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Upcoming Dates

April 29th

Fundraiser Kick-Off

May 7th 

Event Day- Save the date! Face-to-face learners will participate in the gym during their specials time, and remote learners will join in on the fun virtually with their class at that time

May 11th

Face to Face learners take Math STAAR

May 12th

Face to Face learners take Reading STAAR

May 18th

Virtual learners at school to take Math STAAR

May 19th

Virtual learners at school to take Reading STAAR

Announcements

Please make note of the following STAAR testing dates:

Optional Parent Conference

As we enter the last nine weeks, I want to be sure you know that we're here if you have any questions or if you would like to touch base about your son/daughter's progress. By now you've had a chance to view the third nine weeks report card and winter MAP assessments. If you have any questions, we would like to extend the offer to speak with your learner's teacher via phone call or Zoom. This is completely OPTIONAL

Library Information

Dance Party Fundraiser

3rd families! 

We’re almost there! Our TCE Dance Party fundraiser kicks off in one week. We’ve already gotten donations to help our school! As a reminder our goal is to raise $12,000 for classroom grants and materials to support our school. Are we ready to be the top fundraising grade?

Here are 3 things we can do to help support our school through this fundraiser:

1. Register on funrun.com tonight. It’s very easy
2. Share about our fundraiser with family and friends using the SHARE BUTTON on 
3. Give a donation if you are able to; though all students will fully participate regardless of financial participation.

There’s also this very cool video called the Student Star Video that you can create for your student on the funrun.com website. You’ll have to see for yourself, but you upload a photo of your child and they become part of the video. It's a great item to share with your friends and family when seeking their support. 

Thanks again for your support

Parent Newsletter

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iPad Charging

Please ensure that your child is plugging in their iPad when they get home and charging it overnight. We have had an issue with a large group of learners in each class coming to school with their iPad dead. This makes charging at the same time hard and distancing even harder. We would love your help with iPads arriving at school charged. 

What are we learning?

Math: Alas, we have left Crazy Bizarro Fraction World, but do not despair! It was time to say goodbye and move on. We will work on Personal Finance and Measurement this week. Personal Finance is one of those strange math units where there is no math, only memorization of big ol' abstract terms like budget and human capital. Luckily, our wonderful Mrs. Shelby and Ms. McFarling, Social Studies teachers extraordinaire, have taught these concepts already. Most of the week will be spent on measurement. The 3rd grade TEKS include liquid capacity and weight. No conversions from one unit to another have to be made in third grade, hooray! And theeeennnn, everyone's favorite: Flashback Friday! We will spend another day practicing adding (and let's be honest, subtracting) 3 and 4 digit numbers. Happy mathing!

Language Arts: In reading we are going to continue STAAR prep. We will start the week off by learning dictionary skills (finding unknown words in a paper dictionary). We will finish the week by overviewing past STAAR practice passages and working on skills we have identified we need more work with based on our heat maps. 

Science: We will be looking at plants and their role in the environment.  We will be exploring the parts of a plant and their functions, as well as, how plants can adapt to the changing environment.

Social Studies: In Social Studies, the learners will create a timeline for their historical figure.  They will also be creating an informational poster with all of their research to showcase their individual.