Next Week: We will continue to work with multiplication and division to solve one and two-step problems.  

Please try and work on multiplication facts at home. Having those memorized helps multiplying multi-digit numbers and division. 

Math Middle of Year Diagnostic begins Wednesday, December 11th. 

Unit 4 Assessment - December 18th

This Week : We finished food webs, producers, and consumers with a journal entry showing the flow of energy through an ecosystem. We began Past Environments and Fossil Evidence, we talked about how landscapes change over time and how/why those events occur. We conducted a group project researching a dinosaur that lived in Texas. 

Next Week : We will finish past environments and fossil evidence and prepare for our science unit test (over everything this 9 weeks : structures/functions of plants, inherited/acquired traits, food webs, producers/consumers, and fossils) on Wednesday, Dec. 18th. 

This Week : We learned about Texas as a Republic, its successes and failures, important figures (Jose Antonio Navarro, Sam Houston, Mirabeau B Lamar, and Anson Jones) and the Texas Rangers as Texas moved towards statehood. 

Next Week : We will cover Texas's road to statehood, Manifest Destiny, and the Mexican-American War. We will study and compare map data from the time period to understand the impact of Texas statehood on America. We will write a persuasive paragraph to the President of the Republic of Texas saying why Texas should or should not become a state based on the events after Texas became a republic.