6th Grade Newsletter
Autrey Mill Lions
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Important Upcoming Dates:
Tuesday, October 30: PTA Parent Tech/Education Workshop and Tour (Cafe-9:00-10:45)
Tuesday, November 6: Teacher Work Day (no school for students)
Thursday, November 8: 6th Grade Social (4:00-6:00 at AMMS)
November 19-23: Thanksgiving Break
Red Ribbon Week
6th Grade Social
Volunteers Needed for 6th Grade Social
It is time for the 6th Grade Social.
AMMS PTA is looking for volunteers to help with the event.
If you would like to volunteer please signup with the link below.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0d48afa92ea0f94-volunteers2
Additional Information:
School Attire for all students.
All students will be released at 6:00 pm.
If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Chans chansl@fultonschools.org.
6th Grade PTA-PARENT Workshop
Join us on Tuesday, October 30th, at 9:00am for a 6th Grade PTA-PARENT Workshop. New parents at AMMS are welcome to join!
We will be discussing Google Classroom, Apple Tools, 1:1 personalized learning and taking a tour of 6th grade classes in action.
Please fill out this link by Friday, October 26th, letting us know if you can attend: https://goo.gl/forms/Fq207AOgz3SUvYSL2.
If you have any questions feel free to contact Ashley Perry at perryam@fultonschools.org.
We look forward to hosting you at AMMS!
Academic Information
Spanish
Students are asking and answering questions about what they like to do when and with whom. Next week they will be learning about the Mexican holiday, Día de los Muertos. They will have the opportunity to participate in some of the traditional festivities in class.
Social Studies
We are about halfway through our European History unit. Over the next two weeks, we will be covering causes of WWII, WWII itself, the Holocaust, rise of communism, and the Cold War. This unit will conclude with our European History test being broken into two parts: Friday, Nov. 9th will be the test essay portion and Wed., Nov. 14th will be the online portion. Teachers will be giving study guides for both portions of the test so the students can be well prepared. Please be on the lookout for emails from your child’s SS teacher regarding information on the test.
ELA
In ELA, we are continuing our informational unit by evaluating claims and the evidence that supports them. We will also be discussing the differences between a fact and an opinion, and how to distinguish both in a text. Additionally, will be determining and supporting the central idea of a nonfiction text.
Our next quiz will be on November 7. It will cover types of textual evidence, using textual evidence to support a claim, fact vs. opinion, and central idea.
Reading:
Working with Text Complexity with a quiz on November 2nd. We will then start our next unit, Navigating Chapter Books in Book Clubs. This unit prepares students with a couple of challenges. Students will learn to read longer nonfiction texts. Students will be reading longer nonfiction chapter books, ensuring that they read a book, not an article, during this unit. We will also support practices that lead to engage reading: grouping students into book clubs, teaching students to react to their reading with fascination and wonder, and encouraging them to read other texts that complement their club book. This unit we will also equip student with strategies for what to do when texts get longer. Reading longer nonfiction texts, such as long journal articles, is significantly different than reading shorter articles. Within this unit, we will provision students with high-interest, accessible nonfiction chapter books, and support students’ resiliency by teaching them how to use their classmates and other available resources to grow ideas.
Math
6O:
We will be continuing our ratios, rates and proportions unit. We will be converting customary and metric units and modeling rates using tape diagrams & double number lines. We will have a quiz on Friday 11/2.
Then we will show rates in an equations, table, and graph, then move into percent of number.
For all of this unit setting up a proportion is the expectation to help the students to solve the problems.
The unit test is scheduled for Thursday 11/15
6A:
We are using the distributive property and then combining like terms. The terms will include fraction and decimal coefficients and constants. We will have a quiz on Friday 11/2.
Next, we will translate expressions back and forth between number sentences and word phrases. After that, we will solve one-step equations with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
The unit test is scheduled for Thursday 11/15.
7A:
We are having a Unit 2 Test on Friday, November 2nd. It will cover algebra vocabulary, properties, identifying parts of an expression, combining like terms, the distributive property, writing equivalent expressions by factoring out with the distributive property, translating algebraic expressions and solving one-step equations with rational numbers. Unit 3 will start the following Monday, 11/5, which is Ratios, Rates and Proportional Reasoning.
Science
We are continuing with Rock-tober by studying weathering, erosion, deposition, and soil! We will be looking at erosion around the school as well as starting a project about how humans influence erosion.
On Thursday, November 8th we will have a quiz covering weathering, erosion, and deposition.
6th Grade Weekly Help Sessions Schedule
Academic Help Sessions
Connections Help Sessions
Other Help Session Info
- Help sessions provide an opportunity for students to gain extra practice in a particular subject area.
- Teachers rotate who leads each subject's help session each week. Therefore, students may go to any teacher's help session, even if they don't have that teacher.
- Students must come to sessions with questions, a pen/pencil, and paper.
- For the morning sessions, students will wait in the cafeteria until they are picked up by the teacher leading that session at 8:00 a.m. Students must be on time, and they must be attentive so that they can hear when their session is called. Late students will not be admitted down the hallway.
- For the afternoon sessions, students go directly to the teacher hosting the help session after the dismissal bell rings. Students must be picked up on time at 4:40 p.m. in front of the school.