Hello 6th Grade Families!
Semester 2 Early Release Days (1:45 PM):
1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2/26, 3/19, 3/26, 4/16, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14, 5/21
Important dates:
5/11-5/12 STAAR Testing
Scholars of the month
Important Information
- Please ensure that scholars bring his/her own water bottle to school. We will no longer provide water cups during the day.
- Students who do not complete their homework will have to complete their homework during recess on the day the homework is due.
- Scholars can receive a recess detention as a consequence for continual actions that distract from the learning environment during school. This is an opportunity for scholars to spend time reflecting on how to make good choices that will help them be successful here at Great Hearts. Parents will be notified before the detention is served.
- Please make sure your scholar has his or her own copy of The Wind in the Willows (ISBN- 978-0-14-303909-9) B&M scholars bring their books on Monday April 12. This is very important as we are asking students to annotate in their own texts.
- Please have your scholar bring a locker shelf to help with organization of materials and to make for quicker visits.
- Please place a cover on all textbooks (Math and Biology) ASAP. These are required.
- Uniform infractions will be issued for scholars in violation of the GH uniform policy.
What's coming up?
Literature
Scholars are continuing to read our last novel, The Wind in the Willows. We have completed Chapter 7. Please remind your scholar this would be a great time to go back and review their annotations and summaries over the past 7 chapters. Ask them about the different relationships that are occurring in the novel and what theme they predict the author is trying to convey to the reader.
Next week, scholars will continue to read Chapters 8-10. Please remind your child of the importance of completing their nightly homework.
Math
This week, we reviewed
problems from 2019 STAAR test.
Next week, we will review problems from 2017
STAAR test
History
This week, we reviewed problems from 2019 STAAR test.
Next week, we will review problems from 2017 STAAR test
This week in History the scholars were introduced to significant innovators and the innovations that had a profound impact on society. Scholars also explored the achievements of important industrialists Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and J.P. Morgan and how their achievements helped the U.S. become an industrial giant beginning in the late 1800s.
Next week scholars will be analyzing political cartoons to decide if these industrialists are “Captains of Industry” or “Robber Barons”. We also will be discussing the effects of industrialization and urbanization during the turn of the century as well as the development and impact of the labor movement..
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