February 26th-March 1st

 

Upcoming Dates

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

February 29th - Spring Pictures

Class and Individual

March 7th - Open House 5:30-6:30

March 8th -Spirit Rally @ 8:00 a.m.

March 8th-15th - Spring Break - No School

March 18th - PTO Meeting @ 6:00PM

March 29th - Shamrock Shuffle (During 3rd grade Specials @10:10)

Terrific Texans

Congratulations to this week's winners!

Anna, Alexa, and Eleanore

STEAM Night - February 26th

A Note from Coach Hayes: 21 Day Snack Challenge

Registration is now open for the 21 Day Snack Challenge. Families can register through February 29th which is also the start date of the Challenge. Kiddos participating in 21-Day Snack challenge will make a commitment to eat 1 healthy snack for 21 straight days. The CISD school with the most kiddos registered and completed surveys at the end of the challenge will receive additional resources for the PE department. Register at https://kids-teaching-kids.com/. Any class with 100% registration will receive extra PE time playing 9-Square in the Air.

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 26th

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING

ELA - We are finishing Winn Dixie this week and beginning an end of unit project that encompasses them, summarization and their understanding of story elements. It will be fun to showcase these to you during open house the following week.

Also, we are entering into our poetry unit for reading and writing next! Snaps all around!

Social Studies - This week in social studies we will continue to learn about financial literacy. Learners will discuss the need for bartering and money. They will also explore the human, capital and natural resources.

Math - This week we immerse ourselves in Crazy Bizarro Fraction World, where nothing is what it seems and numbers don’t follow the rules we all know. By the end of the week we will be able to identify fractional parts, fractions on a number line, and fractions in a set. We will understand what it means to be a numerator and denominator and that fractions are equal parts of a whole. It’s a big week for these kiddos, and they’re about to crush it!

Science - For the next 2 weeks in Science we will continue our Planet Research Project.  The kids have been hard at work gathering facts about each planet that they will then use to create a virtual museum.