Laker News
5th/6th February Newsletter
Important Dates/Reminders
February 11th and 13th: Parent/Teacher Conferences
February 17th: No School
Student Council News
Science
5th Grade
Fifth graders will return to science on February 18th. We will stay in science for the remaining 2 quarters of the year until testing time in March!
6th Grade
Sixth graders are continuing to explore the microscopic world of cells. We are learning about the different structures of plant and animal cells, as well as, how cells continue to stay alive. We are discovering that, at a cellular level, human are really not that much different from a household plant. WOW!
Social Studies
5th Grade
The Fifth Graders have been working hard learning lots of new information about how and why people from the Eastern Hemisphere began exploring and colonizing the Western Hemisphere. We will wrap up Social Studies together for the third quarter around February 14th.
6th Grade
The 6th Graders will be returning to me around the 18th of February, at which point we will wrap up the last two of our world religions, Hinduism and Buddhism. From there we will begin our investigations into the Ancient Civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China!
Math
5th Grade
In Chapter 7, and 8, 5th grade students will learn to multiply, and divide fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators using models and/or equations to represent the problem.
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6th Grade
In Chapter 8, students continue to build algebraic fundamentals by writing, understanding, and solving equations and inequalities with one variable. They learn to identify solutions to a variable equation, and build on their knowledge of evaluating algebraic expressions when they check a solution to an equation by substitution. Students use models and inverse operations to solve equations with single operations. They begin to write, interpret, and graph inequalities representing real-world or mathematical problems that consist of a comparison of an isolated variable and a single number.
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
5th GRADE ELA
Students in the fifth grade will be working on literary themes this month of February. We will be talking about "The-message" found in stories that we read. We will also begin some grammar practice with Perfect Verb tenses.
Our students will need to work quite a bit on answering multiple choice questions which require them to go back into the reading passage and analyze.
Reading passages and writing informative essays will be continued throughout the month.
6th GRADE ELA
The sixth grade students will be working on Expository essays this month. Students will be given several reading passages and a prompt that will require them to choose information that answers the question posed in the prompt.
Figurative Language will be a skill-focus this month as we look further in poetry , in the upcoming weeks.