Weekly Update #18: December 17 - December 19

Announcements:

• Thank you parents!  Wow! Thank you all for the very thoughtful, wonderful gifts this holiday season. I love all the sweet treats, gift cards, books, salt scrub with essential oils, etc. I am very grateful to you all. I have an amazing support group of parents. I hope you all have a enjoyable, relaxing winter break. 
• Bluebonnet Book Program: Time is running out!  Last day to take a Bluebonnet Book Quiz is on Friday, January 25th. 
  • Elsa England Bluebonnet Book Program Information englandlibrary.edublogs.org/bluebonnet-books/
  • ​Bluebonnet Book List 2018 - 2019 texasbluebonnetaward2019.wordpress.com
  • Mrs. Lilleboe's Bluebonnet Book Wish List http://a.co/j39aDD1
• Home Access Center: Check your child's academic progress every week. Link to Home Access Center.   If you still have trouble logging in please contact our school's front office.

Upcoming Events:​​​​.​ ​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​​​​

• ​December 19 - Third Grade Winter Party at 1:30 - 2:30pm 
• December 20 - January 7 Winter Break (no school)
• January 8 -  First Day of 2nd Semester (students back to school)
• January 10 - Bring in soil and magazine clippings.
• January 18 - Reading DCA - Nonfiction 
• January 21 - No School (Martin Luther King Jr Day)
• January 25 - Last day to take a Bluebonnet Book Quiz. 
• January 31 - Last day to place a January Scholastic Book Order 
• February 22 - Career Fair Day

***Library Day is on Wednesdays (it's on Thursdays for TAG kids). 
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What's Been Happening In Class?  

• Writing: This week our focus was on finishing up any writing work and completing a few fun wintry writing prompts in our notebooks. 
• Reading:  We are deep into our Nonfiction Unit in Reading. We read a couple of biographies. Rosa Parks and Michael Jordan as a class. Then, the kids chose a biography to read and then completed a Head, Heart and Feet activity about that person.
• Math: We continued to review for our test this week using whiteboards and task cards as a class. Then, kids got a chance to start on another review packet with a partner before taking it home to do for additional practice. The test has been graded and is in Home Access. 
• Science: We wrapped up our unit on Earth's forces with a fun Magic School Bus Activity on volcanoes. Then, we did a Kahoot review before the test. Scores are posted in Home Access. 
• Social Studies: Finished up a Biography Time Line activity. 
• Eslot: 3rd Grade Winter Party