Week of May 7 - May 11

TESTING DATES
May 10th:  MAP ELA @ 8:00 am

IMPORTANT DATES
May 7th:  New Parent Orientation @ 6:00 pm

May 11th:  Field Day

May 14th:  Field Trip
May 16th:  End of the year assembly

May 17th: History Museum 

May 18th:  Last Day of School/Class Parties

MATH

Block 1

Geometry Projects (completed in class).

HOMEWORK:
NONE

Block 2

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 will be taking the last unit summative this week. It is lengthy, so each day we are working on sections of it in small groups.

HOMEWORK:

NONE

SCIENCE
Both blocks have finished all units for science this year!  

Block 1
Passion Projects (presentations are on Wednesday, 5/9).

Block 2
We will be using science time to finish the math summative.

HOMEWORK:
NONE

Social Studies
BLOCK 2 ONLY

SS4H6 - Effects of Reconstruction, to include:

Purpose of 3th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, Work of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen’s Bureau), Sharecropping replacing slavery, Freed African Americans or Blacks being prevented from exercising their newly won rights, and Effects of Jim Crow laws and practices.

SS4E1c.e.f - Specialization improves standards of living.

*We will be taking the reconstruction summative this week. It is open note, so no study guide will be sent home.

HOMEWORK:
History Museum Speeches are due TOMORROW!!!  
I will be listening to each child recite their speech over the next several days.