Sunday, September 29, 2024

September 30th-October 4th

 Upcoming Dates

October 4th - Family Friday Lunches begin!
October 9th - Picture retake day for anyone absent or wanting a retake
October 10th - Spirit Rally @ 8:00 am - visitors will need to check in at the front desk
October 11th - No School & Parent Conferences (sign ups went out last week)
October 18th - Evening Color Run @ TCE - All families invited & more details to come
Nov. 5th - No school for students - district professional development
Nov. 11th - Veteran's Day Ceremony 8:00am-9:00am - We invite all veterans that are family and/or friends of our learners to join us that morning as we celebrate our veterans in a school-wide assembly

Terrific Texans
Throughout the week our learners at TCE work hard at going above and beyond! When any teacher catches them standing out in a positive way they are awarded a Terrific Texan. At the end of the week, there is a school-wide drawing and 3 winners are chosen from each grade level.
Congratulations to our winners this week! 
Haran, Josiah and Anna

Color Run

Yearbook


A Note from Nurse Crenshaw

St. Ann’s Catholic Parish is once again sponsoring Thanksgiving Basket deliveries (or a pickup option at St Ann’s Church if you prefer). This program provides families in need with a complete Thanksgiving dinner for the entire family. The baskets will be delivered to your home the weekend before Thanksgiving, so it is critically important that an adult representing the family be at the home between the hours of Noon and 4PM on Sunday, November 24th, 2024. The deadline to sign up for a basket is October 22nd, 2024.

Please fill out this form with all information requested. Please contact Nurse Crenshaw if you have any questions. kcrenshaw@coppellisd.com



Mobile Food Pantry

Coppell Cares


Coppell Cares offers the Weekend Backpack Program for families who have financial need. Each Friday, learners receive a bag of snacks for the weekend. The goal of the program is to help eliminate food insecurity for children. They provide nutritious breakfast, lunch and snack items to eligible CISD children (and siblings). This weekly food program helps feed children over the weekend during the school year when they are not receiving meals at school. 

If you would like your child(ren) to participate in this program, please complete the online application below.  If you would prefer a paper copy to be sent home with your child, please email TCE's counselor, Kelly Matlock, at kmatlock@coppellisd.com.  Families may sign up for this program at any time during the school year.  Deliveries will begin Friday, September 6th.  Deliveries will be suspended for Thanksgiving Week, Winter Break, and Spring Break.

2024-2025 Coppell Cares - Weekend Backpack

2024-2025 Coppell Cares - Mochila de fin de semana

Attendance
go.coppellisd.com/attendancenote

Background Checks

We ask that all families complete a volunteer background check at the start of the year. They do not carry over from year to year. Since the background checks take time to process, we ask that everyone complete one in case any type of volunteering opportunity (class field trip, Dad's Club, Room parent, class volunteer, field day, etc.) arises during the year that you are interested in. Please click on the link below to complete it.

Background Checks - Linked Here



Tennis Shoes for PE & Extended Specials Day (CTT)

Please help ensure 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! 


3rd Grade CTT Dates for 2024: 10/10, 10/24, 11/7, 11/21, 12/12



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. 

September 27th Newsletter!

ELA -

Writing is a process and they have been working hard on all the stages!  In writing this week we will work on revising and editing our narrative drafts so that we can move into publishing them!  

In Grammar we will work on identifying and constructing simple sentences.  

This week we are reviewing our friction study. Each student will have the opportunity to practice all of the tools in their kit. We will be applying so many strategies while we read. Here a few we will revisit this week:

-Readers stop to give themselves comprehension checks by asking who, what, where questions.

-Readers think about what the text is asking them to do. They visualize to make movies in their mind, or they make a list to gather information.

- Readers make high level predictions based on background knowledge and evidence from the text.

-Readers us a variety of strategies to figure out the meaning of words they don’t know: Gist, Antonyms, Synonyms, Explanation

-Readers retell important events that happen in the story to solidify understanding

-Readers make deep connections to the text with themselves, other texts and the world

-Readers respond to text using complete thoughts and sentences that involve restating the prompt.


Social Studies - In social studies this week, we will continue our unit on citizenship. We learn lots in this unit about our civil duties as citizens. We will also begin to learn about different government structures.

Math - We have gotten thiiiiiiiis close to finishing our place value unit and are starting to look forward to taking our place value post test (right now I’m thinking it will be on Tuesday, October 8). We’ve been checking our knowledge and showing what we know on our Schoology checks. These are short (3-4 questions) checks about 1 concept. For example, all 4 questions are about subtraction, or comparing, or expanded form. This data helps me know who needs extra help with a certain concept. In addition to reteaching and helping your learner practice our 3rd grade place value skills, we will learn about estimating sums and differences this week. The rule for this is if the word problem wants to know ABOUT how many, we round first, then add (or subtract). The first nine weeks is coming to a close - wild, right? Soon we’ll be moving on to multiplication and division; what a time to be alive!

