Content Infomation - Snider/Miller

Below we will share specific information about what is happening in each content area.
Over the course of the year we will look back and 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!

Big ideas Maths - 6th 

Students are continuing to work on Chapter 6 - Integers and the Coordinate Plane this week. Students will order integers (whole numbers, both positive and negative), and rational numbers (fractions, and decimals) on number lines they create this week. They will take the mid-chapter quiz on Tuesday. During the second half of the chapter students will plot both positive and negative values on a coordinate plane. They will learn about the four different quadrants, how to construct a coordinate plane, and how to plot values. 

Big Ideas Maths - A1 

Work in Chapter 14 - Ratios and Proportions has wrapped up. Students will complete the Chapter Review on Monday and on Tuesday they will take the end of chapter assessment. On Wednesday they will start Chapter 15 - Percents.

Reading

Our current read aloud is, Unstoppable Us: How Humans Took Over the World by Yuval Noah Harari. It's a wonderful fit for both our students' science and social studies learning. 

Research on their self-selected organism will wrap up this week. 

Students' reading notebooks were collected on Friday. They will get them back hopefully by the end of this week. 

SOcial studies || Science

Last week students investigated the physical geography of Ancient Egypt. To do so, they mapped key landforms and read closely through a Newsela article and textbook chapter to explain how the seasons impacted civilization in Ancient Egypt. This week students will identify key details about the four main historical periods of Ancient Egypt: Early Dynastic Period, Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom. Then they'll examine how the people of Nubia and Egypt influenced each other.  

Everyday Mathematics - 5th

Last week students focused on adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators and multiplying fractions by whole numbers. This week students will work towards understanding and eventually applying an algorithm for fraction multiplication. Students will wrap up Unit 5 the following week. The Unit 5 Assessment will take place on Friday, February 10th. 

Writing/Expedition

This week students will tap into the informational writing skills they learned last unit to draft a series of paragraphs focused on the organism they've been researching. 

Crew

This week during crew students will continue to review and read short excerpts from An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare. We will use the examples as mentor texts to show our students how one author has combined many facts about individual organisms into interesting, engaging paragraphs. 

Second Step / SEL

This week students will continue working through Unit 3 - Thoughts, Emotions & Decisions. This week we will learn more about the link between Emotions and the Brain. 

In Unit 3 students learn how to recognize strong emotions and unhelpful thoughts, and they learn to apply strategies for managing their emotions and reducing stress. This unit’s content helps students understand that all emotions are valuable because they provide us with information about our environment. Students learn to respond to their emotions in ways that help meet their wants and needs.
The goals of this unit include students being able to:

• Assess when and why they are feeling a strong emotion
• Recognize that all emotions are okay, and that how they decide to respond can have positive or negative impacts on their lives
• Apply a strategy for emotion management that is best for them, based on context

Spanish - from Profe Hildebrand

¿Qué hemos aprendido? What have we learned?Students read a story in Spanish! Throughout the story students were asked and answered comprehension questions in Spanish. This story is the prequel of events to why Justin had to sing "Maestro puedo ir al baño, ¡por favor!" If you have not heard this song in your home yet, ask your scholar about it! Coming up, scholars are working on expressing their self interest and inquiring information from others.

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

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Just a few photos...

First day of school, unpacking supplies.

Looking to the south side of the classroom.