December 11th - December 15th

This is our last school week of 2017! I can't believe we are here already. This will be a fast week and a reminder that Thursday AND Friday are minimum days. Then we have off the next two weeks and will return to school on January 2, 2018.

Math
3rd Grade
Monday: 8-3 Fact Families with 6 and 7 
Tuesday: 8-4 Fact Families with 8 and 9
Wednesday: 8-5 Multiple-Step Problems
Thursday: 8-6 Making Sense of Multiplication and Division Equations
Friday: 8-7 Dividing with 0 and 1 


4th Grade
Monday: Chapter 9 Online Test
Tuesday: 10-1 Division as Repeated Subtraction
Wednesday: 10-2 Using Objects to Divide: Division as Sharing
Thursday: 10-3 Dividing 2-Digit by 1-Digit Numbers
Friday: 10-4 Dividing 3-Digit by 1-Digit Numbers 


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No Spelling this week.
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This week we will be getting ready for our Sing-a-long on Friday, so we will be working on our Seven Swans a Swimming, and our song "Mamacita, Donde Esta Santa Claus?"
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Reading and Writing

December 4th - December 8th

Math
3rd Grade
Monday: 7-6 Use Objects and Draw a Picture
Tuesday: Practice Test
Wednesday: Online Chapter 7 Test
Thursday: 8-1 Relating Multiplication and Division
Friday: 8-2 Fact Families with 2,3,4, and 5


4th Grade
Monday: 9-3 Estimating Quotients for Greater Dividends
Tuesday: 9-4 Dividing with Remainders
Wednesday: 9-5 Multiplication and Division Stories
Thursday: 9-6 Draw a Picture and Write an Equation
Friday: Practice Test

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Spelling Words:

3rd Grade:
vegetable, vitamins, nutrients, citrus, potato, tomato, noise, annoy, royal, voice, choice, picked, buffalo

4th Grade:
minutes, pasture, adventure, literature, lecture, mixture, moisture, puncture, sculpture, carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, photosynthesis

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Social Studies 

3rd Grade:
Lesson 1- What are the land and water like in your area?
Lesson 2 - How have people used the land in your region?

4th Grade:
Lesson 4 - How have California's landforms and water affected settlement?
Lesson 5 - How are California's communities alike and different?

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Reading and Writing

November 27th - December 1st

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a relaxing vacation. Thank you to all Parents for attending conference week before the break. It was great meeting you all and chatting about your child's academic progress.

Math
3rd Grade
Monday: 7-1 Division as Sharing
Tuesday: 7-2 Division as Repeated Subtraction
Wednesday: 7-3 Finding Missing Numbers on a Multiplication Table
Thursday: 7-4 Problem Solving: Choose an Appropriate Equation
Friday: 7-5 Writing Division Stories


4th Grade
Monday: 8-5 Problem Solving Two - Question Problems
Tuesday: Chapter 8 Practice Test
Wednesday: Chapter 8 Online Test
Thursday: 9-1 Using Mental Math to Divide
Friday: 9-2 Estimating Quotients

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Spelling Words:

3rd Grade:
important, cannot, children, wife, gentle, giraffe, stage, engine, badge, ginger, arctic, adapt, tundra, behavior, pelt

4th Grade:
forty, arithmetic, half, minus, plus, percent, quarter, finally, fresher, gusher, usher, crusher, balanced, competition, interdependence, hypothesis, endangered, extinction

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Science 3rd Grade We will be finishing this section this week and then moving on to Social Studies.

Organisms of Long Ago

What threatens the survival of Species?

What can be learned from Fossils?

How are Extinct and Living Things Alike?

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Social Studies 4th Grade Review of this section this week.

How are the areas of California different?
Skill: Map Legends and Map Scales

How have California's landforms and water affected settlement?
Primary Source: Photographs

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Reading and Writing

Vacation!

Reminder there is NO SCHOOL the week of November 20th - November 24th. We will be back on Monday, November 27th!! Hope you all have a great and relaxing break. There is no homework this vacation break.

November 13th - November 17th

Welcome to Fall Conference week. Reminder students will be getting out at 1:00 p.m. all week!

There is no spelling this week. Reading Journal will just be summarizing the story.

