Weekly Update: October 17 - October 21

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).