Somehow we are already in the final week of February! With that in mind, we are also nearing the end of the quarter. If your student has questions about late work or grades, now is a great time to ask those questions! This week we will also be participating in the FFA dress up days, which are posted below.
As a reminder, if your student is absent, we will still be updating the 6th grade website daily, as well as providing any videos (if necessary). Information also went out recently about the upcoming change to Mondays. We will continue to be remote (doing video calls) for the next few weeks, but will start back in person on the final Monday before spring break. The plan is still to get out at 2:20 each day. Students were also asked to tentatively sign up for girls basketball and boys/girls track. 6th graders are welcome (and encouraged) to participate! In science this week, we will be starting our next unit on Weather. In it, the students will go through a progression of three inquiry lessons that focus on temperature, pressure, and the corresponding weather patterns. Lesson 1: The Solve will begin on Friday, which also includes our vocabulary work for this unit. Any old water cycle work should be completed as soon as possible. In math this week, we are continuing our work with ratios that started last week. The plan is to complete lesson 4.2.2 (Enlarging and Reducing Figures) on Tuesday, 4.2.3 (Enlargement and Reduction Ratios) on Wednesday, and 4.2.4 (Ratios in Other Situations) on Thursday. Those will be the final lessons in chapter 4, which means we will be reviewing and taking a test in the early parts of next week. Homework for these three lessons will be on paper again. Math homework for this week:
**This is the last week for our February homework challenge. The students seem to be enjoying the competition! Thank you for your continued support and have a fantastic week! Ms Kennell
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It's another short week this week! I hope everyone is staying safe after all of the snow and cold weather!
As a reminder, if your student is absent, we will still be updating the 6th grade website daily, as well as providing any videos (if necessary). In science this week, we will be finishing our Water Cycle unit! This week, students will have a few minutes to check in with their group about the project that should have been finished last week. Then, they will present their designs to their homeroom class and take the water cycle unit test on Mosa Mack. We will start a new unit then next week! In math this week, we started the week by reviewing evaluating algebraic expressions, working to follow order of operations to solve expressions with variables. On Wednesday, students completed an escape room and had a Google form for homework. On Thursday, we will begin the second half of chapter 4, which is all about enlarging and reducing figures using ratios. Our first lesson (4.2.1) has us working as a class to enlarge a mystery mascot picture (it's a dragon!). Students will have a homework assignment on Thursday and it will be on paper for everyone, since they will be needing graphing paper. Math homework for this week:
**We started a 6B vs 6K homework challenge for the month of February! Hopefully this will help with some of the late work! Feel free to ask your student about this challenge! Thank you for your continued support and have a wonderful week! Ms Kennell Brr! It's cold out there! I'm so grateful that most of our students were able to stay inside and learn from home today! Shout out to most of our students for joining our video calls and completing assignments on time! Our new homework challenge is probably helping that just a bit. :) Also, if your student didn't mention it yet, we have made a slight schedule adjustment, moving science/SS to the last day of in person learning for the week and switching our video calls on Mondays back to math/ELA. We needed some face time with science/SS and this seemed like the best way to do it. We started this on Friday.
As a reminder, if your student is absent, we will still be updating the 6th grade website daily, as well as providing any videos (if necessary). **Due to all of the restrictions this year, plus the fact that Valentine's Day is on the Sunday of a long weekend, 6th grade has decided to not have a party or pass out any treats this year. In science this week, we will continue to work on our Water Cycle unit! On Friday last week, students worked in their small groups on Lesson 3: The Engineer. They had to choose a state that experiences droughts, complete some research on that state, and are working to build a way to conserve water or create a technical drawing to supply more water. They will be finishing their buildings/drawings this week on Thursday. After those are created, students will be presenting their creations and taking the water cycle assessment (next Friday). In math this week, we started the week by reviewing converting mixed numbers and improper fractions. They should have completed an escape room and a Quizizz assignment during or after our video call today. On Tuesday and Wednesday, we will be working on lesson 4.1.3 (using variables to generalize), which will take us a couple of days to complete. Thursday is the final day of our week this week, so that will be a science/SS day. The second half of chapter 4 is about ratios and enlargements/reductions, which we will work on next week. Math homework for this week:
**No school this Friday (12th - teacher's institute) or Monday (15th - President's Day). Enjoy the long weekend! Thank you for your continued support and have a wonderful week! Ms Kennell Happy February! As sports begin to take off for some of the 6th graders, make sure students are getting late work completed ASAP and are joining all video calls on Mondays!
Also 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 2: The Make assignment, where they travelled through the steps of the water cycle, looking at the different ways water travels (not always in the same order/pattern), and analyzing the importance of the different steps. We will continue to work on this unit next Monday. In math this week, we will be starting and finishing the first half of chapter 4, which is all about variables and expressions! Tuesday will be 4.1.1 (introduction to variables), Wednesday will focus on 4.1.2 (writing equivalent expressions), and Thursday will be 4.1.3 (using variables to generalize). On Friday, we will work on writing expressions when given a description using a fun activity! The second half of chapter 4 is about ratios and enlargements/reductions, which we will work on next week. Math homework for this week:
Thank you for your continued support! Have a wonderful week! Ms Kennell |
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