Science - This week we will begin our new unit Force, Motion and Energy…oh my!  We will kick it off by demonstrating and describing how forces (magnetism, gravity, pushes and pulls) act on an object.
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Sunday, September 22, 2024

September 23rd-27th

 Upcoming Dates

September 27th - Fall Frolic Run

This will be during each grade level's specials time (3rd grade - 10:10 a.m.). Parents are invited to attend.


October 4th - Family Friday Lunches begin!
October 9th - Picture retake day for anyone absent or wanting a retake
October 11th - No School & Parent Conferences (More info to come soon)
October 18th - Evening Color Run @ TCE - All families invited & more details to come

Terrific Texans
Throughout the week our learners at TCE work hard at going above and beyond! When any teacher catches them standing out in a positive way they are awarded a Terrific Texan. At the end of the week, there is a school-wide drawing and 3 winners are chosen from each grade level.
Congratulations to this weeks winners! 
Dharit, Raj and Anna
Metro Services - Mobile Food Pantry

Curriculum Night
We enjoyed seeing and meeting so many of you on Curriculum Night!  In case you were not able to attend or would like to refer back to our slides here is a link to what we covered.  Please let us know if you have any questions.  We are excited for this school year!
Curriculum Night 24/25

Coppell Cares


Coppell Cares offers the Weekend Backpack Program for families who have financial need. Each Friday, learners receive a bag of snacks for the weekend. The goal of the program is to help eliminate food insecurity for children. They provide nutritious breakfast, lunch and snack items to eligible CISD children (and siblings). This weekly food program helps feed children over the weekend during the school year when they are not receiving meals at school. 

If you would like your child(ren) to participate in this program, please complete the online application below.  If you would prefer a paper copy to be sent home with your child, please email TCE's counselor, Kelly Matlock, at kmatlock@coppellisd.com.  Families may sign up for this program at any time during the school year.  Deliveries will begin Friday, September 6th.  Deliveries will be suspended for Thanksgiving Week, Winter Break, and Spring Break.

2024-2025 Coppell Cares - Weekend Backpack

2024-2025 Coppell Cares - Mochila de fin de semana

Attendance
go.coppellisd.com/attendancenote

Background Checks

We ask that all families complete a volunteer background check at the start of the year. They do not carry over from year to year. Since the background checks take time to process, we ask that everyone complete one in case any type of volunteering opportunity (class field trip, Dad's Club, Room parent, class volunteer, field day, etc.) arises during the year that you are interested in. Please click on the link below to complete it.

Background Checks - Linked Here



Tennis Shoes for PE & Extended Specials Day (CTT)

Please help ensure 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! 


3rd Grade CTT Dates for 2024: 9/26, 10/10, 10/24, 11/7, 11/21, 12/12



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. 

September 13th Newsletter!

ELA - We have planned.  We have discussed.  We have shared with our partners.  Now, this week they will use their planning page to write their small moment story!  

In Grammar we will discuss verb tenses; past, present and future (ie. danced, dances, will dance).  We will also explore those tricky irregular verb tenses like (catch/caught, choose/chose).


During reading this week we will add to our comprehension toolkit. We are working to make deep connections with text to deepen our understanding. 

Our spelling practice will focus on a few high frequency words and compound words!



Social Studies - In social studies this week, we will begin our unit on citizenship. We learn lots in this unit about our civil duties as citizens. We will also begin to learn about different government structures.

Math - As you all know, we’ve been working on rounding, which is a life skill your kiddo will need forever. We’ve talked about how rounding is all about finding the closest friendly number (a number that ends in 0). We’ve rounded to the hundreds place and to the tens place using a number line, so this week, I will teach them the rounding rules: Underline the place value you’re rounding to, go next door, ask yourself “5 or more? Raise the score! 4 or less? Let it rest!” The underlined place value gets raised or stays the same. Some children prefer to think of a number line when rounding, and some prefer to go step by step; whichever way your child prefers, I’ve got them covered! We will review the base 10 relationship this week, which means that as you move left through place values in a number, each one is 10 times more. It’s a complicated theory for 8 and 9 year olds to understand, but we will memorize this after working with place value blocks to understand. Finally, in our WPOD (#iykyk, ask your 3rd grader!), we will dip our toe into the world of financial literacy with words like withdraw, deposit, bank account, and planned/unplanned expenses! It’s a big week in 3rd grade math, so early bedtimes are a must!

Science - Next week we are wrapping up our Properties of Matter Unit with some final explorations of matter.  We will revisit how to classify matter based on its properties and how to measure, test and record the information. 


