SEL - Ongoing embedded social emotional lessons occur daily.  Class meetings are  regularly embedded into the day and a reflection will end each week.  In addition to these, we are #aldrinallin.  We encourage acceptance, flexibility, and noticing the world around us.

Literacy  - For our fifth unit of the year, we are focusing on a variety of informational texts about technology in the 21st century and how technology has evolved over time. The students will learn and practice how to cite text evidence to support analysis and inferences, determine a central idea, determine author's point of view, and integrate information presented in different formats on the same topic. Our next reading test of the year will be on Thursday, January 8th.

Writing - For our fourth writing unit, students will be writing a narrative in the form of a realistic story. Students will continue to develop their skills on sequencing events, incorporating dialogue, including transitional words and phrases, and developing a theme.

Social Science- Our next social science unit of the year is exploring different types of government. Students will learn about this topic through reading, watching videos, and completing a mythbusters activity related to government. Students will also practice taking notes related to the question "What is the best form of government?" that will then help them demonstrate their understanding and complete their own government report card at the end of the unit. 

Science - The students will be exploring populations through the essential question of the unit, "Why do populations change size in an ecosystem?" The anchor phenomenon centers around what caused the size of the moon jelly population to increase. They will be focusing on this topic through simulations, readings, a lab, and evaluating evidence. Students will demonstrate their understanding in a written response at the end of the unit.

Mulvihill/Walsh/Zeller Math - The sixth math module of the year focuses on area and ratios. Within the module, students will be learning and practicing how to find the area of a parallelogram, triangle, quadrilateral, and any polygon. Then, they will be learning how to identify and create rates as well as compare rates to each other. There will be two checkpoints that students will complete; one after the 7th lesson, and one after the 12th lesson of this module. Also, the second quarterly test will be given on Thursday, December 18th. It will cover topics learned in modules 4-6. The day before, we will be reviewing these concepts through a study guide, which students are able to bring home to finish and continue to study from.

Weber Math - Students are deepening their algebraic reasoning as they solve equations and inequalities. They will be able to solve using diagrams and showing work algebraically. The end of unit test will be on December 12th.

• Monday 12/1 - Math MAP Test in AM

• Monday 12/8 - Reading MAP Test in AM

• Monday 12/22-Friday 1/2 - Winter Break

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