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And just like that, Quarter 2 is underway. Paper report cards will be coming out in the next couple of weeks, but current grades can always be found online if you are curious more often/sooner! This week (and next) we also have conferences. If you still need to sign up for a time, we do have a few left, mostly on Tuesday. If you are unable to sign up on Classtag, please reach out and let us know!
As a reminder, students who are absent for any reason (quarantined, appointments, sick, etc.) should check out the 6th Grade Google Site each day and complete the posted activities. As a reminder, Skyward/Q will give you access to your student's grades at any time. If your student has late work or corrections to do, they need to be completed as soon as possible. This week in math, we are starting Chapter 3, which focuses on portions and integers. In the first half, we will focus on portions, or parts of a whole, looking at the relationships between fractions, decimals, and percents. For this week, we will be completing the first three lessons, as well as the first three homework assignments. 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 Claim-Evidence-Reasoning and the Scientific Method unit. This week, we will work through the second half of Lesson 1: The Solve Phenomenon, where we will conduct an experiment to see if Gorilla Tape really is 3 times stronger than their competitors. This week, we will conduct the actual experiment to see if Gorilla tape is actually 3 times stronger. After concluding our experiment, we will also look at another experiment and label the various parts of the experiment, as well as completing a quiz over the lesson. Steps 4-7 for Lesson 1: The Solve Phenomenon should be completed this week. Math/Science 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
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It's our final week of Q1 and homecoming week too! It will be a slightly crazy week, but we'll do our best to help everyone make it through as easily as possible! Students were also sent home with a note about parent teacher conferences today. Please read through the note, follow the directions listed, sign the bottom half and send the bottom half back to school.
As a reminder, students who are absent for any reason (quarantined, appointments, sick, etc.) should check out the 6th Grade Google Site each day and complete the posted activities. Grades are being updated regularly and some students have missing assignments. As a reminder, Skyward/Q will give you access to your student's grades at any time. If your student has late work or corrections to do, they need to be submitted before Friday (Oct 15) in order to earn credit. This week in math, we are completing some review work before taking our Ch 2 test on Friday, Oct 15 (pushed back one day). Our review will consist of some generic rectangle puzzles, as well as a full chapter review packet. Students should also be completing any remaining missing work, since the end of the quarter is on Friday. 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! If students are learning remotely this week, there will be a Google meet on Friday, which students will need to be on in order to take their math test. This week in science, we'll be continuing our Claim-Evidence-Reasoning and the Scientific Method unit. This week, we will work through the first half of Lesson 1: The Solve Phenomenon, where we will conduct an experiment to see if Gorilla Tape really is 3 times stronger than their competitors. We will watch a commercial, complete some vocabulary, discuss the steps of the scientific method, and come up with an experiment to test this claim. Next week, we will conduct the actual experiment. Steps 1-4 for Lesson 1: The Solve Phenomenon should be completed this week. Math/Science 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 week 8 of our school year already and the first week in October! With the arrival of October, the end of Quarter 1 is quickly approaching (Friday, Oct 15). If your student has late work or corrections to do, they need to be submitted before Oct 15 in order to earn credit.
As a reminder, students who are absent for any reason (quarantined, appointments, sick, etc.) should check out the 6th Grade Google Site each day and complete the posted activities. Grades are being updated regularly and some students have missing assignments. As a reminder, Skyward/Q will give you access to your student's grades at any time. This week in math, we are finishing our work with generic rectangles, using them to multiply multidigit numbers, find the greatest common factor, and work through the distributive property. With the end of our chapter coming this week, we will be completing some review work towards the end of the week with our Ch 2 test next week (Thursday, Oct 14). 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 starting our next unit on Mosa Mack: Claim-Evidence-Reasoning and the Scientific Method. This week, we will work through Lesson 1: The Solve Animation, where we will conduct a digital experiment with Mosa to see if candy/sugar actually makes kids hyper, or if it's the situation that causes the hyper behavior to occur. We will watch a video, complete some vocabulary, discuss the steps of the scientific method, and come to a conclusion. All steps for Lesson 1: The Solve Animation should be completed this week. Math/Science homework this week:
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If you have any questions, please reach out and let us know! Let's have an fantastic week! Ms Kennell It's week 7 of our school year already and the final week in September!
