Mid-Week Update (9/18/19)

Things have been pretty great so far for our 6th graders as we settle into the daily schedule and start to dig deeper into our content areas.

ELA (English Language Arts): We are reading Seedfolks and building character studies for each of the characters (one person is introduced per chapter). Our students are learning how to evaluate the text to determine character traits and use inferences to understand the backgrounds and world-views of the characters.

Math: We are studying Ratios, Unit Rates and Ratio Tables this week. The classwork and homework is primarily focused on being able to use division to find a unit rate from a rate, and then use multiplication to scale that rate back up.

Example: 18 miles in 3 hours can be converted to 6 miles in 1 hour using division, which then can scaled back up to find that you could travel 30 miles in 5 hours.

Social Science: We are studying the transition that early humans made from being hunter-gatherers to agricultural civilizations. This week is focused on studying prehistoric cave art and how we learn about the lives and values of these early people through these important, often sacred, expressions of identity.

By the way, tomorrow is the last PALINDROME day of the century - please as your student if they can explain this to you!