6C Weekly Newsletter
Proud to be an Olympian! 11/14/16
6C OLYMPIANS
Email: REAGAN.ALLEGRI@NKCSCHOOLS.ORG
Website: http://www.nkcschools.org/page.cfm?p=2209
Location: 5300 North Bennington Avenue, Kansas City, MO, United States
Phone: 8163215280
MARK YOU CALENDARS!
November 14- Progress Period Ends
November 17- Booster Club Meeting 6 pm - Media Center
November 23-25 - Thanksgiving Break
TEAM TEACHERS
Contact Information:
Mrs. Allegri - Room 227 (SOCIAL STUDIES)
816.321.4029
Mr. Kuebler- Room 218 (SCIENCE)
816.321.5506
Mrs. Robinson -Room 224 (ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS)
816.321.6012
melisa.robinson@nkcschools.org
Mrs. Vaughan -Room 221 (MATH & HONORS MATH)
816.321.6341
SIGN AND RETURN GRADE CARDS
Please review your child's grade card and sign it and return to your child's 6th hour teacher. This helps us keep the communication between school and home open! :)
MATH UPDATES ~ Mrs. Vaughan
6Math
Our practice of rates and ratios using a Rate Table has progressed very nicely. When we start our tables with the words it assures the correct order needed for the rate or ratio. We can then find Unit Rate and extend it to our needed task to answer.
We are moving to: Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.
That is a lot of different ways to show rates but with our knowledge of rate tables it will be simpler.
Keep checking Power School to assure your work is turned in and grade is where it should be. Midterm Progress check is already here, Monday!
Honors Math
We are closing in on the end of Chapter 2 with solving expressions and equations with all operations including decimal constants. We will have Quiz 2 after 2.7 a chapter review and the chapter test. Please check Power School often. Practice and checking together help reinforce daily the skills needed to be successful on the quizzes and tests. Students are ROCKING these skills and grades!!
SOCIAL STUDIES UPDATES ~ Mrs. Allegri
Last week students learned about some very important pharaohs that served in ancient Egyptian times. We also learned about pyramids, hieroglyphics, and even created our very own cartouches! Ask your child what that is and what goes on them! They enjoyed writing in hieroglyphics.
As We move forward--look for your child to begin writing a non-fiction book on the iPad over Egypt! I am so excited to introduce this new app to them.
SCIENCE UPDATES ~ Mr. Kuebler
Science is finishing up ecology. We will be moving on to the differences between organisms and the difference between living and nonliving things.
ELA UPDATES ~ Mrs. Robinson
Last week we began working on our narrative writing piece. We are using the book we read in 1st quarter, The Cay by Theodore Taylor, as our mentor/guide text to guide our writing of a narrative story. Students completed their pre-writing to organize their thoughts and put their story in an order that makes sense. So far we have covered the following topics: EXPOSITION – this is the beginning of the story that tells the information about the characters and setting, as well as writing the “hook” to grab the attention of your readers and the other topic we covered have covered is PLOT – which is the sequence of events that take place in a literary work, parts of the plot include: the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and the resolution. A lot of students have heard these elements to a story in elementary, but in middle school they tend to start digging deeper into their story writing using the parts to a story.
Next week we will continue writing our narrative stories and completing mini-lessons over: “Showing not Telling”, transition words, and dialogue. We will complete our stories before Thanksgiving break! Students will have at least 45 minutes to write each day next week, so there is not any reason they should not finish, if they use their time wisely. Have a great weekend!!!
YOU SHOULD KNOW...
We had a great time celebrating as a team on Friday! Students were given awards for the following:
Perfect Attendance (100% attendance)
Outstanding Attendance (98% attendance)
Principal's Club Honor Roll (All A's)
Principal's Honor Roll (all A's and one B)
Regular Honor Roll (All A's, B's, and once C)
Social Studies Award
Math Award
ELA Award
Science Award
Then, in the afternoon, students that qualified for the FREE time enjoyed time on the IPADS, Computers, and games. Those students qualified by not have any F's, no ISS or OSS, and 85% attendance or higher.
Please chat with your child about how their day was and how they plan to qualify next quarter!