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Welcome back to person learning this week! We have had good attendance while remote and cannot wait to see everyone in person tomorrow!
As a reminder, if your student is absent, we will still be updating the 6th grade website daily, as well as providing any necessary videos (should be posted by 3:30 pm at the latest). In science today, we started a new unit - The Water Cycle! We started by identifying some vocabulary words, which students should continue to practice using Quizlet over the coming weeks. Our first lesson focused on a water park mystery and exploring where water comes from, as well as the different kinds/forms of water. All students should have completed the five steps of the Lesson 1: The Solve Animation and copied down the vocabulary for the unit. We will continue with the next lesson during our next set of remote Monday calls. In math this week, we will be continuing to review converting between fractions, decimals, and percents with an escape room and Khan Academy assignments. On Wednesday, we will complete the winter Aimsweb benchmark testing, then exploring a number line flip activity, which will lead into the final half of chapter 3, which is all about integers, absolute value, and coordinate graphing. We will be covering CPM Lesson 3.2.1 (Addition, Subtraction, and Opposites) on Thursday and CPM Lesson 3.2.2 (Locating Negative Numbers) on Friday. After that, there are only two more new lessons for this chapter, along with some review concepts, so we will be finished with this chapter and ready for a review/test the end of the month. Thank you for your continued support! Have a wonderful week! Ms Kennell
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Welcome back! We hope everyone had a restful and relaxing break. We are so excited to get back into a routine here in Quarter 3! As a reminder, we will be remote this week (Tuesday, January 5 through Friday, January 8) and will have live class periods via Google meet links. Next week, we will jump back into our “regular” schedule, with remote live lessons on Mondays and in person learning Tuesdays-Fridays.
Since we are only going to be remote this week, there will NOT be a material pick up for 6th graders at this time. Instead, all work will be supplied electronically for this week. During our remote days (this week and all Mondays), students will have video call times from 8:30-9:30 and 10:30-11:30 with their 6th grade teachers. This week only, they will also be completing video calls with Mr Barton from 1:30-2:00 and art/guidance calls once a week from 9:45-10:15 (Wed/Fri). The specials calls do not take place on Mondays. A table schedule was also emailed out again for your reference. Since teachers will be providing instruction during those video calls, students are expected to join and participate for the entire session. If students are absent during the call for any reason (or absent on an in person day), they are expected to watch the video recording of the lesson, which is posted by 3:30 pm each day. These videos take the place of the in class instruction if it is missed and are not optional. This will continue until further notice. During remote days, students should start by checking the 6th grade website to see their assignments for the day, then be prepared to join each of the Google meets on time. Links to the meets will be provided on the 6th grade website as much as possible. During the meets, students will be working on classwork with their various teachers. Students will have work to complete outside of the scheduled video calls as well. For this week, our focus will be math and ELA, which will continue to be the focus during our in person days. However, we will be starting science and social studies again this quarter, which will be the focus on Mondays. Since that will be the only material posted for Mondays, students could have up to 2-3 hours of both science and social studies work on those days, as well as PE and any late work. Grades can be checked at any time on Skyward by either the parent or the student. In math this week, we will be doing a quick review of the last couple of weeks of Quarter 2, working on some percent assignments on Khan Academy, completing a creative math assignment related to 2021, and reviewing/practicing adding and subtracting fractions. Next week (in person), we will be completing our winter benchmark assessment and starting the last section of chapter 3 (integers). We will explore positive and negative numbers, their placement and relationships on a number line, absolute value, and coordinate graphing on a four quadrant grid. Thank you for your continued support as we begin the second half of the school year! Have a fantastic week! Ms Kennell So far, we are still in person! This final week before Christmas break, we will be wrapping up units, checking in on late work, and doing our best to continue learning, no matter where we are! As a reminder, if your student has to be out during this week, the 6th grade website will still be updated and recordings of the lessons will be posted after school each day. Students who are absent for any reason are expected to watch the recordings before completing the assignments for the day. As always, if you have questions, please reach out!
