Happy Friday!
The weather has turned colder and students now need to wrap up warm for recess. Please remember to wear a coat to school!🏊🏊SWIM IS TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS - DONT FORGET SWIMSUIT, TOWEL, GOGGLES, HAIRBRUSH, etc...EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY!🏊🏊
(Please note, if you have a swimming choice hour after school you will need another swimsuit and towel!)
The following assignments should be written in your child's planner, which is inside their zipper binder. Parents, please use this blog to 'cross-check' with your child's planner. They should be completing their planner every day in class.
Homework
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)
This week students finished reading our community read.
This week’s home discussion questions:
If a refugee child joined your class, what would you do to help them feel welcome?
If you could be famous and on the news for a single day, what action would you take to help others?
Language Arts
Spelling - Students have their second list of words in their planner. The word list has been assigned to their Powerspelling account (click the Powerspelling link under Language Arts on the right side of this blog) login with username initials and usual password (Learnanimal/number period) Play all the games on Powerspelling by Sunday 10/16 Test is Monday, 10/17
Math
4th Grd. - H/R None - Math packet due Monday 10/17
3rd Grd. - H/R None. Study the Unit 1 review in your math journal. Post-test is Monday
Complete 3 sessions on Xtramath each week. XtraMath sessions usually only last about 5-7 mins, until Mr. C says, "you're done!"
Social Studies
Talk about (No need to write anything down for this...just talk about it to someone at home!)
Previous Talk About topics:
- Explain what Lines of longitude and lines of latitude are.
- Talk about the kinds of things that Geographers study. Think about the sections we read in our Regions textbook. - Check in your planner for your keyword list
Science
Talk about (No need to write anything down for this...just talk about it to someone at home!)
- Explain what a magnetic field is - What did you test in your experiment?
Previous Talk About topics:
- Explain some of the magnetism experiments that you constructed in class (Swinging magnet and paperclip, paperclips on a stick, talking magnets, and magnets on a straw/pencil) Use vocab words such as repel, attract, and magnetic field.
October book orders due by 10/14. 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!
