Nature Center Fieldtrip E.L. Johnson Nature Center December 16th - Please see inside your child's blue folder for the permission slip to complete and return to school ASAP.

Check inside your blue Take Home folder each night!

The following assignments should be written in your child's new "Systems" planner, which is inside their zipper binder/trapper  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)

Language Arts 

Complete 4 games by 12/12/21 Word Study is now on Powerspelling.com  Login to App.powerspelling.com Complete 4 of the 6 games assigned. (If the game has 2 different options, you can play both of these options and they will count towards your 4 games.) Test is 12/13/21 (during class time)

Each student has a paper copy of their Word list to study. Your child's list corresponds to how they performed on the Spelling inventory. 

(Word Study Codes are: WW - Within Word, SA - Syllables and Affixes and DR - Derivational Relations)

Your child will know their list/code:

WW - Sort 13

WW - Sort 24

SA - Sort 14

SA - Sort 30

DR - Sort 2

Math

4th Grd - H/R 3-1

3rd Grd - H/R 2-13 

- Unit 2 Quick Quiz 2 was returned to students, please look in their blue folder.

- Did you show your Unit 2 Quick Quizzes to a parent? (Quick Quiz 1 and 2 were sent home in your blue folder) 

- XtraMath 3x per week. Complete a session with Mr. C! Keep going until Mr. C says "You're Done!" If you want to keep going sign out, then sign back in and continue! 

One session on XtraMath usually only lasts about 5-7 mins.

Social Studies 

Talk About: None

Previous Talk About topics

- What did you learn from the Scholastic News magazine today? Or, What did you learn about      Thanksgiving and Sarah Hale

- The Native American research that we have started with Mrs. Truesdell

- Who were The Three Fires?

- Who were The Hopewell?

- What are the cardinal directions on a compass rose? What features do you find in the Upper Peninsula and the Lower Peninsula?

 - Tell a parent a fact you learned about the Great Lakes (remember the clues that you had to solve to name each lake.) 

 - Tell a parent the names of the five Great Lakes

 - Tell a parent a fact about one (or more) of the state symbols we learned about (Choose from Apple Blossom, White Pine, Robin, Brook Trout, White-Tailed Deer, Painted Turtle, Petosky Stone, Dwarf Lilly, Mastadon) 

Science

Talk About -  

Previous Talk About topics: 

How you measured the temperature of hot, cold, and room temp. water.

How much water did your small sponge absorb?

How Strider insects "walk on water"

What direction does water flow? Explain what scientific words, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation mean.

How does slope affect the speed at which water travels

Book Orders  

Click on the digital ALL Flyers link

If you would like to place a book order please click on the link on the right side of the blog. 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! 

Have a great night!

UpComing! - 
BCS Has Got Talent! 
The 7^th and 8^th grade student leadership committee is organizing a talent show for 3^rd and 4^th grade students. In order to participate, students and/or their parents must fill out the Google Form to sign up to perform: https://forms.gle/XsfmKqWE4KeJ3KXS7 

Important dates to know: 
Monday, November 8:  Google Form due
Wednesday, November 10^th: First audition during Choice Hour
Wednesday, December 1^st: Second audition during Choice Hour (for those who were unable to attend the first audition or for those who needed to work on their performances and try again)
Wednesday, December 15^th: Rehearsal during Choice Hour
Friday, December 17^th: Talent Show during school hours.
Please contact Mr. Joe Leibson if you have any questions or concerns. 
Thanks, 
email:  jleibson@birmingham.k12.mi.us

Nature Center Fieldtrip - Please see inside your child's blue folder for the permission slip to complete and return to school ASAP.

Check inside your blue Take Home folder each night!

The following assignments should be written in your child's new "Systems" planner, which is inside their zipper binder/trapper  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)

Language Arts 

Students took their spelling tests today using powerspelling.com. They will start learning their next list and will bring home the page from their WordsTheir Way book tomorrow. 

Word Study is now on Powerspelling.com 

Login to App.powerspelling.com Complete 4 of the 6 games assigned. (If the game has 2 different options, you can play both of these options and they will count towards your 4 games.)

Tomorrow, each student will bring home a paper copy of their Word list to study. Your child's list corresponds to how they performed on the Spelling inventory. 

(Word Study Codes are: WW - Within Word, SA - Syllables and Affixes and DR - Derivational Relations)

Your child will know their list/code:

WW - Sort 13

WW - Sort 24

SA - Sort 14

SA - Sort 30

DR - Sort 2

Math

4th Grd - No H/R Multiplication Worksheet

3rd Grd - No H/R Finish question 1-5 on Journal page 145

- Unit 2 Quick Quiz 1 was returned to students, please look in their blue folder.

