February 17th-21st

February 17th - No School - Presidents' Day

February 19th - Spring Creek BBQ Spirit Night (5-8 PM)

February 20th - STEAM Career Dress Up Day (see graphic below)

February 21st - Heart Hustle Run - (during Specials) 3rd grade @ 10:10

March 7th - Olympic Day (more info to come soon)

March 10th-14th - Book Fair

March 13th - Open House @ 5:30 (more info to come)

March 14th - Shamrock Shuffle - (during Specials) 3rd grade @ 10:10

Character Trait of the Week

Week of February 17th

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.

NO NAMES DRAWN THIS WEEK

STEAM Career Dress Up Day

Social Emotional Literacy Library

Town Center's Family Social Emotional Literacy Library

Town Center has an exciting resource for families! We now have an entire resource library focused on Social and Emotional skill development. Themes are divided into 5 categories: Understanding Myself, Managing Myself, Respecting Others, Building Relationships, and Making Decisions.

View the titles here: TCE's Family Literacy Library Titles. Then, select the topic that interests you and complete this form to Request a Family Book Bag. Corresponding conversation starters to help facilitate discussions at home will also be included in the book bag. Books and discussion questions may be kept for two weeks and then returned to Kelly Matlock, TCE's counselor. Please email kmatlock@coppellisd.com with any questions.

Yearbook

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 2025: 2/20, 3/6, 3/27, 4/10, 4/25, 5/8

TCE Principal Newsletter

https://secure.smore.com/n/5zhtm

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:

- 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

ELA - During ELAR this week we will explore poetry. Last week we learned the vocabulary stanza, line, verse, point of view, rhyme and free verse.  This week students will compose poetry during writing where they focus on writing specific numbers of lines and stanzas.  In reading we will learn more about figurative language. We will be identifying and discovering the meaning behind similes and metaphors. They will also be exploring hyperbole and the use of onomatopoeia! You can check their progress on their learning journals in keynote!

Social Studies - This is an echo of Mrs. Shelby’s science refrain! We did begin studying personal finance this past week but have barely scratched the surface. We will explore the economic vocabulary barter, trade, goods and services and monetary flow.

Math - We’re wrapping up finding area, and now it’s time to move on to finding the perimeter, which is a new skill for 3rd graders. The saying that will be on repeat in B110 is per-i-me-ter: add. Up. All. The. Sides. We will discuss the difference between finding the area and finding the perimeter, how perimeter measures the distance around a shape, and how we can find the perimeter of any shape, not just squares and rectangles. At the end of the week, we’ll get into finding the length of the missing side when we are given the perimeter. For instance, if the perimeter of the triangle is 16 units and 2 of the sides each measure 6 units, what is the length of the 3rd side? (The answer is 4 units.) You add up what you know (6+6=12), then subtract from the perimeter (16-12=4). We’re on our last little bit of learning before we get to what we came for, which is fractions…LET’S GOOOOOO!

Science - Last week with the craziness of the Valentine’s Party and creating our Winn Dixie movie posters, we didn’t get to Science.  So this week we will compare and explore day-to-day weather changes in different locations.  We will look at not only air temperature, but also precipitation, wind speed and wind direction and the instruments used to measure them.