6th Grade Newsletter

March 9, 2021

By 6th Grade Team
6th Grade
March 09, 2021

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?

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!