Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Welcome Back! - Happy Tuesday!

Remember to bring your swimsuit and towel on Tuesdays and Fridays.

The following assignments should be written in your child's planner.  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)

Language Arts
Talk about (No need to write anything down for this...just talk about it to someone at home!)
Tell a parent what you wrote about in your Holidays paragraph today.
Previous Talk About topics
- Tell a parent what you chose to write about for your, Would You Rather paragraph.
- Talk about the research skills that you are practicing in class
-Tell a parent some facts about Thanksgiving that you wrote about in your Writer's Notebook today.
- Summarize the story: Because of Winn-Dixie

Spelling - List #7 is written in your child's planner. The word list has also 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 12/8 Test is 1/9 in school.

Math
4th Grd. - No H/R Movie Math Packet due Jan 4th

3rd Grd. - No H/R  
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 
None
Talk about (No need to write anything down for this...just talk about it to someone at home!)

Previous Talk About topics:
Tell a parent what you have learned about during your State research
- 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 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!)
Conservation of Mass - What happens when you mix solids with a liquid (water) Talk about the three outcomes: Nothing (they intermingle but can still be separated easily, 
Suspend and/or settle to the bottom, Dissolve to form a solution, and cannot be seen. Does their mass change (No)
Previous Talk About topics:
Describe how your Twirly Bird design compared to the standard design. What changes in motion did you observe?
-  Explain what a magnetic field is? - What did you test in your experiment?
-  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.

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! 

The Battle of The Books 2023!
Saturday March, 18. 10 AM At Groves High School
Visit baldwinlib.org/battle for dates and times of the Battle book talks

Have a great night!