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Sunday, September 15, 2024

September 16th-20th

   Upcoming Dates

September 16th-20th - Town Center Book Fair

September 20th - Special Friends' Day


September 27th - Fall Frolic Run

This will be during each grade level's specials time (3rd grade - 10:10 a.m.). Parents are invited to attend.


October 4th - Family Friday Lunches begin!
October 9th - Picture retake day for anyone absent or wanting a retake

Terrific Texans
Throughout the week our learners at TCE work hard at going above and beyond! When any teacher catches them standing out in a positive way they are awarded a Terrific Texan. At the end of the week, there is a school-wide drawing and 3 winners are chosen from each grade level.
Congratulations to this weeks winners! 
Raj, Dharit, and Rex

Show Up For Great Attendance

Metro Services - Mobile Food Pantry

Curriculum Night
We enjoyed seeing and meeting so many of you last Thursday on Curriculum Night!  In case you were not able to attend or would like to refer back to our slides here is a link to what we covered.  Please let us know if you have any questions.  We are excited for this school year!
Curriculum Night 24/25

Coppell Cares


Coppell Cares offers the Weekend Backpack Program for families who have financial need. Each Friday, learners receive a bag of snacks for the weekend. The goal of the program is to help eliminate food insecurity for children. They provide nutritious breakfast, lunch and snack items to eligible CISD children (and siblings). This weekly food program helps feed children over the weekend during the school year when they are not receiving meals at school. 

If you would like your child(ren) to participate in this program, please complete the online application below.  If you would prefer a paper copy to be sent home with your child, please email TCE's counselor, Kelly Matlock, at kmatlock@coppellisd.com.  Families may sign up for this program at any time during the school year.  Deliveries will begin Friday, September 6th.  Deliveries will be suspended for Thanksgiving Week, Winter Break, and Spring Break.

2024-2025 Coppell Cares - Weekend Backpack

2024-2025 Coppell Cares - Mochila de fin de semana

Attendance
go.coppellisd.com/attendancenote

Background Checks

We ask that all families complete a volunteer background check at the start of the year. They do not carry over from year to year. Since the background checks take time to process, we ask that everyone complete one in case any type of volunteering opportunity (class field trip, Dad's Club, Room parent, class volunteer, field day, etc.) arises during the year that you are interested in. Please click on the link below to complete it.

Background Checks - Linked Here



Tennis Shoes for PE & Extended Specials Day (CTT)

Please help ensure 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! 


3rd Grade CTT Dates for 2024: 9/26, 10/10, 10/24, 11/7, 11/21, 12/12



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. 

September 13th Newsletter!

ELA - As we continue reading Wild Robot we are still learning how readers monitor their own comprehension. We’ve learned these skills so far:

-Readers stop to give themselves comprehension checks by asking who, what, where questions.

-Readers think about what the text is asking them to do. They visualize to make movies in their mind, or they make a list to gather information.

- Readers make high level predictions based on background knowledge and evidence from the text.

-Readers us a variety of strategies to figure out the meaning of words they don’t know: Gist, Antonyms, Synonyms, Explanation

This next week we will continue to practice these metacognitive strategies. We will also add strategies for figuring out tricky phrases like “figurative language” and idioms for example.

Finally we will introduce the inference skill involved in author’s purpose or intent for specific parts of a text.

We will continue to work on these skills the week following. They are all big heavy skills that take practice to put into place.


We kicked off our spelling unit this week. Our first pattern included CVC short vowel words with alternate endings to change the tense of the word.  Our goal for spelling practice is NOT to memorize a list of words; rather to recognize patterns and be able to apply the pattern to any word we see. Next week we are working on the “Rabbit Rule” which shows the reason for doubling a consonant in the middle of a word.


In writing this week we will learn about how to use introductions to hook our readers and conclusions to wrap it all up.  They will practice the different ways and then choose one to focus on for their own personal narrative.


In grammar we will focus on using and identifying singular and plural nouns. 


Social Studies - In social studies we continue with communities and cultures. We will highlight community differences in size and how they meet different needs.

Math - Hello 3rd grade math families! We did not practice as many open number lines as we needed to last week to be able to jump right into rounding numbers, so we’ll dip our toe at the beginning of the week and then be fully splashing in the rounding pool by the end of the week. Last week, I enjoyed talking with the kiddos one on one and hearing their thoughts on the goal they wanted to achieve for the BOY math map. We also made great progress on learning how to subtract with regrouping and will continue strengthening that skill this week - subtracting across 0s, we’re comin’ for ya!

Science - In Science this week we will look at how we can combine materials based on their physical properties to create or modify objects.  We will have a bridge building challenge that will demonstrate this, as well as focus on their ability to work together and justify their choices to their peers. 

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