Math
We welcome the first full week of the new year this week! It's a rare, magical week where I have no tests or quizzes for students! Hooray! Lots of new learning will be going on this week in math. Students will be diving into chapter 5, with a focus on absolute value, comparing and ordering positive and negative numbers (including fractions and decimals), and using division to find the decimal form of positive and negative numbers. Although negative numbers are new to 6th grade students, the math that we are doing along with them isn't. This chapter takes some familiar concepts and pushes them to the next level. Some frustration with comparing and orderings, as well as division, is to be expected. These lessons push students to think critically and have math stamina. Please see the math links for some helpful videos to review at home. Science With the new year brings a new focus in science! While term 1 primarily focused on Earth and Space science, term 2 will focus on Life Science. Throughout the next several months we will be learning about what it means to be alive, what cells are, cell parts and functions, and body systems that keep us alive and moving. We begin the journey with a look at the past. This week we will be reading about fossils. Fossils can tell us about the earliest forms of life on Earth, and how we have grown and evolved into the many species and types of plants and animals we see on Earth today. It's a great journey, and I'm hoping for lots of fun (and projects!) along the way! English Language Arts, Reading and History Writing: We are writing a short 3 paragraph essay using persuasive writing techniques. A graphic organizer was mostly done in class on Monday with the expectation that it be completed by Tuesday. Students will be adding the details and infor- mation on the graphic organizer as a rough draft to be finalized in Google Classroom in class. Grammar: We are just trying to firm up our understanding of appositives since it is so important in writing. Students will begin the 8 Principal Parts of speech next week for review, mastery and application. Reading and History Students have been completing a thorough reading and annotation of The Book of the Dead. This week, we practice putting the annotations into the computer. A test on this reading will be on Friday, after we have thoroughly reviewed the reading. Our Latin/Greek roots for vocabulary are -hosp, -host, and -onym due on Friday. Students have been learning the presidents in the order they were elected. Now is time to take the oral test. Recitation tests are made by appointment and should be completed by Thursday. English Language Arts, Reading and History
Reading: complete Unit 7 vocabulary quiz : complete annotations of The Book of the Dead Grammar: We understand how appositives contribute to interesting and informative writing History: Students begin Presidents Tests. Since November, all students have been learning and reciting the presidents in the order they were elected. By Martin Luther King Day, all students will take this oral test. .Math- TEST THURSDAY
We are almost there! This week will feel like the longest, shortest, and craziest all in one! Due to snow days and delays, we are keeping it business as usual and going strong all week! Monday we finish the last lesson of chapter 1, and use rates and ratios to solve real world scenarios. Tuesday and Wednesday will be spend reviewing for our upcoming test. A "scoot" game and two practice tests will have students ready to tackle ratios and rates on their test this Thursday. Extra credit is available online (directions can be found here) and will be need to be submitted by Friday at 9:00. Science- QUIZ FRIDAY Due to the short time between Thanksgiving and winter break, coupled with three days impacted by snow, our science time has been cut short! For this reason, this week's quiz will be open notes and open book. This week's content will focus on types of mountains (folded, uplifted, fault block, volcanic) and how continents are formed. The overarching theme is still plate tectonics and plate shifting. A study guide will go home on Wednesday, and the wrap up quiz will be Friday. It's a lot, but we can get there! English Language Arts, Reading and History Writing: Reading: History: We are creating plays about famous Egyptian pharaohs following the traditional story structure of setting Inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. The research is all done and just the fun part of deciding what part of a story to tell, what props are found or made and what signs to create. We will be filming the movies on Thursday. Reading slip is due on Wednesday and Typing for Accuracy #3 is due on Thursday. Math
Students will continue to learn about ratios and rates this week in math. On Monday we will spend time doing some problem solving and reviewing lessons 1-5. There will be a quiz Tuesday that focuses on the content covered in lessons 1-4 of Chapter 1. This includes greatest common factor, least common multiple, writing ratios in simplest form using pictures, creating unit rates by dividing, and using equivalent ratios to solve ratio tables. A practice quiz will be done in class Monday to prepare. For the rest of the week students will continue solving word problems involving rates and ratios. A chapter 1 test should be expected next Wednesday, 12/18. Optional online extra credit will be available beginning this Friday, 12/13, once all lessons are completed. Extra credit will be due by 12/19. Science Monday through Wednesday this week we will be reading, outlining, and studying Chapter 3, lesson 2. This lesson focuses on converging, diverging, and sliding tectonic plates, and what each forms. There will be an open book quiz on Thursday on this content as well as lesson 1. Students should reread the two lessons at home using the online textbook if possible. Yes, an open book quiz provides students easy access to answers, but they must still be familiar enough with the content to extract and understand them. Studying is still important! English Language Arts, Reading and History Writing: Our focus is to prepare our papers on Ancient Egypt for publication. Students have researched topics, organized information in a graphic organizer and written, revised and edited research papers. Although we began all of this in class, most students worked on this important assignment at home as well in Google classroom. Thanks for everyone's hard work! Grammar: We review the Trio of Villains of good writing: sentence fragments, run on sentences and comma splices. Students will be using this new knowledge in revising their research papers for Ancient Egypt. We'll begin a typing for accuracy , to improve typing skills, editing and understanding complex sentences. Reading:We continue in Massachusetts Book Groups for reading fluency and collaborative discussion. This week's reading selection focuses on finding the main idea of non-fiction writing in The Book of the Dead. History: Excitement for the Egyptian Museum mounts! My weekend email flurry shows a huge amount of work on these projects! So looking forward to seeing student creative work. I am asking for students to try to bring in a table cloth to help create the aisles of the museum, since we are not having the projects displayed on tables. In fact, not only do you not have to have a table, but I am realizing that you do not have to buy a trifold either, since the posters can be displayed flat on the tablecloth! 2/12 Egyptian Museum Exhibition Project and tablecloth are here at CHCS by 9:00 Students set up projects in gym on tablecloths at 12:15 Fifth grade begins walk through at 1:00 2:15 - 3:10 Parents invited to tour Museum 3:10 Exhibition breakdown. Students leave with projects, tablecloths, backpacks on buses or with parents Students will not be able to store projects here over the Christmas break. |