. The party in each classroom will be run by the room parents. If you plan on attending, you will need to check in at the front office using your ID. All grade-level parties will be happening at 2:00 so please plan accordingly for parking/check-in. 

Tennis Shoes for PE & Extended Specials Day (CTT)

Please help make sure that 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! 

Smart Watches

We have noticed that more and more of our students have begun wearing smartwatches to school, so we want to take a minute to be clear about expectations for those devices. 

Students are not permitted to communicate on their personal devices during the school day. (The same rule applies to their iPads.) This includes parents. Additionally, smartwatches are only to be used to tell time during the day. Please help us in reinforcing this expectation.  If you need to contact your son/daughter during the day, please email your child's teacher or call the front office. 

We have talked about these expectations with the students. We've let them know that if they are using their smart watch, cell phone, or other personal devices to communicate (or use any additional feature beyond telling time), they will receive one warning. After that one warning, we will ask for those devices to stay at home.

Yearbooks for Sale

Our yearbook sale is now open! Each year we have a Town Center Yearbook that highlights photos from every class, school events, and staff. It is a great item to have to look back on memories from the year, and we even have a yearbook signing party in May. If you are interested in purchasing a yearbook, please see the graphic below for thee different purchasing options. As a reminder, the TCE Yearbook cost WAS NOT included in the TCE Trail Pass. If you would like a yearbook for your child(ren), you will need to purchase using the website link below.

Our yearbook committee would also love your help in submitting photos for the yearbook. As you attend campus events, if you have any photos you would like to share, see below for information on uploading them to our committee.

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

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. 

February 5th

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING

ELA -

As we go deeper into our read aloud, Because of Winn Dixie, our readers will study how literature contains themes that can explore big topics about life or people.  

We will also continue working on crafting responses to what we read using the RACE strategy.  We will analyze different types of responses, identifying responses with quality grammar, ideas and structure.

Social Studies - Ch-ch-ch changes! Our Geographers will be exploring how the Earth changes over time and how those changes impact people and communities.

Math - Composite area. Buckle up, folks. I’m not gonna lie, this is one of the most challenging things we do in math all year. Scared? Nervous? Don’t be! We’ve got 5 steps that will get you (I mean your child) the right answer every time. 

*A composite figure is 2 or more shapes put together. For 3rd graders, it’s a rectangle and another rectangle or a rectangle and a square:

Step 1: Partition (split) into 2 shapes - black line

Step 2: Label the shapes A and B.

Step 3: Find the area of A: 9 x 2 = 18 sq ft

Step 4: Find the area of B: 4 x 4 = 16 sq ft

Step 5: Add the areas: 18 + 16 = 34 sq ft - this is the answer.

**The most common mistake is not choosing the correct numbers to multiply, for instance, for A, multiplying 2 x 5 instead of 9 x 2.

***It’s okay to partition vertically instead of horizontally; you’ll still get the correct answer.

Science - We have wrapped up our unit on Earth's Surface and blasted off to Patterns in the Sky. We will be exploring the Sun, Earth and Moon and how they work together and around one another.

January 29-February 2

 

Upcoming Dates

January 29th - PTO meeting @ 6:00

February 9th - Town Center PTO Valentine's Dance See flier below

February 14th - Class Valentine's Party @ 2:00

February 16th - No School

February 19th - Bad Weather Make Up Day (No school unless it is used for a school cancellation due to weather)

February 23rd - Heart Hustle - during Specials @ 10:10 See flier below

February 29th - Spring Pictures

Class and Individual

Terrific Texans

Congratulations to this week's winners!

Akshaj, Aadhya and Rutwika

Town Center PTO Valentine's Dance

Tennis Shoes for PE & Extended Specials Day (CTT)

Please help make sure that 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! 

CTT dates: January 25th, February 1st, February 15th, February 29th, March 7th, March 28th, April 11th, May 9th

Smart Watches

We have noticed that more and more of our students have begun wearing smartwatches to school, so we want to take a minute to be clear about expectations for those devices. 

Students are not permitted to communicate on their personal devices during the school day. (The same rule applies to their iPads.) This includes parents. Additionally, smartwatches are only to be used to tell time during the day. Please help us in reinforcing this expectation.  If you need to contact your son/daughter during the day, please email your child's teacher or call the front office. 

We have talked about these expectations with the students. We've let them know that if they are using their smart watch, cell phone, or other personal devices to communicate (or use any additional feature beyond telling time), they will receive one warning. After that one warning, we will ask for those devices to stay at home.

Yearbooks for Sale

Our yearbook sale is now open! Each year we have a Town Center Yearbook that highlights photos from every class, school events, and staff. It is a great item to have to look back on memories from the year, and we even have a yearbook signing party in May. If you are interested in purchasing a yearbook, please see the graphic below for thee different purchasing options. As a reminder, the TCE Yearbook cost WAS NOT included in the TCE Trail Pass. If you would like a yearbook for your child(ren), you will need to purchase using the website link below.

Our yearbook committee would also love your help in submitting photos for the yearbook. As you attend campus events, if you have any photos you would like to share, see below for information on uploading them to our committee.