As a reminder, students who are absent for any reason (quarantined, appointments, sick, etc.) should check out the 6th Grade Google Site each day and complete the posted activities. Grades are being updated regularly and some students are starting to have more missing assignments. As a reminder, Skyward/Q will give you access to your student's grades at any time. We are approaching the final few weeks of the quarter, so now is the time to make sure students are all caught up! This week in math, we are finishing our work with area and perimeter, using Base 10 blocks to help with some exploration. We will also be starting some multiplication work, using a tool called a Generic Rectangle (area model). Feel free to ask your student to tell you all about it!! 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! This week in science, we'll be finishing our Design Thinking unit by completing the last steps of Lesson 3: The Engineer, in which students have been working to build something to save Dullis the sloth from a pit of alligators. After finishing our designs and testing them, students will be completing a couple of questions online and then making a comic to show their design thinking process. On Friday, we will finish the unit by taking a test on Mosa Mack, which students will be able to use their notes for, if they wish. Next week, we'll start our next unit! Math/Science homework this week:
If you have any questions, please reach out and let us know! Let's have an wonderful week! Ms Kennell This school year has already gotten off to a crazy, sometimes rough start! We are entering into week 5, and I apologize that I didn't have a second post before this one! We were hit hard with quarantine students and have been trying to find a routine that works for everyone. As previously mentioned on Classtag, students who are out of school for any reason should check out the 6th Grade Google Site and complete the posted activities. Ms Brutlag and I are both moving away from a lot of live meets, but we are happy to help as much as we can! Students can email questions or request a quick private meet, which we could usually do after school or during our prep the next morning. Grades are also being updated and some students are starting to have more missing assignments. As a reminder, Skyward/Q will give you access to your student's grades at any time. The last couple of general reminders for this post are about masks and chromebooks. Parents, please check in with your student about how to wear a mask properly and if their mask is working for them. We do have a few students still struggling to keep them up, over their nose, and out of their mouth while working. Finally, chromebooks should be charged on a regular basis at home. Some students are only charging them at school, which is creating a safety hazard with the cords and social distancing. They have the newest chromebooks, so they should not need charging every day, unless a student is using it a lot at home. Thank you!!
This week in math, we will be completing our first CPM chapter with some review and our first big math test! On Monday, students will be completing a prime factorization team quiz, as well as the 1.2.3 Review Preview homework assignment. On Tuesday, we will work through a chapter 1 review packet, with our individual test for chapter 1 coming on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday this week will be spent working on the first two lessons in chapter 2, which are all about analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of various graphical representations of data! The second section of the chapter focuses more specifically on area and perimeter relationships, using correct units, and calculating area of less regular shapes, which will be our primary focus next week. This week in science, we'll be continuing with our Design Thinking unit by completing Lesson 2: The Lab on Mosa Mack. In this lesson, we will be looking at a variety of innovations from history and evaluating if the creators used all of the steps in the design thinking process correctly and effectively. If we decide that they did not, it will be our job to determine where the mistake occurred, as well as what could have been done differently. Next week, we'll start working through Lesson 3: The Engineer, where we will again use the design thinking process steps as a team to create a way to save Dullis the sloth from alligators! It should be a fun couple of weeks! If you have any questions, please reach out and let us know! Let's stay safe and have an excellent week! Ms Kennell Somehow, the summer is over and we are already back to school! We're having a great week relearning expectations, getting to know one another, and starting our learning. This website will be update every 1-2 weeks with information about everything going on in Ms Kennell's math and science classes, as well as some general 6th grade information. For this week, students should be bringing home a few papers. There is a Student Information sheet that should be filled out and sent back to school. Parents should also sign up for Classtag, which we'll be using for communication this year. It allows you to get messages via email or text message, as well as sign up for conferences, treats, etc. when we post those events!
If you have any questions this year, please reach out and let us know! We're excited to meet everyone and get started! Ms Kennell and Ms Brutlag We are down to our FINAL week of school! For this weekly update, I will include some information about the classwork that we're doing first, but the later part of this post will be entirely dedicated to end of year updates!
With this being the final week of school, most grades are updated, so please remind your student to check about missing work! All missing work must be turned in this week before the end of the day on Friday in order to count towards their grades. Grades are always changing, but the most up to date grades can be seen on Skyward/Q, which is accessible for all students and parents. As far as classwork this week, we have finished science, so all science grades are up to date and final, unless a student completes missing work. For math this week, students are completing a board game project! Besides missing work, this will be their last grade of the quarter. We'll be working on it during class time, but students may also need to work some at home. Important Updates to End the Year:
Thank you for your support this year and have a fantastic summer! Ms Kennell The number of school days we have left this year is down to single digits! As we work hard to finish out the year on a high note, please remind your student to check about missing work! Some grades have dropped lately and time is running out to raise those grades, so your student should be checking about late work and possibly corrections to raise those grades! Grades are always changing, but the most up to date grades can be seen on Skyward/Q, which is accessible for all students and parents.
