In Language Arts, students recently began Unit 7: Greek Mythology. Since Milestone testing ended, students have been reading Greek myths, researching mythological characters, and were put into groups to analyze, prepare, and perform a popular Greek play. Over the next week, students will continue to prepare for their play performances.

Students will receive a study guide this week for their ELA Final on May 18th. ELA classes will be reviewing and preparing for the final on May 15th-17th.  The ELA Final will take place during class on May 18th.

Special Notes:

• If a student has not submitted missing work, then it will remain as a “missing” in the gradebook until it is turned in. Please have your child reach out and plan for a time to make up their missing work with their teacher. 

• Advanced students are allowed 1 retake per semester and on-level  students are allowed 3 retakes per semester. If your child is interested in retaking the Unit 4 Summative, Unit 5 Summative, or final argumentative essay, please have them reach out to their teacher. Retakes will be taking place during the week of May 15th-19th. Retake times will vary for every teacher so please make sure your child has talked with their ELA teacher😊.

We hope you are your families have a wonderful rest of the school year and enjoy a safe summer! 

Upcoming assessments: 

Greek Story Board Formative – May 10th

ELA final—May 18th

Play Performance Formative – May 19th -24th

It’s hard to believe the end of the year is here! We are so proud of our readers! Many students reached or even surpassed our 25 book reading goal, and all students reached a milestone of reading every day and reading more books in one year than they probably ever have before. For our fourth and final book reflection, students will be making a book recommendation slide about their favorite book from 6th grade. These recommendations will be compiled into a master list. We will email you this list and it will be posted on Facebook so that you and your student have access to it over the summer. Students will continue their reading endeavors in seventh grade enrichment, and they will be able to use this list to help guide them in their picks as well. It has been a pleasure watching your child grow in their love of reading, or maybe at least finally tolerating it. 😀 Have a wonderful summer!

Students in on-level and advanced classes are finishing up the year with a summative project over equations and inequalities. Beginning the week of May 15th, students will begin reviewing for the math final exam. Students in accelerated math have a summative exam scheduled for May 16th and will review for the final exam during the remainder of the week. The 6th-grade math final exam is cumulative and is scheduled for Monday, May 22nd.

Students are learning what causes weather by studying the major weather fronts and predicting temperature and precipitation changes.  We are still in the unit called Unit 5 – Climate & Weather.  There is a formative this Friday, May 12th over winds, weather fronts, and storms.  Next week, students will learn about hurricanes and their destructive forces.  This in turn will lead students to build a miniature, hurricane-proof house utilizing a budget to purchase items needed for their house.  It will be an exciting way to end our year in science seeing which house can withstand mighty artificial winds!  A final for this unit will be given on Tuesday, May 23rd.

Social Studies is wrapping up the final unit of the year - Australia's Government and Economy.  Students will examine citizen participation in government and take a critical look at Australia's mandatory voting laws. We will also examine how voluntary trade benefits buyers and sellers in Australia. We will explore the topic of specialization and examine how this makes trade possible between countries. Last, we will examine the factors that influence economic growth (Capital, Human Capital, Natural Resources, and Entrepreneurship) and determine their presence or absence in Australia. The social studies final exam will be on Friday, May 19.

Yearbooks:

Yearbook Distribution is on May 23rd during your child's connections. Please encourage your child to write his or her FIRST and LAST NAME in the yearbook when distributed. 

Student Council: 

All Student Council Applications are due to Mrs. Sullivan by Friday, May 12th. The application can be found on our Lakeside Website under 'School News' or linked here: Student Council Applications 

PE NEWS:

As we near towards the end of the year, the locker room will be completely cleaned out. If your student has anything in the PE lockers from the beginning of the year (Q1 or Q2), they will need to come get their items. Locker Clean out will start on Friday, May 19th and Monday, May 22nd. All items need to be cleared by Tuesday, May 23rd.