Blog Archives - Welcome to Third Grade with Mrs. Lilleboe

Weekly Update: October 25 - October 28

10/28/2022

Announcements:

1st Nine Weeks Report Cards: Your child's report card went home yesterday in your child's Thursday folder. Please remove the items inside the envelope. Then, sign the envelope and return it to school.
Field Trip Permission Form: The yellow and green field trip permission form went home yesterday in your child's Thursday folder. Please complete and sign the forms. Return forms in your child's folder by no later than next Friday, November 4th.
Halloween on Monday: Halloween is on Monday. There is school. Students will have a "normal" day. There might by Halloween themed activities in various subjects. Students are welcome to wear a holiday themed shirt, sweatshirt, hair decorations (ribbons, barrettes, headbands,) that are not distracting to your child or to others. Students should NOT wear their costumes to school.
Math Superstars: Challenge your child to show off their math skills as a Math Superstar! Participants who complete all 20 worksheets will receive a prize packet! This program is supported and run by PTA volunteers. Please visit https://england-pta.memberhub.com/w/programs for more information. If you have any questions, please contact eee.mathsuperstars@gmail.com
Become a PTA Member: Our school needs parents like you to sign up for PTA. Critical learning tools, field trips, and resources are paid for by our wonderful PTA, but that means we need you! Please, become a PTA member today. England PTA website
Home Access Center: Please, check weekly to stay up to date on your child's academic progress. Link to Home Access Center. Continue to discuss with your child the importance of listening to directions, staying focused on school work and doing his/her personal best on all assignments. Remember, if a student earns below a 70% on any assignment or test, the student can make corrections to earn a possible passing grade (70%) per school district policy.

Upcoming Events:.

Nov 4 - Field Trip Permission Form must be returned
Nov 7 or 8 - Math Test (Swyers/Lilleboe) - Geometry
Nov 11 - Veterans' Day (3 - 5th grade assembly)
Nov 16 - 3rd Grade Field Trip to McNeil High School Performing Arts Center
Nov 17 - Science Unit 4 Test - Forces, Motion, Gravity and Magnetism

What's Been Happening In Class?

Writing: We are deep into our Realistic Fiction stories. Each student has created a character, setting and plot (problem and solution) for their story. We planned out our stories and wrote the introduction. Next week we'll continue to work on our rough drafts by writing the plot, dialogue and conclusion (what the character learned).
Reading: We are in a new unit - Characters in literary text (fiction). This week we discussed character traits and how character traits contribute to the plot and theme of a fiction story. We also wrote our first reading response together in our reading notebooks. Reading responses are new this year for the STAAR test. We will continue to practice throughout the year.
Math:
- Swyers and Lilleboe Students: We are currently in our Geometry, Area and Perimeter unit.
  - Identify attributes of all quadrilaterals (squares, rectangles, rhombus, trapezoids, parallelograms)
  - Identify attributes of 3 types of triangles
  - Determine the perimeter of a 2D shape
  - Determine the area of a 2D shape
  - Describe the differences between prisms and pyramids
- Bae/Jones/McKenzie students: Multiplication and Division. Students will use a variety of strategies to solve multiplication problems (arrays, equal groups, repeated addition, number line) and division problems (equal groups, repeated subtraction, skip counting, fact families). Students took their test today! New unit starts next week!
Science: We took our Forms of Energy test on Wednesday. Scores are in Home Access. Our new unit is Force, Motion, Gravity and Magnetism. We've taken time to review the terms "push" and "pull". Then, we explored the book collection I created on Epic Books. Kids will have access to this book collection for the duration of the unit.
Social Studies: We are beginning our unit on Government. We learned about the 3 branches of government today (Executive, Legislative, Judicial).

Weekly Update: October 17 - October 21

10/20/2022

Announcements:

1st Nine Weeks Report Cards: Your child's report card will be going home next week!
Math Superstars: Challenge your child to show off their math skills as a Math Superstar! Participants who complete all 20 worksheets will receive a prize packet! This program is supported and run by PTA volunteers. Please visit https://england-pta.memberhub.com/w/programs for more information. If you have any questions, please contact eee.mathsuperstars@gmail.com
Become a PTA Member: Our school needs parents like you to sign up for PTA. Critical learning tools, field trips, and resources are paid for by our wonderful PTA, but that means we need you! Please, become a PTA member today. England PTA website
Home Access Center: Please, check weekly to stay up to date on your child's academic progress. Link to Home Access Center. Continue to discuss with your child the importance of listening to directions, staying focused on school work and doing his/her personal best on all assignments. Remember, if a student earns below a 70% on any assignment or test, the student can make corrections to earn a possible passing grade (70%) per school district policy.

