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LIBRARY CARD
Did you know that you can get a Baldwin Library Card for free? It will give you free access to books, movies, ebooks, and audiobooks that we can use at school as well! Just follow this link and check out the directions to find out how! https://www.baldwinlib.org/get-library-card/
Homework:
***Does your child have headphones or earbuds at school? Please ask and be sure to send in a pair that can stay at school all year!
***Does your child leave class a lot to get drinks? If you ask and he/she says yes, please send a water bottle daily!
Language Arts:
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 Focus:
We are excited to for our Because of Winn Dixie novel study. Our book study focus will be on the following strategies: connecting/inferring/sequencing/summarizing/questioning/visualizing/evaluating/word skills/author's purpose
-Personal Narrative Essay/Show Don't Tell/Leads and Hooks/Figurative Language/ Simile/Metaphor/Idiom
-We learned to write a well developed, structured paragraph with a topic sentence, supporting details, transitions and a closing sentence. We are also learning to write narrative essays to develop experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive detail and clear event sequences.
This week's word pattern: Week 10: We are working on the suffixes -ed and -ing
The words of the week are: wiped, covered, mapped, pleasing, slipped, putting, traveled, visiting, shipped, phoning, offered, smelling, hiking, checking, fainted, landed, becoming, wandering, mopped, talking
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Math:
3rd grade Math -
-Get parent letter signed on page 177 and show me Monday if you have not yet done so ( A few more need to complete this assignment.)
-3+ iReady lessons must be PASSED this week by Friday.
-XtraMath: Complete 3+ sessions on XtraMath each week
4th Grade Math –
-In class we practiced some problem solving skills.
-OLT due 1/23/23
Social Studies –
-How do geographers study the regions of the United States? Teach a parent about lines of latitude/longitude/map key/special purpose maps/scales and symbols/global grid/cardinal/intermediate directions/US regions
Science –
-Motion and Matter focus questions: What happens when magnets interact with other magnets and with paper clips? How is the magnetic field affected when more magnets are added? Ask your child what a force is and what the two types of forces are.
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If your child ever has extra time and you want to give him/her something extra to do, i-Ready reading and math lessons are always there waiting for them in ClassLink! We are going to try to work on them when we have time in class to earn time for games on Fridays. Every lesson your child completes is beneficial!