Language Arts

What are we learning?

• We are analyzing the effects of poetic devices in a variety of poetic forms
• We are analyzing the choices the poet makes to construct power, position, and perspectives.
• As writers we are deliberately choosing poetic tools to reveal images, evoke feelings, and produce sound.

Home/School Connection

• Ask your child to go over a poem with you to analyze for meaning and the use of poetic devices.
• Ask your child to share a poem that they have created, and share with them the imagery that you got.

Math

What are we learning?

• We are learning to multiply and divide integers. 
• We are learning to use pictures and manipulatives to represent our thinking when multiplying and dividing integers.

Home/School Connection

• How can we use inverse relationships to make sense of division with integers?
• Is this true? How do you know? 
  • 2 x (-5) = -2 x 5

Social Studies

What are we learning?

• We have started our new unit on the New Nation.
• We can explain the outcomes of the first Constitution of the United States established by the Articles of Confederation.
• We can describe the historical development of the Constitution of the United States.

Home/School Connection

• Who are “We the People”?
• How do people's beliefs and values shape how a government is formed?
• Where does freedom come from?
• In what ways might people resolve their differences?
• Did our founders and founding documents protect liberty or slavery?

AAP Content

We will continue exploring the concept of Change and how it connects to our units of study.

Math:

• We are wrapping up our unit on Linear Functions:
  • Students will continue to make connections between different representations of a proportional or additive relationship.
  • They will graph a line representing an additive relationship given an ordered pair on the line and the y-intercept.

Language Arts:

• Students will evaluate character development against their own experiences to create new understandings about life lessons
• Students will analyze and incorporate all parts of functional texts to understand the author’s purpose and to locate and interpret information

Social Studies:

• Students will continue analyzing and describing the forming of our nation and the historical development of the Constitution of the United States

Science: 

• Students will continue investigating and and understanding that water has unique physical properties and has a role in the natural and human-made environments

Table Talk:

• How does my learning community change over time?
• How does my learning about the changes in the past help me understand the present?
• How do organisms, including humans, change the environment they live in?
• How do personal experiences, relationships, and beliefs inspire people to make changes in their community?
• What causes positive, neutral and negative changes in society?
• How does the idea of change connect with the concepts I am learning in class?

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