Here's what's happening this week:
- MAP testing - students are completing Math Map testing this week. PLease make sure students are charging Chromebooks at home each night, so they are ready for testing and regular class use.
- 6th Grade Overture Center Field Trip - Buses will leave school at 9:15 AM and return around 11:30 AM. Students who get school lunches have had lunch orders placed for them.
- Please make sure you check Infinite Campus regularly for missing assignments in all classes. Missing assignments can be viewed in Infinite Campus by clicking on the Assignments tab and searching current and past assignments.
This week we will be sending home Permission forms for our 2nd 6th Grade Field Trip to Aldo Leopold. TOWE & GOTTSACKER homerooms on Oct. 29th, HUBERTY homeroom on Oct. 23. This is a day of team building and nature field studies.
Science -
This week students are continuing our study of the Human Microbiome. We are beginning to collect data showing that healthy fecal bacteria transplants can work to cure patients infected with harmful bacteria without harming the patient's gut microbiome like antibiotic treatments. Students are reading several short articles about different kinds of bacteria to support their investigations. They are analyze pie charts and other data from several different studies related to the effects of antibiotics and fecal bacteria on the microbiome. In addition, they are being introduced to the practice of scientific argumentation and to a number of routines and supports for working with claims, evidence, and reasoning. In the end, they put will all of their findings together to write scientific arguments supporting the use of fecal bacteria transplants.
Social Studies -
In our study of Chapter 4 - The Rise of the Sumerian City-States we are learning about how the people of Sumer overcame a number of geographic challenges in order to build successful cities in the southern plains of Mesopotamia.
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