6th Grade Newsletter
Ms. Lisa Mooney, 6th Grade School Counselor
Winter Newsletter
The 2016-2017 school year is going by fast in 6th grade. 6th graders are hard at work making up assignments and making test corrections before the trimester ends. LA: In Language Arts, students have been crafting narrative essays. They have been practicing different ways to generate writing ideas as it is often difficult for 6th graders to find topics. Math: In math, students have been working on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals efficiently, as well as multiplying fractions or whole numbers, and, dividing fractions and mixed numbers. Future Math Topics: Algebraic Expressions and Properties, Areas of Polygons, and Ratios and Rates. Science: In Science, 6th graders are continuing basic chemistry focusing on the characteristics of elements on the periodic table, matter and its interactions, physical and chemical changes, energy and solutions. Future Science Topics: Weather, climate, weather conditions and causes, severe weather, weather instruments, forecasting, reading weather maps, biomes and climate types. Social Studies: 6th graders learned how to examine history from a close up and a far away perspective. Now they will be investigating early man and the challenges faced by the first humans. Future Social Studies Topics: Analyze early human migration and differentiate the ability of early man to survive in various regions of the world.
I invited every 6th grader and their parents to join my Google Classroom this year. I will be posting announcements and important dates on my classroom every month. Please remember to check my Google Classroom. The 6th graders have completed their student success plan questions on Naviance. They have set goals for this year. Here is the website: connection.naviance.com/nfms
During November we taught a study skills lesson about organization. Students watched a video that involved 4 different student scenarios: how to stay organized, how to study for a test, time management involving using a calendar, and working on long-term projects in advance. The 6th graders also worked on solving 2 of the scenarios by identifying the problem and possible solutions. Then, they took a learning style survey to find out what learning style they have so they know how they learn best.
We celebrated Student Success Week with the Middle School students in October. Students wrote down their life aspiration or dream career on a paper link that we used to make a chain. Middle school students were invited to make a dream board of their dream career or life aspiration according to a rubric. They did an excellent job making dream boards and we were able to pick a winner in each grade level.
Future November/December Activities: I will be doing learning style survey makeups with any 6th graders that were absent or didn’t finish the survey. I will continue to work with the 6th graders this year on study skills such as organization, time management, etc. We will also be revisiting the Naviance Program this year.
Important Upcoming Dates:
November 23-25 Thanksgiving Recess
December 2-Wingman Recognition Lunch
December 5-1st trimester ends
December 23-Early dismissal
December 26-January 2-Winter Break
*May 11th-Field trip to The Museum of Natural History