Math Tests are coming home today. Please review the test with your child and help them make corrections that are needed. Students that did not meet the level 3 expectation will have a retest on Friday. Please sign the test or rubric and send it back to ensure that you have seen their test.
Our next unit in Math is Data Management. We are currently looking at a variety of graphs and analyzing the data, type of graph and information presented. We will be learning how to create appropriate questions so that students can gather primary and secondary data, compare the two and graph the outcomes. Please support your child at home by looking at relevant data and graphs and talking about they are representing.
Literacy:
We have begun our second novel study- The Giver. This will be their first formal essay that will be a comparison between the book and the movie (please do not show them the movie, we will watch it in class after we read the book). Essays will be due on the last Friday before the Christmas break. Most of December will be a step by step writing process that will support them when writing their essays. Feel free to help edit, but not write their essays. Work will be done in class.
While we are reading, students will be responsible for handing in an assignment of their choice every week. The assignment options are in the Literacy google classroom. Please review the assignments with your child, help them create a timeline (or hold them accountable for the timeline that they have already created) so that they can plan their assignments for the next 5 weeks. Assignments are due on every Friday.
Please support at home by asking your child to summarize what they have read about each week/day, what assignment they are working on and using the rubric to guide their effort.
I will also post some discussion questions for the chapters each week. THESE ARE NOT HOMEWORK but can be used as extra work at home if needed!
Chapters 1-7
1. Why might the arrival of a jet be a terrifying experience for the entire community?
2. What do you think might happen to someone who is released from the community?
3. Name one thing you learned about the community from the discussion during the ritual telling of the feelings.
4. What is different about the way children are born and infants are cared for in the community?
5. Why was it so difficult to get rules changed in the community?
6. Why were Gabe's eyes of such interest to Jonas?
7. How did Lily react to the new word "hippo"? Why did she react this way?
8. Why did Jonas risk the humiliation of public chastisement (being disciplined in front of people) for taking an apple from the recreation area?
9. What effect did the pills have on Jonas and the other people who took them?
10. Why do you think all adults were required to take them?
11. Why do you think Birthmothers, or biological mothers, held such a low status in the community?
12. Do you think the lives of the elderly were better or worse than they are in our society today? Give a good reason for your opinion.
13. What two things did the committee consider when giving children their life assignments?
14. What did the family have to do in order for Gabriel to be allowed a second year of Nurturing?
15. What do you think was the difference between release and loss based on the way the community used these words?
16. Nines were given bicycles. What did that signify for them?
Science:
We are coming to the end of our Biodiversity unit (2 more weeks). For the summative assignment, students will need a shoe box. Please start collecting and saving! If you have extra, others can always benefit from them.
Social Studies:
We Are More Poem presentations begin on Thursday Oct. 31
