Important Dates & Reminders

• October 5: Student Holiday, no school for students 
• October 10: Teacher Workday, no school for students 
• October 11: Family Science Night at TLES from 6:00-7:30
• October 24: Student Holiday, no school for students
• October 28: End of Quarter 1, 2 hr. Early Release 
• October 31: Student Holiday and Conferences, no school for students
  • Your student’s teacher will be in touch about signing up for conferences!

Language Arts

What we learned in September:

Reading: 

• We made connections with characters to develop theories about characters’ motivations, relationships, and conflict.  
• We considered multiple points of view within a text.
• We expanded our thinking by hearing the perspectives of other readers in the classroom and built on ideas in our discussions. 

Writing: 

• We wrote memoirs which are true stories from the writer’s life.  We used these stories to communicate a lesson or reflection the author has learned through his or her experience.

What we will be learning in October:

Reading:

We will begin our unit on Critical Literacy. In this unit we will: 

• look carefully at advertisements and media messages
• determine the difference between fact and opinions communicated in media messages. 
• consider what the author wants us to believe.
• think about how different people, ideas, or issues are represented in texts.

Writing:  

• We will be writing persuasive essays that express our ideas or opinions with reasons or evidence. 

Math

What we learned in September:

Students are learning:

• to round decimals through thousandths, rounding to the nearest whole number, tenth, or hundredth.
• To  recognize the name of fractions in their equivalent decimal form and vice versa as well as understanding repeating decimals.
• How to compare and order fractions, mixed numbers, and/or decimals from least to greatest and greatest to least.

Students learned:

• The difference between prime and composite numbers
• How to differentiate between even and odd

What we will be learning in October:

• We will be solving single-step and multistep practical problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers. 

Advanced Math

What we learned in September:

Students are learning:

•  to multiply and divide fractions and mixed numbers
• To solve single-step and multistep practical problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions and mixed numbers.
• To solve multistep practical problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimals.

Students Learned: 

• How to represent relationships between quantities using ratios, and will use appropriate notations.
• How to represent and determine equivalencies among fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, and percents.
• How to determine the unit rate of a proportional relationship and use it to find a missing value in a ratio table.

What we will be learning in October:

Students will be learning:

• To compare and order positive rational numbers and identify and represent integers
• How to compare and order integers
• How to identify and recognize absolute value of integers
• How to recognize and represent patterns with whole number exponents and perfect squares.

Science

What we learned in September:

We are wrapping up our unit about Force and Motion! 

Students are learning:

To investigate and understand that there is a relationship between force and energy of moving objects.

 

• To understand that the conservation of energy resources is important
• How to investigate to understand that energy can take many forms.
• To demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering processes

What we will be learning in October:

*we will be finishing up our force and motion unit* then, students will begin learning about Landforms!

Students will:

• identify and describe the layers of the earth and how they interact.
• describe how changes in Earth’s crust cause earthquakes and volcanoes.
• describe the rock cycle and how rock types can change.
• make a connection between Earth’s history and fossil evidence.
• determine the effects of human impact on Earth’s landforms and how it can be controlled

Social Studies

What we learned in September:

The students learned to demonstrate responsible citizenship, both online and offline and worked to

• construct an understanding of the Student Rights and Responsibilities, including Digital Citizenship (PRS 3)
• show respect for rules and laws while collaborating, compromising, and participating in classroom activities (PRS 3)

The student worked to understand the significance of  Constitution Day and the establishment of a new American nation through the ideas of the United States Constitution.

What we will be learning in October:

We will continue developing our understanding of word history and geography by studying early civilizations.

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