Math
3rd Grade
Monday: 6-8 Multiplying to Find Combinations
Tuesday: 6-9 Problem Solving: Multiple Step Problems
Wednesday: Practice Test In Class
Thursday: Online Test
Friday: No Math


4th Grade
Monday: 8-1 Arrays and Multiplying 2-Digit Numbers
Tuesday: 8-2 Arrays and and Expanded Algorithm
Wednesday: 8-3 Multiplying 2-Digit Numbers by Multiples of Ten
Thursday: 8-4 Multiplying 2-Digit by 2- Digit Numbers
Friday: No Math

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Science 3rd Grade

Organisms of Long Ago

What threatens the survival of Species?

What can be learned from Fossils?

How are Extinct and Living Things Alike?

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Social Studies 4th Grade

How are the areas of California different?
Skill: Map Legends and Map Scales

How have California's landforms and water affected settlement?
Primary Source: Photographs

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Reading and Writing 

Reminders!

Starting on Wednesday, November 8th school will get out at 1:00 p.m.

This Friday, November 10th there is NO SCHOOL.

The week of November 13th -17th is Conference week and the students will also be getting out at 1:00 p.m.

Please be prompt to your scheduled conference. Those that have a 1:10 appointment I have yard duty and will be at the room after yard duty. I will not start the conference at 1:00. Thank you very much!

See you soon at conferences!

November 6th - 9th

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REMINDER: Friday November 10th is NO SCHOOL!

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SPELLING

3rd Grade:
can't, shall, those, both, paper, pushed, sharp, shock, crash, showed, shoes, shoulder, product, quotient, multiplication, division

To those who can't do division yet use a piece of paper to practice.
The crash shocked the neighbors on both sides of us.

4th Grade:
thirteen, appoint, discuss, demand, request, relief, structure, signature, furniture, departure, capture, cultures, creature, fixture, fracture, species

Let's discuss what species is the creature that you captured.
It is a relief to have my request confirmed at the furniture store.
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SCIENCE

3rd Grade:
Organisms of Long Ago
What threatens the survival of Species?
What can be learned from Fossils?
How are Extinct and Living Things Alike?

Third grade actually has one more section before finishing Unit A.  They will work on it this week and part of next with a quiz next week. 

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SOCIAL STUDIES
4th Grade will be starting Social Studies this week.
How can you locate places on Earth?

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MATH

 3rd Grade

Monday: 6-5 8 as a Factor

Tuesday: 6-6 Multiplying with 3 Factors

Wednesday: 6-7 Multiplication Facts

Thursday: 6-8 Multiplying to Find Combinations 

4th Grade

Monday: 7-5 Multiple Step Problems

Tuesday: Practice Test in Class

Wednesday: Online Test in Class

Thursday: 8-1 Arrays and Multiplying 2-Digit Numbers

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October 30th - November 3rd

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REMINDER: Tuesday is a MINIMUM DAY! The students will be released at 1:00 P.M. We will be having a parade at 8:30 a.m. Parents are encouraged and welcomed at the parade. It is a minimum day and due to the time constraints there will not be a class party. Please do not send food or treats to school. Thank you. The students will be having regular work and assignments for the school day.

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SPELLING

3rd Grade:
along, bought, close, something, seem, laughed, lady, enough, graph, paragraph, photograph, history, village, future, hometown, settlers

4th Grade:
extend, keyboard, monitor, vowel, portal, tunnel, against, pastel, numerical, fatal, oval, towels, chapel, tinsel, distributive, compatible, consumer


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SCIENCE

This Friday will be a Chapter 2 test for both grade levels. We will have a review day on Thursday. We will be starting Social Studies next week.

3rd Grade - Chapter 2
Lesson 1: When Environments Change
Lesson 2: How Do Living Things Compete?
Lesson 3: How Do Living Things Change Environments?

4th Grade - Chapter 2 Interactions of Living Things
Lesson 1: How Do Organisms Depend on Each Other?
Lesson 2: How Are Organisms Adapted to Survive?
Lesson 3: How Do Organisms Compete?

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MATH

 3rd Grade

Monday: 6-1 The Distributive Property

Tuesday: 6-2 3 as a Factor

Wednesday: 6-3 4 as a Factor

Thursday: 6-4 6 and 7 as a Factor

4th Grade

Monday: 7-1 Arrays and Multiplying 2-Digit Numbers by Multiples of 10

Tuesday: 7-2 Using Mental Math to Multiply 2-Digit Numbers

Wednesday: 7-3 Using Rounding to Estimate

Thursday: 7-4 Using Compatible Numbers to Estimate 

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October 23rd - October 27th

Welcome to Red Ribbon Week!
Reminder to all students to wear red on Tuesday.
We will be having a Red Ribbon Assembly on Tuesday.
Wednesday is red hat or crazy hair day.
Thursday is the Harvest Festival!