For math this week, we are finishing our work on representing portions (parts of a whole) using fractions, decimals, and percents (and occasionally word form). Since some students are in person and some are still remote, our lesson work will still take place on Jamboards, which are posted each morning. For the homework assignments, students will have the option to complete them on paper or a Jamboard. Fully remote students will complete the assignments electronically (Jamboard). This week, will are working on lessons 3.1.5, and 3.1.6, as well as a mid-unit check in during class on Thursday. Students will have homework on Tuesday (3.1.5 Review Preview) and Wednesday (3.1.6 Review Preview), with the expectation that they are also completing any necessary late work (check Skyward and Google Classroom). In addition, students were given some Khan Academy assignments a couple of weeks ago over Greatest Common Factor. These are due this week (Thursday). Students who were not finished with them yet on Monday received an email reminder as well. As a reminder, all work for Quarter 3 should be submitted before break (Friday, Dec 18). Since our primary focus is math and ELA right now, we are not pushing out new science and social studies materials. Because of this, if students wish to raise those grades, they will need to email their teacher about redoing individual assignments. Thank you for your help and support as we work on continuing our education in person or remotely. If you have any questions, please reach out! Have a wonderful week! Ms Kennell Back to in person learning for the last two weeks of the quarter before Christmas break! If your student has to be out during these two weeks, the 6th grade website will still be updated and recordings of the lessons will be posted after school each day. Students who are absent for any reason are expected to watch the recordings before completing the assignments for the day. As always, if you have questions, please reach out!
As a reminder, students will still have video calls on Monday at 8:30 and 10:30. If there's a reason why your student will not be in the call or will miss part of the call, an email would be great! If your student has to miss a video call due to an appointment, we are posting short recordings on either the 6th grade website or Google classroom, though those videos are not up until later in the afternoon. Students who miss the class calls are still expected to complete the daily assignments and watch the recordings. For math this week, we are working on representing portions (parts of a whole) using fractions, decimals, and percents. Since some students are in person and some are still remote, our lesson work will still take place on Jamboards, which are posted each morning. For the homework assignments, students will have the option to complete them on paper or a Jamboard. Fully remote students will complete the assignments electronically (Jamboard). This week, will are working on lessons 3.1.2, 3.1.3, and 3.1.4. Students will have homework on Tuesday (3.1.2 Review Preview), Wednesday (3.1.3 Review Preview Part 1), and Thursday (3.1.3 Review Preview Part 2). Next week, we will finish a couple more lessons and complete a mid unit check in before leaving for Christmas break. As a reminder, all work for Quarter 3 should be submitted before break (Friday, Dec 18). Since our primary focus is math and ELA right now, we are not pushing out new science and social studies materials. Because of this, if students wish to raise those grades, they will need to email their teacher about redoing individual assignments. Thank you for your help and support as we work on continuing our education in person or remotely. If you have any questions, please reach out! Have a fantastic week! Ms Kennell Happy Tuesday and happy December! I hope everyone had a restful and enjoyable Thanksgiving! As of right now, we are remote for this week and back in person next week, but we'll plan on being flexible just in case something changes again! As always, if you have questions, please reach out!
As a reminder, students should be in video calls every day (Monday-Friday). The times with their 6th grade teachers are 8:30-9:30 and 10:30-11:30, PE is from 1:30-2:00, and Guidance/Art are Wednesday and Friday from 9:45-10:15. As remote learning continues, we are ending up with less students on the calls, which is going to negatively impact their grade, since they are missing their core instruction. Videos, while better than nothing, do not replace the on screen time with the teacher. Since teachers will be providing instruction during those video calls, it is important for every student to join the call and participate for the entire session. Their attendance and participation in the call also counts toward their daily attendance. If there's a reason why your student will not be in the call or will miss part of the call, an email would be great! If your student has to miss a video call due to an appointment, we are posting short recordings on either the 6th grade website or Google classroom, though those videos are not up until later in the afternoon. Students who miss the class calls are still expected to complete the daily assignments and watch the recordings. During our days, students should start by checking the 6th grade website to see their assignments for the day, then be prepared to join each of the Google meets on time. Interventions also started last week, so students should have some math/reading to complete for interventions independently. Grades can be checked at any time on Skyward by either the parent or the student. For math this week, we took our math test during our video call today, with a few students needing to finish up the last couple of problems tomorrow during the call. On Wednesday, we'll work on prepping for the next math chapter, adding some notes to our math notebooks, and finishing any remaining tests. Thursday, I will be attending a virtual math workshop, so my live sessions will not be happening (though Ms Brutlag's will!). Instead, students should work on the posted math assignments during our normal video call time. They will be completing some math problems related to a read aloud video, as well as completing some Khan Academy assignments on Greatest Common Factor. Friday, we will start chapter 3 with a Jamboard, which will be finished on Monday if necessary. Since our primary focus is math and ELA right now, we are not pushing out new science and social studies materials. Because of this, if students wish to raise those grades, they will need to email their teacher about redoing individual assignments. Thank you for your help and support as we work on continuing our education remotely. If you have any questions, please reach out! Have a wonderful week! Ms Kennell Happy Monday and happy Thanksgiving week! Since it looks like we will be remote for at least one more week after Thanksgiving, I want to go back to a style that is more similar to my older posts, while still including some of the remote reminders. As always, if you have questions, please reach out!
