Week 4

Our fourth week is complete! Next week, Mrs. Timmons and I, along with all the other 4^th and 5^th grade math teachers in Muscatine, will be gone Monday through Thursday. We will be attending a math class for teachers, and we hope to bring back research-based best practices for our students. I really do not like being gone, but Mrs. Trosen is a wonderful substitute, so your child is in good hands!

This week we worked more on converting metric units, such as millimeters to meters, grams to kilograms, and milliliters to liters. We also began our work on ordering decimals and decimal fractions, along with looking at the expanded form of a number. For example, 34.652 is (3 x 10) + (4 x 1) + (6 x 0.1) + (5 x 0.01) + (2 x 0.01).

In science, we wrapped up our first investigation about Day and Night, discussed what causes day and night, and reviewed how shadows change throughout the day. The rotation of the earth versus the revolution of earth around the sun were also studied. Vocabulary terms we learned were axis, north pole (Polaris), rotation, revolution, day, night, and shadow. Feel free to quiz your child!