Happy Thursday!
Tomorrow afternoon, Friday 5/ 26 is the BCS Make Share Faire! Students are excited to present their STEAM projects from Engage class.
📕🕮Important message from the Media Center! Please return ALL borrowed books back to the Media Center by Friday, June 2nd!🕮📕
No Swim tomorrow due to Maker Faire
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 - Was due today - Find a poem you like ( you can find one in a poetry book, or even write your own poem)
Talk about - Explain the format of poetry (Lines - Stanzas - Rhyming Schenes -Free verse (No need to write anything down for this...just talk about it to someone at home!)
Previous Talk About topics
- Catch someone at home using Figurative Language. Tell them what it is (Metaphor, simile, idiom, cliche, or personification)
- Summarize the story, The Wild Robot - Explain the Text Structures of Informational writing
- Explain the Text features of informational writing
- 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
Word Study/Spelling
Please show your parent your Green score page from Powerspelling to see all your spelling test scores this year.
Math
4th Grd. - No H/R 2 worksheets
3rd Grd. - No H/R Study Review in Math journal test is Tuesday 5/30
To show your Unit test scores on ThinkCentral - Login ClassLink - Thinkcentral App - My Scores
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!
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:
- Show your Economics folder to a parent. Explain your examples
-List 5 "Needs" and 5 "Wants" (think carefully about the items that you list - try to be specific)
- What are the 3 levels of Government?
- What are the 3 branches of government?
- 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!)
Explain what a biome is (Tundra, desert, forest, ocean...) and which animals are adapted to live in those biomes.
Previous Talk About topics:
- Explain 3 adaptations
- Tell a parent about the Crayfish that we are studying in class (body structure, functions, and behaviors in the basin habitat)
- clink the link DTE Energy Games
- 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!
Have a great night!
