April 29th-May 3r

Upcoming Dates

May 1st  -  Author visit

May 2nd -  Spring Family Picnic 6:00-7:30

May 7th -  CISD Parent Budget Meeting - Zoom @ 6:00 p.m.

May 8th -  3rd Grade Field to Heard Museum

May 20th -  Field Day

May 24th -  Last Day of School & Early Release @ 12:30 p.m.

Terrific Texans

Congratulations to this week's winners!

Aryash, Mohammad, Karmikaa

Author Visit

ednesday, May 1st, author-illustrator James Burks will visit TCE. If you would like him to sign one of his books for you, please purchase a book from the retailer of your choice and deliver it to Mrs. Mancuso by Monday, April 29th.

Sack Summer Hunger

Field Trip

We are excited for our upcoming field trip to the Heard Museum in McKinney on Wednesday, May 8th.  Detailed information and the permission slip came home Friday with your child.  Please make sure to ask them about it!  IMPORTANT: If you would like to chaperone OR are even considering it please make sure you have completed a background check for THIS school year (23-24).  It is a requirement to complete this every school year in order to volunteer at the school and chaperone on field trips.  If you are unsure as to if you have completed this for this school year, please reach out to your child's teacher.

If you still need to complete please click on the link and follow the steps:

https://www.coppellisd.com/page/visiting-and-volunteering

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.

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. 

April 26th

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING

ELA - We will continue on our journey of folktales, this time entering a magical world of incredible myths. In writing, we will be getting ready to start writing fractured fairy tales! 

Ask your learner what is similar and different about fairytales, fables and legends!

Social Studies - As we roll into another week of exploring historical figures,, we will begin an exciting project to make our research come to life! 

Ask your learner to tell you about their newscast video from our mind mission on Jonas Salk!

Math - We have made it to our final unit, which is using all of our amazing 3rd grade math skills in order to enrich and practice our skills! These enrichment activities will involve our end of the year choiceboard and various apps and explorations. This will be ongoing for the next several weeks, and we hope the kiddos will have fun while applying their math within different contexts. Go 3rd graders go

Science - Next week in Science we will explore the structures and functions of plants and animals and how they are able to survive in their habitats.