September Newsletter
6th Grade
Important Dates
5th- Intrumental Guidance
6th- Vacation t-shirt day8th- Picture Day
18th- Constitution Day
21st-DORA
22nd-ADAM
29-Reading Journals Introduced
GLOW RUN
Reading- The students will be introduced to our Notice and Note Signposts. These are reading frameworks that the students can use all year to dive deeper into their fiction texts. Once we work through those they will have an assessment on the signposts (September 14). We will then begin our Key Ideas and Details fiction/nonfiction units. During September, the students will begin to understand how plot unfolds and how/why characters change. The students will also participate in the DORA, which is a diagnostic assessment of the students reading. Reading journals will be introduced on September 29th.
Social Studies- The students will be looking at how regional differences affect human interactions with the environment. They will each be choosing a topic and researching the topic in class to create a project to show their understanding.
This month will be busy in Mrs. Seufert’s room. We will be doing the following in each subject area:
Word Work-We will be reviewing parts of a sentence and compound/complex sentences for the next two weeks. Each week the students will complete a graded paper. Then, we will spend the next three weeks on prefixes. The students will work with a set of prefixes each week. On Friday, they will have a quiz on the set for that week.
Writing- This month we will be writing lots of narratives. The students will write a new narrative every day. They will learn different skills and strategies to incorporate into their writing. They will then begin to work on their first graded piece.
Science-We will be using our interactive notebooks. The students will review the steps of scientific inquiry and practice using those steps to complete labs. We will then review atoms and elements to prepare for our first unit on energy. We will have a quiz on scientific inquiry on September 8th and one on atoms and elements on September 15th.
Digital Tools
As of right now, our 6th grade classrooms will be using a variety of digital tools. We know for sure that throughout the school year we will be using the following digital tools in our classroom. If you do not want your child to use one of the tools below, please contact us in writing with the digital tool that you would not like your child to use.
· www.frontrowed.com ( the student enters first and last name and a class code)
· https://Tourbulider.withgoogle.com (we will use to pinpoint the areas they study all over the globe, uses google log in)
· https://kahoot.it (the students put in a nickname and code)
· www.noredink.com (grammar and writing program that uses google log in)
· www.prezi.com (digital presentations uses google log in)
· www.emaze.com (digital presentations uses google log in)
Hello! In math this year, we will be covering a variety of topics. In unit 1, we will be focusing on data displays and the number system. In 6th grade this year, the students will be creating an interactive notebook that they should be bringing home with them each night. We will be completing pages that they can use to help them with their homework and to study for the unit tests. It is important that the students know their multiplication and division facts for 6th grade as this will make math class easier for them. Please remember to practice facts whenever you can. Our first math test is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, September 21st.
Unit 1 Vocabulary
Mean: the average~ add up all the numbers and divide by the number of numbers in the data
Median: the middle number~ put the numbers in order and cross off both high and low number. If you have an odd number, the last number is the median. If you have an even amount of numbers, take the last two numbers, add them together, and divide by 2 to get the median.
Mode: the number that occurs the most in a set of data
Range: The maximum number minus the minimum number
Statistical Questions: Questions that have more than one answer; they often include the words: typically, average. A statistical question is one that can be answered by collecting data and where there will be variability in that data. This is different from a question that anticipates a deterministic answer. For example, "How many minutes do 6th grade students typically spend on homework each week?" is a statistical question. A statistical question is one for which you don't expect to get a single answer. Instead, you expect to get a variety of different answers, and you are interested in the distribution and tendency of those answers. For example, "How tall are you?" is not a statistical question. But "How tall are the students in your school?" is a statistical question.
Histograms: a graph that has bins; the bins touch, the bins have a range of data
Coordinate Grid: a grid used to locate points in a plane using ordered pairs of numbers. It is formed by two number lines that intersect at right angles at their zero points.
Negative Numbers: numbers that are less than zero. They are the OPPOSITE of positive numbers. The further away from zero you go to the left, the smaller the negative number becomes. The closer to zero you get, the larger the negative number becomes.
Counting Numbers: the numbers used to count things. The set starts at 1 and goes up.
Whole Numbers: the counting numbers and the number zero
Integers: a whole number and its opposite
Rational Numbers: Numbers that can be written in the form a/b and b is not zero. The decimal form of a rational number eithers terminates or repeats.
Irrational number: Numbers that cannot be written as fractions. The decimal continues on forever without ending. Examples are pi and the square root of 2.
6th Grade
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