Upcoming Events:.

Oct 24 - No School Day (Teacher Work Day)
Oct 25 - Report Cards (1st Quarter - Nine Weeks) sent home.
Oct 26 - Science Test (Unit 3: Forms of Energy)
Oct 27 - 3rd Grade Field Trip Permission Form (return no later than November 4)
Nov 4 - Field Trip Permission Form must be returned
Nov 11 - Veterans' Day (3 - 5th grade assembly)
Nov 16 - 3rd Grade Field Trip to McNeil High School Performing Arts Center

What's Been Happening In Class?

Writing: Personal Narrative (small moment writing). We finished our final drafts! Next unit - writing a realistic fiction story. We'll develop a character, create a setting, determine the problem/solution (plot) and theme. This will take us a couple of weeks!
Reading: We are in a new unit - Characters in literary text (fiction). This week we reviewed story elements in fiction (characters, setting, plot - problem/solution, theme).
Math:
- Swyers and Lilleboe Students: We are currently in our Geometry, Area and Perimeter unit.
  - Identify attributes of all quadrilaterals (squares, rectangles, rhombus, trapezoids, parallelograms)
  - Identify attributes of 3 types of triangles
  - Determine the perimeter of a 2D shape
  - Determine the area of a 2D shape
  - Describe the differences between prisms and pyramids
- Bae/Jones/McKenzie students: Multiplication and Division. Students will use a variety of strategies to solve multiplication problems (arrays, equal groups, repeated addition, number line) and division problems (equal groups, repeated subtraction, skip counting, fact families).
Science: We have started our next unit on Forms of Energy. We explored 5 forms of energy with stations (light, sound, mechanical, electrical, thermal/heat). Our focus this week was on light, mechanical and heat energy. We built solar ovens and cooked s'mores! The test is next Wednesday.
Social Studies: We are continuing our discussion on "being a good citizen" and how as a citizen we have rights and responsibilities we must follow. With that being said, we are now focusing on how good citizens use their right to vote by getting informed about people, positions and bonds/propositions. Then, using this right to help make changes in their community by voting! We also are learning about important people who have contributed in a positive way in their communities (Helen Keller, Clara Barton).

Weekly Update: October 11 - October 14

10/13/2022

Announcements:

Science Supplies: Thank you all for signing up for purchasing supplies for our class. There is still a couple of spots open. Please consider helping us out. Sign Up Please have your child bring the items in next week by Wednesday, October 19th. Thanks so much!
Math Superstars: Challenge your child to show off their math skills as a Math Superstar! Participants who complete all 20 worksheets will receive a prize packet! This program is supported and run by PTA volunteers. Please visit https://england-pta.memberhub.com/w/programs for more information. If you have any questions, please contact eee.mathsuperstars@gmail.com
Become a PTA Member: Our school needs parents like you to sign up for PTA. Critical learning tools, field trips, and resources are paid for by our wonderful PTA, but that means we need you! Please, become a PTA member today. England PTA website
Home Access Center: Please, check weekly to stay up to date on your child's academic progress. Link to Home Access Center. Continue to discuss with your child the importance of listening to directions, staying focused on school work and doing his/her personal best on all assignments. Remember, if a student earns below a 70% on any assignment or test, the student can make corrections to earn a possible passing grade (70%) per school district policy.

Upcoming Events:.

Oct 14 - Fraction Test for Lilleboe and Swyers math students
Oct 14 - End of the first grading period (end of first quarter)
Oct 17 - Reading Test - Unit: Nonfiction/Biographies
Oct 19 - Fall School Pictures at 8:40am Order pictures online. No money will be accepted at school.
Oct 24 - No School Day (Teacher Work Day)
Oct 25 - Report Cards (1st Quarter - Nine Weeks) sent home.
Oct 26 - Science Test (Unit 3: Forms of Energy)

What's Been Happening In Class?