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REMINDER: Next Tuesday is a MINIMUM DAY! The students will be released at 1:00 P.M. We will be having a parade at 8:30 a.m. Parents are encouraged and welcomed at the parade. It is a minimum day and due to the time constraints there will not be a class party. Please do not send food or treats to school. Thank you. The students will be having regular work and assignments for the school day.

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SPELLING

3rd Grade:

1. firelight 
2. heartbeat 
3. hillside 
4. mountaintop 
5. thunderclap 
6. treetops 
7. underwater 
8. woodstove
9. convey
10.  mood 
11. aspects 
12. companions
13. kindhearted
14. reluctantly
15. vanished

4th Grade:

1. chicken
2. enchanted
3. fantasy
4. fifteen
5. invented
6. mixture
7. princess
8. insights
9. participation
10. portrayed
11. requires
12. topic
13. improve
14. contrast
15. obliged 
16. puzzled 
17. earnestly 

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SCIENCE

Continuing with Chapter 2 in both grades. They each have three lessons. We will be working on these lessons for the next 2 weeks.

3rd Grade - Chapter 2
Lesson 1: When Environments Change
Lesson 2: How Do Living Things Compete?
Lesson 3: How Do Living Things Change Environments?

4th Grade - Chapter 2 Interactions of Living Things
Lesson 1: How Do Organisms Depend on Each Other?
Lesson 2: How Are Organisms Adapted to Survive?
Lesson 3: How Do Organisms Compete?

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MATH

 3rd Grade

Monday: 5-5 10 as a Factor

Tuesday: 5-6 Multiplying by Multiples of 10

Wednesday: 5-7 Problem Solving: Two-Question Problems

Thursday: Chapter 5 Practice Test in Class

4th Grade

Monday: 6-5 Multiplying by 1-Digit Numbers

Tuesday: 6-6 Problem Solving

Wednesday: Chapter 6 Practice Test in Class

Thursday: Chapter 6 Test Online in Class

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October 16th - October 20th

SPELLING

3^rd Grade

island, unwind, sacrifice, provided, might, fighting, myself, cried

even, freedom, honey, hungry, leave, pieces, queens, screamed

4^th Grade

admitted, ordinary, crocodile, gigantic, lying, right, sixty-six, terrified

abundant, communicate, refused, used, adult, continued, uncover, usually

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SCIENCE

Continuing with Chapter 2 in both grades. They each have three lessons. We will be working on these lessons for the next 2-3 weeks.

3rd Grade - Chapter 2
Lesson 1: When Environments Change
Lesson 2: How Do Living Things Compete?
Lesson 3: How Do Living Things Change Environments?

4th Grade - Chapter 2 Interactions of Living Things
Lesson 1: How Do Organisms Depend on Each Other?
Lesson 2: How Are Organisms Adapted to Survive?
Lesson 3: How Do Organisms Compete?

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MATH

 3rd Grade

Monday: 5-1  2 and 5 as Factors

Tuesday: 5-2 9 as a Factor

Wednesday: 5-3 Multiplying with 0 and 1

Thursday: 5-4 Patterns for Facts

4th Grade

Monday: 6-1 Arrays and Using an Expanded Algorithm

Tuesday: 6-2 Connecting the Expanded and Standard Algorithms

Wednesday: 6-3 Multiplying 2- Digit by 1-Digit Numbers

Thursday: 6-4 Multiplying 3- and 4- Digit Numbers

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READING

October 9th - 13th

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MATH

3rd Grade

Monday: 4-5 Problem Solving: Writing to Explain

Tuesday: In class Chapter 4 Practice Test

Wednesday: Online Chapter 4 Test

Thursday: 5-1 2 and 5 As Factors

4th Grade

Monday: 5-5 Using Rounding to Estimate

Tuesday: 5-6 Problem Solving: Reasonableness

Wednesday: In class Chapter 5 Practice Test

Thursday: Online Chapter 5 Test

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SPELLING

3rd Grade

1. upon
2. thought
3. strong
4. story
5. bust
6. stream
7. street
8. distance
9. least
10. hundred
11. east
12. zero
13. nothing
14. amount
15. string
16. straight

4th Grade

1. hours
2. twenty
3. products
4. happened
5. whine
6. measure
7. remember
8. early
9. utensil
10. mortal
11. vocal
12. mental
13. neutral
14. anvil
15. council
16. abundant
17. thrive
18. canopy
19. nutrients
20. resist
21. retain

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Science Update: Students in 3rd Grade took their Chapter 1 test on Friday, and so did 4th grade. I am working on grading them and will return them as soon as possible. 

