Weekly Update: September 19 - September 23

Announcements:

• 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 and resources are paid for by our wonderful PTA, but that means we need you!  Please, become a PTA member today. England PTA website
• Fall Parent/Teacher Conference: These will be held on Monday, October 10th (no school day). You will have the opportunity to choose between a "virtual" appointment or "In-Person" appointment. Your conference will be approximately 15 minutes. A sign up sheet was sent out via email yesterday, September 22nd. 
• Bluebonnet Book Program: Our class's goal for each student is 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 2022 - 2023  Link to book list
  Mrs. Lilleboe's Amazon Wish List (books for bluebonnet reading program)  Link to list
• 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.  I will be grading and posting more assignments this weekend. 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. 
• Third Grade Information Presentation:  If you have yet to look over the Third Grade Information Presentation, please take time to do this.  This slideshow will provide you with tons of necessary information you will need this school year. ​​

Upcoming Events:​​​​.​ ​​​​​​

• Sept 26 - No School - Teacher Work Day
• Oct 6 - Science Test - Unit 2 Changes in Matter
• Oct 10 - Parent/Teacher Conferences (no school day)

What's Been Happening In Class?  

• Writing: Personal Narrative (small moment writing).  This week we have brainstormed small moment ideas, chosen a small moment for our personal narrative, and stretched out this small moment in a process called "Exploding the Moment". Next week we will learn and add a "lead" or "hook" to our personal narrative as we write our rough draft. 
• Reading: We have started our next unit - Informational or Nonfiction Reading. This week we compared and contrasted between fiction and nonfiction books. We also identified nonfiction text features in magazines and nonfiction books. 
• Math: 
  • ​Swyers and Lilleboe Students: We are currently in our new unit - 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: Will start their new math unit on Tuesday which is Multiplication and Division. 
• Science: Changing Matter Unit - Examine the heating and cooling process with water. Student should be able to describe and explain how water changes from a solid - liquid - gas with adding and removing heat using unit vocabulary (melt, freeze, evaporation, condensation, adding heat, removing heat, water vapor). Next week we will look at physical properties of matter as we observe and analyze mixtures. 
• Social Studies: We are continuing our discussion on "being a good citizen" and we learned about Constitution Day! Plus, we are learning about leaders and inventors from US History (Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison).