Happy Thursday!
Tomorrow (Friday 1/20) is a half-day for students. Dismissal is at 11:30 AM
P.E. on Tuesdays and Fridays.
iReady testing for Math and Reading will be on Monday 1/23 and Tuesday 1/24. The students will leave their Chromebooks in school on Friday for updates and to charge over the weekend. Students need to bring their headphones/earbuds for testing.
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!)
- Summarize what you have read in The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Previous Talk About topics
- Tell about the paragraph that you wrote in your writers' notebook (The Holiday or In My Opinion)
-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 #8 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 1/22 Test is 1/23 in school.
Math
4th Grd. - H/R 4-5 and 4-6 due Monday
3rd Grd. - Finish J.Page 201 today (Thursday) and H/R 3-12 due Wednesday
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:
-Tell a parent about the PPI (Public Policy Issue) that you researched in class
- Tell 3 facts that you learned from the Survival Game (Life in the Colonial Southeast)
- 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!)
Previous Talk About topics:
- 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)
- 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.
Book Orders My flyers went home today!
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!
