January News
6th Grade Newsletter
Important Dates
6-Boots Day
11- Elementary Backwards Day (dress day)
12- On-Demand for Writing
13- Book Orders Due ( will send home 1/3)
16-No School
17- Inservice-No School
18- Marking Period Ends
20-Dress like a Snowman Day
Wow, the school year is really moving along! We have been working on Unit 4 in math class this month. We took part of the Unit 4 math test on Thursday, December 22nd. When we return from the holiday break, we will finish up the unit 4 lessons which are 4.11 through 4.14 and then take the rest of the unit 4 test January 12th. We will then be starting Unit 5 which focuses on area and volume. We will cover area of different shapes, building 3-D shapes with nets, using nets to find surface area, and strategies for finding volume. Below you will see the vocabulary for Unit 5. Please review the vocabulary with your child. Please continue to work on math facts with your child as well! We will be taking our second fact fluency tests between January 11th and 18th. We take a 2 minute test with 100 facts for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Unit 5 Vocabulary
Acute angle: an angle with a measure less than 90°
Apex: In a pyramid, the vertex opposite the base. All the non-base faces meet at the apex. The point at the top of a cone.
Base: The side of a polygon or face of a polyhedron from which the height is measured
Compose: To make up or form a number or shape by putting together smaller numbers or shapes. For example, one can compose a pentagon by putting together an equilateral triangle and a square. One can compose a 5 by putting together 5 ones: 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1
Congruent: Having the same size and shape
Cubic units: a unit, such as cubic centimeter, cubic inches, and cubic meters, used to measure volume and capacity
Decompose: to separate a number or shape into smaller numbers or shapes. For example, a square
Edge: Any side of a polyhedron’s faces. A line segment or curve where tow surfaces of a geometric solid meet.
Endpoint: A point at the end of a line segment, ray, arc, or curve.
Equilateral triangle: A triangle with all three sides equal in length. Each angle of an equilateral triangle measures 60°
Face: a flat surface on a closed, 3-dimensional figure. Some special faces are called bases.
Geometric solid: a 3-dimensional figure such as a prism, pyramid, cylinder, cone, or sphere. Despite its name, a geometric solid is hollow.
Height: the length of a perpendicular segment from one side of a geometric figure to a parallel slide or from a vertex to the opposite side.
Isosceles triangle: A triangle with at least two equal length sides. Angles opposite the equal length sides are equal in measure.
Line segment: a part of a line between and including two points called endpoints of the segment.
Net: A 2-demensional figure created to represent a 3-demensional figure by cutting and unfolding or separating its faces and sides.
Obtuse angle: An angle with a measure greater than 90° and less than 180°
Parallelogram: A trapezoid that has two pairs of parallel sides
Polygon: A plane figure formed by line segments(sides) that meet only at their endpoints (vertices) to make a closed path. The sides may not cross one another.
Quadrilateral: A 4-sided polygon. Ex: square, rectangle, parallelogram, rhombus, kite, trapezoid
Right angle: An angle with a measure of 90°
Scale drawing: A drawing of an object in which all parts are drawn to the same scale to the object.
Scalene triangle: A triangle with sides a three different lengths. The three angles of a scalene triangle have different measures.
Surface area: The area of the surface of a 3-dimensional object.
Vertex: The point at which the sides of an angle or polygon, or the edges of a polyhedron meet. Plural is vertexes or vertices. Informally called a corner.
Volume: A measure of how much 3-dimensional space something occupies. Volume is often measured in liquid units such as gallons or liters, or cubic units such as cubic inches.
We will spend January working on context clues, affixes, and word relationships (synonyms, antonyms, multiple meaning, and analogies).
After we work on these strategies, we will apply them to Chapter 2 Lesson 1 in Social Studies. This begins our discussion on causes of the Civil War.
We will then begin our discussion of Figurative Language.
Students will continue to turn in reading journals beginning January 9th, which is a day 1. Please remember that if there is a snow day that changes our day cycle calendar that I have posted on my web page.
Here is what we will be working on as we start off the new year in Mrs. Seufert’s classroom.
Word Work- We will continue to learn about nouns. We will spend the week of January 3rd and the week of January 9th finishing up our study of nouns. After nouns, we will then work on learning about pronouns for the remainder of the month. Again, we will do a variety of practice on dry erase boards, paper/pencil, and on laptops. The students will be assessed on each skill that is covered.
Writing- We have finished our first two argumentative writing pieces. We will work on our third piece which is a compare and contrast argumentative essay. The students will again base their writing off of a text. They will use transition words, cite evidence, and then analyze their evidence to prove their claims in their writing. It is my hope that the students will apply these skills to help them with their reading journals and TDA’s! We will have our on-demand argumentative writing prompt on January 12th. After that, we will begin our next unit on persuasive writing.
Science-We are continuing our study of light and sound. The students’ science interactive notebooks will be due on Thursday, January 12th. Please check in with your child to make sure he or she has completed all of the left-side activities for the marking period beginning with our unit on energy. We will have a quiz on light on January 13th. We will then spend time learning about sound to finish out the month.
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