SHOW YOUR BCS SPIRIT THIS WEEK!
Tuesday 12/14 - PJ Day
Wednesday 12/13 - Bedhead Day
Thursday 12/15 - Read Day (Also Fieldtrip day in the AM)
Friday 12/16 - Ugly Sweater Day
Our Field trip to the E.L. Johnson Nature Center is Thursday December 16th. We will eat snack before we leave and we will be back at BCS for 3/4 lunch. The program is called Our Changing Earth. We will have 'hands on' experiences with identifying rock and minerals, use magnifying lenses to observe the environment around the nature center
Swim starts tomorrow- Tuesday!
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. Bring in a small pebble to paint a kindness message on.
Or - Tell a parent about your research about Michigan's Native Americans.
Word Study
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
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 - No H/R (Make sure your Chromebook is in school for tomorrow)
3rd Grd - No H/R
- 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 - Cold water 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 night!
UpComing!
BCS Has Got Talent!
BCS Has Got Talent!
Important dates to know:
Wednesday, December 15th: Rehearsal during Choice Hour
Friday, December 17th: Talent Show during school hours.
Please contact Mr. Joe Leibson if you have any questions or concerns.
Thanks,
email: jleibson@birmingham.k12.mi.us
Wednesday, December 15th: Rehearsal during Choice Hour
Friday, December 17th: Talent Show during school hours.
Please contact Mr. Joe Leibson if you have any questions or concerns.
Thanks,
email: jleibson@birmingham.k12.mi.us
