October 2nd-6th

 

 Upcoming Dates

October 5th - Spirit Rally @ 8:00 a.m.

October 5th - EARLY RELEASE @ 12:30 p.m. 

October 5th & 6th - Fall Parent Conferences

October 6th & 9th - NO SCHOOL

October 5th - PTO Meeting @ 6:00pm

October 20th - Color Run @ 6:00pm

October 27th - Jack-O-Lantern Jog (during Specials @ 10:10)

Terrific Texan

Congratulations to this week's winners!

Karmikaa, Holly and Krithya

Thanksgiving Baskets

St. Ann’s Catholic Parish is once again sponsoring Thanksgiving basket deliveries (or a pickup option at St Ann’s Church if you prefer). This program provides families in need with a complete Thanksgiving dinner for the entire family. The baskets will be delivered to your home the weekend before Thanksgiving, so it is important that an adult representing the family be at the home between the hours of Noon and 4PM on Sunday November 19th, 2023. The deadline to sign up for a basket is October 20th, 2023.

Please completely fill out the following form by clicking this link: 2023 St. Ann's Thanksgiving Baskets. You may contact Nurse Crenshaw with any questions at kcrenshaw@coppellisd.com or 214-496-7816.

Make a Child Smile

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

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. 

September 29th Newsletter

What we are learning

Math - That’s a wrap folks! Wave a fond farewell to Place Value! While it is the basis of all math and we would be lost without it, it’s time to stop hammering it and just let it be…we’ve spent a lot of time working on subtraction with regrouping in small groups and feel ready to tackle our place value post test, which will be Wednesday, October 3. We will review on Tuesday, October 2. Topics to review: Base 10 block representation (counting and drawing numbers with place value blocks, expanded notation (example 2,463= (2x1,000) + (4x100) + (6x10) + (3x1), expanded form, addition and subtraction with and without regrouping (borrowing and carrying), and the Base 10 relationship (every place value spot on the left is 10 times greater than the place value spot to its right), and rounding. Onward and upward! Next on deck? Multiplication and Division!

Science - Adios Properties of Matter…Hello Force, Motion and Energy!  We will start with exploring different forms of energy in our everyday life; light, heat, sound and mechanical.  

ELAR - In Reading this week, we will be working on making inferences and using text evidence to support them as we read.  Our learners are publishing our personal narrative stories and will be practicing the writing process with another story from start to finish! 

Social Studies - We’ll be taking a trip around the world by continuing our culture research.  As we complete the research, we will create a final project synthesizing our learning. It’s sure to be a celebration!

September 25th-29th

 

 Upcoming Dates

September 29th - Fall Frolic Run (during Specials 10:10-11:00)

October 5th - Spirit Rally @ 8:00 a.m.

October 5th - Early Release @ 12:30 p.m. 

October 5th & 6th - Fall Parent Conferences

October 6th & 9th - NO School

Terrific Texan

Congratulations to this week's winners!

Nathan, Neha, and Ellie (not pictured)

Fall Frolic

Make a Child Smile

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

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. 

September 18th-22nd Newsletter

What we are learning

Math - It’s the Math Mashup week! We’re not quite ready to move on to multiplication and division, but we want to use the next week to touch on the new 3rd grade concept of dot plots (also called line plots), review all things place value, and we’ll throw some frequency tables into the mix. And then, because #yolo, all that math will have a common theme of financial literacy. Makes perfect sense to me!

Science - Next week in Science we will continue our exploration of combining materials.  The students will have to choose materials that they believe will be best combined together to construct the strongest bridge.   

ELAR - In ELAR this week we will be applying our connection making to show that things we read can either be sorted into new learning, or learning we can attach to something we already know. In writing we are drafting our narratives and are coming close to an author celebration.  

Social Studies - We will revisit Constitution day and freedom week this week as it is one of our important recognition days this month. We will also highlight American Indian Heritage day. We will dive into our unit on Culture next!.

September 18th-22nd

 Upcoming Dates

September 20th - Wear Green for Start with Hello Week

September 21st - Sonic Spirit Night

5:00-8:00 p.m. - Sonic Drive-in on Denton Tap in Coppell

September 22nd - Family Game Night

Put on by our TCE Dad's Club - see the graphic below for details! 

September 29th - Fall Frolic Run (during Specials 10:10-11:00)

Terrific Texan

Congratulations to this week's winners!

Corbin, Harper and Dylan

Family Game Night

Make a Child Smile

Start With Hello

We are excited to launch Start with Hello Week at Town Center during September 18-22!

Program Overview

The Start With Hello program empowers students in grades K-12 to recognize loneliness and social isolation in their peers, offering effective strategies to reach out and help, and ways they can grow an empathetic and inclusive community.  The program is designed around three goals that are accomplished using the program’s framework and reinforced throughout the program cycle.

Goals

The three goals of the Start With Hello program are to teach students how to:

• Recognize loneliness and social isolation in peers.

• Help their peers who may be lonely and/or socially isolated.

• Grow an empathetic and inclusive community.

Program Framework

The goals are accomplished using our three-step program framework:

1. See Someone Alone: learn how to recognize social isolation and loneliness.

2. Reach Out and Help: learn the benefits of helping peers who are lonely or socially isolated as well as strategies to overcome the challenges.

3. Start with Hello: learn ways to help peers who are lonely and socially isolated as well as help create a more connected and inclusive community.

