Curriculum

🧮 Math - This week we will continue with Unit 5: Data Analysis.  The students will represent data using frequency tables and dot plots.  They will also use the data to solve one step and multistep word problems.  Students should be able to create dot plots and analyze the data by the end of the week.

Unit 4-5 TEKS Check will be NEXT Friday, December 12th.  The test will be numerical expressions, strip diagrams, and input/output tables .  It will also cover data analysis- frequency tables, dot plots, and stem-and-leaf plots. 

🧪 Science - In Science this week, the students conducted research on the fossils that have been found and identified at  Big Bend National Park. They also completed the Unit 3-5 Science TEKS Check on Producers and Consumers; Food Webs; Energy Flow within Ecosystems. Next week, we will begin a new unit on Patterns of the Seasons. The students will collect and analyze data to identify the sequences and patterns of the change in seasons by observing temperature and length of daylight

📚 Reading: What a great time we had listening and learning about the Beatles last week. The Beatlemania took over the classroom and great conversations filled the air.  I have loved hearing how kids went home and continued to play their music and provide moments of nostalgia for you too! In this next selection, students will learn to recognize the features of informational text, monitor and clarify their understanding of the text, identify compare and contrast text structure, and recognize text and graphic features. 

 We will be taking the i Ready Middle of Year Benchmark testing 

 Wednesday December 3rd-Thursday December 4th. (Small chunks each day)

✏️ Writing:  Students will be working on 2 tasks in writing: 

1. Analyzing poetry to write an opinion piece. They will make a claim and provide text evidence from the poem to support it with reasoning. We'll be chunking this writing as it will be their first extended written response in 4th grade! 

2. Take a look at their Persuasive writing activity for December! We will practice organizing details, creating strong sentences to show descriptive writing for their house and persuasive word choice.

🌏 Social Studies - Students had an incredible virtual field trip to the Bob Bullock Museum, where they learned from an expert historian all about the Texas Revolution. This week, we will wrap up our key-figures presentations and complete a short quiz to check for understanding. Students will also make personal connections to the Runaway Scrape and create a “painting” of a scene of their choice to demonstrate their learning through art and reflection.