February 12th-16th

Upcoming Dates

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 See flier below

February 26th - TCE STEAM Night (on our campus with support from Perot Museum) 5:30-7:00 p.m.

February 29th - Spring Pictures

Class and Individual

Terrific Texans

Congratulations to this week's winners!

Anna, Camden, Neha

Town Center PTO Valentine's Dance

Valentine's Party

Our class Valentine's Day party will be on Wednesday, February 14th at 2:00 p.m. Please have your child address a Valentine's card to each child in their homeroom. The names of students in the class were sent home on Friday, February 2nd. Please reach out to your homeroom teacher if you need a new list. You may attach a small treat to the card, if you would like. Please have them bring cards with them to school on or before Wednesday, February 14th. 

We will be decorating Valentine's bags (to collect our Valentines in) at school so there is no need to send in a box or bag!

Parents are welcome to join us on the day of the party. The party in each classroom will be run by the room parents. If you plan on attending, you will need to check in at the front office using your ID. All grade-level parties will be happening at 2:00 so please plan accordingly for parking/check-in. 

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! 

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. 

February 5th

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING

ELA -

Continuing our journey with Opal and Winn-Dixie, our readers will practice the skills of literal and non literal text, point of view, context clues and more!  Ask your reader to tell you about a theme they are learning about through the book or from one of our Pixar shorts we have watched. You might just learn a valuable life lesson!

Writers improve their skills through feedback!  We will be using feedback and a rubric to evaluate our RACE responses! Learn more about the Race strategy below!

Social Studies - How do humans adapt to their physical environments? We will work on researching different types of areas and regions to help answer that question!

Math - ‘Round the outside, ‘round the outside: perimeter is our topic this week, and it’s new for 3rd graders. Perimeter measures the distance around an object. Finding the perimeter: We. Add. Up. All. The. Sides. It sounds easy enough, and it is, but sometimes 3rd graders take issue with switching back and forth between area (length x width) and perimeter (side + side + side + side). Another difference is that we can find the perimeter of any shape, as we’re just adding up all the sides, but we can only find the area of squares and rectangles in 3rd grade. Last, but not least, we will learn how to find the missing side. That means they are given the perimeter to start. Then, they add up all the sides they know and subtract that amount from the perimeter. You better lose yourself in the moment you own it you better never let it go go go… !

Science - Next week in Science we will expand our space exploration to look at all 8 planets…Sorry, Pluto this doesn’t include you.  Poor Pluto.  We will focus on the order of the planets from the sun → Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.  We will use the mnemonic to help us; My Very Excellent Mom Just Served Us Nachos.