Super 6th Grade
22th Edition February 01, 2016
Parent Reminders
Report Cards
Report card will be given out 02-12-16 at the end of the day.Field Trip
CDC Museum on Feb 11th 2016 hosted by Ms. Dill - STEM Lab Instructor
Payment DUE by February 4th, 2015
NO SCHOOL
February 12th and 15th
Stay informed...
MR. ARNOLD'S SOCIAL STUDIES CLASS
We will begin covering the following standard on next week:
SS6G1 The student will locate selected features of Latin America and the Caribbean.
SS6G1.a. Locate on a world and regional political-physical map: Amazon River, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Panama Canal, Andes Mountains, Sierra Madre Mountains, and Atacama Desert.
SS6G1.b. Locate on a world and regional political-physical map the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela.
There will be a European Economics Unit Test on Monday, February,1, 2016. Students have been provided with a study guide in class, as well as via Edmodo.
Current events will be due on Friday, February 5, 2016. Current events should be submitted via Edmodo.
The student Edmodo code is 465dqr.
We are still accepting donations for tissue, hand sanitizer, electric pencil sharpeners, and other school supplies.
MS. PHILLIPS' SCIENCE CLASS
02-01-16 to 02-04-16
Hello wonderful LPA parents. Our scholars will begin a new unit on Water in Earth’s processes. Students will learn more in depth details about the water cycle, currents, waves, and tides, and the varies types of bodies of water. There will be new quizlet vocabulary up for this unit. Don’t forget that your Heliocentric projects are due February 16, 2016.
Standards for this week:
S6E3. Students will recognize the significant role of water in earth processes.
S6E3a. Explain that a large portion of the Earth’s surface is water, consisting of oceans, rivers, lakes, underground water, and ice.
S6E3.b. Relate various atmospheric conditions to stages of the water cycle.
Homework: Found on Edmodo and on the online google doc linked to the newsletter.
MR. ADAMS' ELA/READING CLASS
This week, we will be focusing on academic skills that will pertain specifically to the GA Milestones exam. I will administer a number of pre-tests to determine their strengths and weaknesses. In addition, I will be teaching them how to deconstruct the questions and writing prompts. I have found that students score poorly on the Reading and ELA sections because they do not know what the questions are asking them to do.
We will also continue to be heavily writing focused. Students are really getting on board with writing, and their enthusiasm shows in their writing and the excitement that they display when I give them writing tasks.
Homework:
1) Review the most current ELA lesson or any lesson that was presented during the week for at least 10 min. each night.
*Inferences and Implicit Knowledge (Context Clues)
*GA Milestones Practice
*Informational Writing
Standards covered:
ELAGSE6RI1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
ELAGSE6L3a.: Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style (varying sentence patterns continues with added rigor throughout the standards).
61 - Ms. Davis
Standard: MGSE6.EE.9 Use variables to represent two quantities in a real-world problem that change in relationship to one another. a. Write an equation to express one quantity, the dependent variable, in terms of the other quantity, the independent variable. b. Analyze the relationship between the dependent and independent variables using graphs and tables, and relate these to the equation.
Last week: Students are adjusting and improvement has been made. Equations with positive whole numbers students appear to understand; its when they have fractions or decimals they become frozen.
This week: Mini lessons on fractions and decimals. The mini lessons do impact heavily grade level instruction time, therefore students must practice at home IXL(4th or 5th grade fractions and decimals operations). We will continue to solve one step equations including inequalities and move to multiple representation involving equations(tables, word problems, diagrams...).
62 - Ms. Ellison
63 - Ms. Godfrey
Peek of the Week for 6th Grade at Leadership Preparatory Academy
Math Standard
MGSE6.EE.5-9
Monday
- One-step equations application
- SP 9.5 #1-18
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Tuesday
- One-step equations application
- SP 9.6 #1-20 even
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Wednesday
- One-step equations application
- SP 9.7 #1-20 even
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Thursday
- Review for Unit 4 Test
- Study for Test
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Friday
- Unit 4 Test
- Unit 5 Pre-Assessment
E. Godfrey, M.A.Ed.
8th and 6th Grade Mathematics
Leadership Preparatory Academy