As we look to the 4th quarter, we will begin reviewing for SOLs. All 6th graders will be taking the Grade 6 Language Arts Test and either the Grade 7 or Grade 6 Math test. We encourage students to review at home, along with reviewing in school. We encourage students to use SOL Pass to review reading and math content from this year. 

1. Go to https://www.solpass.org/login/  and click “log in”. 
2. Type in the first few letters of the school name to shorten the list. If you do not already know the password, you can ask your teacher!
3. To practice Math Select “Middle School” then “Math grades 6-8”
4. To practice Language Arts Select “Middle School” then “Reading grades 6-8”

Important Dates & Reminders

• April 26- Reading SOL

• May 10- Math SOL

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:

We have been working with variables, writing expressions, solving expressions, solving one-step linear equations and inequalities, and graphing inequalities on a number line. A key concept is the consideration of equations as balanced systems. Additionally, they have explored inequalities as imbalanced systems.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

In this unit, students build a conceptual understanding of proportional relationships and unit rates. Students make connections between various representations

such as verbal descriptions, ratio tables, and graphs. Students will explore proportional relationships in practical situations by using ratio tables. The use of ratio tables is to help students develop a conceptual understanding of the multiplicative relationship of proportions. Students will also visually represent proportional relationships using graphs. The use of tables and graphs builds students' pre algebra skills as proportional relationships helps develop the understanding of the slope of a line which will be explored further in Mathematics 7.

Advanced Math 

What We Learned This Past Month:

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

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

The focus of the next unit will be Probability of Random events. In this unit, students will study probability to represent the likelihood of something happening using rational numbers. Students will compare theoretical and experimental probabilities as represented by rational numbers and connect those probabilities to the Law of Large Numbers.

Science

What We Learned This Past Month:

We have completed our science unit on Water.  We learned 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, and that Water has unique chemical properties that make it essential to life. Students took all of their knowledge to create a Public Service Announcement about how and why to conserve and monitor their water usage.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month:

Our next science unit will be on Energy and its uses. Students will investigate and understand basic sources of energy, their origins, transformations, and uses. They will investigate and understand that all matter is made up of atoms, and investigate and understand public policy decisions relating to the environment.

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: 

We have started our next Social Studies unit on A New Nation. Students are learning to 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.