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Welcome to 6th grade! This year, the weekly posts on this website won't be common, but you can still use the VERY useful links/pages! The CPM parent resources is great for those parents that want to know more about what we're learning and how to help their student. The other links will let you know more about 6th grade and Ms Kennell. Make sure you check them out!
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The snow is on its way!! With that in mind, we will probably be remote for 1-3 days this week. If we are remote, students have video calls with their classroom teachers at 8:30 and 10:30, with specials at various other times. All times will be updated on the 6th grade website once the call has been made officially. On remote days, it is especially important to check in with your student and make sure they are getting all of their work completed! Food packs should be coming home with all 6th graders as well for this week.
As a reminder, we are almost halfway through Q3 and some grades are currently rather low. Take a look at grades and missing work, which teachers are trying to keep as updated as possible. Grades are being updated regularly, with Google classroom as an option for grades/missing work as well. The 6th grade website is the best place to look for daily directions, reminders, and updates about learning! This is also where your student should start each day that we are remote or when they are absent for any reason. This week in math, we are working on chapter 5 of CPM, which is all about multiplication and area. This week (as well as some of last week), we've been reviewing multiplying fractions. We will also be starting multiplying mixed numbers today! Over the rest of the week, students will be completing a variety of activities that go along with fraction/mixed number multiplication, as well as converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions (fractions greater than one). If we are remote for part of the week, that review will continue digitally, both during and after our meets. At the end of this post, there will be a list of the homework that is expected to be completed throughout the week. Check it out! You can also see a day by day breakdown of classwork and homework on the 6th grade Google site! This week in science, we are starting our next unit - mutations! This week, students will complete vocabulary and Lesson 1 Animation, which focuses on the mystery of a six toed cat. Towards the end of the week, students will also begin working on Lesson 1 Phenomenon, which is about how and why organisms are genetically modified. Math/Science classwork/homework this week:
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If you have any questions, please reach out and let us know! Let's have a wonderful week! Ms Kennell Welcome back to in person learning again! As we try our best to stay in person, please help us out by reminding your student of the expectations while at school (mask over the nose, at least 3 ft apart, hands/feet to ourselves, wash hands regularly). We are reinforcing these regularly at school, but it doesn't hurt to go over them at home too!
As a reminder, with Q3 still in the early stages, be taking a look at grades and missing work so that no one falls behind early. Grades are being updated regularly, with Google classroom as an option for grades/missing work as well. The 6th grade website is the best place to look for daily directions, reminders, and updates about learning! This is also where your student should start each day that we are remote or when they are absent for any reason. This week in math, we are continuing to focus on reviewing, as well as starting our next CPM chapter. On Monday, we reviewed how to divide decimals with some notes and a quizizz assignment. On Tuesday, students will complete an escape room over multiplying and dividing decimals. We will then start Ch 5 of CPM on Wednesday, which is over multiplying fractions and area. Wednesday we will complete lesson 5.1.1 (representing fraction multiplication) and on Thursday we will complete lesson 5.1.2 (describing parts of parts). Both lessons will have handouts and a Jamboard for those who are learning from home. On Friday, we will complete the homework assignments for those two lessons (5.1.1 and 5.1.2 Review Preview, online if remote). At the end of this post, there will be a list of the homework that is expected to be completed throughout the week. Check it out! You can also see a day by day breakdown of classwork and homework on the 6th grade Google site! This week in science, we'll be finishing our unit on genetic variations! On Monday, students were introduced to their project for Lesson 3: The Engineer - create a hypothetical problem for a race of aliens, as well as a genetic code that would help solve that problem. They will then create a genotype for the alien baby, as well as the two parents. This written work, as well as a family tree, will take Tuesday - Thursday. On Friday, students will take an open note test on the entire Genetic Variation Unit. All work for this unit should be completed by the end of the week. Math/Science classwork/homework this week:
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If you have any questions, please reach out and let us know! Let's have a wonderful week! Ms Kennell I hope everyone enjoyed their day off for MLK Jr Day on Monday! We are back to remote learning for now, due to positive cases. The plan for now is to be remote Tuesday and Wednesday, with students returning on Thursday. If that changes, the district will send out that information to all of us.
