ELA News week of 10/3

Nightly homework:  Read for at least 20 min!

Monday: Lit circles, learn about Socratic circle discussion
Tuesday: Learn one pager expectations, Scope debate
Wednesday:  One Pager day!
Thursday: Freak the Mighty Socratic discussion
Friday: Imperatives & Interrogatives, weekly reading evidence paragraph

*Mid-quarter grades were posted on 9/28
*Parent-Teacher conferences are Thursday, Oct. 6 and Thursday, Oct. 13.  Appointment times were mailed out last week.  Please contact the school office with any scheduling issues.

Math News Week of 9/26

This week, we began our second unit of math, which focuses on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions. Following is a list of our homework assignments for this week.

Due 9/27 Simplifying Fractions Worksheet

Due 9/28 Pg 15 #1-13 odds, 17-18

Due 9/29 Pg 100-101 #9-19 odds, 29, 31

Due 9/30 Pg 108-110 #9-19 odds, 23, 31

Due 10/3 Pg 114-115 #9-25 odds, 29-33 odds, 37

Science News- Week of Oct. 3rd

Monday: Alternative Fuel Research/Project Work time

Tuesday: Alternative Fuel Research/Project Work time

Wednesday: Alternative Fuel Work time/ Presentations

Thursday: Presentations, Chemistry Unit Intro

Friday: Introduction to the Periodic Table, Elements, and Atoms

ELA News week of 9/26

*Nightly homework:  Read a book of choice for at least 20 min!

Monday: Lit circle, characterization
Tuesday: Characterization, objective summary
Wednesday: Lit circle, reader's theater
Thursday: Scope article & text evidence
Friday: Lit circle, weekly reading evidence paragraph

*Reminder:  School fundraiser forms are due back this Wednesday, September 28!

Science News- Week of Sept. 26th

The 6th graders have been doing an excellent job studying and practicing the Scientific Method, identifying and changing variables through controlled experiments, and analyzing and graphing data. We will continue these skills this upcoming weeks and have our final variable unit test.

Monday: Flipper Investigation part 3, Flipper Conclusion

Tuesday: Variable Study Guide, Review

Wednesday: Variable Unit Test

Thursday: Alternative Energy Mini-Lesson, Ecological Footprint Activity

Friday: Intro and begin research on Alternative Fuel Project

Social Studies News Week of: Sept. 19th

This week in Social Studies we'll be continuing our 1st unit on the First Civilizations and Mesopotamia. Students will have a couple of assignments due this week as well.  I encourage all parents to look at the Parent Portal on Infinite Campus.  All grades should be updated in there as well as missing assignments.  If you haven't done so already, ask to see your child's SS Notebook.  I've collected notebooks once so far this year and the 2nd time will be coming up this week.  Their 5-subject notebook should be organized like this:

* 1st-3rd subjects = Notes/Graded assignments
* 4th subject = Key Terms/Vocabulary (students should have 14-19 words from our first unit in here already)
* 5th subject = Daily Journal Questions that are on the board each day.  Students should be writing the date, the question and their answer in the Journal Question section.

Math News Week of 9/19

This week in 6th grade math we will be finishing up our first unit. The sixth graders have been working hard to master multiplying and dividing with decimals. Early this week we will focus on exponents and multiplying/dividing by powers of ten. Later in the week we will be starting to review for our first chapter test, which will be on Friday. It would benefit all students to spend a little time each night this week, looking back and practicing the types of problems we have done in class and in our assignments!

9/20    Lesson 3A        Pg 63-65 #1-11 odds, 23-33 odds, 39-43 odds, 47-51 odds

9/21    Lesson 3B-3C   Pg 68 #9-25 odds, Pg 72 #9-19 odds

9/22    Study Guide    Pg 79-81 #9-19 odds, 27-43 odds, 49-55 odds, 59-61 odds

9/23    Chapter One Test in class