6th Grade Weekly

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Volume 4 Issue 10

November 20th, 2015

Science Next Week

Science Weekly Review

11/23 Students will begin the new unit on Weather and Water. Students will create a concept map on weather.

11/24 The students will receive the tests on Density from last week.

New SchedulesStudents were given new schedules that displayed a change in their 8th

period class.However students will be receiving yet a new schedule that will have their core classes rearranged. The

team has adjusted the groups accordingly and this will be

affective Monday November 23rd, 2015.

11/16 Students revisited their Life Jacket data and wrote modifications they would make to it.

11/17 Students read Science in a Bathtub. They answered the Focus Question: How can science be

used to solve a mystery?11/18 Students revisited the orange experiment and reflected on what they think about it now, after they completed the life jacket challenge.

11/19 Students wrote claims and evidence based upon the Big Question: How can an understanding

of density help to design a life jacket? They reviewed the unit on density.

11/20 Students were tested on the density unit.

6th Grade Thanksgiving

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6th Grade Weekly

NewsletterMath with Ms. York

Week in ReviewThis week students have used prior knowledge to help aide with

the division of decimals. Students have revisited all decimal operations in Topic B with extensive experience of decimal

operations to the hundredths and thousandths (5.NBT.7), which prepared them to easily compute with more decimal places.

Students begin by relating the first lesson in this topic to mixed numbers from the last lesson in Topic A. They found that sums and differences of large mixed numbers can sometimes be more

efficiently determined by first converting the number to a decimal and then applying the standard algorithms (6.NS.3). Within decimal multiplication, students began to practice the distributive property by using arrays and partial products to

understand and apply the distributive property as they solved multiplication problems involving decimals. By gaining fluency in the distributive property throughout this module and the next, students will be proficient in applying the distributive property

in Module 4 (6.EE.3).

Volume 4 Issue 10

November 20th, 2015

Take A Peek At Next Weeks Math!

Monday 11.23 Mid Module 2 Test Tuesday 11.24 Mid Module 2 Test

HALF DAY Wednesday 11.25 NO SCHOOL Thursday 11.26 NO SCHOOL

Friday 11.27 NO SCHOOL

Mid Module 2 Test Monday & Tuesday!

STUDY REVIEW SHEET!!

ELA with Mr. Knowles *All students are required to read at least three AR books

every marking period. One of these books has to be based on

Social Studies.

The first AR book and quiz will be due

on December 15, 2015.

This past week students completed their re-test on the Writing Process and the 6+1

Writing Traits. Students also read chapters 13-16 of The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. For each chapter students had to identify

and journal the main idea, unfamiliar vocabulary words,

blog responses on Edmodo.com, and collaborate effectively with

peers.

ELA Next WeekNext week students will continue Module #1.

Students will connect different themes and stages of The Hero’s Journey to the events

from chapters 17-18. You can find Module #1 here:

https://www.engageny.org/resource/grade-6-english-language-arts

Social Studies Next WeekNext week students will work on the focus question, “How has Egyptian society changed through time? How does/did religion influence women’s roles in

Egyptian society”? Students will research the significance of mummification and analyze how

religion dictated the role of King Tut.

Social Studies With Ms. HallThis Week

This week students completed the unit on Mesopotamia and their essay for Skara Brae. They tested on Wednesday after reviewing with jeopardy

and the review pages for Chapter 1 and 2.We discussed ISIS, The Islamic State of Iraq and

Syria, which ties in to our study of Mesopotamia. Iraq and Syria are located in the area where

Mesopotamia existed.