Upcoming Dates
- The Thanksgiving Food program provides holiday favorites such as turkey, dressing, and food to help you and your family during the Thanksgiving holiday break.
- The Holiday program makes the holiday season a little brighter by allowing parents to go to our holiday store and choose unwrapped toys for their children. In addition, participants can pick up non-perishable food and winter coats for the family.
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: 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.
Lunches
Below are a few links regarding lunches:
- Free & Reduced Lunch Application
- Check Your Lunch Application Status
- Create Your Child's Online Lunch Account
WHAT WE ARE LEARNING
In Writing we will begin our new unit on Persuasive Writing. Throughout this unit the kids will hear me repeatedly say “State your claim! What is your thesis?” so we will be practicing this from day one!
In Grammar we will explore what is a Superlative and when to accurately use them to enhance our writing. Examples of superlatives: bigger, funniest, fastest
Our reading unit is going to be new this week as we transition out of informational reading back to fiction. We will start exploring character feelings, traits and motives.
4C: identify, create, and interpret maps of places that contain map elements, including a title, compass rose, legend, scale, and grid system
3B: identify and compare how people in different communities adapt to or modify the physical environment in which they live such as deserts, mountains, wetlands, and plains
We will start with map and globe skills this week. We will interpret maps and eventually create our own physical maps.
*Please, please help your child learn his or her multiplication facts to 10! I am happy to provide a set of flashcards, just let me know! Reflex is an app that will help them practice their facts, but a plan of working through each set of facts and using flashcards with you will be the best way for your child to learn and for you to know exactly which facts he or she knows fluently (without pause).
**We are coming up on our Function Machine time!! Please don’t forget to send in your empty, clean ½ gallon CARDBOARD containers and empty cereal boxes! We will need these ASAP in order to go ahead and start building the machines for the children to use during the week before the Holiday Break in December. The “machines” require some cuts with a box knife, so it’s best that adults build them for the children. If you’re interested in helping construct them for your child and the other 3rd graders, please email me!! enaughton@coppellisd.com
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