Monday, January 30, 2023

    

We enjoyed learning with Steve Harpster, the cartoonist
from Harptoons!

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FRISHMAN IS CURRENTLY IN THE GYM AND BUTZIN IS SWIM, HOWEVER, EVERYONE IS IN THE GYM UNTIL FRIDAY, JANUARY 27 FOR THE KIDS HEART CHALLENGE!

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BCS Blast Auction

Help Needed! Join the BCS Blast Auction Committee. Help the BCS PTA with its one and

only fundraiser. Several roles are available, including donation solicitor, photographer, and

editor. Help makes this auction look incredible to ensure we raise vital funds for BCS!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0d4fa8ad2aaaf85-bcsblast#/

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VALENTINE EXCHANGE
FEBRUARY 14th  

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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/

Battle of the Book Talks: 

Register at https://www.baldwinlib.org/battle-of-the-books/

Please contact Youth Services at youth.reference@baldwinlib.org if you have further questions.

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SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB ORDERING:       

·         VISIT scholastic.com/readingclub (link/details on the scholastic page)

·         Click on the digital ALL FLYERS link

·          ENTER the one-time Class Activation Code  

    Butzin Class Code: HDPNQ

    Frishman Class Code: LHYKF

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!

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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.  

Language Arts: 

We are researching for our nonfiction reading and writing unit!

Spelling:   This week's test will be on Friday and the game assignments are due on the test date.  If your child is ever absent for a Friday spelling test, it will be active online that morning and can be done at home.

This week's word pattern: Week 13:  We are working on  words with /k/ sound: -k, -ck, -nk, -ch, -qu, -c

The words of the week are: 

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Math:

3rd grade Math - 

-H 3-13

-Get Quick Quiz 3 signed and show me tomorrow!

-Get Unit 3 test review letter signed and return the bottom portion to me. We completed unit 3 test review together in class.   

-Unit 3 Test Thursday (February 2nd)

-Today in class we completed journal pages: 202-203

-XtraMath: Complete 3+ sessions on XtraMath each week

-OLT (6s x /) due 2/6/23 (Students will complete this assignment at home.)  Study your facts before taking the quizzes.  There will be a multiplication and a division quiz. 

-4+ iReady lessons must be PASSED this week by Friday. 

Teach your parent about the mountains, hills and rocks we use to calculate elapsed time!

-In unit 3 we are learning about measurement, time and graphs!  We will draw scaled picture graphs and bar graphs. Also, we will use number lines to represent intervals and use drawing to represent a problem involving liquid volume and mass.  Lines plots will be made to record data.

*To View Unit Test Results:  Go to Thinkcentral App (on ClassLink) Click My Scores and Expand all answers and show your unit post-test score to a parent.

4th Grade Math –

-HR 4-11

-Test Letter due Thursday

-Test Thursday

-5 iReady lessons due Friday

-OLT due 2/6/23

Social Studies –

-Teach a parent what you have learned about during your State research. 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!