Week of November 7-11

CALENDAR DATES

8th - Mock Election (Duck vs. Squid)
11th - Veterans Day Tribute- 9:00 am
18th - Turkey Trot

A PEEK AT OUR WEEK

In reading, learners will learn about making thinking tracks while we are reading. We use these text codes to help our comprehension. Then, we will move on to the reading strategy of main idea in a fiction text.

In writing, we will finish our narratives about a time when we got hurt. We will also have a new mentor sentence about commas in a series from The Name Jar. We will focus on adding commas in a series. Spelling choice board is due Thursday, November 10th and the test is Friday, November 11th. 

In social studies, we will start talking about government. We will review essential vocabulary and then learn about departments of local and state government. 

In math this week we will finally be introducing multiplication! We will begin the week by showing our learners various ways to represent multiplication. The second half of the week will be spent practicing each representation of multiplication in a number of stations. 

In science this week we will continue our simple machines engineering unit. We will be investigating the jobs of engineers, and the engineering process. The learners are so excited about the opportunity to build and test various simple machines with the help of some lovely parent volunteers! At the end of the week our learners will be putting the engineering process into action with a hands on project.  

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

Homework: 

• In lieu of weekly math homework that is assigned on Mondays and returned on Fridays we are sending home your child’s math workbooks for Third Grade. Each week we will update the Third grade blog with optional workbook pages that align with our weekly skill to serve as practice for your child. They may bring these pages back each week, and can receive a small incentive (a sticker, warm fuzzy, etc.), but it is not a requirement. There will still be many unused pages so you are free to work through your child’s workbook as you see fit. Your child is still expected as a Town Center Texan to do Reflex Math three times a week for fifteen minutes. We hope that this will allow for freedom for your child to spend their evenings creating, spending time outside, eating dinner as a family, and reading together while also allowing a resource for math support at home as you feel best fit for your child. Workbook pages for this week are pages 173-184 and 191-196. 
• Reflex Math: Students have a week (Friday-Friday) to work through their Reflex Math three times a week, for 15 minutes at a time. 
• Spelling choice board is due Thursday, November 10th and the test is Friday, November 11th. 

Cafeteria expectations: 

It is a school-wide expectation that when the lights are off, our voices are off. Please help us with following these when you are eating with your child in the cafeteria.

Background Check:

Please take a minute to fill out a background check. It only takes a few minutes and the link is below. You will need to have completed a background check to volunteer at school and attend special events and field trips. You must complete a new background check each school year. http://www.coppellisd.com/Page/22

CHARACTER AT TCE

Citizenship Quality: Cooperation

Life Principal: Common Sense
Town Center Common Courtesy: There is a napkin provided for the purpose of cleaning your fingers.