This morning was the best for math and reader’s workshop! Today we learned what good readers stop and think about when reading. Today we focused on jotting about “what we feel” when reading. I will be out in the afternoon today at a District Report Card Committee meeting.
Conference Sign-Up:
The sign-up form for parent conferences is posted outside of our classroom door. Conferences are November Thursday, November 15 and Monday, November 19.
Lansing Field Trip is November 28 –
Students will be allowed to bring ANY electronic devices for this trip (DS/IPOD/KINDLE FIRE, etc). They will be responsible for these during the trip. There is no fee for this trip. Please return the signed permission slip and return it to school on Friday.
Subjects taught today:
Math: Perimeter of Polygons
Co curricular class: EngTech and PE/SWIM
Social Studies – Northeast Tour
Language Arts – Spelling, Cursive and Reader’s Workshop
Gym/Swim Schedule: We gym/swim from 12:15-1:00pm on Thursdays and 9:25-10:10am on Fridays.
Here is what we have for you today:
Report Card envelope due ASAP!
Social Studies:
Signed Review due Friday – We completed this together in class.
Test Friday
Goal Setting Picture Upload:
Add one picture to your goal setting page that shows you working on your academic or personal goal ASAP
Spelling: Spelling City Homework due Monday; We will take our spelling test in class on Monday on Spelling City; REMEMBER (Don’t take the Spelling City test at home unless you log out of your account).
Language Arts:
Bring Chapter Book
3rd Grade Reading: 20 minutes
4th Grade Reading: 30 minutes
Raz Kids: Read a book and take a quiz this week! Of course you can do more if you would like! Students have a label in the planner with the password.
Raz Kids Teacher Username: butzin
3rd Grade Math:
HL 3.4 and JP 64 (measure adult at home)
Take online rounding quiz due tomorrow
IXL for 10 min –focus on measurement
Study multiplication fact 7 for 15 minutes each night! We will take a quiz Monday. If you already know this fact, you will pick what you need to focus on. Your goal should be to score 70 percent or higher on the timed fact quiz. Several students need to review the 6X facts as well.
Try setting up your own practice quizzes on thatquiz.org. You do not log in to set up practice quizzes. Just click the area you would like to study and click on the no. of questions/level/timing settings you want to try.
To get to thatquiz.org click on the link under Frequently Visited Places:
• Click on your name
• Type in your school password (no username needed)
• Position one hand over the numbers on your keyboard and the other hand to click Enter or Submit with the mouse.
Click on your name and use your school password to log in and take the assigned tests.
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 End of Year fact expectations:
Students should have quick mental recall of the following number of facts by the end of the year: 50 addition/50 subtraction facts in 2 mins and 100 division/multiplication facts in 5 mins
4th Grade Math:
Due tomorrow are JP 94-95 SL 4.7. We have three online tests on thatquiz due on Thursday. The test codes for those tests are IJZS4653, DAOL1694 and BGJN6934. Today we received our Unit 4 review which is due on Friday. We will go over it that day and we will take our Unit 4 test on Monday. Our Unit 4 test will be accompanied by a multiplication fact test as well as a division fact test. Start practicing!!!
Important Reminders:
We are collecting Box Tops for education.
Scholastic Book Club ordering. It’s so easy! Click on the link in the Places to Go and Explore section (right hand side) Set up your own parent username and password and type in the following code for Butzin’s class: HDPNQ
There are various magazines available to order from.
https://orders.scholastic.com/HDPNQ
