Please make sure you are in 3rd grade section of IXL. Clicking on the title of the IXL should take you to the assignment, but you will still have to log in using your username and password.
PLEASE ONLY DO THE IXL THAT HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO YOU.
I check the dates when an IXL was done. If you did it much earlier than when it was assigned by me, please redo it. ANYTHING DONE BEFORE THE START OF SCHOOL DOESN'T SHOW UP FOR ME SO IT MAY LOOK LIKE YOU HAVE DONE THE WORK, BUT IT SHOWS UP AS ZERO FOR ME. Redoing it will also help you practice your skills more.
NOTE:
Grade for any weekly IXL assignment completed WITHIN one week AFTER the due date will be updated after 20% deductions. When completed after the due date, PLEASE EMAIL ME. I will not update any IXL grade after this one week grace period.
I would highly encourage the students to start working on their homework early so that if they do have questions, they have time to ask me.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2025
B.2
Identify solids, liquids, and gases
The homework is due on the date mentioned above by 5pm. Grades are entered on 10 point system. So if a student scored 90, it will be entered as 9/10 in quickschools. Grading is done based on 10-point system. If you get 100% score in IXL, Quick school will show it as 10/10. If you get 76%, it is 7.6 in Quickschools. I would highly recommend starting early. This is in case you get stuck, you can ask me in class. I encourage you to ask me in class if you have any problems or difficulties in the IXL assigned.
Please keep in mind that we may do some IXL as classwork at school. If the student is not able to finish then it becomes HW which is due the next morning.
SEPTEMBER 22 - 26, 2025
None this week.
QUIZZES ARE UNANNOUNCED
U1 L1 FORCES
We follow HMH INTO SCIENCE curriculum. This is further supported by Daily Review in class as well as IXL.
What causes a sled to go downhill? Gravity pulls a sled to the bottom of a hill. By the end of this lesson, your child will
· explore how forces of different strengths affect a car’s motion
· investigate the relationship between friction and motion
To prepare your child for this lesson, try this short activity:
· Have your child drop a coin from waist level. Then have your child toss the coin up gently into the air.
· Discuss what your child observed about the coin’s direction each time.
Engage your child by asking these questions:
· Which direction did the coin move when it was dropped?
· Which direction did the coin move when it was tossed?
· What caused the coin to move in different ways each time?
· A force is a push or a pull. The strength of a force can affect how far, how fast, and in which direction an object moves.
· An object generally has more than one force acting on it at a time. These forces can be balanced or unbalanced. Unbalanced forces will cause a change to the motion of an object. The total of all forces acting on an object is called the net force.
· Starting, stopping, and changing direction are all the effects of forces acting on an object.
Vocabulary for this lesson includes force, friction, balanced forces, unbalanced forces, and net force.
· Preconception 1: Objects that are not moving do not have forces acting on them.
To address this, ask what would happen if an object was moved from a table and released. They should note that the object would fall to the floor and stop. Point out that although the object was not moving, there was a force from the table pushing up on it while the force of gravity was pulling down on it.
· Preconception 2: Gravity only affects heavy things.
To address this, find several small objects of different weight, such as a marble, a penny, and a feather. Drop each object one at a time and observe which are affected by gravity.