Reading:  This week, we are continuing Unit 6:  Discovering Self and will be
reading the Newberry Award-winning book, "Bud, Not Buddy."

foster:  to take care of
glum:  to be sad or depressed
revenge:  a punishment for a wrong that has been done
fumbling:  to handle something in an awkward or clumsy way
hardheaded:  very stubborn
insist:  to demand something
nosy:  wanting to know other people's business
(will be included on the Reading Test)

Chapters 6-11 Quiz - Wednesday, April 9th (includes vocab below)
retrieve:  to get something and bring it back from a place
privilege:  a right or benefit given to some but not everyone
unemployment:  to not have a job
income:  money that you can earn from working
eviction: the act of forcing someone to leave a place where they live
kin:  a person's relatives
raid:  to invade a place
ignorant:  describes someone who is lacking information or knowledge
devour:  to eat very quickly
puny: small and weak
jolt: a quick and sudden movement
"spitting image": someone who looks very much like someone else
doze:  to sleep lightly for a short time
judgmental:  judging people to quickly and harshly
reputation:  a common opinion that people have about something or someone
paltry:  very small, or too small, in amount
scrawny:  very small or thin
"talking someone's ear off": to talk to someone too much, usually for more than wanted or appreciated
scolding:  to say mean things to someone who has done wrong


ALSO, Prefix & Suffix Quiz Thursday, April 10th


Math:
QUIZ Tuesday, April 8th
Understand concepts of angles and measure angles.
NC.4.MD.6 Develop an understanding of angles and angle measurement. • Understand angles as geometric shapes that are formed wherever two rays share a common endpoint and are measured in degrees. • Measure and sketch angles in whole-number degrees using a protractor. • Solve addition and subtraction problems to find unknown angles on a diagram in real-world and mathematical problems.

Begin Tuesday, April 8th
Solve problems involving measurement. NC.4.MD.1 Know relative sizes of measurement units. Solve problems
involving metric measurement. • Measure to solve problems involving metric units: centimeter, meter,
gram, kilogram, Liter, milliliter. • Add, subtract, multiply, and divide to solve one-step word problems
involving whole-number measurements of length, mass, and capacity that
are given in metric units. 
NC.4.MD.2 Use multiplicative reasoning to convert metric measurements
from a larger unit to a smaller unit using place value understanding,
two-column tables, and length models. 

QUIZ Friday, April 11th

NC.4.MD.8 Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals that cross the hour.

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 We will continue to work on the below standard: NC.4.MD.4 Represent and interpret data using whole numbers. • Collect data by asking a question that yields numerical data. • Make a representation of data and interpret data in a frequency table, scaled bar graph, and/or line plot. • Determine whether a survey question will yield categorical or numerical data. 
 Students should continue to work on multiplication fact memorization.

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Science:  We will begin studying Light, Sound, Electric, and Heat Energy.

Vocabulary:
attract - to bring or draw closer
force - an influence or power that can cause a change in an object or system
magnet - an object, such as a piece of iron or steel, that has the ability to attract certain metals.  It may be naturally occurring of manufactured.
magnetic - able to attract iron and other metals
magnetic field - the area of magnetic force that surrounds a magnet
polarity - the condition of having two opposing poles
pole - either of the two ends of a magnet or battery
repel - to push away or apart by a force


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Reading Text Features caption - an explanation or description for a picture
diagram - a drawing or picture that shows how something works or shows the different parts of something using labels
glossary - a list of technical or special words and with their definitions in a book, usually found at the end of the book
graph - a drawing or diagram that visually shows how two or more pieces of information are related
heading - a word or phrase that is placed at the top of a piece of writing and gives it a title
index - an alphabetical list of specific information that can be found in a book and the page number to find it.  It is usually found at the end of a book.
nonfiction - writing that describes facts and real events; not fiction
photograph - a picture made by a camera
subheading - a title for a subdivision of a text
table of contents - a list of all the big topics or chapters in a book in the order they'll be presented

Reading Text Structures
Cause and Effect - a text structure in which an author explains causes, things that make other things happen, and effects, the things that happen as a result of causes
Compare and Contrast - a text structure in which an author explains how topics are similar
and different
Problem and Solution - a text structure in which an author explains a problem and how it was solved.
Sequence - a text structure in which authors tell about events in the order in which they happened.  It is also called "time order" or "chronological."
Description - a text structure in which an author tells about a topic and its characteristics with details and adjectives.
text structure - the way an author organizes information in a text.


Properties in Math
The associative property in mathematics states that when adding or multiplying numbers, the way they are grouped by brackets (parentheses) does not affect the sum or product.

The commutative property in mathematics applies to addition and multiplication. It states that:

• Changing the order of terms in an expression does not change its value.
• For addition: a + b = b + a
• For multiplication: a * b = b * a
• The property does not hold for subtraction and division.