Team Esprit has had a busy first week back from school vacation! We have spent this week practicing for the upcoming SBAC tests. These tests will be taken on chromebooks so we have spent some time getting used to using the chromebooks to navigate training and practice tests. We will be taking the actual SBAC on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday mornings for the next two weeks. Please make sure your child is well rested and well fed on those mornings.
This week we began a science and engineering ecology unit. We have been learning about environmental engineering and ecosystems. We read a story about an oil spill and learned about how the engineering design process was used to clean up the oil spill in the story. We are learning how testing and careful research can help to reveal pollutants and their sources in environments and ecosystems. Next week students will have an opportunity to solve their own environmental mystery.
We are currently finishing up our geometry unit in math and will begin a new unit that will revisit multiplication and fractions. We will be learning about one-by-two digit multiplication through arrays, and will thinking about fractions as parts of a whole and parts of a set.
On Thursday, May 25th, the entire third grade will be participating in an annual bread making event with Shelburne Farms. Shelburne Farms will bring their traveling oven to SCS and each class will have the opportunity to make, bake, and eat bread outside at SCS.
Have a great weekend,
Deb and Jenn
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