March 18th-22nd

Upcoming Dates

March 8th - Early Release 12:30 p.m.

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

March 18th - PTO Meeting @ 6:00PM

March 21st - iPad swap for 2nd-5th graders at TCE

Please see Ms. Martin's email via ParentSquare with more detailed information

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

April 8th - Total Solar Eclipse

TOP Texans for 3rd 9 weeks

Congratulations to:

Karmikaa, Lisa, Isaac, and Aadhya 

Shamrock Shuffle

Solar Eclipse Viewing Information

Please see the following message from Ms. Martin:

Hello Town Center Families,

 

Coming up on Monday, April 8, 2024, between the hours of 12:30 pm and 3 p.m., the DFW area will be in the path of a total solar eclipse. This phenomenon presents an incredible science educational opportunity for all students in our district. Residents in the path of this solar eclipse will not be able to see another one in their lifetimes without significant travel.

 

Our educators in Coppell ISD will be taking a few minutes of their day to allow students to safely witness the eclipse. Many of those educators have amazing activities and lessons planned to support learning for students in all grade levels. Viewing this eclipse in a safe manner is a priority for Coppell ISD. All students and educators will be using certified eclipse viewing glasses provided by TCE or projection techniques that don’t involve looking toward the sun. 

 

If for any reason you do NOT wish for your child/student to participate in viewing the solar eclipse, please fill out this FORM at go.coppellisd.com/EclipseOptOut by 5 p.m. on Monday, March 25. 

Otherwise, we are looking forward to providing our learners with an exciting and unprecedented learning experience.

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. 

March 8th

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING

ELA - Our 3rd grade STARS will be taking the next few weeks to practice our comprehension and responding to reading skills as we prepare for the Reading STAAR test in April.  Through games, assessments, practice activities and small group learning, our 3rd grade readers will SHINE!

Want to help at home?  Encourage your reader to spend some time reading each night.  Ask them to tell you about what they read!

Social Studies - Our reading to learn skills will be strengthened as we use our Article of the Week non-fiction articles to assess understanding of key concepts we have covered in Social Studies throughout the year!

Math - We are continuing to prepare for math STAAR by practicing working with all the tools and features that will be offered when they take the test online on April 25. We will work with the ruler, the highlight feature, and the notepad feature, just to name a few. We will also continue learning all about fractions; the week after Spring Break is a giant step into Crazy Bizarro Fraction World, folks! We’ve got fractions in word problems and comparing fractions, and those two concepts are an enormous jump from 2nd grade. In 3rd grade, we compare fractions that have the same denominator (⅓<⅔) and fractions that have the same numerator (⅓>⅛). Mastering the concept of how the denominator of 3 is greater than the denominator of 8 really challenges their thinking and understanding of how the size of the piece is affected when the denominator changes. We’re doing big things over here in #BHallBestHall!

Science - After Spring Break we are starting our final unit for Science…Organisms and Ecosystems!  We will begin by looking at what makes up a habitat and explore the many different types of habitats.