Upcoming Dates
Parent Square
If parents haven’t signed up for the ParentSquare app, you should! It looks like this:
We will communicate this year a lot through ParentSquare, and having the app will make it a lot easier to receive notifications that we’ve posted a message to all families and/or sent a private message to you. When you have the app, it will work much like text messages and be an easy way for you to contact us and for us to contact you.
Extracurricular After School Activities
CISD and Town Center have several extracurricular after school clubs that parents can sign-up and pay for. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the front office. Information about extracurricular activities are sent out via email through PeachJar. Please tell your child's homeroom teacher if your child is enrolled in an extracurricular club, these rosters are not shared with teachers. Below are the start dates for the various extracurricular activities:
Drama Club - Monday, August 29th
Wize Coding & Robotics Club - Friday, September 9th
Chess Club - Wednesday, October 12th
Free/Reduced Lunches
For the last two years, free and reduced meals were provided for all Texas public school children. Beginning September 29th, families must complete an application to qualify for free or reduced priced meals. For more information check out the Coppell ISD Child Nutrition website. Complete your School Meal Application here. Allow up to ten days to process your application.
Coppell Cares - Weekend Backpack Program (WBPK)
Coppell Cares will provide the Weekend Backpack Program (WBPK) again this school year. Families may sign up for this program at any time during the school year. Siblings living in the same household, are also eligible to participate. If your family would benefit from a weekly Friday snack bag delivery, please complete the follow form to sign up.
English Application: Linked Here
Spanish Application: Linked Here
WBPK deliveries will begin Friday, 9/8/2022. Deliveries will be suspended for Thanksgiving Week, Winter Break, and Spring Break.
If you have any questions, please reach out to TCE's counselor, Kelly Matlock, at kmatlock@coppellisd.com.
Math
Well, guys, the year begins and you know what that means! We learn ALL about the ingenious system called PLACE VALUE: where location location location means everything in determining the value of a number. We have reviewed representing numbers using expanded form, and next week, will discuss representing numbers 2 ways: by using and drawing base ten blocks and with expanded notation. Expanded notation is a new skill for 3rd graders, and here’s an example: 347=(3x100)+(4x10)+(7x1). While using the base ten blocks, we will make exchanges and practice decomposing numbers to make them in different ways. For instance: 47 can be made with 47 ones blocks OR 4 tens blocks and 7 ones blocks OR 3 tens blocks an 17 ones blocks.
All of this helps develop your child’s understanding of numbers, or numeracy, and it also gets us ready to practice subtraction and addition with regrouping (also called borrowing and carrying the one for all us of a certain age, ahem).
Science
In Science, we will begin our Properties of Matter Unit. We will start with physical properties and explore how we can measure, test and record them. Physical properties include size, color, flexibility, magnetism, mass, ability to sink or float…so many properties to explore!
Reading/Writing
Social Studies
