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
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