Happy Monday!
It was wonderful to meet our new "3rd graders for next school year" today! Welcome to BCS! We are so happy to welcome our new cobras!
Attention Please! - Update as of 4:30 PM Parkin kids WILL SWIM TOMORROW! (Students were told there would be no swimming - But that has now changed :) Apologies for the late notice!)
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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!)
3rd only - Tell your parent who your 3rd-grade buddy is for next school year. (The class list was emailed out to parents last Friday)
Previous Talk About topics
- Login to your Google Drive and read one (or more) of your poems to a parent
- 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. - No H/R Review due Tuesday
3rd Grd. - No H/R
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
Talk about (No need to write anything down for this...just talk about it to someone at home!)
Talk about Scarcity, Opportunity Cost, Consumption
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 the transfer of energy from producers to consumers to decomposers.
Previous Talk About topics:
- Explain 3 animal adaptations in their environment
- 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.
Have a great night!
