6^th Grade Weekly Letter

Information for the Week of 3/15-3/19

Math:

We will be hopefully taking a test on chapter 6 this week. I am planning on Friday the 19^th. This chapter we learning about fractions again, negative and positive numbers, order of operations, and start to solve equations.

Social Studies:

We will be reading chapters 8 and 9 on Rome. The test will not be for a couple weeks. The study guide for the test is attached.

Reading:

Our Vocabulary test will on the 16^th and we will be getting a new list too.   In Lit. Circles, we will be reading Where The Red Fern Grows, students will get a project that needs to be done by March 29^th. We will be watching the movie on April 1^st.

English:

Our descriptive writing project is due Tuesday, March 16^th.   We will begin working on our next writing project: children’s stories.   We have several children’s books we will be looking through searching for commonalities among young children’s’ books.   We will use the 6 traits writing to create stories to share with our second grade buddies.

In grammar, in an effort to cement our knowledge of the parts of speech, we have been watching the classic “Schoolhouse Rock” videos.   Students will be put in groups of 2 and given a part of speech and asked to come up with a fun and creative way to show their understanding of their part of speech.   They can do something similar to the schoolhouse rock videos, or something else (poster, board game, etc).   This will be strictly an in-class activity.

Science:

 We are continuing on Weather and Climate. We will continue to study the first chapter on the atmosphere. We will have a short quiz on this chapter.

Religion:  

This week we will finish up Chapter 10 and have a test. Students should complete chapter review, faith words, and journal in the Religion notebook. These will be graded on test day. The test is scheduled for Tuesday.

6^th Grade basket

With June not far away and dads not that easy to buy for we thought our basket’s theme should be Father’s Day. We would like to collect all items that dads love. Below is a list of items that we thought fit the theme.

• Gander Mountain gift card
• Fishing things
• Games-basketball, outside games, etc.
• Tickets to sporting events
• Landscaping items: trees, bushes, etc.
• Best Buy gift card
• Bowling pass
• Menards gift card
• County park pass
• Drink glass: beer mugs and beer, wine glass and wine, etc.

These are just a couple ideas. If your dad likes to do an activity that is not on the list above, feel free to donate that item as well.   Donate of money will be pooled together to buy on the list above.