Important Dates

• Monday, January 17th - Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
• Thursday, January 20th - Second Quarter Ends/Two Hour Early Release
• Friday, January 21st - Teacher Workday/Student Holiday
• Monday, January 24th - Staff Development Day/Student Holiday

Language Arts

What are we learning?

• Understand that responding to poetry through movement, speech, or art, furthers understanding and interpretation.
• Understand that the meaning of a poem is constructed by the poet and the reader interacting with text. In order to uncover the deeper meaning of a poem, readers weigh the author’s perspective with their own.
• Understand that poetic tools reveal images, evoke feelings, and produce sounds to create a message for the reader to interpret.

Home/School Connection

Ask your student the following questions:

• What is the relationship between the poem, the poet, and the reader?
• How can I best invoke the feelings and mood of my poem?

Math

What are we learning?

• Students are learning to add and subtract integers in real world situations. 
• Students are learning to represent integer operations with various models.

Home/School Connection

• Find real life, everyday situations to discuss with your student that involve the adding and subtracting of positive and negative whole numbers.

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. 
• 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.

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!