Important Dates & Reminders

• Field Trips: Thinkabit Lab

  • March 15- Nelson

  • March 16- Culliton

  • March 22- Karim

Note: We will need at least 5 chaperones to attend each class. Admission is free and students may order lunches through the school.

Language Arts

What We Learned This Past Month:

We have been working diligently to complete a research paper over a chosen student topic. Students have learned to find credible, reliable internet sources, paraphrase not plagiarize, organize their notes, create an outline, and end with a research essay to show their learning. Students are emerging in nonfiction texts to support their writing and learning citations for sources found. 

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

Students will be beginning their historical fiction unit for writing. Students will be creating journal entries, diaries, letters from the perspective of someone during a chosen historical time period. Students will be working on developing factual elements while growing their characters throughout their project. Students will also be beginning book clubs again this month!

Math

What We Learned This Past Month:

The students learned how to graph points on the four quadrants of the coordinate plane. Students also learned about congruence of segments, angles and polygons. Students explored graphing polygons on a coordinate plane and designed a city using parallel, intersecting, and perpendicular lines.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

In this unit, the students will work with variables, write expressions, solve expressions, solve one-step linear equations and inequalities, and graph inequalities on a number line. A key concept is the consideration of equations as balanced systems. Additionally, they will explore inequalities as imbalanced systems.

Advanced Math 

What We Learned This Past Month:

This past month, the students developed an understanding of functions by connecting this unit to previous units on rational numbers and proportions.  They learned to determine the slope, m, as a rate of change of a line in a proportional relationship as well as the y-intercept, b, in an additive relationship.  The students are also able to make connections between the four different representations of functions (Rule of Four); verbal description, equation, table, and graph.  

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

Our next unit is on Triangles and Quadrilaterals. Students continue to explore the concept of proportionality in relation to shapes. They will learn that for figures to be similar they must have corresponding angles which are congruent and corresponding sides which are proportional. Students will utilize proportional reasoning strategies they have refined during other units to solve problems (including practical problems) involving similar quadrilaterals and triangles.

Science

Our current science unit is on Water.  We have been learning about how atoms and molecules make all matter around us,  the connections between water resources and agriculture, power generation, and public health dictate the need for water conservation, that Water has unique chemical properties that make it essential to life. Students will be taking all of their knowledge to create a Public Service Announcement about how and why to conserve and monitor their water usage.

Social Studies

What We Learned This Past Month:

We finished our unit on the Revolutionary War. The students learned 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. We finished the unit by creating posters to encourage colonists to join the loyalists, patriots or neutralists.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

Our next Social Studies will be on the building of a New Nation. Students will explain the outcomes of the first Constitution of the United States established by the Articles of the Confederation, describe the historical development of the Constitution of the United States, explore the connections between liberty and slavery in the ideas and lives of the Framers of the Constitution, and describe the major accomplishments of the first five presidents of the United States.