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 eighth unit of the year, we are focusing on a variety of both informational texts and fictional texts. The skills that are being taught are citing text evidence to support answers, determining central ideas and key details, and comparing and contrasting information presented in different forms. Our next reading test of the year will be on Thursday, March 19th.

Writing - For our seventh writing unit, students will be revisiting narrative writing. Students will learn about third person omniscient point of view, using descriptive words and phrases, and different types of conflict. They will decide two characters to write a story about in which the reader knows the thoughts, feelings, and actions of both characters in a fictional story. 

Social Science- Our next social science unit of the year is exploring culture through the early Americas (Mayan, Incan, and Aztec societies). Students will learn about this topic through several videos, reading in the textbook and taking notes, and written responses. The essential question for the unit is: "How does culture in a society develop and change over time?"

Science - The students will be exploring rock transformations through the essential question of the unit, "How do rocks form and change?" The anchor phenomenon centers around why rock samples from the Great Plains and from the Rocky Mountains are composed of similar minerals but look so different and come from different areas. 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 ninth math module of the year focuses on inequalities, measures of center, and calculating surface area. Students will practice graphing inequalities on a number line, finding the mean, median, and mode from a set of data, identifying and generating statistical questions, and calculating the surface area of pyramids and prisms. There will be two checkpoints that students will complete; one after the 8th lesson, and one after the 12th lesson of this module. We will also be reviewing for the quarterly test, which will cover topics learned in modules 7-9. We are reviewing 3/3, 3/4, and 3/5, and we will be testing on Friday, March 6th.

Weber Math - Unit 6 focuses on functions as a relationship between "inputs" and "outputs." They will represent functions using a table or graph. Then, we will explore surface area and volume of 3-domensional figures. There will be a mid-unit and end assessment this unit. hey will be taken on March 2nd and March 20th.