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, DECEMBER 12, 2025
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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.
DECEMBER 8 - 12, 2025
None this week
Social Studies Tests are OPEN BOOK tests. This means that during the test the students will be allowed to open their textbooks, but not their notebooks. It is important that they bring their textbooks to school. If it is left at home, they will not have access to it at school. It is recommended that as part of reviewing for the test, they read the actual lesson in the textbook including the captions under the pictures.
Lesson outline is given below.
QUIZZES ARE UNANNOUNCED
U1 L5 PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
This lesson covers:
1. Environment and people change each other:
Effects of dam building. Focus: Hoover Dam.
Effects of levees. Focus: St. Louis and New Orleans
2. People find new ways to get energy that don't harm the environment.
Focus: Wind Farms
3. Why and how to protect our environment and ecosystem?
Focus: Earth Day, Prairie Ecosystem
Vocabulary learned:
1. resource
2. natural resource
3. environment
4. dam
5. mineral
6. reservoir
7. levee
8. ecosystem
GEOGRAPHY PACKET
Every week we do one GP. It is given on Monday and is due the following Thursday. The concepts are first discussed in class on Monday and then students are given time in class to complete it. Over the course of next couple of days, the students get enough time in class and turn it in. If you want your student to bring it home, please let me know either via a note in their daily planner or email.
For the first quarter, the geography packet will be graded for the following:
Correct answer
Answer is given using a proper complete sentence.
For example:
Q: What is the capital of USA?
Given Answer: It is Washington D.C.
Even though it is a complete sentence, the students are being repeatedly shown that a better sentence is expected. Any of the following options are considered proper complete sentence:
Option 1: Washington D.C. is the capital of USA.
Option 2: The capital of USA is Washington D.C.
Capitalization, spellings and punctuation.
Following will be considered for grading:
Capitalization in the beginning of the sentences.
Capitalization of proper nouns especially those that have been capitalized on the map page.
End of sentence punctuation which is usually a period (.).
Spellings of the words especially if they are on map page or in the question itself.