Please ask your child if he/she has a pair of working headphones/earbuds at school. We use them all year long and they need to be kept in school.
BCS is participating in the 29th Annual National Walk and Roll to School Day on Wednesday, October 8, 2025!
Whether you live nearby or farther from school, all families are welcome to join in this fun and healthy event. For those who don’t have a short or easy route to school, the PTSA Wellness Committee has arranged a meet-up point at the Tilbury/Cranbrook/Pine Rd. green space, where families can gather and make the 0.8-mile walk to school together.
The attached flyer includes important details, including a QR code with a map of the walking route.
If you are unable to walk with your child, you can sign up to drop them off at the meet-up area, where volunteers and crossing guards will be stationed along the route to help guide students safely to school. We are also looking for volunteers to help ensure the event runs smoothly and safely. Please click the link below to sign up your child for drop-off and/or to volunteer for the event. We appreciate your support!
Let’s celebrate our community, promote healthy habits, and enjoy the fun of walking and rolling to school - we hope to see you there!
Homework:
Language Arts:
3rd Grade Reading: 20+ minutes every night
4th Grade Reading: 30+ minutes every night
*PLEASE HAVE YOUR CHILD BRING IN A FEW CHAPTER BOOKS FOR OUR DAILY FREE READING TIME!
Bi-Weekly Reading Fluency Chart - Refer to the planner. Read a paragraph (any paragraph from a book you are reading at home) out loud to a parent from your nightly reading book to practice/improve your reading fluency. Reading Fluency video
Spelling:
Butzin List 4
Parkin List 5
Each week your child will write the week's words in his/her planner. Ask your child to share the spelling list with you. This list can also be printed from PowerSpelling. We will have a weekly spelling test in class on Monday (Parkin) or Thursday (Butzin). Kids have an option to practice their words by playing the spelling games on PowerSpelling. They have logins taped to the insides of their planners. Please show your weekly spelling test score to your parents in Powerspelling- Click Scores/Results.
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Math
3rd Grade:
XtraMath.org. Please practice 3 times per week. Keep going until "Mr. C says, you're done!" It should take approx. 10 minutes
Checkpoint A quiz - Did you show your quiz to a parent? Please have a parent sign your quiz, then return it to Mrs. Parkin (so that she knows your parent saw it!) After that, you can take it home to keep.
We are currently working in Unit 1. Students interpret and represent data on picture graphs and scaled bar graphs, and solve one and two-step word problems using the data. The use of scaled graphs and contexts with equal groups serves as a foundation for later units on multiplication.
4th Grade:
We have online fact tests due on Tuesday, October 14. Ask your child to tell you about the pink "That Quiz" record sheet that is kept in the take home folder. This is a homework assignment.
Our Unit 1 test was on Monday, September 29 and students brought these home on Wednesday for a parent signature. Ask your child if he/she has turned in the signed test to me.
Practice * / math facts for 10+ minutes each day!
Students will also receive optional additional practice problems that are assigned through their Illustrative Math account that correlate to the section we are currently teaching. See screenshot below of what this looks like. Students can log-in through Classlink on any home device. They know how to do this!
In class, we have a goal of completing one "Fluency Flight" a day in our math iReady program. If your child misses a day of school, please ask him/her to complete this at home. It takes about 10 minutes.
We are currently working in Unit 2. Students generate and reason about equivalent fractions and compare and order fractions with the following denominators: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 100. Students will extend their prior understanding of equivalent fractions and comparison of fractions.
Social Studies
Ask your student to tell you about Michigan's State symbols (State bird, gem, reptile, mammal, stone, tree, flower, and soil)
Can your child name all five Great Lakes (using the acronym - H.O.M.E.S)