Have a wonderful spring break with your family and friends! We can't wait to see you in April! 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
Team Butzin had a great time at the Johnson Nature center today. The students got some first hand experience of living as a Pioneer by making cookies, pumping water from the well, candle making and using the tools in the woodshed. Ask you child to share details of each of these activities with you and describe the differences between then and now!
BCS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY UPDATE
FOR GRADES 3 & 4
All of the 3rd and 4th graders in Frishman, Seley, Wallington and Malizewski’s homerooms are now in Engineering Tech for the second semester. Students are learning the importance and benefits of mass production and assembly line manufacturing. This is all part of their interdisciplinary unit on Michigan history and the theme of Systems. All of the students actually visited the Ford Dearborn Assembly plant/factory and we’ve studied and viewed video on mass production manufacturing.
Our major project is the mass production of a toy electric vehicle. First semester homerooms reviewed all of the previous models of the electric vehicles that we have built in the past and the themes they represented. Our model vehicle parameters were defined and we learned a little bit about design sketching and perspective views. Over several weeks of submitting designs, the top two designs were voted on in each of the four homerooms and put into the final balloting. The eight finalist designs included a helicopter, sports car, boat, garbage truck, camper bus, military transport vehicle and the Star Wars Luke Skywalker Speeder. By an overwhelming majority, the Star Wars Speeder was selected and that is what we are building for this year’s project.
The first semester homerooms in Engineering Tech (Butzin, Davis, Parkin and Harvath) completed the design and selection process of the vehicle for the mass-production project. They also started making parts for the Speeder. They made the most of the axles from wooden dowel rods for the front wheels. Currently, the second semester classes are in the parts production business until we are ready for final assembly. All 3rd - 4th grade students will receive their finished Robot models at the same time during a special assembly in the spring. Parents will be invited.
Third and fourth graders only receive report cards after the second and fourth quarters. They will be marked as to how successfully they met the designated Engineering Technology Standards for their grade level, stated in the grade report.
Respectfully,
John Prisciandaro
BCS Engineering Technology Teacher
ATTENTION ALL FOURTH GRADERS! Please complete your elective selections for fifth grade. Use this link to help! https://www.birmingham.k12.mi.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=7567
PLEASE ASK YOUR CHILD TO STOCK HIS/HER BINDER WITH PENCILS!!!
Many of us show up without any each day!!!
Please ask your child to pack headphones or earbuds in his/her backpack. It would be best if they are a pair that can be left at school! Thank you so much!
Character Connections Word of the week: PROBLEM SOLVING
· “If you choose to not deal with an issue, then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance.” – Susan Del Gatto
· “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” – Albert Einstein
· “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” – Abraham H. Maslow
Book Orders Due: Order any time!
If you would like to continue to browse and order, all magazines/flyers are available to view online. Click on the book orders link at the side of the blog. Create your own username and password to login. Use the class code to access our ordering page. All flyers are available to view and order from any month.
Here’s what we have for you tonight:
Please have your child bring 1-2 chapter books to school each day/week for DEAR time (Drop Everything and Read)
Language Arts:
3rd Grade Reading Homework: 20 minutes
4th Grade Reading Homework: 30 minutes
Word Study: Due: April 17
***Please read the letter and follow the directions. Locate your list on spellingcity.com by clicking the red drop-down arrow for your spelling sort code. Play the games under the tabs to help you learn the spelling patterns of these words. You can check which word study activities you have completed by clicking on ‘My Records’ after you log in. Remember – DO NOT click S-test on spellingcity.org. Save that button for the day of your test.
3rd Math:
Xtramath.com: 3 times per week. Complete a full work session, which lasts about 5-10 mins (until Mr. C says you are done!)
How to Access Think Central:
Login in with tc before your username. Animal password. The link to the site is on the right side of the blog under the Math heading.
4th Math:
online tests due 4-12-18
Have a great night!
