Hello BCS Parents and guardians,
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You are invited to a special breakfast in your honor on May 19 from 8:00-9:30 a.m. in the BCS Media Center. The BCS staff is excited to have this opportunity to thank our parents and guardians for the incredible support provided to BCS all year long. We are so excited that we are making you breakfast!! There is no doubt that your partnership with us has positively influenced the climate and culture that makes BCS a great place to be! In whatever way you have helped and supported the students or staff at BCS, we THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts! We truly hope you are able to join in this celebration and eat some yummy breakfast.
Please drop in anytime between 8-9:30 a.m. on Friday, May 19 in the Media Center. Dr. Hakim will make special remarks at 9:00 a.m. – you won’t want to miss that. Come and bring another BCS parent or guardian with you.
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Sincerely,
The BCS Staff
The BCS Staff
We can't wait to see all the BCS 3rd and 4th-grade talent at the show on Friday, May 19 from 2:10 pm - 3:20 pm (Parents are invited!)
Swim Tuesdays and Fridays (see the schedule for the year in the links)
📕🕮Important message from the Media Center! Please return ALL borrowed books back to the Media Center by Friday, June 2nd!🕮📕
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
- 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 score page on Powerspelling to see all your spelling test scores this year.
Math
4th Grd. - H/R 8-5
3rd Grd. - H/R 5-8 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!
To show your Unit test scores on ThinkCentral
Login 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!)
Explain some economic vocabulary: Goods/Services, Needs/Wants, Opportunity Cost, Producer/Consumer
Previous Talk About topics:
-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!)
Name 3 animal organisms, their environment, and the adaptations they have to help them survive (Movement-GettingFood-Protection/defense-Raising their young)
Previous Talk About topics:
- 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!
