Week 4

Reminders:

Early dismissal - September 21st

Math:

This week will cover place value to the thousandths place, rounding and estimating with decimals, comparing and ordering decimals, and rewriting fractions as decimals. We will review the following topics on Friday for a unit test on Monday, Sept. 24:

• multiplying and dividing powers of 10
• multiplying and dividing whole numbers
• prime and composite numbers
• decimal expanded notation
• rounding and estimating decimals
• comparing and ordering decimals
• rewriting fractions as decimals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JB3bNfLqEM  Decimal place value

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MIn3zFkEcc Rounding decimals to the tenths place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jcW-ZgpRbM Base 10 fractions to decimals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do_IbHId2Os Convert fractions to decimals

* Problem of the Day Quiz on Friday

English/Language Arts/Reading:

Book Clubs! We started our first book for book club this week. Each student was assigned a novel with their group, and we plotted out a reading schedule on their green bookmarks. It is imperative that all group members read to the exact page assigned (no reading ahead or falling behind), come with their job completed in their book club notebook, and are ready to engage in conversation each day. The book club notebook has a blue paper glued in with an explanation of each job and its requirements, there is also a white rubric with expectations for the daily meetings.

Within our read aloud novel, Chains, we will focus on honing our summarization skills and use exercises to target and describe the most important events as they come about.

Quizlet Week 4 and spelling quiz on Friday

Science:

Properties of matter - density, electrical conductivity, magnetism, temperature, and solubility.  States of matter - characteristics of a solid, liquid, and gas.

Steve Spangler's Density Tower

Explanation of Density

Mixtures, Solutions, Solubility

Magnetism, Conductivity

TED-ed Mixtures:

How to Separate Mixtures and Solutions based on Properties

Studyjams You will see scrolling topics under science.  Find the one on Matter. The three videos I suggest are: Properties of Matter, Solids Liquids Gases, and Physical and Chemical Changes in Matter.

Social Studies:

Colonial America. We will learn about why each of the 13 colonies were settled and what economic strengths each colony had.