Dear Parkin Families,
Thank you so much for the class gift card that I received at the end of the day! It was a lovely surprise! I will be out of the classroom on Monday and Tuesday next week as I head back to the UK for the Holidays. Wishing all my families a wonderful, festive holiday. All the best for the New Year!
Check inside your blue Take Home folder each night!
The following assignments should be written in your child's school 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
Talk About - Tell a parent about your kindness rating paper. Our kindness rocks are coming along nicely! 
Word Study
Complete 4 games by 1/2/22 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 1/3/22
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: WW - Within Word, SA - Syllables and Affixes and DR - Derivational Relations)
Your child will know their list/code:
WW - Sort 14
WW - Sort 25
SA - Sort 15
SA - Sort 31
DR - Sort 3
Math
4th Grd - No H/R
3rd Grd - H/R 3-3
- 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
(This is only to talk about with a parent at home. No writing is required)
Previous Talk About topics:
- What did you learn about Thanksgiving and Sarah Hale
- Michigan's 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 - Coldwater contracts (gets smaller) and Hot water expands (gets bigger) BUT What happens when water changes state from liquid to solid? (ice)
(This is only to talk about with a parent at home. No writing is required)
Previous Talk About topics:
How does cold water and hot water respond in room temperature water?
How you made a thermometer in class. Explain what happened when you placed it in cold and hot water.
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
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 weekend and a wonderful Holiday Break!
UpComing!
BCS Has Got Talent!
BCS Has Got Talent!
Important dates to know:
Wednesday, December 15th: Rehearsal during Choice Hour
Wednesday, December 15th: Rehearsal during Choice Hour
Talent Show date has been POSTPONED TO JANUARY! During school hours.
Please contact Mr. Joe Leibson if you have any questions or concerns.
Thanks,
email: jleibson@birmingham.k12.mi.us
Please contact Mr. Joe Leibson if you have any questions or concerns.
Thanks,
email: jleibson@birmingham.k12.mi.us