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

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. 

January 26th

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING

ELA - Our Third Grade Readers will start their week by taking the Reading MAP test on Monday, January 29.  Please make sure iPads are up to date with a full charge on Monday morning. We can’t wait for them to show what they know! We will continue studying comprehension skills using our class read aloud, Because of Winn Dixie. We will learn about cause and effect, figurative and literal language and more as we also work on responding to reading in our Writer’s Workshop block.

Social Studies - Ch-ch-ch changes! Our Geographers will be exploring how the Earth changes over time and how those changes impact people and communities.

Math - We have wrapped up our geometry unit and are moving on to area and perimeter. Usually, we work on perimeter first, as that is a review skill from 2nd grade. But this year we’re gonna get wild and learn about area first. Crazy, right?! Last year in 2nd, the kiddos covered squares and rectangles with squares and counted those squares to find the area of those shapes.. This year, they will use a formula (length x width) to find the area of those same 2 shapes, and they will also read word problems and decipher if they’re area problems or perimeter problems. Can you even? 3rd graders are amazing! 

Want to help your 3rd grader with math but aren’t sure what to do? Currently, you can quiz your kiddo on the names of the 2D and 3D shapes. You can also pose problems such as “How many sides would you have if you had a nonagon and a dodecagon?” (Answer: 21). 

Finally, our middle of year (MOY) math MAP test will be Friday, February 2.

Science - We will continue our focus on rapid land changes, finishing up our survival guides and reflection!

January 22nd-26th

Upcoming Dates

January 29th - PTO meeting @ 6:00

February 9th - Town Center PTO Valentine's Dance See flier below

February 14th - Class Valentine's Party @ 2:00

February 16th - No School

February 19th - Bad Weather Make Up Day (No school unless it is used for a school cancellation due to weather)

February 23rd - Heart Hustle - during Specials @ 10:10

February 29th - Spring Pictures

Class and Individual

Terrific Texans

Congratulations to this week's winners!

Jaisvi, Karmikaa, Issac

Town Center PTO Valentine's Dance

Tennis Shoes for PE & Extended Specials Day (CTT)

Please help make sure that 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! 

CTT dates: January 25th, February 1st, February 15th, February 29th, March 7th, March 28th, April 11th, May 9th

Smart Watches

We have noticed that more and more of our students have begun wearing smartwatches to school, so we want to take a minute to be clear about expectations for those devices. 

Students are not permitted to communicate on their personal devices during the school day. (The same rule applies to their iPads.) This includes parents. Additionally, smartwatches are only to be used to tell time during the day. Please help us in reinforcing this expectation.  If you need to contact your son/daughter during the day, please email your child's teacher or call the front office. 

We have talked about these expectations with the students. We've let them know that if they are using their smart watch, cell phone, or other personal devices to communicate (or use any additional feature beyond telling time), they will receive one warning. After that one warning, we will ask for those devices to stay at home.

Yearbooks for Sale

Our yearbook sale is now open! Each year we have a Town Center Yearbook that highlights photos from every class, school events, and staff. It is a great item to have to look back on memories from the year, and we even have a yearbook signing party in May. If you are interested in purchasing a yearbook, please see the graphic below for thee different purchasing options. As a reminder, the TCE Yearbook cost WAS NOT included in the TCE Trail Pass. If you would like a yearbook for your child(ren), you will need to purchase using the website link below.

Our yearbook committee would also love your help in submitting photos for the yearbook. As you attend campus events, if you have any photos you would like to share, see below for information on uploading them to our committee.

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

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. 

January 12th

What we are learning

Math - We will finish/solidify our quadrilateral deep dive and move on to 3D shapes because we are moving and grooving through our geometry unit! The kiddos have done really well with grasping that quadrilaterals can be more than one shape, which is such an abstract concept, especially for 8 year olds. This tells us that your children are brilliant! Our 3D shape concepts include learning the attributes (faces, edges, vertices) of cones, cylinders, prisms, and cubes. Finally, did you know that prisms are shapes that have identical bases and no curves? This will help us determine which 3D shapes can and cannot be considered prisms. Anyone, anyone? (Be sure to ask your learner at the end of the week for the answer!) Something to work on at home is making sure that your child knows the names and attributes of all 2D and 3D shapes. Ask your child to show you the Geometry Keynotes for help (ahem, not that you need it, or anything of course). Geometry, baby! Let’s gooooo!

Science - This past week we finished up learning about the cause and effects of Rapid Land Changes.  Now our survival of these is in the hands of our kids! 🙂 They will choose one rapid land change to focus on and will create a survival guide.  Stay tuned for the end result!

ELAR - 

Our 3rd grade readers will begin a new novel study using  our new read aloud, Because of Winn Dixie. We will continue working on identifying plot elements and themes, making inferences and summarizing what we read in fiction texts.

Our “Ted Talk” persuasive speeches are complete and we are looking forward to working on using our writing skills to respond to what we read!

Social Studies - Social Studies continues to be an amazing race across Geography!  As we finish our learning journal about understanding maps and globes, we will move into how communities adapt and modify their environment.