Social Studies Notes Week(s) of: Feb. 8th & 15th

Over the course of this week and next week we'll be finishing up our first unit of the semester on The Beginnings of Human Society & Mesopotamia.  This week the assignments that are due will be as follows:

Mon--I collected Social Studies notebooks to grade students "Prehistory" chart, which is in their notebooks

Tue--Ch. 1 Sec. 3 Assignment due

Wed.--Ch. 2 Sec. 1 Assign. due

Thurs--1/2 - 1 page essay on 2 biography articles we read in class (1st Common Assessment--we'll do 3 of these types of essays this semester)

Next week we'll have the following assignments due:

Mon--Ch. 2 Sec. 2 & 3 Assign.  (we'll complete this in class on Fri & Mon.)

Thurs--Mesopotamian Poster Project will be due (project completed in small groups in class)

Fri--Ch. 2 Sec. 5 Assignment due

**This will set us up for our 1st unit test around the middle of the following week (Feb. 24th)**

Science News- Week of Feb. 8th

Monday: Research/Poster about Famous Scientist

Tuesday: Pendulum Lab part 2

Wednesday: Graphing/Conclusion for Pendulum Lab

Thursday: Density/Buoyancy Notes and Demonstration

Friday: Lifeboat Lab part 1

Art -3rd quarter

Hello 3rd quarter art students and families!
We began the quarter learning and discovering a lot about the Elements and Principles of Design. We will continue this theme throughout the quarter (it's assessment standard 2!).

Now we are applying the Elements and Principles to mini-projects. Today, students finished drawing 3 forms with one light source using 3 different kinds of value. Tomorrow, we will move on a grid drawing; a method of drawing that helps keeps proportions accurate.

Math News Week of February 8th

This week is an exciting week in 6th grade math, as we will be starting our Blueprint Projects on Monday. In the project, students will be designing a building of their choice on grid paper. Accurately measuring all of the angles and wall lengths will be important, as we will then enlarge our buildings (to scale) onto poster board. Here is a look at some of the due dates and upcoming assignments. The blueprint due dates are flexible, so check back for updates as we start working on these!

Due 2/11 Mid-Chpt Pg 466 #1-18

Due 2/11 Blueprint Blueprint Project Grid Paper

Due 2/13 Lesson 3A-B A: Pg 470-473 #1-19 odds, 35, 43-49 odds

ELA news week of Feb. 8

Nightly homework:  Students should be reading their February book as daily homework.  We will be adding mythology books to the mix next week when we start literature circles.  They will be able to do the reading for those books in class, so it is important for them to keep reading their February book at home!

Monday:  Literature circle, week 1 paragraph
Tuesday: Lit circle work time, comparing with more and most
Wednesday: Literature circle, vocabulary sort
Thursday: Lit circle work time, proper adjectives
Friday: Literature circle

Social Studies News: Week of 2/1

This week in Social Studies we will be finishing up our Map Skills review by discussing the different types of maps in our atlas and getting practice using our atlas to read a variety of different maps.  Then, we'll get into our 1st unit which is on the First Civilizations.  We'll have a few assignments that will be in class assignments this week.  They'll be attached into the student's Social Studies notebooks in the first section.  You will also see those assignments in the Infinite Campus Portal.

Tues-Ch. 1 Sec. 1 Assign. in class (due on Wed.)

Wed & Thurs.--Prehistory Chart (in student's notebooks) from Ch. 1 Sec. 2

Thurs. & Fri--Ch. 1 Sec. 3 Assign. "First Civilizations"

Science News- Week of Feb. 1st

Monday: Metric System Write Up, Conversion Notes/Practice

Tuesday: Metric Conversion Quiz, Scientific Method Activity

Wednesday: Benchmark 1, Penny Lab/Conclusion

Thursday: Pendulum Lab Part 1

Friday: Pendulum Lab Part 2