My Classroom

At Seven Hills, we expect our students to uphold the standards we set before them, the most important being our C.A.R.E.S
Cooperation
Assertion
Responsibility
Empathy
Self-Control

Amplify - 9:00am - 9:45am; 10:30 - 11:15am

Year Round - 8 Units

As you may know, Amplify is our Language Arts curriculum, designed to help deliver students a streamlined, effective, and well-rounded education in the Language Arts. Each unit aims to fulfill one or more state standards, and are accompanied by various mid-unit and end of unit assessments or projects.

Below is what we are currently learning about:

Unit 1: Personal Narratives. In this unit, students will learn the basic building blocks for constructing a personal narrative as they read and analyze a number of different personal narratives written throughout history; each of them tackling different topics, time periods, and life experiences. At the end, they will write a personal narrative of their own as a demonstration of all that they learned.  

Social Studies  - 11:45am - 12:15pm

Trimesterly - 5 Units

The social studies unit is split into 5 units: World Lakes, United States Geography, England and the Golden Age, Westward Expansion, and the Civil War. Like Life Science below, Social Studies is separated by class, with Ms. Grass and Ms. Avakian teaching different units for the first 3 units. 

We switch each trimester, and after all classes have learned the first 3 units in each class, they return to their homerooms and spend the rest of the year learning about Westward Expansion and the Civil War. 

Life Science - 12:15pm - 12:45pm

Trimesterly - 5 Chapters

The science curriculum is split 3 ways between myself, Ms. Grass, and Ms. Avakian, who teach Physical Science and Earth Science respectively.  Students in my homeroom will complete this portion of their fifth grade science education within the first Trimester, and will then transition to one of the other two fifth grade classes during our science hour to learn  the other subjects. 

In Life Science, students will learn how to classify a living thing, understand how ecosystems work, get a basic grasp on evolution, and find out how our body systems work together to keep us alive.

Math - 1:40pm - 2:50pm

Year Round 

The Math curriculum covers a wide range of things, which would not be very reasonable to put here in full. Rest assured that students will come away from this year fully capable of taking on what middle school math has to offer.