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
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!
