Next Week: We will continue to use symbols to compare fractions and decide if fractions are equivalent or not.

Skills Quiz: Thursday, October 17th. 

Texas Standards Covered:

4.3D Compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators and represent the comparison using the symbols >, =, or <.     

This Week : We reviewed mixtures, solutions, and conservation of matter and prepared for the district assessment test on Thursday. It was over everything we had covered so far from properties of matter (temperature, mass, relative density, and magnetism) to mixtures/solutions/conservation. 

Next Week : We will begin our next unit, structures and functions of plants. We will have living materials that we work with in this unit, succulents/cacti. We will discuss plants and how they survive in multiple different environments and their adaptations. 

This Week : We began our new social studies unit on European exploration and settlement. We learned about the lives of important explorers, their motives, and other influences that settlement of the Americas had on what would become Texas. Students participated in a "mini-project" with their table groups about European explorers. 

Next Week : We will cover explorers that were important to Texas and the American Southwest including Alonso Alvarez de Pineda, Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Antonio de Espejo, Luis de Moscoso de Alvarado, Juan de Onate, and Rene Robert Cavelier. We will complete a chart to organize and better understand these explorers and their contributions to what is now Texas.