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GRADE 3 SECRET CHALLENGE QUESTION: If you put the ends of three magnets together, a north, a north, and a south end, what will happen? 

GRADE 4 SECRET CHALLENGE QUESTION: Research this! What part of the ear gets slowly damaged by loud noises over the years?

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THIS WEEK'S HOMEWORK

January 11, 2016 (check for updates!)

MONDAY

Words sheet #11

Library books due Tuesday.

Grade 4: Practice recorder each night (bring it in each day)

Math Yellow Group: Worksheet (due Friday)

Math Blue Group: Worksheet (due Friday)

TUESDAY

Words Pretest in booklet (a parent reads the current week's words for their child to spell. The child marks each word with a check mark or X using the word list.

Grade 3: Review Science sheet Charge It!  We looked at videos of static forces in action and played a Kahoot review game. Unscramble the words to make sentences based on the text and our conversation in class. All words have been explained and used by students in the discussions.

WEDNESDAY

Words to Fix mistakes from yesterday's home pretest. Write each misspelled word correctly, adding a trick to remember how to avoid the mistake (eg draw the two 'l's in really into a really long giraffe neck and head).

THURSDAY

Grade 4 Math sheets due tomorrow.

Words to Study mistakes from home pretest for tomorrow's test.

Sentence Stretchletics  (see instructions on inside cover of Words duotang)

FRIDAY NO HOMEWORK  ( except  SPECIAL  MISSIONS )

Here are some general skills we are currently working on:

• Responding to questions using ROPES (Repeat question words, give your Opinion, give Proof that support your opinion, give Examples that support your opinion, Summarize your answer). This may practiced orally too.

• Using clear words (avoid vague ones: it, she, the thing, over there, them...)

• Students should be trying to write letters of two or more paragraphs (each paragraph three to five sentences long), using a prewriting organizer such as an “idea web”. Remind your son or daughter to apply paragraph skills learned (e.g. topic sentence, sequence words such as "Since", "So", "When", "first", "next", "Near it was..."). You can also help your child avoid mistakes by encouraging your child to read his or her work aloud to edit word choice in blue, sentence starts and punctuation in red, name starts in yellow, and spelling fixes in green.

• As we continue to improve our organization (keep a clean desk, organize a duotang, and plan his or her time), I have continued giving weekly time for this. In some cases I may send materials home to be sorted into the correct duotangs.

• Encourage you child to use cursive letters when possible. An assessment sheet will be sent home following an assessment in the near future showing areas to focus on when  practicing cursive with your child.