We will be now starting Chapter 2 in both grades. They each have three lessons. We will be working on these lessons for the next 2-3 weeks.

3rd Grade - Chapter 2

Lesson 1: When Environments Change

Lesson 2: How Do Living Things Compete?

Lesson 3: How Do Living Things Change Environments?

4th Grade - Chapter 2 Interactions of Living Things

Lesson 1: How Do Organisms Depend on Each Other?

Lesson 2: How Are Organisms Adapted to Survive?

Lesson 3: How Do Organisms Compete?

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READING

October 2nd - 6th

REMINDER: Picture day is on Tuesday, October 3rd!! Students have free dress day for picture day.
Thursday is our first spirt day and it is Sports Day! Students are encouraged to wear something that represents their favorite sport.

Parents, I have resent home two forms that were handed out in the beginning of the year. The park permission slip and the District form about student names in programs. They were misplaced and I apologize if you are filling this out for a second time, but we need them.

Spelling Words:
3rd Grade 

1. trade
2. start
3. city
4. earth
5. hope
6. stone
7. follow
8. broke
9. sign
10. tiny
11. whole
12. wave
13. current
14. electric
15. science
16. round

I hope you don't follow the broken signs to the city fair.
I said I would trade with you the whole bag of apples from the start.

4th Grade

1. twelve
2. across
3. today
4. during
5. metaphor
6. simile
7. quiz
8. however
9. proposal
10. dental
11. gerbil
12. nasal
13. postal
14. hemisphere
15. climate
16. inverse
17. population
18. rainforest 
19. taiga

Today I sat across from the class pet gerbil during the quiz on the taiga.
What is the climate of a southern hemisphere rainforest?

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MATH

3rd Grade

Monday: 4-1 Multiplication as Repeated Addition

Tuesday: 4-2 Arrays and Multiplication

Wednesday: 4-3 The Commutative Property

Thursday: 4-4 Writing Multiplication Stories

4th Grade

Monday: 5-1 Arrays and Multiplying by 10 and 100

Tuesday: 5-2 Multiply by 10 and 100

Wednesday: 5-3 Breaking Apart to Multiply 

Thursday: 5-4 Using Mental Math to Multiply 

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Computer Programs

Dear Parents,

This year we have a lot of excellent online materials for the students to use in class and at home. It is a bit challenging this year because we have a new system for the District using Clever. In the past you could go to individual links and access the content. This year you can only access the programs through Clever.

Steps to Log on to Clever

1. Students MUST log in to their Gmail account using their BUSD email. They have it memorized now. The password is : Pass123!

2. After logging in to their gmail account they will go to www.clever.com/in/berryessa
There they will be asked to "Log in with Google" and it will take them to their Clever dashboard.

3. From there you will see Lexia, Dreambox, Envision Math, Typing, Benchmark, and the District websites. Sumdog is NOT apart of the District programs, so that is a separate website.

4. Lexia, Dreambox, and Typing will instantly log them in to their account.

5. Envision Math will take you to a new page and they will have to log in to their account. The user names all start with 27. 27 first initial and full last name. Example John Smith is 27jsmith.
Password is Troop406

Envision math is where you will find the student textbook online. You can view their scores on the math tests, and homework and center activities are also available online.

If for any reason you can not log on please email me at Kwalker@busd.net and I will do my best to assist you.

Thank you,
Mrs. Walker

September 25th - 29th

REMINDER: There is NO SCHOOL for students on Wednesday, September 27th.


Spelling Words:
3rd Grade 

1. save
2. school
3. father
4. keep
5. safe
6. grade
7. reached
8. raise
9. theme
10. scream
11. easy
12. highway
13. navigate
14. ocean
15. travel
16. direction

4th Grade

1. usually
2. character
3. friends
4. whom
5. heard
6. order
7. villain
8. basin
9. carton
10. become
11. muffin
12. pumpkin
13. apron
14. cannon
15. poison
16. landform
17. prime
18. composite
19. wildfire
20. tropical
21. deposit

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MATH

3rd Grade

Monday: 2-6 Estimating Differences 

Tuesday: 2-7 Reasonableness

Thursday: Chapter 2 Review Test

Friday: Chapter 2 Online In Class Test

4th Grade

Monday: 4-5 Subtracting Across Zeros

Tuesday: 4-6 Draw a Picture and Write an Equation

Thursday: Chapter 4 Review Test

Friday: Chapter 4 Online In Class Test

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SCIENCE

3rd Grade: 

