Content Infomation - O'MALLEY/Miller

Below is specific information about what is happening in each content area.
Over the course of the year we will use this page to look back and forward to help provide you with some context for what your student is learning and when they are being evaluated.

You are encourage to look at their assignment notebook to better understand their homework responsibilities too!

illustrative mathematics - 6th

Students are more than half-way through unit 4. On Monday they will take a CheckPoint, a mini assessment to help them notice their areas of strength while guiding my instruction. This week they will focus on solving equations with exponents and finding the volume of cubes. 

They will receive a new homework packet for the week on Monday. You should see your student complete their maths homework each night, except Thursday, when they will take the maths portion of the FastBridge assessment.

Unit 4: Equations and Expressions. Throughout this unit students will:

• solve equations with a variable,
• justify whether two expressions are “equivalent” (or equal),
• use the distributive property to write equivalent algebraic expressions,
• evaluate (solve) expressions with whole-number exponents,
• interpret and write expressions with exponents 2 and 3 to represent area or volume,
• use order of operations to determine if numerical expressions are equal,
• create a table, graph, and equation to represent the relationship between two quantities,
• identify the independent and dependent variables in a situation.

The Family Resource is below. If you'd like a copy printed for at home use, please let Amy know. 

Unit 4: Equations and Expressions || Family Resources
Unit 5: Proportional Relationships || Family Resources
Unit 6: Percent Increase and Decrease || Family Resources
Unit 7: Rational Numbers || Family Resources
Unit 8: Data Sets, Distributions and Sampling || Family Resources
Unit 9: Bringing it All Together

ELA - reading and writing

Students will wrap up their work in the second unit early this week. There are two parts to the end of unit assessment: writing a literary analysis essay and a fluency assessment. 

On Monday each student will finish their own literary analysis essay about an excerpt of The Most Beautiful Roof in the World. Following the structure of a model essay, this analysis will focus on the use of concrete and sensory language and describe what it helps the reader understand. Their essay will include an introduction, two proof paragraphs, and conclusion. On Tuesday they will give and receive peer feedback, and apply peer feedback to revise and finalize their written work. 

Throughout this week we will listen to each student read a specific section from our mentor text, The Most Beautiful Roof in the World. This past week they have been practicing reading out loud with a partner each day.

Later in the week we will kick off unit 3 - during which they will write their own narrative essay as if they are in a rainforest. 

Crew

Our students shared their most meaningful and heartfelt appreciations yet this year on Friday! Working with a partner has definitely held students accountable and helped them to deepen their understanding of what makes an appreciation stand out. 

This will be the last week students work with a partner. Next week students will return to developing their own appreciation. 

EUreka Math² - 5th

On Friday your student received their graded Module 3 Assessment and feedback form. They should correct their errors and return the assessment and feedback form by Tuesday.

Last week students kicked off Module 4 Topic A: Understanding Decimal Numbers with Place Value and Fraction Thinking. This week students will work to name decimal numbers to thousandths in unit form, fraction form, decimal form, standard form, and expanded form. They'll also work towards multiplying and dividing decimals by powers of 10. The next topic quiz will take place next week Thursday, 1/22.

Here's a link to the family math letter for the first topic, Understanding Decimal Numbers with Place Value and Fraction Thinking. You can find the resource folder for Topic A by clicking on this link. 

Science || Social studies

Last week students reflected on a final supporting question of their inquiry into the story of the "First Thanksgiving" as they explored what else is missing from the story? They also worked in partnerships and triplets to brainstorm potential questions for an upcoming quiz. On Monday students will take home a review packet in order to prepare for a quiz on Thursday, January 15th. The quiz will focus on the following learning targets: 

• I can build background knowledge about the Wampanoag nation and their homelands before English settlers arrived. 
  
• I can examine illustrations and primary sources to learn about key players from Wampanoag and English communities in the early 1600s. 
  
• I can learn how historical actions and events challenged a peace agreement between the Wampanoag and the English. 
  

Second Step / SEL

Students will begin working in Unit 2: Emotional Management. Students learn how to identify emotions in themselves and apply strategies to manage their emotions. Here is the Homelink for families. 

These are the overarching goals:

• Describe a recurring situation in which they typically feel a strong emotion
• Recognize what they can and cannot change about recurring situations in which they typically feel strong emotions
• Describe changes they will make to manage strong emotions the next time the situation occurs

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