As a reminder, with Q3 still in the early stages, be taking a look at grades and missing work so that no one falls behind early. Grades are being updated regularly, with Google classroom as an option for grades/missing work as well. The 6th grade website is the best place to look for daily directions, reminders, and updates about learning! This is also where your student should start each day that we are remote or when they are absent for any reason. This week in math, we are continuing to focus on reviewing last semester. During our video call on Tuesday, students worked with Ms Kennell on an evaluating algebraic expressions escape room! On Wednesday, students will be reviewing ratios with a Desmos Balloon Float assignment, as well as 3 Khan Academy assignments. Then on Thursday and Friday, we will be reviewing dividing multi-digit whole numbers, multiplying decimals, and dividing decimals. Next week, we'll finish any remaining work on those topics before starting our next CPM Chapter. At the end of this post, there will be a list of the homework that is expected to be completed throughout the week. Check it out! You can also see a day by day breakdown of classwork and homework on the 6th grade Google site! This week in science, we'll be continuing our unit on genetic variations! Tuesday - Thursday will be spent finishing Lesson 2: Extension, with most of the work happening in a packet if they were in person last week. On Friday, we'll be doing some intro for our next lesson. Math/Science classwork/homework this week:
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If you have any questions, please reach out and let us know! Let's have a wonderful week! Ms Kennell We survived one day of E-learning already this week! Hopefully we can get all of our quarantined students back quickly too! Grades have started over, and report cards for Quarter 2 were sent home with students on Friday. If your student was absent, they will get it when they return. As a reminder, the 6th grade website is the best place to look for daily directions, reminders, and updates about learning! This is also where your student should start each day that we are remote or when they are absent for any reason.
This week in math, we are continuing to focus on reviewing last semester and working on our teamwork skills! During our video call on Monday, students worked with Ms Kennell on an evaluating algebraic expressions murder mystery! They also completed some Khan Academy assignments over writing expressions with variables. On Tuesday, we will be benchmark testing (if in person) and remote students will be getting a head start on the activities for Wednesday! The hope is that they won't miss anything while they do their makeup testing once back. For in person students, we will be completing another murder mystery on Wednesday (Who Killed Mr X Pression), focusing on writing algebraic expressions, as well as completing a maze activity. On Thursday, students will complete a simplifying expressions escape room and a simplifying expressions riddle. Then on Friday, we will work on evaluating (solving) algebraic expressions again with an escape room and riddle. Next week, we'll do a little more work with expressions before moving on to operations with decimals (add/subtract/multiply/divide). At the end of this post, there will be a list of the homework that is expected to be completed throughout the week. Check it out! You can also see a day by day breakdown of classwork and homework on the 6th grade Google site! This week in science, we'll be continuing our unit on genetic variations! Monday and Tuesday will be spent finishing the third lesson (Lesson 2: Lab) by creating family trees for our alien families and answering the lesson questions. Then Wednesday - Friday will be spent working on Lesson 2: Extension, where we'll look at some of our own class traits, as well as solving a mystery! We will need part of next week to finish this lesson. Math/Science classwork/homework this week:
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If you have any questions, please reach out and let us know! Let's have a wonderful week! Ms Kennell Welcome back! We're excited to see the students, get back in a routine, and start Quarter 3 strong! Grades have started over, and report cards for Quarter 2 should be sent home at the end of the week. As a reminder, the 6th grade website is the best place to look for daily directions, reminders, and updates about learning! This is also where your student should start each day that we are remote or when they are absent for any reason.