As announced by the district earlier this morning, we are remote this week and next week for sure, with our first possible day of in person learning coming Tuesday, December 8. There will be another materials pickup next Monday (November 30). You will be receiving an email from the school, as well as the 6th grade teachers, if your 6th grader has work to pick up. If there are materials to pick up, please do so on Monday, since the students will need those materials in order to successfully continue their online learning. As a reminder, if students have paper copies of work that need to be turned in, those can be dropped off at the school or sent via email. As another reminder, students should be in video calls every day (Monday-Friday). The times with their 6th grade teachers are 8:30-9:30 and 10:30-11:30, PE is from 1:30-2:00, and Guidance/Art are Wednesday and Friday from 9:45-10:15. As remote learning continues, we are ending up with less students on the calls, which is going to negatively impact their grade, since they are missing their core instruction. Videos, while better than nothing, do not replace the on screen time with the teacher. Since teachers will be providing instruction during those video calls, it is important for every student to join the call and participate for the entire session. Their attendance and participation in the call also counts toward their daily attendance. If there's a reason why your student will not be in the call or will miss part of the call, an email would be great! If your student has to miss a video call due to an appointment, we are posting short recordings on either the 6th grade website or Google classroom, though those videos are not up until later in the afternoon. Students who miss the class calls are still expected to complete the daily assignments and watch the recordings. During our days, students should start by checking the 6th grade website to see their assignments for the day, then be prepared to join each of the Google meets on time. Interventions also started last week, so students should have some math/reading to complete for interventions independently. Grades can be checked at any time on Skyward by either the parent or the student. For math this week, we are completing a review packet over chapter two, as well as some themed review in honor of Thankgsiving. Next week, we will have one more review day, then be taking our test electronically over chapter two. It is very important that students are online during our call on Tuesday, since it will be a test day. After that, we will be moving on to our next chapter in math. Since our primary focus is math and ELA right now, we are not pushing out new science and social studies materials. Because of this, if students wish to raise those grades, they will need to email their teacher about redoing individual assignments. Thank you for your help and support as we work on continuing our education remotely. If you have any questions, please reach out! Happy Thanksgiving! Ms Kennell Happy Tuesday! Similar to my post last week, I want to keep this one as short as possible, since we all have so much going on with our remote learning changes. For updates about math resources, etc., please look back at previous posts!
As of right now (which could change at any moment), we will continue to be remote through Thanksgiving break. ALL students had work to pick up last Wednesday (Nov 11) and Monday (Nov 16). If you did not pick up work both of those days for your student, please make a plan to come in and get that work. If students have paper copies of work that need to be turned in, those can be dropped off at the school as well. As a reminder, students should be in video calls every day (Monday-Friday). The times with their 6th grade teachers are 8:30-9:30 and 10:30-11:30, PE is from 1:30-2:00, and Guidance/Art are Wednesday and Friday from 9:45-10:15. Since teachers will be providing instruction during those video calls, it is important for every student to join the call and participate for the entire session. Their attendance and participation in the call also counts toward their daily attendance. If there's a reason why your student will not be in the call or will miss part of the call, an email would be great! If your student has to miss a video call due to an appointment, we are posting short recordings on either the 6th grade website or Google classroom, though those videos are not up until later in the afternoon. Students who miss the class calls are still expected to complete the daily assignments and watch the recordings. During our days, students should start by checking the 6th grade website to see their assignments for the day, then be prepared to join each of the Google meets on time. Links to the meets will be provided on the 6th grade website as much as possible. During the meets, students will be working on classwork with their various teachers. Students may have work to complete outside of the scheduled video calls. Our primary focus will be math and ELA, though students should continue to work on late work and corrections for all of their subjects. We also started interventions this week, so students should have some math/reading to complete for interventions independently. Grades can be checked at any time on Skyward by either the parent or the student. Students or parents/guardians will also need to submit daily attendance, which can be found in the banner on the district website. This must be completed each day that we are remote. Thank you for your help and support as we work on continuing our education remotely. If you have any questions, please reach out! Ms Kennell and Ms Brutlag This post will be a little different than my normal posts. For updates about math resources, etc., please look back at my last post! Instead, this one will be about our transition back to remote learning. We are currently scheduled to be remote until November 24, which takes us up to Thanksgiving break.
