Our class will begin our Unit 2 ELA curriculum on Oct. 15th.
Each unit has an essential question that students reflect upon as they read excerpts from different texts.
Math Concepts
In math, we are currently working on a number of fundamental concepts, such as:

- Greatest Common Factors
- Least Common Multiple
- Ratios
- Creating Equivalent Ratios
- Solving word problems with ratios and rates
- Writing Expressions with one variable
- Solving expressions with on variable
- Exploring units of measurement

All of the above skills will enable us to get to work on our math project:  building scale sized roller coasters where 1/4"= 1'
Unit 1 was completed on Oct. 12 and we learned about a variety of different types of government.  We also had an opportunity to create a problem solution essay as well as an argument essay.
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