Important Dates & Reminders

• No school November 4 and 5 due to end-of-quarter teacher workdays
• Report cards will be sent November 7th

What are we learning?

Language Arts

• The students are learning about democracy and other forms of government through reading informative texts.
• The students are distinguishing important and unimportant information about the government in an informative text in their beyond democracy booklet.
• Students will start writing an informative/explanatory essay. 
•  They are identifying a topic to write an informative essay about and are learning to look for credible sources to search for information. 
• They are building their vocabulary by determining domain specific words and comparing them with words that they are using for daily conversation. 

Math

• 6th grade math students are finishing a unit on fraction, decimal, and percent equivalents
• Our next math unit will be graphing points on a coordinate grid
• 7th grade math just finished a unit on order of operations and simplifying expressions
• The next unit will be algebra! Solving equations with variables and graphing inequalities on a number line

Science

• We finished the astronomy unit this week with an exciting project dropping eggs. Ask your child about it.
• In quarter two, we will focus on a weather unit
• Students will learn about weather fronts, tools to measure air characteristics, the atmosphere, and uneven heating and cooling of the earth’s surface.
• We will start this unit in a few weeks after learning about early America and the American Revolution

Social Studies

• This quarter students will learn about the beginnings of our country
• They will learn about European exploration and colonization
• Next they will learn about colonial America
• Finally they will learn about the causes and outcomes of the American Revolution

Questions to ask your child at home.

• Ask them about what they learned in Language arts.
• Ask them how their essay is going, have they started on a topic? Have they started a draft?
• Ask whether they have looked at the moon and what phase it is in.
• What decimal and percent is equivalent to ¼, ⅕, ⅖, etc.