September 28th - October 2nd

Welcome

Welcome to the Sun Devils Blog. We will be using this blog as a distribution site for information to parents and students relative to assignment due dates, notes, articles, and videos to enhance classroom instruction. We hope you find this blog helpful in ensuring your student's success.

Math

Students are learning how to find Greatest Common Factor using prime factorization and Venn Diagrams. Ask them to show you how to do it!!!

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Social Studies

Students are learning about the Five Themes of Geography:

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They have each been assigned a National Park to create a foldable listing the Five Themes of Geography for their park. There is a rubric and students have been doing research in class.

Science

Students have been learning about feeding relationships between many different consumers and producers within an ecosystem. This relationship shows how organisms receive their energy.

On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 the sixth grade will be walking to Look Park to participate in a grade wide tag game of Predator - Prey to learn about predator and prey relationships.

Objectives:

• Identify and find prey
• Describe the role of camouflage for predator and prey
• Discuss the role of predator-prey relationships