What a great Monday we had in room 204. This morning we started our study of the Southeast region states. We learned about the 12 awesome states of this region and are really excited to learn more! In the afternoon, after Spanish, we had time to talk about our focus on Citizenship this month. Students will be sharing a character project with you this afternoon. This assignment will focus on ways we should Good Citizenship daily in our school and home life. Students will work on this at home throughout the month of January. They may post the project to the wiki anytime during the month. We will share these throughout the month with classmates. We also read Because of Winn Dixie and our strategy today was sequencing events of the chapters. We took a closer look at the friendships Opal is making in the story. At the end of the day, we worked with our buddy to finish our online vocabulary wiki using the Macbooks.
CHOICE HOUR FORMS FOR THE THIRD QUARTER WENT HOME BEFORE BREAK! PLEASE HELP YOUR CHILD FILL THIS IN AND BRING IT BACK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! WE WANT TO BE THE FIRST CLASS WITH THEM ALL TURNED IN!
Subjects taught today:
Math: Math Workshop- Place Value
Co curricular class: Spanish
Science/Social Studies: Glogster-Southeast Region Intro
Language Arts: Reader’s Workshop –Because of Winn Dixie ch 13-14
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:
Choice Hour: Forms due tomorrow!!! We want to win. Call your friend to help them remember to bring the form.
Social Studies:
State Glogster project is due January 14. Students will bring the details home for parents. Students worked on this for 1.5 hours today in class. Students got a great start on this assignment in class.
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 5.3
Fact Practice: x 3 and 4 for 15 minutes (or study what you need practice on) We have a timed x quiz on 3 and 4 Friday!
IXL -10 minutes –focus on A and B
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:
Today we spent more time in class practicing traditional long division. I have asked the kids to use this method whenever they need to divide. We also learned how to report our remainders as fractions! Tonight’s homework is JP 148-149 SL 6.4. #7-9 on JP 149 are optional. In addition, when the problems ask your child to draw pictures, this is optional. If these pictures are beneficial for your child, great! If they are a waste of time, I would love for him/her to skip them! Finally, we received a paper today called IXL Mastery Goals. This paper is due on February 1st. Ask your child to show it to you!
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
