Today we are beginning our Reading to Waiki Challenge beigns today! We are so excited to cast-off into reading and set our sails for paradise! Ask your child to share all of the details with you tonight. You will find these in a special letter with tickets to Paradise attached. Our reading party is going to be on February 8 from 1:00-1:55…you are welcome to join in and catch the spirit of reading for enjoyment and celebrate with us on this day.
Remember to send in your field trip permission slips ASAP with $4.
Subjects taught today:
Math: Math Workshop- Decimals for Metric Measurements
Co curricular class: Eng Tech and Spanish
Science/Social Studies: Painted Lady Butterfly Larva and Mealworm larva observations
Language Arts: Reader’s Workshop –Book and Book Shopping
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:
Reading to Waikiki Ticket due dates:
January 22
January 28
February 4
February 8
Party February 8 1:05-1:55pm in the GYM!
DSO field trip letter due Tuesday-$4;00 for transportation
Social Studies:
State Glogster project was due January 14. Students will bring the details home for parents. Students worked on it today, Jan. 14, in class for about 40 minutes.
Some students need to turn in the Glogster handout.
Character Project-Due before January 31-Students received a letter detailing this assignment. It is also posted on our wiki under the Character tab.
Spelling:
We got our next spelling list and the work will be due on Friday, January 18th. We will take our test that day as well. Students wrote their spelling words in their planner today as well.
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 by Friday! 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 5.9
Unit 5 Review due Wednesday SIGNED by a parent
Unit 5 Test Thursday
We have a timed x quiz on 1-6x facts Friday!
Fact Practice: x 3 and 4 for 15 minutes (or study what you need practice on) IXL -10 minutes –focus on S and T
You should have 50 minutes logged for the week by Sunday.
You are free to bring your own electronic devices as well for math game time!
Electronic Math:
Spelling: We got our next spelling list in our mail and the work will be due on Friday, January 18th. We will take our test that day 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:
Tonight’s homework is JP 160, 163 (On JP 163, we are only doing #5 which will require some work on JP 162). SL 6.8 SL 6.9 (On SL 6.9, we are only doing #4-7). We are going to have our Unit 6 Fact Tests on Thursday this week and our Unit 6 Test on Friday the 18th. We also have IXL Goals due on February 1st. Ask your child to show you what needs to be turned in for this.
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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
