Congratulations to all students who participated in the Battle of the Books this past weekend!
Click on this link to view some pictures from the trip to the E.L Johnson Nature Center.
Please remember your gym shoes -
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
Reading a non-fiction book? - Look for the 5 Structures (Con&Con, Prob&Sol, Cau&Effe, Seq, Descrip)
Reading a fiction book? - Look for the signposts (Comp&Con, Aha, TQu, WoW, Ag&Ag, MemMo)
(Bring in a chapter book to read in class. You will keep your book inside your binder)
Language Arts
Talk About - The informational Writing presentations that you have listened to in class. Which did you enjoy? What did you learn?
(This is only to talk about with a parent at home. No writing is required)
- Did you use Creative Commons to select 1 or 2 pictures to support your writing? What topic did you choose for your informational writing? Which of the five text structures did you choose to write in?
- What are the 5 Structures of Non-Fiction writing?
- 5 or more Text Features in Non-Fiction writing
- The Sign of the Beaver - What differences and similarities have you seen in the movie compared to the novel? What were the important events that were included or left out of the movie?
- What did you learn from our field trip to the nature center.
- What is empathy? How can you show empathy towards your classmates?
Word Study Test was today
Next word sort were assigned (see below)
Complete 4 games by 3/19/22 (Please note the date change!)
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 3/20/22!
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 30
SA - Sort 20
SA - Sort 36
DR - Sort 3
DR - Sort 8
Math
4th Grd - H/R 6-4
3rd Grd - H/R None (please review H/R 6-3 that we completed in class today)
Please note - we are completing Unit 6 and 7 before Unit 5 so that students have some practice with Geometry and Fractions before they take the M-Step in the spring.
To show your score from Unit 3 Posttest - Login to Classlink, click on the Thinkcentral App. Click My Scores
Keep your elapsed time packet inside your math journal. We will continue to work on this packet in class
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 Chinese New Year culture?
- Who was Antoine de Cadillac?
- 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 - Explain what 'physical and chemical weathering' is. How did chemical weathering (acid rain) affect the 4 rocks; limestone, sandstone, basalt, and marble?
(This is only to talk about with a parent at home. No writing is required)
Previous Talk About topics:
Tell a parent about your journey as an igneous rock. Where did your journey end up (in the soil, in the river, or in the interior earth.) How many 'rolls of the die' did it take before you ended your journey?
What did you observe in the four soil samples? (River delta, Mountain, desert, and forest soil) What is humus and why is it an important part of soil?
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
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!
