Weekly Update #9: October 16 - October 20

Announcements:

• Science Materials Needed: We are still in need of pizza boxes for next week's solar oven experiment. Please add your name to the Sign Up Genius if you can provide the class with one of these pizza boxes. Thank you!!  Please, click on the Sign Up Genius . Thanks!
• PTA Direct Donation Drive: Our poster on the wall shows no soccer balls for Mrs. Lilleboe's class. Please consider making a monetary donation to our amazing Elsa England PTA so that we can get some soccer balls on our class's poster. All 100% of your money goes right back into Elsa England and so many of its wonderful academic programs and technology for our school. Click HERE to make that donation today!
• Home Access Center: Check weekly to stay up to date on your child's academic progress. Link to Home Access Center.​  Report cards will come home next Thursday. 
• Bluebonnet Book Program: Our class's goal for each student to read 5 books! The Bluebonnet Program goes until mid-January so we have plenty of time to read, read, read. So, let's get to it!
  Bluebonnet Book List 2017 - 2018 http://www.txla.org/new-tba-list-released
  Mrs. Lilleboe's Bluebonnet Book Wish List http://a.co/j39aDD1

Upcoming Events:​​​​.​ ​​​​​​​​

• October 20 - End of first nine weeks grading period, Science Materials Needed!!!
• October 24 - Last day to bring Science Materials for science experiment (we need pizza boxes)
• October 25 - Third Grade Fall Music Concert @ 6:15 pm (dress in fall/autumn colors)
• October 26 - First nine week report cards go home - sign one copy and return 
• October 27 - Science DCA Test, Spelling Test and 1st Kinder Buddy activity 
• October 31 - Scholastic Book Orders for October are due!  Order online HERE.  Code NP79X
  • ​Thank you Dylan, Sarah, Yashvi's parents for already placing an October book order!
• November 3 - Start of 2nd round of Enrichment groups 
• November 6 - Author Visit (Elizabeth Eulberg) of The Great Shelby Holmes
• November 14 - Third Grade Field Trip

What's Been Happening In Class?  

• Writing: Poetry Unit - We wrote our first poems this week: Narrative Poem (free verse style) and a Five Senses Poem (trying to use metaphors and similes). 
• Reading: Poetry - we continued to read poetry with partners this week. We specifically read and analyzed  Narrative Poems (characters, setting, plot, problem, solutions) and Sensory Poems (Narrative poems using our 5 senses).   
• Math: Our unit is Multiplication!  The focus in this unit is to learn how to multiply by 10's and doubles (2's, 4's, 5's, and 8's) using a variety of strategies - arrays, equal groups, number line, repeated addition, skip counting, and area models. 
• Science: Our unit is Forms of Energy.  We will observe heat/thermal, mechanical, sound, and light energy. 
• Social Studies: Next week we'll work on Citizenship and Government.