Monday, March 11, 2024

Happy Monday!


💡💡💡Think Energy 3rd grade kits opt-out form is due Thursday 3/14. The presentation will be on Friday 3/15

Earthday field trip - April 19th. Please return your permission slip by March 22nd🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍

Students will continue to swim on Tuesdays and Fridays in Q3. Don't forget your towel and swimsuit!  For the yearly swim/Gym schedule, please click on/or copy-paste the link on the right-hand side of the blog

The following assignments should be written in your child's planner, which is inside their zipper binder.  Parents, please use this blog to 'cross-check' with your child's planner. They should be completing their planner every day in class.

Reading
3rd graders - Read 20 mins (minimum) each night
4th graders - Read 30 mins (minimum) each night
(Bring in a chapter book to read in class. You will keep your book inside your binder)

Word Study - No new list. Chromebooks are not to be taken home this week

Writing 
Talk About:
Previous Talk About Topics: 
- Share the plot of Poppy thus far
- How did your research presentation go? Explain the best parts of presenting your project
- What you wrote in your letter to a new future student
- Explain how 2 of the 4 vocabulary words were used in the Historical fiction Story, The Sign of The Beaver
- What did Attean do that he hasn't done before (character development)
- What did Matt realize when he told Attean the story from the bible?
- Explain how Matt has changed in the story? Do you think Matt and Attean are friends?
- Explain inferences (use the story - Sign of the Beaver or your Dat/Night worksheet)
- Explain the difference between Main Idea (what happens) and Theme (What you learn/ the lesson in the book)
- Show your personal narrative to a parent (go to your Google Drive)
- Summarize your reading
-  Explain how to punctuate dialogue in a story
- Tell a parent a vivid verb from your personal narrative
-Retell your Pumpkin Contest story to a parent
Summarize The Hundred Dresses (setting - the main character(s) Predict what might happen next)
- Explain one type of lead and one type of ending in your narrative writing
- Show your Pixton Summary to a parent. Problems logging in? Use the class join code azu3t4
- Summarize what we read from our class novel, Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing
- Tell 3 facts about Constitution Day (use page 144 in your planner to help you)
Talk About - Summarize what we read from our class novel, Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing

Math
4th Grade - None
3rd Grade - None - Chromebooks are not to be taken home this week

Click the link to access Illustrative Math Family Support Materials 
Click the link to access Illustrative Math Family Videos

Social Studies
Talk About - None
Previous Talk About Topics:
- Explain what you learned from the Liberty's Kids episode
- Who was Father Jean Marquette?
- Tell a fact about Veterans Day (Show your Remembrance Day poppy to your parent)
- What did Native Americans use from nature?
- What is Indigenous Peoples Day (Who was Christopher Columbus?)
- Tell a parent about cardinal directions
- Tell a fact about a Michigan Lake

Science
Talk About: Explain how fossils form. 
Previous Talk About Topics:
- Explain your observations of erosion from the flood flow test in your stream table.
- What is chemical weathering? Explain how the acid/vinegar reacted to the minerals inside the four rocks (Basalt, marble, limestone, and sandstone)
-  Explain the tumbling experiment (Physical weathering - conglomerate vs granite)
Explain what you learned about floods or monsoons (natural hazards)
- Explain the Water Cycle (Evaporation-condensation-precipitation)
- Explain the Hot/Cold water density experiment (Less dense = floats/ more dense = sinks)
- What were the temperatures of 3 different cups of water?
- What surprised you when you tested water drops on rocks, leaves, and wood chips
- Explain what surface tension is
- How does water react to different surfaces?

If you would like to place a book order please click on the link on the right side of the blog. To place an order - Set up a username and password (of your own choice) and please link your account to our class using the following code: GKQKW  
Each $ spent earns our class points that I can use to purchase new books for our classroom library! Thank you!

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