Next Week: We will continue to use symbols to compare fractions and decide if fractions are equivalent or not, represent fractions and decimals as distances from zero on a number line, and represent and solve addition and subtraction of fractions, using objects and pictorial models.  

Texas Standards Covered:

4.3D Compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators and represent the comparison using the symbols >, =, or <. 4.3G Represent fractions and decimals to the tenths or hundredths as distances from zero on a number line. 4.3E Represent and solve addition and subtraction of fractions with equal denominators using objects and pictorial models that build to the number line and properties of operations.      

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

Next Week : We will learn about the inherited and acquired traits of organisms and the differences between them. Inherited traits are those passed down (leaf size and shape, hair and eye color) while acquired traits are those influenced and changed during a lifetime (haircut, scars, heat damage to plants, etc). 

This Week : We covered 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 completed a chart to organize and better understand these explorers and their contributions to what is now Texas. 

Next Week : We will discuss spanish missions to Texas and the goals that Spain had for their colony. We will define missions, pueblos, ranchos, and presidios, what daily life was like, and important people in the time period. We will fill out a vocabulary sheet about presidios, pueblos, and ranchos to compare and contrast their features.