I hope everyone enjoyed their extra day with their student! As we head into a four day week, the final week of April, and the second half of Quarter 4, please remind your student to check about missing work, especially if they are in a sport!
**Progress Reports for Quarter 4 will be going home on Tuesday. Now is a great time to check in on grades if you haven't yet this quarter! As a reminder, grades are always changing, so the most up to date grades can be seen on Skyward/Q. You should have access as a parent and your student also has access! 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 ocean and wind currents. If students still have any late work for this quarter, it needs to be completed ASAP! In math this week, we are moving on to CPM Chapter 6, which focuses on dividing and building expressions. On Tuesday, we will look at vocabulary and standards for the chapter, as well as completing Lesson 6.1.1 (Dividing). On Wednesday, we will go over what it means to divide by completing Lesson 6.1.2 (Fractions as Division Problems). Then on Thursday, we will focus in with Lesson 6.1.3 (Problem Solving with Division). The final division lesson (for this chapter anyway) will be completed next week. We are also going to be making the switch back to paper homework. Previously, students had a choice to complete CPM assignments as Jamboards or on paper. In the last chapter, over half of the students were choosing paper again, so I will no longer be making Jamboards for the homework assignments (though we will continue to use them for lessons). This means 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 short week! Ms Kennell
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Weather is a strange thing, with warm weather turning into snow before hopefully getting warm again! As we continue with Quarter 4, please remind your student to check about missing work, especially if they are in a sport!
**IAR testing is this week (state testing)!!! Please help us out by making sure your student is fully rested and has a fully charged chromebook! Our official testing is taking place April 19th-21st (Monday-Wednesday). It is very important that students are at school (on time!) for those days! Thanks! 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. If students still have any late work for this quarter, it needs to be completed ASAP! In math this week, we are completing our IAR testing Monday-Wednesday, before reviewing mean, median, mode, and range on Thursday. We'll complete an escape room in class and then have a review worksheet for homework that night. We will then start Chapter 6 next week. With testing this week, we decided not to each a normal core subject in the afternoons. Instead, we are doing a short Greek mythology unit! Monday we completed a crash course on major gods/goddesses, Tuesday will be spent looking at the myth of Hercules/Heracles and deciding if he's a hero or not, and Wednesday we'll end our mini-unit with the Disney movie version of Hercules, which we'll compare to the myth. Math homework for this week:
Thank you for your continued support and have a wonderful week! Ms Kennell After a rainy weekend, today was beautiful! I hope everyone had a chance to get outside! As we continue with Quarter 4, please remind your student to check about missing work, especially if they are in a sport!
**IAR testing is coming soon (state testing)!!! Please help us out by making sure your student is fully rested and has a fully charged chromebook! We will be doing some review this week, with our official testing taking place April 19th-21st (next Monday-Wednesday). It is very important that students are at school (on time!) for those days! Thanks! 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 starting a 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. We'll start this week by completing Lesson 1: The Solve, which looks at a mystery which demonstrates how objects lost at sea can travel across coastlines due to ocean currents. We will also complete our vocabulary notes for the unit and take a vocabulary quiz on Quizizz. If students still have any late work for this quarter, it needs to be completed ASAP! In math this week, we are wrapping up chapter 5. On Monday, we completed CPM Lesson 5.3.4 (Area of Trapezoids), looking at how we can turn trapezoids into parallelograms, so our area formula is similar, with the height being the main difference. On Tuesday, we will be completing our Ch 5 test in class, as well as answering some statistics questions in a Google form. Wednesday, we will be spending a quick day going over mean, median, mode, and range, working through some notes/problems together, as well as some questions based on the data from our Google form. On Thursday, Ms Kennell will be out for a meeting, so students will be working through some practice IAR problems on paper with their teams, with the possibility to earn some prizes! Math homework for this week:
Thank you for your continued support and have a fantastic week! Ms Kennell Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter weekend! As we continue with Quarter 4, please remind your student to check about missing work, especially if they are in a sport!
**IAR testing is coming soon (state testing)!!! Please help us out by making sure your student is fully rested and has a fully charged chromebook! We will be doing some practice testing this week, with our official testing taking place April 19th-21st. 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 necessary. In science this week, we will finish our unit by completing Lesson 3: The Engineer. Students will be using their work with weather and fronts to try to forecast the weather for a selected area. For this week, we will finish the weather report visual (step 4 on Mosa Mack) and take the unit test. Any old weather work should be completed as soon as possible. In math this week, we are working on completing chapter 5. On Monday, we completed CPM Lesson 5.3.2 (Area of Parallelograms), looking at how we can turn parallelograms into rectangles, so our area formula is the same (bxh). On Tuesday, we will be looking at the IAR practice test, trying out some of the problems and reviewing the features. Wednesday we will work on CPM Lesson 5.3.3 (Area of Triangles), exploring how two triangles can make up a rectangle, so the formula is 1/2(bxh) OR (bxh)/2. On Thursday, Ms Kennell will be out for a math meeting, so students will be completing the chapter 5 review packet with the substitute. We will finish the remaining math lesson for chapter 5 on Monday (5.3.4 - Area of Trapezoids) before taking our Ch 5 math test on Tuesday. The remaining time before IAR testing will be spent reviewing mean, median, mode, and range, as well as reviewing other content. Math homework for this week:
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