This week in math, we are focusing on reviewing last semester and working on our teamwork skills! On Tuesday, we completed a creative math project focused on the number 2022, completed a teambuilder, and logged in to a new math website, Boddle! On Wednesday, we'll be reviewing enlargements and reductions, as well as taking a quiz over them. Then students will work on a desmos activity related to ratios, fractions, decimals, and percent (Des-Farm). Thursday will be spent reviewing improper fractions and mixed numbers by completing an escape room, and then completing a Desmos Mixed Number Challenge online. Then on Friday, we'll be finishing any remaining work with our Desmos activities from this week, as well as working on some teambuilder activities! At the end of this post, there will be a list of the homework that is expected to be completed throughout the week. Check it out! You can also see a day by day breakdown of classwork and homework on the 6th grade Google site! This week in science, we'll be continuing our unit on genetic variations! In the third lesson (Lesson 2: Lab), we'll be creating two alien families in order to explore the processes and outcomes of genetic variation. One alien family will produce sexually and one will reproduce asexually to model both reproductive ways. We'll also be making a family tree to represent those families. It should be a lot of fun! We will need part of next week to finish this lesson. Math/Science classwork/homework this week:
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If you have any questions, please reach out and let us know! Let's have a wonderful week! Ms Kennell We are in the final coutdown for the quarter! This is the final week before Christmas break and the final week of quarter 2. Let's finish strong!! As a reminder, the 6th grade website is the best place to look for daily directions, reminders, and updates about learning! This is also where your student should start each day that we are remote or when they are absent for any reason.
This week in math, we are finishing chapter 4! On Monday, students will be completing the 4.2.3 and 4.2.4 Review Preview packet (or Jamboard if remote). Tuesday, we will have a special guest with us - Janet Moore from the Regional Office of Education! She'll be co-teaching some activities with Ms Kennell, which will either be over topics we've already covered or topics that are upcoming! Wednesday will be spent reviewing for our math test with the completion of the Ch 4 Review Packet (on paper or online if remote). Then on Thursday, we will be taking our chapter 4 math test. If students are remote, they are expected to be on a Google meet during their class time while taking the test (6K @ 9:30 and 6B @ 12:40). On Friday, we'll be doing some special activities! At the end of this post, there will be a list of the homework that is expected to be completed throughout the week. Check it out! You can see an updated list of missing work on Skyward. You can also see a day by day breakdown of classwork and homework on the 6th grade Google site! This week in science, we'll be continuing our unit on genetic variations! In the second lesson (Lesson 1: Solve Phenomenon), we'll looking at celebrity families and identifying characteristics that are passed from one generation to the next. We'll even be trying to match children to their parents! We will finish this entire lesson this week before we leave for break. Math/Science classwork/homework this week:
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If you have any questions, please reach out and let us know! Let's have a wonderful week! Ms Kennell Only two weeks left in Quarter 2 and two weeks left of school before Christmas break! Let's all stay healthy and finish strong!! As a reminder, the 6th grade website is the best place to look for daily directions, reminders, and updates about learning! This is also where your student should start each day that we are remote or when they are absent for any reason.
