January 22nd-26th

Upcoming Dates

January 29th - PTO meeting @ 6:00

February 9th - Town Center PTO Valentine's Dance See flier below

February 14th - Class Valentine's Party @ 2:00

February 16th - No School

February 19th - Bad Weather Make Up Day (No school unless it is used for a school cancellation due to weather)

February 23rd - Heart Hustle - during Specials @ 10:10

February 29th - Spring Pictures

Class and Individual

Terrific Texans

Congratulations to this week's winners!

Jaisvi, Karmikaa, Issac

Town Center PTO Valentine's Dance

Tennis Shoes for PE & Extended Specials Day (CTT)

Please help make sure that your child wears appropriate shoes on PE days and Move & Groove (Fridays). Additionally, every other Thursday 3rd grade has extended specials during CTT. The dates are outlined for the remainder of the year below. Thank you for your help in making sure your child is safely dressed for the gym! 

CTT dates: January 25th, February 1st, February 15th, February 29th, March 7th, March 28th, April 11th, May 9th

Smart Watches

We have noticed that more and more of our students have begun wearing smartwatches to school, so we want to take a minute to be clear about expectations for those devices. 

Students are not permitted to communicate on their personal devices during the school day. (The same rule applies to their iPads.) This includes parents. Additionally, smartwatches are only to be used to tell time during the day. Please help us in reinforcing this expectation.  If you need to contact your son/daughter during the day, please email your child's teacher or call the front office. 

We have talked about these expectations with the students. We've let them know that if they are using their smart watch, cell phone, or other personal devices to communicate (or use any additional feature beyond telling time), they will receive one warning. After that one warning, we will ask for those devices to stay at home.

Yearbooks for Sale

Our yearbook sale is now open! Each year we have a Town Center Yearbook that highlights photos from every class, school events, and staff. It is a great item to have to look back on memories from the year, and we even have a yearbook signing party in May. If you are interested in purchasing a yearbook, please see the graphic below for thee different purchasing options. As a reminder, the TCE Yearbook cost WAS NOT included in the TCE Trail Pass. If you would like a yearbook for your child(ren), you will need to purchase using the website link below.

Our yearbook committee would also love your help in submitting photos for the yearbook. As you attend campus events, if you have any photos you would like to share, see below for information on uploading them to our committee.

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

Lunch Menus can be found 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. 

January 12th

What we are learning

Math - We will finish/solidify our quadrilateral deep dive and move on to 3D shapes because we are moving and grooving through our geometry unit! The kiddos have done really well with grasping that quadrilaterals can be more than one shape, which is such an abstract concept, especially for 8 year olds. This tells us that your children are brilliant! Our 3D shape concepts include learning the attributes (faces, edges, vertices) of cones, cylinders, prisms, and cubes. Finally, did you know that prisms are shapes that have identical bases and no curves? This will help us determine which 3D shapes can and cannot be considered prisms. Anyone, anyone? (Be sure to ask your learner at the end of the week for the answer!) Something to work on at home is making sure that your child knows the names and attributes of all 2D and 3D shapes. Ask your child to show you the Geometry Keynotes for help (ahem, not that you need it, or anything of course). Geometry, baby! Let’s gooooo!

Science - This past week we finished up learning about the cause and effects of Rapid Land Changes.  Now our survival of these is in the hands of our kids! 🙂 They will choose one rapid land change to focus on and will create a survival guide.  Stay tuned for the end result!

ELAR - 

Our 3rd grade readers will begin a new novel study using  our new read aloud, Because of Winn Dixie. We will continue working on identifying plot elements and themes, making inferences and summarizing what we read in fiction texts.

Our “Ted Talk” persuasive speeches are complete and we are looking forward to working on using our writing skills to respond to what we read!

Social Studies - Social Studies continues to be an amazing race across Geography!  As we finish our learning journal about understanding maps and globes, we will move into how communities adapt and modify their environment.