Monday

FYI:
*Literacy Letter due Thursday - please use guide!!
*SCIENCE FAIR BOARDS due WEDNESDAY MORNING! You can bring in Tomorrow
*Jan. Book Club - Jan. 24th (just a heads up for transportation)
*MAP testing is TOMORROW! Students know their goals...PLEASE help them get to bed on time tonight and eat a healthy breakfast!!!!!
*Report Cards are NEXT week! I am slowly but surely entering in all the grades! Of course, if there was a concern, I would have already contacted you!

SS LO:  I can create a timeline describing how KY became a state.  I can correctly use Word, drawing tools, and typing skills on a mini laptop.  I can research and find main idea in my research about KY becoming a state.
Activity: Students worked on cooperative pairs to read and create a timeline about KY progressing as a state.  They did a WONDERFUL job on this! I'm proud of their technology skills, too!
No HW

Reading LO: I can describe events and important details from technical texts. 
Activity: We worked together to pick out important information as well as place steps to important information in several examples of technical texts.
HW: bring in a recipe, instruction manual, or directions to something to share with the class (if you can - no worries if you don't have something to bring in!)

Science: Not today - Conservation, Summer Camp information is coming home

Math: I can explain equivalent fractions.
Activity: Students worked with manipulatives and worked with the algorithm to solve equivalent fractions and explain why they are equal. 
HW: sheet - please complete all the circled problems...kids have 2 examples on the sheet we did together as well as their practice sheet from class
*Challenge Group will resume tomorrow - had to make sure they have the 4th grade standards! :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL4hICyMLKU - cute Equivalent Fractions video

*New CARS & STARS group - ask your child their focus for the week!
*No RtI today due to Conservation