Please scroll to the bottom for Battle of the Books info!
P. E 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!)
Previous Talk About topics
- Summarize your opinion essay
- Summarize what you have read in The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
- 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 #11 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 3/12/23 The test is on 3/13/23 in school.
Math
4th Grd. - No H/R
3rd Grd. - H/R 6-7
Complete 3 sessions on Xtramath each week until both the x and / grids are green. XtraMath sessions usually only last about 5-7 mins, until Mr. C says, "you're done!"
Please note: We have jumped to units 6 and 7 and will complete those units before going back to unit 5 at the end of the year. That way our students have had experience with Geometry and fractions before taking the M-Step in the Spring.
To show your Unit test scores on ThinkCentral - Login to ClassLink - Thinkcentral App - My Scores
Social Studies
Talk about (No need to write anything down for this...just talk about it to someone at home!)
Previous Talk About topics:
- Name three (or more) stops that we made on our tour of the Midwest - From our TCI textbook
-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:
- Name three conductors and insulators that you tested in the electrical circuit constructed in class
- Name the parts/components of the electric circuit system
- 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.
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!
Team registration will open on Monday, February 20, 2023.
Jinxed by Amy McCulloch
The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary by Laura Shovan
Accidental Trouble Magnet by Zanib Mia
Twins by Varian Johnson
January 9 – The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary
January 23- Accidental Trouble Magnet
February 6 – Twins
February 13 – A Wish in the Dark
February 27 – Jinxed
Additionally, Mrs. Rivera has a BCS Choice Hour specifically for Battle on Mondays during Q3. She is not privy to the questions that will be asked during the actual battle, but students will practice each week leading up to the Battle and discuss the books together.
Upcoming!
Have a great night!
