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Earthday Field Trip: April 19th-Lunch at BCS
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Parents: Please make sure your child has headphones or earbuds that can stay in his/her desk all year long! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHROMEBOOKS: While your child is allowed to bring home his/her chromebook, we don't recommend it on a regular basis because we don't have chargers for kids to take home. Their chargers are in our cart. When students take home their chromebooks, they often come back dead and are unable to be used in class. All of our resources can be accessed anywhere on any device where there is internet! Start by visiting www.birmingham.k12.mi.us and click on the magnifying glass in the top rigth corner. Then you will see the link to ClassLink. Ask your child to show you around ClassLink and what we have used so far. MANY KIDS BRING DEAD CHROMEBOOKS TO SCHOOL DAILY! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Please check this blog daily for homework updates and important information. Today's Homework: SCHOLASTIC BOOK ORDERS: Due April 19 · VISIT scholastic.com/readingclub (link is posted on our class blog) · ENTER the one-time Class Activation Code Butzin Class Code: HDPNQ Frishman Class Code: LHYKF -3rd Grade Reading: 20+ minutes -4th Grade Reading: 30+ minutes -Bring a chapter book for class each day. You will keep this book inside your desk or binder. Language Arts: We are currently learning various writing strategies to help us enhance our writing. We are using the CUPS acronym to help us edit. Ask your child to take you on Schoology to show you what we accomplished today (it is in our Academic Lab in the language arts folder). We will begin our next novel of "The Sign of the Beaver." This novel lends itself well to various language arts concepts and it is tied to our social studies as well. After reading this novel over the next few weeks, we will compare it to the movie.
Spelling: -We will take our next Spelling Test on Friday, April 12 in class. Students will need their devices in class each day along with headphones. -Optional Spelling Games -Each week your child will write the week's words in his/her planner. We will also post them here. Kids have an option to practice their words by playing the spelling games on PowerSpelling. They have logins taped to the insides of their planners. -We are working on spelling patterns list 25: Words with the VV pattern This week's words are:  Social Studies: We are enjoying our study of Michigan. We are focused on Michigan's first people, interactions between Indians and others, the economic concepts of scarcity and opportunity cost and what those people had to do to create our great state of Michigan. We are going to be expert social scientists regarding our great state of Michigan!  Science: Our Environments study focuses on the concepts that organisms need energy and matter to live and grow, and that living organisms depend on one another and on their environment for their survival and the survival of populations. We are excited to learn all about environments! Math: -3rd Grade: -Students are bringing home the Unit 5 test to review with a parent and also to get a parent signature. Please show me tomorrow the signed test. Students should also get the "converting improper fractions to whole numbers" signed and show me tomorrow in class! -3 iready math lessons due Friday! After this assignment, you should have 63 passed already completed for the year. -Complete 3 sessions of Xtramath by Friday. (Students should complete 1 session which is about 5-7 mins - Click "continue" until Mr. C says that you are 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) Log in with your 4-digit PIN (the last four numbers on your account number) (Complete 1 session which is about 5-7 mins - Click "continue" until Mr. C says, "You're done!") -4th Grade: -Signed test letters were due today! -3 iready math lessons due Friday (you must pass a lesson for it to count). After this assignment, you should have 69 already completed for the year! Your child can show you the lessons he/she completed and passed. Just ask! -Online tests due on April 26 (assigned 4-12-24)! These tests are completed on Thatquiz.org. Don't forget to practice for a few days BEFORE you take the tests! PARENTS: YOU ARE ALLOWED TO DO ALL THE TYPING FOR YOUR KIDS! Click Here to Access IM Family Resources -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Learning Targets: -Soil Types and Properties -Natural Disaster Research Project -Text Features -Homophones -Social and Emotional Health Unit -Super Sentences -Michigan Geography (HOMES) -Narrative Writing - Super Sentences -Water Surface Tension and Pathways -Weekly School/Family/Personal Goals -Summarize our reading in Tales of Fourth Grade Nothing -Character Traits of Peter, Fudge, his parents, and his friends. -Map Skills- Continents/US/Great Lakes/Michigan Upper and Lower Peninsulas -Spelling patterns: plural word ending changes -Properties/behaviors of water -nonfiction text features in reading and writing -Historical fiction novel ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- District Math Updates: This year we are on a math adventure with a new program chosen by Birmingham Public Schools. For an introduction to this new math program, please click here! If you would like to have a preview of your child's upcoming math units, please click here! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPCOMING EVENTS FOR FAMILIES: ----------------------------------------------------- ***PLEASE HAVE YOUR CHILD BRING IN A FEW BOOKS FOR OUR FREE READING TIME DAILY!! |
