May 2nd-6th

 Upcoming Dates

May 2nd-6th - Staff & Teacher Appreciation Week

May 3rd - STAAR letters due

May 6th - Field Trip money and permission slip are due

May 10th - Math STAAR

May 11th - Reading STAAR

May 13th - Family Lunch Friday

*More information in Principal Newsletter*

May 19th - Field Trip to Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary in McKinney

May 23rd  - TCE Field Day (more info coming soon)

May 27th - Last Day of School

*Early release @ 12:30pm!*

Important!! Please Read

If you haven’t already sent in your TWO letters for your child’s STAAR days, please do so by this Wednesday. May 4th!  Please see the information below about what the letters are all about!

We want to continue our tradition of having the 3rd graders open letters from their parents on the days of STAAR testing (Math - Tuesday, May 10, Reading - Wednesday, May 11). Here’s what we need from you: please write 1 letter for EACH STAAR day (2 letters total) that gives your kiddo some pep and encouragement for the big day, seal them in an envelope, put your child’s name and either an M or R (to designate if it’s the math letter or the reading letter), and send it in to school with your child. We will make sure it gets to your 3rd grader on the correct day. If you’d like to email the letters to your child’s homeroom teacher and have us print them out, that is perfectly fine as well; we’re happy to do it! Please do not mention this to your child; we’d love for each kiddo to have a happy surprise that morning from the people they love the most. Please have letters turned in by Tuesday, May 3rd.

FIELD TRIP Money and Permission Slip:

If you have not turned in your child’s field trip money ($11) and permission slip, please do so by this Friday, May 6th.  If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to reach out!

Sack Summer Hunger

Last Call for Optional End of Year Conference

May Lunch Menu

 

Math

We will continue to review and get ready for the STAAR test next week! The kiddos are doing great and have really tried to embrace attacking those word problems:

1. Reread and highlight

2. Think about the words

3. Draw a picture

4. Flag and come back

5. Take a mental moment

Science 

In Science , we will learn about animal needs, how they are met and what happens if their environment is unable to provide those needs.  We will also look at animal adaptations and how they help aid in their survival.  We will be keeping an animal diary over the next week and a half.  The kids will be able to view a specific animal through a webcam and observe their habitat and how they interact with it. 

Reading/Writing 

Social Studies 

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