New date for the Nature Center Field trip!
Our previously canceled field trip to the Nature center has now been rescheduled to Wednesday, January 12th. I sent an email out to parents yesterday to inform families of the new date. The time of the trip is unchanged (9:00 AM - 11:30 AM). We will travel by school bus to the nature center. Permission forms were already collected. Please email me if you would like to retract your permission for your child to attend this trip on January 12th.
Swim tomorrow - Don't forget your swim kit!
Kids Healthy Heart Fund Raiser was launched on Thursday. The students attended a presentation in the gym. Forms with all the details on how to participate will be given out soon!
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 - What is empathy? How can you show empathy towards your classmates?
Word Study
Complete 4 games by 1/16/22 Word Study is 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 1/18/22 (This is a Tuesday as we will be out of school for MLK Jr. Day on 1/17)
Each student has a paper copy of their Word list to study, which was torn out of their Words Their Way book. 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 15
WW - Sort 26
SA - Sort 16
SA - Sort 32
DR - Sort 4
Math
4th Grd - No H/R Complete the review - due Monday
3rd Grd - H/R 3-6 Question 1-7 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 was Antoine de Cadillac
(This is only to talk about with a parent at home. No writing is required)
Previous Talk About topics:
- Who was Father Marquette?
- 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 - None
(This is only to talk about with a parent at home. No writing is required)
Previous Talk About topics:
Coldwater contracts (gets smaller) and Hot water expands (gets bigger) BUT What happens when water changes state from liquid to solid? (ice)
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
Book Orders New 2022 flyers came home this week (see blue folder!) Orders due Jan 13th 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!
UpComing!
BCS Has Got Talent!
Important dates to know:
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
