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.