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
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