Social Studies News Week of: Sept. 14th

This week in Social Studies, we'll have a few assignments that will be completed mainly in class, however if a student does not finish the assignment in class, they'll need to check out a textbook so they can complete the assignment for homework.

Monday-Ch. 1 Sec. 1 Assignment is due.  Students either finished this in class last Friday or needed to complete it for homework over the weekend.

Wed.-"Prehistory" chart was due.  This assignment was completed in each student's social studies notebook. It was then either turned in after class Tuesday or first thing Wed.  The grade can be found on the chart in their notebook.

Thurs.-Ch. 1 Sec. 3 Assign. is due.  Students worked on this in class on Wed. and will complete it on Thursday.

**We've also been working on the Ch. 1 Key Terms in the 4th section of their 5-subject SS notebooks.  You can check to see the important words in our current unit by checking this section of the notebook.

***If your child has math class with me, you can check Mr. O'Connor's math blog as our classes will mirror each other throughout the year***

Science News Week of Sept. 14

Last week, the students did a wonderful job on their Metric quizzes, and we are now into our first unit involving variables. Last Thursday, they were assigned a non-fiction text analysis and summary. If they did not finish this in class, it is due Monday, Sept. 14. This week, we will finish up our first variable lab on pendulums, talk about density, and start our second investigation on lifeboats to continue our understanding of variables.

Monday: Day 2 of Pendulum Variable Lab- Testing Variables
*Non-Fiction Text Analysis is Due*

Tuesday: Day 3 of Pendulum Variable Lab- Graphing and Making Predictions

Wednesday: Pendulum Lab Conclusions, Density Lab

Thursday: Day 1 of Lifeboat Variable Lab

Friday: Day 2 of Lifeboat Variable Lab, Lifeboat Lab Conclusion

ELA News Week of Sept. 14

*Some students did not finish their week 1 reading evidence paragraph in class on 9/11, so they will need to do it over the weekend as homework and turn it in on Monday.

Here is the plan for next week as of now.  Occasionally we end up going faster or slower than expected, but your child will get each day's plan at the start of class, along with any deadlines to write in their assignment notebook. As always, the daily homework is to be reading their September one pager book!

Monday: Text annotation & objective summary (graded, done in class)

Tuesday: Text annotation & discussion (graded)

Wednesday: Questioning strategies, annotation, & discussion (graded)

Thursday: Week 2 paragraph (done in class, graded)

Friday: Objective summary (done in class, graded)

Social Studies News Week of: Sept. 8th

This week in Social Studies, we will be starting our unit on the Beginnings of Human Society.  There will be an assignment to go along with our 1st section that we'll start in class on Thursday.  This will be due in class on Friday.  Students should be able to get it finished during class time.  They're always able to check out a book or an atlas to take home with them if they don't get an assignment finished.

So far, the first week of school, we've been reviewing map skills as this will be an important skill throughout the semester as we tie geography to the places we're studying.  The first assignment to go into the grade book will be Ch. 1 Sec. 1 assignment which will be due on Friday.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions!

ELA News Week of Sept. 7-11

Hello and welcome to 6th grade ELA!  We are settling in to our new routines and getting started on our path to becoming better readers and writers.  I (Mrs. Rogness) will be creating the blog posts each week for ELA (English Language Arts), so if your student has Mr. Johnson, their timeline may vary slightly.

*Ongoing homework:  read a book!

9/8  Practiced revision strategies with our writing

9/9  STAR Reading test

9/10 Point of View

9/11 Text Annotation  Week 1 Reading Evidence Paragraph Due (done in class)

Upcoming Deadline:  September one pager-  9/30

Science News Week of Sept. 7-10

Science is off to a great start! This week we are continuing to learn about the Metric System. We will also talk about the Scientific Process and will begin our first set of labs on variables. Below is an overview of science this week:

Tuesday: Importance of the Metric System Write-Up (in class), Metric conversion practice

Wednesday: Metric System open note quiz, Scientific Process notes/activities

Thursday: Introduction to Variables reading and summary (in class), Penny Lab

Friday: Introduction to Pendulum Lab

Looking forward to another great week!

Math News Week of Sept. 7-10

We are off to a great start in 6th grade math! We now have our textbooks and are ready to get into our math workshop rotations on Tuesday. Our first chapter focuses on operations with decimals and exponents. Here is a look at the assignments we have coming up for the week.

9/9    Lesson 1A    A: Pg 27 #1-21 odds, 39-43 odds

9/11    Lesson 1B-C    A: Pg 34 #11-27 odds, 31, 33

9/14    Lesson 1D-E    A: Pg 40-41 #11-23 odds, 31,  49-57 odds