Happy Wednesday!
Last chance to see this year's musical production Seussical, Jr!
Come support BCS students participating in this year's cast and crew! Horton the Elephant, the Cat in the Hat, and all of your favorite Dr. Seuss characters spring to life onstage in Seussical JR., a fantastical musical extravaganza from Tony-winners, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.
Show Dates:
Tuesday, April 11 at 7pm
Wednesday, April 12 at 7pm
Performances are held at Seaholm High School in the Wagner Auditorium.
Tickets can be purchased here: https://covingtonproductions.ludus.com/index.php
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Tickets are $12 for non-students and $5 for students
Thanks!
Courtney Bassett
Community Engagement Coordinator
P.E. Tuesdays and Fridays (see the schedule for the year in the links)
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 #13 is written in the 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 4/16/23
See rescheduled date**The test is Wednesday, 4/19/23 in school.
Math
4th Grd. - H/R 7-2 and 7-6 due Thursday
3rd Grd. - H/R 7-7
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:
- What are 3 "cool" facts about the Southwest?
- Name three (or more) stops that we made on our tour of the Southwest - From our TCI textbook
- 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!
Upcoming!
Have a great night!