Writing: Personal Narrative (small moment writing). This week we learned how to add a closing, dialogue and transition words to our writing. We also worked on editing our personal narratives. We'll continue the writing process next week by working on our final drafts.
Reading: We are continuing in our Informational (nonfiction) reading unit. This week our focus was on biographies and autobiographies. We also looked at Point of View (1st, 2nd and 3rd person).
Math:
- Swyers and Lilleboe Students: We are currently in - Fractions. In this unit students will:
  - Identify fractional units - fractions in a set, area model, bar model, number line fractions
  - Compose and decompose fractional units
  - Compare fractions
  - Equivalent fractions
  - Word problem solving with fractions
- Bae/Jones/McKenzie students: Multiplication and Division. Students will use a variety of strategies to solve multiplication problems (arrays, equal groups, repeated addition, number line) and division problems (equal groups, repeated subtraction, skip counting, fact families).
Science: We have started our next unit on Forms of Energy. We explored 5 forms of energy with stations (light, sound, mechanical, electrical, thermal/heat). We'll continue to dive deeper into each one of these forms of energy next week with a variety of hands-on activities.
Social Studies: We are continuing our discussion on "being a good citizen" and how as a citizen we have rights and responsibilities we must follow. With that being said, we are now focusing on how good citizens use their right to vote by getting informed about people, positions and bonds/propositions. Then, using this right to help make changes in their community by voting!

Weekly Update: October 3 - October 7

10/6/2022

Announcements:

Parent/Teacher Conferences: This upcoming Monday, October 10th is Parent/Teacher Conferences. You have signed up for a specific time slot. As you can see from the Conference Sign Up Sheet, I will be very busy all day. Please be respectful of my time and fellow parents by being on time. I will do my best to stay on schedule. If we do not get time to discuss something you wanted to address during the conference time, feel free to email me your question or concern. Your child's conference form will be emailed to you prior to Monday, so you can read and review it BEFORE coming to your child's conference. While you are at the school on Monday, you can take time to look through your child's notebooks/journals in the common area. Plus, our Family Book Fair Day will be going on too! Bring your child and buy some books from our school's Book Fair! This can be done before or after your child's conference time. Here is the conference sign up sheet.
Book Fair! Our Elsa England Book Fair is next week! Students will need to have their parents set up an eWallet for purchasing books and items at next week's book fair. Book Fair Information Link
Math Superstars: Challenge your child to show off their math skills as a Math Superstar! Participants who complete all 20 worksheets will receive a prize packet! This program is supported and run by PTA volunteers. Please visit https://england-pta.memberhub.com/w/programs for more information. If you have any questions, please contact eee.mathsuperstars@gmail.com
Become a PTA Member: Our school needs parents like you to sign up for PTA. Critical learning tools, field trips, and resources are paid for by our wonderful PTA, but that means we need you! Please, become a PTA member today. England PTA website
Home Access Center: Please, check weekly to stay up to date on your child's academic progress. Link to Home Access Center. Continue to discuss with your child the importance of listening to directions, staying focused on school work and doing his/her personal best on all assignments. Remember, if a student earns below a 70% on any assignment or test, the student can make corrections to earn a possible passing grade (70%) per school district policy.

Upcoming Events:.

Oct 10 - Parent/Teacher Conferences (no school day) & Family Book Fair Shopping Day
Oct 10 - 14 Elsa England's Book Fair
Oct 14 - Fraction Test for Lilleboe and Swyers math students
Oct 14 - End of the first grading period (end of first quarter)
Oct 19 - Fall School Pictures at 8:40am Order pictures online. No money will be accepted at school.
Oct 24 - No School Day (Teacher Work Day)

What's Been Happening In Class?

Writing: Personal Narrative (small moment writing). This week we learned how to add details to our writing by S-T-R-E-T-C-H-I-N-G out a sentence. We also learned that we can make our writing more exciting with vivid verbs! We are adding these skills to our personal narrative rough drafts. We'll continue the writing process next week.
Reading: We are continuing in our Informational (nonfiction) reading unit. This week our focus was on finding the main idea and details, determining the cause and effect, how to write a summary, and identifying the author's purpose for writing a text.
Math:
- Swyers and Lilleboe Students: We are currently in - Fractions. In this unit students will:
  - Identify fractional units - fractions in a set, area model, bar model, number line fractions
  - Compose and decompose fractional units
  - Compare fractions
  - Equivalent fractions
  - Word problem solving with fractions
- Bae/Jones/McKenzie students: Multiplication and Division. Students will use a variety of strategies to solve multiplication problems (arrays, equal groups, repeated addition, number line) and division problems (equal groups, repeated subtraction, skip counting, fact families).
Science: We wrapped up Unit 2 (Changes in matter and mixtures) with a test yesterday. Scores are in Home Access. We'll start Unit 3 (Forms of Energy) on Tuesday.
Social Studies: We are continuing our discussion on "being a good citizen" and how as a citizen we have rights and responsibilities we must follow. With that being said, we are now focusing on how good citizens use their right to vote by getting informed about people, positions and bonds/propositions. Then, using this right to help make changes in their community by voting!