Maple Park 6B Newsletter
January 9, 2015
Social Studies--Mrs. Barron
Students will be doing a research assignment using the iPads that covers the major religions of the world. This unit helps students understand what religions were practiced by the Ancient Civilizations that we learn about in class. After the World Religions Unit, we will be moving on and learning about the people, geography and achievements of Ancient China.
English Language Arts--Mrs. Swisher
This week, we are finishing up our novel study over the book, Wringer. We will finish the book with a summative assignment called a Character Map. We will work on this project next Monday-Wednesday, and then on Thursday, we will begin our research unit over the new Seven Wonders of the World. We will be utilizing the “new” MacBook Pros, so our kids are very excited about that!
Please make sure that your child is reading at least 10-15 minutes per night, and also encourage he/she to complete her/his SSR summary at home, if they are not completing them at school.
Math--Mrs. Finger
TOMORROW IS THE TEST OVER PROPORTIONS AND RATIOS! A STUDY GUIDE IS COMING HOME TONIGHT!
Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, credits/debits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation
· I can identify an integer and its opposite.
· I can use integers to represent quantities in real world situations.
I can explain where zero fits into a situation represented by integers.
Understand a rational number as a point on the number line. Extend number line diagrams and coordinate axes familiar from previous grades to represent points on the line and in the plane with negative number coordinates.
a. Recognize opposite signs of numbers as indicating locations on opposite sides of 0 on the number line; recognize that the opposite of the opposite of a number is the number itself, e.g., –(–3) = 3, and that 0 is its own opposite.
b. Understand signs of numbers in ordered pairs as indicating locations in quadrants of the coordinate plane; recognize that when two ordered pairs differ only by signs, the locations of the points are related by reflections across one or both axes.
c. Find and position integers and other rational numbers on a horizontal or vertical number line diagram; find and position pairs of integers and other rational numbers on a coordinate plane.
· I can identify a rational number as a point on a number line and plot that number and its opposite and recognize that they are equidistant from zero.
· I can find the opposite of any given number including zero.
· I can plot a point on a number line or coordinating plane and read that point from a number line or a coordinate plane.
· I can reason that a double negative is the opposite of that number itself.
· I can plot a number and its opposite on a number line and recognize that they are equidistant from zero.
· I can use the signs of the coordinates to determine the location of an ordered pair in the coordinate plane.
· I can reason about the location of two ordered pairs that have the same values but different signs.
· I can plot a point on a number line or coordinate plane.
I can read a point from a number line or a coordinate plane