Laker News
5/6th Grade January/February Newsletter
Important Dates:
January
15th- Columbus Blue Jackets Field Trip
21st- No School-MLK Jr. Day
February
18th- No School- President's Day
Science
5th Grade
6th Grade
ELA Grade 5
In our skills area, we are working the function of a conjunction (and correlative conjunctions) and also perfect verb tenses in order to become better writers.
The fifth grade is also working on answering ,higher level thinking questions, that require a written response or ask for Part A and Part B multiple choice response.
We will begin writing informative essays, based on multiple passages. Students are continuing to learn how to focus on the prompt and what it is asking them to do. We have developed a nice formula for using our time efficiently on a writing prompt, by using an outline before typing or writing. Students are practicing their writing, by using cited details to support the information in their essay.
LANGUAGE ARTS
ELA Grade 6
The sixth grade will review "Point of View", in literature. Students are examining how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in text.
Expository essay writing continues to be a focus as students read multiple passages and write informative essays based on a prompt. We will be practicing informative/ explanatory and argument essays for months of January/February/March.
MATH
5th Grade
January and February are all about Fractions! In Chapter 6, 7, and 8, 5th grade students will learn to add, subtract, 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
January and Februarys all about ALGEBRA! Chapter 7, 6th grade students extend their understanding of exponents to other whole number bases. They learn to switch between expressions with exponents and repeated factors. They also apply the order of operations to expressions that include exponents. In this chapter, students build on their knowledge
of numerical expressions to write algebraic expressions and use them in problem solving. Skills learned in Chapter 7 will carry-over into the content of later chapters in Grade 6 when students will explore equations and inequalities as well as the relationships between variables (Chapters 8 and 9).
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