Week of March 5 - March 9

Important Dates
March 7th and 8th: Kindergarten Registration
March 8th - 16th: Book Fair and Grandparent Lunches
March 9th: End of 3rd 9 Weeks!!!
March 12th:  Teacher Workday
March 13th: Family STEM Night
March 16th: Report cards go home
March 19th: iMoms Breakfast
March 3rd - 30th:  Relay for Life Bracelet Sales (7:15 - 7:45) 

MATH

Block 1

MD.1 - Relative units of measurement

MD.2 - Word problems using the four operations, to include distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, mass, money, with fractions and decimals; also represent measurement using diagrams

MD.3 - Area and perimeter of rectangles

MD.4 - Use line plots containing fractions to +/- the fractions

MD.8 - Area

*We continue to move through our unit on measurement. This week we will focus on converting units of measurement within the metric system.
**Friday, 3/9: Conversion Quiz**

HOMEWORK:
IXL: N.6, N.7, and N.9 (Due Friday)

Block 2

NF.1 - Explain why two or more fractions are equivalent
NF.2- Fraction comparison with different denominators

*We continue to work on comparing fractions using a benchmark of 1/2 and the LCM.

**Knowing multiplication facts is extremely important for this unit. Practice them nightly!!!**

**Friday, 3/9: Comparing Fraction Quiz**
HOMEWORK:

IXL: P.16, P.17, and P.18 (Due Friday)

SCIENCE

GSES4P2 - Sound, to include: Investigations utilizing everyday objects to produce sound and predict the effects of changing the strength or speed of vibrations; Design and construction of a device to communicate across a distance using light and/or sound.

*Last week we learned about sound and how it travels by creating string telephones. This week we will continue learning about sound through the use of tuning forks and water, reading in our science books, and experimenting with rubber bands.

**Friday, 3/9: Sound Quiz**

HOMEWORK:
Study vocabulary (Nightly)

Social Studies
BLOCK 2 ONLY!!

SS4H4 - Abolitionist and suffrage movements to include contributions of and challenges faced by Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner  Truth, and Harriet Tubman

HOMEWORK:

None