HW - Monday, 3/2

PARENTS:

• Thursday is STEM night at Ruskin.
• NO Friday Flagpole until March 20th due to Lunar New Year celebration and minimum days for conferences.
• This Thursday, we will continue with our California Agriculture Taste Tests: Oranges.
• Scholastic Book Orders due Friday, March 6.
• Parent Conferences are coming soon: Friday, March 6 - Friday, March 13. This is an OPTIONAL parent conference. I do want to meet some parents in person, but most do not need to meet. Parents who I want to meet with have been contacted.
• Sunday, March 8 is when we "spring ahead" one hour for Daylight Savings.
• Started our next classroom novel: Tuck Everlasting. Please do not let them read or flip pages ahead.
• Each month we will continue to practice for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Common Core Test.
• NINE TenMarks.com lessons have been assigned to support our current area of study (Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers and Modeling Fractions) as well as review some older topics (Decimals). All assignments will go off-line on Friday, March 6:
• • Add Fractions Together or Take Away
    •  4.NF.3a - Joining and Separating Parts of the Same Whole
    •  4.NF.3b - Representing Fractions
    •  4.NF.3d - Addition and Subtraction of Fractions with Visuals
    •  4.NF.3c - Addition and Subtraction of Mixed Numbers
    •  4.NF.3c - Strategies for Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers
    •  4.MD.4 - Addition and Subtraction of Fractions Using Line Plots
  • Decimals and Fractions
    •  4.NF.5 - Fractions: Denominator of 10 or 100
    •  4.NF.6 - Decimal Notation and Fractions
    •  4.NF.7 - Comparing Decimals

1.  RuskinFIT (Physical Exercise) - 60 minutes
2.  Reading Is Cool - 30 minutes
Reading Goal of the Month:  Most BOOKS Read
Keep track of the books you read daily by writing them down on the Reading Log, get your parent or guardian to initial, total your pages read, and turn it in  April 3 ...Receive a Prize!
Remember: Read your Accelerated Reader Book (selected with your ZPD in mind) and take the Quiz in class.
3.  Language Arts
- Wordly Wise Lesson 19 a-b / Test Friday
- Reading Comprehension:  #18

- Scholastic News - Pg. 8 / Debate / Sticky Situation due Friday

LINK for Debate / Sticky Situation paper

4.  Math
- TEXTBOOK pages 300-303 (Common Core booklet)
- WORKBOOK pages none
5.  Science - Textbook pgs. 218-222; Chapter 6 Test on Thursday

* Tomorrow, they will get their next Google Docs assignment on rapid changes in the Earth's surface. *
6.  History - California Studies Weekly (Week #17) due Thursday; Quiz on Friday.