Sunday, January 27, 2013

January 28 - February 1

Your child is responsible to watch the following BrainPop video this week:

  1. Population Growth (Social Studies)
  2. Review the following YouTube video on the Scientific Method

Science Board Example
Review The Scientific Method from August 2012

1. Make an observation - State the Problem
2. Ask a question - What do you want to learn?
3. Form a Hypothesis and make a prediction
4. Do a test/experiment with a control and a variable
5. Analyze data
6. Draw a conclusion
Important Dates:

Jan. 29 - Unit C Chapter 1 Science Test
Feb. 1 - Science Project Experiment Chosen, Title, and Description of Experiment Due
Feb. 5 - Social Studies Chapter 7 Test
Feb. 6 - Typed and saved on USB Drive - Title & Problem Due (The specific question that your science experiment will answer).
Feb. 8 - Hypothesis & Materials List Due (Must Be Typed and saved on USB Drive)
Feb. 11-15 - A great time to do your science experiment!
Feb. 18 - Procedure Typed & Saved on USB Drive Due (Step by step instructions of how you did your experiment in complete sentences.  You will be graded on format, capitalization, and spelling).
Feb. 22 - Results, Data, and Conclusion Due - Typed/Formatted and Saved on USB Drive (Results will be a paragraph of what you discovered through your science experiment.  Data will be a table, chart, pictures of experiment, etc. Conclusion will be a sentence stating the answer to the Problem and whether your hypothesis was correct or incorrect).
Feb. 25 - Report Due - Typed and Printed
Feb. 25 - Mar. 1 - In Class Presentations (Your science project must be on a visual display consisting of a Science Board with all of the above elements, Final Project, Project Model on display) Click here for the Grading RUBRIC. See visual display examples below.
Mar. 1 - Science Fair @ BIS


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Monday, January 21, 2013

January 21 - 25, 2013

Your child is responsible to watch the following BrainPop videos this week:

  1. Immigration (Social Studies)
  2. Graphs (Social Studies - Pay special attention to circle and line graphs)
  3. Weather (Science - Pay special attention to fronts)
  4. Review the following YouTube video about the Scientific Method
Review Scientific Method Song


 Important Dates:

Jan. 29 - Unit C Chapter 1 Science Test
Feb. 1 - Science Project Experiment Chosen, Title, and Description of Experiment Due
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Monday, January 7, 2013

Welcome and/or Welcome Back to Miss Duke's 3rd & 4th Grade Class!

I hope that all of you enjoyed your Christmas break!  

As many of you already know, this blog is my main source of communicating with the parents of the 3rd & 4th grade class at BIS.  If you ever have a question, go to the blog!  If the blog doesn't answer your question, feel free to email me.

Our class is growing!  We will being the new semester with 20 students.  It is very important for you to encourage and help your children enter this next quarter prepared and focused.  Here are some basic steps you can take to make sure you and your child are prepared for this semester!

 Parent & Student To Do List

  1. Follow By Email - Parents, please follow this blog by email to receive updates every time I update!  (Fill out the section on the and confirm your subscription by responding to the email.)
  2. Set up your Engrade account - All of the classes that I teach will be uploaded periodically to  Engrade's online grading software.  Check your student's agenda for their Access Code or email me to receive one so that you can continually check your child's progress.  
  3. Supply Check - Please check the supply list and your child's belongings to make sure that they have all of the right materials and are prepared for learning!  (Especially pencils, erasers, and notebooks!)
  4. Check Agenda & Reading Log Daily - Remember, if your child forgot either one of these items at school, they can write their assignments/reading log on a separate sheet of paper, followed by a parent's signature for full credit.  
  5. Raz-Kids - Students are to read 15 minutes daily.  My preference is that they read online at the  Raz-Kids website.  The 3rd & 4th grade username is: BIS34  Some students have set up personal passwords, while others have not.  If your child cannot read online, they are able to check out 3 library books per week and/or 1 book from our classroom library at a time.  
  6. BrainPop - We watch a ton of videos in my class to help the kids understand the new concepts.  Typically, we use the BrainPop website.  Be sure to watch the videos from home to help reinforce the new concepts! 
  7. Review math facts.   Congratulations!  Both 3rd and 4th grade have mastered their math facts!  Click to play review games: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.  Make sure to review before we come back to school!  Here is a website with some cool math games to refresh your math skills! 
Please note:  BIS has chosen to switch International Fair and Science Fair this year.  Science fair will be in February and International Fair will be in April.

January 14 - 18

Your child is responsible for watching the following videos on BrainPop this week:
  1. Iroquois Confederacy (Social Studies)
  2. American Revolution (Social Studies)
  3. Temperature (Science)
  4. Heat (Science)
  5. Wind (Science)
  6. Weather (Science - Pay attention to the Barometer)
  7. Clouds (Science)
  8. Water Cycle (Science)

We will watch the following videos on YouTube this week:


The Ride - Paul Revere short educational film piece


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Paul Revere's Ride" Poem animation




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