Important Dates

• Winter Break - December 20th to December 31st

Language Arts

What are we learning?

• The student will adjust their thinking based on how the author presents and organizes information in order to understand the information and messages the author is communicating.
• Understand that authors bring experiences, cultural influences, and ideas to their writing; no text is neutral.
• Understand that critical literacy is a way to read the world and develop agency.
• Understand that news reporters are impartial observers whose role it is to communicate the essential verifiable facts about current events.
• Understand that journalists are responsible for incorporating multiple perspectives into the story.

Home/School Connection

Ask your student the following questions:

• What are other perspectives on this topic?
• How can my decisions as a writer impact the reader’s understanding?
• What power do you have as a reader?
• What is newsworthy?
• How is information discovered and verified?

Math

What are we learning?

• The student will learn to apply positive and negative numbers to real-world contexts and to identify and represent integers.
• The student will learn about the absolute value of an integer.

Home/School Connection

• Have your student share with you how they compare and order rational numbers.
• Help your student to identify positive and negative whole numbers outside of school.

Science

What are we learning?

• The distribution of solar energy throughout the atmosphere and on Earth’s surface causes change in weather and climate.
• The relationships between air pressure, humidity, and temperature drive predictable weather patterns.
• Earth’s atmosphere has a specific composition, but it can be changed by natural and human causes, which impacts weather and climate.
• Weather follows predictable patterns based on scientific evidence, and these patterns impact living things

Home/School Connection

Ask your student the following questions:

• What causes weather?
• Why is it important for us to understand the relationship between patterns and weather phenomena?
• How does solar energy interact with Earth and its atmosphere? 
• How does solar energy impact weather and climate?

Social Studies

What are we learning?

• The student will describe religious and economic events/conditions that led to the colonization of America.
• The student will determine the economic relationships between the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies as a result of their geographical location.

Home/School Connection

• Ask your child to describe to you what led to the colonization of America. 
• Ask your child how interdependence works in your family and community..

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!