- Did you show your Unit 1 Quick Quizzes to a parent? (Quick Quiz 1,2 3 and 4 were sent home in your blue folder) 

- XtraMath 3x per week. Complete a session with Mr. C! Keep going until Mr. C says "You're Done!" If you want to keep going sign out, then sign back in and continue! 

One session on XtraMath usually only lasts about 5-7 mins.

Social Studies 

Talk About: None

Previous Talk About topics

- What did you learn from the Scholastic News magazine today? Or, What did you learn about      Thanksgiving and Sarah Hale

- The Native American research that we have started with Mrs. Truesdell

- Who were The Three Fires?

- Who were The Hopewell?

- What are the cardinal directions on a compass rose? What features do you find in the Upper Peninsula and the Lower Peninsula?

 - Tell a parent a fact you learned about the Great Lakes (remember the clues that you had to solve to name each lake.) 

 - Tell a parent the names of the five Great Lakes

 - Tell a parent a fact about one (or more) of the state symbols we learned about (Choose from Apple Blossom, White Pine, Robin, Brook Trout, White-Tailed Deer, Painted Turtle, Petosky Stone, Dwarf Lilly, Mastadon) 

Science

Talk About - How you measured the temperature of hot, room, and cold water. 

Previous Talk About topics: 

How much water did your small sponge absorb?

How Strider insects "walk on water"

What direction does water flow? Explain what scientific words, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation mean.

How does slope affect the speed at which water travels

Book Orders  

Click on the digital ALL Flyers link

If you would like to place a book order please click on the link on the right side of the blog. 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! 

Have a great night!

UpComing! - 
BCS Has Got Talent! 
The 7^th and 8^th grade student leadership committee is organizing a talent show for 3^rd and 4^th grade students. In order to participate, students and/or their parents must fill out the Google Form to sign up to perform: https://forms.gle/XsfmKqWE4KeJ3KXS7 

Important dates to know: 
Monday, November 8:  Google Form due
Wednesday, November 10^th: First audition during Choice Hour
Wednesday, December 1^st: Second audition during Choice Hour (for those who were unable to attend the first audition or for those who needed to work on their performances and try again)
Wednesday, December 15^th: Rehearsal during Choice Hour
Friday, December 17^th: Talent Show during school hours.
Please contact Mr. Joe Leibson if you have any questions or concerns. 
Thanks, 
email:  jleibson@birmingham.k12.mi.us

                                                          

                                    I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving break! 

Check inside your blue Take Home folder each night!

The following assignments should be written in your child's new "Systems" planner, which is inside their zipper binder/trapper  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)

Language Arts We will start with the next spelling lists after Thanksgiving!

Word Study is now on Powerspelling.com 

Login to App.powerspelling.com Complete 4 of the 6 games assigned. (If the game has 2 different options, you can play both of these options and they will count towards your 4 games.)

Each student has a paper copy of their Word list to study from at home. Your child's list corresponds to how they performed on the Spelling inventory. 

(Word Study Codes are: WW - Within Word, SA - Syllables and Affixes and DR - Derivational Relations)

Your child will know their list/code:

WW - Sort 12

WW - Sort 23

SA - Sort 13

SA - Sort 29

DR - Sort 1

Math

4th Grd - No H/R 

3rd Grd - No H/R 

- Unit 2 Quick Quiz 1 was returned to students, please look in their blue folder.

- Did you show your Unit 1 Quick Quizzes to a parent? (Quick Quiz 1,2 3 and 4 were sent home in your blue folder) 

- XtraMath 3x per week. Complete a session with Mr. C! Keep going until Mr. C says "You're Done!" If you want to keep going sign out, then sign back in and continue! 

One session on XtraMath usually only lasts about 5-7 mins.

Social Studies 

Talk About: What did you learn from the Scholastic News magazine today?

Or, What did you learn about Thanksgiving and Sarah Hale

Previous Talk About topics

- The Native American research that we have started with Mrs. Truesdell

- Who were The Three Fires?

- Who were The Hopewell?

- What are the cardinal directions on a compass rose? What features do you find in the Upper Peninsula and the Lower Peninsula?

 - Tell a parent a fact you learned about the Great Lakes (remember the clues that you had to solve to name each lake.) 

