6th Grade Newsletter
January 24, 2022
Important Dates
- Friday, January 21st - Teacher Workday/Student Holiday
- Monday, January 24th - Staff Development Day/Student Holiday
Language Arts
What are we learning?
- Understand that research is a spiraling process. Curiosity and knowledge drive research, leading to deeper understanding and more questions.
- Understand that published research represents current understanding which continues to develop based on new discoveries.
- Understand that concepts are constructed through a variety of actions and interactions with others.
Home/School Connection
Ask your student the following questions:
- How do researchers use their curiosity to guide their research?
- What implications does my research have on our changing world?
Math
What are we learning?
- Students are learning to multiply and divide integers in real world situations.
- Students are learning to represent integer operations with various models.
Home/School Connection
- Point out negative numbers in the world around us. Talk to your child about what they mean.
- Ask your child what happens when negative numbers are added and subtracted.
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Social Studies
What are we learning?
- Students will explain the political and economic relationships between the colonies and Great Britain.
- Students will be able to explain the issues of dissatisfaction that led to the American Revolution.
- Students will be able to describe how political ideas shaped the revolutionary movement in America and led to the Declaration of Independence.
- Students will be able to explain reasons why the colonies were able to defeat Great Britain.
Home/School Connection
Ask your student the following questions:
- When are ideas worth fighting for?
- How do people resist injustice?
- How do people create lasting, positive change?
- When conflict erupts, how do people decide what to do?
- Do “independence” and “freedom” mean the same to everyone?
AAP Content
We will continue to form generalizations of patterns through our work in each subject area.
- Math
- Students will continue to develop an understanding of and fluency with solving expressions, linear equations and inequalities in one variable by applying the properties of real numbers. We will specifically focus on solving one- and two-step linear inequalities with one variable, including practical problems, involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and graph the solution on a number line.
- Our next unit, Introduction to Functions, begins January 31st.
- Language Arts
- Our focus this unit will be on poetry. Poetry is a powerful, diverse form of text. The choices of form are endless, and it takes more consideration, restraint, and thoughtfulness to write fewer words that have an impactful meaning. As students study multiple forms of poetry, they will learn multiple ways poets play with patterns and change language, words, and technique to make decisions about how to relay their observations and messages about life.
- Social Studies
- In our next unit, students will learn more about the patterns that developed throughout the time of the American Revolution.
- Science
- Students will take a closer look at patterns in the atmosphere. We will explore trends, and interactions within Earth’s atmosphere, as well as the positive and negative impact human behavior may have on weather. We will then connect our learning with the American Revolution. Students will discover how weather systems impacted four important Revolutionary figures.