November 10-14, 2025

NCE Lunch Visitors 11/17-11/21

November 17th: Science KLA 1

November 18th: Progress Reports Visible in HAC by 10am

-5th Grade Spelling Bee

November 20th: 5th grade Colonial SPICE

November 22-30: Thanksgiving Break

Upcoming:

December 1-8: Holiday Market (Please check with your child's homeroom teacher for specific dates)

December 5th: Reading Test

Join us for 5th Grade SPICE on November 20th! Students will rotate through each classroom station doing fun activities and learning about colonial times. We need parents to help in the classrooms! Topics, plans, materials, and scripts will be provided.

Please sign up on the PTA website: https://nottinghamcountryelementarypta.membershiptoolkit.com/volunteer/161179

NCE Fall Auction!

The countdown is on! The NCE Fall Auction closes this Friday, Nov 14 at 8 PM — LIVE from the Knight Out Meet-Up Party at Katy Beer Garden (starts at 5:30 PM).

Join us for a fun evening with friends, school spirit, and free raffle tickets for all attendees!

Don’t wait - get those bids in before the clock runs out and help support our kids and school! 🏫💛

💛 Online Auction ends Nov 14 @ 8 PM

🎟️ Raffle drawings during the party!

👉 auctria.events/NCEKnightOutAuction2025

Contact: Gigi Lilly at gigimlilly25@gmail.com

Reading

This week in Reading, the students read about what life was like for pioneers that traveled West. As we read, we worked on identifying key details in the text and making sure they connect to the main idea. Choosing key details and text evidence is something we will work on all year as it is a more difficult but very important skill. We also explained how the author chooses specific text structures based on what their purpose for writing is. We notice that the students tend to get problem/solution and cause/effect text structures mixed up, so we will continue working on this.

Writing

Students planned out their letter to the Pioneer Historical Society and began their draft. In this writing piece students are writing to request that two artifacts from their journey be kept in the museum. Below you can see the teacher example for this writing piece, along with the writing checklist that students will be using as they draft this letter.

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Math

This week in math, we started off strong with our KLA test on Monday. Our students pushed through the long day to begin our coverage of order of operations by solving isolated equations, and that is where we spent the rest of the week. Whether PEMDAS, GEMDAS, GEMA, or GMA, all the different ways of teaching your student the order of operations are the same at their core (see the anchor chart below). Next week, we will continue applying our order of operations to word problems instead, as we begin getting ready for our Thanksgiving Break.

Science

This week in Science, we continued to discuss how energy transforms within systems. Students learned what makes a system and then identified different ways that the energy changes. We discussed how the parts within the systems function to transform the energy. Our focus was on chemical energy, mechanical energy, light energy, thermal energy, and electrical energy. On Thursday and Friday, we worked on a mini project to come up with examples of energy transformations in our everyday lives.

Social Studies

This week students read an article about the three Branches of Government and annotated the article to help them better understand how each branch works together.

Teacher Treats

Get into the holiday spirit and help us treat the awesome NCE teachers and staff with a chips and queso feast. All items needed by the morning of December 10th. Thank you!

Contact: Stephanie Davis or Alison Fitzgerald at nceteachertreats@gmail.com

November 10-14, 2025