Journals: Reading "The Whipping Boy". Read and respond in writing to specific prompts about the literature. Present responses to the class and answer relevant questions from the audience. Continue reading non-fiction passages with document-based questions for reading comprehension and critical thinking.

DLR (Daily Oral Language)

Writer's Express

Math

Grade 4 Module 5: Fraction Equivalence, Ordering, and Operations

In this 40-day module, students build on their Grade 3 work with unit fractions as they explore fraction equivalence and extend this understanding to mixed numbers.  This leads to the comparison of fractions and mixed numbers and the representation of both in a variety of models.  Benchmark fractions play an important part in students’ ability to generalize and reason about relative fraction and mixed number sizes.  Students then have the opportunity to apply what they know to be true for whole number operations to the new concepts of fraction and mixed number operations.

Social Studies

CA Studies Weekly Topics: The Effects of the Gold Rush; Compromise of 1850; Statehood for California; The Stagecoch, Pony Express and Telegraph

Science

Understand Earth Science Concepts