 - Tell a parent the names of the five Great Lakes

 - Tell a parent a fact about one (or more) of the state symbols we learned about (Choose from Apple Blossom, White Pine, Robin, Brook Trout, White-Tailed Deer, Painted Turtle, Petosky Stone, Dwarf Lilly, Mastadon) 

Science

Talk About - How you measured the temperature of hot, room, and cold water. 

Previous Talk About topics: 

How much water did your small sponge absorb?

How Strider insects "walk on water"

What direction does water flow? Explain what scientific words, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation mean.

How does slope affect the speed at which water travels

Book Orders  

Click on the digital ALL Flyers link

If you would like to place a book order please click on the link on the right side of the blog. 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! 

Have a great Sunday!

UpComing! - 
BCS Has Got Talent! 
The 7^th and 8^th grade student leadership committee is organizing a talent show for 3^rd and 4^th grade students. In order to participate, students and/or their parents must fill out the Google Form to sign up to perform: https://forms.gle/XsfmKqWE4KeJ3KXS7 

Important dates to know: 
Monday, November 8:  Google Form due
Wednesday, November 10^th: First audition during Choice Hour
Wednesday, December 1^st: Second audition during Choice Hour (for those who were unable to attend the first audition or for those who needed to work on their performances and try again)
Wednesday, December 15^th: Rehearsal during Choice Hour
Friday, December 17^th: Talent Show during school hours.
Please contact Mr. Joe Leibson if you have any questions or concerns. 
Thanks, 
email:  jleibson@birmingham.k12.mi.us

Happy Monday!

Optional - Parkin students may come to school in comfy P.J's tomorrow!

If you would like to make a Thanksgiving Turkey craft tomorrow - bring in the inner cardboard tube inside a toilet roll or paper towel roll. - (Don't worry if you don't have one, you'll do a different fun task!)

Check inside your blue Take Home folder each night!

The following assignments should be written in your child's new "Systems" planner, which is inside their zipper binder/trapper  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)

Language Arts We will start with the next spelling lists after Thanksgiving!

Word Study is now on Powerspelling.com 

Login to App.powerspelling.com Complete 4 of the 6 games assigned. (If the game has 2 different options, you can play both of these options and they will count towards your 4 games.)

Each student has a paper copy of their Word list to study from at home. Your child's list corresponds to how they performed on the Spelling inventory. 

(Word Study Codes are: WW - Within Word, SA - Syllables and Affixes and DR - Derivational Relations)

Your child will know their list/code:

WW - Sort 12

WW - Sort 23

SA - Sort 13

SA - Sort 29

DR - Sort 1

Math

4th Grd - No H/R 

3rd Grd - No H/R 

- Unit 2 Quick Quiz 1 was returned to students, please look in their blue folder.

- Did you show your Unit 1 Quick Quizzes to a parent? (Quick Quiz 1,2 3 and 4 were sent home in your blue folder) 

- XtraMath 3x per week. Complete a session with Mr. C! Keep going until Mr. C says "You're Done!" If you want to keep going sign out, then sign back in and continue! 

One session on XtraMath usually only lasts about 5-7 mins.

Social Studies 

Talk About: What did you learn from the Scholastic News magazine today?

Or, What did you learn about Thanksgiving and Sarah Hale

Previous Talk About topics

- The Native American research that we have started with Mrs. Truesdell

- Who were The Three Fires?

- Who were The Hopewell?

- What are the cardinal directions on a compass rose? What features do you find in the Upper Peninsula and the Lower Peninsula?

 - Tell a parent a fact you learned about the Great Lakes (remember the clues that you had to solve to name each lake.) 

 - Tell a parent the names of the five Great Lakes

 - Tell a parent a fact about one (or more) of the state symbols we learned about (Choose from Apple Blossom, White Pine, Robin, Brook Trout, White-Tailed Deer, Painted Turtle, Petosky Stone, Dwarf Lilly, Mastadon) 

Science

Talk About - How you measured the temperature of hot, room, and cold water. 

Previous Talk About topics: 

How much water did your small sponge absorb?

How Strider insects "walk on water"

What direction does water flow? Explain what scientific words, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation mean.

How does slope affect the speed at which water travels

Book Orders  

Click on the digital ALL Flyers link

If you would like to place a book order please click on the link on the right side of the blog. 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! 

Have a great night!

Happy Friday!

Check inside your blue Take Home folder each night!

The following assignments should be written in your child's new "Systems" planner, which is inside their zipper binder/trapper  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)

Language Arts 

Word Study on Powerspelling.com - We started this in class today!

