Investigators - 11/11/22

Parent-teacher conferences will be on Wednesday 11/16, Friday 11/18, or by email for the Investigator cohort this year. The reason for this is we have many families to meet with this year and Ms Jamie has to drive to Lake St. Clair on 11/18 to pick up the salmon during the day. This limits our time a bit, so if anyone would like to sign up for an email only conference this year, please email Ms. Jamie (jamier@branchlineschool.org) or Ms. Chantel (chantelp@branchlineschool.org) to sign up for an email only conference. Here is the link to sign up for an in person or zoom conference with the teachers. https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0E44A8A822A2FB6-fall1 We are in need of some parent volunteers on 11/22/22 from 2:10-3:10 pm to help assemble our bat houses. This is the last part of the bat project that we have been working on the last month. All volunteers will need to fill out a background check and send in a copy of your driver's license to volunteer at school. I will send home the background check forms with your student if you sign up to help. We will have 10 groups that will be about 4 kids each building houses. Parents will need to bring in a hammer for their group. If you would like to help, please email Ms. Jamie at Jamier@branchlineschool.org.

 Hello All,

In our Math Rotations this week we have been working on: 

Mental Math: In this rotation, students have been working independently on their Mental Math Book called “Place Value.” 

At the Teacher’s Desk: In this rotation, students have been working on their assigned pages in their “Go Math” workbooks, Addition and Subtraction Within 1,000 and Multiplying by 1-Digit Numbers. Subtracting across zeros and Understanding Multiplication.

Technology: In this rotation, students have been working on their “Go Math/Think Central” assignments or IXL on their Chromebooks. 

Have Fun With Games/Red Bin Work: In this rotation, students have been working on assigned pages in their workbooks or worksheets on various addition/subtraction skills or answering fact fluency questions in order to take their turn in the games played on Fun Fridays.

The standards that were used were: 3.OA.A.3, 3.OA.D.8, 4.OA.A.3, 4.NBT.B.5

In Social Studies we have been working on describing ways in which the United States can be divided into different regions (e.g., political regions, economic regions, landform regions, vegetation regions). Also, comparing human and physical characteristics of a region to which Michigan belongs (e.g., Great Lakes, Midwest) with those of another region in the United States.

The standards that were used were: 4.G2.0.1, 4.G2.0.2

Thank you,

Ms. Chantel

This week in ELA we worked with partners to read some non-fiction articles. We practiced writing summaries of what we read and picking our main ideas. We also used the information in the articles to form our own opinions on the topic. We started a new spelling unit that we will finish up next week. Standards covered: RL.3.1-10, RI.3.1-10, RF.3.3-4, RL.4.1-10, RI.4.1-10, RF.4.3-4 In science we finished up our bat brochures that we will send out with the bat houses we build to help teach the public about why bats are important to our ecosystem. We will be building our bat house on 11/22/22 from 2:20-3:20 pm. Please email Ms. Jamie if you would like to help out! Standards covered: W.3.7, W.4.7, SL.3.3, SL.4.3, 3-LS2-1, 3-LS4-3 -Ms. Jamie