Happy Tuesday!
Wishing all our families a wonderful Thanksgiving!
For the yearly swim/Gym schedule, please click on/or copy-paste the link on the right-hand side of the blog
The following assignments should be written in your child's planner, which is inside their zipper binder. Parents, please use this blog to 'cross-check' with your child's planner. They should be completing their planner every day in class.
Homework
Reading
3rd graders - Read 20 mins (minimum) each night
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)
Word Study - No new words this week.
Optional Spelling Bee activities on Powerspelling
Please Show your weekly spelling test scores to your parent by clicking on the results button on (click this link) Powerspelling.com
Writing
Talk About:
Previous Talk About Topics:
- Show your personal narrative to a parent (go to your Google Drive)
- Summarize your reading
- Explain how to punctuate dialogue in a story
- Tell a parent a vivid verb from your personal narrative
-Retell your Pumpkin Contest story to a parent
Summarize The Hundred Dresses (setting - the main character(s) Predict what might happen next)
- Explain one type of lead and one type of ending in your narrative writing
- Show your Pixton Summary to a parent. Problems logging in? Use the class join code azu3t4
- Summarize what we read from our class novel, Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing
- Tell 3 facts about Constitution Day (use page 144 in your planner to help you)
Talk About - Summarize what we read from our class novel, Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing
Math
4th Grade - None
3rd Grade - None
To access Xtramath:
Account setup directions were sent home on the XtraMath flyer.
- Type XtraMath into your browser (bookmark this site)
- Login with your 4-digit PIN (the last four numbers on your account number)
- Complete 1 session (about 5-7 mins - Click "continue" until Mr. C says, "You're done!")
Click the link to access Illustrative Math Family Support Materials
Click the link to access Illustrative Math Family Videos
Social Studies
Talk About - None
Previous Talk About Topics:
- Tell a fact about Veterans Day (Show your Remembrance Day poppy to your parent)
- What did Native Americans use from nature?
- What is Indigenous Peoples Day (Who was Christopher Columbus?)
- Tell a parent about cardinal directions
- Tell a fact about a Michigan Lake
Science
Talk About - None
Previous Talk About Topics:
- Explain the Hot/Cold water density experiment (Less dense = floats/ more dense = sinks)
- What were the temperatures of 3 different cups of water?
- What surprised you when you tested water drops on rocks, leaves, and wood chips
- Explain what surface tension is
- How does water react to different surfaces?
If you would like to place a book order please click on the link on the right side of the blog. To place an order - 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!
