HW - Thursday, 2/26

PARENTS:

• Lunar New Year Celebration tomorrow.
• 8:30 a.m. Grades K-2 (students only)
• 9:30 a.m. Grades 3-5 (students only)
• 10:50 a.m. Lunar New Year Parade on the blacktop (parents are welcome to attend)
• If desired, your child may dress up in New Year's attire (or wear red clothing) to help celebrate the event.
• Due to the Lunar New Year celebration, there will not be Friday Flag Pole.
• Next Thursday is STEM night at Ruskin.
• In fact, NO Friday Flagpole until March 20th due to Lunar New Year celebration and minimum days for conferences.
• Next week, we will continue with our California Agriculture Taste Tests.
• Scholastic Book Orders due 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. Please check for an email with more information.
• Sunday, March 8 is when we "spring ahead" one hour for Daylight Savings.
• 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 PAGES 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  March 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 18e / Test tomorrow
- Reading Comprehension:  #16

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

LINK for Debate / Sticky Situation paper

4.  Math
- TEXTBOOK pages 296-299 (Common Core booklet)
- WORKBOOK pages none
5.  Science - Textbook pgs. none

6.  History - California Studies Weekly (Week #16) Quiz tomorrow.
** Project Cornerstone: Either at home or in class, write a letter to Ruby Bridges. It can cover a variety of topics but try to stick with ones around her experience going to a "desegregated" school. Due Friday by recess. **