Next Week: This week, we will continue working with angles. We will use protractors to measure and draw angles and determine the measurement of an unknown angle. We will learn how to identify and draw lines of symmetry and use benchmark angles to determine acute, obtuse, and right triangles. 

Help from home: practice multiplication (two-digit x two-digit) and division (three-digit divided by one-digit) equations. 

This Week : We began our unit on forces and interactions with energy, how it moves and transfers (kicking a soccer ball, beating a drum, etc.). We discovered the way energy moves in waves and how it can be stored and changed. We designed/sketched a Rube Goldberg machine to demonstrate the transfer of energy from one object to another to accomplish a task. 

Next Week : We will explore electric energy and how it is transfered/travels through conductors of electricity. We will determine the difference between thermal and light energy that electric energy can create, as well as conductors and insulators and their differences. 

This Week : We learned about Texas at the start of the 20th century including, the Great Depression, FDR's presidency and his New Deal, Works Progress Administration, the Dust Bowl, and tensions escalating towards the second World War. We completed an assignment about a primary source from the Dust Bowl. 

Next Week : We will learn about Texas at the start of World War 2, and the major events/Texas heroes of that war.