Have a heart and donate to a good cause this Valentine’s Day!
We are partnering with Groves High School to collect Items (new and in the package) that will be donated to Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic in Pontiac.
Donation bins will be outside the Main Office and outside the Media Center.
Collection Dates:February 6th-17th
We need your help BCS, please donate and help us make a difference!
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.
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.
This week's word pattern: Week 12: We are working on dropping the final y and changing it to an i when adding -ed, -er, and -est.
The words of the week are: studied, breezier, noisier, spied, healthier, hobbies, families, ladies, happiest, prettiest, sharper, loudest, tiniest, friendlier, busier, easier, butterflies, funniest, countries, copied.
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Math:
3rd grade Math -
Get Unit 3 test review letter signed and return the bottom portion tomorrow! We completed unit 3 test review together in class.
Unit 3 Test Thursday (February 2nd)
-Today in class we completed journal pages: 209-212
-XtraMath: Complete 3+ sessions on XtraMath each week
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.
4th Grade Math –
-Have you shown Frishy your signed quiz?
-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!