Login to App.powerspelling.com Complete 4 of the 6 games assigned. (If the game has 2 different options, you can play both of these options and they will count towards your 4 games.)

Each student has a paper copy of their Word list to study from at home (the list went home in their blue folder on 11/8) Your child's list corresponds to how they performed on the Spelling inventory. 

(Word Study Codes are: WW - Within Word, SA - Syllables and Affixes and DR - Derivational Relations)

Your child will know their list/code:

WW - Sort 12

WW - Sort 23

SA - Sort 13

SA - Sort 29

DR - Sort 1

Math

4th Grd - No H/R 

3rd Grd - H/R 2-12 

- Unit 2 Quick Quiz 1 was returned to students, please look in their blue folder.

- Did you show your Unit 1 Quick Quizzes to a parent? (Quick Quiz 1,2 3 and 4 were sent home in your blue folder) 

- XtraMath 3x per week. Complete a session with Mr. C! Keep going until Mr. C says "You're Done!" If you want to keep going sign out, then sign back in and continue! 

One session on XtraMath usually only lasts about 5-7 mins.

Social Studies 

Talk About: The Native American research that we have started with Mrs. Truesdell

Previous Talk About topics

- Who were The Three Fires?

- Who were The Hopewell?

- What are the cardinal directions on a compass rose? What features do you find in the Upper Peninsula and the Lower Peninsula?

 - Tell a parent a fact you learned about the Great Lakes (remember the clues that you had to solve to name each lake.) 

 - Tell a parent the names of the five Great Lakes

 - Tell a parent a fact about one (or more) of the state symbols we learned about (Choose from Apple Blossom, White Pine, Robin, Brook Trout, White-Tailed Deer, Painted Turtle, Petosky Stone, Dwarf Lilly, Mastadon) 

Science

Talk About - How you measured the temperature of hot, room, and cold water. 

Previous Talk About topics: 

How much water did your small sponge absorb?

How Strider insects "walk on water"

What direction does water flow? Explain what scientific words, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation mean.

How does slope affect the speed at which water travels

Book Orders  

Click on the digital ALL Flyers link

If you would like to place a book order please click on the link on the right side of the blog. 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! 

Have a great night!

 Happy Thursday!

PLEASE NOTE - ONE TIME ONLY! - Parkin students will swim tomorrow! 

Today is a half-day for students. Dismissal is at 11:30 AM. 

Thank you for your time at conferences yesterday! I enjoyed discussing your child's growth and progress with you. I am looking forward to seeing my second group of parents at conferences, today. Mr. Wallington has my math reports for students in his homeroom. I will have Mr. Wallington's math reports for my homeroom students.

Check inside your blue Take Home folder each night!

The BCS Book Fair is in full swing! Students created their wish lists. Parents can choose to purchase during conferences in person or online. You can also send your child in with cash at any time this week. Thank you in advance for considering supporting our library through the book fair. I also created a Wishlist for our classroom. Mrs. Truesdell has it on file in the Media Center.

The following assignments should be written in your child's new "Systems" planner, which is inside their zipper binder/trapper  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)

Language Arts 

Each student has a paper copy of their Word list to study from at home (the list went home in their blue folder on 11/8) Your child's list corresponds to how they performed on the Spelling inventory. 

(Word Study Codes are: WW - Within Word, SA - Syllables and Affixes and DR - Derivational Relations)

These are the lists for the next 2 weeks. Your child will know their list/code:

WW - Sort 12

WW - Sort 23

SA - Sort 13

SA - Sort 29

DR - Sort 1

Math

4th Grd - No H/R Math problem (on lined paper)

3rd Grd - H/R 2-11 due Friday

- Unit 2 Quick Quiz 1 was returned to students, please look in their blue folder.

- Did you show your Unit 1 Quick Quizzes to a parent? (Quick Quiz 1,2 3 and 4 were sent home in your blue folder) 

- XtraMath 3x per week. Complete a session with Mr. C! Keep going until Mr. C says "You're Done!" If you want to keep going sign out, then sign back in and continue! 

One session on XtraMath usually only lasts about 5-7 mins.

Social Studies 

Talk About: The Native American research that we have started with Mrs. Truesdell

Previous Talk About topics

- Who were The Three Fires?

- Who were The Hopewell?

- What are the cardinal directions on a compass rose? What features do you find in the Upper Peninsula and the Lower Peninsula?

 - Tell a parent a fact you learned about the Great Lakes (remember the clues that you had to solve to name each lake.) 

