6th Grade Weekly Newsletter
10/14 - 10/28
Intro
Our newsletter will be sent out every other Friday.
6th grades next newsletter will be sent out on November 11th.
6th Grade Announcements
- Washington, D.C. 2024 - Please contact Carmen Marshall (Barry 8th grade Social Studies teacher) if you would like more information about this Barry tradition! (marshalc@platteco.k12.mo.us).
Students should be sending you an email every Monday through a Google Doc. In FPC, students are checking their grades and creating goals for the week and are required to share it with you. If you could please follow up with them at home on their goals as we will be checking in with them at school as well.
If you cannot access your student’s Live School account, please reach out to Mrs. Sullinger and she can give you the access code needed to log in. This is a great way to check on your student’s behavior in classes, tardies, and another way to monitor missing assignments/homework.
1st Quarter PACE is over, but you can begin signing up for 2nd Quarter PACE. PACE will start again for 2nd Quarter on Tuesday, November 1st. Sign up here: https://forms.gle/85LirptLfX6NmjqK8
6th Grade Transition Night (Repeat)
AFTER SCHOOL ACADEMIC LAB PROGRAM
Our Academic Lab program has started. What a great thing! This program is designed to provide students with an opportunity to continually improve on what they are learning by providing them a place after school to get homework help, re-take a test, or just have a quiet place to do their work. As a reminder, we have two sessions held in the Library after school on Tuesday and Thursday from 2:55pm - 4pm. We will have bus transportation after Academic Lab to transport students home. Please don't forget to sign up by 1:00 PM the day of! NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!
Barry Archery Season 2022 - 2023
Archery season is just around the corner. We have a strong and growing program that we hope you will consider joining.
↠ Try-outs: Monday, October 17th. Use this link for sign-up options.
↠ Open to 6th-8th grade
↠ Regular Season: November 7th to February 25th
↠ Practice Schedule: Mondays and Thursdays until December 8th.
Thursdays only December 15th -February 23rd
Time options: 5:10pm - 6:10pm OR 6:15pm - 7:15pm
↠ Team fee: $50 ( $75 for 2 students any grade)
(Individual student fees waived for 2 volunteer shifts with the Chiefs)
↠ Tournaments are held almost every Saturday - home and away options. Your obligation is
about 1 ½ hours on these days.
↠ Fee for each tournament - $10
Parent Portal (Repeat)
There are 3 programs parents/guardians can use to follow up on their student(s) here at Barry. The first one is the Parent Portal. You can either download the app called Tyler Sis Student 360 (it has a graduation cap on it) or you can access it from a browser using this link. The username will be the email at which you receive communication from the district. You will be able to see your students overall grades and a breakdown of each grade. When you log in from the computer, you can also see your students' classes with the time schedule on it.
LIVE SCHOOL (Repeat)
GOOGLE CLASSROOM (Repeat)
Middle School Handbook (Repeat)
Clarification on Backpack Items (Repeat)
- Water Bottle
- Earbuds (preferably non-wireless/no Bluetooth)
- Charged Chromebook
- Something to write with (pencils or pens)
- Assorted highlighters
- Colored pencils
Information from the 6th Grade Team
ELA
MR. GRIFFIN
Students began their new unit on theme and summary last week. Students have been analyzing text to determine the stories theme. We have also been discussing the difference between theme and main ideas of stories. We have begun looking at story elements and plot diagrams. Students this week are analyzing stories and determining where the events in the story are located in the plot diagram model.
Email: griffinb@platteco.k12.mo.us
Location: Room 221
Phone: 3128
Science
Mrs. Sullinger
We finished learning about the difference between erosion, deposition, and weathering and are moving into how water can cause erosion.
We took a quiz over Deposition and Erosion today and I decided to use this opportunity to go over test taking strategies with students. On Monday we will be going over the questions by modeling my thought process on how I would answer each question, then Tuesday I will show how to use features in the Illuminate Program (highlighting, digital notepad, and strike through) to help annotate questions while we are taking them. On Wednesday, we will then retake the quiz for the students who would like to improve their scores.
A big thank you to all the families that brought in shoe boxes! Students had fun creating their own wind erosion and observing how the erosion led into deposition. We had to model erosion with sand, soil, and pebbles. Some had large deposition and others even with our strongest wind gusts, could not move.
Email: sullingern@platteco.k12.mo.us
Location: Room 222
Phone: 3114
Math
MRS. BARTON
Students are beginning their second unit of study: Integers and Rational Numbers. Students will be working with positive and negative numbers on number lines and coordinate planes. We have been practicing with vocabulary for this unit: whole numbers, counting numbers, negative numbers, and positive numbers.
Email: bartona@platteco.k12.mo.us
Location: Room 223
Phone: 3115
MR. CERUTTI
Email: ceruttib@platteco.k12.mo.us
Location: Room
Phone: 3129
Social Studies
MRS. MADILL
Email: madillc@platteco.k12.mo.us
Location: 224
Phone: 3116
Specials
PE
We are wrapping up our 1st Quarter Fitness Testing which we will use to set goals for the rest of the year. We will continue with weekly Cardio and Fitness days and will start our Ultimate Games and Basketball Unit soon
If you have any questions or concerns, please email Mr. Milne at milnej@platteco.k12.mo.us.
Choir
As we wrap up 1st quarter, students just took a Unit 1 Exam last week. Though grades are submitted on 10/26, they can still make up or redo their exams until November 8th on Tuesdays/Thursdays during Academic Lab. Please have them give me a heads up so I know to be here. Our next quarter will get us deeper into concepts of Quarter 1, as well as bring us our performances! Our winter concert will be at Barry Middle School (not PCHS) on December 13th. I’ll be sending information out soon regarding this!
If you have any questions or concerns, please email Mr. Sheeley at sheeleyb@platteco.k12.mo.us.
Band
Please click here to view the band programs weekly newsletter for updates
If you have any questions or concerns, Please email Ms. Brazier at brazierm@platteco.k12.mo.us
Art
6th graders taking Art during the second quarter started Monday! We have been discussing expectations and procedures in the Art Room. We are learning how patterns are used in art and are incorporating this knowledge in our “Autumn Patterns” project.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email Mrs. Brown at brownk@platteco.k12.mo.us.
World Language
With first quarter done, students moved to new electives. My new classes have started learning about World Languages and what the class is all about. For the first week, I will ease students in with procedures and get to know you activities.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email Mr. Mattivi at mattivij@platteco.k12.mo.us.
Computers
Students have been getting to know each other as they review some features of Google Docs. Moving forward, they will be designing chairs and tables in the 3D drawing program, SketchUp.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email Mrs. Delaney delaneym@platteco.k12.mo.us
Reading 180
Please reach out to Ms. Cook at cookeb@platteco.k12.mo.us if you have any questions or concerns about your student in this class. However, you may click here for her syllabus and click here for her rubrics for some resources that may answer your questions.
If you have any questions or concerns, please email Mrs. Cook at cookeb@platteco.k12.mo.us.
PLTW - Flight & Space
The new group of 6th grade Flight and Space students have just come into my class. We always start with a Paper Airplane design challenge and move into how planes fly!
If you have any questions or concerns, please email Mrs. Morelock at morelocj@platteco.k12.mo.us
Important Dates to Remember
October 28: Report cards go home
November 2 - 3: Parent Teacher conferences
November 4: No School
November 9: Professional Learning Community (PLC) day - 2 hour early dismissal
November 17: Board of Education Meeting 6:30 - 8:30 pm
November 23 - 25: No school - Thanksgiving Break