February Book Orders due Tomorrow!

The deadline for the February Scholastic book order is Thursday, February 15 (by 2:00pm).  Orders can be placed with the paper forms and a check, or online with a credit card.  Orders are all shipped to our classroom and items are sent home with students when they arrive.  To place an order online, go to scholastic.com/newparent and either enter my name (Julie Rogness) or enter our class code (P69TG). 
Thank you! 

Social Studies News Week of: Feb. 12th

This week in Social Studies we'll be finishing up our Mesopotamia Unit.  We've got 2 assignments due this week, both on Wed: our Mesopotamia Culture Poster and Ch. 2 Sec. 5 assignment.  These should be able to be completed in class.  We should be having our unit test on Friday, Feb. 16th.  Students will be getting a study guide that will help focus their studying on Wednesday.

Parents: * Ask to see your student's Social Studies notebook.  We attach completed assignments into our notebook as well as notes in the first 3 sections of their 5 subject notebook.  The 4th section is reserved for Key Terms from our current unit and the 5th section contains our Daily Journal Questions.  Reviewing their SS notebook will give you a very good idea how they're doing so far this quarter.  Also, grades are being posted on Infinite Campus, so be sure to check in with how they're doing on there too! 

Here are a couple of resources you may find helpful:

Social Studies class syllabus

6th Grade Social Studies Reporting Standards

Science News- Week of Feb. 12th

This week, we will be wrapping up our Matter and Chemistry Unit with our final Chemistry demonstration projects and our atoms and elements test.

Monday: Balancing Chemical Equations Lesson and Activities

Tuesday: Balancing Chemical Equations Practice

Wednesday: Chemistry Demonstration Projects

Thursday: Chemistry Demonstration Projects, Study Guide

Friday: Atoms and Elements Assessment

ELA News Week of 2/12

Nightly homework:  Read at least 20 min!

Monday: Literature circle 5, argument scavenger hunt
Tuesday: IMC book talks, semicolon usage
Wednesday: Literature circle 6, argument essay planner
Thursday: "Law of the Land" assessment
Friday: Literature circle 7

Pencils

The pencil supply that we had from the beginning of the year has been depleted.  Please check with your child/student to see if they need more pencils to get them through the remainder of the school year.  Many students are resorting to using colored pencils or markers, which is not an ideal situation.  Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Math News Week of 2/5

It has been a great start to our geometry units in 6th grade math! This week, in addition to continuing our Blueprint Projects, we will be exploring properties of quadrilaterals and other polygons. Here is a link to our upcoming assignments.

Due 2/6        Mid-Chpt    Pg 466 #1-18

Due 2/7      Blueprint    Blueprint Project Grid Paper

Due 2/7        Lesson 3A-B    Pg 470-473 #1-19 odds, 35, 43-49 odds

Due 2/8        Lesson 3C     Pg 476-479 #1-15 odds, 19, 31

Due 2/12    Lesson 3D     Pg 483-485 #1-19 odds, 35

ELA News Week of 2/5

Nightly homework:  Read at least 20 minutes!

Monday:  Literature Circle 2, Formal/Informal Style
Tuesday:  Guest Reader, SOW (sentences of the week), Argument Vocabulary
Wednesday: Literature Circle 3
Thursday: Literary Elements Assessment
Friday: Greek/Latin Word Part Sort, Literature Circle 4