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Keith, McCoy, & McGriff
Weekly Newsletter
January 4 - 8, 2016
4.NF.1: Explain why a fraction a/b is equivalent to a
fraction (n x a)/(n x b) by using visual fraction models,
with attention to how the number and size of parts
differ even though the two fractions themselves are the
same size.
4. NF.2: Compare two fractions with different
numerators and different denominators.
4. NF.3: Understand a fraction 1/b with a >1 as a sum
of fractions 1/b.
a. Understand addition and subtraction of fractions,
b. Decompose a fraction into a sum of fractions with the
same denominator in more than one way.
c. Add and subtract mixed numbers with like
denominators.
d. Solve word problems involving addition and
subtraction of fractions.
HOMEWORK
Monday: Workbook p. 130
Tuesday: Workbook p. 128
Wednesday: Workbook p. 134
Thursday: Workbook p. 138 and 140
*Two in-class minor grades will be given this week.
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Science-
Language:
Math
We will cover the following standards this week:
Focus:,
Chapter 4:
Lost City
Vocabulary words: red blood cell,
nerve cell, muscle cell, respiratory
system, circulatory system, nervous
system, alveoli, artery, vein, capillary,
sensory nerve, and virus. These words
and definitions can be found on the
back of the newsletter.
Homework:
Mon.-Fri.- Reading Log
Mon.- Reading Windsor Ruins and
completing worksheets
Tues. – Reading Machu Picchu and
completing worksheet
Wed. –Reading Log
Thurs. –RWNB pg. 329, Study vocabulary
words
Friday- Vocabulary and comprehension test
(minor grade)
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Mississippi HistoryCivil War
One in-class grade (minor) will be
taken.
Word Analysis: This week we are working on the Latin root urb which means
city and the Greek root astro which means star.
News to Know…
January 7, 2016 – Report Cards
January 18, 2016 - School Holiday
January 21, 2016 – World’s Finest Chocolate Kickoff
January 21, 2016 – Reading Fair Project due in the classroom
January 26, 2016 – Reading Fair 6:00
*Please join the PTSO for $5 and purchase a Pirate Pride T-shirt for $10. Students
may wear this shirt every Friday with uniform pants!
*Signed papers come home every Monday. Please look over,
discuss with your child, and sign to return on Tuesdays.
Don’t forget to remove all notes and our newsletter!
*Please save the following and send to school: Box Tops, and empty printer ink cartridges
*Websites are updated every Friday, and Active Parent is updated once a week.
*Your child has been asked to read 90 minutes a week. You are asked to sign
their reading log to verify that they have read. If your child has read their 90
minutes each week by the end of the 9 weeks, they will receive a PIRATE
PRIDE Stick.
Vocabulary Words
Lost City
1. curiosity – an eager desire to
know
2. thickets – bushes or small
trees growing close together
3. terraced – to form into flat,
level land with steep sides
4. glorious – magnificent;
splendid
5. granite – made from a very
hard gray or pink rock that is
formed when lava cools slowly
underground
6. ruins – what is left after a
building, wall etc., has fallen to
pieces
7. torrent – a violent, rushing
stream of water
ANCHORED IN EXCELLENCE!
*Prepared*Respectful*Involved*Dependable*Excellent*
Chapter 4 Science Vocabulary:
The test will be given on Wednesday, February 3rd
1. red blood cell: a cell that carries oxygen and carbon dioxide
2. nerve cell: a cell that communicates information throughout an animal’s body
3. muscle cell: a cell that moves body parts
4. respiratory system: the body system that obtains oxygen and gets rid of carbon dioxide
5. circulatory system: the system that moves blood throughout the body
6. nervous system: the system that carries messages from the body back to the brain
7. alveoli: structures in the lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide enter and leave the blood
8. artery: a blood vessel that carries blood away from your heart
9. vein: a blood vessel that carries blood back to the heart
10. capillary: the smallest blood vessel
11. sensory nerve: a nerve that carries information from a body part to your central nervous
system
11. virus: is smaller than a cell
Thank you so much for all the sweet gifts! We loved every single
one!
Due to the generous donations of chips and drinks for our Christmas
party, we had $20 left from our Christmas party. We are going save
the $20 and put it towards our Valentine’s Party in February!!