Sunday, January 12, 2025

January 13th-17th

   

January 17th - Interskate Night 6:00 - 8:00 PM
January 20th - No School - MLK Day
January 24th - Middle of Year MAP testing - please make sure iPads are charged
January 27th - PTO Meeting @ 6:00 PM
January 28th - Cultural Night 5:30-7:00 PM


Character Trait of the Week
Week of January 13th

Thinkapalooza

Yearbook

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 2025: 1/23, 2/6, 2/20, 3/6, 3/27, 4/10, 4/25, 5/8



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. 

December 6th Newsletter!

ELA -

During our reading block this week, we will review point of view and character development. We will also focus on elements of plot and how actions impact the story line. We will be using the vocabulary terms cause and effect. You can use it too in your daily lives to help them understand the difference between the two. 

This week in writing we will put our writing skills to use by setting some 2025 resolutions and talking about our snow day adventures.

In grammar, we will look at using coordinating conjunctions to combine two sentences.  We explore how and when to use them and how they can make our writing stronger.  


Social Studies - In Social Studies we will be learning more about Martin Luther King Jr. and comparing him to some other historical figures.

Math - Because of the snow days, this week is now a combo week of finishing our function machines and starting our geometry unit. The long-awaited function machines are coming home to you on Tuesday, so make sure to set some time aside to let your child amaze and astonish you! On Wednesday, we’ll begin our geometry unit, which is interesting: it’s a math unit that depends heavily on the memorization of words versus doing actual math. There is lots of new vocabulary in this unit! This week, we’ll practice (this is a 2nd grade skill) identifying our polygons from triangles (3 sides) all the way to dodecagons (12 sides). We will also work on learning the difference between a side, a vertex, and an angle, and we will learn about new words like parallel and congruent. Something to keep in mind is that while this is a unit that we will build upon when learning about area and perimeter, and while geometry knowledge is important for STAAR, no geometry standards are assessed on the report card. Please reach out if you have any questions!

Science - In Science we will finish up our exploration on how soil is formed by focusing on decomposition and its roll in the process. 
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Sunday, December 15, 2024

December 16th-20th

  

December 19th - Class Winter Parties @ 2:00 - Parents are invited to attend!
December 20th - No School - Staff Workday
December 23rd - January 6th - No School - Winter Break


Character Trait of the Week
Week of December 16th



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. 
Congratulations to our winners this week!

Lane, Ella and Shambhavi


Yearbook



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 2025: 1/9, 1/23, 2/6, 2/20, 3/6, 3/27, 4/10, 4/25, 5/8



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. 

December 6th Newsletter!

ELA -

In our week before the break, we will use our writing skills to create holiday cards and a fun “If I were stuck in a snow globe” writing.

In reading this week we will continue reading Because of Winn Dixie. We will work on character arc, plot and point of view as we will continue to do throughout the book. We will also read a few holiday books and create a “secret craft” to do with them.


Social Studies - This week will round up our unit on research, geography, and how humans interact with the environment.

Math - We are going to work on our input/output tables this week, which will make us ready to go for our first-week-back-in- January math project of Function Machines! There are 3 types of input/output tables that 3rd graders are expected to know how to do; please see the picture and explanations below.

On #1, the learners are given the input and the rule and are expected to find the output. On #2, the learners are given the output and the rule and are expected to do the inverse (opposite) operation to find the input. On #3, the learners are given the input and the output and are expected to guess and check to find the rule - this one is the most difficult of the 3. Our Function Machines will help us practice these tables - shout out to Venus Bhasin, Veronica Costilla, and Kevin Krone. These parents have come to help build the machines and I am so thankful!

I have had some people ask about dot plots. Please see the pic and explanations below:

In this dot plot (also called number plots), the Xs mean people, and the 1, 2, 3, and 4 below the line mean the number of siblings students have.

Can you believe our first semester is done? I can’t even! Please enjoy your holiday break and we’ll see you in 2025 for more amazing 3rd grade math!


Science - We will continue our weathering exploration this week.  We are in the middle of a Salt Lick Experiment to demonstrate mechanical weathering and will continue to monitor it and record our observations.  
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Sunday, December 8, 2024

December 9th-13th

  

December 2nd-12th - Kindergarten & First Grade Giving Tree - More details below!
December 13th - Reindeer Run - 3rd grade @ 10:10 a.m. (Parents are invited to attend) & Family Friday Lunch - 3rd grade @ 12:00
December 19th - Class Winter Parties @ 2:00 - Parents are invited to attend!
December 20th - No School - Staff Workday
December 23rd - January 6th - No School - Winter Break


Character Trait of the Week
Week of December 2nd


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. 
Congratulations to our winners this week! 

Lane, Caden and Shambhavi

Kindergarten and First Grade Giving Tree


Metrocrest Services
Metrocrest Services provides two seasonal support options for families:
  • The Thanksgiving Food program provides holiday favorites such as turkey, dressing, and food to help you and your family during the Thanksgiving holiday break. 
  • The Holiday program makes the holiday season a little brighter by allowing parents to go to our holiday store and choose unwrapped toys for their children. In addition, participants can pick up non-perishable food and winter coats for the family. 
To register, complete an application HERE.

Yearbook


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: 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. 

December 6th Newsletter!

ELA -

In Writing the next 2 weeks we will put a fun, festive spin on argumentative writing! We will be exploring some fun Would You Rather questions and they will pick a side and argue their stance.


We will continue character studies and working on test taking as a genre. You can talk with your child about their “good fit” fiction chapter book they are reading. We are working on reading stamina and challenging ourselves with quality literature!


Social Studies - Our social studies journey will take us through humans and their environment. We will study ways the earth changes on its own, and we will also study ways humans change the earth!

Math - That’s a wrap on division and multiplication! We will have our unit test on Tuesday, December 10. This test will include multiplication and division representations, 2 by 1 digit multiplication, multiplication and division word problems, using the inverse operation to find the answer (if you know that 2x3=6, you also know that 6➗3=2), and determining if a number is even or odd. An optional review page was sent home on December 5 in case you want to review that with your child; please let Mrs. Naughton know if you have any questions. Please continue to help your kiddo memorize those multiplication and division facts to 10 - remember, it’s a marathon, not a sprint!! After the test next week, we will learn about bar graphs, pictographs, and dot plots. Data analysis is a continuous unit that we go back to throughout 3rd grade; next week will be our first time this year to discuss these skills. Dot plots are new for 3rd grade; they’ve been working on pictographs and bar graphs for a few grades already. I find that children can analyze the graphs pretty easily; the issue is understanding the specific question that’s being asked and then using that data from the graph and doing math with it to answer that question correctly.  For instance, they can read a graph and see that 30 kids like chocolate ice cream and 17 kids like vanilla, but do they know what to do when the question asks how many more kids like chocolate than vanilla (30-17=13)? As usual, it all goes back to word problems, so we practice, practice, practice to take away the fear and strengthen our math reasoning and number sense. Keep calm and solve the word problem, ya know?

Science - Next week we are coming back down to Earth.  We will explore soil and how it is formed; through weathering and decomposition.
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