Somehow, it's already the last week of January! I have no idea where this month as gone!?! With possible inclement weather tonight/tomorrow, keep an eye out for possible changes to our learning on Tuesday. If we are in person, awesome! If not, we'll see everyone online at 8:30 and 10:30 for our video calls!
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 continued working on our Water Cycle unit! Students should have completed all five steps of the Lesson 1: The Solve Live Video assignment, where they looked at pollution and how that can impact a lake and the water cycle. We will continue to work on this unit next Monday. In math this week, we will be finishing our work with chapter 3. On Tuesday, we will be completed a review packet in preparation for our test on Wednesday. Thursday will be spent starting the first lesson of chapter 4 (variables and ratios), with a short dividing review on Friday. At this time, students will have homework on Tuesday (study, finish all late work/Khan Academy) and Thursday (4.1.1 Review Preview). If we end up being remote tomorrow, we will do a different review activity on Tuesday, push the review packet and test to Wednesday/Thursday, push the start of chapter 4 to next week, and keep the division review on Friday. Assignments will still be posted digitally through Google classroom (and the 6th grade website), so look there first if you have any questions! Thank you for always being flexible! Thank you for your continued support! Have a fantastic week! Ms Kennell
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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 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 |
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