Monday, February 26, 2018

Welcome Back! It was great to see everyone back from break today!

Remember to bring in headphones or earbuds to keep at school.

4th grader's - Please remember to turn in your Marshall's instrument selection sheets to the office.

Reading to the Super bowl Celebration has been rescheduled to Friday March 9th. In the BCS Gym.

Up Coming Fieldtrips:
  • Nature Center - Monday 3/5/18 (all permission slip have been turned in)
  • Detroit Historical Museum - Wednesday 3/14/18 (some permission slips needed)
  • Earth Day Movie - Friday 4/20/18 (all slips turned in
BCS Character Ed Word of the Week: Accountability
"It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable"
                                                                                                                                   - Moliere
Reminders: School starts at 8:18am Students should be in their homeroom seat by this time.
• Have 3 sharp pencils every day.
• Bring a water bottle and two healthy snacks every day.
• Bring a chapter book every day.

Scholastic Book Ordering: The Feb. orders arrived. Next book orders will be submitted on March 6th
If you would like to continue to browse and order, all magazines/flyers are available to view online. Click on the book orders link at the side of the blog. Create your own username and password to login. Our class code for ordering is GKQKW. Use the class code to access our ordering page. All flyers are available to view and order from any month.

Language Arts:
Writing: None

Congratulations to all the students for achieving their reading minute goals.  
The re-scheduled Reading celebration is now Friday March 9th.

3rd: Read 20 mins daily
4th: Read 30 mins daily
Parents - Please sign at the bottom of today's planner entry (completed by your child in class) to show that your child has done their required reading.

Word Study:

Signed word study letter and Spellingcity.com tasks due Monday 3/12/18
Access www.spellingcity.com (from this blog) Login. (Your username and password are stuck to the inside cover of your planner.)
Your child will know their spelling sort: Within Word (WW) sort 16, Syllables & Affixes (SA) sort 15 or sort 23, Derivational Relations (DR) sort 7 or sort 21. They wrote their sort on their Word Study paper (at the top.)


Spellingcity.com Homework: Complete 6 activities on Spellingcity.com and return the signed spelling letter on Monday 3/12/18.  Please read the letter and follow the directions. Locate your list on spellingcity.com by clicking the red drop down arrow for your spelling sort code.  Play the games under the tabs to help you learn the spelling patterns for these words. You can check which word study activities you have completed by clicking on ‘My Records’ after you log in. Remember – DO NOT click S-test on spellingcity.org. Save that button for the day of your test.

4th Grade Math: Study guide


3rd Grade Math:
None  Unit 5 Pre test was today.
Please show your scores to your parents by going to Thinkcentral.com.
Login in with tc before your username. Birthdate password. The link to the site is on the right side of the blog under the Math heading.
Xtramath.com - 3 times per week. Complete a full work session, which lasts about 5-10 mins (until Mr. C says you are done!)
Thatquiz.org  - None


3rd grade math students please note Other pages in the homework book e.g. "Dash Pages" (Math fact drill pages) and Multiplication/Division flashcards that are printed in the homework book are not assigned homework. They may be completed or cut out and used as optional, additional fact practice if you'd like. You could use these pages to test yourself with how fast your x fact recall is or just to do some flash card recall practice at home.


Please spend 15-20 mins each week in Compass Learning. 

Math pathways or Language Arts pathways. Choose the folder with the lowest RIT number range.

Social Studies: None


Science: None