Check out the graphic below to learn more about how we will reinforce these skills at TCE this year!  💚

Snacks

 We will have a short snack time each day, while we work, to keep our brains and bodies fueled for learning. In order to ensure a safe classroom environment for everyone, we ask that you please DO NOT send any snacks that contain peanuts/tree nuts. Please send a small, healthy snack (ex: fruit, cereal, crackers, goldfish, etc.) each day that does not require a fork or spoon to eat. Additionally, please send a water bottle with a sports (no spill) top daily.

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

iPad Resources/Updates/Charging

As we start to get into our day to day routines, we will begin using our iPads daily. Please help remind your child to charge their iPad's each night! This is extremely important as we have a VERY limited amount of chargers in the classroom, as well as, charging space.

Our Digital Learning Coach, Ms. Tinch, has also shared some parent iPad resources that you might find very helpful at home:

Screen time and restrictions: Click Here

Screen Guide: Click Here

Additional Parent Resources: Click 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. 

September 18th-22nd Newsletter

What we are learning

Math - When the going gets tough, the tough get going and explain regrouping to their parents. In this case, the tough are the 3rd grade children, and they are gonna knock it out of the park on this subtraction with regrouping - which just means we are going to borrow. We will work on subtracting 3 digit numbers, which includes subtracting across 0s and also having to regroup the middle digit twice (both types of problems are 3rd grade skills). See the example below of both of those kinds of subtraction problems, and happy regrouping!

Science - Rollin…rollin’...rollin into our last week…of our Properties of Matter Unit!  (Did you channel your inner Tina Turner just now?) We will be exploring how materials can be combined based on their physical properties to create or modify objects such as building a tower or adding clay to sand to make a stronger brick. 

ELAR - Retelling stories is the name of the game in reading class this week! We will work on the “five finger” retell strategy as well as looking to retell BIG moments from the text.  We will continue working on our small moment personal narratives while diving deep into proper nouns in grammar.

Social Studies - Not only will we be celebrating Constitution day and freedom week this week, we will continue our unit on communities by exploring the role culture plays in our lives.

September 11th-15th

 Upcoming Dates

September 7th-15th - Book Fair

September 8th - Last Day to order spirit wear and Grade Level Shirts

September 11th - Science MAP 

September 14th - College T-Shirt Day 

September 21st - Sonic Spirit Night

September 29th - Fall Frolic Run (during Specials 10:10-11:00)

Terrific Texan

Congratulations to this week's winners!

Sadbhaav, Emma, Capri 

Curriculum Night

Thank you to all our families who were able to make it out to curriculum night! We loved sharing with you all that we are learning in 3rd grade. If you were unable to make it, you can check out our presentation linked below. As always, please feel free to reach out to your child's teacher if you have any questions or concerns. We are more than happy to help out and answer in any way that we can!

Curriculum Night 23/24

Shout out to our 3rd grade raffle winner! We loved this fun incentive our school put on for all our TCE families who joined us for curriculum night.  

Start With Hello

We are excited to launch Start with Hello Week at Town Center during September 18-22!

Program Overview

The Start With Hello program empowers students in grades K-12 to recognize loneliness and social isolation in their peers, offering effective strategies to reach out and help, and ways they can grow an empathetic and inclusive community.  The program is designed around three goals that are accomplished using the program’s framework and reinforced throughout the program cycle.

Goals

The three goals of the Start With Hello program are to teach students how to:

• Recognize loneliness and social isolation in peers.

• Help their peers who may be lonely and/or socially isolated.

• Grow an empathetic and inclusive community.

Program Framework

The goals are accomplished using our three-step program framework:

1. See Someone Alone: learn how to recognize social isolation and loneliness.

2. Reach Out and Help: learn the benefits of helping peers who are lonely or socially isolated as well as strategies to overcome the challenges.

3. Start with Hello: learn ways to help peers who are lonely and socially isolated as well as help create a more connected and inclusive community.

Check out the graphic below to learn more about how we will reinforce these skills at TCE this year!  💚

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

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. 

September 11th-15th

September 4th-September 8th Newsletter Linked Here!

What we are learning

Math - Next station up for the Place Value Train iiisssss ROUNDING, and we are rolling right along, folks! Kiddos often get bogged down in the details and rules of rounding and forget the big picture: they’re trying to find the closest friendly number, or number that ends in a 0. In addition to rounding, we’ll work on addition - see what I did there - and subtraction. Now, friends, I’m gonna throw out a “new math” term (also what was wrong with the old math?), but don’t panic - I’ll translate into old school: the term is regrouping, and the translation is carry the 1 (addition) and borrow (subtraction). That’s familiar, right? It’s a new skill for 3rd graders, but only because they’ve never used it with 3 and 4 digit numbers or across 0s, so we start from the beginning. It’s a big week, jam packed with 2 math skills they’ll use for the rest of their life! What’s better than that? Answer: nothing. #thingsmathteacherssay

Science - This week we will continue exploring changing states of matter.  We will spend a day focusing on each: Freezing, Melting, Evaporation and Condensation.   The best way to explore this is with some hands-on learning!  We will be conducting experiments to explore these changes and what causes them.

ELAR - Our readers will dive into the comprehension skills of prediction and retelling fiction stories this week.. As your learner is reading at home, ask them to tell you about what they read and what predictions they made before and during their reading!  

In writing, we will continue writing our personal narrative stories that were inspired by a special place. This week, we will learn about how to create introductions that “hook” the reader and the elements of a solid conclusion!

Social Studies - In social studies we are still in our community unit. We are exploring the different functions of community characteristics and how cultures play a role in community development.