Important Dates & Reminders

• Sign-ups for conferences will be coming soon!
• After-school club sign-up forms due October 10th.
• Make sure to download and use the TalkingPoints app to communicate with teachers and receive information from the school

What are we learning?

Language Arts

• Students are learning and developing vocabulary words
• Asking questions about the text they are reading.
• Students are reading and analyzing informational text.
• Students are writing notes on facts and details from source texts.
• Students are finding key details and supporting details that lead to the main idea of text.
• They are writing essays based on prompts. 

Math

• Students are learning about integers - positive and negative whole numbers.
• They are learning that integers can represent real-world situations and how to compare to integers
• Students just started learning how to graph integers on a number line
• 7th grade math students are learning about scientific notation and how it is used to write very large and very small numbers.

Science

• We just started a unit on astronomy
• Students learned about how improvements in technology have allowed people to explore and learn more about the cosmos.
• Students will be learning about planets, gravity, and how other astronomical objects affect us on earth.

Social Studies

• Students have been studying about civilizations that were impacted by European colonization of North America
• These include several Native American groups and West African Empires.

Questions to ask your child at home.

6th graders aren’t always excited to share information with parents. General questions like “What did you learn today?” or “How was your day?” often lead to one word answers. Instead try to be more specific. Try to have a conversation instead of an interrogation. Here are some suggestions. 

• What is one new thing you learned in math today?
• What was the best moment of your day? Why?
• What was the worst moment of your day? Why?
• Who did you play with during recess? What did you do?
• What do you wonder about when looking at the night sky?
• What did you learn in ELA today?