Monday, February 20, 2017

February 21- 24

Hello 3rd Grade Families! We hope you had a wonderful extended weekend with your families! Thanks for taking the time to read through our blog. 

Thank you so much to our wonderful room parents for planning such FUN Valentine's parties for our 3rd Graders! Thank you so much for all of your hard work. Our kids had a total blast!


CALENDAR
February 24th- Jump Rope For Heart (2:10-3:00)
February 28th and March 1st- Practice STAAR
March 6th-10th- Book Fair
March 7th- Donuts with Dudes (Last names- A-M)
March 8th- Donuts with Dudes (Last names- N-Z)
March 9th- Open House


ANNOUNCEMENTS
From P.E.:
We have kicked off our annual campus service learning fundraiser to help support the American Heart Association. In the past five years, we have raised of $100,000 to support the organization and funded special grants to help heart surgeries and research. We are hope to reach the goal of $20,000 this year! If we reach our goal... Mr. Shelby and Dr. Applegate will have buckets of slime poured on them! You can get a “jump start” by fundraising online at www.heart.org/jump orwww.heart.org/hoops.


From 3rd Grade:
Please ask your child if he or she needs headphones at school! It makes using technology a little easier when everyone can hear. 😊

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.http://www.coppellisd.com/Page/22

Mark your calendars! Our 3rd grade field trip to the Frisco Sci-Tech Discovery Center will be April 5th. If you have returned your permission slip, please do so ASAP. Also if you are wanting to chaperone, please let your child's teacher know! Please make sure you have completed a background check and paid your $9 entrance fee.


PEEK AT OUR WEEK

Math: This week our learners will be digging (literally!) into area and perimeter. We will be using our Town Center garden to help us better understand are and perimeter. We will start exploring concepts like finding the area of composite figures or find the perimeter of polygons.

Science: In science we will continue our learning about the relationship between the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth. We will begin to brainstorm the role that the sun plays on our Earth in relation to the water cycle. We will also start to measure and record day-to-day weather changes.

Social Studies: learners will review nonfiction texts. We will continue to read biographies and focus on important nonfiction reading skills, such as captions, photographs, illustrations, titles, subtitles, and facts.

Reading: learners will integrate writing to create past personal narrative reflections. We will also have a new nonfiction OTW due on Friday.

Writing: This week we will be finishing our poetry unit. They are currently creating poetry portfolios with several different types of poems that they have written! We will be sharing out our original poems during a "poetry slam" on Friday.

HOMEWORK
Math: Please remember that we have started a new homework routine. Your child should be coming home with a new homework page that will be due on Friday, February 24th. Reflex Math still needs to be done 3 times a week. If you would still like to complete workbook pages, those pages for this week are 525-530.

Reading: We will continue our new Of The Week (OTW) homework. Learners will have one activity each night, then a short comprehension quiz on Friday.

Spelling: There is no more Spelling Choice Board homework. Students are responsible for learning their words and will take the next post test Friday, February 24, but the choice board is not part of the homework.


CHARACTER AT TCE

Citizenship Quality: Respect
Life Principal: Friendship
Town Center Common Courtesy: Greet visitors and make them feel welcome. 

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