Curriculum Overview 2024-2025

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Happy Tuesday!

M-Step testing was today!
3rd and 4th graders took the Math M-Step test.

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.

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 - List 23 is assigned to your Powerspelling account. Complete all assigned game/practice activities by Sunday 5/5 Test is Monday 5/6
Please Show your weekly spelling test scores to your parent in Powerspelling Click Scores/Results

Writing 
Talk About:explain the parts of your Opinion writing (Hook, thesis statement, reasons, counter, conclusion)
Previous Talk About Topics: 
- Share the plot of Poppy thus far
- How did your research presentation go? Explain the best parts of presenting your project
- What you wrote in your letter to a new future student
- Explain how 2 of the 4 vocabulary words were used in the Historical fiction Story, The Sign of The Beaver
- What did Attean do that he hasn't done before (character development)
- What did Matt realize when he told Attean the story from the bible?
- Explain how Matt has changed in the story? Do you think Matt and Attean are friends?
- Explain inferences (use the story - Sign of the Beaver or your Dat/Night worksheet)
- Explain the difference between the Main Idea (what happens) and the Theme (What you learned/ the lesson in the book)
- 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. Need help 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 - Packet due tomorrow
3rd Grade - 30 mins of iReady Math MyPath each week
(you may split this into shorter 15-minute sessions 2 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!"
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:
- Explain what you learned from the Liberty's Kids episode
- Who was Father Jean Marquette?
- 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 the Isopod's preferred environment. Explain Mealworm (Darkling Beetle Larve) behavior in their environment
Previous Talk About Topics:
Explain how you constructed a topographic model and drawing (use vocab: contour lines, slope, elevation)
- describe how you created a shell fossil in the science lab
- Explain your observations of erosion from the flood flow test in your stream table. 
- What is chemical weathering? Explain how the acid/vinegar reacted to the minerals inside the four rocks (Basalt, marble, limestone, and sandstone)
-  Explain the tumbling experiment (Physical weathering - conglomerate vs granite)
Explain what you learned about floods or monsoons (natural hazards)
- Explain the Water Cycle (Evaporation-condensation-precipitation)
- 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!

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