As a reminder, if your student is absent, we will still be updating the 6th grade website daily. Even though we are back in person 5 days a week, that information is helpful for absent students, as well as parents, since it lists what we are working on in class and what students have for homework each night. If students are at home due to an illness or because they have to quarantine, they should use the website, then Google classroom. Emails can be answered as soon as possible, with video calls set up after school if requested. In science this week, we will be finishing our Oceans and Climate unit. In this unit, we'll focus on the effects of changes in latitude, temperature, wind, the Coriolis effect, and density on regional climate. This week, our specific focus will be heat, along with our final decision about if it's possible for two cities to have the same latitude but different climates. If students still have any late work for this quarter, it needs to be completed ASAP! In math this week, we are finishing Chapter 6! On Monday, we completed Lesson 6.2.3 (Naming Perimeters of Algebra Tiles), along with a review of area from last week. On Tuesday, we will be working on Lesson 6.2.4 (Combining Like Terms), along with an exit ticket at the end of class. Then on Wednesday, we will complete the final lesson of the chapter, Lesson 6.2.5 (Evaluating Variable Expressions). On Thursday, we will wrap up the chapter with a review packet in class, which students should finish for homework if they do not complete it in class. Next week will focus on some review of our entire year in 6th grade math! We have made the switch back to paper homework, so you should be seeing your student completing paper assignments on any night that they have math homework (listed below and on the 6th grade website). Math homework for this week:
Thank you for your continued support and have a wonderful week! Ms Kennell I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend! The countdown for the end of the year has started and our students (and teachers) are ready for summer! As we work hard to finish out the year on a high note, please remind your student to check about missing work! Some grades have dropped lately and time is running out to raise those grades, so your student should be checking about late work and possibly corrections to raise those grades! Grades are always changing, but the most up to date grades can be seen on Skyward/Q, which is accessible for all students and parents.
As a reminder, if your student is absent, we will still be updating the 6th grade website daily. Even though we are back in person 5 days a week, that information is helpful for absent students, as well as parents, since it lists what we are working on in class and what students have for homework each night. If students are at home due to an illness or because they have to quarantine, they should use the website, then Google classroom. Emails can be answered as soon as possible, with video calls set up after school if requested. In science this week, we will be continuing our new unit: Oceans and Climate. In this unit, we'll focus on the effects of changes in latitude, temperature, wind, the Coriolis effect, and density on regional climate. For the next few weeks, we'll be completing Lesson 2: The Make. In this lesson, students will be working to determine whether it's possible for two cities at the same latitude to have different climates. This lesson will be dividing in six parts, of which we'll cover 1-2 parts each week. Over these six parts, students will investigate the impact that latitude, ocean currents, heat, and geography have on a region's climate. This week, our specific focus will be geography. If students still have any late work for this quarter, it needs to be completed ASAP! In math this week, we are continuing on with Chapter 6, with a brief pause midweek to complete our last round of AIMSweb benchmark testing. On Monday and Tuesday, we are working on Lesson 6.2.1 (Order of Operations), which is going to take us two days, with the homework coming Tuesday evening. On Wednesday, we will pause for benchmark testing, but will use any remaining class time to get a jump start on our next lesson and reviewing expressions. Then on Thursday, we will review area of a rectangle and look at how we calculate area/perimeter when we have unknown side lengths, using a new manipulative called algebra tiles. They will have the 6.2.2 Review Preview for homework then that night. Next week will focus on completing our work with writing and evaluating expressions. We have made the switch back to paper homework, so you should be seeing your student completing paper assignments on any night that they have math homework (listed below and on the 6th grade website). Math homework for this week:
Thank you for your continued support and have a fantastic week! Ms Kennell Happy May! As we head into the last month of school, please remind your student to check about missing work, especially if they are in a sport! Some grades have dropped lately, so your student should be checking about late work and possibly corrections to raise those grades! Grades are always changing, but the most up to date grades can be seen on Skyward/Q, which is accessible for all students and parents.
As a reminder, if your student is absent, we will still be updating the 6th grade website daily. Even though we are back in person 5 days a week, that information is helpful for absent students, as well as parents, since it lists what we are working on in class and what students have for homework each night. If students are at home due to an illness or because they have to quarantine, they should use the website, then Google classroom. Emails can be answered as soon as possible, with video calls set up after school if requested. In science this week, we will be continuing our new unit: Oceans and Climate. In this unit, we'll focus on the effects of changes in latitude, temperature, wind, the Coriolis effect, and density on regional climate. For the next few weeks, we'll be completing Lesson 2: The Make. In this lesson, students will be working to determine whether it's possible for two cities at the same latitude to have different climates. This lesson will be dividing in six parts, of which we'll cover 1-2 parts each week. Over these six parts, students will investigate the impact that latitude, ocean currents, heat, and geography have on a region's climate. This week, our specific focus will be density and deep ocean currents. If students still have any late work for this quarter, it needs to be completed ASAP! In math this week, we are continuing on with Chapter 6, with a brief review of rounding/place value first. On Monday, Ms Kennell was out, but students worked on a variety of rounding/place value review by completing two Khan Academy assignments, a mystery picture Google form, a paper, and some task cards. For homework, they had 6.1.3 Part 2 Review Preview on paper. On Tuesday, we will start Lesson 6.1.4 (Solving Problems Involving Division), completing about half of the lesson and the homework. On Wednesday, we will finish Lesson 6.1.4, but will not have a new homework assignment. Then on Thursday, we will review order of operations by completing an escape room and completing 6.2.1 Part 1 Review Preview assignment. Next week will focus on order of operations and expressions. We have made the switch back to paper homework, so if you know you are going to be gone for an extended period of time, make sure you reach out and let Ms Kennell know so that we can make other arrangements for the homework. You should be seeing your student completing paper assignments on any night that they have math homework (listed below and on the 6th grade website). Math homework for this week:
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