6th Grade - 8/31-9/4

 

Welcome, 6th Grade Families!

Important Dates and Information

Wednesday, 9/2 - Online MAP Testing (Reading)

Friday, 9/4- No Synchronous Zoom Meetings

Tuesday, 9/8- No Synchonous Zoom Meetings

Monday, 9/21 - 6th graders return to brick & mortar (100% Asynchronous)

• There will be no synchronous zoom meetings on Monday, 9/21.

• Parents, please see the Stream of your scholar's Google Classroom daily for an updated agenda for the day. This will help guide your scholar while doing their work to ensure assignments are being done and turned in. It will also help you when you are checking your scholar's work to make sure that nothing was forgotten about or missed.

• We are working very hard to provide your scholar with feedback to all of the work being turned in. In order to see how your student is doing on assignments turned in follow the steps provided below:
• In Google Classroom on the web, available classes display after you sign in. Click on or tap a class, then Classwork (from the top menu), then View My Work. When you see a small speech bubble next to an assignment that means a teacher has left a comment for your scholar.
• In the Google Classroom app on iOS or Android, tap a class, tap Classwork, then tap the student work icon in the upper-right hand corner of the screen.
• Each assignment is listed with its status (e.g., Assigned, Turned In, or Missing) and due date, if added. If available, grades also display on this screen, although not all assignments will have a score associated with it.

• Mrs. Glowe, Ms. Laboy, and Mr. Bhandari offer office hours on Fridays.  Please email the teacher to schedule a 15-minute time slot.

• You may purchase phonogram cards here. You can also download the Spalding app on your phone by clicking here.

What's coming up next week?

Literature and Poetry

This week we dove into the legends and myths of the many Greek gods, more specifically the Greek creation myth. Students were challenged to create mental images of dramatic scenes and think critically about the actions of the Greek gods. Next week, we will continue to dive deep into the Greek legends and discuss virtue and how it relates to the Greek hero.

Writing

This week scholars learned the purpose of writing summaries and outlines and practiced writing their own. Next week, we will review chronological narrations of past events and learn how to write a descriptive sequence.

Grammar

This week scholars learned about the four types of sentences: declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory. Next week, we will focus on adverbs, a part of speech that modifies a verb by answering the questions how? when? or where? in a sentence.

Math

We started this week by solving word problems. Then, we started translating word phrases into Mathematical expressions. We will continue doing these next week. We will translate sentences into equations and inequalities. Then, we will learn to solve them.

History

This week we focused on map skills more specifically, latitude and longitude. Students took their first History test and will begin to explore how latitude affects climate. Next week we will have a fun geography experiment over map projections. Please make sure students have at least 2 large grape fruits, two different colored permanent markers, and a spoon. We will also be using out core knowledge text books to discover the characteristics of our World Deserts.

Science

This week in Science, scholars began to understand the complexity of cellular structure and different functions of the organelles. Next week scholars will have the opportunity to present their cell analogies and models during their Science Zooms.

Don't forget to check our Specials blog!

Contact Information

6A Lead - Mrs. Nicole nicole.glowe@greatheartswesternhills.org 

6B Lead - Ms. Charlie Laboy - charlie.laboy@greatheartswesternhills.org

Math Interventionist - Mr. Subodh Bhandari - subodh.bhandari@greatheartswesternhills.org

AT - Mrs. Jessica Alcorta - jessica.alcorta@greatheartswesternhills.org

Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions, comments, or concerns! Email is the best way to contact us!