 - Tell a parent the names of the five Great Lakes

 - Tell a parent a fact about one (or more) of the state symbols we learned about (Choose from Apple Blossom, White Pine, Robin, Brook Trout, White-Tailed Deer, Painted Turtle, Petosky Stone, Dwarf Lilly, Mastadon) 

Science

Talk About - How you measured the temperature of hot, room, and cold water. 

Previous Talk About topics: 

How much water did your small sponge absorb?

How Strider insects "walk on water"

What direction does water flow? Explain what scientific words, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation mean.

How does slope affect the speed at which water travels

Book Orders  

Click on the digital ALL Flyers link

If you would like to place a book order please click on the link on the right side of the blog. 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! 

Have a great night!

Happy Wednesday!

Today is a half-day for students. Dismissal is at 11:30 AM. 

I am looking forward to seeing my first group of parents at conferences, today. Mr. Wallington has my math reports for students in his homeroom. I will have Mr. Wallington's math reports for my homeroom students.

Check inside your blue Take Home folder each night!

The BCS Book Fair is in full swing! Students created their wish lists. Parents can choose to purchase during conferences in person or online. You can also send your child in with cash at any time this week. Thank you in advance for considering supporting our library through the book fair. I also created a Wishlist for our classroom. Mrs. Truesdell has it on file in the Media Center.

The following assignments should be written in your child's new "Systems" planner, which is inside their zipper binder/trapper  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)

Language Arts 

Each student has a paper copy of their Word list to study from at home (the list went home in their blue folder on 11/8) Your child's list corresponds to how they performed on the Spelling inventory. 

(Word Study Codes are: WW - Within Word, SA - Syllables and Affixes and DR - Derivational Relations)

These are the lists for the next 2 weeks. Your child will know their list/code:

WW - Sort 12

WW - Sort 23

SA - Sort 13

SA - Sort 29

DR - Sort 1

Math

4th Grd - No H/R 

3rd Grd - H/R 2-11 due Friday

- Unit 2 Quick Quiz 1 was returned to students, please look in their blue folder.

- Did you show your Unit 1 Quick Quizzes to a parent? (Quick Quiz 1,2 3 and 4 were sent home in your blue folder) 

- XtraMath 3x per week. Complete a session with Mr. C! Keep going until Mr. C says "You're Done!" If you want to keep going sign out, then sign back in and continue! 

One session on XtraMath usually only lasts about 5-7 mins.

Social Studies 

Talk About: The Native American research that we have started with Mrs. Truesdell

Previous Talk About topics

- Who were The Three Fires?

- Who were The Hopewell?

- What are the cardinal directions on a compass rose? What features do you find in the Upper Peninsula and the Lower Peninsula?

 - Tell a parent a fact you learned about the Great Lakes (remember the clues that you had to solve to name each lake.) 

 - Tell a parent the names of the five Great Lakes

 - Tell a parent a fact about one (or more) of the state symbols we learned about (Choose from Apple Blossom, White Pine, Robin, Brook Trout, White-Tailed Deer, Painted Turtle, Petosky Stone, Dwarf Lilly, Mastadon) 

Science

Talk About - How you measured the temperature of hot, room, and cold water. 

Previous Talk About topics: 

How much water did your small sponge absorb?

How Strider insects "walk on water"

What direction does water flow? Explain what scientific words, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation mean.

How does slope affect the speed at which water travels

Book Orders  

Next Book Orders will be submitted on Monday, Nov. 8th

Click on the digital ALL Flyers link

If you would like to place a book order please click on the link on the right side of the blog. 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! 

Have a great night!

Tomorrow and Thursday are half days for students. Dismissal is at 11:30

                                              

Please click the SignUp Genius Buttons on the right to choose a conference timeslot.

Check inside your blue Take Home folder each night!

We went to the BCS Book Fair where the students created their wish lists. Parents can choose to purchase during conferences in person or online. You can also send your child in with cash at any time this week. Thank you in advance for considering supporting our library through the book fair. I also created a Wishlist for our classroom. Mrs. Truesdell has it on file in the Media Center. Thank you!

The following assignments should be written in your child's planner, which is inside their blue folder.  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)

Language Arts 

Each student has a paper copy of their Word list to study from at home (the list went home in their blue folder on 11/8) Your child's list corresponds to how they performed on the Spelling inventory. 

