Progress Reports:
Today your student will be coming home with a printed copy of their grades. This progress report is intended to serve as a tool to talk with your child about how school is going and to see if they are on track. Please remember that you can login to PowerSchool and view your student's grades at any time and that the grades are always changing. If your student has a 0 on an assignment, they might not have turned it in on time or it is missing. Please sign and return the bottom portion of the front page.
Art: Both 6ki and 6ko are working on part two of project one - visually showing how the artist's see God in their lives. 6d is still working on completing their patterns. Please check the homework calendar for sketchbook assignments.
Band: Practice Records are due each month. The October calendar was handed out at the beginning of the month, and more are available in the band room. 240 minutes in a month is an A. Please encourage a regular practice schedule for band. Your students are doing a great job during class - practice at home is also essential.
Bible: Wednesday the books of the Old Testament are due. We will continue our look the setting of the Bible this week.
Choir: We have learned the story about Horatio Spafford and "It is Well With My Soul". Students are making presentations/projects about this. All are due over the course of the next week, on the day that your student has choir. So far I have seen some really great things from your 6th graders. Wow!
History: Google Map presentations are due on Monday. We are continuing our study on maps focusing on latitude and longitude this week.
Language arts: The students did EXTREMELY well on their noun quizzes last week. Your child will bring home the quiz next week for a parent signature. This must be returned to school on Thursday, October 16. For some students that struggled on the possessive part, there will be some reteaching. Next week, we will spend more time reading Tuck Everlasting and picking out literary devices. We will even find similes and metaphors in music! There will not be a lot of extra homework, but I do expect your child to read 90 minutes a week outside of school.
Math: The students have been working hard this past week as we have been estimating with percents. We will continue with percents next week and hope that the estimation practice will help us understand if our computational answers are correct. This has been a challenging concept for some students, but over the past couple days students have grown in their confidence. A huge help for them is to have their common fractions, decimals and percent equivalencies memorized. We did make flash cards and students have a reference page taped/glued in the front cover of their book. Please help practice these with your student. Also students should be bringing their book home so they have the notes from class to reference while doing their homework.
PE: The students have been enjoying the fall weather while playing disc golf. Students have played a course that was created for them and have also created their own disc golf course. Next week students will use their frisbee skills to learn and play the game of ultimate frisbee.
Orchestra: The students played extremely well on the playing quiz today- on lesson 35. We will finish the playing quiz on lesson 36 on Monday. Thanks so much for the great job on practice! Keep it up- it is so great to learn new pieces when everyone practices!!! Another great WOW- all of the string players are putting their cases ON the instrument racks - keep up the great work!
Science: We're moving on to a study of matter - what is it? What are different forms? What are properties of matter? Lots of fun labs and demos to come, so be sure to ask your student about those.
Spanish: El alfabeto! In learning the Spanish alphabet, students will improve their ability to pronounce and spell in Spanish. In class, we will do a mock phone conversation whereby students pretend to call a Taxi service, spelling their name and address in Spanish, which "dispatch" will type into their "database." By the end of the week, ask your 6th grader if they can "sing" the Alphabet March.
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