Students will begin their remote work tomorrow (Wednesday, Nov 11) and we will be following a similar video call schedule as the previous session of remote learning. As a reminder, those video call times were 8:30-9:30 and 10:30-11:30. This time, students will also be completing video calls daily with Mr Barton from 1:30-2:00, as well as art/guidance calls once a week from 9:45-10:15. A table schedule was also included in my parent email. Since teachers will be providing instruction during those video calls, it is important for every student to join the call and participate for the entire session. During our days, students should start by checking the 6th grade website to see their assignments for the day, then be prepared to join each of the Google meets on time. Links to the meets will be provided on the 6th grade website as much as possible. During the meets, students will be working on classwork with their various teachers. Students may have work to complete outside of the scheduled video calls. Our primary focus will be math and ELA, though students should continue to work on late work and corrections for all of their subjects. Grades can be checked at any time on Skyward by either the parent or the student. Students or parents/guardians will also need to submit daily attendance, which can be found in the banner on the district website. This must be completed each day that we are remote. There will be opportunities for supply drop off and pick up tomorrow (Wednesday, Nov 11) and next Monday (Nov 16) from 8:00-3:30. All 6th grade students have something to pick up, and any paper copies of homework, late work, or corrections should be brought back to school during that time. Thank you for your continued support as we jump back into remote learning! If you have questions, please reach out! Ms Kennell and Ms Brutlag Welcome back to four days of in person learning! It was definitely different having everyone here at the same time, but we will adjust! It almost felt like a first day of school all over again!
Make sure you are checking in on your student's progress and following Blue Ridge information using the app! Check out some reminders (mostly review) and updates about what we are learning below! As a reminder, students are still expected to check the 6th grade website every day that they are remote, which is currently just Mondays. Grades are also up to date. All students should have their own student access to Skyward/Q to check their grades, so they can pull those up anytime! It is harder to keep track of work while going back and forth on in person and remote days, so it's especially important that students are checking emails, Skyward/Q, the website, and folders to make sure they are getting credit for all of their work! Quarter 2 is off to a quick start, so check out those grades and stay all caught up with those assignments! In math this week, we are continuing to work on area, but now looking at how area and base ten blocks connect with the area model for multiplication that they learned in 5th grade. We will use this same method, but CPM calls it the generic rectangle, since we will use it to multiply a variety of types of numbers this year. We are also spending some time reviewing prime and composite numbers and prime factorization. On Wednesday, we worked on a prime factorization escape room. On Thursday, we will work through CPM Lesson 2.3.1. Then on Friday, we will review prime factorization a little more, as well as area/perimeter of composite figures. Math Homework for this week:
In science, students should have completed the 13 vocabulary words in their notebooks from last Monday, as well as all old Mosa Mack work. We will be moving on to the Scientific Method/CER Unit next Monday. There is a Quizlet activity for them on Google classroom, which they can use to practice the words! They will need to sign up for an account in order to access all of the words and activities. General Updates:
Upcoming Dates:
Have a fantastic week! Reach out to any of the teachers if you have questions! Ms Kennell As we prepare to return to four day in person learning, information seems to be constantly changing! Make sure you are checking in on your student's progress and following Blue Ridge information using the app! Check out some reminders (mostly review) and updates about what we are learning below!
As a reminder, students are still expected to check the 6th grade website every day that they are remote (Silver = Mon/Tues/Wed, Blue = Thurs/Fri/Mon). Even after returning to four days in person, students will still be learning remotely on Mondays, with regular video calls! Grades are also up to date. All students should have their own student access to Skyward/Q to check their grades, so they can pull those up anytime! It is harder to keep track of work while going back and forth on in person and remote days, so it's especially important that students are checking emails, Skyward/Q, the website, and folders to make sure they are getting credit for all of their work! Quarter 2 is off to a quick start, so check out those grades and stay all caught up with those assignments! In math this week, we are continuing to work on area, specifically looking at how area and perimeter are connected. We've been looking at area in general, as well as area of rectangles, area of non-rectangular shapes, and discussing what square units means. We've also be working with creating shapes with larger areas but the same perimeter, and vice versa. Blue students will have 2.2.3 Review Preview and a mystery picture as remote work this week. Silver students will be completing those activities in class on Friday. There will be no new work posted on Monday (11/2) and Tuesday (11/3), so students should use that time to make sure they have missing work/corrections completed! In science, students should have completed all work for Mosa Mack Lesson 3, including their test on the design thinking unit. This week, they were working on the vocabulary for our next unit, the Scientific Method and Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER). There were vocabulary words and definitions for them to record in their science notebooks, and there is a Quizlet activity for them on Google classroom, which they can use to practice the words! General Updates:
Upcoming Dates:
Have a wonderful week! Reach out to any of the teachers if you have questions! Ms Kennell |
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