Weekly Update: October 3 - October 7

Announcements:

• Parent/Teacher Conferences: This upcoming Monday, October 10th is Parent/Teacher Conferences. You have signed up for a specific time slot. As you can see from the Conference Sign Up Sheet, I will be very busy all day. Please be respectful of my time and fellow parents by being on time. I will do my best to stay on schedule. If we do not get time to discuss something you wanted to address during the conference time, feel free to email me your question or concern. Your child's conference form will be emailed to you prior to Monday, so you can read and review it BEFORE coming to your child's conference. While you are at the school on Monday, you can take time to look through your child's notebooks/journals in the common area. Plus, our Family Book Fair Day will be going on too!  Bring your child and buy some books from our school's Book Fair! This can be done before or after your child's conference time. Here is the conference sign up sheet. 
• Book Fair! Our Elsa England Book Fair is next week!  Students will need to have their parents set up an eWallet for purchasing books and items at next week's book fair. Book Fair Information Link
• 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 10 - Parent/Teacher Conferences (no school day) & Family Book Fair Shopping Day
• Oct 10 - 14  Elsa England's Book Fair 
• Oct 14 - Fraction Test for Lilleboe and Swyers math students
• Oct 14 - End of the first grading period (end of first quarter) 
• Oct 19 - Fall School Pictures at 8:40am  Order pictures online.  No money will be accepted at school. 
• Oct 24 - No School Day (Teacher Work Day)

What's Been Happening In Class?  

• Writing: Personal Narrative (small moment writing). This week we learned how to add details to our writing by S-T-R-E-T-C-H-I-N-G out a sentence. We also learned that we can make our writing more exciting with vivid verbs! We are adding these skills to our personal narrative rough drafts. We'll continue the writing process next week. 
• Reading: We are continuing in our Informational (nonfiction) reading unit.  This week our focus was on finding the main idea and details, determining the cause and effect, how to write a summary, and identifying the author's purpose for writing a text. 
• Math: 
  • ​Swyers and Lilleboe Students: We are currently in - Fractions. In this unit students will:
    • ​Identify fractional units - fractions in a set, area model, bar model, number line fractions
    • Compose and decompose fractional units
    • Compare fractions
    • Equivalent fractions 
    • Word problem solving with fractions
  • 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 wrapped up Unit 2 (Changes in matter and mixtures) with a test yesterday. Scores are in Home Access. We'll start Unit 3 (Forms of Energy) on Tuesday. 
• 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!​