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This week is spirit week! See the image to the left for details.
The end of the nine weeks is Wednesday, October 28th. All missing and incomplete work is due by then.
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Please note that students should not be bringing fidgets, toys, needohs, etc. to school unless the student has an IEP or 504 plan with details that allow for these items.
Important Dates
October 30th - Early Dismissal (12:55 pm)
Nov. 3rd- No School, Election Day
Nov. 11th- Veteran's day, no school
26-27 NWR PBIS Reward Criteria for Staff Chart (1).pdfMr. Kessler
Mrs. Wilde
Mr. Shimer
This week, Oct. 19th-23rd in our classes...
This week, Oct. 19th-23rd in our classes...
Last updated: 10/16/26
Math
Math
Our quiz to close out our unit on area is this Thursday. IXL codes will be due the same day and will not be able to be made up after the fact, except on a case by case basis - students documented as needing extra time.
MANY IXL codes have not been completed across the team. Time is available to work on them during class, but they should be completed at home if they are not getting done at school. Many students are done with them, but on the other hand many students are letting them pile up opposed to getting them done when they are assigned. This can get overwhelming and we'll need to come up with a plan moving forward.
Our next unit is on Ratios!
ELA
ELA
This week in ELA, we will:
-Finish reading Bud, Not Buddy
-Take a quiz on ch 13-19 of Bud, Not Buddy.
-Start a project on North Carolina Legends.
-Read informational text to improve our skills of supporting answers with evidence from the text.
-Take our final core growth goal test on RI 6.1 (Thursday, 10/22).
-Work on reading week 5 for weekly work, due Friday 10/23.
Learning Targets:
I can...
I can summarize a NC Legend by deciding what the most important are. RI.6.2
I can use my summary of a North Carolina legend to write a clear, organized news report script that communicates the most important information to my audience. W.6.3
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. RI.6.1
Science
Science
This week in Science we will...
define a wave as a repeating disturbance that transfers energy from place to place through a material medium or empty space without permanently moving matter.
construct and label models of a transverse wave, identifying its equilibrium resting line, crests (highest points), troughs (lowest points), amplitude, and wavelength.
construct and label models of a longitudinal (compressional) wave, identifying compressions (crowded regions) and rarefactions (spread-out regions).
demonstrate that wave amplitude is directly related to wave energy, explaining that larger amplitudes carry greater energy (such as larger seismic waves causing greater ground movement in an earthquake).
explain the relationship between wave frequency (number of wave cycles passing a point per second, in Hertz) and wavelength: as frequency increases, wavelength decreases.
To Do:
Unit 2 Assessment (10/20)
Unit 2 Assessment Corrections due by the end of the quarter (10/28)
Units of Study
Unit 0: Building a Community of Scientists
Unit 1: The Collapsing Train Car
Unit 2: Under Construction
Unit 3: Waves and their Application
Unit 4: From Earth to the Edge of the Universe
Unit: 5: Earth's Systems / Earth and Human Activity
Unit 6: From Molecules to Organisms - Structure and Process
Unit 7: Ecosystems- Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
**The order of these units might change**
Grading
Grading in Science will be based on the students mastery of skills. Students will understand how their grade is determined and be encouraged to take ownership of their learning.
Categories:
Assessments- 60%
Classwork- 30%
Homework- 10%
Policies:
Work will be graded based on accuracy, not completion.
Students will almost always have an opportunity to revise and resubmit work.
Deadlines will be used to develop executive functioning skills but will usually not be a factor in students grades.
Points for effort, creativity, participation, and other habits of character will not be directly included in a students grade.
Some scores in Infinite Campus will not be included in the grade calculation, these are label as such.
Communication
Class Dojo (click the link to join): Families are encouraged to send individual, direct-messages using Class Dojo when necessary.
Email: craig.shimer@bcsemail.org , Families are encouraged to send any in-depth communication through email and account for a minimum 24 hours to respond.
Phone (during school hours): Families are encouraged to call our front office at 828-658-1100 and they will direct your call.
Voicemail (after 3:30 only): Families are encouraged to leave a voicemail after 3:30 for matters that are more easily or appropriately discussed over the phone by calling 828-658-6402. Please do not use this number during the school day as not to disrupt learning.
Welcome to sixth grade ELA!
This year in ELA, we will expand on the skills students learned in fifth grade. Our core curriculum is Wit & Wisdom. For sixth grade, this curriculum includes the following texts:
Bud, Not Buddy
Out of the Dust
Ramayana
The Odyssey
Blood on the River
Written in Bone
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World
I am Malala
We also use other sources for supplemental texts, such as Newsela, Common Lit, and Scholastic Scope.
For more info about standards and W&W, please see my individual school website page.
Homework for ELA will be given weekly, starting the second week of school. We will be alternating between Greek and Latin Stems practice and reading short standards based passages for homework. This work is expected to be done by Friday of each week. It is also recommended that students read 20 minutes per night, but I will not be taking a reading log.
Grades:
Categories
Tests/Essays/Assessments- 75%
Weekly Work/Stems- 25%
Mrs. Wilde's contact info:
caitlin.wilde@bcsemail.org OR contact via class dojo.
About me...
I've been teaching at NWR since 2013
I live in Weaverville with my wife, Cat, and our son, Rainan, and our dog, Polly, featured on the left.
I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
I received my teaching license from UNCA
My Hogwarts house is Hufflepuff
I love reading, crosswords, Legos, video games, and jelly beans.
More about Math
Sixth grade math is the launch point for all other math topics throughout high school as we begin to apply the basics learned Kindergarten-5th grade. We will cover: ratios, operations with decimals and fractions, geometry, algebra, and statistics.
Grading in my class is very straight forward, and there is no reason to not make at least a B if you are ready to show up and to do the work! See my Guidelines/Syllabus posted below for a breakdown of my grading.
Contact: scott.kessler@bcsemail.org; Class Dojo
Math Class Guidelines
Daily Class -- Daily class is where we learn new content, see examples and get to ask questions: really the key to learning is showing up
Come to class, ready to learn with all materials (computer, notes, spiral, pencil)
Attend to the lesson by working out problems with your group and participating in our math discussion
Ask questions! Either to neighbors or myself. We are a community, here to learn together.
Keep up with your NOTES notebook and check the shared Drive folder if you missed a day.
Homework (10%) -- Homework is where you have the opportunity to practice the new skills independently
Assigned most days via Google Classroom
Completion and effort are expected and the criteria for points: 10 points an assignment.
Homework lets me know what skills students have and which need more support and guide the future lessons
IXL/Classwork (30%) -- Skills to practice to reinforce classroom lessons
Assigned throughout each unit and are graded at the end of the unit
Around 10-15 skills are assigned…at 5 points per skill;--> 50-75 point assignment
Many will be assigned for homework, so there's a chance to double-dip on points!
Skills for the current unit are due the week of the last quiz of the unit
Over all percentage of assigned skills on IXL will be added to grade book at the end of the nine weeks (reason to go back and get unfinished skills completed)
Weekly Quizzes (60%) -- Weekly Quizzes are meant to test the skills learned and practiced during the week
We usually have have a quiz a week
Quizzes are worth 10 points a question; occasionally a bonus question is asked
Quiz Corrections (half credit back)-- There are no “retakes.” Quiz corrections allow you to spot misconceptions and identify mistakes made so they won’t be made in the future...another opportunity to show mastery of the content.
Mandatory for scores lower than 70; optional for scores 70 and above.
Time and support for corrections will be provided during WIN time.
Corrections must be formatted correctly on the Corrections Doc (provided by myself) which details point value of the corrections (50% - 80% of missed points added back in the gradebook)
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