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