Announcements:
Upcoming Events:.
What are we learning?
Writing: We wrapped up our first Informational (nonfiction) this week. Students typed up their final draft on Google Slides: introduction, 3 or more chapters, closing, table of contents and a glossary. We'll spend next week working on some writing conventions in preparation for STAAR (homophones, synonyms, antonyms, prefix and suffix).
Reading: Our next unit is: Project Based Learning. Students are currently wrapping up their research using the IIM notefact strategy. In this unit, students will be able to:
Math:
Social Studies: The economics (financial literacy) unit - we've been discussing how and why companies advertise their products to customers, what makes a good advertisement, and designing our own advertisement as we prepare for next week's Economics Fair.
- Economics Fair Products: This is the last weekend to finish up economics fair products. Students should have a total of 50 products. Your child can bring his/her products to school on Monday or Tuesday. Please have them bring them in a large bag or box that they can easily carry. Due to the number of students at our school, administration has asked us to not allow parents to come to the Economics Fair. The cafeteria will be crowded with student shoppers and 3rd graders selling their products. I'll make sure to take lots of pictures!!
- Field Trip to The Thinkery: We are going to The Thinkery on Tuesday, March 21. We currently have our 5 parent volunteer chaperones (Parth B's mom, Rishaan's dad, Vaishali's mom, Anirudh's mom and Leo's mom). All of our chaperones have been "approved". Yippee! Due to space at The Thinkery, we've been asked to keep our number of volunteers to no more than 5.
- Volunteering at Elsa England: To be allowed to volunteer at any school in RRISD, parents must be an "approved" volunteer. This application must be completed each year. Here is the volunteer application. Please complete it so you have the ability to volunteer for Field Day, End-of-Year Party, etc.
- 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:.
- Mar 2 - Math Test: Measurement (capacity, weight, time) for Swyers/Lilleboe students
- Mar 7 or Mar 8 - Bring in Economics Fair products
- Mar 7 - Science Unit Test: Natural Resources
- Mar 8 - Economics Fair (students only - this is not open to parents)
- Mar 9 - Cultural Heritage Night at Elsa England (5:30 - 8:00pm)
- Mar 10 - PreK Buddies Activity (2:00 - 2:30pm)
- Mar 11 - 19 Spring Break NO School
- Mar 21 - Field Trip to The Thinkery (our 5 chaperones will need to meet us at The Thinkery by 11:15am)
What are we learning?
Writing: We wrapped up our first Informational (nonfiction) this week. Students typed up their final draft on Google Slides: introduction, 3 or more chapters, closing, table of contents and a glossary. We'll spend next week working on some writing conventions in preparation for STAAR (homophones, synonyms, antonyms, prefix and suffix).
Reading: Our next unit is: Project Based Learning. Students are currently wrapping up their research using the IIM notefact strategy. In this unit, students will be able to:
- 3.6B generate questions to deepen understanding and gain information
- 3.6C make, correct, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures
- 3.6D create mental images to deepen understanding
- 3.6E make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society
- 3.6F make inferences and use evidence to support understanding
- 3.6G evaluate details read to determine key ideas
- 3.6H synthesize information to create new understanding
- 3.6I monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, asking questions, and annotating when understanding breaks down
- 3.7 The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.
- 3.7C use text evidence to support an appropriate response
- 3.7D retell and paraphrase texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order
- 3.7E interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating
- 3.7F respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate
- 3.7G discuss specific ideas in the text that are important to the meaning
- 3.9D recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including: the central idea with supporting evidence, nonfiction text features, cause/effect and problem/solution patterns in a text.
- 3.9E recognize characteristics and structures of argumentative text by: identifying the claim, distinguishing facts from opinion, identifying the intended audience or the reader
- 3.9F recognize characteristics of multimodal and digital texts
Math:
- Swyers and Lilleboe Students: We are currently in our Measurement unit. Focus TEKS are:
- 2.9G Read and write time to the nearest one-minute increment using analog and digital clocks
- 3.7C determine the solutions to problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes using pictorial models or tools such as a 15-minute event plus a 30-minute event equals 45 minutes
- 3.7E determine liquid volume (capacity) or weight using appropriate units and tools.
- 3.7D determine when it is appropriate to use measurements of liquid volume (capacity) or weight
- 3.7A represent fractions of halves, fourths, and eighths as distances from zero on a number line
- 3.4G use strategies and algorithms, including the standard algorithm, to multiply a two-digit number by a one-digit number. Strategies may include mental math, partial products, and the commutative, associative, and distributive properties
- Bae/Jones/McKenzie students: Math unit - Financial Literacy. Students will be able to:
- Students will develop strategies for accurately counting a collection of bills and coins.
- Students will understand the connection between human capital/labor and income.
- Students will understand the concept of scarcity and its impact on cost.
- Students will understand the costs and benefits of spending decisions, planned and unplanned.
- Students will understand what credit it is, how it works, and why people may use credit.
- Students will understand the benefits of saving money.
- Students will understand decisions individuals make around money - income, spending, saving, credit, and charitable giving.
- 3.7C- explore the characteristics of natural resources that make them useful in products and materials such as clothing and furniture and how resources may be conserved
- 3.11A- explore and explain how humans use natural resources such as in construction, agriculture, transportation, and to make products
- 3.11B- identify ways to conserve natural resources through reducing, reusing, or recycling.
Social Studies: The economics (financial literacy) unit - we've been discussing how and why companies advertise their products to customers, what makes a good advertisement, and designing our own advertisement as we prepare for next week's Economics Fair.
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