Week of October 14th

Happy Monday Everyone,

     Even though this is a short week, we still have plenty of activities happening at school. Please carefully review the calendar section.

October 14th Monday
End of 1st Grading Period

October 15th Tuesday
Module 3 Math Quiz on Area/Perimeter and Multiplication Strategies

October 15th Tuesday
Picture Retakes

October 16th Wednesday
District Math PMA #1 Test

October 17th Thursday

Field Trip to the Public Library 10:00-11:30 Wear Class Shirt

October 18th Friday
Teacher Planning Day No School For Students

October 21st-25th
Red Ribbon Week

October 25th Friday
PTO Monster Mash

     We will be going on our first field trip on this Thursday. We will go to the Pablo Creek Library. This is a district required field trip so that students can learn all about the wonderful services that our Jacksonville Public Library offers. Students will complete an activity and also get the chance to check out books. Any books that students check out can either be returned to any Jacksonville Public Library or to our very own JBE library. 

     I would like to thank everyone for their quick response in returning permission slips and money for the Alhambra field trip on November 5th. Even though we will not be eating lunch at the Alhambra we are still asking students to dress nicely for this trip. Girls, nothing too fancy we will be going straight to recess and then to lunch when we return, and you may not have time to change clothes. Tennis shoes are okay given the circumstances. 

     This week in math we continue our work on multiplication. Students will begin applying their learning with multi-step, multi-operation word problems. Up until now our multi-step problems only included addition and subtraction. Our problems will now also include multiplication. Students will also encounter word problems with measurement conversions as part of steps to solve the problem. We will take a quiz on Tuesday covering the concepts that we have worked on so far in Module 3.

     On Wednesday, students will take PMA #1. PMA stands for Progress Monitoring Assessment. These tests are district required to monitor how well schools are following the district pacing guide. They also monitor how well students are learning the standards that have been taught. The test will cover everything that we have worked since school began in August. At JBE we are doing really well in keeping pace. We have covered everything that will be on the test except for our division standard. We will take a grade on this test and put it in as either a test or quiz grade. Depending on the number of division questions that are asked on the test will determine whether or not we throw those questions out or include them in the final grade. Students were exposed to division in third grade. 

     This week in science we will complete a study of magnets. Students need to know and understand magnets can attract magnetic materials and attract and repel other magnets. We will learn this through investigation and study.