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Week of November 10-14: Math Homework: Math Minute - Grades 5 & 6, Grades 7 & 8
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Lesson Plans
Each morning, students begin their day with a focused "Do Now" activity designed to ease them into the school day with purpose and calm. Currently, they are practicing cursive writing during this time, building both fine motor skills and cognitive connections. Learning cursive supports muscle memory, improves hand-eye coordination, and strengthens students' ability to read historical documents written in script. It also engages different parts of the brain than print writing, promoting better retention and flow in written expression.
Bullying Prevention Unit
Lesson 2: Bystander Power
Lesson 2: Bystander Power
Why This Lesson Matters
Why This Lesson Matters
One reason students bully is for the effect it has on bystanders. Students can gain social status through bullying by appearing tough or cool, making others laugh, or showing they have power. Because of the power differential in bullying, students who are being bullied have limited power to make it stop. Since there are often social or other rewards for students who bully, it can be hard to change their behavior. But research shows changing how bystanders react can be one of the most powerful ways to reduce or stop bullying. This lesson educates students on the many ways bystanders can help stop bullying. Students learn about the value in thinking about how a bullied student is feeling, the Three Rs of Bullying from the bystander perspective, and what they can do to support fellow students and help stop bullying.
Objectives
Objectives
Students will be able to:
Define "bystander"
Identify ways bystanders can help stop bullying
Identify different ways bystanders can support someone being bullied
Lesson Concepts
Lesson Concepts
Bystanders are people who see or know about bullying happening to others.
Witnessing bullying can trigger uncomfortable feelings.
There are many ways bystanders can help stop bullying.
This week, our class is continuing to work on multiplying decimals! You can help at home by practicing together with everyday examples — such as calculating the cost of several items at the store, figuring out gas mileage, or doubling a recipe. Encourage your child to explain their steps out loud; teaching someone else is one of the best ways to strengthen understanding and confidence!
In sixth grade math this week, we are working on finding a percent of a number and extending that to word problems using percent in tax and discounts. To enforce this skill at home looking through sales pamphlets and shopping during sales. Discussing how you have to find the percent of the tax then add it to the total. When finding discounts to find the percents of a number and then subtract it from the total. Discussing theses differences in real life helps the students remember when to add and when to subtract.
In seventh grade This week in math, students are learning how percentages are used in real-life situations like shopping, comparing prices, and understanding how things increase or decrease in value. We’ve focused on three main ideas: Students are finding how much a quantity increases or decreases and expressing that change as a percent. Example: The price of a jacket went from $40 to $50. What is the percent increase? Students are calculating sale prices using percent-off deals. Example: A $30 shirt is 20% off. What is the sale price?
Students are learning how tax is added to a purchase and how to find the total cost. Example: A $25 item with a 6% tax will cost how much in total.
Ask your child to find discounts or taxes while shopping, online or in-store. Let them calculate the final prices on receipts. You can discuss estimating by estimating totals before calculating exactly. For example, “10% of $40 is $4, so 20% off would be about $8.”
This week, students are learning how to multiply, divide, add, and subtract numbers written in scientific notation—a key skill for working with very large and very small numbers used in science, technology, and real-world data. Families can help at home by pointing out examples in the news or online—like the distance from Earth to the Sun (1.5 × 10⁸ km) or the size of microscopic organisms (2 × 10⁻⁶ m). Making connections helps students see why the notation matters.
Driving question: How can we use our understanding of forces and motion to design a safer, faster, or more efficient solution to a real-world problem?
In Sprint 2 we’ll investigate how pushes and pulls make things move — exploring speed, acceleration, friction, collisions, and Newton’s laws through hands-on experiments and challenges. Students will measure motion, create and test prototypes (think egg-drop, cart collisions, or braking systems), analyze data with simple calculations, and use evidence to improve their designs. By the end of the sprint each team will present a short investigation report and a prototype that shows how they applied force concepts to solve the driving question.
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