Review of Chapter 1 and Friday Test

Vocabulary:

adaptation, aquatic habitat, behavior, biome, desert, environment, forest, grassland, habitat, tundra

4th Grade:

Lesson 3 - What are Some Land Ecosystems? Vocabulary: chaparral, desert, rainforest, taiga

Lesson 4 - What are Some Water Ecosystems? Vocabulary: coral reef

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READING

September 18th - 22nd

MATH

3RD GRADE:

Monday: 2-2 Subtraction Meanings

Tuesday: 2-3 Using Mental Math to Add

Wednesday: 2-4 Using Mental Math to Subtract

Thursday: 2-5 Estimating Sums

4TH GRADE:

Monday: 4-1 Using Mental Math to Add and Subtract

Tuesday: 4-2 Estimating Sums and Differences of Whole Numbers

Wednesday: 4-3 Adding Whole Numbers

Thursday: 4-4 Subtracting Whole Numbers

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SPELLING:

Reminder Spelling Tests are on Monday mornings. There are new words for the week.

3RD GRADE 

1. between
2. own
3. base
4. country
5. plant
6. slip
7. lunch
8. pond
9. front
10. thump
11. inches
12. yard
13. area
14. formula
15. width
16. calculate

4TH GRADE

1. yourself
2. maybe
3. problem
4. complete
5. rather
6. crowd
7. since
8. fresh
9. piece
10. cotton
11. colon
12. children
13. satin
14. penguin
15. commutative
16. associative
17. ecosystem
18. community
19. organism

SCIENCE

3RD GRADE

The students will continue to work with force and will create a pendulum as an experiment.  

4TH GRADE

The students will continue with their speed and energy relationship in their investigation and experiment.

READING 

We will continue to work on Unit 1 Week 2 in both grade levels. The below listed items are the mini lesson focuses in both grade levels. The highlighting shows the similar topics they will be learning this week. They both are still dealing with the same essential question from last week. Each Unit is 3 weeks long. 

Welcome to the Class BLOG!

Thank you for attending Back to School Night.
It was so wonderful to meet you all and talk about the wonderful things we will be learning this school year.


HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEK OF September 11th - September 15th

Spelling Lists: The students will now have Spelling Menus on the back of their Reading menu. Students will select ONE activity for each day and write the spelling homework in the reading journal to keep things organized. Spelling tests will be on Monday mornings. So students have a whole week with the words and the weekend to study the words. Spelling tests will have the words and two sentences where spelling and punctuation are important.

THIRD GRADE

1. high
2. every
3. near
4. west
5. dress
6. best
7. next
8. else
9. checked
10. grand
11. stand
12. punish
13. monarch
14. migrate
15. butterlfy
16. nectar

FOURTH GRADE

1. rolled
2. fingers
3. except
4. speed
5. couldn't 
6. questions
7. catch
8. itself
9. button
10. bargain
11. certain
12. orphan
13. fountain
14. oxen
15. latitude
16. longitude
17. compas
18. absolute
19. equator 
20. compensation

MATH HOMEWORK

THIRD

Monday: 1-7

Tuesday:  Review for Test

Wednesday: No homework because Math Test in Class

Thursday: 2-1

FOURTH

Monday: 3-5

Tuesday: 3-6

Wednesday: Review for Test

Thursday: No homework because Math Test in Class

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CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

3RD GRADE- MATH

This week students will be completing Chapter 1 in place value. They will have a practice test on Tuesday and the online in class test on Wednesday. Starting on Thursday we will begin Chapter 2 of addition and subtraction means and properties.

4TH GRADE - MATH

This week students will be completing Chapter 3 in Place Value with a practice review test on Wednesday and an online in class test on Thursday. On Friday we will move on to addition and subtraction of whole numbers. 

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3RD GRADE- READING

Students have begun using the Benchmark textbook in class. They will be working on Unit 1 Government for the People. We will be working on annotation key details and finding main ideas. Rereading to find text evidence. Short vowels. Sequence. Comparing and Contracting from two texts on the same topic. 

4TH GRADE- READING

Students will be working in Unit 1 of Government in Action. We will be working on annotation key details and finding main ideas. Rereading to gather text evidence. Long and short A. Use genre features to compare and contrast two texts on the same topic. 

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3RD GRADE - SCIENCE

Students will be learning about the different habitats including forest, dessert, ocean, pond, grassland, and tundra. 

 4TH GRADE - SCIENCE

Students will be learning about the parts of an Ecosystem including nonliving and living.