(Word Study Codes are: WW - Within Word, SA - Syllables and Affixes and DR - Derivational Relations)

These are the lists for the next 2 weeks. Your child will know their list/code:

WW - Sort 12

WW - Sort 23

SA - Sort 13

SA - Sort 29

DR - Sort 1

Math

4th Grd - No H/R Study Review. Torn out page from math journal due tomorrow

3rd Grd - H/R 2-10

- Unit 2 Quick Quiz 1 was returned to students, please look in their blue folder.

- Did you show your Unit 1 Quick Quizzes to a parent? (Quick Quiz 1,2 3 and 4 were sent home in your blue folder) 

- XtraMath 3x per week. Complete a session with Mr. C! Keep going until Mr. C says "You're Done!" If you want to keep going sign out, then sign back in and continue! 

One session on XtraMath usually only lasts about 5-7 mins.

Social Studies 

Talk About: The Native American research that we have started with Mrs. Truesdell

Previous Talk About topics

- Who were The Three Fires?

- Who were The Hopewell?

- What are the cardinal directions on a compass rose? What features do you find in the Upper Peninsula and the Lower Peninsula?

 - Tell a parent a fact you learned about the Great Lakes (remember the clues that you had to solve to name each lake.) 

 - Tell a parent the names of the five Great Lakes

 - Tell a parent a fact about one (or more) of the state symbols we learned about (Choose from Apple Blossom, White Pine, Robin, Brook Trout, White-Tailed Deer, Painted Turtle, Petosky Stone, Dwarf Lilly, Mastadon) 

Science

Talk About - How you measured the temperature of hot, room, and cold water. 

Previous Talk About topics: 

How much water did your small sponge absorb?

How Strider insects "walk on water"

What direction does water flow? Explain what scientific words, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation mean.

How does slope affect the speed at which water travels

Book Orders  

Next Book Orders will be submitted on Monday, Nov. 8th

Click on the digital ALL Flyers link

If you would like to place a book order please click on the link on the right side of the blog. 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! 

Have a great night!

                                  Conferences are this Wednesday and Thursday!

                                              

Please click the SignUp Genius Buttons on the right to choose a conference timeslot.

Check inside your blue Take Home folder each night!

Went to the BCS Book Fair today  Students created their wish lists, which parents may choose to purchase during conferences in person or online. You can also send your child in with cash at any time this week. Thank you in advance for considering to support our library through the book fair. I also created a Wishlist for our classroom. Mrs Truesdell has it on file in the Media Center. Thank you!

The following assignments should be written in your child's planner, which is inside their blue folder.  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)

Language Arts 

Each student has a paper copy of their Word list to study from at home (the list went home in their blue folder on 11/8) Your child's list corresponds to how they performed on the Spelling inventory. 

(Word Study Codes are: WW - Within Word, SA - Syllables and Affixes and DR - Derivational Relations)

These are the lists for the next 2 weeks. Your child will know their list/code:

WW - Sort 12

WW - Sort 23

SA - Sort 13

SA - Sort 29

DR - Sort 1

Math

4th Grd - No H/R Study Review. Test today

3rd Grd - No H/R

- Unit 2 Quick Quiz 1 was returned to students today

- Did you show your Unit 1 Quick Quizzes to a parent? (Quick Quiz 1,2 3 and 4 were sent home in your blue folder) 

- XtraMath 3x per week. Complete a session with Mr. C! Keep going until Mr. C says "You're Done!" If you want to keep going sign out, then sign back in and continue! 

One session on XtraMath usually only lasts about 5-7 mins.

Social Studies 

Talk About: The Native American research that we have started with Mrs. Truesdell

Previous Talk About topics

- Who were The Three Fires?

- Who were The Hopewell?

- What are the cardinal directions on a compass rose? What features do you find in the Upper Peninsula and the Lower Peninsula?

 - Tell a parent a fact you learned about the Great Lakes (remember the clues that you had to solve to name each lake.) 

 - Tell a parent the names of the five Great Lakes

 - Tell a parent a fact about one (or more) of the state symbols we learned about (Choose from Apple Blossom, White Pine, Robin, Brook Trout, White-Tailed Deer, Painted Turtle, Petosky Stone, Dwarf Lilly, Mastadon) 

Science

Talk About - How you measured the temperature of hot, room, and cold water. 

Previous Talk About topics: 

How much water did your small sponge absorb?

How Strider insects "walk on water"

What direction does water flow? Explain what scientific words, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation mean.

How does slope affect the speed at which water travels

Book Orders  

Next Book Orders will be submitted on Monday, Nov. 8th

Click on the digital ALL Flyers link

If you would like to place a book order please click on the link on the right side of the blog. 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! 

Have a great night!