Embedded Files
Students have a paper in their Blue Folder that outlines their scores on the MAP assessment we took in August. They have a Lexile (reading) Level on there as well.
Look through your student's bookbag at the end of the week and help them organize their materials. Bookbags are becoming a black hole of loose notes, and that is why many students cannot find what they need to study or turn in. Be careful about what you throw away! We suggest sorting papers into the proper notebooks/sections instead.
Important Dates
Important Dates
Unit Kick Off: October 16th
Fall Break: October 13 - 15
Stone Mountain Field Trip: October 17
Scoliosis Screening: October 22nd **All students will be screened. To opt-out, go to Parent Portal.
WHAT WE ARE LEARNING
Language Arts
What we are learning...
Narrative Techniques, Purposes of a Text, the Audience of a text, Analyzing texts & identifying themes
Reading the Book Freak the Mighty as a class mentor text. **Starting October 16th
Ask your child...
How many books have you read so far this year?
What are you reading right now for your reading Homework? **Starting back on 10/6
Who is the protagonist (main character) of your story?
What is the main conflict or problem they're facing?
Math
6th Grade
What we are learning..
We just finished Unit 2: Rates, Ratios, and Proportional Reasoning.
We have just started our third Unit: Expressions.
This is the first time students will be introduced to letters (variables) in math.
Ask your child...
What is your homework today? They should be practicing the IXL links posted on each day's announcement on Canvas.
Remind them that there are tips and video links embedded in the IXL skills that they can use to help them solve each problem.
7th Grade
What we are learning..
We will finish up Unit 2 this month: expressions, equations, and inequalities.
We will be testing over Unit 2 in a coupe of weeks.
At the end of the month, we will begin Unit 3: Ratios and Proportional Reasoning.
Ask your child...
What is your homework today? They should be practicing the IXL links posted on each day's announcement on Canvas.
Remind them that there are tips and video links embedded in the IXL skills that they can use to help them solve each problem.
Science
What we are learning..
Weathering: Mechanical and Chemical
Erosion: www.gg (water, waves, wind, gravity, and glacial)
Deposition
How is rock weathering the beginning of soil formation
Soil horizons
Ask your child...
As you walk around the neighborhood or somewhere outdoors, ask your child to show you some examples of weathering that they might see. Also, ask them about how erosion and deposition are different. In addition, ask your child what www.gg means in erosion. (they should be able to tell you that those are the 5 agents of erosion and they should also be able to name them)
Social Studies - Standing assignment of looking over notes each evening.
What we are learning..
We are wrapping up our study of WW1 and will be taking a test on Thursday, October 9.
We will be moving in to the Russian Revolution and WWII - what prompted it and major battles of the war.
We will also be reading an article entitled "The Boys that Fought the Nazis" and another about the USS Indianapolis.
Ask your child...
Which countries were the Allied Powers and which were the Axis Powers?
Who were the leaders of the main Allied Powers and main Axis Powers.
Fernbank Field Trip!
On September 17, we took a trip down to Dekalb county and the amazing Fernbank Natural History Museum. The students had a great time and we got to see so many neat things. The large dino-fossils are always a hit and the students, and Mr. Greene had a ton of fun in the Hands on Science exhibit. Thank you to all the parents that joined up.
Stone Mountain is the next Field Trip and it is going to be a BLAST!
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