What a wonderful Wednesday! This morning we worked hard creating a sensory detail/juicy word diagram in Inspiration! We brainstormed sensory/juicy words to describe our orange. We also worked with our writing buddy to find descriptive words from some of our favorite stories. We categorized these into a diagram using Inspiration. This will serve as a great resource for our descriptive writing. In the afternoon we worked in our book clubs.
Tomorrow is Take Your Child To Work Day! I know many of you are looking forward to sharing your career with your child(ren). I usually have the students share their experience with the class the day after this event. This year, I would like for them to tell how their parent(s) use math and/or science at their job. This is a great way to see how math and science goes beyond our school!
Here’s What We Have for You:
We are in the gym now.
Paragraph Practice: Due April 26 (Directions came home on April 12)
Read 20/30 minutes
Spelling:
Homework due and Test May 2
Spelling City:
Remember click log in and click log out for each activity to register on your account. To see what your teacher sees on the site, click on “My Records” after logging in.
3rd Grade Math:
We took our unit 8 test today.
Get HL 8.9 signed
IXL study skills for 15 minutes
Take online division timed test before Wednesday
How to take online tests:
Go to my blog http://www.butzinbcs.blogspot.com/
Scroll down to “Places to Go and Explore”
Click on 3rd grade online MATH TEST site!
Find your name and log in using your school password (this is in on a sticker in your planner)
Or, log into your school email and click on the emails (with a link) that have been sent to you.
3rd Grade End of Year Fact Expectations:
Students should have quick mental recall of the following number of facts by the end of the year: 30 addition/30 subtraction facts in 2 mins and 50 division/50 multiplication facts in 3 mins
4th Grade Math:
Study your review tonight and tomorrow night! We will turn our reviews in on Friday. We have our Unit 9 test on Friday. We also have 15 minutes of IXL due Friday. We are focusing on mastering skills D1 and E1 before choosing our own skills.
To get to a student’s BPS email:
1. Go to the BPS homepage at http://www.birmingham.k12.mi.us/
2. Hover over the “Parents/Students” link on the top menu bar. A drop down menu will appear.
3. In the drop down menu, click on “Student Links.”
4. Click on the “Microsoft Outlook 2007” icon:
5. A pop-up for username and password will appear. The student’s username must be entered with the full extension -- username@birmingham.k12.mi.us . The password is the same password the students uses to login at school.
Spanish:
4th grade go to: http://kron11.wikis.birmingham.k12.mi.us/
3rd grade go to: http://geisler10.wikis.birmingham.k12.mi.us/home">http://geisler10.wikis.birmingham.k12.mi.us/home
Please make sure your child has a good book with him/her each day! We usually have 15 minutes of silent reading time each day!
Please check your child's Blue Take Home Folder each day to check for mail, homework, and important information.
PLEASE INITIAL YOUR CHILD’S PLANNER EACH NIGHT SO I KNOW YOU ARE AWARE OF THE HOMEWORK AND EXCITING THINGS HAPPENING IN OUR CLASSROOM!
IT IS IMPORTANT FOR YOUR CHILD TO BRING SHARPENED PENCILS TO SCHOOL EACH DAY! PLEASE PROVIDE YOUR CHILD WITH A PERSONAL PENCIL SHARPENER TO KEEP IN HIS/HER BINDER!!!
PLEASE SEND YOUR CHILD WITH A WATER BOTTLE!!! This helps a lot, so he/she does not have to leave
the room when thirsty! Your child is also welcome to keep healthy snacks in our classroom to eat any
time!
