Conferences!
Please click the SignUp Genius Buttons on the right to choose a conference timeslot.
Check inside your blue Take Home folder each night!
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
All 4th-grade (and 5th) students are invited to order Battle of the Books - Book Bundles! If you want to purchase all of the books at once for this year's battle, please complete the form and return it to Mrs. Truesdell.
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
Top 10 Spelling words (see bottom of planner) Test is Friday!
Math No New Homework!
4th Grd - No H/R Complete your worksheet
3rd Grd - Remembering side only 2-4
- 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: Who were the Three Fires? (This homework is for conversation and reflection with a parent at home)
Previous Talk About topics
- 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 much water did your small sponge absorb?
Previous Talk About topics:
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
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!