This week in math, we are moving on to the second half of chapter 4 already! This half focuses on ratios, looking at ratio relationships in general, as well as in enlargements and reductions. On Monday, we started by enlarging a mascot picture (ask your student about it!) for Lesson 4.2.1. On Tuesday, we'll complete lesson 4.2.2 - Enlarging and Reducing Figures. Wednesday will be spent completing the next two homework assignments for this chapter (4.2.1 and 4.2.2 Review Preview). Then on Thursday and Friday we will working on the last two lessons for this chapter: 4.2.3 - Enlargement and Reduction Ratios and 4.2.4 - Ratios in Other Situations. At the end of this post, there will be a list of the homework that is expected to be completed throughout the week. Check it out! You can see an updated list of missing work on Skyward. You can also see a day by day breakdown of classwork and homework on the 6th grade Google site! This week in science, we'll be starting our next unit on genetic variations! In the first lesson (Lesson 1: Solve Animation), we'll working on identifying key vocabulary, and focus on how how traits/genes are passed from one generation to the next in frogs and algae. We will need part of next week to finish this lesson. Math/Science classwork/homework this week:
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If you have any questions, please reach out and let us know! Let's have a wonderful week! Ms Kennell Well, last week was certainly interesting! I hope everyone was able to stay healthy over Thanksgiving break! We are planning on being back in person starting on Tuesday, with students completing meets and remote work on Monday. As a reminder, the 6th grade website is the best place to look for daily directions, reminders, and updates about learning! This is also where your student should start each day that we are remote or when they are absent for any reason. If your student did not complete work while remote recently, remind them to get on the 6th grade website and work on their late work! Thanks for any help with this! We are in the final 3 week stretch before Christmas break and the end of Quarter 2 is coming up quickly!!
This week in math, we are kicking off our next chapter, which should be completed before we leave for Christmas break. This chapter focuses on variables and expressions in the first half and ratios in the second half. On Monday during the Google meet, students worked with Ms Kennell to complete the first lesson 4.1.1 - Introduction to Variables. If students missed the meet, there is a key with hints to help them along. Students were also expected to complete four Khan Academy assignments (2 video, 2 practice) on dividing whole numbers, which should be a review from last year. On Tuesday, we will work on lesson 4.1.2 - Writing Equivalent Expressions. Wednesday will be spent completing the first two homework assignments for this chapter (4.1.1 and 4.1.2 Review Preview). Then on Thursday and Friday we will work on lesson 4.1.3 - Using Variables to Generalize. This lesson is long, so it will take us two full class periods. At the end of this post, there will be a list of the homework that is expected to be completed throughout the week. Check it out! You can see an updated list of missing work on Skyward. You can also see a day by day breakdown of classwork and homework on the 6th grade Google site! This week in science, we'll be finishing the lesson we were working on before Thanksgiving, which focuses on improving a balloon model rocket. We will be completing our final rebuild and testing on Tuesday/Wednesday, presenting our findings on Thursday, and checking grades/working on late work on Friday. Next week, we will start a new unit on genetic variations! Math/Science classwork/homework this week:
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If you have any questions, please reach out and let us know! Let's have a wonderful week! Ms Kennell It's a short week thanks to Thanksgiving break, but also a strange one since we are entering our first district wide remote days. You should have received a variety of messages by this point, but please reach out if you have questions. As a reminder, the 6th grade website is the best place to look for daily directions, reminders, and updates about learning! This is also where your student should start each day that we are remote.
While we are all remote right now, students should be attending their scheduled Google meets starting on Tuesday (8:30-9:30, 9:45-10:15, 10:30-11:30, and 2:00-2:30) as well completing additional school work outside of the meet times. Everything is listed on the 6th Grade Google Site each day, including directions and meet links. There will NEVER be a day where students do not have any assigned work. If your student has missed time before our remote days, talk with them about their work and getting caught back up. This week in math, we are doing some review and also taking our chapter 3 math test. On Monday, students will complete 2 of the math activities from the emergency remote packet, as well as play one of the games. On Tuesday during our meet, students will take their chapter 3 math test. After completing their test, they also have a coordinate graphing mystery picture to complete, along with a place to submit a picture of their work. We will start working on chapter 4 next week, which focuses on variables and ratios! At the end of this post, there will be a list of the homework that is expected to be completed throughout the week. Check it out! You can see an updated list of missing work on Skyward. You can also see a day by day breakdown of classwork and homework on the 6th grade Google site! This week in science, we'll be taking a short break from Mosa Mack and working on the activities in the emergency remote packet. On Monday, they should read the article about the Slip 'N Slide and answer the questions. On Tuesday, they will be creating their own invention to make their lives easier! This should all be on paper from the packet. Math/Science classwork/homework this week:
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