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