Week of February 23-27

This week in Science... we are beginning a new unit on the classification of living things. This week we'll look at what makes something a living organism and take a look at how scientist classify living things based on their features and characteristics.

First we classified these strange creatures according to their features:

































Then we had the task of classifiying all of this candy!














Check out our work!
































This week in Social Studies...we will take our Unit 5 Assessment on Wednesday, February 25. Students should study their History Alive workbooks and the notes in their Social Studies spirals. Friday we will begin a new unit on the Birth of a Nation - we'll look at the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, explore the Constiution & the three branches of government as well as the Bill of Rights.

This week in Math... we will have our DIVISION test on Tuesday, February 24. Students should be comfortable dividing with single digit divisors, double digit divisors, and dividends with decimals. Students should also know how to find factors of a given number the find the Greatest Common Factor of two numbers. We have also revisted find the mean of a set of data, this time without calculators. Toward the end of the week we will dive right in to our Fractions unit which we will use the Investigations series to explore the meaning of fractions and how decimals, fractions, and percents are all related.
ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday - Double Digit Division WKS
Tuesday -TEST TODAY -- NO HOMEWORK
Wednesday -Finish Test Corrections (started in class) and parent signature on Division Test
Thursday -WKS: Student Sheet 2 - Students should find one example of a fraction, one example of a decimal, and one example of a percentage in newspapers or old magazines. If students cannot find one of these things they may make one up but it must be an example that we did not already list in class.
Friday - NO HOMEWORK