Important Dates & Reminders

• Please help your student to remember to charge their computer every night at home
• With the colder weather, please send your student with ADDITIONAL layers to wear when we are out at recess
• Students will be sent home with TLES 6th grade graduation t-shirts this month!

Language Arts

What We Learned This Past Month:

This past month, students worked diligently to complete their investigative journalism project. Students were given the choice to create a podcast or a newspaper article, informing the TLES community of important news in the school community. Students worked on developing need to know questions, interviewing peers and adults, synthesizing information and even became editors in the process.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

Students are wrapping up a poetry unit and will be diving into their research unit. This unit will include note taking, paraphrasing, reliable sources, giving credit to various sources, and producing a research format paper. Students will have the freedom to choose a research topic of their choice and will be guided in the steps to becoming a great researcher!

Math

What We Learned This Past Month:

This past month, students worked on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing integers. Students used integer chips and numbers lines to help support these ideas. Students also focused on real world ideas such as money (try using more bank vocabulary with your student), sea level, and football (watch a game together and talk about gaining and losing yards).

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

The students are beginning to work with the coordinate plane. Students will also learn about congruence of segments, angles and polygons. As this unit continues, students will explore graphing polygons on a coordinate plane.

Advanced Math 

What We Learned This Past Month:

This past month, the students developed an understanding of and fluency with solving linear equations and inequalities in one variable by applying the properties of real numbers.  A key concept is the consideration of equations as balanced systems. Additionally, they explored inequalities as imbalanced systems, applying ideas about relationships and the applications of operations with real numbers to uncover the value, or set of values, that a particular variable might be.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

The students will develop an understanding of functions and will connect this unit to previous units on rational numbers and proportions.  They will connect the four different representations of functions (Rule of Four); verbal description, equation, table, and graph.  Many practical situations including science, construction, and business all represent various situations in terms of rate of change.

Science

What We Learned This Past Month:

Our previous unit was focused on weather. We learned about the distribution of solar energy throughout the atmosphere and on Earth’s surface causes change in weather and climate, how the Earth’s atmosphere has a specific composition, but it can be changed by natural and human causes, which impacts weather and climate and the relationships between air pressure, humidity, and temperature drive predictable weather patterns.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

Our Next unit is on Water and we will be learning the connections between water resources and agriculture, power generation, and public health dictate the need for water conservation, that Matter is made up of atoms that interact in a predictable way to form all substances in the universe and that Water has unique chemical properties that make it essential to life.

Social Studies

What We Learned This Past Month:

We have completed our unit on Colonial Life. We learned how to describe religious and economic events/conditions that led to the colonization of America, determined the economic relationships between the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies as a result of their geographical location and  compared and contrasted the multiple perspectives of people whose lives varied greatly within the American colonies: farmers, artisans, merchants, women, free African Americans, enslaved African Americans, indentured servants, and large landowners. 

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

Our next unit will be focusing on the Revolutionary War. The students will be learning about the issues of dissatisfaction that led to the American Revolution and the political and economic relationships between the colonies and Great Britain, how political ideas shaped the revolutionary movement in America and led to the Declaration of Independence and Evaluate people and events that played a role in shaping the revolutionary movement in America.