Happy Monday
Pics from The RL Johnson Nature Center
We enjoyed a great field trip to the RL Johnson Nature Center this morning! During the Dynamic Earth field experience, we discussed Earth's geological and biological history. We studied rocks, minerals, and fossils, touching fossils that are millions of years old! Acting as "geologists", we ventured through three geological time periods making comparisons between the environments and the animals that have lived in them. Ask your child what they learned from this morning's field trip!
P.E. is every Tuesday and Friday
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
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 - Please Show your weekly spelling test scores to your parent by clicking on the results button on (click this link) Powerspelling.com List 9 is now in your spelling account. Complete all word study games by Sunday 12/3 The test is on Monday 12/4 (see link under Language Arts)
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 - Study from your Checkpoint review. If you got it signed you do not need to return it. Checkpoint B Quiz is tomorrow, Tuesday 12/5.
30 mins of iReady Math MyPath each week
(you may split this into shorter 10 mins sessions 3 times per week if you prefer)
Xtramath 3 times per week Complete 1 session (about 5-7 mins - Click "continue" until Mr. C says, "You're done!")
To access iReady:
- Go to the Birmingham Public Schools Website
- Scroll Down to ClassLink (bookmark this site) Log in
- Click on the iReady App and select Math Pathway
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!"
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 - Explain three facts about classifying the properties of the rocks and minerals that you explored during the field trip
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!
