Announcements:
- Thank you! Wow, our class showed some amazing support towards our fellow Texans and their struggle due to Hurricane Harvey. Thank you all for donating items this week.
- Xtramath: This is an excellent online program to help build your child's math fact fluency. Log in forms went home yesterday in Thursday folders. Please, "Enroll" your child using the code on his/her form. Students are strongly encouraged to practice their math facts using this program on a daily basis (about 10 minutes a day). I get weekly updates from Xtramath showing student progress. This will become one of the items your child can do for homework.
- Scholastic Book Orders: It is vital that your child read everyday for 20 - 30 minutes. Ideally, it would be best if you read with your child so that they can practice their fluency, articulation and comprehension skills. Reading STAAR is this year, so keep your child reading!!! Orders are due by September 28th. Place your orders online - Your Class Activation Code NP79X). The link to order is HERE. We have a Class Wish List here too if you so choose to purchase books for our classroom library as well. These kids love to read!!! Plus, I get points for every book order that is placed, which means tons of FREE books for our classroom. Please, take a moment to look at the flyers online and place an order. You can order from other grade levels too!
- Bluebonnet Book Program: Our class's goal for each student to read 5 books! Please, encourage your child to read and actively participate in this awesome reading program for 3 - 5 graders. Read, read, read!
Bluebonnet Book List 2017 - 2018 http://www.txla.org/new-tba-list-released
Mrs. Lilleboe's Bluebonnet Book Wish List http://a.co/j39aDD1 - Math Superstars: This is an excellent source for keeping up with those math skills. Awards and prizes are given out to those students that complete the worksheet each week and turn it in. This will begin October 1st. Math Superstars link is on the Welcome Page.
- Home Access Center: I've started posting grades into Home Access. Please, check weekly to stay up to date on your child's academic progress. Link to Home Access Center.
- Headphones: Your child may still need headphones or earbuds for our classroom. These can be purchased at Target, Walmart, HEB, etc. The headphones/earbuds will be left here at school.
- Wobble Stools - Wobble stools are an alternative desk seating option for your child. Wobble stools help provide students with the ability to wiggle as they sit. They help some students to focus more on their work too. This is a parent purchased item. With that said, at the end of the year the wobble stool is yours. Your child can then use them in 4th and 5th grade. I would recommend the 18" stool. Here are a couple of websites of where to make this purchase if you are interested. Really Good Stuff - Wobble Stool and Active Learning Stool - Amazon.com
- ***Effie is our first student to get her own wobble stool. Super exciting!!
- Sept. 12 or 13 - Math Unit Test - Graphs and Data (students can review by using ixl.com - access by going to Google Classroom, login information is in new Homework folder).
- Sept. 18 - Spirit Night @ Baskin Robbins
- Sept. 18, 19 & 20 - Home Room Parent Training - Krishna's mom, Yashvi's mom (if Krishna's mom can't make it)
- Sept. 28 - Scholastic Book Orders due - order online using our code NP79X
- October 9 - No School for students - Parent/Teacher Conferences (scheduled times)
- October 10 - No School for students
- Writing: We started our Personal Narrative Unit. Generated ideas and learned the difference between a "Watermelon idea and a Seed idea".
- Reading: What do great readers do to understand what they have read? We stop and think about our reading often! Students completed multiple "Stop & Jot" reading notes this week on a book of their choice.
- Math: Charts and Graph Unit - Pictographs, bar graphs, dot plots, tally charts and frequency charts. 2-3 digit addition and subtraction with multiple step problems. Test on Tuesday.
- Science: We started our Matter Unit - States of matter and their physical properties
- Social Studies: Growth Mindset - learning about how our brains grow the each mistake!
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