Curriculum

🧮 Math - This week the students will start by comparing and ordering decimals to the tenths and hundredths place.  They will use models to visual the value of decimals before ordering them.  Then the students will learn about profit to add and subtract decimals.  They will learn about the importance of lining up the decimal and place value of each number.

Unit 3 TEKS Check will be on Friday, November 7th.  The test will be over decimal place value, relationships, comparing, ordering, addition, and subtraction.  It will also cover financial literacy - profit, fixed expenses, variable expenses, and financial institutions. 

🧪 Science - In Science this week, students observed similarities and differences of plants, such as cacti. Next week, we will continue our study of acquired and inherited traits of plants.  Students will focus on answering the essential question..."Why are organisms sometimes alike and different from their parents?"

📚 Reading: Module 4: Heroic Feats — What Does It Take to Be a Hero? Students will explore our opening text using text features to uncover the qualities that define real-life heroes. This weeks reading of an adapted fairtale will allow students to discuss the genre with a focus on plot, point of view, and theme. Book Club Book DUE 10/28---project book in a bag due 10/31

✏️ Writing:  Students will work with a small group to compare the traditional fairtytale of Cinderella to other adaptations. Students will compare the Point of view, theme, and plot elements. They will select 1 scene to write -using elements of drama- and perform. 

🌏 Social Studies - This week students will be creating their own missions and finalizing learning information regarding mission- what it means, the purpose, their goals and the daily life of a mission. We will start working our way into discussing and learning about Mexico's War of Independence, Moses Austin and how that all impacted Texas. Over the next two weeks we are concluding Unit 3 and will start focusing on our review before our test on Friday, 11/7.