This week is our Scholastic Book Fair.  Students received a flyer last week.  If they plan on purchasing, please have them bring their money.  There will be pizza for sale again after school on Monday to benefit the PTA.

Our objectives for this week:

Reading:  RI.4.3 Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text. RI.4.6 Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in focus and the information provided.

Math:  4.NBT.1 Recognize that in a multi-digit whole number, a digit in one place represents ten times what it represents in the place to its right. For example, recognize that 700 ÷ 70 = 10 by applying concepts of place value and division.
4.NF.6 Use decimal notation for fractions with denominators 10 or 100. For example, rewrite 0.62 as 62/100; describe a length as 0.62 meters; locate 0.62 on a number line diagram.

Science: P.CM: Develop an understanding of changes in the state of matter in terms of heating and cooling, and in terms of arrangement and relative motion of atoms and molecules. Understand the differences between physical and chemical changes. Develop an understanding of the conservation of mass. Develop an understanding of products and reactants in a chemical change.
P.CM.E.1 Changes in State- Matter can be changed from one state (liquid, solid, gas) to another and then back again. This may be caused by heating and cooling.
P.CM.04.11 Explain how matter can change from one state (liquid, solid, gas) to another by heating and cooling.

Social Studies:  In this unit students explore the United States through the lens of human geography with a focus on the themes of movement and human/environment interaction. Using literature and primary sources, they study push and pull factors of migration and the influence of migration on culture within the United States. Through both historical and current examples students explore ways people have used, adapted to, and modified various environments in the U.S. They deepen their understanding of human-environment interactions by assessing positive and negative effects of human activities on the physical environment. Returning again to historical examples, students explore ways in which geography can be used to interpret history. Finally, students identify current geographic issues facing the U.S. and select one issue to study in depth.

**There will be a social studies test this week.