September 4th-8th

 

 Upcoming Dates

September 4th - Labor Day/No School

September 7th - Curriculum Night @ 5:45-6:30

Book Fair will be open during Curriculum Night from 6:30-7:15 p.m.

September 7th-15th - Book Fair

September 8th - Special Friends Day

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

September 21st - Sonic Spirit Night

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

Terrific Texan

Throughout the week our learners at TCE are working hard at going above and beyond! When any teacher catches them standing out in a positive way they are awarded a Terrific Texan. At the end of the week, there is a school-wide drawing and 3 winners are chosen from each grade level. This weeks winners are...

Jewel, Rex, and Ellyn

Special Friends Day

We are excited to see everyone on Friday, September 8th for Special Friends Day! All are welcome! Your child's special friend can be anyone from a parent to a family friend.

Sign-up Link Here

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 4th-September 8th Newsletter Linked Here!

August 28th-September 1st Newsletter Linked Here!

What we are learning

Math - In math, we are continuing on that Place Value Train, choo, choo!! We will be identifying where numbers go on the number line in order to help solidify our number sense. This will zoom us perfectly into Rounding Station, where the 3rd graders will learn the lifelong and important new skill of rounding. The Texas objective (TEK) states that the  student is expected to round whole numbers, and our place value unit extends to 120,000, so students should be able to round up to that number. Sometimes these angels get all caught up in the rules of rounding and they forget that it’s really just all about getting close to that number that ends in a 0, or a friendly number (we love a number that ends in a 0, #amiright). So here we go! The wheels on the train go round and round!

Science - We will finish up exploring different properties of solids, liquids and gases.  Then a change is coming…in states of matter that is!  This week we will begin to explore changes in states of matter and what causes them.  Up first is….(drumroll please…) Solid → Liquid.

ELAR - In Reading this week, we continue working as thinkers while we read to understand the meaning of text.  We will learn about cause and effect and how to use text clues to visualize as we read. Our writer’s workshop has begun and we will continue crafting personal stories using small moments. 

Ask your child:

• to tell you what is happening in our read aloud mentor text, The Wild Robot.

•  to tell you who the important person they chose to write a story about is and which small moment they chose to write about!

Social Studies - In social studies we are continuing to explore the ins and out of what community means. We are branching out to our Coppell community. As we do that this week, you can support your child by pointing out key places that play a role in your daily lives and routines.