Content Infomation - Snider/Miller

Below we have shared specific information about what is happening in each content area.
We will look back a bit and look forward to help provide some context for what your student is doing.
You are encourage to look at their assignment notebook to better understand their homework responsibilities too! Thank you.

Big ideas Math - 6th and A1 Groups

Our 6th grade group have begun the FINAL chapter - Chapter 10 - Data Displays. They received their Chapter 9 assessment on Friday and should ask an adult for a signature as well as complete corrections this weekend. This next week students will take the mid-chapter quiz on Wednesday*. 

Our A1 group received their Chapter 10 assessment on Friday for you to sign. Students began Chapter 14 (Ratios and Proportions) on Friday. Their mid-chapter quiz will be on Wednesday*. They have one more chapter, Chapter 15 (Percents) to accomplish! 

*Math will be shifted to 11-12 pm to accommodate our trip to SIS on Wednesday. 

Reading

Students will continue to work on their reading response entries. In class we investigated archetypes, plot devices and settings of speculative fiction and mysteries. Upcoming we will investigate historical fiction and narrative nonfiction. We expect/encourage our fifth graders to have read at least five different genres and our sixth graders six different genres over the course of the school year.

During class Mrs. Miller will complete running records with students each day as well. 

Our final read aloud is an anthology, The Hero Next Door. We are using this book to introduce new authors and practice noticing the different genres and their unique features.  

Crew

Last week students used the Lake Bluff Code of Character Continuum to set a goal focused on perseverance. This week they'll have an opportunity to share their goal with a group of peers and their reasoning behind it.

Later on this week, students will read and share reactions to Aram Kim's new picture book, Let's Go to Taekwondo! A Story About Persistence, Bravery, and Breaking Boards. 

Everyday Mathematics

This week students will apply their understanding of patterns and coordinate grids in order to use rules, tables, and graphs to model real world situations.

​After this week, students will have one final lesson to go in Unit 7! They'll take the Unit 7 Assessment (Multiplication of Mixed Numbers, Geometry, Graphs) on Wednesday, May 26th. 

Writing

Students in Mrs. Miller's cohort are working feverishly on their Passage presentation (both the written reflection as well as the slide deck). This next week students will finalize both pieces and practice, practice, practice in preparation for their presentation on May 25th, 26th, or 27th. (See the email from Mrs. Rasco send on Friday, May 14th for your student's scheduled time.)

Students in Ms. Snider's cohort identified 3 potential topics and drafted opinion blurbs about them. Then they met in peer feedback groups and shared their work with classmates which helped students identify their final topic. This week they will write a second draft, focusing on weaving in personal experiences and sensory details. 

SOcial studies || Science

Late last week students investigated 4 forms of government (monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny, and democracy) that were present in Ancient Greece between 800 and 500 BCE.

This week students will wrap up their study of Ancient Greece with a focus on culture and religion before shifting to Ancient Rome! 

Here is the website for our Lake Bluff newspaper, The Beagle Times. We encourage you to check out!

The Tournament of Words has concluded! Our students on the North/Miller side voted in the first round - and KAYAK won over ghost. AND IT WENT ALL THE WAY! KAYAK is the 2021 Tournament of Words winner!

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Just a few photos

Spike is our class pet, he/she (?) is a leopard gecko.

North/Miller group.